17 Jan

 

Flagstaff Today 43°: 9°  Week 3 Day 17 Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Wind 6 mph Gusts 8 mph Active Fire: 132 miles away Risk of Fire: Moderate Nearest lightning: 1137 miles away Jan Averages: Temps: 44°\18° Moisture: 4 Days

Weekly Observations

Cuckoo Dancing Week: 11-17 International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week: 11-19 Link  Healthy Weight Week: 12-18 Home Office Safety and Security Week: 12-18

Idiom Week: 12-18 National Mocktail Week: 12-18 No Name Calling Week:  13-17 Link Sundance Film Festival: 16-26 Nat’l Fresh Squeezed Juice Week: 17-23

Daily Observations

Cable Car Day Customer Service Day Ditch Your New Year’s Resolutions Day Hat Day Hot Buttered Rum Day Hot Heads Chili Days thru 18 International Fetish Day

International Mentoring Day Link  Judgment Day Link Kid Inventors' Day National Bootleggers Day Popeye Day National Bootlegger’s Day National Rye Whiskey Day  Link

Today’s Quote                                                               

 

Today’s Memes

Thoughts for the day

Another cold night. Glad I don’t have to be outside or have a heater that needs wood or pellets.

Secretary of State Blinken’s final press conference was interrupted several times by rude people in the press room. He handled it well but should not have had to.

House leader Johnson lifted the ‘flag at half-staff’ for inauguration day. I’m disappointed with that decision.

After watching the committee listen to future Sec. of Defense Hegseth, I must speak up. During my time on the Rez, I had to deal with adults who were alcoholics. Sometimes they were parents, sometimes they were employees. I can’t count the number of times I heard: ‘I’ll quit drinking if I get another chance.’ It seldom, or ever, led to sobriety. Alcoholism is a disease that doesn’t disappear with a promise.

Mayan Culture of Mexico and beyond…

Their main crops are still prominent ingredients in Mexican cuisine.

The Maya people were expert farmers and created hundreds of recipes, many of which are still used in modern Mexican cooking. 

In fact, the top crops in the Mayan diet are some of the most popular ingredients in Mexican cuisine: cacao, papayas, pineapples, chili peppers, avocados, squash, beans and maize.

Random Thoughts…

All characters on The Simpsons have 4 fingers except for God, who has 5.

On the scale from absolute zero to absolute hot we are actually closer to zero. On a universal scale we are cold.

Origin of city nicknames…

Atlanta, Georgia: 'The City Too Busy to Hate’

‘Hotlanta’ may be a more familiar nickname due to the Allman Brothers’ 1971 hit, but many residents are prouder of their status as ‘The City Too Busy to Hate’. The epithet was coined in the 1960s during the tenure of mayor Ivan Allen, whose efforts to end segregation drew national attention. Mayor Allen was the only southern elected official to endorse the 1964 Civil Rights Bill and was instrumental in ending Jim Crow practices at City Hall. The nickname still resonates today, describing Atlanta’s ongoing commitment to progressive attitudes and inclusive policies.

Historic Events

Click here for 17 Jan History

Birthdays

Jim Carrey, 63 Movie Actor Steve Harvey, 68 Comedian Michelle Obama, 61 First Lady Zooey Deschanel, 45 TV Actress Kid Rock, 54 Rock Singer Robert F Kennedy Jr., 71 Lawyer Maury Povich, 86 TV Show Host

@99 – Betty White, American actress, game show panelist and television personality (d. 2021)   @93 – James Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2024)   @84 – Benjamin Franklin, American publisher, businessman, inventor and politician (d. 1790) @84 – Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser and businessman (d. 2012)   @74 – Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.), American boxer (d. 2016; sepsis) @65 – Shari Lewis, American actress, puppeteer/ventriloquist, and television host (d. 1998; multiple cancers)   @48 – Al Capone, American mob boss (d. 1947; heart failure/syphilis) @35 – Andy Kaufman, American actor and comedian (d. 1984; lung cancer)

…The End for today…