1 Apr

 

Flagstaff Today 62°: 31° Week 14 Day 91 Air Quality: Fair Partly Mostly Cloudy Sunshine Wind 11 mph Gusts 24 mph Windy Active Fire: 90 miles away Risk of Fire: High Nearest lightning: 7 miles away Apr Averages: Temps: 60°\29° Moisture: 2 Days

Monthly Observations

Adopt A Ferret Month Adopt A Horse Month (4/26 - 5/31) Adopt A Greyhound Month Atlanta Food & Wine Month Arab American Heritage Month Link

ASPCA Month  Link  Link Alcohol Awareness Month Amateur Radio Month Autism Acceptance Month  Link Autism Awareness Month Link

Weekly Observations

1-7 APAWS Pooper Scooper  Week Golden Rule Week Laugh at Work Week

Medication Safety Week Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!)  Link

Daily Observations

April Fools  or All Fools Day Boomer Bonus Days Fun at Work Day International Energy Drink (Red Bull)Day  Link  International Tatting Day Link Library Snap Shot Day Myles Day National Fun Day

National Fun at Work Day National Sexual Assault Awareness Day of Action (SAAM)  Link  Poetry & The Creative Mind Day Reading is Funny Day Sorry Charlie Day St. Stupid Day Link Sourdough Bread Day Take Down Tobacco Day Link  (Formerly Kick Butts Day) US Air force Academy Day

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Today’s Memes

Thoughts for the day

Be more observant about anything that sounds off, even if just a little. It is April Fool’s Day. In the country we are living in, the times we are living in, it will be difficult to know the truth.

The executive order regarding Unions has me very concerned. Trump says that collective bargaining with Federal employees is not to be engaged in numerous departments. When I became chief negotiator for employees at BIA, those who worked as contract employees did have sick leave but no personal days. Most of our union members worked in isolated areas. The only way they could get business done on weekdays was to use sick leave, where a Dr’s. statement was usually required. My team negotiated for 24 hours of personal leave, no questions asked. The next contract turned that into 40 hours per contract. Without collective bargaining I’m sure management would have left the contract with no personal leave.

Trivia for all

What is the only planet in our solar system to rotate clockwise on its axis?  Which freezes faster: hot or cold water?

Answer: Venus Answer: Thanks to the Mpemba effect, hot water freezes faster.

Random Thoughts…

v  I see the Google logo every day, but I don’t know which letter is in which color.

v  The biggest film of 1936: How to Become a Detective earned ~ $6,000,000

v  A group of Monkeys is called a Troop or Barrel or Carload or Cartload or Tribe.

v  When going to the casino take out the money you are comfortable losing and then keep your credit cards and debit cards locked in your vehicle. Bonus points if you park far away as well.

Historic Events

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Birthdays

86 – Ali MacGraw, American actress 75 – Samuel Alito, American lawyer and Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court 64 – Susan Boyle, Scottish singer 52 – Rachel Maddow, American journalist and author 45 – Bijou Phillips, American actress, model

@92 – Jane Powell, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2021) @83 – Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (d. 1898) @47 – Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1930; lung cancer)

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31 Mar

Flagstaff Today 59°: 29° Week 14 Day 90 Air Quality: Fair Partly Cloudy Sunshine Wind 3 mph Gusts 5 mph Active Fire: 90 miles away Risk of Fire: Moderate Nearest lightning: 1689 miles away Mar Averages: Temps: 52°\24° Moisture: 4 Days

Weekly Observations

25-31  National Farm Workers Awareness Week Link Link National Physicians Week Link

3-4/19 Orthodox Lent 5-4/19 Lent

Daily Observations

Anesthesia Tech Day Link Bunsen Burner Day Cesar Chavez Day Link Clams on the Half Shell Day International Hug A Medievalist Day International Transgender Day of Visibility  Link National Crayon Day Link Link

National "She's Funny That Way" Day National Tater Day  Link Oranges and Lemons Day Prom Day Link Starbucks Day Tater Day Terri's Day  Link World Backup Day

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Today’s Memes

Thoughts for the day

A nice spring day. I had a nice walk through the neighborhood.

I’m looking forward to a great spring and summer here in Flagstaff.

Random Thoughts…

·      Giant Pandas poop up to 40 times per day.

·      The word Chortle was made by the author of Alice in Wonderland in his poem Jabberwocky, as a nonsense word and blend of the words chuckle and snort

·      The law of urination… states that all mammals take roughly 21 seconds to empty their bladders regardless of size.

·      After Disney acquired Miramax in 1993, the first film given the green-light was Quentin Tarantino’s R-rated Pulp Fiction.

·      The Beatles had a specific clause in their contract that stated that they would not ever have to play for a segregated audience.

·      The term ‘dead ringer’ comes from the practice of substituting a thoroughbred horse with a look-a-like to trick bookies.

·      For the first 40 million years that woody trees were around, wood was not biodegradable…until a fungus figured out how to rot it
The blob of toothpaste they show in toothpaste ads is called a “Nurdle”.

·      George Washington had his own personal recipe for egg nog that he would serve to guests, which included one-pint brandy, 1/2 pint rye whiskey, 1/2 pint Jamaica rum, and 1/4 pint sherry wine.

Historic Events

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30 Mar

Flagstaff Today 58°: 30° Week 14 Day 89 Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Wind 11 mph Gusts 15 mph Active Fire: 290 miles away  (NW Mexico) Risk of Fire: High Nearest lightning: 244 miles away Mar Averages: Temps: 52°\24° Moisture: 4 Days

Weekly Observations

3-4/19 Orthodox Lent 5-4/19 Lent

24-30  Shakespeare Week Link 25-31  National Farm Workers Awareness Week Link Link National Physicians Week Link

Daily Observations

Doctors Day   Link Eid-Al-Fitr (Begins at Sundown) Grass Is Always Browner On The Other Side Of The Fence Day I Am In Control Day Link International Day of Zero Waste International Laundry Folding Day

Mothering Sunday Link  Pencil Day Take a Walk in the Park Day Torrents Day Link Turkey Neck Soup Day Virtual Vacation Day  Link World Bi-polar Day Link

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Today’s Memes

Thoughts for the day

Another nice spring day.

The 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar that was also destroyed buildings in Thailand and China. The devastation is horrific.

 When I moved to Tuba, I bought a couch and loveseat about 1975. When I moved back to Tuba in the late 90’s I bought a new couch and loveseat. This morning, I started looking for a new couch and a couple of side chairs. It’s about time. I went to Designs West and saw some nice ones, but their prices were crazy. The cheapest couch was $2500 and the cheapest side chair was $400. Also, they didn’t go together. I’ll keep looking.

I watched Nightline all week. Even though I DVR’d it so I could watch it a more reasonable time, I found it was not to my liking. It was too much about celebrities and very little about the news. Times change and so do tastes.

The famous Sundance Film Festival is moving to Boulder, CO in 2027. That should be a good move.

JD Vance and his wife traveled to Greenland, sort of. The team setting up the visit couldn’t find any Greenlander who would meet with them. No business would let them visit for filming. They decided to fly to the US Space Force compound, almost 1000 miles from the capital. After eating a meal with the military personnel and giving a short speech, the reboard the plane and flew into the wild blue yonder. Sorry but this was not a visit to Greenland. It was an expensive visit to a military base.

 

Trivia for all

Random Thoughts…

§ The Capital of Nigeria is Abuja

§ Biggest film of 1960: Swiss Family Robinson earned ~ $40,400,000

§ Where do people who actually live on farms tell their children they’re sending old dying pets?

§ A Jester’s hat is a satirical symbol of a King’s crown.

§ In the film ‘Forest Gump’, the part where Forest claimed it rained for 5 months while he was enlisted was a nod to Operation Popeye, a highly classified weather modification program that took place during the Vietnam War.

§ The biggest film of 1934: It Happened One Night (RomCom) earned ~ $2,500,000

 

Historic Events

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Birthdays

95 – John Astin, American actor 88 – Warren Beatty, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter 80 – Eric Clapton, English guitarist and singer-songwriter 69 – Paul Reiser, American actor 63 – MC Hammer (Stanley Kirk Burrell), American rapper 61 – Tracy Chapman, American singer-songwriter 60 – Piers Morgan, English journalist, talk show host 57 – Celine Dion, Canadian singer-songwriter 46 – Norah Jones, American singer-songwriter

@93 – Frankie Laine, American singer-songwriter (d. 2007)   @59 – John Proctor, farmer hanged for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials (d. 1692; hanged) @58 – Anna Sewell, English author, Black Beauty (d. 1878; TB) @37 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch-French painter, illustrator (d. 1890; shot himself)

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