24 Mar

 

Flagstaff Today 60°: 37° Week 13 Day 83 Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Wind 6 mph Gusts 9 mph Active Fire: 394 miles away Risk of Fire: Moderate High Extreme Nearest lightning: 1847 miles away Mar Averages: Temps: 52°\24° Moisture: 4 Days

Weekly Observations

3-4/19 Orthodox Lent 5-4/19 Lent 21-27 International Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination

23-29 National Protocol Officer's Week International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week National Cleaning Week Link 24-30  Shakespeare Week Link

Daily Observations

Chocolate Covered Raisins Day Cocktail Day International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for Dignity of Victims Link

National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day Link National Cocktail Day World Tuberculosis Day

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Today’s Memes

Thoughts for the day

The day started cloudy but by 10am it was a clear sky and nice day.

Our Great Decisions discussion was very interesting. Looking forward to a better economic outcome we found that some of Trump’s concepts are good, but it is Trump’s implementation that makes everyone feel like we are living in chaos. There are too many regulations that hurt the American people. There are too many people in the Federal government. We are hoping for an end to the chaos. Also, since we all receive Social Security checks, Trump needs to be ‘hands off’ SS checks. Two of our members have a child in Antarctica on a Federal Grant and they are concerned the grant will be killed, and then no money to bring their son home. Another couple has 2 grandkids who are farmers, and they are concerned that Federal assistance will stop and they will lose their farms. We are a small group and realize there are lots of stories like ours everywhere across the country. Hoping for the best.

Trivia for all

Random Thoughts…

·   The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.

·   A group of Onions is called a Rope.

·   Baby Carrots are not naturally mini-sized carrots… they are just cut down to size from imperfect, normal-sized carrots.

·   Chicago O’ Hare airport has the ORD short-code because it was originally called Orchard Field and no one bothered to change it when it was renamed.

·   Mother Theresa – Real Name: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

·   Nicolas Cage – Real Name: Nicolas Coppola

·   For a detective, a surprise party is the ultimate insult.

·   Joseph Stalin’s real name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. He decided to change his name to Stalin in 1902, meaning “steel” in Russian, which he believed would make him appear tough.

 

Historic Events

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Birthdays

Bob Mackie, 85, American fashion designer   74 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation 55 – Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress 52 – Jim Parsons, American actor 49 – Peyton Manning, American football player 46 – Lake Bell, Jewish-American actress

@68 – Louie Anderson, American actor and comedian (d. 2022; lymphoma)   @52 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-Jewish American magician and actor (d. 1926; peritonitis) @46 – Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle, American actor, director, screenwriter (d. 1933; heart attack) @25 – Clyde Barrow, criminal (d. 1934; shot) @95 – Joseph Barbera, American animator and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2006) @74 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998; cancer) @50 – Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980; heart attack) @74 – R. Lee Ermey, American sergeant and character actor (d. 2018; pneumonia)

…The End for today…