27 Mar

 

Flagstaff Today 72°: 33° Week 13 Day 86 Air Quality: Fair Partly Cloudy Wind 5 mph Gusts 11 mph Active Fire: 344 miles away Risk of Fire: High Nearest lightning: 489 miles away Mar Averages: Temps: 52°\24° Moisture: 4 Days

Weekly Observations

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

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

Daily Observations

Celebrate Exchange Day Link International Medical Science Liason Day  Link International Whisk(e)y Day Link Laylat Al-Qadr  Link National Joe Day National Scribble Day

Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day Link Spanish Paella Day Viagra Day World AdTech Day  Link World Cheese Day World Theatre Day  Link

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Today’s Memes

Thoughts for the day

A warm cloudy day. No precipitation is expected today.

I took my taxes in this morning. The guy who has done them for the last 10+ years is out on leave, due to back problems. The Navajo Lady who did my taxes was great. I’ll be getting a nice chunk of change in a few weeks. No complaints.

I talked to Mary yesterday. She is out of rehab from surgery and is at her home in Phoenix. She sounded very upbeat and can’t wait to get back in the pool.

Our Governor, Katie Hobbs, is displaying the Tribal Flags that DOGE removed from the VA. The are viewable in the atrium of the capitol building in Phoenix. Good work.

Trivia for all

Random Thoughts…

·    “getting the hang of it” comes from attaching the head of an axe to the shaft just right.

·      Half of infinity would be infinity.

·  Before alarm clocks, there were ‘knocker-ups’ in Britain and Ireland who went knocking door to door with a large stick.

·  Under UN protocol, the President of the United States is to be addressed as “His Excellency.”

·   In the 1850s, baseball had different rules in Massachusetts than it did in New York. Under the Massachusetts rules, you could throw the ball at a runner, and if you hit them, they were out.

·  A standard 3×3 Rubik’s Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different possible configurations.

·     Michael Buffer the “Let’s Get Ready to Rumble” guy had the phrase trademarked and as of 2009, it has generated $400 million dollars in revenue.

·      Tom Cruise – Real Name: Tom Cruise Mapother

·      Over 15,000 forms of life have been found in the New York Subway system

·      The biggest film of 1938: Alexander’s Ragtime Band (Drama) earned ~ $4,000,000

Historic Events

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Birthdays

83 – Michael York, English actor 62 – Xuxa (Maria da Graça Meneghel), Brazilian actress, singer 56 – Pauley Perrette, American actress 56 – Mariah Carey, singer-songwriter, producer, actress 54 – Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor 50 – Fergie (Stacy Ann "Fergie" Ferguson), singer-songwriter, dancer, actress 37 – Brenda Song, American actress

@84 – Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998) @84 – Gloria Swanson, American actress and producer (d. 1983)   @70 – Henry Royce, English engineer, founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1933) @66 – Sarah Vaughan, American Jazz singer (d. 1990; cancer) @59 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988; cancer)

…The End for today…