Jan 3

 

Week: 2 Day: 3
Ave. Sky Cover:  5% Visibility: 10 miles Local Temp:   28°\ -2° 

Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 10mph
Very Low risk of fire Active fire: 478mi. \ Lightning: 1493mi.
Jan Averages: 43°\17° (5 days w/moisture)

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

National Be On-Purpose Month
National Braille Literacy Month Link
National Cheesy Sock Month
National Clean Up Your Computer Month
National Codependency Awareness Month Link
National Conscience Month
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
National Hot Tea Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Mentoring Month  Link
National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month
National Personal Trainer Awareness Month Link
National Polka Music Month Link  Link
National Poverty in America Awareness Month
National Radon Action Month
National Skating Month
National Soup Month Link
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month Link
National Stalking Awareness Month Link
National Sunday Supper Month  Link
National Volunteer Blood Donor Month Link

Weekly Observations

1-7	Diet Resolution Week Silent Record Week
1-8	National Personal Trainer Awareness Week
2-8	Someday We'll Laugh About This Week Home Office Safety and Security Week Link National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Cold has settled in our mountain town. I’ll be happy when I get up and there is no negative sign on my digital thermometer. It is strange to say it has ‘warmed up’ to the low 30’s.

CNN had a great special on the Iron Fist rule of Xi Jinping in China. I was in China in the summer of 2019. Even then the people we met didn’t understand what he was doing. The Special gave us all a lot to think about.

Colorado is now saying there are 3 missing from that horrific fire. So sad.

Long-time Bronco fans are mourning the loss of Dan Reeves. He was a great coach during my high school and college years in Colorado and beyond.

The Cards play the Cowboys later this afternoon. At the same time Broncos play Chargers. I’ll watch the Cards on TV and the Broncos on the internet machine.

 

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

What do you call a pile of hay inside a church?

Christian Bale.

Arizona Trivia

·        On June 6, 1936, the first barrel of tequila produced in the United States rolled off the production line in Nogales, Arizona.

·        The Sonoran Desert is the most biologically diverse desert in North America.

·        Bisbee is the Nation's Southernmost mile-high city.

·        The two largest man-made lakes in the U.S. are Lake Mead and Lake Powell, both located in Arizona.

·        The longest remaining intact section of Route 66 can be found in Arizona and runs from Seligman to Topock, a total of 157 unbroken miles.

Historical Events

Ø 1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.

Ø 1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduced the first electric watch.

Ø 1938 – The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Ø 1993 – George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)

Ø 2009 – The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.

Birthdays Today

·        @91 – Victor Borge, Danish-American pianist, and conductor (d. 2000)

90 – Dabney Coleman, American actor

·        @81 – J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer, poet, and philologist (d. 1973)

·        @79 – Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor, and director (d. 1986; lung cancer)

·        @77 – Glen A. Larson, American director, producer, screenwriter, created Battlestar Galactica (d. 2014; esophageal cancer)

77 – Stephen Stills, American singer-songwriter

76 – John Paul Jones, English bass player Led Zepplin

72 – Victoria Principal, American actress

66 – Mel Gibson, American-Australian actor, director, producer, screenwriter

·        @60 – Sergio Leone, Italian director, producer, screenwriter (d. 1989; heart attack)

41 – Eli Manning, American football player

19 – Greta Thunberg, Swedish environmental activist

 

Jan 2

 

Week: 1 Day: 2
Ave. Sky Cover:  10% Visibility: 10 miles Local Temp:   30°\ 4° Wind: 13mph\ Gusts: 18mph
Very Low risk of fire Active fire: 478mi. \ Lightning: 965mi.
Jan Averages: 43°\17° (5 days w/moisture)

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

Navajo: Yas Niłtʼees melting or cooking the snow

Get A Balanced Life Month
Get Organized Month
International Brain Teaser Month
International Change Your Stars Month Link
International Child-Centered Divorce Month
International Creativity Month
International New Years Resolutions Month for Businesses
International Quality of Life Month
International Wayfinding Month
International Wealth Mentality Month
Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month Link
Menudo Month  Link

Weekly Observations

1-7	Diet Resolution Week Silent Record Week
1-8	National Personal Trainer Awareness Week
2-8	Someday We'll Laugh About This Week: Home Office Safety and Security Week Link National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A chilly day after about an inch of new snow. Just a beautiful day to start the new year.

I vaguely remember The Betty White Show in very early TV and Password with Alan Ludden. I was a big fan of Mary Tyler Moore Show and Golden Girls. Betty White will be missed after her 99-year life.

Amanda Gorman wrote "New Day's Lyric" and read it last night at the CNN bash.

 

"This hope is our door, our portal," Gorman recited in the video. "Even if we never get back to normal, someday we can venture beyond it, to leave the known and take the first steps. So let us not return to what was normal, but reach toward what is next."

 

The whole poem is available on her Instagram page. It is worth a look.

 

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

How do you insult a vacuum?

Tell it, it doesn't suck.

Arizona Trivia

·        A saguaro cactus can store up to nine tons of water.

·        The state of Massachusetts could fit inside Maricopa County (9,922 sq. miles).

·        The westernmost battle of the Civil War was fought at Picacho Pass on April 15, 1862 near Picacho Peak in Pinal County

·        There are 11.2 million acres of National Forest in Arizona, and one-fourth of the state forested.

·        Wyatt Earp was neither the town marshal nor the sheriff in Tombstone at the time of the shoot-out at the O..K. Corral. His brother Virgil was the town marshal.

Historical Events

Ø 1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, was launched by the Soviet Union.

Ø 1974 – 55 MPH speed limit was imposed by the Richard Nixon administration.

Ø 2008 – Oil reached $100 per barrel for the first time.

Birthdays Today

·        @89 – Barry Goldwater, American politician, businessman, author (died in 1998)

·        @78 – Martha Carey Thomas, American suffragette, educator (died in 1935)

75 – Jack Hanna, American zoologist, author

·        @72 – Isaac Asimov, American Science Fiction writer (d. 1992; AIDS by blood transfusion)

·        @56 – Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (d. 1992; throat cancer)

54 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor, producer

51 – Taye Diggs, actor

47 – Dax Shepard. American actor

45 – Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player, sportscaster

39 – Kate Bosworth, American actress