November 2022
Week 44 Day 308 \ Ave. Sky Cover 50% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 40° \18°
Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 283mi \ Nearest Lightning 177mi
Nov Averages for Flagstaff: 53° \ 23° (3 days of moisture)
Today’s
Quote
Monthly
Observations
NET Cancer Awareness Month Link
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month Link
Pet Diabetes Month Link
Picture Book Month Link
PPHI Aids Awareness Month
Prematurity Awareness Month Link
PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month Link
Stomach Cancer Awareness Month Link
Sweet Potato Awareness Month Link (See also February)
Teff and Millet Month Link
Triple Crown of Surfing (11/12-12/20) Link
World Vegan Month
Worldwide Bereaved Siblings Month
Weekly
Observations
World Origami Days: 24-11/11
National
Fig Week: 1-7
World Communication Week: 1-7
National Farm Toy Show Days: 3-5
Daily Observations
Believe it or not, it’s National Skeptics Day
Bison Day
Digital Scrapbooking Day (First Saturday)
National Chicken Lady Day, celebrating Dr. Marthenia “Tina” Dupree
National Candy Day Link
National Easy-Bake Oven Day
National Play Outside Day: 4 Link
National Professional Paint Contractors Day
National Professional Paint Contractors Day Link
Pumpkin Destruction Day
Sausage and Kraut Day
Use Your Common Sense Day
Waiting for Barbarians Day, based on the title of a book by
South African writer J.M. Coetzee and a poem by Constantine P. Cavafy.
World Numbat Day Link
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Snow
has arrived. Crazy weather…first snow, then sunshine, then snow again. Not a lot
sticking. Hopefully I will be able to make my Covid booster shot appointment
this afternoon. On the brighter side, I’ll get to try out the remote start and
the heated seat.
Now
some of the 911 tapes have been released to the public. Shocking, horrifying.
Will the officers ever be disciplined?
I’m
tired of reading that inflation is at a 40-year high. They forget to mention
that corporate profit is at a 70-year high.
AZ’s
Kari Lake is on the national news everywhere. She is the Trump candidate and
former news person from Phoenix who wants to be Governor. A video of a campaign
stop shows here making a comment about the Pelosi break-in that had the
audience and her campaign manager laughing. Very embarrassing for AZ for sure.
Favorite
Memes
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Best
Instrumentals
"Soul
Sacrifice" by Santana
(1969)
Long
considered one of the great musical moments from the historic Woodstock
festival in the summer of 1969. Carlos Santana was just a young pup when this
song was released on his debut album at the end of the '60s. Checking in at a
little more than 6 1/2 minutes, Santana's axe work and a stellar drum performance
from the great Michael Shrieve are the highlights of the track.
Meaning/history
of a phrase
Bite the bullet
The phrase essentially means doing
something/making a difficult decision that we've been hesitant to make.
It can be traced back to soldiers in the
battlefield who would have to go under emergency procedures without anesthesia
or alcohol to numb the pain. So they'd have to literally bite a bullet.
Historical
Events
1841 – 1st wagon train arrived in
California. They left Independence, Missouri on May 1, 1841.
1846 – The first U.S. patent (#4,834) for
an artificial leg was granted to Benjamin F. Palmer of Meredith, New Hampshire.
1873 – A patent (#144,182) for a gold
crown was issued to Dr. John B. Beers of San Francisco, California on “artificial
crowns for teeth”.
1879 – James Jacob Ritty and his brother
John invented the first cash register, to stop the stealing by his bartenders
in the Pony House Restaurant saloon in Dayton, Ohio.
1904 – First stadium built specifically
for football opened (Harvard Stadium). Officially, when referring to more than
one stadium, they should be called ‘stadia.’ But ‘stadiums’ works too.
1922 – King Tut’s Tomb was discovered.
1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming
became the first female elected as governor in the United States.
1979 – The American Embassy in Tehran,
Iran was seized.
1939 – First air-conditioned automobile
(Packard) was exhibited, Chicago, Ill. The A/C option was available for $274
until 1941. WW II stopped the production of many luxury items. It wasn’t until
1953 that air conditioning was commercially available in cars again.
1946 – UNESCO (United Nations
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) was founded.
1948 – TS Eliot won the Nobel Prize for
literature “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.”
1952 – The United States government
established the National Security Agency, or NSA.
1964 – The (toy) Easy Bake over was
released.
2008 – Barack Obama was elected President
of the United States.
Birthdays
Today
@92 – Walter
Cronkite, American journalist, voice actor, and producer (d. 2009)
“The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who
have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it. Democracy is in
danger. Seats in Congress, seats in the state legislature, that big seat in the
White House itself, can be purchased by those who have the greatest campaign
resources, who have the largest bank accounts or own riches. That, I submit to
you, is no democracy. It is an oligarchy of the already powerful.”– Walter
Cronkite
@90 – Doris Roberts,
American actress (d. 2016)
“It’s okay to look back, just don’t stare.”– Doris Roberts
@85 – Art Carney,
American actor (d. 2003)
85
– Loretta Swit, American actress, and singer
76
– Laura Bush, American educator, and librarian, 45th First Lady of the United
States
71
– Markie Post, American actress
62
– Kathy Griffin, American comedian, and actress
60
– Ralph Macchio, American actor
61
– Jeff Probst, American TV host, and producer
@55 – Will Rogers,
American actor, and screenwriter (d. 1935; plane crash)
“I never met a man I didn’t like.”-Will Rogers
53
–Matthew McConaughey, actor
52
– Sean Combs, American rapper, producer, and actor
“I came in to win, you know. This is why I stay up late while other
people are sleeping.”
– Puff Daddy
@42 – Robert
Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989; AIDS)
