May 20

 

 
Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 21 Day: 140 \ Ave. sky cover: 15% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 81° \39° 
Wind: 12mph \ Gusts: 22mph
Extreme risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 10mi \ nearest Lightning: 764mi
May Averages for Flagstaff: 68° \ 34°  (3 days of moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

15-21   EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Week Link   International Heritage Breeds Week International New Friends, Old Friends Week National Eosinophil Awareness Week Link   National Medical Transcription Week Link National Transportation Week National Unicycle Week Police Week World Trade Week

16-22  American Craft Beer Week Link  International Coaching Week  Link National Bike to Work Week  Link   National Foul Ball Week PGA Championship   Link

17-28 Cannes Film Festival

18-22   Health Information Professionals Week Link

 

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

I’m really enjoying this great weather.

The FedEx guy arrived with a package. It was finally my new CPAP machine. I took it over to the AZ-Med people who service my machine. They made sure it was set up and ready to go. Phillips had sent a return label, so I boxed up the old machine, dropped it off at FedEx while I was out and about today. The new machine is nice…happy camper here.

While I was out, I stopped at Sam’s for gas. It was still $4.35/gallon so it took $50 to fill it. Crazy.

My 16-year-old Nissan Xterra only has 79,500 miles, but it is time to start looking for a new vehicle. Just looking and saving $$ for a new vehicle. I hate making car payments so I’ll trade-in and put a lot down, to keep payments small for a short time.

Favorite Memes

 

Humor

Why are round bales of hay illegal?

Because cows can't get a square meal

Trivia

v Bagpipes were probably first used in Ancient Egypt, not Scotland.

 

v Bagpipes may be one of the most recognizable symbols of Scotland, commonly played by kilt-clad musicians sounding songs about Loch Lomond. But the origin of the instrument has been traced all the way back to ancient Egypt where, in 400 B.C., the so-called pipers of Thebes used similar instruments made from bone and animal skin. The bagpipes may have then made their way over to Scotland in the hands of Roman invaders.

Historical Events

Ø    1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
Ø    1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, opening 84 million acres of public land to settlers.
Ø    1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob W Davis patented (#139,121) copper-riveted jeans, designed to help prevent tears in the fabric.
Ø    1883 – Krakatoa began to erupt; the volcano exploded three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
Ø    1901 – Claude Grivolas patented (French) a projector for three-dimensional (stereoscopic) movies viewed wearing spectacles with one red and one blue lens.
Ø    1916 – The Saturday Evening Post published its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting – ‘Boy with Baby Carriage’.
Ø    1927 – US aviator Charles A. Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, on the world’s first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (New York to Paris.)
Ø    1949 – The Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency (NSA), was established.
Ø    1940 – The first prisoners arrived at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Ø    1956 – In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb was dropped over Bikini Atoll
Ø    1983 – First publication of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
Ø    1993 – 80 million people watched the series finale of Cheers on NBC

Birthdays Today

@89 – James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)

76 – Cher [Cherilyn Sarkisian], American singer and actress

@71 – George Gobel, American comedian (d. 1991; after heart surgery)

@70 – Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter (d. 2014; lung cancer)

54 – Timothy Olyphant, American actor

50 – Busta Rhymes [Trevor George Smith Jr.x], American rapper

30 – Jack Gleeson, Irish actor Game of Thrones

 

May 19

 

 
Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 21 Day: 139 \ Ave. sky cover: 10% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 81° \43° 
Wind: 5mph \ Gusts: 10mph
Extreme risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 10mi \ nearest Lightning: 411mi
May Averages for Flagstaff: 68° \ 34°  (3 days of moisture)
 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

15-21   EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Week Link   International Heritage Breeds Week International New Friends, Old Friends Week National Eosinophil Awareness Week Link   National Medical Transcription Week Link National Transportation Week National Unicycle Week Police Week World Trade Week

16-22  American Craft Beer Week Link  International Coaching Week  Link National Bike to Work Week  Link   National Foul Ball Week PGA Championship   Link

17-28 Cannes Film Festival

18-22   Health Information Professionals Week Link

 

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Sunny, warm, a few big cumulous clouds. Nice.

The primary elections clearly showed that our country is divided. There were good and bad candidates…on both sides. No primaries around here.

The first all-Black climbing team has reached the summit of Mt. Everest. Cool.

Navajo are the part of the Indigenous people who are given a number by the government. Today those numbers are given by the tribe and show the fraction of ‘Indian blood’ of the person. Navajo is a matriarchal culture. The woman carries the power and the strength of the family. When a Navajo identifies their clans, they start with the mother’s clan. For some Navajo women, birthing is important, and the male is merely a sperm donor. It is not uncommon for the birth certificate to only list the mother. That means that the child is only listed as ½ Navajo. Most times the child knows who the father is but does not play any part of their raising. I just learned that a good friend, the son of a former student, and his wife are part of the group listed as ½…even though the father in both cases was also 4/4 Navajo. This couple has a 3-year-old son. Because neither grandfather was on either birth certificate, the you boy is also listed as ½. If the boy marries a Navajo, no problem. However, if he marries a non-Navajo the child will be ¼. This will prevent the child from having some of the tribal services. This is insanity.

Favorite Memes

 

Humor

Some clown opened the door for me this morning. That was a nice jester.

*****

Knock, knock----Who's There?----Nobel----Nobel who?

Nobel…that’s why I knocked!

Paraprosdokians

Winston Churchill paraprosdokians

v Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

v I'm supposed to respect my elders, but now it’s getting harder and harder for me to find one.

Historical Events

Ø    1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
Ø    1780 – The Dark Day: that morning, a combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover caused complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States candles were needed by noon, and it did not disburse until the following evening, causing New England’s Dark Day.
Ø    1848 – Mexico ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day US states to the United States for $15 million.
Ø    1962 – Marilyn Monroe sang her famous Happy Birthday to President John F. Kennedy at NYC’s Madison Square Garden.
Ø    1965 – Pete Townshend wrote My Generation today, his 20th birthday on a train. He was on a train because his car, a 1935 Packard hearse, was ordered away by the Queen.
Ø    1996 – Sundance Channel made its debut.
Ø    1997 – Avian flu, A(H5N1), killed a three-year-old boy in Hong Kong, its first victim.
Ø     2018 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was held at St George’s Chapel, Windsor

Birthdays Today

@79 – Ho Chi Minh, politician (d. 1969)

@78 – Johns Hopkins, American businessman, philanthropist (d. 1873)

77 – Pete Townshend, English singer-songwriter

74 – Grace Jones, Jamaican-American singer-songwriter

@46 – André the Giant [André René Roussimoff], French-American wrestler, actor (d. 1993; heart failure)

@39 – Malcolm X [Malcolm Little], American minister, activist (d. 1965; assassinated)

39 – Michael Che, American comedian

30 – Sam Smith, English singer-songwriter

30 – Marshmello [Christopher Comstock], American electronic music producer, DJ