25 April 2023
Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 17 Day 115 \ Ave. Sky Cover 40% \ Visibility 23 miles Flagstaff Today 70° \36° Wind
6mph \ Gusts 13mph
Air Quality: Fair \ Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 788mi \ Nearest
Lightning 4mi
Apr. Averages for Flagstaff: 60° \ 27° \3
Days of moisture
Today’s
Quote
Weekly
Observations
21-5/2 Festival of Ridvan (Baha'i)
22-27 International Wildlife Film Week
22-29 National Dance Week
22-30 National
Park Week
Administrative Professionals Week
23-29 Disability Book Week
Fibroid
Awareness Week
National
Infertility Awareness Week
National
Karaoke Week
Medical
Laboratory Professionals Week
National
Crime Victims Rights Week
National
Library Week
National
Pediatric Transplant Week
National
Princess Week
Mule
Days
Sky
Awareness Week
24-30 National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW)
National Scoop The Poop Week
24-28 National Playground Safety Week
National Youth Violence Prevention Week
24-30 Spring
Astronomy Week
World Immunization Week
Daily Observations
DNA Day Link
East Meets West Day (aka Elbe Day) Link
Hairstylists Appreciation Day
Hug A Plumber Day or Plumbers Day Link
International Delegate's Day
License Plates Day
Malaria Awareness Day Link
National Library Workers Day
National Library Day Link
National Mani-pedi Day
Parental Alienation Day Link
Red Hat Society Day Link
Telephone Day
World Malaria Day
World Penguin Day
Telephone Day
World Malaria Day
World Penguin Day Link
Zucchini Bread Day
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
The
sky looks like moisture is coming, but the weather guy says no moisture.
I
took time last night to watch Secret of the Elephant from National Geographic. Much better than I
ever expected. I was fascinated watching a herd of females with youngsters
climbing down a very difficult cliff to get water. They used their trunk to
test the next step down and they used their tail to comfort and help the
youngsters. Amazing.
The
latest TSA report says they confiscated 1508 loaded firearms in passenger’s
carry-on luggage from Jan. to Mar. 2023, a 10% increase over 2022. It is still
a small number unless I am on a plane that didn’t check the luggage.
One
of our discussion group members lost his wife about 18 months ago. He decided
to move into a retirement community here in Flag. After he moved in, he had 2
major heart failure incidents. The Dr. said he needs to cut back on his salt
intake. The community he lives in requires a meal plan @ $1000/month. He met
with the chef and discovered that almost all their meals are made from ‘prepared
foods’ and that the chef can’t change the salt content. He went to the head and
asked to be dropped from the meal plan so he could reduce his salt intake…he has
a small kitchen in his apartment. The head checked and said he had signed a
contract and he couldn’t drop the meal charges. Now he has a lawyer as he
searches for another place to live. Crazy.
Two
networks are doing some spring cleaning. Over at Fox, they have fired Tucker Carlson.
He was making $8 million annually and was their #1 show. Over at CNN they demoted
Don Lemon a few months ago and have now fired him. He had an annual salary of
$4 million.
Enjoy…
Toys
Remembered…
Nerf Balls
After the incredible success of the game Twister, its Inventor Reyn Guyer wanted to create another sensation. In 1968, Guyer and his team began work on a game they called “Caveman,” using “rocks” cut out of mattress foam which were to be thrown at opponents. During development, Guyer thought the rocks would be better shaped into balls for safer indoor use. The original concept was scrapped in favor of making an indoor game using the newly named Muffball.
Parker
Brothers acquired Guyer’s ball, and in 1969, introduced the renamed Nerf ball
in four colors: yellow, orange, red, and blue. While some think the name is an
acronym for “non-expanding recreational foam,” Guyer says it came from the
foam-padded roll bars on Jeeps, known as “NERF bars.”
With ad copy
of “throw it indoors; you can’t damage lamps or break windows. You can’t hurt
babies or old people,” 4.5 million Nerf balls were sold in the first year of
production. In 1971, Parker Brothers
expanded the product line to include a Super Nerf Ball and Nerf Disk.
In 1972,
Fred Cox, former Minnesota Vikings field-goal kicker, came up with the idea of
making a football out of foam, using an injection molder to give the soft ball
a durable surface that could be gripped. Cox brought the invention to Parker
Brothers, where it became the Nerf Football which further propelled its
international fame. Today, NERF is probably best known for its series of foam
dart blasters, which debuted in 1992.
Moon Facts…
A day on the Moon is longer than it is on
Earth
One lunar day lasts for 29 days, 12 hours
and 44 minutes. This is measured by the time it takes for the Moon to make one
orbit around Earth. Like Earth, the Moon also spins on its own axis, but its
rotation is much slower than ours.
State
Names Origins…
Delaware
It’s appropriate that this
small, yet naturally spectacular jewel of the Atlantic coast owes its name to a
water source. In 1610, English explorer Samuel Argall was sailing from Virginia
when a storm blew him off course and
into modern day Cape Henlopen. After his arrival, Argall would go on to pay
tribute to his governor, Thomas West, Lord De La Warr, the first governor of
the colony of Virginia, by naming the waterway Delaware Bay. The state takes its name from both that bay and
the Delaware River.
Historical
Events
v 1901 – New York required the first
license plates.
v
1953 –
Francis Crick and James D. Watson published Molecular Structure of Nucleic
Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid describing the double helix structure
of DNA.
v 1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope was
deployed.
Birthdays
Today
