4 Jan

 

Flagstaff Almanac 2024

Week 1  Day 4   Flag Today  50°/19° Sky cover:  90% Wind 8mph Gusts 20mph
Active Fire:  278 miles away Risk of fire: Very Low  Nearest Lightning:  miles away
Air Quality: Fair Overcast   Jan. Daily Averages: Temps: 44°\16° Moisture:  5Days

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month Link Manuary Menudo Month  Link National Be On-Purpose Month1-5 No Tillage Week

National Braille Literacy Month Link National Cheesy Sock Month National Clean Up Your Computer Month National Codependency Awareness Month Link

Weekly Observations

1-5 No Tillage Week 1-7 Diet Resolution Week Silent Record Week

2-8 Someday We'll Laugh About This Week

Daily Observations

Congress Assembles Dimpled Chad Day Link National Spaghetti Day National Trivia Day Pop Music Chart Day

Tom Thumb Day Trivia Day World Braille Day  Link World Hypnotism Day  Link

Today’s Thoughts

Weather man says 3-5” of the white stuff late today and tomorrow. I’ve been around quite a while…I’ll just wait and see. It can be very humid in Yucatan, Mexico. The humidity softened some wax in my right ear. On the way up from Phoenix my ears wanted to pop but didn’t….elevation change. The next day it didn’t pop either. Then I started home remedies to get the wax out. Finally on Tuesday they finally popped, but only for an hour. I called my Dr. at 8:15 and got a 9am appointment. I got in quickly. Yep, wax on the eardrum. It took abut 20 minutes and 2 different Nurses to finally get all the wax out with water pressure. I can now hear like a teenager again. Happy camper. Turns out I have a very narrow ear canal. I don’t support Marjorie Taylor Green on any political stance she has. However, she has been elected and should not have threats against her. The new way some are hassling elected officials is called ‘swatting’. A person calls 911 and says there are shots fired, or hostages, or dead bodies at the politician’s home. SWAT arrives, guns drawn, scare the residents, and find nothing. It can also happen to non-political people. In those cases, a few innocent Americans have been injured or killed by police. Over the weekend, Green had her 9th Swatting. No one was injured. This should not be part of life for any American politician or citizen.

 Enjoy

Important inventions…

1967: Coronary Bypass Surgery Rene Favaloro performs the first coronary bypass surgery in 1967, taking a length of vein from a leg and grafting it onto the coronary artery. This allows blood to flow around the blocked section. Thanks in part to these advances, the number of deaths from heart disease declines in the U.S. by almost 50 percent.

Historic Events

1865 – The New York Stock Exchange opened its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City. 1903 – Thomas Edison’s team filmed the electrocution of a murdering elephant, Topsy, to show the dangers of Alternating Current electricity. 1959 – The USSR’s Luna 1 became the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.

Birthdays with some quotes

97 – Barbara Rush, American actress @87 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (d. 1992) @84 – Isaac Newton, English mathematician, and physicist (d. 1727) I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. @80 – A.E. Coppard, English poet and short story writer (d. 1957) @78 – Jacob Grimm, German writer, Grimm’s Fairy Tales (with brother Wilhelm) (d. 1863) @71 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (d. 2006; Alzheimer’s/cancer) @67 – Benjamin Rush, American doctor, and patriot (d. 1813; typhus) 67 – Patty Loveless (Patricia Lee Ramey), American singer-songwriter 66 – Matt Frewer, American-Canadian actor 64 – Michael Stipe, American singer-songwriter So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans, and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it’s wallpaper to them, it’s elevator music, it’s just the thing that’s playing in the background that helps them through their day. 61 – Dave Foley, Canadian comedian, actor, 59 – Julia Ormond, English actress, and producer @58 – Arthur Conley, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003; cancer) 58 – Deana Carter, American singer-songwriter @45 – General Tom Thumb (Charles Stratton), American circus performer (d. 1883; stroke) @43 – Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (d. 1852; stroke)

…The End for today…