Life Just Gets Gooder: 13 Oct

Flagstaff Today 63°: 44° Week 42 Day 286

Wind 8 mph Gusts 12 mph

Active Fire: 83 miles away Risk of Fire: Very Low

Nearest lightning: 167 miles away

Air Quality: Fair Sunshine

Oct. Averages: Temps: 65°\34° Moisture: 4 Days ave. 1.2”

Monthly Observations

National Polish-American Heritage Month
National Popcorn Poppin' Month
National Pork Month Link
National Protect Your Hearing Month Link
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month Link

National Reading Group Month
National Retirement Security Month Link
National Roller Skating Month
National RSV Awareness Month Link
National Sarcastic Awareness Month

Weekly Observations

Take Your Medicine Americans Week: 10-17

National Wildlife Refuge Week: 11-17 Link

Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week: 12-20 Link
Emergency Nurses Week: 11-17
National Women's Motorcycle Week: 11-17 Link
Drink Local Wine Week: 11-17
Earth Science Week: 11-17 Link
Emergency Nurses Week: 11-17

International Infection Prevention Week: 11-17 Link
National Chestnut Week: 11-17
National Food Bank Week: 11-17
OCD Awareness Week: 11-17 Link
Teen Read Week: 11-17
World Rainforest Week: 12-17 Link
Choose To Be G.R.E.A.T. Week: 12-17 Link
National School Lunch Week: 12-17

Daily Observations

Ada Lovelace Day
English Language Day Link
Internat’l Day for Disaster Reduction
International Face Your Fears Day
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
National Chess Day Link

National No Bra Day Link
Navy Birthday Link
Silly Sayings Day
World Child Development Day
World Thrombosis Day Link

Today’s Quotes

Today’s Memes

Thoughts for the day

The sun is shining, still a few clouds that may bring more moisture. All good.

RIP Diane Keaton. Thanks for your great career.

The Buffs beat Iowa State (5-1) in Boulder. A good game I got to watch live on TV.

The Broncos beat the Jets overseas, and I got to watch it live on TV.

Cards are ahead in a close game against the Cowboys in the last minutes of the 4thQ.

One of my former colleagues sent an email about his RIF years ago. It worked out well for him, but he agreed it is a long process.

Major Anniversaries in 2025

1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, 70 Years

After Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, Montgomery’s Black community began a citywide bus boycott on December 5. The protest lasted 381 days and ended on December 20, 1956, when Browder v. Gayle desegregated buses. The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church sits a few blocks from the state capitol. Sidewalk markers trace march routes. When visiting, cross at lights, traffic on Dexter Avenue can move fast. The anniversary explains how carpools, church bulletins, and court filings powered change.

Americans Missing From Your History Textbook

Garrett Morgan’s Traffic Signal And Safety Hood

Garrett Morgan saw chaos at intersections and created a three-position signal that added a crucial pause between stop and go, cutting crashes where wagons and early cars tangled. Years earlier, his safety hood gave firefighters and tunnel crews breathable air, then proved itself during a 1916 rescue in Cleveland. One idea tamed streets, the other carried workers out alive. Together they show how a clear read of danger leads to small devices that change the odds.

Random Thoughts…

The word "evil" is the word "live" backwards.

That moment when you think of something funny during a serious situation and you laugh like an idiot.

That awkward moment when nobody laughs but you.

"I've always done it this way." I understand that, but you've always done it wrong.

Historic Events

Click here for 13 October history

Birthdays

Ashanti, 45

R&B Singer

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 36

Politician