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Dec. Averages: Temps: 43°\20° Moisture:4 Days moisture 0.7” Flagstaff Today 61°: 32° Week 51 Day 354 Wind: 11 mph Gusts 19 mph Nearest lightning: 1328 miles away Active Fire: 347 miles away Risk of
Fire: High Air Quality: Moderate Mostly High Clouds Sunshine |
Weekly Observations
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Andisop (Meterological
Fiddling Link 11-1/1/26 Drive Sober or Get Pulled
Over Link 14-22 Chanukah 14-1/5/26 Christmas Bird Count Week Link |
14-20 Gluten-free Baking Week Halcyon Days 15-19 Cookie Exchange Week 16-24 Posadas 17-23 Saturnalia |
Daily Observations
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Games
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National
Sangria Day |
Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
My Thoughts for the day
Lots of high clouds, but no moisture in the forecast.
I guess everyone knew this was coming…the Kennedy Center is now the
Trump/Kennedy Center. There has always been a long process to change the name
of anything, but Trump just did it with a stroke of his pen and a message from
his mouth. Crazy.
I’m not expecting any bombshells as deadline to release Epstein Files.
Trump has too much to hide.
It was good news that the shooter from Brown University was found. It is
unfortunate that he took his own life before he could be captured. The families
that were shattered may never know why he did it. He is also the one who killed
the MIT Professor a few days after the Brown attack.
Trump’s pen moved marijuana from a Schedule 1 to a Schedule 3 drug. To be
honest, the Schedule 1 designation never made any sense. The schedule 1
designation came partially from the film ‘Reefer Madness’ which has become
a cult classic and debunked by every scientist who ever saw it.
I enjoy Cuomo on NewsNation. He usually succeeds in bringing guests
from both sides of the debate topic. No screaming, no yelling, just everyone
stating their understanding. Last night Cuomo talked about ‘strong and wrong’.
He believes that the current social media algorithms boost posts that are made to
infuriate that other side of the discussion. He gave some good examples and it
makes sense to me. Finding any news without a bias gets harder and harder every
day.
Classic songs that unlock deep nostalgia…
“Let It Be” offers gentle reassurance
during uncertain or emotional times.
Hints of gospel warmth shape the song’s
soft edges, with a message focused on ease and surrender. “Let It Be” speaks
less about winning than about weathering—a quiet acceptance set to music.
During uncertain life moments or family
conflict, some listeners returned to it like a phrase scrawled in a
well-thumbed journal. Its simplicity had staying power, especially as
parenting, careers, or health shifted the emotional weather around them.
Cities that changed their names…
Danzig →
Gdańsk (Poland)
This
Baltic port has worn many flags and names. Known as Danzig under German rule,
it returned to Poland after World War II as Gdańsk. The name restored the
Polish spelling and heritage of a city long torn between nations. Decades
later, Gdańsk would again make history as the birthplace of the Solidarity
movement; another form of reclamation, this time political.
The shift from Danzig to Gdańsk isn’t just about maps; it’s about belonging
reclaimed through resilience.
Random Thoughts…
Who was
the first teacher’s teacher? Who was the first to cut the hair of a
hairdresser?
Is it
true that if it rains on a Sunday, it’s now Rainy Day?
You
become a waiter while waiting for a waiter.
What if
we met someone in a dream and had the same dream, but we never knew who it was?
Historic Events
1606 - The "Susan
Constant," "Godspeed" and "Discovery" set sail from
London. Their landing at Jamestown, VA, was the start of the first permanent English settlement
in America.
1699 - Peter the Great ordered that the Russian New Year be
changed from September 1 to January 1.
1803 - The United States Senate ratified a treaty that included the
Louisiana Territories from France for $15 million. The transfer was completed
with formal ceremonies in New Orleans.
1820 - The state of Missouri enacted
legislation to tax bachelors between the ages of 21-50 for being unmarried. The
tax was $1 a year.
1880 - New York's Broadway became known as the "Great
White Way" when it was lighted by electricity.
1938 - Vladimir Kosma Zworykin patented the iconoscope
television system.
1946 - In Indochina (Vietnam), full-scale guerrilla warfare
between Vietnam partisans and French troops began.
1962 - A world indoor pole-vault record was set by Don
Meyers when he cleared 16 feet, 1-1/4 inches.
1990 - The world's first website and server go live at CERN.
The first website was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
1999 - The Vermont Supreme Court ruled that homosexual couples were
entitled to the same benefits and protections as wedded couples of the opposite
sex.
1999 - Sovereignty over the colony of Macao was transferred
from Portugal to China.
2001 - The first British peacekeepers arrived in Afghanistan
to help the nation heal after decades of war.
Birthdays
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1946 American
television series creator (Miami Vice, Law & Order), born in New York
City ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1946 Israeli magician and
psychic known for bending forks, born in Tel Aviv, Israel ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1948 Alan Parsons
(77 years old), British music producer (The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot)
and recording engineer (The Dark Side of the Moon; Let it Be), born in
London, England ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Anita Ward (69 years
old), American R&B and disco singer ("Ring My Bell"), born in
Memphis, Tennessee ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1983 American actor (Superbad,
Moneyball, The Wolf of Wall Street), born in Los Angeles, California ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ JoJo [Joanna
Levesque](35 years old) 1990 American pop singer-songwriter ("Too
Little Too Late"; "Baby It's You"), born in Brattleboro,
Vermont ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
Bonnie Prince
Charlie(d.1788; @67, stroke) English
pretender to the throne (Jacobite rebellion), born in Palazzo Muti, Rome,
Papal States ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Harvey S. Firestone(d.
1938; @67, stroke) American industrialist and
founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company ("where the rubber meets
the road"), born in Columbiana, Ohio ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ American actress (Cimarron,
Theodora Goes Wild), born in Louisville, Kentucky ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ George
Roy Hill, American Academy Award-winning film director (Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid; The Sting; Slap Shot; A Little Romance; The World According to
Garp), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 2002; @81) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ John
Hillerman, American actor (Magnum PI; Chinatown; Blazing Saddles), born in
Denison, Texas (d. 2017; @84) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
…The End for today…
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