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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.
The first thing i noted when arriving at the house was Carl's car was back. I was there last Thursday when the call came in from the shop saying it needed a good bit of work. Mr. L was on the phone with the shop, sighed, and told them to go ahead and just do it all.
As much as Ms. V hates spending money, i know she hates having to be the one to get up early and drive Carl to work even less, if you can call getting him to work by 11am early, which she does. She was probably relieved when it was done and the car was safely back at home.
Then i arrived yesterday to this. There must have been some adventure at Ms. V's house over the weekend. At least this time i was there for Carl's apartment not the rest of the house, and he was sleeping and i wouldn't need the big kitchen sink.
Mr. L told me Carl did have work, so i got to it.
Carl had obviously been trying to go through his CD collection again. He gets distracted and doesn't make much headway.
I got the laundry started and noted the two dryer balls i'd found in Ms. V's room (it seems Carl isn't the only one who absconds with them) were still there. We're holding steady at five, but who knows for how long.
The bathroom was barely finished when Carl came up for air and a shower. He didn't like one of the undershirts i'd picked -- "Too itchy!" -- and we found another.
While he was in there i checked out his fridge.
It hasn't been this empty in a while, and yes, i'm sure he had a reason for the bottom of the plasticware tub to be in the fridge while the top was in the freezer part. Probably he doesn't even know what the reason was, but he had one at the moment.
Once he was dressed we talked about the weather and if he'd need an extra jacket. Probably not, it was supposed to be sunny and warmer in the afternoon.
"I was watching musical parodies," he told me. "They were fun, lots of people. Youtube!"
It sounds like fun, i said and he responded, "Yes, but Dave wasn't available this weekend."
He brightened up then and said, "Sam was!"
Another reason he's probably glad to have his car back, he gets to see Sam.
We talked, or rather, he talked, about trolls, sending out cards - "I'm late!" - and where to donate supplies for school children.
Yes, he is probably talking about being late sending out Christmas cards. It's okay, anyone on his list understands if it doesn't get there before Valentine's Day.
"Make sure I have plenty of snacks," he told me as i was getting his meal for work ready. I packed plenty and even if it wasn't quite enough, i somehow doubt he'll starve before 7pm when he gets off work.
Once Carl was packing his car, he kept leaving the back door open and it was a very cold morning for the swamps. I put his wallet, keys, work badge, and gloves in his hat, and also had his watch there. The watch band is broken, but Ms. V wants him to take it in his pocket in case he loses his phone so he doesn't clock out late.
The problem is his pockets are full of his wallet, keys, work badge, gloves, miscellaneous candies in wrappers, and usually Tums or gas pills. If he tries to stuff in the watch, it's likely to fall out. Also, he has his phone and the app on the phone clocks him in and out automatically when he shows up for work and when he leaves.
He looked at the watch and said, "Do I have to take it?"
I told him it was up to him and he left it, then went back to the other side of the house get his phone.
Good choice. And he left under his own steam, in his car. Ms. V can relax.
How about some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Armed Forces Day -- Mali
Camcorder Day -- five companies agreed, this day in 1982, to cooperate and construct a camera with a built in VCR
Celtic Tree Month Beth (Birch) ends
Coffee Break Day
Day of National Mourning -- Azerbaijan (a/k/a Martyrs' Day)
Festival of Jubilation for Osiris -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate, in Busiris)
Heroes Day -- Cape Verde; Guinea-Bissau (death anniversary of Amilcar Cabral)
La Tamborrada de San Sebastian -- San Sebastian, Spain (24 hours of drumming, begun last evening)
National Buttercrunch Day
National Cheese Lover's Day
National Granola Bar Day
National Disc Jockey Day -- listed lots of places, but no particular reason given for the choice of date
Penguin Awareness Day -- lots of celebrating, but no history of who started it
Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day -- always the Tuesday of Women's Healthy Weight Week
Sacrifices to Athena -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate)
Stay Young Forever Day -- celebrate the child in all of us, do something fun
St. Sebastian's Day (Patron of archers, armorers, arrowsmiths/fletchers, athletes, bookbinders, diseased cattle, dying people, gardeners, gunsmiths, hardware stores, ironmongers, lace makers/lace workers, lead workers, masons, plague victims, police officers, Pontifical Swiss Guards, racquet makers, soldiers, stone masons/stone cutters; several cities, but especially of Rio de Janiero, Brazil and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, where today is marked with celebrations; against cattle disease, enemies of religion, plague)
Take a Walk Outdoors Day -- unless it's storming, a good way to get some exercise
Tenmangu Kowakamai -- Setaka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan (festival of old style Japanese dances)
Birthdays Today:
Skeet Ulrich, 1969
Rainn Wilson, 1966
James Denton, 1963
Lorenzo Lamas, 1958
Bill Maher, 1956
David Lynch, 1946
Dorothy Provine, 1937
Arte Johnson, 1934
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, 1930
Patricia Neal, 1926
Otis Dewey "Slim" Whitman, 1924
Federico Fellini, 1920
DeForest Kelley, 1920
Joy Adamson, 1910
George Burns, 1896
Harold Lincoln Gray, 1894
Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, 1889
Carolus Linnaeus, 1778
André-Marie Ampère, 1775
Richard Henry Lee, 1732
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Meet the Beatles"(Album, US release), 1964
Today in History:
The first elected English Parliament called into session by the 6th Earl of Leicester, and meets in the Palace of Westminster (a/k/a Houses of Parliament), 1265
The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored, 1502
The Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) is founded in Spain to deal with American affairs, 1503
The cornerstone of Amsterdam town hall laid, 1648
The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson, 1788
China cedes Hong Kong to British, 1841
L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster, 1885
The first full length talking motion picture filmed outdoors is released, "In Old Arizona", 1929
Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "final solution" calling for extermination of Europe's Jews, 1942
The first atomic submarine, USS Nautilus, is launched at Groton, Connecticut, 1955
Witnesses report sightings of a Bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the River Thames since records began in 1913, 2006
A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance, 2007
Austria votes to maintain compulsory military service in a referendum, 2013
19-year-old aviator Zara Rutherford becomes the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, 2022
Japan becomes the fifth nation to land a spacecraft on the Moon, 2024
