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Note: Little Ben is on the way and i am in grandma mode with our little Annie until they are out of the hospital and settled back at home.
I may or may not have time to visit blogs, or even to blog myself. Updates will be forthcoming but please understand if i'm missing for a bit.
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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.
Yesterday was the end of an era. I went to Carl's, spent about 3 hours doing a few final things, then went to Ms. S to clean her place.
Once done there, i went back to Carl's to talk to Ms. V because she was finally awake, show her what was done, and then do a final serious mopping.
Ms. V's constant mantra is, "I didn't mean to sleep so late!" It's so common to hear her say it, it's funny.
Her usual average is around 10-10:30 am, but the last time i cleaned the house, she wasn't up until noon.
So, her not meaning to sleep so late comes in three flavors, up on time for church flavor, up on time for elevenses flavor, and up on time for a late lunch flavor.
She and i both laugh over it, but mostly it depends on how bad Mr. L's insomnia and/or pain level is as to how early they get to bed and how much they sleep at night, if at all.
Meanwhile, there's a work around, and now when i clean the house, she just goes and sleeps in Carl's room while Mr. L naps in his chair, and i can get the house done in good time.
No, it doesn't bother Mr. L, his hearing is about gone without his hearing aids and he doesn't wear them when asleep, so i can even vacuum in the same room and he doesn't notice.
How about some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Aizen Matsuri -- Shoman-in Temple, Osaka, Japan (celebration of Aizen Myo-oh, greatest of the 8 Buddhist guardian gods, and is also called the Yakuta Festival; through July 2)
Armed Forces Day -- Guatemala
Crab Races -- Fairy Calendar (Pixies, Elves, and some Fairies)
Day of Aestas -- Ancient Roman Calendar (culmination of the festival that begins the summer)
Feast of the First Martyrs of the Church of Rome -- remembrance of the first Christians killed in Rome by order of Nero as scapegoats for the fire in Rome
General Prayer Day -- Central African Republic
Independence Day -- Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire)(1960)
Leap Second Time Adjustment Day -- if one is needed
Meteor Day -- because of the Tuskunga Event
National Corvette Day -- US (vehicle introduced this day in 1953)
National Ice Cream Soda Day
Please Take My Children To Work Day -- originally sponsored by mamasaid.net; a tongue-in-cheek way to request that you give a full- or part-time stay-at-home mom a break today!
Pridie Kalendas July (Day Before the Kalends of July) -- Ancient Roman Calendar (a day when dies comitiales -- citizen committees -- voted on political and criminal matters)
Revolution Day -- Sudan(1989)
St. Theobald of Provins' day (Patron of bachelors)
Tech Support Appreciation Day -- if you can get a hold of them, they can be great to have around
Anniversary Today:
Greg Allman marries Cher, 1975
Birthdays Today:
Michael Phelps, 1985
Fantasia Barrino, 1984
Ralf Schumacher, 1975
Michael Gerard (Mike) Tyson, 1966
Rupert Graves, 1963
Vincent D’Onofrio, 1959
David Alan Grier, 56, 1955
Leonard Whiting, 1950
Patricia Schroeder, 1940
Nancy Dussault, 1936
Harry Blackstone, Jr., 1934
Susan Hayward, 1919
Lena Horne, 1917
Czeslaw Milosz, 1911
William Almon Wheeler, 1819
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Johnny Carson Show"(TV), 1955
"Guiding Light"(TV), 1947
"Brenda Starr, Reporter"(Comic strip), 1940
Today in History:
Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland, 1294
The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan, 1520
Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery, Ohio, 1794
French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope, 1859
The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place, 1860
The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal; it arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4, 1886
Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", in which he introduces special relativity, 1905
The Tunguska event, probably caused by a meteor or comet fragment, occurs in remote Siberia, 1908
The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28; it remains Canada's deadliest tornado event, 1912
Congo gains independence from Belgium, 1960
The first leap second is added to the UTC time system, 1972
The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie, 1987
East Germany and West Germany merge their economies, 1990
The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, 1997
After nearly 7 years in space, the Cassini spacecraft becomes the first to orbit the planet Saturn, 2004
The Molecule of the Year 2011 is announced, BMP7 (Bone Morphogenetic Protein 7), a potential therapeutic utility for recurrent metastatic disease, 2012
Misty Copeland becomes the first African American principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre, 2015
Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to set foot in North Korea during the Korean Demilitarized Zone meeting with Kim Jong Un, 2019
American Abhimanyu Mishra becomes the youngest chess grandmaster ever at 12 years and 4 months, surpassing Sergey Karjakin, 2021
The Guinness Book of World Records declares Emilio "Don Millo" Flores Márquez, (born 8 August 1908) from Puerto Rico to be the world's oldest man, 2021
The Vienna, Austria based newspaper Wiener Zeitung issues its final print copy after 320 years, changing to an online only format, 2023
