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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.
Progress continues to be made in Carl's former digs, which will be where he stays when he visits and will be a good guest bedroom.
The soap scum in the shower is succumbing to treatment, i'm hoping only one or two more sessions will actually clear it away.
Yesterday i made the bed (so Mr. L can go in there and sleep when i'm cleaning the rest of the house every other Thursday), finished cleaning out the rest of the bathroom, threw away a lot of junk from the kitchen and got half of it deep cleaned, sorted through a lot of stuff and most important to Ms. V, cleaned out his car.
Carl, like so many, lived in his car when he was in it. There are now at least 3 loads of laundry waiting for me from stuff in the car, much other stuff is in the trash, and all the vehicle needs is vacuuming, a run through the car wash, and lots of fabric cleaner.
Speaking of cars, Ms. G always has to clean the passenger seat of the car before she can put me in it, and she conducts business as much as possible on the phone while driving. If she's not on the phone (speakerphone), she's dictating a text message.
Of course, if you dictate a text, you have to deal with both the program's misunderstandings of what you said, and the dreaded autocorrect.
Last week, as she tried to send a message, she stopped at a light to read it before sending (always a wise idea) and yelled, "I said 'pm' not 'bm'! Doggone phone!"
(For any who might not know, a "bm" can stand for "bowel movement." She certainly wasn't trying to send any messages about that topic.)
We both ended up laughing over the phone's misunderstanding what she said and i suggested leaving on spell check but turning off autocorrect, which is what i do. She's thinking about it.
How about some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Bob Day -- an internet holiday i couldn't confirm, but if your name is Bob, you deserve a special day just for having that name!
Dracula Day -- Bram Stoker's Dracula went on sale this day in 1897
Dzien Matki -- Poland (Mother's Day)
Eid al-Adha -- Islam (Festival of Sacrifice, a three-day commemoration of Abraham's obedience and willingness to sacrifice his son; begins at sunset, local customs of date and official government days off in many places will vary)
Festival of the Valley -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (celebration of the movement of Amun from the East Bank of Thebes to the West Bank; it involved giving flowers and sharing food with the dead)
Holiday of the Receiving of Ra -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Independence Day -- Georgia(1918); Guyana(1966)
National Blueberry Cheesecake Day
National Cherry Dessert Day
National Day of Healing -- Australia (formerly called National Sorry Day; to express regret for the ill treatment of Aboriginal Peoples of Australia)
National Paper Airplane Day -- not an official holiday, but go make one, and have a blast; some people even organize contests
Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day -- Hawai'i
Sally Ride Day -- US (birth anniversary of America's first woman in space)
St. Augustine of Canterbury's Day (First Archbishop of Canterbury and Patron of England; feast day in the Anglican Communion and most Eastern Churches)
St. Philip Neri's Day (Patron of Gravina, Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo, and Rome, Italy; the United States Army Special Forces)
Thargelia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (birthday festival of Apollo and Artemis; through tomorrow, date approximate)
World Lindy Hop Day -- Frankie Manning's birth anniversary
Anniversaries Today:
Boston University is founded by the Massachusetts legislature, 1869
Birthdays Today:
King Frederik of Denmark, 1968
Helena Bonham Carter, 1966
Lenny Kravitz, 1964
Genie Francis, 1962
Sally Ride, 1951
Pam Grier, 1949
Philip Michael Thomas, 1949
Hank Williams, Jr., 1949
Stevie Nicks, 1948
Brent Musburger, 1939
Miles Davis, 1926
James Arness, 1923
Peggy Lee, 1920
Jay Silverheels, 1919
Frankie Manning, 1914
Peter Cushing, 1913
Robert Morley, 1908
John Wayne, 1907
Dorothea Lange, 1895
Al Jolson, 1886
Today in History:
Armenian rebels battle the Sassanid empire and win the right to openly practice Christianity, 451
An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Japan, killing about 30,000, 1293
Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city, 1538
Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, 1647
Lewis and Clark first see the Rocky Mountains, 1805
The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress, 1830
Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners, 1857
The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote, 1868
Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia, 1894
Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 1896
The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made, 1908
The world's longest-lasting tornado, lasting for over 7 hours and traveling 293 miles, strikes Mattoon, Illinois, 1917
British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana, 1966
Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing, 1969
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2, 1970
Willandra National Park is established in Australia, 1972
George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center, 1977
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people, injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed, 1983
The European Community adopts the European flag, 1986
Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era, 1991
The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York, 1998
Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes, 2003
The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skepticism towards sources during the build-up to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, 2004
The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 6,600 people, leaves 200,000 homeless, 2006*
The World Health Organization confirms that Ebola has reached Sierra Leone, 2014
Hackers steal personal data for about 100,000 taxpayers after breaking into a U.S. Internal Revenue Service system that allows taxpayers to retrieve previous tax returns; the data can be used to file tax refund claims and commit identity theft, 2015
Ken Wyatt becomes Australia's first Aboriginal minister in government as the minister for indigenous Australians, 2019
Amazon says it will buy 97-year-old film and television studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $8.45 billion, 2021
A Hindi novel wins the International Booker Prize for the first time, Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, 2022
King Charles III begins a royal visit to Canada, 2025
*Occurred 22:54 GMT May 26, 05:54 Local Time May 27, so some sources date it today, some tomorrow
