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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.
Ms. V has not gotten more Ring King for me to tackle Carl's tub/shower, but it's okay. I had enough to start tackling part of it.
Life may change, people move away, but after scrubbing tubs for so many years, i am convinced soap scum lasts forever.
Yesterday i was able to organize and clean a couple of areas of Carl's room. Once all the cleaning is done, it will be time to sort his CD/DVD/Game collection (again). The rest of the sorting will have to be done by Ms. V, as it's not my job to make those decisions.
I did decide all the outdated medicines, stale smelling lotions, expired sunscreen and the freezer packs which were leaking should end up in what my Sweetie euphemistically calls "file 13." Old church papers from years ago went to the recycle bin.
Mr. L is doing better with Carl being gone, he seems to have made peace with the whole situation. The good reports from where he's living now help a lot.
Yesterday's good reports came from Ms. S and Mr. D, the across the street neighbors i clean for every other week. I wanted to talk to Ms. V, but she and Mr. L were still asleep when i left at 11am.
One of the running jokes in that house is Ms. V getting up very close to noon and then saying, "I didn't mean to sleep so late!"
Like the rest of her family, she's a night owl, and yes, she really did mean to sleep that late, or at least her body did. After all, she's up much of the night with Mr. L, whose severe pain, insomnia, and night owl tendencies have combined to make sleep almost impossible for him.
It's the next thing to tackle, but until then the funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Boy's Club Day -- founding in 1906
Celebrate Your Elected Officials Day 2026 -- unless you don't like them, then get to work electing better ones; if you know of a good one, take time today to thank her/him
Circus Day -- the four Ringling Brothers opened their first circus on this day in 1884
Greek Genocide Remembrance Day -- Greece
May Ray Day -- to celebrate being able to go out into the sun's rays as summer nears
National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day -- US (information at Banyan Tree Project) http://banyantreeproject.org/
National Devil's Food Cake Day
New England's Dark Day*
Plant Something Day -- because it's fun, and summer is coming so you can!
Praia Municipal Day -- Praia, Cape Verde
St. Dunstan of Canterbury's Day (Patron of armourers, blacksmiths, blind people, gold workers and smiths, jewellers, lighthouse keepers, locksmiths, musicians, silver workers and smiths, swordsmiths; Charlottetown, PEI, Canada)
St. Peter Celestine's Day (Patron of bookbinders; Aquila, Italy)
Youth and Sports Day / Commemoration of Atatürk -- North Cyprus; Turkey
Anniversary Today:
Eric Clapton marries Pattie Boyd, 1979
Birthdays Today:
Rachel Appleton, 1992
Jordon Pruitt, 1991
Eric Lloyd, 1986
Kevin Garnett, 1976
Kyle Eastwood, 1968
Grace Jones, 1952
Joey Ramone, 1951
Archie Manning, 1949
Andre the Giant, 1946
Pete Townshend, 1945
Nora Ephron, 1941
James Fox, 1939
Francis R. Scobee, 1939
David Hartman, 1937
James Lehrer, 1934
Malcolm X, 1925
Ho Chi Minh, 1890
Nancy Astor, 1879
Johns Hopkins, 1762
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith(Film), 2005
Smokey and the Bandit,(Film)oikRoom Service"(Play), 1937
Gone With The Wind(Publication date), 1936
"L'heure espagnole / How They Keep Time in Spain"(Ravel comédie musicale), 1911
Today in History:
Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America, 1535
Anne Boleyn is beheaded, 1536
Queen Elizabeth I orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1568
French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power, 1643
The Long Parliament declares England a Commonwealth, and England remains a republic for the next 11 years, 1649
King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River, 1749
*A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M, 1780
Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Légion d'Honneur, 1802
Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the Mexican-American War and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for $15 million USD, 1848
Jan Matzeliger begins the first mechanized shoe production, 1885
Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol, 1897
White women win the right to vote in South Africa, 1930
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind is published, 1936
Churchill and Roosevelt set May 1, 1944 as their goal date for D-Day (it had to be delayed over a month because of weather), 1943
The Soviet Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus, 1961
Croatians vote for independence, 1991
The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts, 1997
Hundreds of Albert Einstein's scientific papers, personal letters and humanist essays were make available on the Internet. Einstein had given the papers to the Hebrew Universtiy of Jerusalem in his will, 2003
A rare 19th century torpedo is discovered off the coast of California by the US Navy dolphins, 2013
UK inflation is recorded as a negative for the first time since 1960, 2015
EgyptAir flight MS804 goes missing over the Mediterranean on route Paris to Cairo, 2018
Greenhouse gas emissions dropped 17% worldwide in April 2020 when most of the world was in lockdown according to a study, 2020
According to a major new study, environmental pollution caused by “obesogen" toxins is having a significant effect on the obesity crisis, 2022
An attempted coup is foiled in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2024
Syzygy: all eight planets are forecast to align on the same side of the Sun, 2161
