A Little Of Everything, a Random and Happy Tuesday Word Counters Post

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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.  

Part of today’s post is also a writing challenge. This is how it works: one of the contributing bloggers picked a number between 12 and 74. The submitted number is a challenge to participating bloggers to write at least one piece using that exact number of words. 

This month, the word count number is: 37

It was submitted by:  Diane of On The Border

Here you’ll find links to the other blogs featuring this challenge. Check them out! 

 

Links to the other Word Counters posts:

Baking In A Tornado                    

On the Border                                

Now that it's summer, i am going over to Carl's at 6am on Monday instead of 6:30 to help him get out the door for work.  He goes in at 7am instead of 9am until fall.

Yesterday, i made a rookie mistake with him.  When i walked in and saw he was fully dressed and having breakfast, i thought he was closer to being ready to leave than he actually was right then.

He leaves at 6:45. At 6:30, he came into his room and i asked him which cold vest he wanted, and told him to go open the car so we could put it all in the cooler.

That's when he stunned me with the announcement, "I have to take a shower first!"  Yes, he dresses, goes into the main house for breakfast, then comes back for a shower.  Well, i know that now, anyway.

Yes, he puts the same clothes back on after the shower, too.  Since he took a shower the night before, the work clothes he put on as soon as he woke up should be clean, right?  Right.

Then, too, i noticed another reason he never seems to have enough of the right kind of hangers in the closet.  As the following shows, the pants end up on shirt hangers, the shirts on pants hangers.

He has a change sorter, and all of his change is supposed to go into it at the end of each day when emptying pockets.  Yesterday, there was no change in the sorter, just a pill.

Yes, the pill probably came out of his pocket; what he did with the change is a mystery.

The pill had to be rescued with the paper clip and a bit of fancy finagling, but i finally got it.

When i finally got to cleaning the fridge, i was ready for almost anything, and i found it.  They are out of sandwich size bags in the pantry (and he didn't go look in the storage closet).

Two 2-gallon bags for a bit of leftover cheese and one sandwich, anyone?

Then there was the deodorant.  He'd been looking at it oddly after using it, and as i went to put it away, i figured out why.  He hadn't removed the plastic shield.  Yes, i removed it.

Okay, time for the rest of the funnies.  First, computer haiku (author unknown)

Your file was so big. 

It might be very useful. 

But now it is gone.

The Web site you seek 

Cannot be located, but 

Countless more exist.

Chaos reigns within. 

Reflect, repent, and reboot. 

Order shall return.

Program aborting: 

Close all that you have worked on. 

You ask far too much.

Windows now has crashed. 

I am the Blue Screen of Death. 

No one hears your screams.

Yesterday it worked. 

Today it is not working. 

Windows is like that.

First snow, then silence. 

This thousand-dollar screen dies 

So beautifully.

With searching comes loss 

And the presence of absence: 

"My Novel" not found.

The Tao that is seen 

Is not the true Tao-until 

You bring fresh toner.

Stay the patient course. 

Of little worth is your ire. 

The network is down.

A bit of military humor:

 And some laughs:

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Cleat Dancing Day -- don't ask me who started this, i don't want to know what kind of mind came up with trying to tap dance in cleats

Dia del Amigo -- Argentina; Uruguay

Fortune Cookie Day

Independence Day -- Colombia(1810)

International Chess Day -- "Of Chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not Chess" ~ William Ewart Napier

Moon Day/Space Exploration Day -- one small step...was taken 52 years ago today

National Hot Dog Day

National Ice Cream Soda Day

National Lollipop Day

Peace and Freedom Day -- North Cyprus

Perun's Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (celebration of Perun, great god of thunder)

Special Oympics Day -- anniversary of the first Special Olympics in 1968

St. Elijah the Prophet's Day (Patron of Carmelites; Romanian Air Force; against drought, earthquakes) related observance;

     Festival at the Monastery of Profitis Ilias -- Santorini, Greece (Prophet Elijas' festival)

Saint Margaret of Antioch's Day (Patron of childbirth, dying peple, escape from devils, exiles, expectant mothers, falsely accused people, martyrs, nurses, peasants, people in exile, women, women in labor; for safe childbirth; against kidney disease, loss of mother's milk by nursing mothers, sterility; Lowestoft, Suffolk, England; Montefiascone, Italy; Queens College Cambridge; Rixtel, Netherlands; Sannat, Gozo, Malta)

St. Uncumber's Day (Patron of difficult marriages; against men's lust; Las Tablas, Panama)

Synoikia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate; a celebration of the unification of all Attica, held in Athens)

Thgir-yaw-Dnuor Day -- Fairy Calendar

Ugly Truck Day -- must be a guy thing, they know where every scratch and dent came from, after all!

Vigil for Peace, Justice, and Respect for the Human Rights of all in Columbia -- a movement begun among Native Americans of many tribes, now open to all who seek peace

Birthdays Today

John Daley, 1985

Gisele Bundchen, 1980

Josh Holloway, 1969

Chris Cornell, 1964

Billy Mays, 1958

Donna Dixon, 1957

Carlos Santana, 1947

Kim Carnes, 1946

Judy Chicago, 1939

Diana Rigg, 1938

Natalie Wood, 1938

Chuck Daly, 1933

Cormac McCarthy, 1033

Sally Ann Howes, 1930

Michael Ilitch, 1929

Sir Edmund Hillary, 1919

Alberto Santos-Dumont, 1873

Gregor Mendel, 1822

Francesco Petrarch, 1304

Alexander the Great, BCE 356

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Like a Rolling Stone"(Single release), 1965

"Stop the World I Want to Get Off"(Musical), 1961

"The Arthur Murray Party"(TV), 1950

"Gang Busters"(Radio drama), 1935

Today in History

Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount; the Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots during the Siege of Jerusalem, 70

The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain, 1712

French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan, 1738

Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain, 1810

British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada, 1871

Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford, North Dakota, 1881

Ford Motor Company ships its first car, 1903

Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives, 1921

In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism, while in Nuremburg, Germany, 200 Jewish merchants are arrested and paraded through the streets, 1933

The Organization for European Economic Cooperation admits Spain, 1959

Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government, 1960

The Special Olympics is founded, 1968

Apollo 11 successfully lands on the Moon 3:39 a.m. GMT 21st July, 1969

India expels three reporters from The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek because they refused to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship, 1975

The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars, 1976

Hank Aaron hits his 755th home run, the final home run of his career, 1976

In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first time in a decade, 2000

Canada becomes the 4th country to permit same-sex marriage, 2005

The Olympic Torch arrives in London, beginning the final countdown to the Summer Olympics, 2012

The journal Nature Geoscience publishes a study showing evidence of volcanoes on Venus, which demonstrates the planet is not as dormant as previously thought, 2020