He's Charming, Not Alarming, a Random and Happy Tuesday 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.  

I got to Carl's yesterday morning and he was getting out of the shower saying, "I don't know what happened, I set my alarm..."

It was okay, he still had plenty of time.  After getting his apron on over his work clothes, he went for breakfast and i got started.

First order of business, now that it's hot out, is to find his ice vest and slip in the ice packs, put extra ice packs in his cooler, and get his snack ready.

While trying to find his cold vests, i found this

and this

but it should look like this

It's a dryer for shoes and gloves, and you're not supposed to use it without the holders in place, it overheats.  I went to tell him not to do that and ask where his ice vests are.

He listened as i tried to explain about the dryer, then said, "But it's faster!"

It can also melt your shoes and start a fire, i told him, now where is your vest?

"Well, it's here somewhere..."

That's all i got out of him the whole morning, every time we needed something, "It's here somewhere..."  While he was on the floor putting on his shoes, I suggested he look under the bed.  He looked, and saw one of his favorite candies, still in the wrapper, had fallen under there.  He pulled it out, held it up triumphantly with the grin of a child getting a treat, and promptly unwrapped and ate it.

Then dropped the wrapper on the floor.

Definitely something he needs to be trained out of, but he's such a big kid you can't scold.  Much.

He had clothes everywhere, and when i asked what was clean or dirty, he started picking up item by item and sniffing.  Not having time for that, i just told him not to worry, i'd wash everything.

Eventually, i found the ice vests and loaded two, one for yesterday and one to stuff back in the freezer for tomorrow, and even packed his snack.  He came running for the fridge on his way out the door, "I need a snack!"

You already put it in the car, i told him, because he had by that time.  He still grabbed an avocado out of the fridge, as if all the fruit, cheese, crackers, and snacks i'd packed weren't enough.

They probably aren't.

He had a pair of sunglasses out and ready and forgot them.  At least his mother has bought him new glasses again.

By the end of summer, he won't be able to find more than a few of these.

3 layers deep

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While seeking his vests, i looked among the items in the boxes from his car.  He has everything in there from a rain coat to Easter eggs.  Why plastic eggs?  Because they were marked down after Easter, of course.

I found the back of a remote control.  It doesn't go with any of his remotes here.

At promptly 9:24am, his alarm went off.  As i hit the button, i decided to see what was up.  His late alarm at that time is for Sunday morning (his church doesn't have a service until 11am).  Since that was set, and the clock has two alarms, i wondered why the 5am one hadn't gone off.

It turns out, it won't go off at 5am if you have it set for 5pm.  Who knew?  Certainly not Carl, so i reset it.

How about some alarm clock funnies?

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Arafat Day -- Afghanistan; Bahrain; Djibouti; Egypt; Kuwait; Libya; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates

Canadian Multiculturalism Day -- Cananda

Day of National Unity -- Tajikistan

Day of Turkmen Workers of Culture and Art -- Turkmenistan

Day Sacred to the Lares -- Ancient Roman Calendar (personal household gods); also

     Festival of Jupiter Stator -- Jupiter, Stayer of the Rout, god who helped soldiers especially to stand their ground

     Initium Aestatis -- three day festival for the goddess of summer, which season they saw as beginning on this day

Decide to Be Married Day -- sponsored by Barbara Gaughen-Muller; to focus n the joy of couples deciding to be married

"Happy Birthday to You" Day -- tune composed this day in 1859

Independence Day / National Day -- Djibouti

Industrial Workers of The World Day -- founded this day in 1905

Martyrdom of Joseph & Hyrum Smith -- Mormon

Mixed Races Day -- Brazil

National Columnists' Day -- US (on the fourth Tuesday of June each year, set aside some time to thank your favorite newspaper columnists, whether local or syndicated)

National HIV Testing Day -- US 

National Indian Pudding Day

National Orange Blossom Day

National Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day -- US (by Senate resolution) 

Seven Sleepers Day (Siebenschläfertag) -- Germany (according to legend, today's weather determines the pattern for the next seven weeks)

St. Ladislaus' Day (Patron of Szekszard, Hungary)

Sunglasses Day -- a reminder to wear those shades, protect your eyes from UV damage!

Birthdays Today:

Gabi Wilson, 1997

Madylin Sweeten, 1991

Ed Westwick, 1987

Drake Bell, 1986

Tobey Maguire, 1975

J.J. Abrams, 1976

Jason Patric, 1966

Isabelle Adjani, 1955

Julia Duffy, 1951

James Daughton, 1950

Norma Kamali, 1945

Shirley-Anne Field, 1938

H. Ross Perot, 1930

Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan, 1927

Helen Keller, 1880

Patrick Lafcadio "Koizumi Yakumo" Hearn, 1850

Charles Stewart Parnell, 1846

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Live and Let Die(Film), 1973

"Dark Shadows"(TV), 1966

"Captain Video and His Video Rangers"(TV), 1949

Today in History:

General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec, 1759

Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail, 1844

George Dixon becomes the first black world boxing champion in any weight class, while also being the first ever Canadian-born boxing champion, 1890

The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia, 1898

Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war, 1905

Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane, 1923

The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War, 1950

The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow, 1954

The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London, 1967

The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup d'état, 1973

U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R., 1974

France grants independence to Djibouti, 1977

The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, is adopted, 1989

Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before, is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War, 1991

Bill Gates resigns from Microsoft to focus on his charity work, 2008

The first democratic election in the history of Guinea is held, 2010

Tests show radioactive cesium is present in small quantities in residents of Iitate and Kawamata, Fukushima, towns located 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 2011

NASA launches IRIS, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun, 2013

The European Union fines Google a record $2.7 billion for unfair competition practices, 2017

The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 arrives at asteroid Ryugu, 2018

The science journal Nature publishes an article describing carbon-based molecules, previously only seen on Earth or in meteorites, that were found by the Cassini spacecraft on Saturn's moon Enceladus, 2018

Apple's chief designer, Jony Ive, designer of the iMac and the iPhone, announces he is leaving Apple after 30 years, 2019 

A locust invasion is named "Swarmageddon" by The Times of India as it reaches Delhi, 2020

NASA launches a rocket from a commercial spaceport outside the US for the first time, at Arnhem Space Centre, Northern Territory, Australia, 2022