New Clothes and Old Problems, 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.  

When i arrived at Carl's yesterday, the place was dark, which is unusual and often means he has another day off.

I carefully approached his room and gently tapped.  He said something which i thought sounded like a muffled, "Come in," so i did go in, and he was coming out of the bathroom, dressed for work.

Whew.

Then i saw his bed.

I had to ask myself, how does he sleep there?

Digging out the keys to his car, i went to check for his cold vest and ice packs.

He'd left the spare key in the trunk of his car overnight.  It's a good thing the spare only opens the doors and won't drive the car.  Anyone breaking in would have found a mess already and nothing of value, and the car would still have been there in the morning.

In fact, would we even have known someone broke in?  I doubt it.

Lunch is next.

He had sandwiches in there somewhere, and i added a peach, some carrot sticks, and a couple of nibbling snacks of the kind he likes.  It's a wonder he finds anything to pack on the days i'm not there.

Then there's laundry.

He'd done a small load, and then only dried half of it.  The good thing, when i checked the last cycle used was an actual wash cycle, not just a rinse.  It helps when the clothes have been actually washed and not just rinsed.

Now to get him to realize the nice shirts his friend gave him need to be pulled out of the dryer before they wrinkle.

Yes, his friend RP gave him two boxes of clothes, in the size he needs now.  Although as i told his mother, Ms. V, for every one new item, he needs to get rid of one or two old ones that don't fit any more, or his closet will explode.

Speaking of closet explosions, he hasn't done this in a long time.

Stuffing clothes on the top shelf because he doesn't want to take the time to hang them up, or he picked them up off the floor to get the floor cleared.  Yes, if you're Carl, it's easier to take dirty clothes off the floor and put them on the top shelf than to put them in the clothes basket on the floor next to where they'd been dropped.

It had been so long since he'd had anything up there, i almost missed it.  Just when i thought it was safe to quit searching the top shelves...

On that theme, how about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

America's Cup Day -- the first America's Cup was won this date in 1851 by the yacht America

Be an Angel Day -- Sponsored by Angel Heights Healing Center, encouraging people to be a blessing and perform an act of service for someone

Eat a Peach Day

Feast of the Queenship of Mary & Immaculate Heart of Mary -- Catholic Christians

Flag Day -- Russia

Hoodie Hoo Day, Southern Hemisphere -- Wellcat Holidays says to go outside at noon and call "Hoodie Hoo" to chase away winter and call spring

National Spumoni Day (I don't think I've had really great spumoni since I went to Italy all those years ago -- nothing like getting things at the source.)

National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day -- US (started by a vet who declared today a cat's only day for his practice, so his feline patients wouldn't be upset by any dogs in the place; now many vets will only schedule cats on a particular day)

Qi Xi -- China (Double Seventh or Chinese Valentine's Day, the 7th day of the 7th moon, the day all the magpies in the world form a bridge so the cowherd and the weaver can meet across the Milky Way, which separates them.)

St. Symphorian's Day (Patron of children, students; Autun, France; against eye problems, syphilis)

Anniversary Today:

Henry Leland founds the Cadillac Motor Company, 1902

Birthdays Today:

Kristin Wiig, 1973

Giada De Laurentiis, 1970

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, 1967

Tori Amos, 1963

Cindy Williams, 1947

Steve Kroft, 1945

Duane Charles "Bill" Parcells, 1941

Valerie Harper, 1940

Carl Yastrzemski, 1939

E. Annie Proulx, 1935

Norman Schwarzkopf, 1934

Gerald Paul Carr, 1932

Ray Bradbury, 1920

John Lee Hooker, 1917

Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1908

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl, 1902

George Herriman, 1880

Dorothy Parker, 1893

Claude Debussy, 1862

Archibald MacNeal Willard, 1836

Samuel Pierpont Langley, 1834

Virginia Clemm Poe, 1822

St. Anthony of Padua, 1195

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Later with Bob Costas"(TV), 1988

Today in History:

St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, 565

The Battle of Bosworth Field, in which King Richard III is killed and his forces defeated by Henry VII, 1485

Madras, India (now called Chennai) is founded by the British East India company on land purchased from the local Nayak rulers, 1639

Jacob Barsimon, the first Jewish immigrant to what would become US territory, arrives in New Amsterdam/Manhattan, 1654

The Newport, RI newspaper, Mercury, becomes the first in the US to hire a female editor, Ann Franklin, 1762

Austria laundches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice, thus staging the first air raid in history, 1849

Gold discovered in Australia, 1851

12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention and the Red Cross is formed, 1864

William Shepphard patents the first liquid soap, 1885

Founding of the Cadillac Motor Company, 1902

President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first US chief executive to ride in an automobile, 1902

The first Victor Victrola is manufactured, 1906

The Mona Lisa is stolen, 1911 (recovered 2 years later)

Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis, 1950

Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota, Colombia, becoming the first pope to visit Latin America, 1968

Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies, 1972

The first ring of Neptune is discovered, 1989

A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway, 2004

The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day, 2007

Russia and Vanuatu become members of the World Trade Organization, 2012

India's highest court outlaws instant divorce for Muslim men (talaq, talaq, talaq), 2017

Russia launches Fedor, a life-sized humanoid robot, into space to the International Space Station, 2019

According to the French government, Josephine Baker will be the first black woman to be interred in the Panthéon in Paris, 2021

Dr. Anthony Fauci announces he will step down from his roles as chief medical advisor to the US President and as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 2022