Weather, Windows and Weight, 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.  

Carl had already gotten out of the shower and was heading for food when i arrived, so he'd actually gotten up early.

Following him into the kitchen, he was looking at his schedules his mom prints out and saying, "Long week," pointing at one.  It was the wrong one, and i redirected him to this week's printout.

Once that was straight and i had an apron on him so he could eat, i took his keys to the car to find his lunchbox.  I found the lunchbox, and that he'd left the car window open enough someone could have reached in to open the door.

When i went in to remind him he needs to roll those windows down, he was reading online and looked up with wonder and excitement on his face.  "Scientists say time flows backward in some materials!  Not in us, we can't see it, we go one way, but in some stuff, it goes both ways!"

That was a mouthful for him, and he then buried himself in the online article.  I know when i'm defeated and simply went to pack his lunch.

This was a first, he'd made and sandwich and not used a bag.  Usually the bag is open, not totally missing.  Then i noticed the freezer was open.

He's been stuffing his cold packs in there every which way, they don't freeze flat but in odd shapes, and then he can't get more stuff in and he freezer stays open, running continuously.  It had built up an ice crust making it now impossible to shut.

Once i had his lunch made, he came in his room talking about jobs.  "There's a job here pays $25 an hour!  At a grocery!"

I asked what kind of grocery job, but he had moved on.  "These jobs pay better than mine," he was saying, and i told him right now, on the way out the door in the morning, was not the time to be job hunting.

He said, "It's cold, I need more clothes," and went to his closet.  He pulled out another short sleeve shirt and i stopped him in his tracks, grabbing a long sleeve.  Then i made him take the short sleeve shirt off, put on the long sleeve, then put the short over it and then his coat, then his work vest.  I told him by the time he was working, pushing those carts, he'd warm up with what he had on.

He looked at me.  "Exercise?  No, fitness," he said.  The muttered to himself, "What's next?"  After that, it sounded like he said, "Star wars tournament."

Heaven only knows, but he grabbed his lunch and actually left for work with plenty of time to spare for once, instead of rushing out the door.

He left me to deal with his shower curtain.

No, i don't know how he keeps getting half of the clips on backward.

Then i took care of the deodorant.

I also emptied his freezer, got the ice out, put back only the solid cold packs and food and left the rest of the cold packs on a towel in the hall to melt.  I told Ms. V later i'll start putting them in the freezer correctly a few at a time, so he'll always have some to actually fit in his cold vest.

Not that he's going to need the cold vest until the weather warm.  Best to start this process early, for all i know, he'll use them for something else.

Once done at his house, i went across the street to my other client, Mr. DS and Ms. ES, who told on Ms. V (Carl's mother).  Someone had brought these clients a king cake from one of the bakeries in NOLA where people stand in line for hours to get one.  They sent 3 pieces to Ms. V, Mr. L and Carl.

Later, the husband asked Carl how he'd liked the cake and Carl said, "Oh, my mom says I've gained too much weight so she ate my piece and hers!"

How about some funnies?

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Cash Register Day -- James Ritty and John Birch were granted a patent on this day in 1883 for an early mechanical cash register

Congressional Brawl Day -- marking the first ever all out brawl in the US Congress in 1798

Draw A Dinosaur Day -- and post it to the web site   

Feast of King Charles the Martyr -- Anglican

Fred Korematsu Day -- US (honoring the civil rights activist who protested the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII) www.en.wikipedia.com/Fred_Korematsu

Inane Answering Message Day -- the day to change those annoying messages, sponsored by Wellcat Holidays

King's Birthday -- Jordan

Martyrs' Day -- India (assassination anniversary of Gandhi)

National Croissant Day

Pax -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Festival of Peace)

School Day of Nonviolence and Peace -- sponsored by DENIP

St. Aldegund's Day (Patron of cancer patients; against cancer, childhood diseases, sudden death, wounds)

St. Bathilde's Day (Patron of children, sick people, widows; against bodily ills and sickness)

St. Martina of Rome's Day (Patron of nursing mothers; Rome, Italy)

Three Archbishops' Day -- Eastern Orthodox (a/k/a Holy Hierarchs' Day)

Birthdays Today:

Johnathan Lee Iverson, 1976

Christian Bale, 1974

Brett Butler, 1958

Phil Collins, 1951

Charles Dutton, 1951

Steve Marriott, 1947

Marty Balin, 1942

Dick Cheney, 1941

Vanessa Redgrave, 1937

Boris spassky, 1937

Tammy Grimes, 1934

Louis Ruckeyser, 1933

Gene Hackman, 1930

Dorothy Malone, 1925

Dick Martin, 1922

Barbara W. Tuchman, 1912

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882

Isaiah Thomas, 1749

Thomas Rolfe, 1615 (Only child of John Rolfe and Pocahontas.)

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Yogi Bear Show"(TV), 1958

"Robert Montgomery Presents"(TV), 1950

"City Lights"(Chaplin Movie), 1931

Today in History:

The Jews of Freilburg, Germany, are massacred, 1349

King Charles I of England is beheaded, 1649

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed after having been dead for two years, 1661

The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Oishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, 1703

Henry Greathead tests the first boat intended to be specialized as a lifeboat for rescue purposes, which he invented, on the River Tyne in England, 1790

The burned Library of Congress is reestablished, with Thomas Jefferson contributing, 1815

Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica, 1820

The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened, 1826

A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1841

The city of Yerba Buena is renamed San Francisco, for the nearby mission of the same name, 1847

William Wells Brown publishes the first Black drama, "Leap to Freedom," 1858

The US Navy's first ironclad warship, the Monitor, is launched, 1862

The pneumatic hammer is patented by Charles King of Detroit, 1894

The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy, 1911

The House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill, 1913

"The Lone Ranger" begins a 21 year run on ABC radio, 1933

Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist, 1948

American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1956

The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police, 1969

Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide, 1971

Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations, 1972

The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary was established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary, 1975

Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner", 1982

Peter Leko of Hungary becomes the world's youngest chess grand master at age 14, 1994

Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease, 1995

Over half a million people participate in the world's largest wildlife survey after extreme cold drives exotic birds into Britain's back gardens, 2011

Peter Paul Rubens’s 1608 drawing, "Nude Study of Young Man with Raised Arms," sells for $8.2 million at auction in New York, 2019

The World Health Organization declares COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern at a meeting in Geneva, 2020