Coming and Going and Happiness, 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's new schedule has him so he doesn't know if he's coming or going.

He's generally awake when i arrive, but doesn't want to be, he always says he wants to go back to sleep in his chair for a while.  I encourage him to grab a pillow and go nap for a half hour in the sleep chair and he generally gets as far as grabbing the pillow and taking it out there, but then he wanders back into the room.

This time, when he came back in, i asked him about the clothes on the counter.  This pile, he was certain, was clean.  That pile brought one of his famous, "ummm" responses, which means rewash them all.

And the laundry room also has him confused.  The stuff in the washer was sopping, so the cycle didn't finish, and the clothes hanging out of the top were dry.  The dryer was full of damp clothes and he keeps buying more of the dryer balls a d forgetting to out them in.

It all got done again, of course.

As i was gathering the first load, he decided it was shower time, so i steered him in with clothes and told him not to come out without underwear.  It's a warning i have to give him every time.

It's not that i'm upset when he happens to walk out of the bathroom in the altogether, it's that i believe the people in the group home he'll be moving to when a space opens will mind and it's better if he learns now.

Once showered (and dressed), it was time to lie down...for all of three minutes.  It seems his mind is willing, but his body is awake, thanks to his original schedule.  When he popped back up, i tied his apron around him to keep the clothes clean, he brushed his teeth for the third time, and went to have breakfast.

By the time i got him there to start packing his lunch, he'd ditched the apron.  I found it and got him in it again, this happened twice, and one time he'd taken off his and put on his mom's.  I made him put his own back on.  Then he started telling me about his weekend.

"We had fun Friday...what did I do Saturday?  Um, well I wanted to see (mumble mumble), but I didn't, and...what did I do?"

Mostly when he talks, I just nod like a bobblehead and continue with what I'm doing, throwing in a question or a comment on those things where i can follow his train of thought.  

As i started sorting the stuff in the room, i thought he didn't have a bag in the garbage can.  He did, but he'd lost the "binder clips" we use to hold the bag up.

Binder clips, useful and elusive.

His mom, Ms. V, keeps tons of them around and he's always using them and losing them.  Where they go is anyone's guess.

After packing his lunch -- sandwich, cheese stick, grapes, fruit cup, carrot sticks, small bag of peanuts, and a couple of candies because he won't give up sweets, i found another bag of peanuts, already open, under the receipts on his counter.

You never know where you'll find the food in his room, but it keeps me on my toes.

Speaking of toes, every pair of shoes was out of the closet and all over the place.  Sometimes some of them get lost, in his car, in the rest of the house, or in parts unknown.

This time, i found them all and they all had mates.  Happiness is all the shoes matched up.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Beaufort Wind Force Scale Day -- birth anniversary of the British Navy officer whose wind scale, in refined form

Box Camera Day -- George Eastman patented the Box Camera on this day in 1888

Day of the Soldier -- El Salvador 

Experience the Awesome Stomach-Churning Wonder of a Thrill Ride Day -- internet generated, and they can have it!

Feast of St. Nicola -- Bari, Italy (celebrates the moving of the relics of St. Nicholas -- yes, later Santa Claus -- to this town, where they still are; here he is patron of orphans and pirates, and the date of his body's arrival is celebrated as a huge three-day festival with fireworks included)

Fire Escape Ladder Day -- Joseph Winters patented a wagon-mounted version on this day in 1878

Give Local America -- US (encouraging people to support local charities with the largest crowdfuning event in history)   

Hamburg Harbor Day -- Hamburg, Germany (founding of the city)

Homeland Defender's Day -- Kazakhstan

Homespun History Day -- internet holiday often exploited by Modern Drunkard Magazine as a day upon which to drink specifically so the stories will sound better

National Barrier Awareness Day -- US (declared by Presidential Proclamation in 1986)    

National Roast Leg of Lamb Day

National Teacher Appreciation Day -- US

Nones of May -- Ancient Roman Calendar

Radio Day -- Bulgaria; Russia

St. Domitian of Huy's Day (Patron of Huy Liege, Belgium; against fever)

World Asthma Day -- International (Global Initiative for Asthma; this year's theme is "Asthma Education Empowers") 

Yom HaShoah -- Judaism (Holocaust Remembrance Day; began sunset yesterday, ends at sunset today)

Anniversaries Today:

Founding of Univerzita Karlova in Prague, the first university in Central Europe, 1348

Birthdays Today:

Owen Hart, 1965

Peter Reckell, 1955

Amy Heckerling, 1954

Tim Russert, 1950

Johnny Unitas, 1933

Teresa Brewer, 1931

Darren McGavin, 1922

Eva Peron, 1919

Gary Cooper, 1901

Archibald Macleish, 1892

Gabby Hayes, 1885

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1840

Johannes Brahms, 1833

Robert Browning, 1812

Francis Beaufort, 1774

David Hume, 1711

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Strike It Rich"(TV), 1951

Choral Symphony in D Minor(Beethoven's Ninth), 1824

Today in History:

The dome of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople collapses, 558

Joan of Arc leads the final charge in the Battle of Orleans, 1429

Louis XIV of France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles, 1664

The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, 1718

Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia, 1727

Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit, 1763

The independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London, 1832

George Eastman patents the "Kodak Box Camera," 1888

In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver, 1895

German submarine SM U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, 1915

England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21, 1928

Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees, 1946

The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress, 1948

The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer, 1952

Canadian Patrick Morrow became the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits, 1986

The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, 1992

Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history, 1998

The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered, 2007

A new study reports that all Europeans are related to a small group of ancestors dating back only 1,000 years; researchers believe it's likely that everyone in the world is related over the past few thousand years, 2013

Underwater explorers discover a silver ingot of Captain William Kidd's treasure near Madagascar, 2015

Global tourism accounts for 8% of the world's carbon emissions according to a University of Sydney study, 2018

Berklee College of Music bestows honorary doctorates to Beatles drummer Ringo Starr; bassist Chuck Rainey; composer James Newton Howard; and R&B singer Lalah Hathaway, 2022