Schedules, Traffic Fines and Healthy Aging, 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.  http://stacyuncorked.com

When last i left Carl's place, he had no schedule posted for this week.  He gets his schedules 3 weeks in advance, and he had next week, but not this week, last week.  (Confused yet?  I am.)

Anyway, i'd asked him where the schedule was for this week and he said something about thinking he left it in the printer at work, so i suggested he reprint it posthaste so he wouldn't be late or miss a day.

Yesterday i arrived to a beautiful mess.

The laundry room had Mr. L's laundry in the washer, Carl's in the dryer, and a nice pile of Carl's on top of the dryer which i used the sniff test to determine was clean.

Luckily, the light in the laundry room decided to work yesterday, so i didn't have to use the little battery operated lanterns they've put in there.  

Of course they have lanterns to try to light up the laundry room.  The ballast in the main light needs replacing and that requires an electrician and we all know that's too expensive.

I've learned when the light works, enjoy it and turn it off when leaving the room so it won't overheat and hope it works next time, because it might or might not.

Anyway, he had a schedule for the week posted on the fridge, but later i found another one.

Yes, it's in a grocery sack and mostly wet.  Yes, i threw it away.  Knowing Carl, he didn't leave the first one in the printer, he just stuffed it in a bag and had it in the car and then put something wet in there with it.

He does have work every day this week, but next week he's off, which should be fun.  As always,  he went to his sleep chair in the living room while i tried to tackle what he'd done to his closet.

As always, once he was up he was quite talkative between the courses of his breakfast.

"I'm going to a move Wednesday with Samantha, but don't know what we'll see," he told me.  Samantha is the girl he is a bit sweet on.  Taking her to a movie means his mom will make him clean his car, which will mean boxes in the hallway.  They'll probably still be there next week.

"There's something to do Tuesday," he went on.  "Cooking party!"

I never could quite get what he meant by that, but i did understand, "There's a splash pad day at the other church on Thursday..."

He's a big kid, he loves playing in the water.  He'll probably bring one of his water cannons.

About this time, i was sorting through his dirty laundry and ran across his checkbook.

You don't want to leave your checkbook in your dirty clothes, i told him.  Put it in the drawer where it belongs.

"Did it bounce?"

Did what bounce? i asked.

"The check."

I wouldn't know, you don't write checks to me any more, your mom does and then she transfers the money from your account to cover it.

"Oh."

He then headed to the kitchen with the checkbook.

Whoa, i told him, you need to put it away.

"But I have a traffic fine," he said.  He does like to leave for work at the last minute and drive rather fast.

You can pay it online, i told him.

"I already wrote a check," he said and headed for the kitchen.  No, i do not know why he couldn't simply tear the check out and take it and leave the checkbook where it belongs.

How much do we want to bet next week his checkbook is missing and the fine hasn't been paid?

He also talked about going to Harbor Freight.  "I need one of those big pads," he told me and i hope he gets one, whatever it is and whatever it's for.

As it came down to crunch time getting him out the door, he asked, "Raincoat?"

Haven't seen it in your room, check the car.

"Water bottle?"

You have a bottle of iced tea, when you're done with it, refill it with water.

"Um, there's a robe thing..."

I wouldn't know it if i saw it, and you need to scoot!

He scooted.

Later, i told Ms. V to be on the lookout for his paper traffic fine and checkbook floating around the kitchen.  She was all dressed up to go out to lunch, as it was her birthday.

"I'm 80!  Can you believe it!  I am so thankful for my health at this age."

She looks much younger than her years, is still as active and able to do things as ever.

In honor of women "of a certain age," some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Birthday of Emperor Haili Selassi I -- Rastafari

Fast of Shiva Asar B'Tammuz (Tzom Tammuz) -- Judaism (a day of fasting and mourning the destruction of the tablets by Moses, the disruption of Temple services in 423BCE, and the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem right before the Temple was destroyed in 70AD; as a minor fast it begins today at dawn and ends at nightfall)

Flag Day -- Abkhazia

Gorgeous Grandma Day -- a day to celebrate those who age, date, and mate in style!   

Hot Enough For Ya Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays as the only day on which you may utter these words; any other day, and you will get high fived on the back of the head!;)

Mayan Sun Festival -- honoring Ahau Kin, the sun god, date approximate

National Vanilla Ice Cream Day

Neptunalia and Salcia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (god and goddess of the ocean and wide seas, celebrates Neptune in his role as god of irrigation)

Private Eye Day -- internet generated

Remembrance Day -- Papua New Guinea

Renaissance Day -- Oman (celebrates the accession of Qaboos bin Said Al Said, 14th Sultan of Oman)

Revolution Day -- Egypt

St. Apollinaris' Day (Patron against epilepsy, gout; of Aachen, Germany; Burtscheid, Germany; Düsseldorf, Germany; Ravenna, Italy; Remagen, Germany)

St. Bridget of Sweden's Day (Patron of widows; Europe; Sweden)

St. Phocas the Gardener's Day (Patron of agricultural workers, boatmen, farm workers, farmers, field hands, gardeners, husbandmen, mariners, market-gardeners,sailors, watermen)

Warei Shrine Summer Festival -- Warei Shrine, Uwajima City, Japan (through tomorrow, includes "bull-sumo", a non fatal type of bull fighting, where the bulls try to push each other out of the ring)

Anniversaries Today

Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson, 1986

Coronation of King Mohammed VI of Morocco, 1999

Birthdays Today

Daniel Radcliffe, 1989

Michelle Williams, 1980

Omar Epps, 1975

Nomar Garciapara, 1973

Marlon Wayans, 1972

Charisma Carpenter, 1970

Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967

Eriq La Salle, 1962

Woody Harrelson, 1961

Lamont "ShowBoat" Robinson, 1961

Edie McClurg, 1951

Belinda Montgomery, 1950

Don Imus, 1940

Nicholas Gage, 1939

Ronny Cox, 1938

Anthony M. Kennedy, 1936

Don Drysdale, 1936

Bert Convy, 1933

Arata Isozaki, 1931

Gloria DeHaven, 1925

Amalia Rodrigues, 1920

Harold "Pee Wee" Reese, 1918

Arthur Treacher, 1894

Haile Selassie I, 1892

Raymond Chandler, 1888

Samuel Augustus Maverick, 1803

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"(Single release), 1966

"The Gene Autry Show"(TV), 1950

Today in History

William Austin Burt patents the Typographer, a precursor to the typewriter, 1829

The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union, 1840

The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, the world's oldest international sport federation, is founded, 1881

The Ford Motor Company sells its first car, 1903

Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film, 1926

Telstar  relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite, 1962

The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling within 4 years, 1982 *

Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba, 1983

Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered, 1995

Cape Verde becomes the 153rd member of the World Trade Organization, 2008

Patent law disputes between Samsung and Apple deadlock as the dispute addresses valuation of each other's patents, 2012

NASA's Kepler mission announces the discovery of the most Earth-like planet yet - Kepler-452b, 1,400 light years from Earth, 2015

Japan records its highest ever temperature at 41.1 degrees (105.98F) in Kumagaya, 2018

China launches its first mission to Mars, Tianwen-1, a combined orbiter, lander and rover, 2020

The XXXII Summer Olympic Games officially open at the Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan, 2021

Greece evacuates 19,000 tourists and residents from the path of wildfires on the island of Rhodes amid the country's hottest July in 50 years, 2023