To Vacation or Not To Vacation, 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.  

Yesterday at Carl's was rather unusual.

For months, Carl and his mother, Ms. V, have been planning a bus tour up the East Coast to see the autumn leaves and some famous places.

About two months ago, Mr. L fell and injured himself while Ms. V was out of the house a few hours.  She's been concerned about leaving him by himself, but he really cannot travel, he's always more or less in pain from the degenerated bones and discs in his neck and pain medication just takes the edge off.

He was the one who suggested she and Carl have a vacation, as he knows he can't travel but wants them to go have a trip and enjoy it.

Ms. V, who has been the picture of health, has had a gum infection, now suddenly has high blood pressure and is dehydrated.  I don't think it's her health, I think it's anxiety about leaving Mr. L, but i'm not a doctor.

The plan was for me to clean Carl's room as usual, they are to leave Wednesday, and then i'd clean the house Thursday and do a catch up and deep cleaning at Carl's next Monday.

Whether they go or not, i will be there to clean and Carl has two weeks PTO.  If they don't go and he's home all that time, cleaning next week will be an adventure, but i digress.  The job today was to make it possible for him to find everything and pack.

He was home and wanted to sleep more when i arrived, of course, so i woke him to move to his chair and checked the laundry room.

He'd done a small load, and only dried about half of it.  I put the rest in the dryer and went to his room where he was brushing his teeth.

I told him i knew he had the day off and he could sleep as long as he wanted.  He said, "Well, they might call me in..."

Somehow I didn't think so.  Their scheduling computer has given him days off when it shouldn't and they've called him in on those days, but this is pre-scheduled time off.

As he grabbed his blanket and favorite pillow he said to me, "I didn't see you at church!"

Which service did you attend? i asked.

"The late one."

That's why, by the time that service starts, i've already left!

He nodded, then pointed to a pile of clothes on his bed.  "Clean!" he said, then added, "To pack."

You want to pack these in your suitcase? i asked and he nodded, so i set them aside and he went to sleep in his chair, setting the timer on the stove for 27 minutes.

Timing on laundry is everything, and since i didn't know how long he would sleep, i decided to make it easier on myself and plan for the third load to come out of the dryer after i went to my next job and as it would only be towels, Carl could fold them or leave them be for me to do Thursday, his choice.

His dresser was less of a mess than usual, and this time most of it was clean clothes he simply didn't want to put away correctly, so he stuffed them all into the top drawer and let it overflow.   After all, he's a busy man and putting away the clean clothes is time consuming and boring, he has better things to do.

He has 3 newish pairs of work shoes, all the same brand and all just slightly different.  I found them in 3 different places in the room, paired up incorrectly.  He probably wears them this way, and no one notices and he doesn't care if they do.

I also found this bin in the laundry room, which explains why the storage cabinet doors won't close.

That's probably Ms. V's project.

Carl got up after his first half hour and came to floss.  He said he was going to sleep more, then i saw him at the kitchen table.  Asking him if he was going back to bed, he said he would but needed to get online to register for the art class at the park first.

Timer set for 76 minutes this time.

Once he did that, he set the timer for a nice, long snooze and went back to it.

His fridge was not nearly as bad as last week, some of his leftovers from his work lunches, the requisite avocado in a plastic bag, and a bowl half covered with a huge zip bag and containing salad and rice.

Carl got up to shower eventually, then dressed, then went to sleep more.  The man loves his sleep.  He was just getting up to eat when i left for Ms. S's place across the street.

Mr. S was gone, he spends Monday at the casino with his little pot of money he budgets for it, his cigar, and he brings his lunch money, too.  He came back before i finished and told me and Ms. S, "I was ahead to day, and then I just had to go to the dice table.  Oh, well, I had fun and that's what counts."

In honor of the vacation which might or might not happen, some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Air Force Day -- India

American Touch Tag Day -- go outside and remember how much fun it is to play tag

Cephalopod Awareness Days:  Octopus Day -- celebrating the most intelligent invertebrates in the world; today, celebrate all the eight-armed species

Children's Day -- Iran

Face Your Fears Day -- Stephen Hughes encourages you to use this as a day to try to do something you've always been afraid to do     

Feast of St. Bridget -- Sweden (traditional date, others who recognize the saint celebrate on July 23; Patron of widows; Europe; Sweden)

Feast of St. Keyne -- Celtic Saint, patroness of the spring and tree arbor that bear her name; the first to drink of her water after being newly married will have the upper hand in the marriage

Lovable Lawyers Day -- internet generated, and if you love one, good for you

National Fluffernutter Day

National Pierogi Day -- this day in 1952, Ted Twardzik, Sr., produced Mrs. T's Pierogies samples and took them to a local grocery store; eat a pierogi today in his honor

Navy Day/Battle of Angamos Day -- Peru

San Ernesto Day -- celebration of Che Guevera as a saint who answers prayers for rain among Bolivian campesinos

Sergeant Alvin C. York Day -- US (the feats for which he earned the Medal of Honor in 1918 were accomplished on this date)

St. Demetrius' Day (Patron of Belgrade, Serbia; Salonica, Greece; Thessaloniki, Greece; against evil spirits)

St. Pelagia the Penitant's Day (Patron of actresses)

St. Thais' Day (Patron of fallen women)

Tube Top Day -- if you dare. i don't

Anniversary Today:

Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard, 1935

Birthdays Today:

Matt Damon, 1970

Darrell Hammond, 1960

Stephanie Zimbalist, 1956

Bill Elliot, 1955

Sigourney Weaver, 1949

Sarah Purcell, 1948

Chevy Chase, 1943

R. L. Stine, 1943

Jesse Jackson, 1941

Harvey Pekat, 1939

Paul Hogan, 1939

Clodagh Aubry, 1937

Rona Barrett, 1936

Faith Ringgld, 1930

Juan Peron, 1895

Eddie Rickenbacker, 1890

Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, 1676

Heinrich Schutz, 1585

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Cagney and Lacey"(TV), 1981

"Sugar Babies"(Revue)< 1979

"The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"(Radio), 1944

"Capricorn Concerto"(Barber Op. 21), 1944

"In the Shadow of the Glen"(Play), 1903

Today in History:

Constantine, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, defeats Licinius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, at the Battle of Cibalae, 314

Great standing on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which resulted in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and eventual disintegration of the Horde, 1480

The supernova "Kepler's Nova" is first sighted, 1604

The Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its first government, 1633

First recorded eruption of Galunggung (volcano of West Java, Indonesia) sends boiling sludge into the valley (this volcano would later erupt at such a time as to cause passenger jets to be damaged and forced into emergency landings), 1822

The first Hawai'ian constitution is proclaimed, 1840

The telegraph line from LA to SF opens, 1860

A gas explosion causes the Peshtigo Fire, in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, which killed between 1,200 and 2,500 people and consumed the entire town of Peshtigo and surrounding forests and several other villages -- the deadliest fire in American history, it covered 1.5 million acres, and occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire, 1871

The Great Chicago Fire, which consumed 4 square miles, killed 200, and destroyed the original Emancipation Proclamation, began, 1871

The first women's prison run by women opens at the Indiana Reformatory Institute, 1873

Dow Jones begins reporting an average of selected industrial stocks, 1896

Edmonton, Alberta and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan are incorporated as cities in Canada, 1904

New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series; one of only 20 perfect games in MLB history, 1956

Algeria joins the United Nations, 1962

Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia, 1967

Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia, 1978

A deadly earthquake hits Pakistan, 2005

Australian mare Black Caviar ties the horse racing record set by Phar Lap with an unbeaten run of 14 wins, 2011

Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, 2014

The Noble Prize for Physics is awarded to James Peebles for his work on evolution of the universe, and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their discovery of planet 51 Pegasi b, orbiting another star, 2019

American poet Louise Glück is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2020