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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.
Arriving at Carl's yesterday, i was concerned.
Carl loves holidays. Carl applies for days off at all holidays. If it's a Federal or State holiday, he wants the day off. I once asked him why, when the store he works at is open and other people he works with are at work and he said, "But, it's a holiday!"
I guess that's a good a reason as any, but i work holidays, and when i told him that, he looked at me like i'd grown a third eye and we haven't brought it up since.
This time, though, it looks like Veterans Day managed to fly by under his holiday radar and he did have work, which makes cleaning his room much easier, as you can imagine.
He got up when i arrived and went to his sleep chair, setting the timer for 58 minutes. It always makes me wonder how he chooses exactly how long to sleep. It also amuses me if he gets up and still has, say 2 1/2 minutes on the timer, how he will hop back in the chair, pull up the blanket and close his eyes blissfully for that 2 1/2 minutes.
Meanwhile, i checked out the situation in the laundry room. He'd partially dried a load, but even the dried clothes smelled like old french fry grease, if you can imagine that smell, and everything got rewashed.
He'd also washed his good ice vest, and left it nice and wet in the washer. That meant trying to find enough cold packs for the other one, as it's mid-November and the temps here are still in the mid-80's.
The room reminds me of this.
He'd crammed so much stuff that belongs in the medicine cabinet into a drawer he couldn't close the drawer and had used all his towels. I still got him set up to take a shower as soon as he woke, then started sorting clothes, making sure nothing dirty was hanging in the closet, and all the other stuff.
He did, however, have his keys on the counter. The last several times i've been, including last Thursday, his keys have been left in the pockets of dirty pants, thus necessitating a search.
I also could hear something in his room, very faint, and tracked it to his phone, which he'd left on playing music, possibly all night. This in spite of two radio clocks in the room.
The problem with this is he has to have his phone to clock in at work, and where, oh where is the charge cord? Nowhere to be found, and he has to leave soonish. I'm glad i carry a charge cord, and that i found his phone.
He's been working on his pumpkin from Halloween.
No, i haven't a clue what he's doing, but he must.
Then i looked behind his TV.
Where he dug up a cellophane bag from last Christmas is anyone's guess, but i'm sure it's been hiding in his room all along.
As for this:
Ah, it's an Itsy Bitsy Spider! He's terrified of real spiders, but that didn't stop him at craft time from making one, probably back at Camp Sunny Day a few weeks ago.
How about some nursery rhyme inspired memes, plus a couple of others which struck me as funny,
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
A&W Rootbeer Mug Day -- see if you can frost your mug like they did at the old A&W stores
Birth of Baha'u'llah -- Baha'i
Birth of Sun Yat-Sen, Doctors Day, and Cultural Renaissance Day -- Taiwan
Chicken Soup for the Soul Day -- "Changing the world, one story at a time."
Constitution Day -- Azerbaijan
Dia del Cartero -- Mexico (Postman's Day; postal carriers are shown appreciation with small gifts left in mailboxes)
Fancy Rat and Mouse Day -- the American Fancy Rat and Mouse Association wants you to know these little critters can give you a lot of love
Journee Nationale Maore -- Comoros (Admission to the UN Day)
Khalkeia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of smiths, associated with Hephaists and Athena; date approximate)
National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day
National Youth Day -- East Timor
St. Emillian's Day (Patron of Spain, finding lost objects)
St. Josaphat's Day (Patron of Edmonton, Alberta; Toronto, Ontario; Ukraine)
Tewa Buffalo Dance -- Native American Tewa of the Tesuque Pueblo rites on the feast day of their Patron, San Diego, to honor Mother Earth, Father Sky, the four directions, and the elements; through the 15th
World Pneumonia Day -- because we lose a million children a year to this preventable illness
Anniversaries Today:
The Arches National Park established, 1971
Ellis Island closes, 1954
Birthdays Today:
Anne Hathaway, 1982
Ryan Gosling, 1980
Sammy Sosa, 1968
Michael Moorer, 1967
David Schwimmer, 1966
Nadia Comaneci, 1961
Megan Mullally, 1958
Neil Young, 1945
Al Michaels, 1944
Wallace Shawn, 1943
Grace Kelly, 1929
Jo Stafford, 1918
Harry A. Blackmun, 1908
Sun Yat-sen, 1866
Auguste Rodin, 1840
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Grand Hotel"(Musical), 1989
"Irma la Douce"(Musical), 1956
"Paint Your Wagon"(Musical), 1951
Song of the South(Disney film), 1946
The first Sunday American-style football game is held in Philadelphia, 1933
Today in History:
Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days starting today, 764
Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament, 1439
Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic, 1847
Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris); he also designed garment that bears his name, 1859
World's Fair in Paris opens, 1900
The first movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon, 1910
Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic, 1905
Robert Scott's diary & body are found in Antarctica, 1912
Austria becomes a republic, 1918
The first underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens, 1927
The first photo of whatever is in Loch Ness is taken, 1933
Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations, 1956
Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations, 1968
The Comoros joins the United Nations, 1975
The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings, 1980
The Space Shuttle Columbia becomes the first time a manned spacecraft launched into space twice, 1981
Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch, 1990
Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web, 1990
Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for commercial railway systems, 2003
The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database is launched on the web and revolutionizes chemical-gene-disease information for research scientists, 2004
Philippine volcano Mount Bulusan erupts again, 2010
The European Space Agency's Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko,2014
For the first time since his mother became Queen, Prince Charles lays the wreath to Great Britain's war dead, instead of Queen Elizabeth, 2017
Five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh religion, 2019
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gives his "Courage and Civility Award" of $100million to Dolly Parton, to distribute to charities of her choice, 2022
