Events, Badges, and Looking Forward to Thanksgiving, 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, as i confirmed last week, works three days this week, including yesterday when i went to clean.

It's always helpful that way.  Unless, of course, i arrive to see this.

Flashing from this...

...to this.

Yep, he'd washed a load and dried it just fine, but something got hung up in that second load and the water was still in the washer.  Not knowing how long it had been like that, i just drained it and rewashed it all.

He's back to hanging clothes from his counter.  He does this so he won't have to pick what to wear in the morning.

No, of course he doesn't wear what he hung up, he goes and gets a new outfit anyway, why would you ask?

This is why we are down to four dryer balls, from a high of seven.  I'd take bets on how long these will be around but it would be too complicated.

In the fridge

almost empty cup

empty cup

and a variety of things, avocados, his new bag of throat lozenges (yes, he has three open bags in the bathroom, so what?), his new bottle of Listerine and and a new bottle of gas pills, all loose in the bag.

Also this.

Why take the whole roll of Tums out when you can just open it a little and take out one?

He was a reluctant riser yesterday.  Once he went to his sleep chair, he ignored the beep of the timer and snoozed away until he popped up and ran for the shower.  He came out fully dressed, i'd already set everything up.

I got to him with the apron just in time as he was going to sit and eat, and set about making his lunch.  "Will I have enough?" he asked.

Let's see, sandwich, cheese stick, fresh fruit, a fruit cup, carrot sticks, peanuts, animal cookies and caramel popcorn for a five hour shift.  Yep, i think he's good.

His next topic of conversation was, "Events?"

I looked at him and he said, "At church.  I missed everything last month, any events coming up?"

For this, i pulled out the church bulletin i'd brought to give Ms. V.  (They are members, but Mr. L is mostly homebound and Ms. V won't drive so far by herself, so she watches online and goes to a small church closer to home to sing in the choir.)

I showed him all the upcoming events, Live Nativity, the Cantata, the Downtown Pilgrimage.  He nodded, said, "Got it," then added, "how do I get there?"

That is for his parents to decide.  They don't like him driving so far into town by himself, either, even in the daytime.  Maybe we can give him a ride at some point, but that's a big maybe considering our schedules and the current status of our cars.

After weeks of him asking about finding his work badge, i noticed a bagful of generic work badges with no name on them.  One of the managers probably handed it to him after getting tired of him always without one.

He asked about a sweater although the day was going to warm up nicely without getting too hot.   I found him a sweater and put one of the badges on it, and he promptly threw it on the hood of the car instead of putting it on.  Heaven only knows where it (and the badge) will end up.

Not taking bets on how long the half dozen badges last him, either.

As he ran for the door, he asked, "Phone?"

I hadn't seen it and he looked for a short time (as did i), but it was a no go.  I asked about using the iPad and find-a-phone and he said, "No time!" as he ran for the car.

He's going to be thankful for the days off at the end of the week.  And the food.  He’s especially going to be thankful for the food.

Thanksgiving memes, some old, some new.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Constitution Day of the Republic of Abkhazia -- Abkhazia

Day of the Covenant -- Baha'i

Good Grief Day -- birth anniversary of Charles Schultz

Independence Day -- Mongolia(1924)

National Cake Day

Sojourner Truth Day -- died this day in 1883

St. John Berchmans' Day (Patron of alter servers, Oblate novices, young people)

Strange Names Day -- in honor of all the celebrity -- and other -- kids with "unique" names; sponsored the last Tuesday in November by Marlar in the Morning at 101QFL in Rockford, IL, US

Anniversaries Today:

Founding of Sigma Alpha Mu in the City College of New York, by 8 Jewish young men, 1909

The first official Thanksgiving in the US, by presidential proclamation, 1789

Founding of the University of Notre Dame, 1842

Founding of Kappa Alpha Society, the oldest surviving US college fraternity, 1825

Birthdays Today:

Natasha Bedingfield, 1981

Shannon Dunn, 1972

Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, 1966

Dale Jarrett, 1956

Tina Turner, 1939

Rich Little, 1938

Robert Goulet, 1933

Charles Schultz, 1922

Eugene Ionesco, 1912

Eric Sevareid, 1912

Lefty Gomez, 1908

Mary Edwards Walker, 1832

Sarah Moore Grimke, 1792

John Harvard, 1607

Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan, 1288

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Anarchy in the UK"(Sex Pistols single release), 1977

"The Price is Right"(TV), 1956

"Twenty Questions"(TV), 1949

Casablanca(Film), 1942

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Publication date), 1865

Today in History:

The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed, BC43

Vlad III Dracula (Vlad the Impaler)defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time, 1476

The first lion exhibited in the US makes his debut in Boston, 1716

Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui, 1778

The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established, 1784

The first national US Thanksgiving is celebrated, 1789

The first streetcar railway in the US begins operation in NYC, fare 12 cents, 1832

The refrigerated railway car is patented by J.B. Sutherland of Detroit, Michigan, 1867

The first photograph of a meteor is taken, 1885

The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams, 1917

King Tut's tomb is opened by English archaeologist Howard Carter, 1922

Four young lads from Liverpool have their first recording session under the interesting name "The Beatles", 1962

Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament, 1998

Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England, 2003

A male Po'ouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct, 2004

NASA launches the Mars Science Laboratory, its largest rover ever, 2011

UK nonprofit Raspberry Pi releases its $5 Zero computer and sells out in a day, 2015

The WHO announces the first multidrug randomized control trial to treat Ebola has started in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2018

Two thousand five hundred (2,500) people pose nude for photographer Spencer Tunick on Australia's Bondi Beach to raise awareness of skin cancer, 2022