Of Pajamas and Politics, 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. 

Never knowing what's on the other side of the door when i get to Carl's means open the door at your own risk.

This rug has been in the back hall for quite some time, and the letters from the thrift store asking for donations are to remind her to call them for a pick up of the rug.

Everything else on there is Carl's from the car.  

He was awake and getting ready to climb back in bed when i knocked and told him to go to his chair.  He stopped to grab a sheet and pillow, and dig through all the pajamas on the bed to find the one he wanted to use to wrap his pillow.  He gave one a sniff test, made a face, sniffed another and said, "It's fresher" and took that one.

The rejected one, along with the remaining sheets, pillowcases and etc. all went to the laundry pile.

He'd washed a load and used a proper wash cycle.  Since they hadn't soured in the washer, they were dried and put away.

As i started sorting through is things, clean, dirty, getting washed anyway because there's no way to know, i found a few things on hangers.

This one blue shirt, despite the plethora of regular hangers he has, ended up on the one we use for letting gloves drip dry.

He had an odd sock.

Not unusual in itself, except no one in this house has any socks with the particular red logo this one has.  He’s come home without ice chests, lunch boxes, coats, sweaters, gloves, hats, sunglasses, shoes and socks (but thankfully always makes it home with pants and shirt intact), but this is the first time he's managed to come home with an extra sock which is not even his.

No, i don't want to know how.

One item hung in the closet inside out did not pass my sniff test, in fact, i was rather sorry i had to use a sniff test on it.

As i cleaned and gathered laundry, i found things, like his keys in the pocket of a dirty pair of pants (again) and this.

Yep, it's the credit card he can never find, this time under a whole bunch of stuff on his countertop.  I stuffed it in his wallet and i wonder how long it will take him to find it there.

When he did finally get up i sent him to the shower, and despite having all his clothes in there he came out clad only in skivvies.  It's okay, it's better than the alternative and i sent him back to try again whereupon he came out clothed, and in as much of his right mind as any of us can be.

He did want an ice vest and he had made no sandwich, so while i tended to getting his stuff ready for him to leave, he fixed his breakfast and talked.

"Had a date Friday," he said.  I asked if he'd enjoy it and yes, he had, then he started mumbling about Saturday but i couldn't quite catch it.

His next question was, "How was church?"  I told him all was well and he seemed worried.  "No politics?"

Now i got what he was on about.  He's very worried about how politics has polarized people and he doesn't want to see friendships broken over it.  I told him all was well.

His next topic was about his breaks at work, then whether he should get a new job, and Facebook.  I wish he'd stay off it, he's ill equipped to handle some of the stuff trolls will throw at you.

When it was getting along about time for him to go, he wandered back into his room and grabbed his toothbrush.  Haven't you brushed twice already? i asked him.

"Need to use toothpaste this time," he answered.

Yes, well, there's always that.

He started brushing, then i heard a rhythmic sound which, when i turned to look, turned out to be him jogging in place while brushing.  Multi-talented that's him.

Then he grabbed both cortisone and deodorant and tried to apply them, but mostly it landed on his clothes not on him.  He tries.

He got his ice chest loaded into the car and then i kept running into him striding around the house muttering, "what else, what else."  He has my sympathy.

At one point, i went out to see if he'd actually driven away and he was drinking the water from his lunch.  He came back in the house to grab sunglasses.  When i reminded him he already had a pair, he said, "Can always use extra!" and strode out.

Can't fault the logic, he will need several extras.

Then i followed him to the car to make sure he would leave and i found him trying to clean around the door handle of the car.

"Too much wax," he said.  "Should i clean it?"

Not and be late for work, i told him, so he nodded and left.

in honor of the politics which has us all on edge, some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Conmemoracion Patriotica en la Ciudad de Colon -- Panama

Day of the First Shout for Independence -- El Salvador

Egyptian Day -- Medieval Europe day of bad forturne (common saying on this day was, "Notwithstanding, I will trust the Lord.")

Festival of Amun -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Guy Fawkes' Day -- Canadian province of Newfoundland & Labrador; New Zealand; UK; a/k/a Gunpowder Day, bonfires celebrate that Guy Fawkes plot did not succeed; related famous celebrations

     Burning of the Tar Barrels -- Ottery St. Mary, Devon, UK (17 barrels soaked in tar are lit outside 17 taverns and carried through the town)

     Lewes Bonfire Night -- Lewes, East Sussex, UK

     Turning the Devil's Stone -- Shebbear, Devon, UK (erratic stone, possibly from an Ice Age deposit, turned every year on this day to assure good forturne)

Melbourne Cup Day -- Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia (155th running)

National Hot Sauce Day

Nones of November -- Ancient Roman Calendar

Popes Day -- US name for the remembrance of Guy Fawkes' Day

St. Elizabeth's Day and St. Zechariah's Day -- parents of John the Baptist (Elizabeth is Patron of pregnant women)

Tori No Ichi -- Japan (the first "rooster day" of November, so called because it is held on the two or three days of the rooster this month, in which to wish good luck and prosperity at temple and shrine ceremonies around the country, and celebrate with a fair)

Wuwuchim Fire Ceremonies begin -- Hopi Native American (dating approximate, as these ceremonies are now mostly closed to outsiders, a celebration of Masaw, god of death, and Spider Woman, the earth mother; a 16 day festival and manhood ceremony for adolescent boys)

Anniversary Today:

George W. Bush marries Laura Welch, 1977

Birthdays Today:

Kevin Jonas, 1987

Corin Nemec, 1971

Judy Reyes, 1967

Tatum O'Neal, 1963

Tilda Swinton, 1960

Bryan Adams, 1959

Bill Walton, 1952

Peter Noone, 1947

Sam Shepard, 1943

Art Garfunkel, 1941

Elke Sommer, 1940

Geoffrey Wolff, 1937

Ike Turner, 1931

Vivien Leigh, 1913

Roy Rogers, 1911

Joel McCrea, 1905

Strom Thurmond, 1902

Raymond Loewy, 1893

Will Durant, 1885

Ida M. Tarbell, 1857

Eugene Debs, 1855

Debuting/Premiering Today

"Into the Woods"(Sondheim musical), 1987

"Fifth of July"(Wilson play), 1980

"The Nat King Cole Show, 1956

The New York Weekly Journal(first edition), 1733

Today in History:

Wu MeKuan, a collection of 48 Zen koans, compiled in China, 1228

Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany); it is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary, 1499

St. Felix's Flood ravages the Dutch coast and destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands, 1530

The Gunpowder Plot, in which Catholics were trying to blow up the English Parliament, is foiled, 1605

The first post office in the Colonies is opened in the home of Richard Fairbanks, 1639

Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote in Rochester, NY, 1871

The first US patent for a gasoline driven motor car is granted to George B. Selden, 1895

Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena from Sheepshead Bay, NY, completing the first transcontinental plane flight, in 49 days, 1911

Colombia joins the United Nations, 1945

USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China — the first US Naval visit to China since 1949, 1986

André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada, but is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door, 1995

Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial, 2006

China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon, 2007

Collins Dictionary names "binge-watch" the word of the year, followed by "transgender", 2015

NASA's Voyager 2 probe leaves the solar system, becoming the second human-made object to reach interstellar space, 2018

The Chinese government sets new rules for gaming for young people to try to curb gaming addiction, including a legal maximum 90 minutes of gaming allowed per day, 2021