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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 doesn't have work this week.
It's a higgle piggle, and he can't help it.
After waking him and reminding him anything he took with him for napping would not be washed, i sent him to his sleep chair.
First, though, he wanted to brush his teeth. He tried to take his toothpaste and toothbrush with him, but i stopped him and asked him why he was doing that.
"I might want to brush again later..." he looked a bit confused.
You would be welcome to come back in here and brush your teeth in your usual spot, i told him. If i've already cleaned there, i'll just tidy it up again.
He nodded and left with his pillow, extra pj's and a blanket.
What i did not tell him was i didn't want him dirtying the hall bathroom any more than it already was, as i have to clean it on Thursday.
Same with his shower, i prep his shower first thing so he doesn't have to use the hall bathroom. If no one uses that shower, it just needs a quick clean, not a full scrubbing.
Heading for the laundry room, i noticed there was only one dryer ball in the dryer. I rifled through all the clothes and it actually helps, if there's a dryer ball stuck in a pants leg or a shirt, it means it's clean because it went through the wash and dryer.
Clean being a relative term here.
As i cleaned, i noticed Carl had rifled through his coin sorter. He'd taken out all the quarters and about half of the dimes, probably to round out the little bit of cash he currently has on hand. I'm not sure how merchants feel when they see him coming, pulling out coins and the few bills from his wallet, but most people are patient with him once he starts talking, they can tell he just needs extra time.
Also, he's perpetually broke. It just never stays with him.
And he needs more of those corn and callous pads. The few he has i'm finding stuck to things, and when you try to peel them up they are leaving the backing behind.
Carl actually didn't get up and come in his room much. He got up and ate, twice, but then went back to his sleep chair.
When he did finally get up just before i was about to leave, he told me, "Car needs inspection."
Yes, i commented, they do need that sometimes.
"It needs service first."
I know what that means. When his car needs to go in for service, his mother makes him clean it. Sure enough, i went over to clean at the neighbors when i was done with Carl's place, and once finished with the neighbor (Ms. S), came back across the street to talk to Ms. V about our upcoming ladies circle meetings for the year.
Carl was diving in and out of his car, getting it ready for the servicing. Of course, this means he just puts everything from the car into a box, and stows the box in the hallway until his mother tries to make him go through it, when the stuff just gets shuffled again.
Job security, right?
Carl, though, is also a heart of gold.
He bought school supplies for the supply drive for local school children. He loves to help.
How about some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Aloha Day -- unofficial celebration of the annexation of Hawai'i by the US
Awa Odori Festival -- Tokushima, Japan (through the 15th; one of Japan's largest dance festivals, Awa-dance is said to be a "fool's dance", and the saying is "It's a fool who dances and a fool who watches, so if both are fools, you may as well dance!")
Carnival Tuesday -- Granada
Defence Forces Day -- Zimbabwe
Festival for Hercules Invictus -- Ancient Roman Calendar (through tomorrow; based on an even older Greek celebration of Heracles at the same time of year)
Festival for Venus Vitrix -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Victorius Venus)
Fox Hill Day -- Nassau, Bahamas (final day of their Emancipation celebrations)
Grand Magal de Touba -- Touba, Senegal (commemoration of the departure into exile of Ahmadou Bamba to Gabon, a Sufi religious festival, begins at sunset and runs through nightfall tomorrow)
Grouse Day/Glorious Twelfth -- England; Scotland (opening of grouse hunting season; because the 12th is a Sunday in 2012, it will actually be celebrated tomorrow)
Her Majesty the Queen's Birthday and National Mother's Day -- Thailand
International Youth Day -- UN
Julienne Fries Day
Lychnapsia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (celebration of the Birthday of Isis, instituted after the conquest of Egypt)
Middle Children's Day -- on some sites, listed as Aug. 14; either way, Middle Children deserve a special day!
National Toasted Almond Bar Day
Osirian Mysteries; Feast of the Lights of Isis -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate, but this is the date the Romans gave it, so who am i to quibble?)
PC Day -- no, not politically correct, personal computer; IBM introduced theirs this day in 1981
Put Peanuts in Your Coca Cola Day -- and no, i can't figure this one out, but they say don't shake it once you do it; if anyone else wants to experiment with why, let me know the results
Solar Alignment with Teotihuacan, City of the Gods -- ancient when the Aztecs found its ruins, this city's ritual cave aligns with the setting sun today and April 29, also the rising and setting dates of the Pleiades
St. Gracilian's Day (Patron of Bassano Romano, Italy)
St. Murtagh's Day (Patron of Killaria, Ireland)
Vinyl Record Day -- celebrating the tremendous cultural influence of records, on the anniversary of the day in 1877 that Edison invented the phonograph
World Elephant Day
Zaraday a/k/a Zarathud's Day -- Discordianism
Birthdays Today:
Casey Affleck, 1975
Pete Sampras, 1971
Peter Krause, 1964
Ann M. Martin, 1955
Pat Metheny, 1954
Sam J. Jones, 1954
Skip Caray, 1939
George Hamilton, 1939
William Goldman, 1931
George Soros, 1930
Alvis Edgar “Buck” Owens, 1929
John Derek, 1926
Michael Kidd, 1915
Jane Wyatt, 1912
Cantinflas, 1911
Joe Besser, 1907
Alfred Lunt, 1892
Cecil B. DeMille, 1881
Christopher "Christy" Mathewson, 1880
Edith Hamilton, 1867
Katharine Lee Bates, 1859
"Diamond Jim" Brady, 1856
Robert Mills, 1781
Thomas Bewick, 1753
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Wings(Film, only silent film to win the Oscar for Best Picture), 1927
Today in History:
The last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic Dynasty, Cleopatra VII Philopater, allegedly commits suicide by asp bite, BC30
A conjunction of Venus and Jupiter occurs which may have been what the Bible calls the Star of Bethlehem, 3
Crusaders win the Battle of Ascalon, 1099
Juan Ponce de Leon arrives in Puerto Rico, 1508
Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War, 1676
Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine, the first one to be practical for home use, 1851
Asaph Hall discovers Deimos, 1877
The last quagga, a subspecies of zebra once plentiful in South Africa, dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, 1883
Hawai'i is annexed by the US, 1898
William Somerset Maugham published "Of Human Bondage", 1915
Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge, 1943
The Soviet Union detonates its first thermonuclear weapon, 1953
Echo I, the first communications satellite, is launched, 1960
South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games because of its racist policies, 1964
The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise, 1977
The IBM Personal Computer is released, 1981
Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 1992
The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, 2000
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launches, 2005
Director of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, announces plans to release remaining Afghan War Diary documents from War in Afghanistan, 2010
President Obama's health insurance mandate from his Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is struck down by the U.S. court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2011
The International Olympic Committee announces it will punish athletes who support Russian LGBT rights at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, 2013
NASA launches the Parker Space Probe, its first mission to the Sun and its outermost atmosphere, the corona, 2018
Scientists say they are close to an effective treatment for Ebola after a new drug trial has a 90% success rate in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2019
Bennu Asteroid, about the size of the Empire State Building, now has 1-in-1,750 chance of hitting Earth in 2182, according to data from NASA's OSIRIS-REX spacecraft, 2021
In the midst of the driest year since 1976, the UK officially declares 8 regions to be in a drought, 2023
