Second Verse, Same as the First, a Random and Happy A to Z 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.  

Or perhaps, in Carl's case, thousandth verse, same as the first.

Easter is one of the few holidays where they have people over, and it shows.

Everything which belongs in the kitchen is stuffed into the laundry area and the good China has been washed by hand.

Old habits die hard, there is supposed to be a garbage can on the side of the washer, but the collapsible bin was there instead, and it got used.

Carl had a hard week, too.

Now he has three chairs, the lotion has moved to the one with the sheet on it.  You'd think this would protect it from getting lotion all over it, but not if you know Carl.

Last week he was missing a pillowcase, this week he had an extra one and he still managed to have a pillow with no pillow slip.  I don't know how it happens, and neither does he.

Nor does he know how this happened.  This is the second belt broken in this fashion.

Pickings were slim in his fridge, but he bought a dragon fruit.  He is trying to expand his repertoire.

He got up to take his meds, then went back to snoozing for a while.  Just before he did go back to the sleep chair, he mumbled something to me which sounded like, "I need to straighten..."

Go to sleep, i told him, once i get here, it's my job.

He went, then got up later to shower.  Somehow, whatever clothes we agree on and he brings in there with him, by the time the shower is over, he changes something.  Must be in the water.

As always, he comes out ready to talk.  

"The church wasn't as full yesterday," he began, then added, "great song."

There was a great song at church? i asked.

"Yes, it was new..."

What was the name?

"Um, title...not sure..."

Later i found a church bulletin from our church and realized he'd attended the later service, after going to the closer church with his mother to an earlier service.  I think he was talking about the song "His Heart Beats."

He continued.  "Went to a movie ... Minecraft..."

If i know Minecraft is a game it's about as much as i know, and he plays it with his friend so i asked if he'd played this weekend.

"No, Minecraft the movie," he said, then "and I left early, I needed a nap."

Well, you've had your nap this morning, go get breakfast, i told him, and went to make his lunch.   He was talking to his dad, "They said they close at 2, but there were still people there at 2..."

Once his lunch was done, i was back in his room and he came in looking for a thingamabobber, which is Carl's technical term for anything he can't remember the name of.

"We had company!" he said and i noted i remembered some extended family always comes for Easter.   Then he said what sounded like "the boogers didn't come."

I asked him to repeat that, and it sounded like "boggarts" the second time.  I'm not sure which guests didn't make it, but i'd guess the name at least starts with a B.  Then again, maybe not.

He then discussed how he'd gotten his new card activated and his phone.  He had to get a new phone, it turned out the reason he could no longer get his work schedule was the old phone doesn't work with their system.

Then he left to look for his phone.  Some things never change.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Chemists Celebrate The Earth Day -- promoting public awareness of the important contribution of chemists

Discovery Day -- Brazil (landing of Cabral in 1500)

Earth Day

Easter Tuesday -- TAS, Australia; Cyprus; Nauru

Festival of Jupiter and Juno -- Ancient Roman Calendar

Girl Scout Leader Appreciation Day -- Girl Scouts of the USA   

Granary Offering to Renenutet -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (offering to the Lady of Granaries; date approximate)

International Mother Earth Day -- UN

Lela's Holiday -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (honoring the goddess-daughter, Lela)

National Jelly Bean Day

Queen Isabella Day -- Spain and some US states (birth anniversary of Isabella I of Castille)

School Bus Driver's Day -- these longsuffering drivers put up with a lot, thank a school bus driver today!

Southland Provincial Anniversary Day -- Southland, NZ

St. Epipodius of Lyon's Day (Patron of bachelors, betrayal victims, torture victims)

Walpurgis celebrations begin -- through May 1, Norse, Scandinavian, and Germanic celebrations (remembering the sacrifice of Odin upon the World Tree Yggdrasil

     Yggdrasil Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar

Birthdays Today:

Amber Heard, 1986

Francis Capra, 1983

Daniel Johns, 1979

Kim Elizabeth, 1978

Eric Mabius, 1971

Chris Makepeace, 1964

Byron Allen, 1961

Ryan Stiles, 1959

Peter Frampton, 1950

John Waters, 1946

Jack Nicholson, 1937

Glen Campbell, 1936

Aaron Spelling, 1928

Charlotte Rae, 1926

Yehudi Menuhin, 1916

Eddie Albert, 1906

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, 1891

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, 1870

Immanuel Kant, 1724

Queen Isabella, 1451

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Who's Tommy"(Rock musical), 1993

"Le Triomphe de Plutus/Money Makes the World Go Round"(Play), 1728

Today in History:

Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil, 1500

President George Washington attends a performance of Rickett's, the first circus in the US, 1793

Thomas Stevens sets out from San Francisco on the first round the world journey by bicycle, 1884

The Oklahoma land rush begins at noon; thousands rush to claim land, and the towns of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed within hours with populations of over 10,000 each, 1889

Pravda begins publication in St. Petersburg, 1912

The Germans begin using poison chlorine gas as a chemical weapon, 1915

British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world, 1969

The first Earth Day is celebrated, 1970

The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. is dedicated, 1993

Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record, 2005

Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War, 2006

The Pope, Benedict XVI, becomes the first pontiff to participate in a televised interview session, 2011

The Paris Agreement on climate change is signed in New York, 2016

Sudan bans female genital mutation, making it a criminal offense, 2020

Argentina suffers a record outbreak of dengue fever with over 60,000 cases and more than forty deaths, 2023

Widespread flooding of the Bei River across southern China forces the evacuation of 110,000 people, 2024