He Tries, It Just Doesn't Quite Work, 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.  

When i arrived at Carl's, the dryer was empty, the sink full of socks and towels, the clothes in the washer had soured, and there was this.

The clip is part of a hanger.  Yes, he threw something in the washer with a hanger still attached.  It's no wonder he had no regular summer clothes to wear and had resorted to long sleeve winter items and Sunday shirts.

Well, scratch that.

I did find one good, clean shirt in this pile.  Later, he managed to get toothpaste on it, but I got it off in time.

Meanwhile, his fridge was "meaner than second skimmings" as the old country saying goes.  I was sure he'd been busy and not had time to make anything and i was right.

Indeed, when he got up and was done with his shower and dressing, he talked.

He started in with mumbling something about a storm and his hours at work.  I asked if he was on his usual hours and he said he was, so i never caught what he meant.

"I need to get with my friends," he said.  "We like to play games.  I try to get them to exercise, but they don't always want to."

Carl has really done well on his exercises, he lost enough weight not to be pre-diabetic any longer and he had to change belts because the first one he grabbed is now too loose on him.

"How many graduates?" he suddenly asked, and when i figured out he meant how many high school seniors are graduating at our church this year, i told him at least a dozen but I couldn't confirm the exact number.

He nodded then said with a smile, "Sam invited me to a crawfish boil at her church!"  He licked his lips in memory of it.  It seems this is the third crawfish boil he's been to this season and he's certainly not complaining about it.

"Dad told me to quit messaging my sister-in-law" he continued.

She might be busy or have a hard time getting to messages at certain times of day, i tried to diplomatically tell him.

"Well, I only message in the evenings..." he said.  What i did not say is she may have a hard time understanding his messages.  Having been on the receiving end of several, i can tell you he types like he talks, and sometimes it's not so easy to know what he's getting at.

"Does this need to be charged?" he asked, picking up his phone from the counter.

I told him since i'd found it in a pants pocket in a dirty clothes bin and no knowing how long it had been there, it was likely low.  He nodded and headed off to find a charge cord.

As we worked our way through the morning, he having breakfast and me packing his lunch and getting to laundry and cleaning, he touched on such topics as how bad politics and war is (it's always bad, i told him, only the locations change), whether he was watering his plant enough (stick your finger in the soil and see if it's moist, i told him and he seemed less than enthused), whether or not he should shave (he is sporting a neatly trimmed beard and as for whether he needed to trim on it that particular day, i told him not when he has to leave for work in less than five minutes), and whether he still owns a thermos or a watch (doubtful, i have not seen either in months, he will need to replace them again).

Eventually he loaded his gear in the car, then came back in and mournfully said, "There are no sunglasses out there, either," then left for work.

Add that to list of what he needs to replace.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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It's National Rescue Dog Day in the US!  It was started by by Lisa Wiehebrink, an author as well as the founder of “Tails That Teach.”   

Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.         

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Today is:

Be a Millionaire Day - now we all can go for that

Blue Jeans Day -- Levi Strauss and David Jacobs received the patent for their denim pants with riveted pockets on this day in 1873

Eliza Doolittle Day* -- in honor of Shaw and his famous fictional character, to encourage proper use of one's native language

Emancipation Day -- Florida, US

Festival of Mjollnir -- Ancient Norse Calendar (feast of Thor's Hammer, date approximate)

Flying Solo Day -- Lindberg began his historic flight on this day in 1927

Frigga Blot -- Slavic Pagan/Asatru (honoring Frigga)    www.asatru.org/holidays.php

Grudie Rosnoe -- Slavic Pagan/Asatru (ten days of sacrifices to Rod for rain and good harvests)

Hari Kebangkitan Nasional Indonesia -- Indonesia (Indonesian National Awakening Day)

Independence Day -- East Timor(2002)

International Bee Day -- UN

Mecklenburg Day -- North Carolina, US (commemoration of the signing of a declaration of independence from England by the citizens of Mecklenburg County on this day in 1775)

National Day -- Cameroon

National Quiche Lorraine Day

Norman Rockwell Day -- his first Saturday Evening Post cover appeared this day in 1916

Pick Strawberries Day

St. Bernadine of Siena's Day (Patron of advertising and advertisers, communications personnel, compulsive gamblers/gambling addicts, public relations work and personnel; Italy; Aquila, Italy; Capri, Italy; Castelspina, Italy; Trevignano, Italy; the diocese of San Bernardino, California; against compulsive gambling, chest, lung, and respiratory problems and hoarseness of the throat)

St. Ives' Day (an honest lawyer; in the Anglican tradition, Patron of abandoned children and orphans, advocates, canon lawyers, judges, lawyers, and notaries; in the Roman Catholic tradition, Patron of Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire, England)

T'veer Chong Kamhaeng -- Cambodia (Day of Remembrance, anniversary of Khmer Rouge regime takeover in 1975, a day to remember all who died at their hands and work for peace)

Weights and Measures Day / World Metrology Day -- anniversary of the treaty in 1875 which established the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, France

World Autoimmune Arthritis Day -- The International Foundation for Autoimmune Arthritis sponsors an online virtual convention in all time zones around the world from today through Wednesday    

*"One evening the King will say, "Oh, Liza, old thing,

I want all of England your praises to sing,

Next week on the twentieth of May,

I proclaim Liza Doolittle Day."

Birthdays Today:

Tahmoh Penikett, 1975

Tony Stewart, 1971

Tony Goldwyn, 1960

Bronson Pinchot, 1959

Ronald Prescott Reagan, 1958

David Paterson, 1954

Cher, 1946

Joe Cocker, 1944

Stan Mikita, 1940

Anthony Zerbe, 1936

George Gobel, 1919

Jimmy Stewart, 1908

Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, 1844

William Fargo, 1818

John Stuart Mill, 1806

Honore de Balzac, 1799

Dolly Madison, 1768

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Elegie für junge Liebende / Elegy for Young Lovers(Opera), 1961

Norman Rockwell's First Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1916

Today in History:

The first Ecumenical Council in the Christian Church, the Council of Nicea, opens, 325

An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia, 526

John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship  Matthew looking for a route to the west, 1497

Cartographer  Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas, 1570

Shakespeare's Sonnets  are first published in London, 1609

Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution, 1802

Otto is named the first modern king of Greece, 1835

HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage in which all hands are lost, 1845

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, 1862

Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets, 1873

The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed, 1882

Krakatoa begins to erupt (the volcano's final and most notable explosion will occur on August 26), 1883

The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope, 1891

Cuba gains independence from the United States, 1902

The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage"), 1916

Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America, 1920

By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 1927

At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, 1927

Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, 1932

In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada, 1980

First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually, 1983

The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre, 1989

In a second referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a slight majority the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada, 1995

The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976), 2002

Scientists at the Craig J. Venter Institute announce they have successfully created the world's first artificial lifeform by transplanting a synthesized genome into an existing cell, 2010

Some of the largest fines ever levied, totaling US$5.7bn, are handed out to the major world banks JPMorgan, Barclays, Citigroup, RBS, and USB, for manipulation of currency markets, 2015

Bangladesh imposes a 65-day ban on coastal fishing to conserve fish stocks, 2019

Israel and Hamas agree to a bilateral ceasefire in Gaza after nearly two weeks of fighting, 2021

A huia feather from an extinct New Zealand bird sells for $46,521 NZD (about $28,400 USD) at auction in Auckland, 2024