Name Tags and Graduates, 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 had been raiding the house linen closet again and there was no telling what was clean or dirty in the laundry room when i arrived except by playing the “does it smell clean or dirty” game.

How i still have a sense of smell at all after all these years is anyone’s guess.

He’s been grocery shopping again.

Trying to match his own socks, too, when he’s down to the bottom of the drawer and has to take the singletons that are left.

This pile had it all, pants, underwear, socks, belt and shoes all tucked inside each other.  Two unmatched shoes.  He probably wore them that way to work and no one noticed, not even him.

The fridge wasn’t bad and he’d made sandwiches.

Once Carl was up and came in his room, he surprised me by wanting to turn the radio up.   Usually he is always concerned with turning things down and leaves the volume so how it can be hard to hear.

He got out of the shower and actually put on the clothes we’d agreed on, then went for breakfast and remembered his apron without me reminding him.  That’s a banner day.

“Did you like the music yesterday?” he asked.

At church? Yes, i did, i told him.

“Seniors,” he added, and when i looked a bit confused, he said, “Were you there?”

Then i remembered we’d honored the high school seniors at church the day before and i told him i remembered.

I also asked him what else he’d done this weekend and he said, “My friend Dave was available, we did games.  I got to four levels, but the last is too hard...”

He trailed off and then talked about the library.  “They cancelled...”

What did they cancel? i asked.

“It rained!” he replied and i realized they’d had some outdoor activities planned.  He loves outdoor fun.

“My car didn’t work,” he continued.

Your car? i asked.

“Yes, at the store, but I had some cash...”

That’s when i realized he was saying his card didn’t work.  He must have bought all the crackers with cash.  It also explains why that’s all he bought.

Once he was done with breakfast and we were moving toward him leaving, he went out to the car and i noticed he was having trouble.  He used the key to open the door (he lost the “clicker” long ago) then tried to lean across to open the passenger door.

I felt badly for him and opened the door and pressed the unlock button.

You can do it this way, too, it’s easier, i told him.

“Oh, yeah,” he said, blinking with a bit of confusion.

Then i told him i’d bring him a name tag, since he’d forgotten and i told him to get more of them,  he’s down to one (from five).

Right before he drove off he said something about “he moved last week.”  I’m not sure who or what, but Carl moved toward work and that’s the only moving i’m worried about on a Monday morning.

How about some funnies for the graduates.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Adhesive Postage Stamp Day -- the first adhesive postage stamps went on sale on this date in 1840 in Great Britain

Army Day/St. George's Day -- Bulgaria

Beverage Day -- an internet holiday that encourages you to try a beverage you've never had before

Coronation Day -- UK (anniversary celebration of the coronation of King Charles III)

Festival of Min -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (a four day festival celebrating male fertility; date approximate)

Give Local America -- US (encouraging people to support local charities with the largest crowdfunding event in history)  

International No Diet Day -- for reasons not to diet, but focus on health instead, click here

Joseph Brackett Day -- birth anniversary of Shaker author of the song "Simple Gifts"

Martyrs' Day -- Syria

Mounikhia / Munichia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of Artemis, date approximate)

National Crepe Suzette Day

National Nurses Day -- US, start of National Nurses Week

National Teacher Appreciation Day -- US

National Tourist Appreciation Day -- during US National Travel and Tourism Week

No Homework Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays (celebrated on Monday if it falls on a weekend)

Remembrance for Eyvind Kelve -- Asatru/Norse Pagan Calendar (pagan martyr)

St. George's Day -- Eastern Orthodox Churches (the day to visit graves and decorate, leave special food, and provide entertainment for the dearly departed) related observance:

     Shepherd's and Herdsman's Day -- Bulgaria

St. Gerard of Lunel's Day (Patron of epileptics and Montesanto, Italy; against epilepsy and headaches)

World Asthma Day -- International (Global Initiative for Asthma; this year's theme is "Make Inhaled Treatments Available to All")  

Yale Lock Day -- the Yale lock was patented this day in 1861

Anniversaries Today:

David Duchovny marries Tia Leone, 1997

Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey (the first televised royal wedding), 1960

Birthdays Today:

Gabourey Sidibe, 1983

Leslie Hope, 1965

Roma Downey, 1964

George Clooney, 1961

Tom Bergeron, 1955

Tony Blair, 1953

Lynn Whitfield, 1953

Alan Dale, 1947

Ben Masters, 1947

Bob Seger, 1945

Willie Mays, 1931

Orson Welles, 1915

Stewart Granger, 1913

Rudolph Valentino, 1895

Gaston Leroux, 1868

Rabindranath Tagore, 1861

Sigmund Freud, 1856

Robert E. Peary, 1856

Maximilian Robespierre, 1758

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Entertaining Mr. Sloan"(Play), 1964

Today in History:

Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome, which many consider the end of the Renaissance, 1527

Mongol emperor Babur defeats the Afghans and Bengals, 1529

Henry VIII orders that English Bibles be placed in every church, 1536

Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles, 1682

The first African-American Masonic Lodge (African # 459) forms Prince Hall, Boston, 1787

John Deere produces the first steel plow, 1833

James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald, 1835

The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens, 1844

Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine", 1851

Linus Yale patents the Yale lock, 1851

Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska, 1877

The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris, 1889

George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII, 1910

George Herman "Babe" Ruth, of the Boston Red Sox, slams his first home run, against the New York Yankees, 1915

The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed, 1937

John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath, 1940

Bob Hope performs his first USO show, 1941

Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes, 1954

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel, 1994

Chaiten Volcano erupts in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people, 2008

The second largest intraday point swing in Dow Jones Industrial Average history occurs, 2010

Wal-Mart becomes the largest company by revenue on the Fortune 500 list, 2013

84 abducted schoolgirls are released in exchange for Boko Haram suspects in Nigeria, 2017

France bans too thin fashion models and makes labeling of digitally enhanced photos mandatory, 2017

One million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction according to a major new UN report, 2019

An Irish organization repays a 170-year-old favor, raising over $2 million (to date) for US Navajo Nation and Hopi Reservation badly affected by COVID-19. In the 1840s, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 to aid Irish during the potato famine, 2020

The Canadian province of Alberta declares a state of emergency over unprecedented wildfires, 2023