Dodge, Weave, Recalculate, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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I've reached Thankful Day still a bit strung out, and there's no real solution yet, so we continue to dodge, weave, recalculate, figure a different way, find a work around, do the best we can.

We're thankful we can, as we spent a week dodging traffic jams, weaving around car trouble, recalculating how to get things done, figuring and finding way when there seemed to be no way.

Last Saturday, Uncle J decided we needed to try something different and get our lunches from Subway.  I'm thankful they have a salad with a veggie patty, and when mine showed up minus the patty, i'm thankful i was able to eat the snack i'd brought instead. take the salad home and grab a veggie patty out of the freezer.

Much of last week i was back to using the "house phone," a cheap mobile phone we keep with minimal data and calls and texts just as a spare and a back up.  It's also used, when one of us is home alone and can't find the regular phone, to call it and locate the doggone things!  We're glad we have it, when one of our phones really won't work, we have a work around.

This week, i was thankful to have it to supplement my ailing phone, which i was thankful to finally have time to take in to the repair shop on Wednesday, which opened late because of staffing problems.  I'm thankful i only had to wait a half hour.

The repair only partially worked, my phone still has something wrong with it, but it's better and the shop didn't charge me for the work since it's still not right.

I'm thankful it partially worked and I can use my phone, limping along, for a while longer.

Slow-Moe the car is still the topic of the season, though.  It didn't start on Monday, i was thankful to be able to go to where my Sweetie was with it and it started finally so he took it to Kevin and Lenny.

They found nothing wrong, until it didn't start again on Tuesday, then did, then didn't, and they decided on the starter.  We were thankful they replaced it and we got the car on Wednesday.

An hour later, again it wouldn't start.  We got it going and got it back to the shop, and this time they decided when they changed the starter it loosened some wiring.

We're thankful they fixed it at no charge, and we got it back Thursday.  Friday, Sweetie ran errands and i went to the shelter in it, and then that evening, again, Slow-Moe wouldn't crank.

#2 Son got under and messed with it and said he could hear the starter trying, it just wasn't making a connection.  It finally started, thankfully, but it's not reliable enough for us to use until we can get it back to the shop and get it really fixed.

We're thankful Mr. JO is lending us the truck today so we can go to NOLA, since tomorrow is Father's Day and today is the day we will buy Grandpa his celebratory Father's Day BBQ feast.

I'm thankful for time, between all the other craziness, with this little wiggle worm.

The eye doctor says my right eye has no inflammation so i will not need a second surgery, thankfully.  My left eye is scheduled for mid-July and i'm thankful for the excellent news and for getting on with the second cataract removal.

I'm thankful after a lot of figuring and some clever timing shifts, my pre-surgery check-up with Dr. Bow-Tie is scheduled, although it means i will have to put off my regular yearly check-up until later.

Cat care for Ms. G while she was out of town went well, and i'm very thankful she allows me to get there when i can, as long as it's by around 8am at the latest.

This week, I'm very thankful for rain boots while tramping in her back yard to feed the birds.

My Sweetie and i are both thankful i was able to fix Ms. SE's vacuum cleaner again, thankful the house was again in relatively good order when we got there, and thankful there's more than one way for us to get home when the traffic piles up and you have to recalculate your route.

I'm thankful for being able to dodge lots of very deep water on the roads Friday morning, thankful there's more than one way to get where i need to go, and thankful the standing water was draining off quickly after our serious dousing.

The plants are thankful for the water, and i'm sure the farmers are, too.

The Big Boss wanted some things ordered and my Sweetie ran into a snag when the credit card the Boss lets him carry wouldn't go through for an online purchase.  We're thankful the bank's AI computer called Sweetie's phone asking for the Boss and Sweetie has been told by said Boss, "When you are doing my business, you are me!"  My Sweetie was able to confirm for the computer the charge was legit and the purchase was made.

The shelter was packed for my evening shift, both adopters and a Girl Scout troop which had earned badges by making hammocks for the cat cages as well as cardboard cat scratchers from their leftover cardboard boxes the cookies came in this year.  They also made a clever trifold pamphlet explaining how to make a cat hammock and left them with us to hand out to anyone interested.  We're always thankful for volunteers and people who work with us to make a difference.

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Today is:

California Artichoke Festival -- Castroville, CA, US (lots of fun in the Artichoke Capital of the World; through tomorrow)

Dollars Against Diabetes Days -- always on Father's Day weekend, with information here   

Family History Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays, urging people to brush up on family history during summer family reunions

Feast Day of Elisha the Prophet -- Christian

Flag Day -- United States

Freedom Day -- Malawi

Husband Caregiver Day -- to honor husbands who give health care to family members (wives, children, or extended family)

King's Birthday -- Tuvalu

Leinapaev -- Estonia (Mourning and Commemoration Day; remembering those deported under Soviet rule)

Liberation Day -- Falkland Islands

Missing Mutts Awareness Day -- to help families whose beloved pets have gone missing, the Missing Mutts Awareness Society was formed; it no longer seems to sponsor a particular day, though its Facebook Page is active    

Mourning and Hope Day -- Lithuania (remembering those exiled to Siberia under the Soviets)

National Bourbon Day -- celebrating America's "Native Spirit"   

National Strawberry Shortcake Day

Pause for the Pledge Day -- US, in conjunction with Flag Day, all citizens are asked to pause at 7pm EDT to recite the Pledge

Pig Callers' Day -- no clue where this came from, or why; any pig callers out there want to weigh in?

Pop Goes the Weasel Day -- and just as no one knows for sure the origins of the song or it's meaning, no one knows why it is celebrated on this day

Rice Planting Festivals -- Sumiyoshi Shrine, Osaka and Izawanomiya Shrine, Mie Prefecture, Japan (rice planting at sacred fields, some rites date back over 1,700 years)

Runic Half-month Dag (day) commences

Sandpaper Day -- Isaac Fisher, Jr., of Vermont, was issued the first US patent for sandpaper on this day in 1834

Sovereign's Day/King's Birthday -- Pitcairn Island

St. Basil the Great's Day (traditional date in Roman Catholic Church, current date in Episcopal Church; Patron of education, exorcisms, hospital administrators, monks, liturgists, reformers; Cappadocia; Russia)

St. Castora Gabrielli's Day (Patron of difficult marriages, widows)  

Trooping the Colour -- UK (military celebration of the monarch's birthday, the King's official birthday parade, one of London's biggest and most colorful celebrations)

World Blood Donor Day -- International 

     Blood Type Awareness Day -- while donating, make sure you know your type, and that of your loved ones; in an emergency, it's good to know

World Juggling Day (sat closest to 17th -- after if it's midweek

World Wide Knit in Public Day -- better living through stitching together!   

Anniversaries Today:

The United States Army is founded, 1775

Munich, Germany is founded, 1158

Birthdays Today:

Daryl Sabara, 1992

Lucy Hale, 1989

Kevin McHale, 1988

Diablo Cody, 1978

Steffi Graf, 1969

Yasmine Bleeth, 1968

Traylor Howard, 1966

Boy George, 1961

Eric Arthur Heiden, 1958

Will Patton, 1954

Eddie Mekka, 1952

Donald Trump, 1946

John F. MacArthur, 1939

Jerzy Kosinski, 1933

Joe Arpaio, 1932

Marla Gibbs, 1931

Che Guevara, 1928

Pierre Salinger, 1925

Gene Barry, 1919

Burl Ives, 1909

Alois Alzheimer, 1864

John Bartlett, 1820

Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811

Debuting/Premiering Today:

The Cable Guy(Film), 1996

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves(Film), 1991

"The Gong Show"(TV), 1976

Today in History:

Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin  princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria, 1287

Richard II in England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath and the Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance, 1381

Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony, 1648

The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States, 1777

Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,000-mile) journey in an open boat, 1789

Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig, who named it Bourbon because he lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky, 1789

Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom, 1821

The village of Henley, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Royal Regatta, 1839

Trade unions are legalised in Canada, 1872

Norway adopts female suffrage, 1907

John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic  flight, 1919

Action Comics issue one is released, introducing Superman, 1938

The Canadian Library Association is established, 1946

UNIVAC I, the world's first commercial computer, is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau, 1951

The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency, 1962

The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 1966

The 1994 Stanley Cup Riots occur after the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup from Vancouver, 1994

The Wallow Fire becomes the largest wildfire in the history of the US State of Arizona, 2011

Australia announces its plan to create the largest marine reserve in the world, 2012

The women of Switzerland hold a strike to protest the slow change of pace toward equality in their country, 2019

Denmark and Canada agree to split the arctic Hans Island, ending their 50-year "Whiskey War", where each country laid claim by buying whiskey on the island, 2022

After working around a previous problem with quantum noise, IBM's quantum computer manages to simulate a magnetic material in a benchmark experiment, 2023

Scientists announce the last of the essential ingredients for life as we know it, phosphates, have been found on Saturn's moon Enceladus, raising the possibility it may harbor life, 2023