Always Up for Birthday Fun, 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.  

Last week was a hard one on Carl.

He had to work early and long, but this week he's back to only 3 hours each day and was heading to his sleep chair to take advantage of it.  He stopped, of course, to start trying to straighten things with, "Con't want you to fall over it..." and i shooed him off to sleep, telling him as i always do it's my job to clean and tidy once i show up.

Then he added, "Don't want to oversleep..."

What time do you want to be up? i asked and when he told me, i promised to poke him at the time appointed.

He'd left me a good job of the place this week.

I believe i found a record number of hangers in the bed, at least a dozen.  It's no wonder one was broken.

The trail of empty coin rolls and the change all over everywhere led me to the coin sorter, which was jammed.  A screwdriver and a few minutes work got it working again and all the changed sorted.  This is why i claim my job description is anything legal you can teach me to do.

He didn't actually need to be poked and the bathroom was ready for him when he got up and i led him straight in there, showed him what clothes were in there and he approved them, and i left him to it.

He came out talking about how "the place has racquetball and a pool, and all I have to do it get the card activated..."

Eventually i realized he was talking about a fitness place again.  His work gets employees a group discount at a particular place to try to get all of them to take fitness more seriously, and he's been trying to work out how to join for a few weeks now.  Everything is a bit harder for him, but i think he's finally gotten it down.

As he headed for the main kitchen he stopped to grab some new checks for his checkbook -- no, i don't know why his new checks were all stashed behind the TV, but they are in the proper drawer now -- and said, "I don't think I have enough change to buy much, do I?"

Actually, i told him, i fixed your coin sorter and you have $29.50 right here already rolled.  If you take it to the bank, they will give you cash.

He grabbed a plastic garbage bag and we put the coins in it and i made him take it out to the car that very minute.  Whether he will make it to the bank or not before i get there next is anyone's guess.

Coming back in he was talking about his birthday, which comes up next month.

"I need to make plans for a party, and for what to do if it rains.  I want to have a party at the beach club...I think...but maybe the pool place instead, I'd have to reserve a room because sometimes they have people there drinking..."

There's really no "beach" here, but there is a lake with an area called the beach, and it's run by the parks commission.  There are also pools at different parks and you can reserve space for parties.  He'll work something out, or he'll wing it at the last minute and either way, he'll have fun.

I followed him a few minutes later to the kitchen so i could make his lunch and found him already hard at it.  I asked what he was doing and he said, "Making sandwiches for the week," while his breakfast sandwich cooked and his cereal got soggy.

He actually only made one sandwich, one slice of white bread, one slice of wheat hummus and sharp cheddar cheese.  I don't ask, i just put it in the ice chest along with all the other stuff i gather.

"Anything at church?" he asked, as he always does.  I told him it was the week the high school youth group goes on retreat.  He just nodded.

When next i went in there, he was laughing uproariously (for him) over the news about the opening of a time capsule in Nebraska.

"They put in a car wrapped in plastic wrap!" he said, delighting in all the sights of items packed away 50 years ago and recently opened.

As we got closer to time for him to leave, he was doing his usual dashing around looking for things.

"Gas pills?"

All i can find is Beano.

"Neck bands?"

I packed an ice vest, i told him.

"Neck bands!" he said, heading for the other freezer to get the frozen strips you put in a wrap and put around your neck to keep cool.

He was heading out the door with just the frozen inserts and no neck band when i ran it out to him, along with his hat and a bottle of water.  Putting the latter and the neck band inserts in his ice chest, i found this.

The umbrella is a new one on me, I've never seen him carry one, although it does not surprise me his would be inside out, but all i've ever seen him with is raincoats.  The list of 100 things to do he grabbed and read one.

"Visit a nursing home.." he said. 

I told him the residents would love to have visitors.

"I haven't done splash pads yet this summer..."

He said and left.

His latest reminder he's just a big kid:

Kids sunglasses and a yoyo.  What's not to love.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Carnival Tuesday -- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Celtic Tree Month Tinne begins (Holly)

Cow Appreciation Day® -- sponsored by Chick-fil-A

Feast of St. Sunniva (Ancient Norse solar maiden Sunna's worship around this time of year was merged with the story of this medieval saint; Patron of Bergen, Norway and the Norwegian west coast)

Math 2.0 Day -- celebrating the intermingling of math with technology 

Nagoya Sumo Tournament -- Nagoya, Japan (one of the 6 major tournaments; through the 22nd)

National Milk Chocolate with Almonds Day

Old Crafts Day -- it's listed in a few places, but i can't find the history; Old time crafts, or old crafts you've had sitting around the house and never gotten done? If you have the latter, do them or toss them!

Olive Branch Petition Day -- the final attempt, by the 13 Colonies, to avoid a complete break with England in 1775

SCUD Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama) -- a good habit, on every day

Sts. Aquila and Prisca's Day

St. Kilian's Day (Patron of people with gout or rheumatism, whitewashers; Bavaria, Germany; Paderborn, Germany; Tuosist, Ireland; Wurzburg,Germany)

Video Games Day -- do they really need a day?

Vitulatio -- Ancient Roman Calendar (when Vitula was given the first fruits of the earth)

Ziegfeld Follies Day -- his first "Follies of 1907" opened on this day

Anniversary Today:

Prince Richard of Gloucester marries Birgitte Eva van Deurs, 1972

Birthdays Today

Jaden Smith, 1998

Sophia Bush, 1982

Milo Ventimiglia, 1977

Kathleen Robertson, 1973

Beck Hansen, 1970

Billy Crudup, 1968

Toby Keith, 1961

Kevin Bacon, 1958

Christopher G. Moore, 1952

Marianne Williamson, 1952

Anjelica Huston, 1951

Wolfgang Puck, 1949

Kim Darby, 1948

Raffi, 1948

Cynthia Gregory, 1946

Jeffrey Tambor, 1944

Steve Lawrence, 1935

Marty Feldman, 1933

Roone Arledge, 1931

Billy Eckstine, 1914

Nelson Rockefeller, 1908

Louis Thomas Jordan, 1908

Philip Cortelyou Johnson, 1906

Alfred Binet, 1857

John D. Rockefeller, 1839

Ferdinand von Zeppelin, 1838

Etienne De Silhouette, 1709

Today in History

Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India, 1497

Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island, 1663

Battle of Restigouche – British defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France, 1760

The Olive Branch Petition is drafted by the Second Continental Congress as the Congress' last attempt to get King George III of Great Britain to reason with them, 1775

The Declaration of Independence has its first public reading, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Liberty Bell is rung, 1776

Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom, 1822

Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay, 1853

The initial force of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin their March West, 1874

The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published, 1889

St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892

The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22, 1932

The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF), 1948

Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American Self-Determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination Act, 1970

The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities, 1992

NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance, membership to become effective in two years, 1997

The Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program, 2011

Pope Francis condemns the 'global indifference' to the plight of immigrants who have drowned trying to reach Europe, 2013

The mission of the NASA Curiosity Mars rover begins, 2013

UNESCO declares Asmara, capital of Eritrea, a world heritage site for its Art Deco buildings, 2017

Eritrea and Ethiopia announce the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries after almost 20 years, 2018

According to new genomic study in "Nature", people from eastern Polynesia had DNA from indigenous Colombia, showing Americans and Polynesians made contact around 1200 A.D., 2020

Japan says the Olympics will be held without spectators as Tokyo announces state of emergency due to a surge in COVID-19, 2021

Sir Elton John completes the final concert of his farewell tour, 2023