Hubcaps and Gold Mining, 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.  

The house was suspiciously dark when i arrived and Carl confirmed when i got in he did not have work.

I hunted up his schedule, and he will work Thursday, when i go back to clean the house, and next Monday when i'm back in his room.

Meanwhile, i checked the clothes in the dryer, damp but smelling clean, so finish drying them.

A quick run through the kitchen turned up his apron.

It's the first time he's left it here, but there's a first time for everything, right?

Once he was ensconced in his sleep chair, i walked into his room to this.

Apparently his mother is tired of the hubcap being in the back hall, and it landed on the chair.  I moved it to a more out of the way location, otherwise the chair is probably where it would have stayed until time immemorial.  Why the mallet i have no clue, and his mother's apron spends as much time in his room as it does on her because he keeps forgetting where he put his.

The cleaning went on apace and i found he is still getting his corn pads everywhere.

I noticed he didn't have his wallet or keys in the hat where they belong, but they turned up.

Always check whatever pants he had on yesterday, it generally does the trick.

That's also where i found the other slipper.

It was quite tightly tucked into the pants leg, i am guessing taking it off first is too much trouble, although i can see how it would make getting the pants all the way off difficult, too.

When i was about halfway done with cleaning, he came in to brush his teeth and stayed to catch me up on his weekend for a moment.

He started by telling me played something which sounded like "road blocks."  Then he added, "I was panning for gold!  It's fun."

Next was about crafting something, which he loves to do, and then back to a computer game, "That stuff will kill you!"

I am guessing he means kill your character on the game somehow, at least i hope so.

He continued to talk about how he'd been at the church for an event and they had characters and scripts and, "You got to choose who you wanted to be!"  I'm guessing he means an event for the special needs Sunday school class at the church.  He seems to have enjoyed it.

"Although," he added as an afterthought, "they only had 5 slots."

What that meant is anyone's guess.

"Also, I found a secret site!" he laughed.  I hope you enjoyed it, i told him and he said he did.

He then decamped to go back to sleep, and later got up for about one minute but was back in the chair before i could ask if he needed anything.

I hope he enjoyed it, he has to work today.

How about some funnies?

Have a blessed and beautiful day, everyone!

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Today is:

Al-Yaom Al-Watany -- Saudi Arabia (National Day/Founding of the Kingdom)

Augustalia -- Roman Empire (birthday of Caesar Augustus, still the traditional New Year's Day in Constantinople and in the Eastern Orthodox Church)

Checkers Day/Dogs in Politics Day -- thanks to Mr. Nixon; and i'm tempted to further comment, but this one is too easy

Citua -- Ancient Inca Empire (feast to the Moon, and to banish disease, in the month of Coyaraimi, date approximate)

El Grito de Lares -- Lares, Puerto Rico (anniversary of the first uprising against Spanish rule in 1868)

Innergize Day -- the day to take time for yourself! always on the day after the equinox, so usually either the 23rd or 24th, depending on where you live

International Restless Legs Syndrome Awareness Day -- on the birth anniversary of Professor Karl-Axel Ekborn, the neurologist who first described it

National Great American Pot Pie Day

National Voter Registration Day -- US (Celebrating Democracy in America)

Neptune Day -- planet discovered this day in 1846 by Johann Galle of Germany

Rosh Hashanah -- Judaism (began last night at sundown, through tomorrow at sundown)

St. Adamnan's Day (Patron of Donegal, Ireland; Raphoe, Ireland)

St. Padre Pio's Day

Thrue Bab -- Bhutan (Blessed Rainy Day)

Woman Road Warrior Day -- to recognize the traveling businesswomen in today's world

Anniversaries Today:

The University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded, 1908

Birthdays Today:

Anthony Mackie, 1979

Ani DiFranco, 1970

Elizabeth Pena, 1961

Jason Alexander, 1959

Bruce Springsteen, 1949

Mary Kay Place, 1947

Paul Petersen, 1945

Julio Iglesias, 1943

Tom Lester, 1938

Ray Charles, 1930

John Coltrane, 1926

Mickey Rooney, 1920

Walter Pidgeon, 1897

Friedrich Paulus, 1890

Walter Lippman, 1889

Victoria Woodhull, 1838

William H. McGuffey, 1800

Kublai Khan, 1215

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, BC63

Euripides, BC480

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Marcus Welby, M.D."(TV), 1969

"The Jetsons"(TV), 1962

"Threni: id est Lamentatines Jeremiae Prophetae"(Stravinsky dodecaphonic work), 1958

Today in History:

Concord of Worms, 1122

The first major battle of the Wars of the Roses, at Blore Heath in Staffordshire, 1459

First commencement exercises of Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., 1642

Liechtenstein declares its independence from the German Empire, 1719

John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats the HMS Serepis, 1779

Lewis and Clark arrive back in St. Louis from their explorations, 1806

The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York, 1845

Neptune is discovered by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams, 1846

Nintendo Koppai, later known as Nintendo Company, Limited, is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi; it produces and markets the playing card game Hanafuda, 1889

The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantome de l'Opera), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, was first published, 1909

The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia’s first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait, 1959

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announces over television and radio the implementation of martial law, 1972

Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina, 1973

Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations, 1983

Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm; some passengers only receive minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas's history, 1991

The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released, 2002

Hurricane Jeanne strikes Haiti and leaves at least 1,070 dead, 2004

Researchers announce the identification of four genetically different types of breast cancer, 2012

Japan's space agency becomes the first to place two robotic explorers on an asteroid, Ryugu, from its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, 2018

The 178-year-old British travel company Thomas Cook goes into liquidation, stranding 600,000 travelers worldwide, prompting largest postwar repatriation effort by UK government, 2019

Fossilized footprints 23,000-21,000 years old from White Sands, New Mexico indicate settlement by humans of North and South America earlier than previously thought, 2021