Powering Out The Door, 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.  

It was a blessing i got to Carl's early yesterday.

He was still asleep and as i tapped at the door, he popped up and ran to open it, saying, "Power went out last night, no alarm, I overslept!"

This rendered my usual first question, do you have work, pointless so i moved on and asked what time he needed to be there.

"Seven to eleven," he responded, then over his shoulder, "should I eat first?"

Depends on whether you need a shower, i told him and  he responded in the affirmative, then headed for the kitchen.  Food always comes first with him, so i followed to make his sandwich.

He gathered some breakfast items then disappeared, and when i took his lunch to his room he was just coming out of the shower, his hair looking rather wild and wooly so i encouraged the use of a comb.

While doing that, he told me about the power outage the night before.  "The transformer blew up!  It was loud, and they came and fixed it."

That's their job, i noted, then told him if he was only working until 11am, he shouldn't need the ice vest as the temperatures have dropped.

"But I have to have it, it was hot the other day!" he protested.

Have you stepped out this morning?  It's in the 60's, i told him, but still he protested and so i prepared his ice vest.

His next question was, "Which shoes should I wear?"

The ones that fit best and feel good, i told him, although i know all his shoes are very worn and probably none of them actually feel so great on right now.

He chose a pair and headed for the kitchen, then i chased him down with his apron and got there in time.

 Carl had "all the things" out for breakfast, so i picked up the milk and coffee creamer to put them back in the fridge and noticed there wasn't enough of the creamer left to save.  He saw me taking the creamer container to the recycle bin and said, "Wait, there's still some in there!"

I asked if he wanted it in his coffee and he said yes, so i poured it on in, it was less than a teaspoon.  No amount is to small to save or use when you are Carl.

"I went to a volunteer fair this weekend," he noted, and began talking about opportunities to volunteer.  He likes doing such things, it's just difficult for him to figure out how to get plugged in and people sometimes have a hard time working with him because  of his communication problems.  I need to start encouraging him to come to the shelter with me on Friday evening again.

Carl ate in record time (for him) and came back in his room to finish getting ready, stopping as he went through the room to pick up dirty clothes i'd already gathered to where i wanted them and trying to straighten things as he went along, creating more havoc.

Shoo! i smiled at him, when i get here, this becomes my job.

He nodded and went to put his ice chest in the car.  He came back saying, "You're right, I won't need the vest today."

Too late, you already have it, i told him and then he said, "Glasses?"  I passed him what looked like children's sunglasses you would win as a prize at the fair, but hey, they're sunglasses and he doesn't care.  Then, "Hat?"

On your bed, half under the covers, i haven't gotten to stripping your bed yet, i told him.

He grabbed the hat and  headed to work.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Blessed Father Jacques Leval Day -- Mauritius (physician turned priest who lived among and ministered to the poorest of the poor in Mauritius; people of all faiths make a pilgrimage to his tomb today)

Bonza Bottler Day

Chrysanthemum Day or Kiku no Sekku -- Japan

Day of the Victims of Holocaust and of Racial Violence -- Slovakia

Festivity of Our Lady of Aranzazu -- Oñati, Basque

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day -- spreading the word about the very preventable problem of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders 

Independence Day -- Tajikistan(1991)

Karasu-zumo -- Kamigamo-jinja Shrine, Kyoto, Japan (a distinctive local festival where the Shinto priests imitate crows)

Liberation Ceremony -- Petange, Luxembourg

National Day -- North Korea(1948)

National Sports Day -- Indonesia

National Steak Au Poivre Day

St. Peter Claver's Day (Patron of African missions, inter-racial justice, race relations; Colombia; Lake Charles, LA; Shreveport, LA; Witbank, South Africa; against slavery)

Synaxis of Ss. Joachim and Anna -- Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches

Teddy Bear Day -- internet generated, but since it's so much fun to have one, celebrate your old friend

Wienerschnitzel Day

Wonderful Weirdos Day -- we all have a few in our lives, they remind us to be true to ourselves, so thank them today; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays

Anniversaries Today:

California becomes the 31th US State, 1850

Birthdays Today:

Michelle Williams, 1980

Michael Buble, 1975

Goran Visnjic, 1972

Rachel Hunter, 1969

Adam Sandler, 1966

Hugh Grant, 1960

Mario Batall, 1960

Angela Cartwright, 1952

Michael Keaton, 1951

Tom Wopat, 1951

Joe Theisman, 1949

Billy Preston, 1946

Otis Redding, 1941

Sylvia Miles, 1934

Cliff Robertson, 1925

James Hilton, 1900

Colonel Harland Sanders, 1890

Alf Landon, 1887

Leo Tolstoy, 1828

William Bligh, 1754

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Welcome Back, Kotter"(TV), 1975

"Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids"(TV), 1972

Imagine(Lennon album release), 1971

Today in History:

William I, The Conqueror, dies in a horse-riding accident, 1087

The New England colonies declare war on the Wampanoag Tribe, 1675

The first steam engine arrives in the US colonies, 1753

The first recorded black to graduate from a US college, Alexander Lucius Twilight, receives a BA from Middlebury College, 1817

Charles Durant, the first US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ, 1830

The first plate glass photograph is taken by John Herschel, 1839

California becomes the 31st state and the territories of New Mexico and Utah are created, 1850

The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized, 1886

Orville Wright makes the first one hour plane flight, 1908

J. Verdrines becomes the first person to fly at over 100mph, 1912

First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University, 1947

Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, becoming the first hurricane to do over $1billion in actual unadjusted damages, 1965

The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, 1971

The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state, 1993

At exactly 01:46:40 UTC, the Unix billenium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit Unix timestamps, 2001

The "Ophel Treasure", about 1,400 years old, is discovered near the foot of Temple Mount in Jerusalem, 2013

Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, 2015

Egyptian archaeologists announce the discovery of the 3,500-year-old tomb of a goldsmith and his family in Draa Abul-Naga, Egypt, 2017

In what could be world's most important modern literary discovery, Jason Scott-Warren finds poet John Milton's own copy of Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623 complete with Milton's own notes and annotations in a Philadelphia library, 2019

Scientist reveal evidence of the earliest milk consumption from cows by humans, 6,000 years ago from the dental plaque of teeth of prehistoric farmers from Britain, 2020

Tom Brady becomes first player in NFL history to start 300 regular season games, 2021

The world's first whole-eye and face transplant is declared successful for a 47-year-old Arkansas man more than a year after the operation, 2024