Playing Musical Recliners and Taping Car Lights, 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.  

You could easily tell the cold weather has played havoc with Carl, as it always does.  Yes, he has winter clothes.  No, he doesn't pull them out, he just wears double of his summer things, until i pull his winter things out from the back of the closet.  Yes, of course, he could do it himself, but he won't.  If he did, he'd never lose thing any more.

You can also easily tell it is now officially The Season.  He will be worked a lot.

His mother had told him to take out his trash.  She neglected to tell him to put in another bag.  You have to be specific.  Also, she neglected to specify which can the garbage goes in.  It was in the recycle bin.  It has been rehomed to the correct bin.

Carl was not actually in his sleep chair, and his father was in the chair he usually occupies.  Carl tried to get into his father's electric recliner, but i directed him to the other recliner (yes, there are 3), and for a good hour they played musical recliners, each moving from one to the other, until his father gave up and went to the bed.

After i'd barely gotten started he came in very concerned.  "Do I need to move the phone?" he asked.

Confused, i asked which phone.

"It's charging, on the kitchen counter, are you cleaning?  Should I move it?"

I clean your room today, i reminded him.  Leave the phone.

He went back to his nap with a relieved grin.  He's really a very considerate fellow, when he thinks of these things.

The bathroom was clean and his clothes were ready when it was time for him to shower, and we had the usual discussion about what to wear.

For once, he did not come out after the shower having changed his mind and wanting to grab other clothes.  He did come out having powdered his feet, the floor, and his pants from kneeling on the floor to put his shoes on those powdered feet.

While he was having breakfast and i was packing both a lunch and a dinner for him (he works late and wants a Lean Cuisine along with the usual lunch fare), he kept up a steady stream of chatter.

"They had crafts at the library...and a movie, with different flavors of lemonade!  I brought some home (note:  yes, he had, in a cup without a lid, which had sloshed a little when he put it in his fridge).

"Parks are having Trail Blaze Days, but I can't go to the big one.  I'll go...and I went to the party at Rob's place, we had cookies."

Cookies are always a cause for a big grin.

"I took Sam!"  That's the girl he's sweet on.

"And I played mumblemumble, but I got bounced."

Sorry to hear that, i told him.

"It's the restaurant's 50th anniversary!  (Note:  i did not catch which restaurant.)  I want to get the t-shirt!"

Oh, goody, more clothes, i thought but did not say.  He loves souvenirs.

Once he was about on his way, he started the usual:

"Gloves?" I handed them to you.

"Water?"  There's no bottled water in the house, you need to buy some.  "Shoot!"

Eventually, he made it out the door, and so did i, to go to Ms. D, whose toaster was once again full of crumbs and a piece of bread.  I showed her the pictures from last time, and she has now promised to be more mindful of her toaster.

When i asked her what was on her agenda, she said, "Well, ever since the other car and mine tapped each other in the parking lot incident, there's a crack and one of my headlights now wiggles a bit.  Is there a way we can tape it?"

I mentioned it would have to be heat-resistant tape, as the headlight might get hot and she said, "Oh, I don't drive at night at all any more, remember?"

Yes, i did remember, and she got the keys and the tape.  I was able to run several pieces and secure the headlight from the inside and the outside.  She was quite pleased, only a small bit of tape shows on the outside, it makes the one spot look like it has a little white bandage on it.

And her toaster is clean.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Anna's Day -- Sweden and Finland (commemorates the conception of the Virgin Mary by St. Anne, celebration for all females named Anne or Anna, and the day to start the processing of the Christmas Eve lutefisk.)

Christmas Gift Memory Day -- the day to reminisce about your all time favorite Christmas gift

Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by St. Anne -- Orthodox Church

International Anti-Corruption Day -- UN

National Heroes Day / Vere Cornwall Bird, Sr., Day -- Antigua and Barbuda

National Pastry Day

Remembrance for Egill Skallagrimsson -- Asatru/Norse Pagan Calendar (Viking Age poet, warrior, and rune magician)

Republic Day -- Tanzania

Search High and Low For Your Gingerbread Recipe Day -- or just give up and go to the internet for a new one, that's where i found this "holiday"

St. Leocadia's Day (Patron of Toledo, Spain)

Weary Willie Day -- birth anniversary of Emmet Kelley, Sr.

Yuri's Day in the Autumn -- Russian Orthodox Church (a celebration of St. George, as following the Gregorian Calendar)

Anniversaries Today:

Petrified Forest National Park, AZ, US, established, 1962

Christmas Seals first sold, in Wilmington, DE, US, 1907

"Charge of the Light Brigade" published, 1854

YMCA opens in Montreal, QC, CA (first in North America), 1851

Birthdays Today:

Jesse Metcalfe, 1978

Reiko Aylesworth, 1972

David Kersh, 1970

Kara DioGuardi, 1970

Jakob Dylan, 1969

Kurt Angle, 1968

Felicity Huffman, 1962

David Anthony Higgins, 1961

Joe Lando, 1961

Donny Osmond, 1957

John Malkovich, 1953

Joan Armatrading, 1950

Michael Nouri, 1945

Dick Butkus, 1942

Beau Bridges, 1941

Judy Dench, 1934

Buck Henry, 1930

Dick Van Patten, 1928

Dina Merrill, 1925

Redd Foxx, 1922

Kirk Douglas, 1916

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., 1909

Grace Hopper, 1906

Margaret Hamilton, 1902

Emmet Kelley, Sr., 1898

Clarence Birdseye, 1886

Joel Chandler Harris, 1848

John Milton, 1608

Edwin Sandys, 1561

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"A Charlie Brown Christmas"(TV special), 1965

"Coronation Street"(TV), 1960

"Salome"(Opera), 1905

"Charge of the Light Brigade"(Publication date, in The Examiner), 1854

Today in History:

The Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire, 536

New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster, 1793

The Republic of Texas captures San Antonio, Texas, 1835

The first Young Men's Christian Association in the Americas is founded, in Montreal, 1851

Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback becomes governor of Louisiana for 35 days, becoming the first black US governor, 1872

Levant Richardson patents the ball-bearing skate, 1884

Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department, 1888

The Norwegian parliament vote unanimously for female suffrage, 1903

The first broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV, 1960

Barbados joins the United Nations, 1966

NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco, 1968

The United Arab Emirates join the United Nations, 1971

The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, 1979

Phoenix, Arizona, US, gets 3 inches of snow, 1985

Lech Walesa wins the presidential election in Poland, 1990

In Australia, thieves broke into a home and stole two 300-year-old etchings by Rembrandt. The 4-by-4-inch etchings, a self-portrait and a depiction of the artist's mother, were valued around $518,000, 2003

Pakistan's media publish fake WikiLeaks cables attacking India, 2010

China creates a new "Confucius Peace Prize" to honor its former Taiwanese Vice President, Lien Chan, who refused to collect it, 2010

The NASA Mars rover Curiosity has returned images from the red planet's Gale Crater showing evidence of sediment deposits, suggesting that lakes and rivers potentially existed across the planet millions of years ago, 2014

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is named Time Magazine's Person of the Year, for her handling of debt and refugee crises, 2015

Whakaari volcano, a tourist attraction in New Zealand, erupts killing 16, 2019

More than 40 camels are disqualified from the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival beauty contest after Botox injections and other cosmetic enhancements were discovered, 2021

Google unveils a new quantum computer, capable of performing a mathematical calculation in 5 minutes that the most powerful supercomputers could not complete in 10 septillion years, 2024