But At Least His Car Is Working, 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 first thing i noted when arriving at the house was Carl's car was back.  I was there last Thursday when the call came in from the shop saying it needed a good bit of work.  Mr. L was on the phone with the shop, sighed, and told them to go ahead and just do it all.  

As much as Ms. V hates spending money, i know she hates having to be the one to get up early and drive Carl to work even less, if you can call getting him to work by 11am early, which she does.  She was probably relieved when it was done and the car was safely back at home.

Then i arrived yesterday to this.  There must have been some adventure at Ms. V's house over the weekend.  At least this time i was there for Carl's apartment not the rest of the house, and he was sleeping and i wouldn't need the big kitchen sink.

Mr. L told me Carl did have work, so i got to it.

Carl had obviously been trying to go through his CD collection again.  He gets distracted and doesn't make much headway.

I got the laundry started and noted the two dryer balls i'd found in Ms. V's room (it seems Carl isn't the only one who absconds with them) were still there.  We're holding steady at five, but who knows for how long.

The bathroom was barely finished when Carl came up for air and a shower.  He didn't like one of the undershirts i'd picked -- "Too itchy!" --  and we found another.

While he was in there i checked out his fridge.

It hasn't been this empty in a while, and yes, i'm sure he had a reason for the bottom of the plasticware tub to be in the fridge while the top was in the freezer part.  Probably he doesn't even know what the reason was, but he had one at the moment.

Once he was dressed we talked about the weather and if he'd need an extra jacket.  Probably not, it was supposed to be sunny and warmer in the afternoon.

"I was watching musical parodies," he told me.  "They were fun, lots of people.  Youtube!"

It sounds like fun, i said and he responded, "Yes, but Dave wasn't available this weekend."

He brightened up then and said, "Sam was!"

Another reason he's probably glad to have his car back, he gets to see Sam.

We talked, or rather, he talked, about trolls, sending out cards - "I'm late!" - and where to donate supplies for school children.

Yes, he is probably talking about being late sending out Christmas cards.  It's okay, anyone on his list understands if it doesn't get there before Valentine's Day.

"Make sure I have plenty of snacks," he told me as i was getting his meal for work ready.  I packed plenty and even if it wasn't quite enough, i somehow doubt he'll starve before 7pm when he gets off work.

Once Carl was packing his car, he kept leaving the back door open and it was a very cold morning for the swamps.  I put his wallet, keys, work badge, and gloves in his hat, and also had his watch there.  The watch band is broken, but Ms. V wants him to take it in his pocket in case he loses his phone so he doesn't clock out late.

The problem is his pockets are full of his wallet, keys, work badge, gloves, miscellaneous candies in wrappers, and usually Tums or gas pills.  If he tries to stuff in the watch, it's likely to fall out.  Also, he has his phone and the app on the phone clocks him in and out automatically when he shows up for work and when he leaves.

He looked at the watch and said, "Do I have to take it?"

I told him it was up to him and he left it, then went back to the other side of the house get his phone.

Good choice.  And he left under his own steam, in his car.  Ms. V can relax.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Armed Forces Day -- Mali

Camcorder Day -- five companies agreed, this day in 1982, to cooperate and construct a camera with a built in VCR

Celtic Tree Month Beth (Birch) ends

Coffee Break Day

Day of National Mourning -- Azerbaijan (a/k/a Martyrs' Day)

Festival of Jubilation for Osiris -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate, in Busiris)

Heroes Day -- Cape Verde; Guinea-Bissau (death anniversary of Amilcar Cabral)

La Tamborrada de San Sebastian -- San Sebastian, Spain (24 hours of drumming, begun last evening)

National Buttercrunch Day

National Cheese Lover's Day

National Granola Bar Day

National Disc Jockey Day -- listed lots of places, but no particular reason given for the choice of date

Penguin Awareness Day -- lots of celebrating, but no history of who started it

Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day -- always the Tuesday of Women's Healthy Weight Week

Sacrifices to Athena -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate)

Stay Young Forever Day -- celebrate the child in all of us, do something fun

St. Sebastian's Day (Patron of archers, armorers, arrowsmiths/fletchers, athletes, bookbinders, diseased cattle, dying people, gardeners, gunsmiths, hardware stores, ironmongers, lace makers/lace workers, lead workers, masons, plague victims, police officers, Pontifical Swiss Guards, racquet makers, soldiers, stone masons/stone cutters; several cities, but especially of Rio de Janiero, Brazil and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, where today is marked with celebrations; against cattle disease, enemies of religion, plague)

Take a Walk Outdoors Day -- unless it's storming, a good way to get some exercise

Tenmangu Kowakamai -- Setaka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan (festival of old style Japanese dances)

Birthdays Today:

Skeet Ulrich, 1969

Rainn Wilson, 1966

James Denton, 1963

Lorenzo Lamas, 1958

Bill Maher, 1956

David Lynch, 1946

Dorothy Provine, 1937

Arte Johnson, 1934

Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, 1930

Patricia Neal, 1926

Otis Dewey "Slim" Whitman, 1924

Federico Fellini, 1920

DeForest Kelley, 1920

Joy Adamson, 1910

George Burns, 1896

Harold Lincoln Gray, 1894

Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, 1889

Carolus Linnaeus, 1778

André-Marie Ampère, 1775

Richard Henry Lee, 1732

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Meet the Beatles"(Album, US release), 1964

Today in History:

The first elected English Parliament called into session by the 6th Earl of Leicester, and meets in the Palace of Westminster (a/k/a Houses of Parliament), 1265

The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored, 1502

The Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) is founded in Spain to deal with American affairs, 1503

The cornerstone of Amsterdam town hall laid, 1648

The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson, 1788

China cedes Hong Kong to British, 1841

L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster, 1885

The first full length talking motion picture filmed outdoors is released, "In Old Arizona", 1929

Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "final solution" calling for extermination of Europe's Jews, 1942

The first atomic submarine, USS Nautilus, is launched at Groton, Connecticut, 1955

Witnesses report sightings of a Bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the River Thames since records began in 1913, 2006

A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance, 2007

Austria votes to maintain compulsory military service in a referendum, 2013

19-year-old aviator Zara Rutherford becomes the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, 2022

Japan becomes the fifth nation to land a spacecraft on the Moon, 2024