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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.
Yesterday, i had my first cataract surgery. I am pre-writing this, so by now i hope i'm recovering and having bandages removed.
Because no one wants me to skip Carl's place if it can be helped, least of all me, i went on Sunday after church.
I'd taken care of my other Monday client, Ms. S, on Saturday when i got back from NOLA and doing Grandma and Grandpa's house. While there, Mr. D told me, "Do you know what Carl posted on Facebook the other day? He said, 'Mom won't let me go to work because of the cold. Anybody want to go dancing?'"
That's our Carl, he loves to bust a move.
Thus i was at his house on the wrong day, but it was just as much fun as always.
One good thing is the light was finally working in the laundry room. If Carl is the last one out of the laundry room at night, and he usually is, he leaves it on and the ballast overheats and it won't work for hours.
If i go later in the day after his mother has turned it off and it's had a chance to cool, it actually works. Yippee!
I could see the mess quite clearly. He had a basket on top of the dryer which i thought might be clean, but even he's never washed a belt before and one pair of pants had a belt on it. Also, a couple of items didn't pass the sniff test.
Time to call it, everything in the laundry room, even the slightly wet stuff in the washer, got washed.
Neither Carl nor Ms. V had gotten back from church yet when i got there and dug in. I found where Carl hadn't cleaned out his lunch box, and it still had the chips in it i'd packed the Monday prior. Everything got thrown away so he could start fresh this week.
He's been fussing about gloves and i'd been telling him he had none and needed to buy them.
He obviously listened.
I also found this.
At first i thought it was a raincoat as it was draped over a chair and it looked like a shapeless mass of yellow. It was square, though, and it got folded and set aside for the moment.
Ms. V finally came in from church and asked Mr. L where Carl was. "I sent him to go get me one of those grabber things, since I really can't bend over any more," he told her.
Then Ms. V noted, "The pastor's wife told me Carl went to Sunday school and he was on time. I don't see how he was on time when I know he left the house after me."
I gave her a bit of the side eye and said, "You do know he's a boy and he likes to go fast right?"
She looked a bit surprised and said, "He's in his 40's, you'd think he'd outgrow it."
I laughed and told her Grandpa, who is 88, still has a lead foot, even just going to the grocery store!
At this point, she asked me if Carl had picked up all his dirty clothes off the floor like she'd told him.
To quote a friend of mine, cue hysterical laughter. When she heard me laugh, she said, "There's my answer."
Not long after, Carl walked in with two boxes from a pizza place in his hand. He noticed me in his room and said, "Gotta nap sometime..."
I told him he'd be napping in the chair as i needed to clean the place a day early due to my surgery.
He went to eat first, eating is always first.
His shirt was only partly tucked in. As i watched him come in and out of his room for various things, the part of the shirt which was tucked in kept changing, first one front quarter, then the whole back half, then a different area. I'm not sure how he does it.
Also, i have no clue if he got his dad's grabber gadget. He'd gotten food and once he has that, there's no telling.
One of the times he came in to brush his teeth (he always walks in saying, "Fuzzy!" brushes for about 15 seconds, then leaves), he mentioned the sermon had been on missions.
At L Baptist? i asked, which is where Ms. V goes because it's close and has a very good adult special needs Sunday school, which she wants Carl to attend.
"No, at Fellowship."
I thought you went o L Baptist today?
"Only for Sunday school," he answered. That's it, he goes to one then the other. He's a busy man.
I don't know if he ever got his father's grabber gadget, but somehow i think it's going to be up to someone else.
Showing him the yellow tarp, i asked him what it was and why it was there.
"Paint tarp," he answered.
Yes, i noted, it has paint on it so it must be, but where does it go, in your car?
"Maybe," he answered with is questioning tone which means he isn't sure.
Ms. V had me put it in the tool closet.
He napped in his sleep chair off and on while i got his place clean and his clothes ready for Monday. Eventually he got up and packed himself a sandwich.
Heaven only knows if he wore what i'd set out, but it'll probably all need washing next week, worn or not.
How about some surgery funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Army Day -- Armenia
Data Privacy Day -- International
Festival of the Lenaia to Dionysus -- Ancient Greek Calendar, end January through early February
Jackhammer Day -- US (the pneumatic jackhammer was patented this day in 1894 by Charles Brady King of Detroit, MI)
Lunar New Year's Eve (year of the Dragon)
Seol-nal -- South Korea (Lunar New Year Holiday begins)
Spring Festival -- China; Taiwan (Chinese New Year's Eve, start of the festival)
Tet Eve -- Vietnam
National Blueberry Pancake Day
National Kazoo Day -- because anyone can play one!
National Speak Up and Succeed Day -- become one of those people who aren't afraid of public speaking, practice! originally sponsored by Polished Presentations International, but they no longer have a website, but i'm sure Toastmasters International can help
National Spieling Day -- internet generated, and whatever your area of expertise, spiel about it today
Runic Half-month Elhaz (elk) commences
St. Charlemagne's Day (Patron of the University of Paris)
St. Thomas Aquinas's Day (Patron of academics, apologists, book sellers, chastity, colleges, learning, pencil makers, philosophers, publishers, scholars, schools, students, theologians, universities; Aquino, Italy; Belcastro, Italy; Falerna, Italy; University of Vigo; all Catholic academies, schools, and universities; against lightning, storms)
Telephone Exchange Day -- US (the first telephone exchange was set up in New Haven, CT with 22 subscribers on this day in 1878)
Anniversary Today:
Adoption of the Great Seal of the United States, 1782
Birthdays Today:
Elijah Wood, 1981
Nick Carter, 1980
Joey Fatone, Jr. 1977
Kathryn Morris, 1969
Sarah McLachlan, 1968
Harley Jane Kozak, 1957
Nicolas Sarkozy, 1955
Rick Warren, 1954
John Beck, 1943
Susan Howard, 1943
Alan Alda, 1936
Susan Sontag, 1933
Claes Oldenburg, 1929
Jackson Pollack, 1912
Robert Stroud, 1890 (The Birdman of Alcatraz)
Arthur Rubenstein, 1887
Auguste Piccard, 1884
Jean Felix Piccard, 1884
Colette, 1873
Jose' Marti, 1853
Henry Morton Stanley, 1841
Alexander Mackenzie, 1822
Peter the Great of Russia, 1775
St. Thomas Aquinas, 1225
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Fantasy Island"(TV), 1978
"Barnaby Jones"(TV), 1973
"Symphony No. 1/Jeremiah"(Bernstein), 1944
Today in History:
The Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted by Pope Gregory VIII, 1077
The first Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria, 1099
Pope Alexander VI gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France, 1495
Edward VI, age nine, succeeds his father Henry VIII as king of England, 1547
By the Edict of Orleans, the persecution of French Huguenots is suspended, 1561
Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland, 1573
Sir Thomas Warner found the first British colony in the Caribbean, on St. Kitts, 1624
The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree (it was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917), 1724
Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity, 1754
London's Pall Mall is the first street lit by gaslight, 1807
Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom, 1813
The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway, 1855
In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick, 1887
Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent became the first person to be convicted of speeding in an automobile. He is fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h), 1896
The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie, 1902
An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard, 1915
The first Jewish US Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson, 1916
A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honor the unknown dead of World War I, 1921
The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence, 1933
The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today, 1958
The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament, 1965
Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region, 1984
Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief, 1985
Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board, 1986
Hundreds of thousands of protesters filled up the Egyptian's streets in demonstrations referred to as "Friday of Anger" against the Mubarak regime, 2011
DNA analysis confirms that the 6th C Plague of Justinian was caused by a variant of Yersinia pestis, which is the same bacteria for the Black Death, 2014
Seven survivors from the missing Kiribati ferry carrying 100 people are rescued after week at sea, 2018
A draft framework for a peace agreement to end the 17-year conflict in Afghanistan is agreed upon by US and Afghan negotiators, 2019
Bernie Sanders mittens, worn to the inauguration, raise $1.8 million for Vermont charities after images go viral, 2021
