The Polls in Tennessee are Open

Well, of course we have snow.  How much we'll get is up in the air? (That's a joke).  Originally the forecasters said our blanket of fluffy white stuff would fall from 0100 to 1 PM.  That has now changed.  This precipitation event started around 6 hours late, and is now expected to end around 7 PM this evening.   Right now we're experiencing a heavy snowfall event.  

Howie is almost 16 months old, so this might as well be considered his first snow.  So far, he's not been too excited.  He's ran around a little bit, but mostly he's been busy grabbing those few weeds he finds sticking up, and ripping them out by the roots.  He's very good at that.  Once they're out of the frozen ground, he gives them a shake and then drops them.  He's having a good time doing this.

And retail at the flooring desk was slow yesterday.  We were  going to make plan, but mostly through contractors, and installs sold through our dot.com end of the business.  Because of today's snow, our garden department will easily make plant.  For some reason we have yet to understand, there is an almost unnatural number of people who wait until snow begins falling to go out and buy snow shovels, ice scrapers and ice melt.  This has always been the case.  I often wonder how these people make it through life without a single thought to preparedness.  I own 2 snow shovels, one is kept at the front door and the other at the back door, and half of a 50 lb bag of ice melt I bought 3 years ago.  

Here's a nice picture of my neighbor's untrimmed hedge in the snow.  He bought himself an electric hedge trimmer and then discovered their house has no outside outlets, and they're not going to pay to have one installed.

Like every other day since Orangie was re-elected, yesterday was another shit show.  Petey Kegbreath's comment "kill them all," has pissed off a lot of people, both Republicans and Democrats, and it now appears that the administration is looking for a scapegoat.  Everybody who is anybody in every branch of the government should have realized a long time ago that this is Orangie's SOP.  He's spent his entire life blaming someone else.  So, if you're in the military and you follow an illegal order coming down from the top, you can rest assured if something about that order goes south, it'll be your ass on the line.

And there's an election down in Tennessee today.  According to polls, the Democrat Aftyn Behn is within 2 points of the Republican.  In bloody red Tennessee, that's unbelievably close.  Orangie won her district by 22%.  Republicans are in a terrible panic.  The MAGA cultists are flipping out!  The true black hearts among them simply cannot believe that their wanna be king is so despised that Republicans would vote for a Democrat.  I wouldn't be surprised if many Republicans simply stay home, rather than vote for a racist pedophile supporter.  Keep in mind that Behn doesn't need to win this special election, all she has to do is come within a few % points to cause the Republican chaos to Rupture.  This is how Karma works.

Yesterday

Yesterday the temps did not get out of the 30s (F).  In fact, they will be hanging around the mid thirty mark until sometime tonight, at which point a Polar Vortex will moved through the area bringing snow.  Right now the projections are for between 1 and 4 inches.  Odds are the total snowfall will be on the lower end.  I'm looking forward to the snow, hoping we do get closer to the 3 or 4 inches.  Howie's now old enough, 16 months, to have fun.  We got a little last year, but a 5 and 6 month old puppy really gets no excitement from the little bit of snow that we had.

And I did work yesterday.  Surprise of surprises, a customer walked up to me and asked to sign up for a credit card.  That will make management happy.  That is the only way I sign people up.  I do not do as they want and ask every person I deal with to sign up.  I also got a lead, and a measure.  I didn't hit my sales goal, but I'm way ahead for the year so that's no problem.

Yesterday was also the last day I'll be working with one of my fellow specialists.  He's actually retiring.  He's already heard my spiel about not fully retiring.  He says he's planning on doing some volunteer work with the local theater company.  Unless he's doing something like set construction between shows, those hours will be limited.  He did leave the door open to returning and working part-time, so I think in a couple of months he'll be punching the clock again for a few hours a week.  While I don't mind sitting around for a day or so, after a week I'd be going bonkers with cabin fever.  Only time will tell.  Besides, he's one of my editors, so it's very unlikely he will disappear into the cracks.

Yesterday, being Sunday, there were a slew of talk shows with A list guests.  As might be expected, Orangie's administration was on the defensive because... well, what else is new?  One fact that wasn't seen was Kegbreath Hegseth.  After his "kill them all," comment surfaced, Orangie's group of sycophants is doing major damage control.  Tell me, do you think Hegseth really considered that the killing of wounded men struggling to survive in the Caribbean Sea might be an International War Crime?  Or course not, he's a drunken fratboy.  In an attempt to change the subject to something else, Kristi the puppy killer, Noem said she ignored rulings by an judge because he was "an activist judge."  I watched that clip and then asked a friend if she was really that stupid.  His response?  Yes.  And yesterday, once again, Orangie was answering questions on Air Force One and... well, once again he was angry, and confused, and lashed out at the reporter's questions.  He had an MRI but doesn't know if it was of his brain, or his heart, but he did Ace it with flying colors.  I've had an MRI and unless you're unconscious, you know what they're doing.  Don't worry, though, he said he's going to release it.  Don't hold your breath.