There goes Florida

Yesterday was busy for me:  I had a nice bicycle ride down the coast of Ireland, Skibbereen, along the Atlantic Coast.  12.75 miles.  It was nice.

I had ordered more plants for the tank from Aquarium Co-op.  They're based out in Washington.  They arrived and have been planted.  The three little angels love them.  Pictures will be coming soon.

Oh, and I cut my hair!  How's that for excitement!

California  is in the process of shutting down... again... because of people.  Don't you find it interesting that one of the first thing that gets shut down... again... are bars.  There is that certain segment of America that is happy unless they're getting cocktailed.  And, of course, we've been getting a non-message from the administration because it's okay to spread Covid as long as you're spending money.  At least Gavin Newsome has a head on his shoulders, and knows how to think.  He's trying to keep California from becoming an epi-center.

Governor Ronnie DeSantis from Florida, however, is just beginning to realize his state is now a growing epi-center.  Over forty hospitals are maxed out - no room at the inn, so to speak, and it's getting worse.  And those Republican Senior Citizens down there?  They're mad as hell. They're realizing that Ronnie lied to them.  They want him to shut down the state.  And Ronnie?  He knows if he does that the Idiot Jerk in the White House is going to skin him alive.  You see the Idiot Jerk desperately needs to give his acceptance speech in front of a crowd... a very large crowd.  The way things are going, the Republican Convention is either going to be cancelled, or be seriously restricted.  Florida might actually be... shut down.  Ouch!  Can you think of a better nail in the political coffin of the Idiot Jerk in the White House?  Why are Republicans so stupid?  I do not doubt for an instant that Ronnie now understands his political career is ending.  Good riddance to Ronnie.

Finally, AI teammates come to Breakpoint tomorrow.  I'm excited.  I had played Ghost Recon: Wildlands and had a lot of fun.  The game was still difficult, but you can use your AI teammates to create distractions, to do re-conn.  They are very handy.  Ubisoft decide to eliminate them in Breakpoint.  They wanted you to to play what's known as co-play, joining up with other online players.  Ubisoft makes more money with co-play.  People spend more money buying accouterments you can't earn, weapon skins, uniforms, badges, even canteens.  Single player gamers hated this approach, and there are a lot of us.  The blowback was fierce.  Breakpoint was listed as one of the worst games of 2019.  Ubisoft listened.  Tomorrow, AI teammates come to Breakpoint.  I will start to play it again.