Ugly

 Well, it's still cold out and we're still under a wind advisory.  Looking from my window, however, the branches of the river birch in my yard are barely moving.  Today the temps are not expected to make it out of the 30s (F), but starting tomorrow they are going to rise.  If the long range forecast is even close to being correct, we'll be warming up into the mid and upper 40s (F) by Sunday.  Rain, rather than snow, is also supposed to be on the way.

I did get a small leg workout in before going to work, this is new.  Before my bike was always my go to for legs, but I've added some dumbbell squats and lunges.  At my age, it's all about maintenance. \

Work was boring yesterday.  One customer showed up who wanted needed blinds designed.  There was a time when I would have enjoyed that, however about a year ago the large home improvement retailer I work for decided to change the software.  Prior to the change, if someone else sold a measure for blinds and you designed them, you'd get credit.  No more.  Now, an associate can spend 5 minutes with a customer and sell them a measure, and you can spend 2 hours designing their blinds, the associate who sold the measure gets all of the credit.  There is no longer any incentive to design blinds another specialist's customer.

Evidently associates were also told that according to corporate part-time hours were going to cut.  This usually happen after the New Years, never in December.  The store is actually making a lot of money.  On Black Friday we did almost half a million $$$.  So, this is really nothing more than corporate greed.  Prices are going to go up and hours are going to go down in all companies.  I suspect that pay increases will be lower to this year.  

And I think America is finally waking up to the fact that this man is a real problem.

He bought Trump for at least $250 million, not that Trump unwillingly sold himself into indentured servitude.  Orangey will have no problem kowtowing to the richest man in the world as long as he gets to stand besides him in pictures.  I've said this before, and I'll be saying it again, and again, and again.  Billionaires are not beneficent, in spite of what Conservatives want to believe.  Their own personal bottom line is the only one they are interested in, you and I do not exist.  Musk is false.  Even his face has been artificially constructed and built into the image above.  Where as Trump is a genius at the Con, Musk is not.  He was smart enough to purchase Tesla, a company built by other much smarter men, and has slowly been driving it into the ground.  I do not doubt that he bought Twitter in order to show the world his profundity and has, instead, proven that all his plastic surgery did was mask the fact that he's a selfish, incompetent brat with no integrity.  This man is Ugly, and he is going to attempt to assert his ugliness not only upon America, but upon the world as well.