Dancing Around on Wall Street

 Our outside temp is a cool 62 (F).  That's a bit cool for this time of year, but fear not, things are going to get a bit toasty over the next few days.  Our high today is predicted to be 88 (F) and from there it's up into the 90s (F).  While it's true we're going to be dealing with some warm days ahead, none of them are going to be warm enough to put us in the red zone.

Looking at the calendar, I admit that seeing we're almost halfway through August is surprising.  Days seem to be suddenly disappearing n the rear view mirror.  I don't know who's driving this car, but I wouldn't mind slowing down just a bit.  Supposedly time speeds up the busier your are, however, they also say your age plays a large part in this acceleration; all of those seconds and minutes you have accumulated over the years evidently put you on the fast track. This make me wonder how fast they'll be going when I hit 100.

Because I always work a full shift on Sunday I did relatively nothing yesterday except sit at the flooring desk.  Well, that's not quite true.  I did get in over 13,000 steps.  That's a lot of laps around the store.  Oh, and I dealt with a customer who is going to be a nightmare.  He had set up his measure while there were promotions running, but since he couldn't get measured before they ran out, they extended them for him.  This meant over $500 in mark-downs.  That's way above my pay grade.  Also, this was just the beginning.  He didn't know why he was being charged for this... and that, and why was an $800 underlayment necessary?  Unfortunately for him it was a Sunday.  Our installers are closed.  Our Customer Order Specialists, who could answer some of his questions don't work weekends.  I spent an hour with this customer.  He was not an angry individual, but he was insistent.  He also came into the store last week to get this taken care of and was told and was told by the individual at the flooring desk that he needed to come in and talk to the associate who had sold him the measure.

Howie and I were playing with Sven, his hard rubber hedgehog for about twenty minutes and then this happened.

A lot of people are upset that the Orange Anus is deploying National Guard troops to Washington DC.  On every post that I see, I repeat the same response:  This is a distraction in order to change the subject to something other than the Epstein files.  This administration is throwing everything they can come up with at the wall in order to change the conversation.  They have a serious problem though because their tiny dingy of lies is constantly being swamped with so many bad truths.  The Epstein files are a horrific problem for Orangie, but so, too, are the increasingly high prices Americans are paying for the necessities.  He keeps shrieking about how good Wall Street is doing because that's all he cares about.  Wall Street represents that satisfaction of billionaires, it does not represent the satisfaction of Americans, or the fact that food prices are rapidly climbing.  Corporations make more money when Americans pay higher prices and that makes both corporations and billionaires happy.  Do they care that Americans are not happy?  No, they're too busy looking at their bottom line and dancing around singing "yeah, yeah, yeah."  Seven out of ten Americans are very unhappy that the cost of living is continually going up.  Does Orangie care?  Nope, he's dancing around with all of those other billionaires, except when he dances it looks like he's jerking somebody off.