So much Baggage

 Well, it's 45 (F) outside and we're going to have a drizzly, wizzly day.  On and off showers are in the forecast for both today and tomorrow.  By Thursday, our temps are going to be taking a turn for the colder, but then it is nearly the end of November.  But only for a bit.  Heading into December they're going to warm up a tad, with daily highs in the upper 40s (F).  Over the past few years we've had a cold snap in early December.  If the long range forecasts are even mildly correct, that's not going to happen.

Yesterday's workout included the new split-squat.  I definitely did use an area of my gluteus maximus that I've never used before because I am experiencing some soreness this morning.  I do hope my future cute butt is worth it.  Of course, I did have some muscle soreness in my upper back and shoulders as well.  No pain, no gain, and the gains are important as we get up in years.  When I get to be a senior, I want to be healthy and fit, not one of those old men who look like babies because they've lost so much muscle.

The changes to my new schedule were approved.  Beginning December 22 I will only be working on weekends... well Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.  That's fine with me.  Strength training will be Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, with Tuesday and Thursday being cardio.  I told my trainer that Monday should be light since I work and didn't want to have to worry about my muscles ripping through my shirt in case I accidently flexed.  He thought I was being funny.

I watched Good Grief the other night.  I like Dan Levy.  He's very talented.  But, this film should have been called Baggage.  The trailer hints that it's a film about three people unpacking their baggage in public. Everybody has baggage.  Even the attorney unpacks her baggage.  One of the really super big problems with Good Grief is that 3/4s of the way through it you find out (SPOILER ALERT) he and his husband were in an open marriage.  Had you known this closer to the beginning, all of this baggage would have become irrelevant.  The standout performance is that of Arnaud Valois, a French actor who rises above everyone else.  He has no baggage.

And, of course, the Orangie Shit Show of Chaos continued yesterday.  I've always known that conservatives were out of touch with reality, but this never ending cycle of incompetence needs to come to an end soon.  You know, if they'd have just accepted the fact that everything Orangie touches dies, we'd have none of these problems.  They keep painting themselves into corners, and honestly, I had no idea there were so many corners in America.  They want to attack Venezuela, not because of Fentanyl, or drugs, but as a Republican Congresswoman said, "it'll be great for the oil companies."  That slim bit of honesty was a rarity.  They're going after Senator Mark Kelly, a highly respected Senator because he quoted the Military Code of Conduct.  He is so highly respected by so many people in the military, and instead of recognizing this, these nitwits are dancing around trying to attack him.  The more they do this, the more American sentiment turns against them.  

Yesterday the Mark Kelly shit show was in competition with the James Comey shit show.  They were running neck and neck for so long, it was difficult to tell which one was pissing off the cultists the most.  These people are so into their own fantasy world, they simply do not understand that those millions of Americans who usually don't vote are watching them and wondering "what the fuck?"  Good Grief is a movie in which fictional baggage gets unpacked.  We, unfortunately, have to watch the Republican party unpack their baggage in real time, and it's more than a little embarrassing.