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.