Foundering

Saturday was nice and sunny with the temps in the low to mid 60s (F) and a nice Spring day was had by almost all, not me though, I worked.  Today we're going to be a few degrees warmer.  It's going to be sunny again.  I also work again this afternoon.  

Our flooring department is not busy.  Our garden department?  Like a big sponge it's sucking in customer cash.  Lots of buckos are flowing into our registers... or maybe not so much cash since many people no longer carry greenbacks.  Now they mostly just whip out the plastic.  Seriously though, I will admit to being astounded when I looked at the financials just before leaving.  Our garden department alone made more than the entire store's plan.  That's a hell of a lot of mulch.  While customers were buying other things, yesterday mulch was king.  We have something called a mulch pit consisting of hundreds of pallets of mulch lining a lane wide enough for a truck to drive down.  The store walkie-talkies were constantly going off, "assistance needed in the mulch pit."  Customers were buying 20 - 30 bags of mulch at a time.

Speaking of mulch... I don't.  I have too many squirrels.  I mulched one year and they dug it up and carried it all over the lawn.

For the most part, I'd say that yesterday was just like every other Saturday.  I was supposed to get a bike ride in but did a mini workout instead.  Otherwise, the day was interchangeable with every other Saturday over the past several years.

Oh, and this is why everyone was lining up for mulch.

As expected, ceasefire talks between us and the Iranian's broke down.  Was it because the Iranians showed with the wrong style couch?  Even though that's a rather amusing thought, I doubt that's the explanation.  More likely Vance's incompetence at negotiation is too blame, that and the fact that he was with a real estate agent and Orangie's son-in-law.  The only thing those two are interested in is striking a deal that will enrich themselves.  Remember, with Orangie, everything revolves around the deal.  Also, keep in mind that he is not the wheeler dealer he claims to be.  His problem is that he approaches every deal with one line of thought in his head, "what's in it for me?"

There's a big election in Hungary today.  Viktor Orbin might finally be voted out of power.  He's a Putin henchie, who's been ruining Hungary for over 15 years in order to kowtow to his boss.  If, for some terrible reason he wins, a majority of Hungarians will know that he cheated and will rise up.  I do not think his government is prepared for that.

And finally, Orangie's ship of fools is foundering even more.  He flew down to Miami to go to a cage match and people booed him terribly.  Fox Entertainment said he got a raucous welcome, trying to spin it positively.  Patrons recorded the hostility on their phones.  His base is shitting itself into tiny little pieces.  He's a lot like his budso Vik, who's ship is going down fast by the bow.