When you hit middle age you really only have two choices: you can get fat and lazy until you roll over and die, or you can can get off your ass and do something, like maybe ride a bike.
Bluntness
I've also been told I have little tact, so if this offends you simply ride on.
Okay, so it's Thursday and hump day was rather slow. The weather was again rather brisk. I know, I was buffeted by 20 mile per hour gusts as stood by the gas pumps filling my car's gas tank. Right now it's sunny outside. That will pass. Clouds will soon be sweeping into Central Pa as another storm moves our way. This one might be blustery enough to give us an inch of snow... the definitive words being 'might be.'
I do get to work this afternoon. Whether the store will be busy or not is difficult to say. The weather will have some say in the matter, but not as much as it will this weekend. We're approaching spring and people should be getting itchy about working in their lawns. Me? I want a nice day when I can rake up the winter's detritus; leaves and sticks have been partying outside the fence for too many months now.
After playing Atomic Heart for a few weeks, I found myself bored to tears. Same old, same old quests with just slight variations. The good thing is that I got it through Game Pass, the XBox subscription service so I didn't spend money on it. Being bored, I bought Hogwart's Legacy, downloading it last night. I've never been a big Harry Potter fan, though this game takes place 100 years before Harry's saga begins.
I saw that old Mitch McConnell fell. At 81, he's considered elderly. His bitter, brittle bones bounce badly at that age. And he is bitter. His legacy has been terribly tainted by Trump. Of course, he's always been a staunch defender of greed, so I don't think his legacy was too good to begin with.
Kev McCarthy left Marjorie Tayler Greene in charge of the House yesterday. This must have been part of the agreement he made with her to get her to vote for him. If my memory servers me correctly, this was the 2nd time since he's been Speaker of the House. While this may endear him to her base, every time he does so her stupidity embarrasses him. Under her guidance, the House passed a resolution to visit the jailed January 6 insurrectionists... in jail. She wants to be divisive. It's part of the Republican plan to divide and conquer America. (Can you hear me laughing?) In order for that to work, they need to convince a large portion of the Majority to believe Republican talking points. They have no idea that at this point, all they're doing is talking to the base. Everybody else is growing more and more angry that these dumb bricks managed to have themselves voted into a slim majority. I believe it was Biden who said that Greene's stupidity is the best thing to happen to Democracy.
So, tell me, don't you think the week is simply zoomin' past? I find it difficult to believe that's Thursday already. As you get older, time passes faster than you'd like, especially if you're busy. Then it's gone before you even know it.
My application to sign up for mail-in voting arrived yesterday. I will go online and take care of it later this morning.
I get to work this afternoon. Only for 6 hours. I like short shifts, especially when they start later in the day. Morning means getting chores done at home. Nothing really gets done if I get home from work after 7 PM. If the dishes weren't put into the dishwasher earlier, that might happen.
The last few evenings I've been re-playing Fallout 4 on the PC. This is my 3rd play through. Part my decision to play this game again is that it's a great RPG, but another part is the series which is (as of right now) to premier on Amazon Prime later this year. For years producers thought films were the only way to bring a game to the big screen, especially since we all have big screens in our homes now. And the The Witcher happened, a very popular video game series premiered on Netflix. Recently, The Last of Us premiered on HBOMax, and from what I've seen is also very popular. This gives me hope for the Fallout series. Next on my gaming list, after Fallout, is Atomic Heart. This looks very interesting and arrives in3 weeks.
So, Kev McCarthy had a sit down with Biden yesterday about the debt ceiling. He has been asked many times what the Republican plan is, especially since their tax break for the rich put the debt ceiling through the roof. He always mumbles out some word salad that includes a number of adverbs, but no verbs, and adjectives that only modify the fact that he doesn't have a true subject. For him, it's the process that's important. He's hoping the end result of this process makes the administration look bad. In a nutshell, that's what he wants, nothing else.
And now a bit about babies because it's important. I suspect that one of the real reasons social conservatives are so anti-abortion is that they desperately want women to have babies, lots of babies. They tell you babies are a blessing from God. If that's true, they might want to ask themselves why both Hindus and Moslems are popping out babies like it's going out of style, while that isn't the case for Christians, especially American Christians. Are Hindus more blessed than Evangelicals? And you'll notice that I didn't even touch upon the subject that most of those babies aren't white.
