Board of Peace Grift

Here in Central Pa, we've had steady rain throughout the night.  It was quite heavy at times.  Our current temp is sitting at 36 (F).  Our thermometers should be climbing about another 10 degrees today.  Tomorrow temps will be warmer and  we should have sunshine.  That's good.  We need a chance to dry out a little, since there's more rain heading our way next week.

And yesterday was kind of a meh day.  I had lunch with my reader Don.  We went to Black and Bleu.  They used to specialize in seafood, but seem to have migrated their menu to more of beefy burger, chicken, and pasta.  I had one of the chickeny pastas with smoked gouda.  It was delicious when I ate it, however, four hours later when I was still tasting the gouda, I realized I'd made a poor choice.  Even the prescription Omeprazole I take didn't work.  I took some of my lunch home thinking I'd eat it later.  Nope.  Even Howie didn't find it interesting, but then he's a very picky eater.

My sister called to tell me she saw that RFK Jr semi-naked non-sexual tryst with Kid Rock on TV.  She's horrified that she may never unsee that ice bath.

I did get another chapter finished in the book, but otherwise it was a relatively quiet evening.

And thought I show you the copies of the Wine Spectator magazine I'm getting.  I've already put them to good use in regard to the new book since Eli and Max are basically wine connoisseurs.  That sounds better than saying they're winos.  Believe me, they would never stoop so low as to drink Gallo.

And in case you're wondering, the world is desperately looking forward to see all the FBI and DOJ files the United States has on aliens and UFOs.  I don't doubt the administration was expecting to use bombing Iran as a distraction, unfortunately, they've run into a bit of a problem.  You see one the airbases they like to use is jointly owned by the British and the Brits are saying that this is a no go.  Ouch.

Another not so nice thing the Orange Anus did yesterday was volunteer to give $10 billion in American tax dollars to his Board of Peace.  Now I'm certain that there are those in his cult who are cheering wowza! wowza!  However, this is just another way for him to steal money from America.  Believe me, Orangie has no problem with that.  He's been a thief all of his life and he's not about to stop now.

Wrestle This

 Today's supposed to be just like yesterday, temps climbing into the low 70s (F), or to the boarder line of the upper 60s (F).  Nice.  I do need to go out and trim back the roses.  That shouldn't take me long.  

The kitchen's moving along nicely.  Today is going to be a paint day, and we all know how much I love to paint.  Rooting around in the basement, I found a half gallon of Kilz primer that I bought back when it was still cheap... or maybe I should say inexpensive, around $18 a gallon.  If I bought it today, I'd be paying between $27 and $31.  This is an example of a cost increase just so Behr can hit their 5% growth because for them that's the only thing that's important in life.

I had lunch at Black & Bleu yesterday with my cousin.  Usually the food is super great, I ordered a spicy shrimp and chicken dish that was only so so.  The waitress warned me it was going to be spicy, as though it were going to be spicy hot and... well, it wasn't.  I keep forgetting that for some people spice is terrifying, and the idea that their tongue might tingle frightening as all get out.  The dish is not something that I would order again.

I leveled the dishwasher yesterday before going to lunch.  This morning I will be securing it in place and running my first, half empty load just to insure that it works.  My flooring should be arriving tomorrow at the store.  I could have paid extra to have it delivered.  Sorry, I'm not old and feeble yet.  I can still carry in a 7 boxes of vinyl plank flooring.  As I'd said, originally I was going to go with some thing more white and marbly looking but when that was out of stock, chose something at the other end of the spectrum, Chateau Pond.  The blues and browns will coordinate well with my backsplash and countertops, and will make my white cupboards pop.

Of course, the Republicans proved again yesterday that they have absolutely no idea how to govern.  They nominated Steve Scalise to be Speaker of the House.  For those of you who don't know Stevie, he claims to be David Dukes without the baggage; David Dukes is a well known white supremacist.  His competition was little Jimmy Jordan, who used to be an assistant wrestling coach at OSU, and who had no problem looking the other way and helping to cover up charges that the team doctor was molesting a number of the wrestlers Jimmy was coaching.  I would not be surprised if little Jimmy has a Napoleon complex.

Sign here

 Yesterday was somewhat eventful.  The temps were warm, the air heavy with humidity, and then it rained like hell.  Some of it was an hellacious thunderstorm which dropped buckets and put us in a flood warning, and I think some of it might have been the edge of Elsa as she sprinted up the East Coast.  I ended up with about 3 inches of rain.  

Prior to that, I had a mini-book signing at a popular restaurant called Black and Bleu.  It was actually a lot of fun.  There's talk of scheduling another on a slightly larger scale.  I'm not holding my breath.  I was surprised by how old I looked in the pictures.  I may have to do something about that.  And I hope you all like my Hawaiian Shirt!

One of my fans.

Also, and not too surprising, the Christian Right is continuing to lose ground in the eyes of the public.  Honestly, is this really a surprise?  While Evolution is normal, the Cracker Jack Crazies have mutated into something else.  Fracturing and splintering, their once overly white toothy smiles have begun chewing off their own legs to get out of a trap of their own making.  I have no problem with this, and can only wish the process could be accelerated.  One thing you can be certain of, they will never understand the truth since they've learned how easy it is to wrap their souls around so many lies.