The Time has Come

 Well, can I get a bright hello to a drizzly Monday morning?  Humidity, showers, and possible thunder showers are in our forecast.  Whatever we get, you can bet it is going to make the grass grow.

Work was slow yesterday, up until the last half hour, then I signed up 2 couples for measures and possible installs.  That should make the big boys happy.  They're always looking for sales.  I don't mind selling measures and installs, as long as I don't need to work too hard.  Semi-retired, you know?  The Gung-Ho days are long gone.  Not that I was ever really Gung-Ho about any of my jobs.  I did them well enough to get decent pay increases, but I was never a 'do or die' loyalist to management.  Being in management was nice, but I never felt to need to keep climbing.  Maybe I'm just not greedy or selfish enough.  

I work with an associate who's like that, has a 5-year plan.  He, however, sees managers as being that group of people who do less and have others do more.  Hah.  He wants the authority without demonstrating the require work ethic.  We did just bring in a new assistant manager... who walks around wearing a small backpack.  Yesterday, as I was leaving, I saw the wannabe sporting... you guessed it, a small backpack.  

The latest book cover is now on the wall.  Next up, The Body Under Ice.  

Of course, we had that horrific shooting up in Buffalo and, of course, we have crass Republicans desperately trying to be more vulgar than the next.  I saw where that white supremacist Wendy Rogers said it was a 'false flag' thrown up by the Feds.  Someone needs to start punching her in the mouth every time she blurts out her stupidity, not that she'll learn anything, but at least someone will have the pleasure of punching her in the mouth.  

In fact, we, as a party, should have started punching back a long time ago.  Remember when Michelle Bachmann used to claim there was a war on Christianity?  Well, we should have started bopping her upside her head back then, rather than play Mr. Nice Guy.  All you have to do is look around to see where being nice has gotten us.  A minority group has managed to squeeze themselves into the power seat and their hatred of everything that isn't, by their standards, socially conservative, is under attack.  Over time, they will only get worse as they attempt to rule.  The time has come for bopping them upside their heads.

Mounted

 Holy Crap!  I get to go back to work today!  In case you haven't realized it, there's faux excitement in my words.  You know? Me?  Work?  Any sort of joy whatsoever?   Ah, I'll be honest, it's not quite that bad.  I'm not going to really mind working for the next 4 days.  In fact, the only thing I find disconcerting at all is the steady rise in temps.  Tuesday, my next day off, the temps are supposed to crest at a toasty 96 (F).  That's warm... really warm.

One of the things I accomplished on my 2 days off was getting all four book covers mounted in the hallway.  Each one is an original work of art.  I tried to order the same frames for all of them, but things didn't quite turn out as planned, so from now on I suppose they will all be different.

I went to see "Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard" last evening.  I had a fun sans mask.  Almost like old times, except the kids at the concession stand were wearing masks.  Not vaccinated.  The movie was very funny at times.  Lots of action.  Ryan Reynolds has become quite the safe actor, being reliably funny or serious as the need arises.  There were 2 surprising bits of casting:  Tom Hopper, from The Umbrella Academy playing a rival bodyguard, and Morgan Freeman playing Ryan Reynolds' father... don't ask.

For those who didn't see it, Republican Governor of West Virginia, Jim Justice (okay, you can stop laughing at his name) said that if you're not vaccinated, you're entering a death drawing.  He said he doesn't want the wheel of death to stop at his name, though if you ask me, that would indeed be justice, his being a Republican.

And rumors are spreading as to which one of Trump's closest minions is going to be thrown under the bus first.  I understand odds are growing it's going to be Jared since isn't really genetically related.  There have been rumors that Jared and Ivanka Danka have been trying to put some distance between themselves and Loser #45.  Which might make sense, since the failed will always place blame on someone else.  Of course, there are also rumors that those 'distancing' rumors are just 'pr.'