My Zins

Okay, like this is the first day of my 3 day weekend... and I got up at my standard early morning time.  No sleeping in.  I was briefly tempted to turn off the light and visit slumber land for another hour or so but remembering my 'to do' list chose not to.  Call me determined.

Yesterday was so slow at the store... not that we didn't have customers in flooring, I just didn't want to be there.  Attitude, you now?  

Hanna hit Texas.  She will move inland for a bit and then north, hopefully bringing us some desperately needed rain.  Mowing the lawn is far better than having brown, crunchy grass underfoot.  My little container garden is suffering, as are my flowers.  There isn't going to be a single leaf on my River Birch by the time fall gets here.  The only color I have in my yard are my Zins.

Here's one:

I'm planning on a fairly long ride today.  Maybe Corsica.  They'be been odd for the past 2 days.  For those who didn't know, Garmin has evidently been hacked with ransom ware.  According to Velo, the hackers were asking for $10 million.  Everybody is waiting to see if Garmin will pay.  Where is America's Cybersecurity?  Oh, that's right, they have been downsized to keep them from discovering Russian hacking in November.

I did see a funny comment by Anthony Scaramucci regarding the Idiot Jerk:  "he makes a terrible president, but he's a pretty good stage performer."

His tactic of pivoting to law and order is failing him since the only people who see any justification in sending in Federal Agents are white Republicans.  There is no stopping his campaign's slow death spiral.  As a failed businessman with 6 bankruptcies under his belt, he has always made bad decisions.  When this whole thing is over, Americans are going to find out just how poor he really is, of course, the only ones who are going to be surprised are his base.  Even then, they will claim it's fake news and bury their heads back in the sand.

For a final note on this Sunday morning, here's another photo of My Zins.

I'm one of THOSE People

For those of you keeping track, today is my Friday.  It's also Sunday.  If you a Pentecostal, the Supreme Court has ruled that limiting the size of your religious gatherings in no way detracts from your religious freedom.  The reason they chose this path is, according to John Roberts, is Common Sense during Covid - 19.  You know this has got to piss off the Cracker Jack Christians.

Yesterday I got to be counter at the Exit for about 2 hours.  This is really not a bad job.  You talk to people as they leave the store.  Most of them are really nice.  Some say "stay safe."  Now and then you get some cranky white guy, either burly with a beard or his mouth pissily pinched shut, leaving without a word.  And now and then you have to deal with women.  They try and use words they believe are rapier sharp but are more like a bright pink highlighters used by petty child to scribble bright stupid words.  I had one yesterday.  Middled-aged, she was wearing a black dress, and tried to enter through the Exit.  When I explained it was 'Exit Only'  she frowned.  "When is this going to end?"  Our standard response is, "as long as there's an infectious virus out there," and she cut me off.  She said I was ridiculous.  I told her the last time I had checked there were 112 positive in the zip code for Camp Hill, which is very small.  That pissed her off.  "I look at the CDC website everyday," she lied "and only 80,000 people have died from Covid."  She's off by what?  24,000?  My stunned reaction at her ignorance must have been quite obvious, because she leaned close and bitterly said "oh, you're one of THOSE people," and went down to the Front Entrance.  That's right... she said "only."  My response, before she walked away was "Yes, I am."

Yesterday Elon Musk launched Americans into space for the first time in 9 years.  The Idiot Jerk gave a little speech everyone except MAGA heads ignored.  The only way he'd have gotten any notices was if he'd said something inflammatory.   Interesting how he doesn't get any attention by being compassionate or generous, rather people only notice him when he either Tweets or says something stupid.  He likes to be noticed, so you can bet the stupidity factor is going to increase.

The only BoBo thing about yesterday's launch was some fool with a radio actually said "God's speed," which was a reference to John Glen, for so many of you too young to remember.  Anyway, as one of "THOSE people," I'm glad we're back in space.