Portland Will Outlive Him

We have a dense fog advisory in effect for the next hour or two.  Looking out my window, I have to say the wisps I'm seeing have less to do with density and more to do with mistiness.  This is because we had on and off showers throughout yesterday afternoon, and overnight the temps dropped down into the mid 50s (F).  Supposedly they're going to climb up into the mid 80s (F) this afternoon.  We'll have to wait and see on that.

Yesterday was pretty much a meh day.  No workouts are scheduled for the weekend.  I did get some nice wordage done on the new book.  Oh, and I also had to spend time at the flooring desk.  Things were slow.  I did talk to a few customers, but none of them were in the buying mood.  One of my associates spent about an hour and a half with a wife and husband who are in the planning stages for a new kitchen and bathroom floor.  Believe me, they can be the worst because "planning stages" usually means they're going to waste your time.  This is play acting for adults, comparing different styles of backsplash tiles to different colors of flooring.  Pictures will be taken for future reference.  I mean, what better way to spend a drizzly, rainy afternoon than dreaming of what you might what your kitchen and bath to look like.  Just don't mention the probable $30,000 price tag for all the improvements they're thinking of doing.  That's a real spoiler.

So, while my fellow associate did that, I got in my steps.

And everybody was talking about the warzone Portland had become.

Well, maybe not.  Mostly people are talking about the Orange Anus reaching a decision to send troops to a peaceful, northwest city because he saw a hit piece on Fox Entertainment.  There's also his loss to Jimmy Kimmel, I'm sure that has his blood seething like boiled over ketchup through his veins.  Let's be honest here, Orangie lost in a very public way.  He doesn't take humiliation well, and that is what happened.  He was all "braggadocios" about shutting Kimmel down only to have his loss smeared all over the front page of every Main Stream Media website.  

Some have pointed out his sending troops to Portland might be another attempt to change the topic of conversation away from the Epstein Files, especially since more names were released on Friday.  While that might be a part of his decision making process, I'm thinking Sinclair, and Nextstar, and Tegen going against his will really torched his ire.  Either, Or, this is just him once again farting into the wind as a way of distracting from his multiple failures.  You know it's bad when Karl Rove is on Fox Entertainment telling America that 70% of both Republicans and Democrats think Orangie is taking the country in the wrong direction.

Recovery

 I hope everyone is having a good weekend, those that aren't working, and for those that are, may the hours pass fast.

Here in Central PA, yesterday started off great, much was being accomplished and I was feeling quite satisfied until mid-afternoon.  And then?  Son of a bitch.  I was preparing to continue my walk through Pompeii, had my cute jogging sneakers on, the Senso earbuds hanging from my shoulder, however, when I went to turn on the little laptop connected to the TV the old familiar screen didn't pop up.  Nope.  I got a blue screen and an error message:  

Well, damn.  The culprit?  An update that went... awry might be an acceptable word to use.  The recovery process was not arduous; however, it did entail resetting the little laptop which took too much time.  Almost an hour.  Now that doesn't sound like much, but my momentum was thrown completely off.  By the time the reset was complete, it was time to make dinner and feed the dogs, and for about an hour and a half I was cranky.

I must say, though, reading the bits and pieces of the affidavit that had not been redacted buoyed my spirits.   I found it interesting that the process to get the documents Trump stole stared in May of 2021, much earlier than I had thought.  The fact that there were handwritten notes on some of the documents is important.  In fact, so much damning information was released in the redacted version, one can't even begin to imagine what was blacked out.

Karl Rove saying the best thing Trump could do right now was to shut up and let his attorneys handle this was worth a hardy har har har.  Trump shut up?  

And almost right on cue, Hunter Biden's laptop reared its ugly head in MAGA LAND. The too, too pale Mark Zuckerburg told Joe Rogan that the FBI had asked that they limit the amount of importance that little turd was getting on Facebook because they were certain it was part of a Russian disinformation program.  Of course, MAGAs only heard the part they wanted to hear, the bit of Russian plot to skew the election was totally lost on them.  Think about it.  They're more upset by was Zuckerburg said than the fact that a very treasonous Trump was probably peddling intelligence secrets the Russkies and the Saudis think he was important.

Let's be honest, this will take the Republican party a longer to recover from than my little laptops Bitlocker issue.