A Tear and a Prayer

Well, hello Sunday!  Central PA is supposed to have nice weather today, with a high in the mid 80s (F).  Tomorrow?  Rain is supposed to head into the picture.  We have more than an 80% chance of getting some sort of precipitation, my dahlias need it.

Work was odd yesterday.  I walked into customers waiting to purchase their carpet.  I suspect their installation will not go smoothly since several times during the process, he told me that he used to lay carpet and would be there for the installation and is, just in case you had any doubts, an authority.  Business was slowish, meaning there were a number of customers in the store, so one of the managers decided to have all of the pallets of Halloween merchandise pulled down from the overhead.  End result?  Numerous aisles were blocked for customers, and then unblocked, meaning customers who wanted to shop had to stand and wait.

Here's a funny thing:  Rich Guys North of Richmond is getting a lot of conservative airplay because they think it's about Democrats.  However, Oliver Anthony, the singer / songwriter says au contraire  he's actually singing about Republicans.  Ooops.  How could conservatives get this so wrong?  Well, perhaps because they're completely out of touch with America.  Here's the song in case you want to give it a listen

And as if we didn't know that that this little dirt nugget was waiting in plain sight to be discovered: CPAC wants an investigation of Matt Schlapp.  Okay, so what's phony Matty been doing?  Let's see, more groping was evidently on his menu, for one thing.  Oh, and that he tried to kiss a 20 something young man.  Honestly, one must wonder if this is God's judgement on Matty?  To publicly humiliate and break him?  Or maybe it's Karma, and all of Matty's evil ways are coming to roost.  I have no problem seeing this phony Christian being figuratively torn asunder.  The sad truth here is that we all know Matty's praying for forgiveness and that he believes he'll get it.  I've a big problem with a religion that lets you wipe away accountability with a tear and a prayer.

It's all in the Numbers

 Hello Saturday.  The temps outside are a cool 36 (F), and there is snow in the forecast for tomorrow.  The prediction is for about 2.5 inches.  That will be fine.  An easy shovel.  The long range forecast for for temps to stay around the same.  That's fine with me.  

My TV is fixed.  Not in a mechanical way, there was nothing wrong with the hardware.  Thinking there might have been an update that I didn't get, I spent some time on the internet yesterday morning researching why it was only connecting for Netflix.  On the Sony website, I clicked on Chat and shortly there after was talking to Steve.  He asked if he could remotely access my 7 year old TV and I told him he could.  About 10 minutes later the problem was corrected.  I watched what he did, so now, should this ever happen again, I know how to fix it.

I ordered a dog bed for Biggie since he no longer seems to like sleeping on the big bed.  It arrives today.  We shall see if it was worth it.

I saw this and had to laugh.  If you're praying to your deity for assistance in getting Kevin McCarthy elected as Speaker of the House, and it still takes 6 more votes, you're getting an obvious message from your deity, and it's not one that you probably want to hear.

And what about Kev McCarthy finally nabbing victory on the 15th vote?  I watched a short video, sound off.  I'm giving him 7, possibly 8 months.  All it takes is 1 member of the House to object to his performance.  At one point is was 5 members, then he made a concession and dropped it to 4, but in the end, his desperation forced him to accept 1.  Nothing will be accomplished, except for a number investigations into Hunter Biden's laptop.

George Santos was sworn in.  I'm giving him 2 to 3 months before he's arrested, or extradited.  Republicans are already discussing who they want to fill his seat once it's vacated.  I'm betting that since there's a Democratic governor, and the district Santos represents has for quite some time been Democratic, he will be replaced his Democratic challenger, the one who barely lost the election.

Finally, I have to touch on Matty Schlapp and his wandering hands, no doubt he just wanted to reach out for a lost member... of his flock.  I actually listened to the sound bite of the complaint.  Matty had been drinking.  So, is this devout Christian going to say he was drunk?  His victim is trying to sound traumatized, even though he chose to not say "no."  If he was truly unhappy about the unwanted advances, he should have just slapped Schlapp, instead he chose to make a public complaint.  I suspect this story might have legs.