Vote Blue. Bring Back Democracy

Well, we've got 51 (F) outside as I type.  Our high to day will be in the low 70s (F).  With not a cloud in the sky, this is perfect voting weather.  Tomorrow is going to be a repeat of today, which means it's going to be perfect weather to start finalizing the count, so make sure that your vote is part of that count!

I did work yesterday, and once again I was an aisle associate who spent more of my time being a specialist than anything else.  That's fine.  I was very busy for most of the day.  As I was leaving, I reminded many associates to go vote today.  The weather is going to be fine for standing in line.

The space bar on my laptop is getting sticky.  I might have to switch this one out with the sporty laptop upstairs.

Today is election day, in case I haven't mentioned it yet.  It's my understanding that if things go awry for the Republican party, there will be a very bloody civil war among their registered voters legislative leaders.  This might be a good reason to go out and vote Blue.

I understand that the Orange Anus spent most of the night shit posting on Truth Social.  He's a bitter old man who's lied to himself all of his life about his own popularity.  Now his ego is having to deal with a possible wave of Blue hatred.  This is a very good thing.   A large failure for him will mean his cronies will be hit with the same crushing reality.  Elonia has spent nearly a half billion dollars to save both his tax breaks and government contracts.  His reality might just end up getting washed away.  This also would be a very good thing.

Make sure you are part of this momentum.  That would be a really great thing!

Vote blue.  Bring back Democracy!

Rally Fights and Hecklers

I know this might be difficult to believe, but our outside time is 57 (F).  That's warm for an October morning.  Our high this afternoon is predicted to be in the upper 60s (F), that's fine.  There's little moderation in the long range forecast without any rain until the beginning of November.

Yesterday was another cleaning day, including the aquarium.  I actually spent very little time looking at social media.  This timeline is too distracting.  It's become an excuse to not do what should be done, like writing the words.  This doesn't mean I wasn't looking for an excuse.  I had lunch with one of my local editors a few weeks back, and while the conversation was pleasant, it was obvious to me that he wasn't too pleased with the first 9 chapters of the new book.  Shit!  This doesn't mean I didn't know what the problem was, I just needed someone to put into words what I didn't want to admit to myself.  In a book titled The Body in the Words, there were just too many words.  Let me clarify that.  There was too much exposition. So I printed off the first 60 + pages, grabbed my red ink pen, and started cutting.  I was reminded of a scene in Amadeus where the emperor says, "there are too many notes," and since I'm not Mozart, I fully agreed with the emperor.  Words were cut.  

I work this afternoon.  It will be interesting to see if business has picked up.  On Monday, people were beginning to buy their Halloween decorations.  I'm interested in seeing if that trend is still holding.  Our display was a lot smaller this year.  The same is true with our Christmas display.

And evidently Orangie had one of his "heckle me hoot-nanny's" last evening in South Carolina.  In between hecklers, and there were 12, he brought Darlene Graham Nardone up on stage for a few seconds.

Evidently Deeny's not that popular with the voters of South Carolina and Orangie thought he'd help by going and talking about himself.  This is, I believe, the 2nd rally at which punches were thrown.  Protesters now seem to be mandatory when ever he tries to fill half a gymnasium.  He claims they're paid to protest.  Me?  I think these are people who simply hate that bitter, old man.

There are also reports of voting issues in Tennessee, with votes defaulting to the Republican candidates.  This wouldn't surprise me, since the Republican motto has always been, if in doubt, cheat.

And Elonia is really beginning to freak out.  Countries are dropping his Starlink.  Here in the US, both Republicans and Democrats are calling for an investigation into his manipulating the service.  People are realizing that it's bad for some ketamine addicted wack-doodle to have the power to turn the internet off.  I wonder if Elonia understands that if he does that, Wall Street will crash.  Probably not.  That little nugget of comprehension might be too big for addled brain to grasp.

Trump Sells Out America

 Well, it's officially chilly here in Central PA.  When I woke up the temp was 51 (F), it's now down to 49 (F).  Temps normally rise as the day goes on, not drop.  Our high today is supposed to be in the mid 50s (F), so we'll have to wait and see how much of a bounce back we're going to get.  We are under a freeze warning for tonight.  This means that that the frost might be on the pumpkin.

Yesterday was kind of a meh day.  I was busy in the morning, mostly shopping.  I now have hamburger for the rest of the month.  I now get my meats at Karn's, they cost about the same as I'd pay at my local Giant supermarket, but are fresh.  That's become important to me, especially under this administration.

I did bake another loaf of bread, this one in the bread machine.  I didn't get the ratio of white flour to wheat flour right and since wheat flour doesn't rise as much as white flour, I ended up with what I'm calling a low flying loaf.  The bread tastes great, it's just very... compact.

A group of people filed a class-action suit against the orange retailer I work for a little over a year ago.  Their complaint was that during Covid associates weren't getting paid correctly for the breaks they were forced to take.  Their complaint must have been legit because I got a check for $19.10 yesterday.  As I said to a friend, it'll help; Brent crude hit $110 a barrel yesterday.

And, if there was any doubt, the Orange Anus signed an Executive Order last evening stopping all sanctions against Russia, saying it was in America's best interests.  He lies.  His decision has absolutely nothing to do with America's best interests.  His best interests are the ones that are at stake, and only his, no one else matters.  Remember that meeting he had with his blow bro Vlad in Alaska?  The one where after a private meeting with Vlad, everyone came  into the room looking distraught?  I suspect we're about to find out what it was that Vlad said to them.

Here are a couple of pics of Orangie that were taken at Mar a Lago yesterday.

This is the face of a man who's going to sell out America, and that act might not be enough to save his own skin.  

I asked myself why would he do something this terrible so close to the midterms?  This is a rather desperate move by his friend Vlad.  And, I'm thinking his blow bro Vlad knows how terrible the midterms are going to be.  Vlad's 5 year war with Ukraine is not going well.  The idea to slow down Starshield blew up in their faces, and now Elonia and Orangie are pointing fingers at each other.  Vlad is growing desperate.  Why else have his stooge Orangie betray America so close to an election?  So prep yourselves, desperate villains do desperate things.  

Sourpuss Trump

And  we have rain.  Serious drizzling is occurring. Today's afternoon high might reach the mid 70s (F). Just a remind, the start of Autumn is less than 2 weeks away.  For those who love the heat of summer and who live in Central Pa, fear not.  California is going through a heat thing right now and since the Earth spins on an axis, that thing will move east.  However, whether that thing edges a bit north on its eastward journey, or moves parallel, staying mostly to the south is anybody's guess.

Work yesterday was boring.  Today, because of the overcast skies, and on and off drizzle, things will slower.  While being bored is not fun, getting paid to be bored isn't bad.  Besides, that sale I thought I lost looks like it might go through this afternoon.  Unfortunately, that sale will not be large enough for me to hit my sale's goal for this week, but then my goal is rather high for a part-time associate.

I just got a weather update, the rain is supposed to end in a few hours.  This would be really good sleeping weather.

And Orangie is in Ireland, and the Irish people are having none of his bullshit.  He left a 3 minute meeting with Prime Minister looking cranky as hell.  She didn't fawn like a sycophant.  We need more world leaders treating him like the moldering dung heap he is.  This is what you call a sourpuss. 

Of course, we suddenly have all those wannabe big brains now telling us we need to begin slowing down the development of AI.  One of the researches said that it might kill the human race in 10 years, however, he didn't say how.  There are 2 schools of thought, one is that AI will do something insidious to destroy us, the other is that the AI bubble is going to burst causing the world's economy to come crashing down.  Such an event would not wipe out humanity, however, it would decimate the billionaire class.  I'm thinking the researcher was talking about the latter, especially with the likes of Sam Altman, and Elonia Musk; without their bank accounts, these people are nothing.  

Lancing Elon

Surprise!  Yesterday's high did not climb into the low 80s (F) as the forecast had been predicting.  While the temp scooted around 79 (F) for most of the afternoon, there was a wind.  Now, I'm not talking about the occasional breeze.  Nope.  We had winds from the west that did a good job of keeping the gnats at bay;  I only got 2 bites.

And I did spend a bit of time outside cutting up branches yesterday afternoon.  My neighbor across the street is letting me borrow a teeny, tiny Ceepuy chainsaw that's about 6 inches long.  Let me tell you, that sucker is great for cutting up cleaning the branches so I can shove them into my wood chipper.  Looking out the window from my writing desk, I can say with certainty that a dent was made in cleaning up my... well, cleanup.  I have some chores to run this morning, but I'll be out again this afternoon.  

I did postpone the ride I had scheduled for yesterday afternoon; too many other jobs are taking precedence.  I'm only planning on doing the short upper-body workout this morning.  I want to get this clean-up complete as soon as possible, and that means spending more time out back this afternoon.  I texted this to my trainer, who replied that I'm probably getting more exercise doing this than if I were doing my full routines.  I'm going to agree with him on this.

Everyday I'm harvesting more tomatoes.  Today I'm going to make a pasta tomato salad which, hopefully will cover meals for today, tomorrow, and Sunday.  Oh, and I'm also going to be making bread pudding.  Yum.  Yesterday's harvest.

I was not surprised when I read that Elonia  Musk is going to be trying to buy Republican wins during the midterms.  Like the Orange Anus, he has his fan boys who believe he's a genius.  Like so many other billionaires, he suffers from a god complex.  He believes he's wealthy enough to make people do whatever he wants.  In fact, he is really nothing more than a large, puss filled boil ready to burst.  Tesla stock is dropping because, after all of the promises he made, the company is still not profitable.  His Space X stock?  Buyers beware, that stock is crashing faster than one of his rockets.  Making things worse for him is that both Japan and China now have reusable rocket engines, something he had a monopoly on.  I suspect one of the driving forces behind his throwing so much money into the midterms is that he realizes that, when Democrats take back power, many of his government contracts are going to be canceled.  I don't doubt that some time soon, Elonia will lanced, and amazingly enough, the world will survive.

Best at Being the Worst

Well, today is starting off cooler than yesterday.  Currently  we're in the upper 60s (F).  However... we've got an hellacious increase in humidity on the way.  This will be topped off by wow! packing thunderstorms a front moves through the region.  This is the perfect day for floating around on an air mattress on a pool.  Just make sure you go inside as the evening approaches; lightening strikes can be fatal.

I did work yesterday.  It was incredibly slow at the flooring desk.  Staffing was minimalist.  Actually, that's an understatement.  I was the only one there.  Our aisle associate, the guy who's supposed to pack down product left without stopping by.  He's MAGA and they're suffering right now, which is a good thing.  My big tile installation stopped by, but they were in a large family group.  They told me that they'd be stopping in to buy on Monday.  That's fine with me, a sale is a sale.  Their son in law used the tile they chose to render pictures in ChatGTP (?).  He was very pleased with himself.  You can do the same thing by uploading pictures of your room to our website.  I said nothing, it is, after all an $8600 sale.

My store manager gave me some bad news.  He's been promoted.  Thursday will be his last day.  His replacement will either be a store manager who worked previously at our store as an assistant manager, or a store manager who's known to be a stickler and a hardnose.  If it's the aisle associate who's MAGA will quit, since she's the reason he transferred to our store in the first place.

And I went to file for the copyright for The Body in 4/4 Time yesterday and... DRATZ!!  They want submissions to be done using Firefox on a Windows OS.  Using another browser might present problems.  It did.  I kept getting error messages when I went to change my password.  Shit!

For those of you who don't know, this is what Elonia looked like before all of the plastic surgery and hair implants.  

And of course, Orangie's birthday celebration is today.  According to Fox Entertainment, only 31% of the Republican party approve of this travesty.  This administration has become an American embarrassment.  The corruption is on a scale never before seen... in the entire world.  The Orange Anus has never been an even adequate businessman.  Even though he will admit to 6 bankruptcies, in truth he has 8.  Remember his University?  He had to pay out millions in restitution because it's sole purpose was to defraud students who believed his lies.  This cage match?  This is SOP for him.  He is a stupid man who has blundered his way into being the most despised president of the United States.  He has always wanted to be number one, well, of all the other contenders in the world, he is best at being the worst.

The Happy Ending

Well we've reached Saturday.  I slept in a bit, so it's now 0912 and our outside temp is 76 (F).  Once again temps are predicted to hit the 90 (F) degree mark, though today forecasters are saying that our humidity is going to be oppressive.  Tomorrow's forecast is for the same with the exception  of the day ending with thunderbangers, high, possibly damaging winds, and rain.  Small reminder:  Washington DC is only 75 minutes south of my humble abode, and I'm so glad I didn't lose my sanity and purchase an overpriced ticket to a cage match.

And yesterday was sort of meh.  This doesn't mean that I didn't do anything, I did.  Grocery shopping in the morning, a little garden work, and then a bike ride in San Remo, Italy.  I like Italy.  I should actually visit.  I would like to see the colosseum in the early morning before the tourist busses descend upon it like a swarm of locusts.  

I do work this afternoon.  I have a tile flooring installation that's supposed to sell.  The customers are bringing their daughter because she has impeccable taste and she needs to approve their choice in tile.  If she doesn't like it, she'll pick the tile they're going to use.  Either way, the sale should go through.

And silently, under cover of darkness and a large curtain, Orangie's name was removed from The Kennedy Center for the Performing arts.  He didn't want anybody to see, or take pictures of his defeat, because that's what this was.  He lost.  Justice smote his ego... badly, and I'm really up for that.  However, pictures and videos are being published.  Here's a screenshot from a longer video put out by The Guardian.  I think this might be the removal of the P, since it's from the far right side of the scaffolding.  You can see the worker's hands grabbing onto the letter, and in the video, he just rips it off the wall.  Karma rocks.

This is Orangie's birthday weekend.  Let's see, the freedom concert thingy is gone and there is the possibility that his UFC cage match might end up being a lightening rod.  There might be something we can end up celebrating after all.

Oh, and Elonia is now, on paper, a trillionaire.  This man is so vainglorious he simply has no clue as to how anger and hatred he is generating around the world.  I don't believe he was ever destined for a happy ending.

 

Special Elections

Wow!  We're at 11 (F) and the day's supposed to get warmer.  We should have a Town Crier ringing his bell and crying Here Yee, Here Yee the temps are rising!  I do suspect, however, that good news would end up pissing people off this early in the morning.  Our temps are predicted to climb into the upper 20s (F) today, and above freezing tomorrow.  The long range forecast has us getting cold again, but again, that's the long range forecast and we know how inaccurate they tend to be.

Yesterday I worked.  One of my customers and came in a purchased an installation.   They'd bought a house that had been built in the 1970s and had vinyl sheet in the family room.  Unfortunately, that vinyl had asbestos in it.  In the 70s, before they realized that asbestos can cause lung cancer, they put it everywhere.  Remediation is expensive and can cost several thousand dollars.  For a while, I didn't think they'd purchase, but they did.

My new bread maker arrived yesterday.  It's a Cuisinart, the same stile I had for years, though this was has been update.  Sadly, because of my work schedule, I won't be able to bake a loaf until Tuesday.

As expected, yesterday social media was rife with comments about the most recent Epstein file drop.  While some of the files are stomach churning and a lot of unredacted information about the survivors was released. there was also some humor.  Elonia Musk desperately wanted to get an invite to the wild orgies and was, to put it bluntly, snubbed.  He's claiming most of the embarrassing emails between himself and Maxwell are fake.  As proof that his children don't like him, his daughter chimed in saying yes, those emails are his. How's that for disrespecting your father?

There were 2 special elections in Texas.  The one for Congress stayed Democrat.  However the special election in a deeply red, Republican district flipped in a landslide victory for the Democrat.  Alarm bells are going off.  I do believe there is a distinct possibility that Orangie and his team of sycophants will try to cheat.  They simply do not understand, or believe, that so many Americans can not stomach the Orange Anus.  Any interference with the elections will cause America to rise up and stomp the shit out of them.

The Cadre of Pedophiles

We have 4 (F) outside.  No wind chill, but that's still a bitterly cold temp.  Our afternoon temps are expected to clime in to the mid-20s with on and off again sunshine.  We've just begun a warm-up.  By Monday our afternoon high will get us just above freezing.  Forecasts are for temps to get a little warmer, but we are, after all, in the dead of winter, and our highs will once again be in the upper teens by the end of this coming week.

Yesterday turned out to be fairly good.  I did get in a decent workout, burning off over 220 calories.  That's a good thing.  

An new bread machine was ordered from Wayfair.  I don't use Amazon anymore.  Not surprisingly, it's a Cuisinart, the same model I used for years, though updated.  Because I'm letting Wayfair send me texts, I got 10% off.  After a bit of time passes, though not much, or if the texts are too frequent I will block them.

I also signed up for a new deal on Mubi.  $1 for thee months.  This streamer is not for everyone.  They focus on Art House films, and those indelible classics that we've all heard about, but have never had a chance to watch.  I saw Plainclothes on Mubi, as well as The History of Sound.  

More Epstein files dropped yesterday.  Within 20 minutes after they had been made public, the DOJ began deleting some of them.  Over a million pages were dropped.  Luckily for the world the minute the drop happened resourceful people began downloading.  One of the things most surprising was not the sexually graphic content, people expected that from our pedophile in the White House.  Nope.  What stunned a lot of people was that the names of the victims were not redacted.  In one instance they included a victim's driver's license.  I did grab a sample for those interested.

Some are thinking this drop may have been done by a leaker who had enough of Orangie's shit show.  Last evening I saw something that might be more than a little relevant.  Whispers in the FBI are saying the drop was either done by Israel, or someone loyal to Israel, in order to compromise Orangie.  We all know he's not very popular, so perhaps this is true.  Of course, that would mean they'd rather deal with Vance, and he's in way over his head with the simple job he now has.

Another thing that surprised people is that Elonia Musk is mentioned quite frequently.  He definitely wanted to be one of the "in crowd."  There are many, many emails between Elonia and Epstein.  It seems that the Ketamine Kid has a penchant for raunchy sex with girls.

And Nutlick Lutnick gets his share of mentions, as does Alan Dershowitz, and Stevie Bannon.  In fact, Bannon seems to have been in constant communication with Epstein.  And while Clinton does get an honorable mention, this whole cadre of pedophiles is overwhelmingly Republican.

  

Trump's Successful Bot Farms

 It was cool this morning, but not cold.   Yesterday the high was again in the mid 50s (F), and there's a good possibility that's going to happen again today.  We are going to cool off.  By Thanksgiving our daily highs should only be in the low to mid 40s (F).  There is a blast of cold air coming from up north that will take our overnight lows down into the upper 20s (F) next week, but then that will pass.

Yesterday was a day of rest from my workouts because I worked.  It was a slow day.  I did get another measure and I sold some flooring.  I'm fair certain that when I go into work I will be the sales leader from last week, and I probably tied the full timers with measures.  This is fine.  I'm scheduled to work today and would really rather stay home.  However, and this is a big however, calling off on a scheduled day, either before or after a holiday, will cause you to lose your holiday pay.  Since I'm not scheduled Thursday because of the holiday, I do want that pay to cover the hours I'm losing.  And today is my scheduled day before the holiday.

I've been pondering this, and my schedule in general.  For about a month and a half I was only scheduled 3 days a week.  I liked that.  Working 17 hours a week was fine.  So, today I'm going to change my availability.  On the next schedule that gets written I'll be working Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.  I'm also not going to be working past 6 PM.  The flooring department is transitioning.  We will be losing one full time associate and getting another, which will mean disruptions for the next few months.  As the senior  member of the department, I will be the one whom people turn to, and I really no longer want to be the answer man.  I have so many other things that I'd rather use my mind for.

Interesting point:  There is this entertainer named D4VD who under suspicion for murder.  The body of a teenage girl was found in the trunk of his car, and now (drum roll), there is suspicion that the body may have been either refrigerated or frozen.  As soon as I saw this, my mind when back to the first Eli and Max mystery, The Body on the Lawn in which the body of a tango dancers may have been... well, you probably should read it in case you haven't.

And, or course, Elonia Musk decided to show the world where most of Orangie's influencers are located.  This revelation happened for just enough time for so many people to take screen shots.  Here's an example of 2: 

Suddenly, proof was readily available that so many, many of his online supporters are located in Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia, and... well all over the middle east.  It seems that Orangie is quite successful are bot farming.  Their produce is geared at praising Orangie and denouncing Democracy.  Is Orangie's blow bro Vlad funding most of them?  I'd say there's a good possibility.  Soon after these revelations became public information, Elonia fixed the problem.  Now these influencers are using VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) to hide their locations.  While you can no longer see in which specific country they're located, if you click on the (i) for information, you will get a message telling you that country of origin is not necessarily true.  You see, a VPN lets you hide your location from the world.

 

Puff of Smoke

 Hello Thursday!  The sun is shining!  The temps here in Central PA are in the low 70s (F).  There is the possibility of thunderstorms this afternoon, but that's okay as long as it's only a threat.  Winds are predicted to pick up as well, which will help dry things out.  I'm okay with that.

Much was accomplished yesterday even if the number of tasks completed seems low.  In fact, only 2 things were actually accomplished:  the mailing out of books, and the setting up of the new internet.  The shipping of the books was a good learning experience.  I always used USPS for all my shipping before, mostly because I didn't know any better.  Now I use Pirate Ship and get amazing savings.  It's only costing me $30 to send a copy of my book to Athens, Greece.  The USPS would have charged me $90.  

As for setting up the new T-Mobile internet?  It took about 20 minutes.  The one thing I was concerned about was changing the Wi-Fi on my devices from Fios to T-Mobile.  It was so easy peasy, mostly because I chose a password that wasn't a hodgepodge of letters and symbols.  The only thing left to do is call Verizon and cancel - that will probably be the most difficult thing to do because they will be terrible.

My tomatoes are doing fine, and I have green peppers, but my zucchini and cucumbers aren't going anywhere.

To all of those idiots of the world breathlessly waiting to see if the Orange Anus will bomb Iraq prepare to be told he's going to wait 2 weeks.  Actually, he's pretty much already told the world that, though with different words because he's waiting to see if they surrender.  They won't.  However, being secretive keeps the world's attention on him and that is what his ego lives for, full media coverage 24 hours a day.  That will change the minute he does anything and some will damn him while others love him.  I do suspect that some of his advisors have let him know that this is a no win situation as far as his approval ratings go, not that he'll believe them.  

And Elonia had another rocket blow up on him this morning.  For those of you unaware of the situation, thanks to his buddy the Orange Anus, Elonia's Space X is now fully funded by US taxpayer dollars, so this morning $2.4 billion of your dollars went up in smoke.  This is not, as Elonia tweeted, just a scratch.  This guy's a freaking idiot.

The Distraction

 Well, a storm went through yesterday.  I was getting all sorts of warnings:  lightning is striking in your area;  heavy winds are a blowin'; flash flooding is probably inevitable.  We got a steady rain for about 20 minutes.  No lightning.  No thunder.  No gusting winds.  All of that stormy stuff went to our north and south.  The temps did drop, however, and the humidity dissipated.  Predictions are for on and off rain for the next 2 days, with us getting as much as an inch tomorrow.  After that temps are supposed to hang around in the low to mid 80s (F).

Yesterday was better than the day before as far as getting things done.  After doing a search on laptops with nonfunctioning screens, I did a power reset on the writing laptop and got it working again.  Since there was already a problem, that one has now become my permanent sporting laptop and the sporting laptop, which is a much better computer, is now my main writing/research laptop.

I looked over the results of the bloodwork I had done on Tuesday.  Everything is fine, except for my glucose.  I'm pre-diabetic.  I was pre-diabetic last year as well.  And the same for the year before that.  My mom had the same problem and my sister is diabetic, so this is something which runs in the family.  As you can probably tell, I'm not that worried.

Orangie and Elonia are still not talking and one can only guess how much vitriol they are spitting at each other behind the curtain; quite a lot, I'd presume.  So much, they needed a really big distraction and so Orangie decided to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador to face phony charges.

You did notice how quickly this miracle came about, didn't you?  And to sweeten the distraction, they're charging him with human trafficking. Where's Maddie when you need her to be stopping the car?  Of course, so many are falling for this gimmick.  The only reason Kilmar is coming home is to change the conversation; stop people from talking about the Orangie/Elonia shit show. 

Of course there's too much other stuff going down as Orangie's reign of Chaos seems to be picking up speed.  The jobs report claimed 139,000 jobs had been created while the ADP report claimed 37,000.  While there's usually a variance between the two reports, the differences have never been this widely off.  If this report is accurate than the government would have needed to have hired almost 100,000 individuals into government jobs.  Don't worry, this administration is going to lie about  inflation, too.

 

The Joy of it All

 Outside the temp is a balmy 74 (F), the skies are overcast, and weather forecasters are predicting on and off showers for today, with a good possibility of thunderstorms this afternoon and this evening.  Our weather yesterday was very muggy, and it did get hot. It seems as though a front will be moving through the area, and temps will be dropping back into the 70s (F).

Yesterday was coming along smashingly until... well, a bit more on that later.

The big news is that I'm writing this entry on my sporting laptop.  My writing laptop died this morning.  It was not a slow painful death.  Nope.  I lost connectivity, so I went upstairs to check on the router and everything was good, so I came back down to my desk and rebooted....  And it never restarted.  Pressing the power button turned the keyboard lights on briefly, but then they'd go off.  Shit.  I tried powering it up several times and it never fully regained consciousness.  The sporting laptop is nice.  It has a touch screen which I do use on occasion, so I'm thinking about simply turning this into my writing laptop and buying a cheap one just to use for my athletics. 

Because I use Microsoft 365, or whatever it's called now, all my photos have been stored in the cloud, even this one.  This is Musk's shiner from a few days back, no doubt the first sign that things were already on seriously rocky ground, and then yesterday?  I could not put down my phone!

I do hope everyone was having as much fun as I was watching Orangie and Elonia come to verbal fisticuffs.  The possibility of a reconciliation died when Elonia said Orangie was in the Epstein files and that's why they weren't released.  The world now knows that Orangie is a pedophile.  

There was an emergency meeting last evening of Orangie and his team because Orangie doesn't deal well with this kind of beat back.  I follow Kara Swisher and her take is that while there will be a public faux make-up, there is an all out war between these two losers.  We all know how petty and vindictive Orangie is, and the instant the Epstein files were brought up... well, and then Elonia topped that by saying Orangie should be impeached.  The joy of it all!  It made me want to dance, it did.  Orangie was in some sort of presser when a reporter asked him about the impeachment comment.  Wowza!  The look on his face.  The presser was instantly shut down and all media persons rapidly removed from the Oval Office.  The joy of it all!

In that instant, Elonia took an ax to the Republican party.  A vast majority of the comments made on Truth Social to Orangie's attacks on Elonia were negative.  Many conservative Republicans believe in Elonia, believe DOGE is doing a good job.  They felt it was wrong for Orangie to threaten him.  This is kind of like explosive splintering.  

The hatred between these two narcissists with their fragile egos is now insurmountable, a rift that can never be crossed.  There will be no happy alliance.  Ahhhh, the joy of it all! 

   

Wobbly

 Our temps are in the upper 50s (F) and it's drizzling.  We did get a whopper of a storm last night.  Hefty winds brought down a number of small branches and... our power went out.  Total Blackness.  For some reason, I woke up just before it went dark.  I was lying in bed looking at the small light on a surge protection when it went off, so I got up and went to the window to see every light in my neighborhood was off.  Things are very dark when there are no streetlights.

This morning, a little after 6, the power came back on.  I did check with PP&L  when I got up an hour earlier to see how large the outage was and it was just in my nook of the world.  What seemed so significant was not the lack of light, rather it was my disconnection from the Internet.  I was glad my phone was charged.  According to my power provider there were1514 homes in my area without power, though we were not an isolated incident.  A bigger map showed many isolated incidents within an 80 mile radius.  Another surprising fact:  storm warnings were not issued.  Usually we get all sorts of warnings: high winds, heavy rains, lightening in you area.  Last night we got nothing.  

Elonia showed up at the Oval Office sporting a black eye yesterday.  He blamed his meat shield.  Only Muskovites are buying that story.  Some few thought maybe Stevie Miller's knuckles gave him a kiss, but Stevie's soon to be ex-wife is apparently cheating with a different Doger.  Many believe he got his shiner from a Ketamine high fall.  Supposedly, he's been using the drug so heavily he has problems peeing straight, which means he's wobbly.

And Orangie said he's going to raise steel tariffs up to 50%.  In other words, the countdown has started to the next order of TACOs.

Orangie is also touting the US Steel/Nippon Steel deal.  For those who need a translation, that means American workers are going to suffer.  You see in his mind, it's all about the look of the deal, the appearance of success, and one or two of his billionaire cronies will reap  the rewards, but the American worker, those people who toil and sweat in the steel mills, (what few there are left)?  Well, they are a minor, necessary loss.

Full Bloom

 Not surprisingly, we have rain.  We also have rain in the forecast.  Temps may climb up into the high 50s (F).  That's not very warm.  Nope, we're back to sweat shirts and sweat pants weather.  Next week, if the forecasters are correct we should warm up into the 70s (F).  That will be nice.  And... we're even supposed to get more than two days of sunshine.

That very old Logi keyboard I was using, the one that replaced the two other keyboards that died?  Well, it too died this morning.  I'm now using the laptop keyboard which works.  My immediate reaction was to plan on rushing out to buy a new keyboard this morning, but I think I'll hold off.  I just paid off the four new tires that I had put on my car and a new keyboard is not inexpensive.  

Yesterday was sort of an odd meh kind of day.  I did some cleaning, got a really good dumbbell workout in, but I also didn't want to do anything, so I did take small naps on and off throughout the day.  I know the workout was good because I've a little muscle soreness today.  The naps?  I took those mostly because I was feeling bored.  With this crappy rain, today might be a redo.

Yesterday morning, when it was still sunny, I went out and took a picture of my roses.  So many of them are in full bloom.

Wow, how unprecedented is it for the president of the United States to go through two very crushing breakups in public?  Elonia is fuming, at least on Zitter and in Legacy Media.  He's wailing about Congress not taking DOGE seriously enough to pass legislation, I think that's for the cultists and some very naive Republicans.  DOGE was less about cutting waste and more about finding funding for the tax breaks Elonia and the other 1% want.  And don't forget all of those regulators who'd been hassling Elonia who were fired, and the contracts he signed, and all of the personal data he filched.  Don't doubt for a second that Elonia didn't make a killing.

And then there is the Putin putdown.  I don't doubt for a second that Orangie thought he and Vlad were going to be ducky dandy forever.  Hah.  Rather than being Prom King, Orangie's finding himself used and abused.  He whined about helping Russia so much, only to find himself playing the cuck.  This is what his desperation for being important has gotten him, and it wasn't even Vlad who did the jilting.  Nope, it was a lesser evil, Medveded (sp) who was dispatched to put Orangie in his place in a press release to the world.

Memorial Day, again

 Well, it's 50 (F) outside with the prediction that we should warm up into the 70s (F).  The original forecast had rain moving into the area sometime this morning and than hanging around until Friday.  That forecast has changed.  Skies are supposed to be overcast for much of the day, with the rain beginning to soak us tonight.  That's really the only change to our forecast; the rest of the week will be soggy.

I worked yesterday and, it being Memorial Day, they served us up food:  burgers and hotdogs.  As usual, I grazed... but not nearly as much as usual.  I'm attempting to cut back on the over ingesting of calorie high, non-nutritional snacky things.  The only thing cookies are really good at is growing your waistline unless, of course, you're an exercising dynamo.  While I do workout, I'm not burning up thousands of calories at a time.

Surprisingly, there were a number of customers in the store yesterday.  I got a measure.  Corporate did initiate a new policy which I'm not fond of': every hour on the hour our shoppers are informed that if they charge at least $300 on the orange credit card, they will get interest free financing for 6 months.  The more you charge, the longer the financing period.  While management is sticking to the line that these are just friendly reminders, I few these announcements as a not too subtle coercion.  

While I was folding laundry yesterday morning, Howie caught a fly.  I was just as surprised as he was.  He was quite pleased with himself as he jumped onto the bed with his little trophy, until... he opened his mouth just the tiniest of bits and the fly flew out onto the quilt.  He stared at it with a WTF look on his face for a second or two before it flew away.  

And for those of you who don't know, this is the Adyton at Delphi.  It might, perhaps, make a good place to hide.

And yesterday, being Memorial Day, the Orange Anus posted a hate message on Truth Social, all caps, of course.  Surprisingly, a few hours later is was deleted.  He evidently gave another rally shriek to celebrate memorial day.  Most Legacy media outlets no long carry his rants.  Fox does, but then Fox is pleased as shit that they're part of his new reality TV show:  The Prez.

I saw where Kristi, the Puppy Killer, Noem is somewhere is Arabia.  There are pics of her riding around on a camel looking rather Sheikish.  I don't know about you, but I suspect she's checking off every item she has on her bucket list.  Grift millions of dollars for a new plane?  Check.  Cosplay sheik?  Check.

Finally, one of the funniest things I saw this past weekend was Orangie's blow bro Putin told the world that Orangie is going through some Emotional Overload.  The jilt is in progress.

Oh, and a PS.  Elonia posted something about getting out of politics, that none of his suggestions are being enacted by Congress, that he too is being rejected.  That's bullshit.  This is what he really meant to say.  "I've stolen as much information as I will ever need, including all of your social security and nuclear information, and your government has signed so many deals and contracts that in reality I will be running your country forever."

Mud

 And the rain continues.  The temps hovered in the low 60s (F) yesterday, and today is going to be a repeat.  The forecast called for showers this morning.  What we're really getting is periods of steady rain, with the occasional moments of light, misty rain.  Looking out the picture window in my writing room, I feels as though Central PA has been relocated to the Northern Pacific, somewhere just east of the Olympic peninsula.  Weather forecasters are calling for an end to the rain tomorrow, and Friday is supposed to be nice.

One thing all of this rain does bring is mud, I can vouch for the veracity of that statement because I have a 9 month old Labrador, a water dog, a breed that enjoys digging in the dirt, or, when we have steady rain for 2 days, the mud.  Howie was a real mess this morning; cleanup was both interesting and messy.  One of the smart things I did was buy a large, washable area rug with a brown pattern for my kitchen.  My neighbor, on the other hand, choosing to try and be stylish rather than practical, put a white area rug in her kitchen.  Her family has a Golden Doodle, another breed that given the chance will dig, so I'm suspecting that by now that area rug is fifty shades of mud.

I made a pizza for dinner last evening, or maybe I should say that I made the pizza dough from scratch.  I used to make pizza rather frequently, and as I was putting on the toppings I reminded myself how versatile a meal pizza can be.  You don't always need tomato sauce and pepperoni for toppings.  Anyway, I dumped on too much cheese, but then I like cheese.  My toppings were:  black olives, mushrooms, and pepperoni, and, as I said, a lot of cheese.  Here's what it looked like when it came out of the oven.

So, the Orange Anus is going to keep the plane he's getting from the Qataris.  It's going to cost the tax payers of America a billion dollars to refit it, and he doesn't care because in his mind he deserves everything he wants.  Ben Shapiro is freaking out; this shows how easily the Orange Anus can be bought.  A voice so many cultists listen to is Laura Loomer, she's freaking out.  In a way, this is amusing.  The Qataris knew exactly how upset many Americans would be by their gift.  They want chaos in the United States.  While Americans are focusing on the havoc the Orange Anus is creating, they're running around do what best suits them.

Orangie also signed some sort of weapons deal with the Saudis.  This is the same country that sent most of the attackers on 9/11, of course, it was also announced he was building a Trump Tower there. He's weak, he caves, and he is easily bought off.

Elonia was in Saudi Arabia, too.  He signed some sort of deal with the Saudis to cover their land in Starllink.  Elonia's ketamine junked brain rattles thoughts of him being shrewd.  The Saudis know exactly how his douche brain works.  They know what kind of information he's going to try and steal from their people and they're going to let him do it.  When he's done, they'll shut him down the way he's been shut down in so many other countries.

And, finally, the Republican House is planning or raising the debt ceiling by $4 trillion dollars to pay for a billionaire tax break.  They don't understand that they, themselves, are going to be broken for this.

 

Would You Care for a Little Whine with that Cheese

 The temp was 36 (F) when I got up this morning.  The forecasters are saying we should climb another 20 degrees, but clouds are going to move in bringing showers with them.  Tomorrow, of course, temps are supposed to climb up into the 70s (F), but only for a day.  Then they are going to come crashing down.  We have a cold front moving through, and by next Wednesday our overnight low will be in the high 20s (F).

Tuesdays are usually meh days for me, a time for me to relax after working the weekend.  Not yesterday.  Much was accomplished.  Besides cleaning the big aquarium, I began dismantling the treadmill.  A friend asked why I didn't try and sell it.  The answer is simple.  No one wants to buy a used treadmill, and because they're heavy, they are quite difficult to move.  It's easier to just take it apart and throw it out into the trash.  And while everything is getting moved around, I'm going to replace the area rugs in that room.  They're both old, one of them went through Gertie's puppyhood, that was15 years ago.

My Amazon music was also cancelled.  I'm now using Spotify.  This is all part of my shift away from everything Bezos has a finger in, including changing the credit card which gave me points for shopping on Amazon.  The new card has a lower interest rate, not that I ever have to pay interest, so I guess the higher interest on the old Amazon card was actually paying for those Amazon points I thought I was earning.

And, of course, last evening this happened.

Can you imagine how mortifying it must be to spend over $20+ million on an election to lose by 11 points?  And this was after Cory Booker's record breaking 24+ hour speech.  And in Florida, even though the Republican candidates won, neither came close to the 30 point victory claimed by the Orange anus.  In Illinois, a MAGA cultist lost to her Democratic opponent in a mayoral contest.  In fact, it was a good day for Democrats.  The Republicans?  Not good at all.  

On top of all that was going down, Mikey Johnson dismissed the House of Representatives for the rest of the week because he lost on proxy voting by mothers who'd just given birth.  I wonder what they're going to be doing on this mini-vacation.  

And today Orangie's tariffs are supposed to kick in.  Will he cave... again?  If he does, I don't think it will be by much.  His caving would cause people to think he did so because of the elections yesterday.  That would make him look weak.  It would tell the world that he really hasn't mastered the art of the deal.

Catering for Clicks

Hello Tuesday!  We have a seasonably Spring day in store for us here in  Central PA.  Temps will be in the mid 50s (F), which means somethings can be done outside. A full day is planned.

Because yesterday was another calorie intensive day at work (leftovers galore), I didn't count my calories.  Today's a new day, and the counting begins. 

A full day is planned.  Chores are listed.  Now, all I need to do is see how many I can complete.

Howie brought another rock into the house this morning.  He got a swat and was told that rocks are a no, no.  Should he accidentally swallow one, expensive surgery would be require to remove it.  I know someone who's dog did the same thing.  $$$$ followed.  Someday he'll learn that stones are out.  The sticks he brings in?  Those are easily bribed away from him with a puppy peanut butter cookie.  Also, for those interested, he's a little over 40 inches (102 centimeters) long, and 70+ pounds *32+ kg) in weight, and he's still growing.

This is how the Greek oregano is coming along.  The last 2 glasses aren't doing to well, so I may plant dill in them.

A writer named Michal Savage was lamenting in The Guardian this morning on people not turning off the news.  The article is interesting, however he fails to touch on what I believe to be the most prominent reason people are leaving the Main Stream Media and turning to other sources:  their favoritism for the sensational over the real news.  The Orange Anus stated something about a 3rd term and MSM is beating that deceptive ploy the same way Republicans beat a dead horse.  Not one of them, at least as far as I know, pointed out that he said this in order to get people talking about something, anything other than the Signal chat scandal.  In my mind, this is the main reason people are seeking and finding better reporting in things like substacks.  People will return to the MSM if they stop catering for clicks.

There are elections today in both Florida and Wisconsin.  The returns will be a good indicator of how pissed off Americans are with Orangie's authoritarian administration.  I'm interested in finding out if Elonia's money can buy another 2 elections.

Act of God

 Well, the temps didn't climb to 77 (F) yesterday.  Drizzles did abound, though.  We have the same forecast for today before the temperature drops down into the mid 50s (F) tomorrow.  The extended forecast is calling for cool temps for the next week or so before cooling off a little more.  Two weeks from now our overnight lows are predicted to be in the low 30s (F).  

Yesterday was still chow down day at the store.  There were more personal pan pizzas, and pulled pork, and thousands of cookies, and snicky snacky things to satiate the robust grazer.  In a short while I'll be stepping on the scale to see how much damage was done, even though I realize that when go to work this afternoon there are still going to be leftovers.

And sales wise, the store was busy yesterday.  The Flooring / Decor department probably broke a record in sales last week.  My sales were fine.  Corporate, while enjoying these min salad days, understands sales are going to to go into decline.  How do I know?  We've staffed a lead table.  Customers play a little game and win either a snack, or a beverage, or a coupon, all the while an associate talks to them about the home services we offer.  Leads are good any time of the year, but quite often they help us reach plan during the slow months of winter.  Pushing leads this time of year is an indicator of what corporate thinks is indicative of sales in the coming months.  

Elonia held a rally in Wisconsin for a very select crowd:  employees and carefully vetted supporters.

While his rally did get national media attention, as far as I can tell on Fox Entertainment broadcast any of it.  The fact that he was too terrified to have open attendance is not a good indicator, he was worried about protesters managing to make it into the auditorium and creating a disturbance.  This means he failed... terribly.  The idea was to generate votes for the Republican nominee for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, but speaking to a selected audience is not going to grow the Republican voting base.  Also, given the fact that his attempt at bribing people to vote Republican has gotten terrible press proves this was more of an act of desperation than anything else.  The Orange Anus has an approval rating of 41%, and Musk's is in the negative digits.  Someone said it's below the floorboards.  Ouch!  The Republican party has believed that it's always about the money, well, only if you've sold your soul to selfishness and greed.  What might be the stake through President Elonia's heart, might in fact be the stock market.  I haven't looked at figures yet, but from what I've heard it's looking red in anticipation of Orangie's tariff announcements.  Tariffs that are, supposedly, going to be aimed at every country in the world.  Would the markets crashing on election day be considered an Act of God?