Santos, not your run of the mill Pathological Liar

 Happy Friday morning!  The sunrise was on fire, which means sailors need to take warning.  According to Accuweather, we have a 25% chance of rain today.  After they pass through temps are going to drop a bit, but not a lot, back down into the 50s (F) for daytime highs.  And yes, we are just a little over a month away from winter.

I worked yesterday and let me tell you, retail was slow.  I did manage to get a bit sale, but are few and far between.  How bad are they?  On the schedule that was just written, which covers the week past Thanksgiving, I'm only working 2 days, 16 hours.  Payroll is always the expense that gets cut first because it's the biggest liability a company faces, and in retail, that's the part-timers.  Unlike me, many part-timers, especially seniors, are working to supplement their income, so losing hours is going to hurt them.  This is why Trickle Down Economics fails, because those corporations that received Tax Cuts are still getting them, however American Capitalism dictates that they also need to have 5% growth and they have no problem cutting hours to achieve that goal.

So, in spite of the fact that they're cutting hours, the great orange retailer did see fit to give me a cap for Veteran's Day.  This is why I don't wear hats.

And, of course, hilarity upon hilarity ensued yesterday when the Ethics Committee released their report on George (I can spend you campaign contributions any way I want) Santos.  I'm certain most of us thought he was just your ordinary, run of the mill pathological liar.  Ouch.  Wait, you ask, is he really a pathological liar?  Oh, my yes, I'd put him in the same league as Trump, capable of lying about everything without understanding that saying it doesn't make it true.  The difference between the two?  Trump lies in order to prove to himself that he's a god, Santos lies in order to watch the gay porn on Only Fans.  Did anyone hear me laughing when I read that little gem?  And how about the Botox injections?  I wonder how Elise Stefanik feels knowing that the world now knows the man whose candidacy she endorsed was spending his campaign dollars on floppy lips and sex workers, not necessarily in that order.

Freshly Baked

 Well, this is my Friday, sort of, because I am off tomorrow, and then I'm off Sunday and Monday, in fact Sunday and Monday will be my weekend for the next 3 weeks.  Next week I'm only scheduled for 32 hours.  That's fine with me.  In a few weeks I'll be averaging between 24 and 30 hours a week, and I will be scheduled during my availability.

Yesterday was fairly slow.  The Temps were warm.  Kids are back in school, somewhat.  We always have a number of college kids who work for us during the summer, and their all leaving.  They become unessential during the fall.  Some will be missed, because they're good workers, others will not since they were only putting in hours to get a paycheck.  

And Only Fans is going to let its adult content providers continue providing adult content.  I find it interesting they made headlines when they reversed their decision.  I wouldn't be surprised if those banks that were putting the thumb screws to the site realized just how much money they were going to start losing.  It's a real bitch when you might not make your projected 5% fiscal growth.

Baked another loaf of Italian bread this morning.  

And, as was expected, the Sturgis Motorcycle rally has led to an unprecedented increase in Covid cases.  Over 1000% by most counts, which a local authority tried to play down by saying something like 'the percentage is so high because there are so few of us.'  Don't even try to find the logic in that statement.  One can only wonder how many of those motorcycle revelers have taken the virus home.  Now, isn't that a nice souvenir?  I can see the T-shirts now:  I went to Sturgis, and all I got was Covid.

Just a Blip

 Well, it's the weekend.  I'm scheduled to go back to work today... for just one day, being off again tomorrow.  The temptation is so great to pick up my phone and place that little phone call letting them know I won't be coming in.  That would give me 8 days off.  Wow!  Of course, when I look at the little I managed to accomplish during the past 6 days... ouchy, ouchy, ouchy.  True, my back has been acting up, but there are things I should have been doing to help strengthen my core and didn't.  I will probably wait to stop working completely until???  Part-time is fine, unless I want to turn into a complete slouch.

And what about the news for Only Fans?  Some of you might know what that website is, others, I do suspect, may know about it intimately.  Only Fans has come to represent porn by the common man, for the common man... or woman.  There are a lot of other content providers on Only Fans besides those who focus on porn, but the ones who are complaining are the sex workers.  For the most part, their content was simple porn... however, there are always bad apples who ruin things.  You see the BBC did an investigative report (heavily dramatic music) and discovered some of the content providers has used fake ID's to get certified... yep, they were underage.  Not good.  And other things cropped up in that report, like bestiality, and incest, and  evidently when some of the content providers offered personalized videos for a fee, they meant very up close and very intimately personalized.  So the porn is leaving Only Fans.  Their excuse is that credit card processors are tightening their grip.  My feeling is that management is far more concerned about the legal ramifications regarding underage porn, and puppy porn, and... well, you know what I mean.  Ah, but don't worry your little heads, there are many, many other platforms out there doing exactly what Only Fans did so well, so this shocking turn of events is nothing more than a blip on porn's radar screen.

And finally, even though southern, cracker jack crazy Republican states are pushing the monoclonal treatment, there aren't a lot of takers.  That's right.  If these anti-vaxxers aren't going to get themselves vaccinated, they sure as hell aren't going to go for an hour long transfusion.   At least these fools can pronounce the word vaccine, monoclonal is way too formal for them, and, of course, it does have the word clone imbedded among the sylables.