Yes

 We're having wonderful weather here in Central PA:  days are in the mid 70s (F) and during the night the temps drop down into the mid to upper 50s (F), which is great sleeping weather.  Nothing is supposed to change until the weekend, when once again we're going to be hit with rain... for the entire 2 days, so if you're one of those people who's workin' for the weekend, you're probably going to be disappointed.

I went to the store yesterday and bought paint for the cabinets and some floor leveling compound for those areas not so much because there are places where my kitchen floor needs leveling, rather I'm going to us it to fill in the cracks of the plywood which might, at some point in the future, create a problem.

My brother and I are going to see Yes this evening up in Bethlehem, PA.  That's a 90 minutes drive up and then back.  I'm hoping we'll be home by midnight.  I had thought I'd seen their last show back when they played in Hershey, before the pandemic.  Looks like I was wrong.  Hopefully they'll play what most people believe to the their greatest song, Close to the Edge.

And Tommy Tuberville, the Louisiana senator who doesn't live in the state he represents got his comeuppance yesterday, and what a joy it was to behold.  You see Tommy's been holding up military promotions because he's a hard line anti-abortionist who doesn't like the Department of Defense's health policies for women.  He's held up over 300 promotions because he thought every Republican senator had his back.  Well, yesterday he discovered otherwise.  In a vote of 83 for and 11 against, the Senate approved a new Joint Chief of Staff, the guy over the Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Marines.  The idea that 32 Republican senators would vote against his blockade was something Tommy never thought would happen.  This was a serious smackdown for the anti-abortion hardliners, and one more example of how much those 11 dissenters, including Tommy, are out of touch with America.  Could it be that some members of the Republican party are realizing that they need to reconnect with America?  I don't know if I'd go that far. 

Run for the Senate

I checked my calendar this morning and it's... Friday.  Now, imagine that.
We had some hefty downpours but nothing torrential.  It rains like hell for about seven or eight minutes and the stops for a couple of hours.  You'd almost think your lawn was on steroids.  And it's everything, not just your front yard.  Supposedly the sun's supposed to come out tomorrow... can someone cue Annie?
I've started alternating my cardio, one day it's the bike and the next it's the elliptical.  Yesterday it was the elliptical.  I put together a new playlist and... it was terrible.  It needs work.  Too many slow intros making me lose my stride.  Usually I listen to whole albums when I'm on the bike because there are hills and they slow you down.
Evidently there are quite a few Democrats out there who feel that those 15 - 16 longshot candidates need to get out of the presidential race.  Maybe if enough of us started shouting at them they might understand.  Run For The Senate!  Perhaps if we all emailed them a copy of Samantha Bee's Public Service Announcement they might get the hint.

If you need to cut out this Republican cancer, this tumor of conservationism, you need to start slicing away at the source.  Believe it or not, I'm not talking about the Idiot Jerk in the White House.  It's the Senate that's protecting him, tonguing his stinky little bunghole.  We need to pack them all in a short bus heading towards Lemming Land where they can all jump off a cliff.  Unfortunately, these "candidates" don't seem to realize that when we move a Democrat into the Oval Office, unless we change the Senate, not much is going to be done.  Oh, sure, those Executive Orders the Idiot dictator wannabe has issued will disappear.  But legislation?  Remember Merrick Garland?  That was the Senate.  Think of all of those unqualified people the Idiot Jerk put in positions of power simply because they too tongued his ass.  The Senate, under Mitch McConnell, voted them into those jobs because they had a majority.  If we had control of the Senate, the Idiot Jerk would have been gone a long time ago... so would his 'nelly nazi' vice president.
A Blue Wave doesn't just mean the House of Representatives and the Presidency, it includes the Senate as well.  As Americans, we need to let these wannabe candidates know what our priorities are, and tell them to Run for the Senate.

Dirt

I chipped a nail at work.  I keep them cut short because... well, I'm not a long nail kind of guy.  Also, I work in a retail environment which is quite similar to a warehouse environment: lots of dirt.  Since I deal with customers on a one to one basis, I try and keep from looking like I've been rolling around int the dirt.  While I'm not always 'the professional,' there's nothing wrong with looking like one.  Dirty fingernails can send the wrong signal, clipped and clean is better.
There was a picture of Lori Loughlin and her 2 stupid daughters in the LA Times.  They have vacuformed smiles... all of them, phony smiles and vacant stares.  I can understand now why she and her husband had to pay $500,000 in bribes to get them into USC.  For them a deep, philosophical conversation is about 'rose blush' or 'peach blush.'

Rose Blush, for those who didn't know

I saw Lori was released on $1M bail.  My money says the first thing she did was wash the prison dirt from beneath her nails.

I saw where the Republicans in the Senate sent a tiny rebuke to the Idiot Jerk in the White House yesterday.  They gave him a teeny weeny smack back.  There are at least 2 more coming his way.  The first is on his ability to call his racist wall necessary because of his phony National Security lie.  The 2nd will be to limit his ability to issue and revoke National Security Clearances.  The legislation is getting bipartisan support.  This not only has to do with his forcing them to give a TS clearance to Jared, but limit the Idiot Jerks ability to take away clearances from those who are smarter than he is... which is just about everybody.  If the Republicans keep this up, their nails might actually get a little dirty... nah.

Finally, I saw Beto is running for president.  I like Beto.  This is not his election to win.  2020 belongs to Biden.

Don't be surprised

One of the first things I do when I get up in the morning is check Accuweather.  As I looked down at my phone this morning I saw Snow in 61 minutes.   Golly Gee Wiz!  Of course, the outside Temp is 40 (F) meaning we don't have to worry about it laying.  This morning, depth will not be a problem.  This year, however, I will have to invest in a new snow shovel.  The one I currently have was a gift from my parents about... oh... maybe 15 years ago, and the scoop is blue plastic, and it's falling apart.
And the Idiot Jerk in the White House has been caught up in another of his vicious cycle lies, you know what I mean:  he lies, and gets caught, he lies, and gets caught.  Because he is used to his sycophants and loyalists believing everything he says, he has no idea that the vast majority of Americans know he is a lying sack of shit.  The latest lie?  That he doesn't know Matthew Whitaker.  Evidently that's a really, really, tremendous lie.  This story is all over the place.  Four times the Idiot Jerk made this denial.  He does't understand there are a number of documented meeting between himself and Whitaker before the appointment was announced.  The truth is Whitaker is the kind of goon a mob boss would hire, a 'silencer' of sorts, whose sole purpose is to shut people up.  Should we expect anything else from the Idiot Jerk.
Just a note about the Blue Wave... well, it is real.  At this point Democrats have 31 more seats in the House than Republicans.  An interesting note about that number:  during the pundit predictions 31 was at the high end.  The Republicans lost 7 Governorships.  That deeply red state of Kansas now has a Democrat for a governor.  The Idiot Jerk is touting an increase of 2 seats in the Senate... ah, but it looks like that might be down to one.  And, of course, there is that shit show in Florida... too close to call, and headed for a recount.  As for Georgia, even if Kemp manages to pull it out of his ass (which is likely since he is a Republican) the writing is on the wall... in Very Big Letters!
Here is my little prediction.  In about 2 years you are going to see Republicans begin to relocate into specific geographical locations.  They did this years ago when Black people started moving into the suburbs.  Those who can't adapt will, in no uncertain terms, become white migrants continually moving in their attempt to stay ahead of the growing evolution of America.  They will pick some place like Montana, or North Dakota.  I'm not talking about all white people, most will assimilate.  But there is that group, very much like the Idiot Jerk in the White House, who will never understand.  It will start sooner than they think.  In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it

Rockem Sockem Politics.

The conventions are over and I suspect a lot of political junkies on both the left and right are hyped up for Rockem Sockem campaigns from both parties.  If you thought the Super-Pac negativity ads were bad before, hold on to your hats, there are going to be so many below the belt punches a vast majority of the American people may have problems walking.  Not me, I rarely watch commercial television so I will not have to endure 7 minutes of hate separating the funny parts of my favorite sitcom.  Talk about a stimulus package, all those billions of dollars being spent should do more then jump start the economy.  I am surprised that the Conservative Republicans are asking their devout, Christian base to do the most liberal thing possible:  vote for a non-Christian.  This sounds so much like what the Democrats would do, not the Republicans.  What I remember most from their primaries was that not one of the potential candidates could satisfy their base.  Santorum was too, too crazy religious, Bachman was just way, way out, and Romney was a Mormon.

Now these two candidates are going to be duking it out.  I think it's  pertinent one of them is red and the  other is blue.  Unlike the game, however, this campaign is going to hurt, both the candidates and the American people.  We, who want to show the world how civilized we are, will be doing just the opposite.  If Obama wins the Republican House will be all the more partisan, another great example of American politics in action.  The more stumbling blocks they put in his way the easier it will be for them to win in 2016, at least that's what their plan will be.