Waiting for the Snow

 Holy Crap! Yesterday Flooring & Décor was very, very steady.  That's a nice way of saying I was busier then all shit.  And last 4 hours I was by myself since no other Specialist had been scheduled.  Usually there is also an aisle associate to help but ours is working overnights to help prep for inventory.  Shifts like this prove that people with patience get good customer service, those who without either walk away or complain or both.  

They were forecasting snow for tonight and tomorrow, that's changed to a dash of snow and sleet with a decent splash of rain.  I was rather hoping for the snow.  We're a third of the way through winter and while we do get snows in March, the deep ones usually come in January and February.  Here's an old picture of Lilly in the snow.  This is what we want.

Rather than go for a run or a ride yesterday since I'd ridden 15 miles the day before, I went for a nice walk.  Unfortunately, I forgot to take of the GPS which is what measures your distance and you don't go very far walking on a treadmill.  

I saw where Rand Paul (yes, the one with the bad hair) was on Stephanopoulos yesterday singing that failed Republican ditty about voter fraud in the 2020 election.  Can you smell the sour craving of a wannabe president oozing from his black heart?  Someone should tell Rand the party is shrinking, not growing, as this bit from Penn Live shows.  Tampa is reporting thousands have changed their Republican affiliation.  This switch all over the country and was initiated by the January 6 riots, loyal Republicans disgusted with the direction of their party.  This is the dying base Rand wants to tap into.  Dumb Shit.

Is the RNC happy they're only going to have a 3 day convention?

I suspect so.  Sure, both parties love national conventions, they get a lot of news coverage to stoke up their bases.  We get speech after speech after speech with a lot of music and glitz thrown in to hype up the excitement.  A lot of liberal and conservative raw meat gets thrown on the grill to sizzle, energy food to fire up those sitting at home in front of their TV sets.  There is also the hope a lot of Independents and swing voters will tune in and find themselves sway either to the left or to the right.  I'm sure there is some consternation about the Republicans now because a little thing called a hurricane has whittled their convention down from four days to three.  Still, I wouldn't be surprised if there were not a lot of party officials aren't feeling a bit relieved.  Why?  Because it gives them only three days in which they might have to deal with the issue of Romney's faith.

That is going to be an issue among Christian voters, an issue they would like to bury under a rock.  I suspect there are a lot of Christians out there who think being a Mormon is similar to being a Lutheran or a Methodist and it isn't.  Mormons don't believe in Jesus.  They don't believe in the Crucifixion, the Resurrection or the Ascension.  Talk about taking the Christ out of Christmas.  While I am not the most religious person, I know a lot of people who are and they are not too happy about having a non-believer in the White House for four years.  At some point in time this is a discussion the Republicans are going to have to deal with and they don't want it to come up during the convention.