Storm II

Today's weather is going to be nice.  As you might expect, that means I work this afternoon.  Tuesday and Wednesday rain is n the forecast and those are my days off during the week.  Today's high temps are going to be in the mid 70s (F).  Tomorrows?  We'll be drizzling our way through a high in the upper 50s (F) to low 60s (F).  I'd like to mow my lawn tomorrow.  We shall have to wait and see.

Work was slow yesterday.  There were a few customers, but not a lot of sales.  We did not reach our sales goal for the past week.  This is how it goes. I do have a gripe about our Service Desk:  one of the associates chose to accept a return on cut carpet.  I remember well the customer, a woman with 2 men who was going to install carpet herself, with their help I suspect.  We cut the carpet, pulled down a roll of carpet padding, and sold her a number of tack strips those thin wood slats with sharp little nails that go around the perimeter of the room.  Yesterday afternoon she returned everything.  The padding and tack strips were still in their packaging, so we can sell those.  The carpet?  We ain't never going to sell that.  No one buy remnant carpet.  We got rid of our remnant carpet bay because those rolls of cut carpet sat there for years.  There some times when you need to say "no," and customer has to eat that cost.

Every now and then we see something and hear something that strikes a cord, that mesmerizes you into a Wow! moment.  That happened to me on Saturday when I saw a video with the Young Lean, a Swedish rapper/musician.  Choreographed by Damien Jalet, the video is composed of 2 songs.  I only recorded the second song, Storm II.  Some of you got an unedited version in an email, or a teaser on Instagram.  Here's Storm II.  This is amazing.

And the chaos of the White House Correspondent's Dinner continues.  The fact that 70% of Americans believe the whole thing was stage tells you quite a bit about this administration.  Three quarters of Americans are fed up with the lies and deceit coming out of Washington.  Was it staged?  A growing consensus is that they knew the Friendly Assassin was coming, that's why security was so lax.  My belief is that these idiots thought they would let this incident play out to their advantage, possibly a replay on the Butler, PA incident.  I do believe they thought this would improve his approval ratings.  Let's be honest, the only thing these loser know how to do is fail.  They did not want one Secret Service agent to shoot another Secret Service agent, yet that was the only shooting injury.  Oarngie wasn't supposed to fall on camera, but he did.  And his interview with Norah O'Donnell?  I do believe they thought that would cement a warm fuzzy place for him in America's hearts.  Fail.  CBS may have bent the knee, but Norah went for blood and got it, and Orangie revealed on live TV what a rotten human being he is.  He is the Storm.

Staged

Yesterday, we had cold rain from mid-morning to early in the evening.  During that time the temperature hung in the low 50s (F).  The rain did stop sometime overnight though ours skies have remained overcast.  Today's high will be in the low 60s (F).  Then, tomorrow, we'll hit the low 70s (F) before dropping back down to daily highs in the 60s (F).

Retail was slow in the flooring department.  I did have a blind install go through for about $900.  That will add to my sales goal.  Since I only have a few measures, I will not be reaching my sale goal this week.  Who knows what this coming week will bring.  Gas prices are not going down and at some point the number of customers prioritizing a new flooring installation is going to drop.  I'm going to pick up veggie seedlings before I leave.  My military discount helps me get a better price.  Tomato plants were selling at $5 per seedling.  Still, who knows what the price of tomatoes will be when harvest season arrives.

After doing a few chores when I got home, I played Expedition 33.  It wasn't until I went to bed that I learned that there had been an incident in Washington.  

Let me set the stage by saying last night was the first time ever... and I do mean ever, that the Orange Anus attended the White House Correspondent's Dinner.  This is because both comedians and correspondents use the dinner to shamelessly mock the president.  Orange needs to be kowtowed to.  Dealing with the brunt of humorists is not his forte.  

Now that the stage is set, for some reason I was not surprised when I saw that there had been an active shooter in the Hilton hotel.  Not in the dining room where the dinner was taking place, but in the hotel.  Not impressed I went to sleep.  This morning I discovered many comments in a similar vein overwhelming social media.

There are many, many, many more comments that are even more succinct.  One comment pointed out that Orangie's approval rating is in the toilet and... well, it worked for Reagan.  But this is the 3rd faux attempt at an assassination, even though it has not be classified as one.  It's still just an incident that shut down the Correspondent's dinner before anyone had a chance to make fun of Orangie.  Now we know one of the reasons he was there, no one was going to make fun of him.  Another reason appears to be that it gave him a chance to plug his ballroom on national media... live.  And gathered around him, nodding their heads and smiling were members of his liquor cabinet, not one of them looking serious after such a serious incident.  This is because the whole thing was staged.