The Threads of Power

 The rains have past and, unfortunately, we didn't get much of a cooldown. The humidity has dropped, so I no longer feel as though I'm wearing a 2nd skin of sweat.  The heat, with daily highs in the low 90s (F) is supposed to stick with us for the next few days.  I work for the next 2 days.  This is fine since I work and wasn't planning on any yard cleanup.  

Speaking of yard cleanup, when I see how many of the tree limbs and branches have been cut down to size and chipped, I'm rather proud of myself.  There are a lot of people my age who would have looked at that job and deciding the work was too daunting.  They would have acted like my brother wanted me to act, and not pick up a chainsaw.  Life is full of challenges.  This doesn't mean there aren't things to difficult and tasks you shouldn't take on.  You need to use wise discretion.  Once you reach the level where you start repeating "that's too much," you have reached the highest point you will ever go.  From the moment you plateau there is just a short period of time before you begin taking the downhill path.

I got to meet our new store manager yesterday working in the tile aisle.  There a large effort underway to make the aisle look both presentable and shoppable.  Customers are a part of the problem.  They pick tiles or mosaics up, and instead of putting them back where they belong, they shove them onto any shelf or into any box.  A bigger part of the problem is that we have aisle associates who don't really want to work in the tile aisle.  One provides good customer service, but usually in other departments, and then we have one who's just a lazy slug, a conspiracy theorist who spends more time on his phone than anything else.

Time for the after breakfasts nap.

So, Iran says that the Strait of Hormuz will not open until the US corrects some bad behavior.  That won't happen until conservatives and Republicans are out of government.  That will be sooner than they think because they are constantly dismissing the anger that is growing in America.  They have been living in a delusional world ever since Reagan's landslide re-election.  Their mantra has become "all we have to do is get ourselves in power and we can remake the country."  The idea that being the party of selfishness and greed doesn't even occur to them, well, most of them.  They ignore the evil of this administration because the power they believes this president holds is the realization of their grand delusion.  They don't understand that they are grasping at the last threads of power, that the ropes binding their dreams of power are unraveling.  Well, maybe Bill Cassidy does.  Perhaps that's why his lips were trembling as he refused to look at the camera and tell the world he was voting for Todd Blanche.