Kristi Noem kills dog

 Sunday.  Today's supposed to be warmer than yesterday, which topped off in the mid 50s (F), by many degrees. Over 30.  That's right, our temps are predicted to climb up into the 80s (F) this afternoon.  The same will be true for the next 2 days, as well.  And after that, it looks as though are afternoon highs will be sailing through the mid 70s (F).

And, as expected, yesterday the home improvement retail world was oh, so slow.  Blame the temps.  Blame the wind.  Blame the rain.  Rain?  We were only supposed to have spotty showers.  Well, that was not the case.  Forty-five minutes at a time, it rained.  Steady.  Soaking.  We needed it.  This morning we have fog warnings.  It's not thick, and will probably burn off by the time I head into work.

My new narrator and I have been emailing each other and right off the bat the rapport is different then with the first narrator.  This guy wants character descriptions.  He's asking what I want Eli and Max to sound like, of course, they're middle-aged jocks so I have to decided in my head what a middle-aged jock sounds like and tell him.  That's nice.  It's also nice that when I tell him that even though The Body on the Lawn is a mystery, it's more about family than anything else, about parents and their relationships with their adult children.  In fact, when I read through the manuscript prepping it for narration, I was surprised at how integral those sections of dialogue on adult children dealing with their parents to the outcome of the book, of Eli's father developing a sense of pride in a son he'd kept distant for most of his life.

And here is a picture of my dogs, because everyone is posting pictures of their dogs to protest Kristi Noem's shooting of a 14 month old puppy because it was untrainable at hunting, and she hated it.

Of course, social media went wild yesterday, with so many people posting pictures of their dogs.  Is Kristi Noem heartless?  Well, she's a Republican, I think that pretty much tells you everything that you need to know.  The fact that she bragged about shooting her dog, as well as a goat, in her book tells you quite a bit about her mind set.  This is not the first time Kristi's come across as being amoral.  There was that incident when she gave her daughter preferential treatment so secure a position as a state real estate appraiser.  Oh, and then there's her extra-marital affair with Corey Lewandowski, of course, that relationship is immoral not amoral, not that it makes any difference to Kristi.  Oh, and she wants to be Trump's VP.  Ain't that a joke?

The Rug... another lie

 Saturday.  A work day.  Temps are supposed to be cool, hovering in the mid-50s (F)s.  Our afternoon skies are going to be overcast and there will be showers in the area, nothing that's going to amount to much.  We haven't had a soaker in a while and could use one.  This is spring.  Though for the past 2 years most of our spring showers came during the month of May.  Our last 2 winters have been warm, so I'm suspecting nothing is going to break the pattern.

Whether it's the extra hours or not, I find that I've been sleeping longer.  Last night I almost got a full 8 hours of sleep.  That's odd for me.  Usually, I'm getting by with 6 or 7.  

I do get to work this afternoon.  Can you read the excitement in my words.  There are three of us scheduled with only 2 computers to work at.  That means I'm probably going to be getting paid to wander around if the one or both of the other specialists gets a customer.  I can always find someone to talk to, so basically, I'm getting paid a generous wage to walk and talk.  

When I finish up here, I'll be booking the narrator for The Body on the Lawn.  I started booking yesterday and halfway through the process, decided I want to email him with some questions.  His rate was lower than we had discussed, and there was a licensing agreement which was for either days, weeks, or months.  It's an audiobook that's going to be available for years.  So I've got to do a little research on that.  Everything will be concluded this after I finish this entry.

Of course, I did take time yesterday to look through Threads, the Instagram version of what used to be called Twitter.  This pic is actually from Thursday.  What a hoot.  So, the Orange Anus where's a rug, or a toupee, if I were to choose to be polite, but I don't.  The gray stuff is the rug glue that was supposed to keep it attached to his bald head.  The video was so much funnier.

I saw where Jamie Raskin said that the Supreme Court should relocate to the RNC headquarters, of course he was being cynical, and sarcastic, and honest.  One of the things we, just as the majority of Americans, need to remember is that the conservative members of this court don't care what we think.  They are part of that group that is going to say "shut up, we're in charge," and they don't care what kind of damage they do to America, just as long as they get their way.  The fact that their decisions are effecting elections counter to what they so desperately want doesn't phase them.  These few Federalist judges don't understand that states constitutionalizing the right of choice in regards to abortion is a punch in the face.  All they want to do is dictate, and by doing so, they are doing America wrong.