Abstract Penises

Well, here it is Monday... and some will have to go back to work, but not me.  My work week will start tomorrow.  Then I will work for 5 days and then have off for 4 days.  That's fine with me.
I had a call from my Mom's Senior Living Facility yesterday morning, but there was no message to call them back.  They will call to remind me of 'family fun days' from time to time, however yesterday was not a fun day.  Evidently my Mom thought my brother was going to pick her up, and so stood outside waiting for him.  This was her being very confused.  No such plans had been made.  My brother had planned to go over last evening, which he did.  The sad thing is then she'd forgotten the whole thing.  Dementia.
Yesterday I rode 12.5 miles in 'race mode,' and my legs were sore.  That's not a bad thing.  There's a difference between pain and soreness.  Soreness means you worked the muscles, pain means there's something wrong.
I saw this AM that the Dow is on a bit of a bounce back.  The Idiot Jerk needed to Tweet something about Trade Wars, and how they might not be necessary for this to happen.  His henchmen Mnuchin and Kudlow hint at back door talks.  The Chinese, however, said that's not happening.  The Idiot Jerk also said he believes the Chinese will cave first... of course, he's also as dumb as a fucking brick.
And speaking of the Chinese, they've evidently been building resorts off their southern coast on man-made islands.  Phoenix Island is one such place.  So, I'm reading through Bloomberg this AM and I see a picture of some of the hotels and think... "wow, don't they look like abstract penises in condoms?"

Gee, the architect even gave them little heads.  I thought I'd investigate and... lo and behold, there's an abstract vagina as well, and brightly colored, too.

Leave it to the Chinese.  You know that the Crazy Christians who want dictatorial control of America would flip out if someone tried building abstract penises in this country.  However, I'm fairly certain that an abstract, brightly colored vagina would make them giddy as hell.

Jane (and her vagina) has left the building

Permanently.  For those who don't know, Jane (not her real name) was a 77 year old cashier who I managed until this past February.  About a year ago she'd had some sort of surgery to keep her sagging genitals from... well... falling out.  She was rude to associates on a daily basis because she felt she was entitled to treat them in what ever manner she deemed fit.  Oh, and she was a rabid supporter of the Idiot in the White House, even taking time off from work to go see him when he was campaigning in Harrisburg.  In other words, she felt empowered to tell everybody else what to do... and always rudely.  Once, after she had barked an order at a Hardware Associate, I'd told her that she needs to be a bit more polite and ask, not demand.  Her response was "I never ask."
And yesterday, a little before 1 PM, she was escorted from the building.  No loss.
And just like her, I have no doubt, the Idiot in the White House will be escorted from the building... unless of course he runs away first.  Historically, that seems to be his "modus operandi."  In the past, when his bad decision making has caught up with him, he's filed for bankruptcy.  During the campaign he claimed that this proved how smart he was.  Horse shit.  Only fools like Jane believed him.  There are a lot of fools in this country.  Not so in Europe, they realize he's a bumblehead.  There was an interesting article in the LA Times this AM.  Very few were even slightly impressed.

Since I am no longer a manager, I was not privy to the reasons for Jane's termination, though whispers have said customer complaints were increasing to almost a daily level, which is precisely the same issue the Idiot has, terrible customer service.  It is totally beyond his ken to realize that we, the American People, are his customers, and that's all of us, not just that shrinking minority who voted for him.  The one lesson the Idiot failed to learn from all of his bankruptcies was that they do not wipe his slate clean.  His bad judgments have ruined people financially.  His inability to learn from past mistakes has led others to one hardship after another.  At 70 he is way, way too old to start learning.  As a result he will end up being removed from office, only the 2nd president in our history to get himself walked out the door.

I had a dental appointment today to have my bi-annual teeth cleaning.  Honestly, I have no problem with going to the dentist mainly because my hygienist prattles away all the while shoving sharp, pointy tools deep into my gum line.   Her name is Theresa, and her subjects are quite diverse.  In fact, I often tend to forget the torture she doing in my mouth because you never know what's going to pop out of hers.  Today she told me she and her husband, Mike, had just gotten a new puppy, a Yellow Lab they named Mookie.  On previous visits she had filled me in on their previous dogs, a Rottweiler and a Black Lab, both of whom came to have sad, sad endings.  She had also filled me in, some time ago I might add, that she could not have children so their dogs became substitute kids.  Mookie, at fifteen weeks is evidently the delight of their lives.  I'm glad.  Dogs are fun.  One of the best things I've ever done in my life was get a dog.

A facsimile of Mookie

This morning, as she began carving the gum away from my upper left molars, she told me how Mookie had an emergency Vet visit last week: a lower tract disturbance as well as a UTI.  At that point I had no idea what a UTI was, little did I know I was shortly going to find out.  As she was detailing Mookie's ordeal, she said that the puppy, "has these long hairs growing out around her vagina and they seem to hold her pee.  I think that's why she had the UTI.  We wipe her with towelettes but I don't know if they work.  Does your dog have hairs growing out around her vagina?"  Her next sentence was "You seem to be bleeding quite a lot around these molars, are you sure I'm not hurting you?"  I didn't answer because my mind was still stumbling around the dog's vagina.  Now I've never been to Dental Hygienists school, but I'd be very surprised if there wasn't some form of course on the propriety of certain subjects.  You know?  Things to stay away from, like politics, and religion, and your puppies' vagina.  This is not to say I was offended, in fact far from it.  This was just one of those things you don't expect to hear in the dentist's chair, and I have to say, I've been laughing about it all day.