Midterms

We have another beautiful day in store for those of us who live in Central Pa.  I have to say, I just love a good sunny day in the fall.  Leaves are beginning to turn on the trees around my house.  Once they begin falling, I'll have to begin mulching.  While I occasionally do rack my leaves, most of the time I mulch them, putting the nutrients back into the ground from which they came.

I did work yesterday, spending most of my time making our flooring aisles look pretty for the big walk today.  I've met this VP twice before, on both of those occasions he had hair, now he's bald.  He will be nice, talking to a few associates as he walks up and down a few of our aisles.  If any sticky questions are asked, they will come from his entourage of between 30 and 40 store managers who will participate just so they can be graced by his presence.  I've told a number of those associates that one of the best things that's going to happen today is that all sorts of good snacky food will be brought in to impress all those store managers.

My neighbor had a serious meltdown last evening while they were taking out the trash.  They have no back porch light.  I had one put in when I bought my house 33 years ago, it has a motion sensor and lights up when I open the back door.  They use a flashlight when it's dark.  Well, something happened while he was opening up the top of their large garbage can and he began shrieking obscenities.  He then went into the house and both of the screamed at each other for about 5 minutes.  They hate the house.  They hate the neighborhood.  They're very unhappy because they bought the place because it was staged to look like a million bucks.  They never realized that buying a house means expenses for upkeep... and putting in a back porch light so you don't fall down the steps in the dark.

While I was outback this morning, I saw another large, white rose was blooming, so I took a picture.

We have 7 days until the midterm elections.  My nephew was complaining about all of the texts, and fliers, and phone calls he and his wife have been getting.  For some reason I have not been inundated.  I've been getting maybe... 3 texts a week, and so far only 2 fliers in the mail.  I did get a survey request from You.gov which I filled out.  I do get a lot of emails, but I'm fast on the delete button.  I use Outlook to access my Gmail account and that eliminates most of the spam the filters don't catch.  So, maybe I'm just blessed that way.

Remember, polls are shite, mostly because voters lie.  We have secret balloting in this country, so they will tell you anything except the truth.  It's not until the votes are counted that the truth will be known.

I saw that down in Brazil, Bolsonaro conceded, blaming this administration for not helping enough.  But I've heard the real reason he lost is because Ukraine has been taking out so many bot farms in Russia.  That seems to make more sense to me.

I've also heard that the bottom is falling out of the Republican party.  Everybody needs to vote blue on Tuesday to ensure it goes through the garbage disposal before it heads to the sewer line.

And finally, I understand Obama's line about the cheesecake factory truly pissed off Orangie.  This is because Orangie equates that comment with being called white trash.  Truthfully, there's no denying the obvious.

You Get What You Pay For

We've got nice fall day forecast for today.  This afternoon our high temp should be in the low 70s (F).  Things will cool off a bit though, and tomorrow's daily highs should be in the mid 60s (F).  Still, when you're this close to November, that's a nice daily high.  I understand that some long range forecasts are predicting we have a stormy winter.  They didn't specify rainy or snow, just stormy.

Yesterday was my long day at the store.  I was one of 2 aisle associates scheduled, so once again I played specialist.  I honestly don't mind this.  I had to deal with a whiny customer on the phone regarding an installation.  He had a lot of non-essential complaints he thought were going to make him special, like the fact that he was on dialysis.  He was having carpet put on a staircase and had been measured several months ago, but decided to be measured again.  He claimed he was in church when the measure tech called, and then the measure tech showed up a day early.  The customer also claimed that he had to scream at the tech through his Ring camera to go away.  In instances like this, the best thing to do is let the customer squawk.  I uncanceled his old quote and on his third credit card number the charge when through.  His total cost $276 and change.  This customer is putting the shitiest possible carpet on a staircase.  You get what you pay for.

Otherwise my day was rather boring.  I did get in over 15,000 steps.

Evidently the Orange Anus is still royally pissed at Obama's speech in Ohio, because he posted a 4 page scree of nonsense on Truth Social.  I glanced at it briefly and decided someone else must have written it since there were very few words in all CAPs, and there was punctuation that defined phrases and sentences.  Usually his grammatical errors overwhelm his shrieking, little diatribes. 

And the WaPo had an article about Mar a Lago this morning including a pic of the ballroom.  The first thing that went through my mind was that Saddam Hussein's Cheesecake Factory is a franchise.

After seeing the Vanity Fair article on Kushner, certain questions crossed my mind.  If Orangie was such a loyal asset to his blow bro Vlad, why would the Russkies hack Kushner's phone?  Was it because they knew Orangie and his crime family were double dealers?  Was it one of our agents that did the hit the Saudis paid for?  I mean, really, I do hope Kushie follows through with his threat to sue Vanity Fair, the discovery phase should be quite interesting.  I'm also wondering if the Saudis and the Israelis feel they got their money's worth?  With all of this corruption bubbling to the surface, do they now think they got what they paid for?

One thing this October surprise does reveal is that Orangie's crime family is far, far worse than any of us could have imagined.  They make the mafia look like the Boy Scouts.  In case anyone is wondering, this is why the bottom is falling out of the GOP.  This and that fact that Orangie thinks Nikki Minaj has a nice ass.