Constant Fools

 Holy cow!  The temp was 54 (F) when I woke up this morning, though rain is on the way, lots of rain, according to the weather forecasters.  We need it.  Spring is a rainy season, and I have no problem if the showers arrive early.  The only problem I might have is Howie, as he has no problem turning himself into a muddy mess, and while Biggie and Lily had problems with getting rained on, Howie seems to glory in that wet dog smell.

If I hadn't cleaned the big aquarium, yesterday would have been pretty much of a meh day.  I did go grocery shopping, mostly to pick up some ice cream to celebrate Howie's birthday.  He's 7 months old.  Just think, in another 5 months he'll be a year old.  My doesn't time fly?  By now I can tell that he's not going to be as tall as Biggie, who was so much larger than your average Boxer, but he is longer, and that's not counting the length of his tail.  Howie's also much more active.  One thing he does have in common with my other dogs is that he loves to sit in the front of the yard watching the world go by.  He will sit there for hours if I let him.

The over all tone for The Body in 4/4 time will focus less on the dramatic and more on the humorous, I can say this because Bobby Tussel will be playing a larger part.  His total lack of filters make him a fun character to write since he allows me creativity without limitations.

And, of course, so many are talking about the Orange Anus spewing bullshit during his State of the Union address last evening.  I didn't watch.  I played Skyrim.  To be fair, I never watch speeches, presidential or otherwise.  I don't find them in the least bit inspirational since, to again be fair, there's very little honest to goodness truth in them.  They are chock full of misleading generalities and quite often media outlets add in their own substantiation.  Also, there is the fact that the Orange Anus is a pathological liar.  Anyone who believes him is one of those "fool me once, fool me twice, fool me thrice" people who will never accept the fact that believing in him makes them constant fools.

And there were protests.

Al Green, the Democrat from Texas was removed.  Praise be to Al Green, the representative from Texas.

There were rumors dropped by the Secretary of Commerce yesterday that Orangie might be walking back some of the tariffs on Canada and Mexico.  While that would be nice, I believe he's simply blowing more smoke up America's ass.  Last night he said something to the effect that he's going to spread the tariffs around and now include India and South Korea, among other countries.  Prep yourselves, the recession is on our doorstep.

Art of the Failed Deal

 Skies are overcast here in Central PA.  We may have showers... we may not, precipitation prospects are iffy.  Temps might climb into the mid 50s (F), which will be nice.  Looking at the long range forecast, it seems that are daily high temperatures have upgraded themselves into the upper 40s (F) and low to mid 50s (F). so I'm thinking Spring is meandering our way.

Work was interesting.  I had changed my availability reducing my hours and was politely asked to work more hours, so I increased them by 2 hours.  Certainly this has nothing to do with my performance, but rather has more to do with the fact I'm capable of working in multiple departments.  Other part-timers who don't share this talent will most likely loose hours, and losing hours is no doubt on the way.  We did not make our plan last week, in fact, we missed it by over $100,000.  When I left last evening at 7 the store was only halfway to hitting daily budget.  Ouch.  

My neighbors were loud last evening, so I cranked up the TV.  This morning, I'm going to set up the sound bar again.  I can always beat them on volume.

A potato rolled off the counter yesterday and the minute it hit the floor Howie swooped it up.  He's 7 months old today, so when I do my shopping at Giant, I'll pick him up something special.  I know it's difficult to see, but here he is with the potato.  For those of you who are curious, he's around 60 pounds right now.

And for those of you who haven't been paying attention, the tariffs that the Orange Anus promised kicked in last night.  How will Wall Street react?  Ever since Orangie was sworn in, the Dow has been on a slow but constant decline.  It looses, gains a bit back, and then loses more.  I own neither stocks nor bonds, so I'm not concerned.  When you hit a certain age, you need to cash in your 401K and I hit that age a short time ago, though to be honest, I cashed in my 401K and my IRAs when I hit the age where I could no longer be penalized.  If you are in any type of retirement program, I would be concerned.

The reason Orangie's pulling the tariff crap is because he believes that he epitomizes the ideal businessman.  For him, everything is a deal.  This deceit is so deeply imbued into his psyche he paid a ghostwriter to pen the book "The Art of the Deal," which is ironic when you look at his business failures.  Anyway, he's attempting to strongarm every nation, except Russia, into admitting that he is the exemplary businessman.  Unfortunately, he has accumulated quite a number of business fiascos which mottle and speckle his resume thicker than the rash of measles on an unvaxed Texas child.  Like that spreading Texan epidemic, expect the jitters of Wall Street to continue like so many tremors preceding an earthquake.  Deaths will be racked up, fortunes will fail, and the only sure thing you will be able to count on is Orangie screaming, "it's Biden's fault."