The Piggy Hat

Our morning temp was 69 (F) and we have rain in the form of thunderstorms on the way for this afternoon.  We're supposed to be in the mid 80s (F) today and the low 80s (F) tomorrow.  This time next week our daily highs should be in the low 70s (F).  We will officially be in Autumn, so that's about normal.

My cold is proceeding as normal.  Sometime last evening I entered the "coughing, sneezing, running nose," stage.  If this cold moves along the same trajectory as previous colds, the CSR should begin to disappear sometime this evening.  When it comes to colds, my immune system's rather good; they usually run their course in 3-4 days.  That doesn't, however, mean that those 3 days are any less unpleasant.  According to my Garmin watch (it tracks my sleep), I got about 4 hours of snooze time in last night.  

I'm supposed to work  this afternoon, but since I have the cold and we're going to have a rainy day (it's already started), I'm going to use personal time and laze away the day.  That doesn't mean I'm not going to  do anything.  I've been doing a bit of research on fingerprints.  Did you know you can do that at home?  They recommend that you use a very fine white powder, like cornstarch, for dark surfaces and a dark powder, such as cocoa, on light surfaces.  Now, I know some of you are wondering why I would be interested in doing fingerprints at home.  Well, maybe I'm doing the research for someone else.  And I might not be dusting for them in my house.  Someone else might be dusting for them... in a cottage in Ireland.

Howie turned his pig toy into a pig hat.

And a lot of people are concerned that the Orange Anus might tear down the Kennedy Center, and I don't doubt that some believe he'd understand that would be the straw breaking the camel's back, so to speak.  Well, I news for you, he doesn't give a shit what the American people think.  He never has.  He never will.  When things don't go his way, he is spiteful has hell.  So, I'd say there's a good possibility he's going to rip that memorial down.

And Congress has  been adjourned until after the mid-terms because Mikey Johnson doesn't want to deal with the impeachment of Kegs-breath Hegseth.  He knows he doesn't have the votes to save that drunkard's ass. 

I find it fascinating that for a party who has control of the House, the Senate, and the presidency, Republicans have worked very little this year.  The House has been in session just 72 days and Mikey J. keeps sending them home because there's so much legislation he doesn't want to deal with.  The Senate has spent more time in session, but then they are nothing without the House of Representatives.  As for the Orange Anus, no president has ever spent more time golfing, and signing Executive Orders, and talking about himself every time he manages to get in front of a camera.

Kraft This

We're supposed to hit 86 (F) this afternoon.  That's possible since we're already at 66 (F).  Then, the downhill temp slide begins.  Tomorrow temps are supposed to hit 84 (F) and on Friday they'll barely make it into the 80s (F).  After that our daily highs will be hovering in the mid 70s (F) with overnight lows in the low to mid 50s (F). 

Today's entry started late because for the past 2 days I've been going through a head cold, sore throaty type thing.  I don't feel bad enough to throw my hands up in the air, shrieking "I'm sick," but the stuffy head and the post nasaly drip thing can get quite frustrating.  My sister had given me some Benadryl  about a year ago and while it's not supposed to act like a diuretic, I found myself peeing every  40 minutes, so even though it did stop the nasaly crap from running down the back of my throat, I only took it twice.  In case you haven't figured it out, this whole paragraph is my way of telling you I slept poorly last night.

I don't really have too much planned today because of the stuffy, sneezy, head coldy thing.

Howie's trip to the Vet was canceled.  Here's a thing I learned recently:  Labrador retriever ears are more  susceptible to ear infections than other dogs.  The solution:  instead of cleaning his ears every few months they need to be cleaned every week.

As most of you know, I heat my house with natural gas.  I think it's expensive.  Well, as things turn out, it's not going to be as expensive as home heating oil.  Here's a thing I learned:  home heating oil comes from the same crude oil as diesel fuel.  This means that the price of diesel fuel is going to correlate directly with the price of heating oil, or vice-versa, depending upon how you want to phrase it.  Today's cost is $5.28 a gallon, or about $1200 to fill up your heating oil tank.  Wowza!!  This is just another price Americans are going to have to pay on top of the $50 of $60 it takes to fill up your car's gas tank.

And there's no evidence that Orangie's war with Iran is going to end anytime soon.  While that's important to we home owners, keep in mind that these expenses mean nothing to the  billionaire sycophants surrounding the Orange Anus.  They simply don't care because their universes revolve solely around their own selfishness and greed.  To them, we are nothing.  

And what about the Ed Shereen major faux pas?  He thought he could cater to the billionaire Robert Kraft by staying on the fence.  Ed kicked Macklemore off the tour because of a pro-Palestine speech.  So, all of Ed's opening acts quit.  This morning, Ed's sound engineers quit.  This is not only Ed's problem, it's Bobby Kraft's, another one of those wannabe demi-gods.