Rally Fights and Hecklers

I know this might be difficult to believe, but our outside time is 57 (F).  That's warm for an October morning.  Our high this afternoon is predicted to be in the upper 60s (F), that's fine.  There's little moderation in the long range forecast without any rain until the beginning of November.

Yesterday was another cleaning day, including the aquarium.  I actually spent very little time looking at social media.  This timeline is too distracting.  It's become an excuse to not do what should be done, like writing the words.  This doesn't mean I wasn't looking for an excuse.  I had lunch with one of my local editors a few weeks back, and while the conversation was pleasant, it was obvious to me that he wasn't too pleased with the first 9 chapters of the new book.  Shit!  This doesn't mean I didn't know what the problem was, I just needed someone to put into words what I didn't want to admit to myself.  In a book titled The Body in the Words, there were just too many words.  Let me clarify that.  There was too much exposition. So I printed off the first 60 + pages, grabbed my red ink pen, and started cutting.  I was reminded of a scene in Amadeus where the emperor says, "there are too many notes," and since I'm not Mozart, I fully agreed with the emperor.  Words were cut.  

I work this afternoon.  It will be interesting to see if business has picked up.  On Monday, people were beginning to buy their Halloween decorations.  I'm interested in seeing if that trend is still holding.  Our display was a lot smaller this year.  The same is true with our Christmas display.

And evidently Orangie had one of his "heckle me hoot-nanny's" last evening in South Carolina.  In between hecklers, and there were 12, he brought Darlene Graham Nardone up on stage for a few seconds.

Evidently Deeny's not that popular with the voters of South Carolina and Orangie thought he'd help by going and talking about himself.  This is, I believe, the 2nd rally at which punches were thrown.  Protesters now seem to be mandatory when ever he tries to fill half a gymnasium.  He claims they're paid to protest.  Me?  I think these are people who simply hate that bitter, old man.

There are also reports of voting issues in Tennessee, with votes defaulting to the Republican candidates.  This wouldn't surprise me, since the Republican motto has always been, if in doubt, cheat.

And Elonia is really beginning to freak out.  Countries are dropping his Starlink.  Here in the US, both Republicans and Democrats are calling for an investigation into his manipulating the service.  People are realizing that it's bad for some ketamine addicted wack-doodle to have the power to turn the internet off.  I wonder if Elonia understands that if he does that, Wall Street will crash.  Probably not.  That little nugget of comprehension might be too big for addled brain to grasp.

Trump's Fraud Line

We're supposed to have sunshine for the rest of the week.  That will be nice after all of the rain that we've had here in Central PA.  Daily highs are predicted to be in the mid 60s (F), with overnight lows in the deep 40s (F).  This will be nice.  I do have some yardwork that needs to be done.

Now that it's cooler outside, I'm planning on getting out the chainsaw again.  There are still branches which need to be cut down to size, and chipping to be done.  The cooler days and nights mean I'm not going to have a gnat problem to deal with; now there's a reason for wearing a long sleeved shirt.

Yesterday, much was accomplished:  cleaning, cleaning, cleaning.  Back when I was a child, I can remember when my mom did both fall and spring cleaning, so I guess this is my fall cleaning.  This is on top of my usual cleaning.  Great forests of Howie hair seem to grow overnight, so I am constantly sweeping them up and tossing them into the trash bin.

I'm back to playing Balder's Gate 3.  Kingdom Come, Deliverance was becoming tedious.  I will probably go back to it at some later point, but right now I need a game that's fast moving.

Here's another shot of my roses I snapped yesterday.

I see the Orange Anus set up some sort of fraud and tip line where whistleblowers can make a lot of money by reporting... fraud.  Knowing that he, himself, is a super fraudster, one can only surmise that this has more to do with voter fraud.  You know what I'm talking about, report your neighbor, make some coin.  This might actually work if he were more closer to be being borderline popular with the American voter, but he's not.  Like every other desperate scheme he's been trying, this will backfire terribly, especially since 99% of all the voter fraud discovered has been by Republicans.

And while this seems odd, we've gone.... what?  Two days without another October Surprise doing some serious bodily damage to the GOP.  We do have 2 weeks to go, so there's plenty of time for another shoe or two to drop.

Orangie also got heckled again last evening at one of his micro-rallies.  Does anybody know if there's some sort of TikTok challenge going on?  You know?  Like... who can create the biggest distraction/disturbance while Orangie's on stage talking about some other Republican man's ass?  Those stories have become part of his schtick.  If it gets him attention, he's going to ramble about it.  Or maybe he's decided that he's got the pussy grabber vote in the bag and now needs to focus on the ass grabber vote.