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Depending upon where I looked this morning, the temp was just below, right at, or just above freezing.  Either way you look at it, the temps outside are chilly.  Sunshine is supposed to be abundant today.  These are seasonal temps, just in case you're thinking this is a little cool for Spring.  My furnace is still running, though not nearly as often as in February when the temps were truly cold.

Yesterday I got my workout in.  I'm upping the weight on the Romanian Deadlifts.  For those of you who don't know, in this exercise you bend over at the waist and then stand up.  I'll be doing it with 20 lbs in each hand.  This is a good exercise for the lower back.  That puppy needs to be kept strong to avoid back issues down the road.

Retail was terribly slow yesterday.  One of my fellow specialists called off, so it was just me.  I found out this morning that his older brother died, so I sent him a sympathy note.  Still, yesterday was terribly boring.  I did get a measure for a carpet install.  And I did have to sit for over fifteen minutes listening to a gentleman complain about his daughter-in-law.  His son died 6 years ago, and her money was beginning to run low, so she told him and his wife that she was going to move in with them.  As he talked, I sat and nodded, providing him with the obligatory nods and shakes of the head.  He gave me way too much information.  I have no problem being a friendly ear, however a friendly ear is not going to solve his problems.  That's something he will need to do himself.

I'm getting a molar pulled later this morning.  Woo! Hoo!  It's the one in the back.  The wisdom teeth went long ago.

So, the Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday about voting by mail.  Even though he votes by mail, the Orange Anus hates it.  I vote by mail.  I love it.  The GOP doesn't want ballots received after election day to be counted.  This will disenfranchise many citizens and military personnel living overseas.  This is odd because a large number of the men and women serving in our military tend to voted Republican.  The Republican party doesn't care.  Here in the states, 36.8% of voters over 65 vote by mail.  Again, older voters tend to either be Republican or vote conservatively.  People over a certain age prefer voting by mail, they'd rather drop a ballot into a mailbox than stand for an hour or longer at a polling station.  Taking away that choice or limiting that ability will result in lower conservative and or Republican votes.  The Republican party doesn't care.  They feel it will effect Democrats worse than it will Republicans.  They are terribly wrong.

Eggs!

Right now our outside temp is sitting at 48 (F).  That may be our high for the day.  Temps are on their way down.  I woke up early this morning, around 0500, and at that time the temp was 52 (F) so our temps are definitely on their way down.  Yesterday we popped all the way up to 82 (F).  I didn't work, but I'm wondering if there was a run on window A/C units at the store.  That always happens at this time of the year.

And yesterday was not quite meh.  This were done, which is always a good thing.  I had hoped to feel as though much more had been accomplished other than frequently going outside to enjoy the weather.  Howie and I played ball for a bit, but just a bit.  He has a bad habit of not wanting to give the ball back to me so I can throw it.  He'd much rather have me chase him around the back yard.  He gets so much enjoyment out of me running after him.

I'm out of whey. I use it as a source of protein when I finish a workout.  Since eggs are a great source of protein and a good alternative, I made red beet eggs yesterday.  Some people call them pickled eggs.  Here in Central PA, which is in PA Dutch country, we call the red beet eggs.  They're delicious.  

This afternoon, I get to work.  Supposedly, this week they are going to be switching supervisors around.  Everybody in specialty is curious as to who will be taking over the our current supervisor, who's not been the most successful.  She's 67 and want to be promoted.  That will never happen.  She will, most likely, be moved to another department. not because of her age, but rather because of her performance.  She spends too much time focusing on the minutiae.   She is a broken record.  Two years ago corporate decided associates needed to greet every customer by saying, "welcome to the Orange Retailer."  Nobody says it, especially to a customer pushing around a shopping cart that half filled with merchandise, nobody except her.  Whereas the successful supervisor understands flexibility, she does not. 

Here's a pic of my red beet eggs!

Today's going to be a momentous day for all of the wrong reasons.  Firstly, ICE is going to be moving into airports.  They're not going to help with the TSA issue, nope, they're going to be checking IDs because the Orange Anus and the Republican party hate immigrants.  There is a rumor abounding that when this happens a lot of TSA agents will simply quit.  The Democrats have sponsored legislation to get these people paid, but the Republicans have voted down every attempt so far.  This is because that fat, Orange Anus in the White House wants to be a dictator. He wants the SAVE act tied to any and all legislation that makes its way through Congress.  I suspect air travel is going to get much worse.

And at 7:44 PM the 48 hours Orangie gave Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz is up.  This moment's burning question is to TACO, or not to TACO.  The Orange Anus and those he has surrounded himself with, has put himself into a extremely perilous position.  He he doesn't follow through with his threats, he will appear weak, and if he does start bombing infrastructure, as he said he would, Iran's going to start taking out desalination plants across the region.  While this is not the worst of all possible worlds, it's a pretty bad one.