A Most Humiliated President

Our outside temp is 57 (F).  With a blanket, this is cool and comfortable sleeping weather.  Not all of our nights need to be hot.  Our afternoon high is supposed to be in the low 80s (F).  This is fine, too.  Afternoon highs for the coming week are predicted to be in the mid 80s (F).  Summer begins in 3 weeks to this is fine.  I like summer.

As I expected, work was slow yesterday.  Also, as expected, my customer purchased her install.  Mid-afternoon 2 men came in to purchase some rolled vinyl sheeting.  He handed me a sample of the vinyl they wanted.  I looked at it, and then told him that the sample was from Lowe's, our competitor, and that it was not a brand that we carry.  He looked a bit confused, and asked, "you don't have this?"  I said, "no, it's from Lowe's."  He nodded a few times, then turned to his friend and said, "I guess we have to go back to Lowe's."  Seriously.

Since it was so boring, I spent some time making notes for the next book, The Body in the Words.  A new character has been added:  Mrs. Porridge, she the receptionist at the Hygeia Wellness Clinic.

This is going to be a busy week for me.  Blogs may be delayed.  Tomorrow I get my car inspected.  On Wednesday I go for my year blood draw.  How many vials will they fill?  Four or five?

And I couldn't get into Crimson Desert.  There were so many things about it that I didn't like, including mini-games and very minor quests that needed to be completed just to advance the main story.  So, last evening I downloaded Baulder's Gate 3.  This is a more traditional RPG.  

And, since this a new week, we already know that Orangie's administration is going to be serving up a fresh, new platter of horseshit.  I expect there to be more about the failing UFC cage match he planned to hold on the front lawn of the White House to celebrate his birthday.  As someone pointed out, we all need to remember the parade that the world laughed at, this might be worse.  His brittle, little ego is being smacked silly, so prepare for him to lash out.  The failure of his Freedom 250 event created a blistering boil which he publicly lanced on his Truth Social platform.  Ready yourselves, this is going to be worse.  

As for his failing cage match, evidently some of the fighters are now withdrawing.  Just as no one wanted to sing for him, except for Vanilla Ice, no one really wants to fight for him.    And all the while, he's stealing America blind.  Every little rejection is another burning poker to his brain. In the end, he's going to be the most hated, most humiliated president America has ever seen.

Pummeled

 Our outside temp is 49 (F).  That's chilly.  Our afternoon temp is supposed to climb up into the high 70s (F), possibly hitting the low 80s (F).  I work today, so the outside temps, whether its sunny or not, don't phase me.  I work half a day tomorrow, and then I'm off for 2 days.  On those days, the temps are supposed to be comfortable and our skies will be partially cloudy.  This is good.  There is yardwork that needs to be done.

Yesterday was a meh sort of day.  I didn't really do anything in the morning, other than loll around the house waiting to go to work.  Retail in the flooring department?  It was so slow.  Our garden department is still busy, most likely because the weather is nice.  I think a lot of people might be planting small gardens this year because food prices keep going up.  

There was a time when we could change and add products to installs before they were sold.  Then corporate decided a measurement services team could handle the job better, and hired a large number of people to work from their homes doing exactly what we were doing.  Well, they've decided that idea wasn't working, or that they weren't getting a big enough bang for their payroll expense, so they've shifted that process back to the specialists.  To do this, they gave us new software.  For training, they gave us a printout. So, what we're now doing is wingin' it.  And all of those people who they hired to work from home?  Most of them seem to have been let go.

Howie brought in a bunch of sticks this morning.

Yesterday the wacko in the White House was shit posting from Hell, at least it seemed like that.  This should come as no surprise since he's being forced to take his name off of the Kennedy Center.  Orange is red with rage.  This is a good thing.  His ego deserves to be beaten to a pulp.  And to add insult to injury, everyone one of the performers, except Vanilla Ice, who were going to be part of his Freedom 250 propaganda event have pulled out.  Many are saying that they didn't realize it was going to be political, but let's be honest.  But let's be honest, everything Orangie does is politicized to praise the living Hell out of him.  Rejection is beginning to pummel him from all sides.  This is a very good thing.  We like to see bullies getting pummeled.