Revenge

Good morning world!  We have a comfortable 61 (F) outside, here in Central PA.  Last night we were doused with some very heavy rain as I was going to bed.  I don't know whether that was the reason on not, but I slept very well.  Today's forecast will be a repeat of yesterdays, temps in the low 80s (F) with sunny skies.  Since I work, I'll be sitting at my desk inside the great orange box retailer.  Tomorrow, however, we'll have a shadier forecast, high humidity and thunderstorms.

Retail yesterday was slow.  I did get a measure, so I met my measure goal for the week.  In fact, I hit all my goals except sales.  We shall have to see what today is like.  One of my customers might be coming in to purchase a tile installation.  They'd been in on Friday and there was an issue with the stone tile that they had chosen, they were looking for uniformity.  There is no such thing as uniformity when you're dealing with natural stone.  I once had a customer sit on the floor for over an hour going through box after box of marble tiles.  She wanted them all to be alike, unfortunately most of them had either a shade or a hue that did not meet with approval.  The poor thing left feeling rather frustrated and no doubt any wiser.

So, one of our hardware associates agreed to read the first few chapters of The Body in 4/4 Time.  He asked me how many pages and I told him about 8, 2 of the chapters are short.  He made a little face, and told me he really likes to read using audio books.  I smiled to myself.  In the fall, he's going to be starting at Penn State University as a finance major and he has no idea how much boring drivel he's going to have to actually read... in a book.

And this headline is important in so many different ways.

The whole world knows that the idiot in the White House has now made Iran a much stronger entity, a state that funds terrorism around the world.  Not only did he lose the war, he and his Secretary of Defense made the worst possible blunder possible:  they bombed a children's school killing 158 little girls.  No matter how much money this asshole throws at them in his surrender, that bombing has gashed a hole in the heart of every Iranian.  As a result, at some time in the future one of Iran's terrorist cells will take revenge upon the United States.  Will it be a school?  Possibly.  Or possibly a sporting event.  One thing is certain, they will exact their revenge.  Anyone who thinks otherwise is most likely a Republican.

Tomatoes!

Well, our temp is in the mid 60s and we have sunshine.  It's supposed to be a very nice day outside.  Isn't it a shame that I have to go to work?  According to the long range forecast, we're going to be stuck in this weather pattern for the next 3 weeks (at least).  This would be decent summer weather.  These middle of the road temps make things delightful.

Yesterday was a good one.  Many chores were completed, including a mowing of the lawn.  I prepped the wheelbarrow/planter for painting.  The garden was fertilized.  That's a first for me this year, using fertilizer.  Since everything is in containers, I decided that might not be a bad idea.  It has made quite a difference.  Last year the cucumber plant was scraggly, this year it's taking over the backyard.  

The only fly in the ointment was my neighbors.  Around 0130 they decided to play their stereo.  At first it was loud, then their addled brains realized that the volume might be a problem, and they turned it down a tad.  An hour later, they turned off the stereo.  I wouldn't be surprised if that side of the house was haunted, as my old neighbor Mike would occasionally get drunk and play his guitar very loudly for about 20 minutes in the middle of the night.  Oddly enough, the new neighbor's name is Mike, too, so he might be Mike 2.

As I said, my container garden is doing well.  Here's a pic of some of my Italian tomatoes.

In case you missed it, the Orange Anus revealed his Qatari gift plane yesterday, refurbished by hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars, I might add.  This was a personal gift to him from the Qataris, which means he's planning on taking it with him when he leaves the White House.  This got me to thinking about what happens if he not only gets impeached for a 3rd time, but there are enough votes to remove him from office?  Can the government put a lien on his assets as a way of compensating the country for all of the money he's stolen, like the tax payer dollars he's used to fix up this jet?  I don't know.  If we can, how about the government also slapping a lien on Donnie Jr's drone business, the one that borrowed $620 million from the DOJ?  And wouldn't it be great if once the Assholes are out of the picture the government started canceling all of those Starlink contracts?  Maybe we should follow Brazil's lead.