Ticket This

 Today is going to be a repeat of yesterday with our high temp in the mid 80s (F).  We may get an isolated thunderstorm, however nothing like what we've dealt with over the past 2 weeks.  On the long range forecast our daytime highs are staying in the mid 80s (F).  Take warning, though, there is another heat dome moving across the country.  Right now that sucker looks to be skimming past us to the south, so though of you in the southern states prepare yourselves.  This summer is only halfway over.

And I worked yesterday.  I didn't get a measure, a lead or a credit card.  My sales for this week are dismal.  That's okay.  I'm part-time.  My value comes in that I can work in at least one other department:  paint.  For the next 2 Saturdays that's where I'll be spending my time.  Honestly, there are times when I prefer working in paint.  For one thing, the paint department is almost always steady.  When it comes to redecorating you home, paint a room a new color is a lot less expensive than installing new flooring.  As the economy continues to slide in the wrong direction, the paint department is going to become very important.

Someone commented on another blog that I was reading that they'd heard Universal Studios was buying tickets to The Odyssey to make sales look good.  Being the straightforward, no nonsense person I am, I called this falsehood a... well, a lie.  Unfortunately, a lot of MAGA cultists are repeating this same deceit.  These people simply refuse to believe that film with a black Helen of Troy and transgender man can make money.  They don't understand that a movie that is "woke," can be a box office hit.  They said the same thing for "The Hail Mary Project." This is a minority group of people terrified that they are losing the culture wars.  So, this is me sticking them in the eye.  Here's The Odyssey's ticket sales from Box Office Mojo.  That 47% increase for  Friday's sales means that not only are people going to see this movie, they're chatting it up among their friends.

To Chip or Not?

This morning wasn't as cool as yesterday.  Our overnight low stayed in the lower 60s (F).  This is summer, after all.  For the next week, at least, daily highs will be hovering in the low to mid 80s (F).  That's fine with me.  We might get a little rain on Monday, but the odds are 50-50.

Yesterday was a somewhat busy day.  There was yard cleanup.  My fence is now cleared of branches and luckily the damage could have been worse.  The top supporting bar has a new angle, but is still standing.  I still have a ten foot limb in my backyard, though that should be gone by sometime on Tuesday.  I also began tackling the limb on the other side of the fence.  Limb is the wrong word, to be more precise, I have a tree top lying there.  That sucker's going to be a challenge.  Also, I've been thinking of buying a wood chipper.  The thought of renting one had also occurred to me, until I saw the cost:  $200 for 4 hours, almost $600 for a day.  I can buy one that chops branches up to 2 inches in diameter for $194.  I'll have to go out and measure the diameter of the branches.

Beside the yard cleanup and getting my lawn mowed, yesterday was sort of a meh day.  Because I was outside so much, I moved my upper body workout to this morning.  

My Roma tomatoes are beginning to turn red.  I have 2 Big Boy plants, one has tomatoes, the other has zilch, and my eggplant has.... eggplants.

The rescheduled White House Correspondents Association (or whatever you want to call this group) was last evening.  Here's a pic from Al Jazeera.

I was too busy playing Balder's Gate 3 to pay any attention as to what was happening on social media.  Not that I missed anything.  Orangie, who likes to think of himself as the ultimate showman held a small rally that, without his paid cultists, left the room embarrassingly silent.  While cabinet members and their staff laughed because this is what sycophants do, the rest of the correspondents showed Orange how little he is appreciated.  Even the Washington post's leading headline was about his insult laden speech, and that it drew stunned silence.  As a result, he will lie today.  Are the bells beginning to toll for the Orange Anus?  Stay tuned.