Howie Loves It

 Today's going to be our last day of our temps climbing high enough to break past the freezing barrier.  Beginning tomorrow, we'll be starting another week of ice box weather.  However, rather than have a week that the temps can't get out of the teens, we're only going to get one day.  According to the long range forecast, starting on, or around, February 11, we will be enjoying much more moderate temps.

Yesterday was fairly good.  A loaf of bread was baked.  I cleaned.  Did laundry. Got in a decent workout.  All in all, for a Tuesday.  The only fly in the ointment, so to speak, was I went to my Giant supermarket and left my wallet at home.  I haven't done that in, oh... about 4 years.  During the winter I'm usually found at home wearing sweat pants.  While they do have pockets, I don't carry my wallet around with me, it's always on the sideboard.  Yesterday, I left it sitting on the sideboard.  Lucky for me, my neighborhood Giant is only 5 minutes away.  Still, it was a bother having to come for my wallet to pay for my groceries.  

Being the experimental culinary type, I sometimes take chances when I'm in the kitchen working on dinner.  Yesterday, I gambled that I could make a meat loaf using both ground turkey and ground beef.  While my brain thought that they might be compatible, in truth, they were not.  Blah!  It's not that it's inedible, or that the flavor's truly bad, it just simply Blah.  On a positive note, Howie loves it.  He had some for dinner last evening, and some for breakfast this morning, and there are two servings sitting in the refrigerator for him.  

Mitch McConnell is in the hospital.  Don't start cheering yet, wait a few days and see if God's going to send him to hell, or curse the Senate again.  History is not going to be kind to Mitch.  If being a conservative wasn't bad enough, he was a party man to the core.  Vote Republican.  Vote Republican.   Vote Republican.  No matter how truly vile the bill, not matter how unqualified the cabinet candidate, if the individual was a Republican they were guaranteed to get Mitch's vote.  He is the reason the Orange Anus was not impeached after his first term.  He voted to keep the Orange Anus safe because that would have been a vote against a Republican, and for Mitch that would have be the worst kind of treason.  It was never country first for him, always party first. He is truly an abysmal human being.

And what ever is in the Epstein files that haven't been released must be truly terrible.  Orangie wants to move on.  That ain't gonna happen.  If the Republican party wants to have even the tiniest bit of showing at the midterms,  they should shut him up and keep him out of sight until November.  That will never happen.  His cultists need to see and hear their false god.

Delusional Republicans

 Our outside temp is 22 (F) and that almost feels warm, but that's because we've been cold for a bit.  We've got another bit of frigid air coming our way over the weekend, then the warmup begins.  In 10 days we should once again be up in the low to mid 40s (F).  That will be nice.  Keep in mind, however, that ten days can sometimes seem like an eternity.

While at work yesterday, I got a measure.  Yippee!  That should make management happy.  For those interested, our fiscal year is now over.  2025 was not good.  Corporate will put out a statement saying that at present people are just not that interested in home improvements.  In a way that is true.  Also keep in mind that one of the main reason for this is that home improvements have gotten very expensive, and not everyone wants to put a $9000 charge on a credit card.  With prices going up, not everybody wants to set aside a monthly payment.  There are quite a few people out there who don't want to live from paycheck to paycheck.  This is something large corporations refuse to deal with.  It matters not one bit if you're in debt up to your eyeballs.  The home improvement retail business is beginning to learn that.

My first loaf of bread is on its 2nd rise in my new bread machine.  The yeasty smell is permeating my house.  I love that smell.  Real estate agents will sometimes back a batch of cookies before they show a house.  I think the scent of baking bread is much more homey.

And (brace yourself) the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) is delaying the release of the their month jobs report for January.  Orangie's administration is blaming this on the government partial government shutdown.  You know?  The one that's in its 3rd day.  

This is because they really, really don't want to tell the American people just how badly Orangie's labor market truly is.  All of those layoffs by large corporation like Amazon (16,000 jobs cut) hurt.  We are entering into what's called Selective Hiring, where there are an overwhelming number of qualified candidates for the shrinking number of jobs available.  Putting this simply means that the unemployed will end up taking the same sort of job they were doing, but at a lower pay grade and with lesser benefits.  The number of people hired goes down while unemployment goes up, and corporations are too concerned with their own balance sheets to understand how they are killing the economy.

And Orangie wants to nationalize elections, rather than leave them in the hands of the states.  This is a great way to win by cheating.  Don't believe me?  Just look at Russia.  Or China.  I do believe Republicans believe that most Americans will pull a Susan Collins and clutch their pearls, all the while saying they are "so concerned."  Of course, Republicans have been delusional for years.