The Sound of Murder

Good morning world!  Right now, the temp here in Central PA is 32, but not around my house.  How do I know?  Water that isn't frozen in my backyard.  So, the temp might be cold somewhere else, but not here.  As a precautionary measure, I covered my 2 tomato plants last evening.  This morning they're looking fine.  Hopefully, that will be the last time our temps get that cold, at least until autumn has us in its sights.

Work yesterday was blah.  Slow.  I purportedly made a mistake in a blind install.  Our customer order specialist claimed that I sold a blind that was only 9 inches wide.  It was actually supposed to be 70 inches wide.  You can't design a blind that is less than 14 inches because there's not enough room in the headrail for the string mechanism.  If you try to, the system generates an error.  So, something, somewhere happened.

Since this is Tuesday, I'm not scheduled.  That's fine with me.  I have a bike ride scheduled for this afternoon.   That, too, is good.  I want to work on my Blender.  That's the software that let's you create your own 2D animations.  Why, you might ask?  Because I'm wanting to do something akin to this for The Body in 4:4 Time.  Can you hear it?  The 4:4 time?  That's the sound of murder.

And the bag of Orange shit who managed to get elected was in Virginia last night.  He's not happy.  The fact that Virginians are voting today as to whether on not they should redistrict has him rankled.  It was fine for Republicans to gerrymander in Texas, and Missouri, and Ohio, but the fact that Virginia wants to do the same to help Democrats is unpatriotic.  Both Orangie and the Republican party know that America is on the cusp of a Blue Tsunami and that scares the bejesus out of them.  The truly terrible thing for them about the midterms is that if they had for just a few moments put their selfishness and greed aside and put some sort of restraints on the Orange Anus this would most likely not be a problem for them.  However, they are the party of selfishness and greed.  There was no way they could stop feeding their craven desire for power.  The America of their dreams would have a permanent Republican, authoritarian government.  They never cared what other Americans wanted.  America was great... until the Republicans got the Orange Anus in the White House, now it will take decades to recover.

Cook This

Our outside temps is 41 (F) and we're sort of under a freeze warning for tonight, but only sort of.  Originally temps were supposed to be in the low 30s (F), but now it appears that they will only be dropping into mid 30s (F), at least in our neck of the woods.  One thing to keep in mind about this warning is that it is not localized, but rather regional.  The actual warning is for "some areas," of Central Pa, that includes town and cities in what many would classify as northern Pa.

I spent a full shift working yesterday.  It was, as expected, slow in the flooring department.  Things were a bit busier our in the garden area.  Even though the sun did come out in the afternoon, there was a constant cool breeze that on occasion gusted.  No workout was done.  No cleaning, either..  Management will be glad that I made most of my goals; the usual ones, no credit cards, however.  Convincing people to go deeper into credit card debt is not something I do.

I also had a nice chat with the Store Manager about this pay increase fiasco, and fiasco might truly be an understatement.  A long time ago, associates for the large, orange retailer I work for received their pay increases on their hire date.  But then accountant type in corporate decided to only issue raises twice a year.  This meant that some associates, like me, suffered an 18 month wait between increases.  Then Covid happened, and the decision was made to give raises just once a year, however the wait between raises was 13 months, not 12.  Do you see what they're doing there?  This year, after 5 years of giving yearly increases, and in an attempt to make their bottom line look better, the large orange retailer has gone back to giving pay increases twice a year.  This means that some associates will have to wait longer than 12 months to get an increase in pay.  This of policy was not communicated well, and to make matters worse, this year no one tells you how much of a raise you're going to get, you have to go on line to see it.  People are pissed.

After listening to people piss and moan yesterday, I must say I did have more than a fleeting moment of laughter when I saw a video of RFK Jr walking through an airport when a reporter suddenly asked him what his fascination with road kill was all about.  This is rather relevant in that I do believe he and his wife, Cheryl Hines, are putting out a cookbook.

Of course, his shit show with Iran is continuing.  One thing I did notice this morning is that Orangie failed to make his now standard statement that a peace deal was in the works.  For those who don't know, he uses these little lies to manipulate the stock market.  Perhaps this is because he has idiots in charge?  It might also be that Iran's media puts out constant reminders of how idiotic Orangie and his team our.  Orangie likes to say that things are progressing well and Iran basically pisses on his words as soon as they're out of his mouth.

All administrations have leaks of some sort, but Orangie's?  It's almost as though staffers in this administration hate him so much they can't wait to sneak behind the scenes snapshots.  It's terrible that the high level of chaos we are experiencing daily is nothing compared to what's going on around this phony president.  Not one single soul knows what in hell they are doing, and not one single soul will try and removed this idiot from office; they live for the corruption.