A Convicted Rapist

Our outside temp is 71 (F).  We're going to get a 20 + degrees warmer today, but I am pleased to announced that this mini-heat wave that's descending upon Central PA is not going to be as hot as originally predicted.  Rather than have highs of 106 (F), we're only going to heat up to 101 (F).  Now, isn't that cool?  I can did that.

I got a nice workout in yesterday morning.  Today I have a bike ride.  I also don't work today.  I did yesterday.  They seem to have, at least temporarily fixed our sewage issue.  The question is how long will it last. I was told that the plumbers ran water down the line for a long time.  There's a difference between water and waste products.

Work was actually busy.  We dealt with a number of customers, some had made set up their installs online, and one who had set up her up with one of our flooring specialists. That last one?  That one required me to have a conversation with the specialist.  He just turned 65 and, even though he claims he's going to work fulltime for another 2 years, he has, for all intents and purposes retired.  He's decided he's not going to include a product when setting up the measure.  As a result, no quote gets built.  We don't build quotes at the store level, so I needed to contact our measurements services and provide them with a carpet.  She was not happy that there was going to be a 3 hour wait to get a quote.  After she'd left, I told him that he needed to key in a product, it doesn't need to be the one the customer is going to purchase.  He admitted that he should have put in a product, however, I know that in his mind he is already retired and he's going to do less and less.

We had a nice sunrise this morning.

So our not so supreme Supreme Court handed down several decisions yesterday.  With one, they gave the Orange Anus more power, edging him closer to being a dictator.  There were 2 other decisions that countered that evil step.  One was that states can still count mail-in ballots that are postmarked on election day if they're received after the election.  And they refused to hear his case against E. Jean Carroll meaning he's still a convicted rapist.

And it shouldn't come as a surprise that Orangie wants to hang a Nazi symbol at the White House.

The Body in 4/4 Time - the video

Good morning!  We have 67 (F) outside and fog for miles and miles.  The sun is attempt to shine through and I don't doubt that very soon it will.  We have a lot of humidity.  No showers are in our forecast, just higher temps.  By Thursday we should be able to cook an egg on the sidewalk, unless you have a dog named Howie who will eat that sucker up before it has a chance to sizzle.

Work was slow yesterday.  Our store did not make plan for last week.  The dreaded lead table was not set up.  Maybe they realized, as Treaders suggested, no one was really going to sign up for a $10,000 home improvement project just to get a hot dog.  I'll be interested in whether or not they decide to set it up for next weekend.  It's a holiday.  Historically, traffic is not heavy on the Fourth of July.  Too many people are having cook-outs and barbeques.  Besides, the temperature is going to be around 102 (F).  The only ones showing up are gong to be those believing we're going to be running special holiday sales.  We do run specials, but they tend to be at the end of fiscal months, fiscal quarters, and halves, and at year end.

So, I've been toying around with making a short video introducing The Body in 4/4 Time, and the results are... okay.  If I had spent more time, I might have been able to emphasize a downbeat, or played around with the subtitles, which are gone in the blink of an eye.  Still, the beat is there, though I guess for some the question will be "is this 4/4 time?"  After all, it is really all about the beat.

And Orangie's great Freedom America fair continues to fail.  This is like his failed military parade.  He so desperately wanted it to be like his Blo Bro Vlads, whose parade this year was extensively toned down because he was afraid the Ukraine would blow it up. Things are so bad in Russia, that this past week when Vlad addressed the Russian congress and told that that the country had difficult times ahead.  He's losing the war.  It turns out that the great authoritarian government he bragged about to the world was nothing more than propaganda.  All of those authoritarian conservatives, like Jim Jordan and the rest of his ilk who dreamt of creating an American version are now finding out that they fell in love with smoke and mirrors.  It seems as though the Ukraine has all of the cards, while Vlad doesn't even have enough talent to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

The US Supreme Court is set to release 8 decisions today. That's right.  Today we learn if Alito, and Thomas, and Roberts cement their positions as the worst, most despicable, anti-democracy members of the court in the history of this country.  I'm betting they do.