North Korea is the Enemy

Well, here it is, Monday morning and we have humidity.  While the forecast doesn't call for a repeat of yesterday's weather, the 85% chance of rain means we're going to get close.  We had long periods of soaking rain yesterday.  Thunderstorms were supposed to arrive later in the evening.  They never showed up, however the soaking rains continued through the night.  My prediction for today is that it's going to be drab... very drab.

Because I had some ham hocks that needed to be used, I made bean soup yesterday.  I threw in some rice as a thickener, so I ended up with something more akin to bean stew.  On cool, rainy days, stews are good.  

Mostly what I did yesterday was work on The Body in the Words.  I've been doing a lot of research on wellness clinics and the courses they offer for public consumption.  There are those which teach the more traditional aspects of wellness, such as hearth health, and mobility, and nutrition.  Than there are those which focus on more trendy subjects like vaginal wellness, sperm maxing, and parasite cleansing.  As for those instructing these classes?  Some of them are certified in other fields and then discover that talking about... oh, say vaginal wellness, will earn them a bigger paycheck.  And then there are those with no credentials, who con you into thinking your an expert.  These people say a lot of words that, if they're not careful, could get someone killed.

Then I played some Balder's Gate 3.  This 2nd playthrough is so much better because I'm now much more familiar with the game's mechanics.  While casting spells can be great, sometimes you also need simple brute force.

When I'm playing a video game, I never pay attention  to social media because I'm having too much fun, so I do a quick catchup before I go to bed.  Of course, this humdinger was the first thing to catch my eye.

Is there anyone reading this who doesn't know that Kim Jung Bung is a Communist dictator fascist?  A day doesn't happen when I don't wonder what the Orange Anus is going to do that is worse than what he's already done.  Have we hit the bottom of the barrel yet?  Just a little reminder, he's always been fascinated by authoritarian dictators.  I don't doubt that in his mind dictators are the ultimate in CEOs.  He sees them as have absolutely no accountability.  And a communist dictator would own every company in the country.  This is what Orangie has been dreaming about for years.  And Republicans, instead of saying "enough is enough," are staying silent.  Their dream has always been to have total control over the country.  They have no idea what that dream is going to cost them, but then they have always been non-thinkers.

Numb Nuts Hegseth

We have 72 (F) outside with rain on the way... possibly lots of rain.  Inches, maybe.  Our temps are only predicted to rise about 1 or 2 degrees.  If I'm correct, we're getting the rain that inundated Indianapolis.  Let's hope we don't get as much rain as they got.  Tomorrow, things will get warmer, but we're still supposed to get more rain.  Later on in the week our temps should cool down, with daily highs in the mid 70s (F).  

I worked yesterday and it was slow.  I had 2 small sales, so I should have reached my sales goal for the week, but I'm not going to hit my measure goal.  That's life.  The flooring department is seriously underwater when it comes to sales.  We are normally slow this time of year, but this year things are worse.  Affordability is important.  Our carpet installation charge just went up 20 cents per square foot.  In today's economy, every penny counts.

My friend Betsy called yesterday to tell me she had some sort of water issues in her apartment and asked if we could move our plans for today to Tuesday.  No problem.  This is a vacation day for me, so I'm still getting paid, and I never work on Tuesday.  So things are hunky dory.

For the first time in decades the United States does not have a carrier group in the Western Pacific.  Two of our aircraft carriers are in port, San Diego and Long Beach, undergoing repairs.  The USS George Washington is enroute to the Mediterranean to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln.  No carrier group is expected to be in the Pacific for the next few weeks.  This is just another example of numb nuts planning by the weekend Fox host with 2 meritorious bronze stars running our military.

And, just in case you were wondering, this is not top secret information.  All I did was simply Google the question "are there any US carriers in the Western Pacific.  As I look at everything that's going on, I beginning to think that calling Hegseth 'numb nuts" might be too much of a compliment.  And another bit of information that Mainstream Media has failed to report on is the reason the Abraham Lincoln has not been getting supplies is because Iran destroyed our supply bases in the region.  Now Numb Nuts is sending the USS George Washington to suffer the same fate as the Abraham Lincoln.  One of the big problems with Numb Nuts is that he is too stupid to know that he's dumb.  He doesn't know the difference between a strategy and a cover-up.  Should the military rebel against his leadership, I would not be surprised.