Executioner's Style

As I type here in Central PA, our outside temp is 45 (F).  This after our temp will be in the low to mid 70s (F).  Nice.  We're supposed to have full sunshine, too, that also is nice.  However, that is going to be changing tomorrow.  Isaias is tracking straight towards us.  Seriously, that hurricane's path is almost directly over my house.  We really don't need anymore rain.  Having it fall over the weekend is bad for the retail business.

Work was fine yesterday.  I spent much time in the aisles, cut a bunch of blinds, in fact, that leads to an amusing blind story.  A very pregnant woman came into the department looking for blinds.  She had her measurements and told me that she needed to have 7 cut.  No problem.  The machine we use to cut blinds is computerized, so once we have the measurements keyed in, all we have to do is hit the repeat button to cut the next blind.  While making it easier to cut the blinds, it does not speed up the process, so it takes about 3-4 minutes to cut each blind.  I had just cut her first blind when a middle-aged couple came up to me with a cellular blind.  They told me they hadn't measured, they'd brought in their old, broken blind instead. I wasn't going to change the parameters already keyed into the blind cutter and politely asked them to wait.  They had no problem with that, so they went and pulled their new blind from the shelf and waited for me to cut the remaining 6 blinds.  When finished, they gave me the old blind, as well as the new blind, once again telling me they hadn't measured, just brought in the old blind.  So, I pulled out my handy, dandy measuring tape and measured the old blind.  I then looked at the new blind, and handed it back to them saying, "this doesn't need to be cut."  A surprised little "oh" popped out of his mouth.  Just think, if they had taken the time to measure their old blind, they wouldn't have had to wait for 20+ minutes for me to tell them their new blind did not need to be cut.

And I made chili yesterday! And it is scrumptious!

And we're going to have public executions again in this country.  This is what you get with authoritarian regimes, and the Orange Anus is a wannabe authoritarian.  Watching the internet explode in anger was amazing.  I sent a text to my brother saying this was barbaric, and he agreed with me.  He said he hoped Frankie Graham would step in and stop this insanity.  I didn't tell him Frankie's a failure, I did, however, tell him that Kegsbreath has his own pastor, an extremist named Doug Wilson.  Dougie has a BA and an MA in Philosophy, no religious training what so ever.  He has never been to a Seminary, never been to a school of Theology, he is a self-taught, self-proclaimed minister of God.  Dougie's also super big on Christian Nationalism.  Under Dougie's guidance, Kegsbreath is enjoying the biggest boner of his life.  Everyone who voted for the Orange Anus is responsible for this.  They must all be held accountable.

Booing the Demigod

Holy Hannah!  Our overnight temp did not fall into the 40s (F), but stayed in the mid 50s (F).  Yesterday's afternoon high was in the low 70s (F), today we should be climbing into the mid 70s (F), and tomorrow into the upper 70s (F), but then rain again moves into the picture, though not from Isais.  The projected tract for the hurricane is, however, going to come barreling up into central PA.  So much for the United States going a season without a hurricane.

A lot of running around was done yesterday.  My mail-in ballot was taken care of and I did some shopping, including buying a new pair of sweat pants at Dicks.  There is a certain brand that I like, but I'm not one of those people who needs to stick with brand loyalty, so I ended up buying a pair of Dick's generic brand.   The fact that the generic brand started out with a $45 price tag had a lot to do with my decision.  Seeing named brands $20 to $30 more initiated my sticker shock.  Holy schmackarinis!  I checked the tag to see where they were manufactured: Vietnam.  Geez.  And here I thought Vietnam caved so they wouldn't be hit by the tariffs... so something else must be driving up the price.  Diesel fuel, maybe?

I also took a few minutes this morning to check out my followers on Threads.  There seems to be an inordinate amount of sex workers and Musk bots who love what I say.  This morning alone, two of the Musk bots followed me.  While Threads is associated with Instagram, it's not the same.  On Insta you need to request to follow me.  I get a lot of requests from sex workers even though my profile specifically states "sex workers need not apply."  

And I found this headline in yesterday's WaPo simply fascinating.

Yeah, you read that number right, Republicans have spent over half a billion dollars on the midterms to no avail.  The belief used to be that going into an election with a large war chest would help your chances of winning tremendously.  Of course, that belief is pre Orangie.  When you have a president with a 29% approval rating, all of the buckos under your belt mean nothing.  There have been 2 leaks from the Paxton team about Orangie "dragging them down."  Orangie's ego will never let him understand this, so last night, in Texas, he stood on a stage and was loudly booed 6 times.  That's right, his lies were interrupted 6 times by protestors.  How demoralizing that must have been for his loyal cultists sitting in the audience, to have to listen to people booing your demigod.

We need much more of this, because every time it happens another pin gets stuck into the Orangie voodoo doll.