Staged

Yesterday, we had cold rain from mid-morning to early in the evening.  During that time the temperature hung in the low 50s (F).  The rain did stop sometime overnight though ours skies have remained overcast.  Today's high will be in the low 60s (F).  Then, tomorrow, we'll hit the low 70s (F) before dropping back down to daily highs in the 60s (F).

Retail was slow in the flooring department.  I did have a blind install go through for about $900.  That will add to my sales goal.  Since I only have a few measures, I will not be reaching my sale goal this week.  Who knows what this coming week will bring.  Gas prices are not going down and at some point the number of customers prioritizing a new flooring installation is going to drop.  I'm going to pick up veggie seedlings before I leave.  My military discount helps me get a better price.  Tomato plants were selling at $5 per seedling.  Still, who knows what the price of tomatoes will be when harvest season arrives.

After doing a few chores when I got home, I played Expedition 33.  It wasn't until I went to bed that I learned that there had been an incident in Washington.  

Let me set the stage by saying last night was the first time ever... and I do mean ever, that the Orange Anus attended the White House Correspondent's Dinner.  This is because both comedians and correspondents use the dinner to shamelessly mock the president.  Orange needs to be kowtowed to.  Dealing with the brunt of humorists is not his forte.  

Now that the stage is set, for some reason I was not surprised when I saw that there had been an active shooter in the Hilton hotel.  Not in the dining room where the dinner was taking place, but in the hotel.  Not impressed I went to sleep.  This morning I discovered many comments in a similar vein overwhelming social media.

There are many, many, many more comments that are even more succinct.  One comment pointed out that Orangie's approval rating is in the toilet and... well, it worked for Reagan.  But this is the 3rd faux attempt at an assassination, even though it has not be classified as one.  It's still just an incident that shut down the Correspondent's dinner before anyone had a chance to make fun of Orangie.  Now we know one of the reasons he was there, no one was going to make fun of him.  Another reason appears to be that it gave him a chance to plug his ballroom on national media... live.  And gathered around him, nodding their heads and smiling were members of his liquor cabinet, not one of them looking serious after such a serious incident.  This is because the whole thing was staged.

Vote, Vote, Vote!

 We have a nice, chilly 52 (F) outside and, thanks to a minor cold front that went through last evening, we ain't going to get much warmer.  This is what we should all be expecting for another 3 or 4 weeks.  Cool and rainy doesn't mean you can't plant your garden, it just means that you might be a little uncomfortable while you're transplanting your seedling, or sowing your seeds.

Yesterday was nice.  I got a lot done, including a ride in Germany.  

One thing that was fairly high on the "to do" list, was upgrade my VPN.  I have Panda anti-virus, and it works well, however the VPN that comes with it was.. bad.  Many times it wouldn't connect and occasionally it would block certain websites, like Blogger, or Joe, My God.  Some might ask, "why use a VPN?" well, mostly because I don't want someone decided that I should be tracked.  At present, we have some serious wack-a-doodles in the world, and not all of them are in our government.  Panda has a lot of servers, however some of them are in China, I don't see that as being an advantage.  Even worse, they also have servers in Russia.  So I dropped their VPN and signed up with NordVPN.  Nord has an outstanding reputation.

There's no workout scheduled today.  I like the fact that now all of my workouts are scheduled during the week and that I have the weekends off.

And this came in the mail yesterday.  It will be filled out and mailed this morning!

I went shopping yesterday and was shocked to see that Roma tomatoes went from $1.99 a pound to $2.99 a pound.  Damn!  That's a bit of price hike, isn't it.  Smucker's jelly is now $4.59 for their standard, 17 oz jar.  Prices are only going to go higher.  And, in case you're wondering, Orangie flew down to Mar a Lago this weekend to go golfing... again.  This is his standard modus operandi; shit posting during the week and golfing on the weekend.  In case some of you haven't figured it out yet, he doesn't like America, but then it seems as if he doesn't like any country with the exception of Russia.  Since he doesn't like America, he's not going to do anything to really solve the problems inflation is causing.  Being part of the 1%, inflation doesn't effect him and if it did, he would simply find some what to write it off on his taxes.  

With approval ratings as low as they are, you'd think the Republican party would at least make the attempt to appease the growing anger against them.  Nah.  Rather than attempt at mollifying the general public, they're going to throw as much conservative shit against the wall and hope some of it survives the midterms.  They are totally clueless.  They're fairly certain they're going to lose the House of Representatives, and quite probably the Senate, too.  The likelihood of Orangie being impeached on day one are fairly high, they're hoping that there aren't enough votes in the Senate to remove him from office.  Since they don't learn lessons, I do suspect they're going to be punished so severely by the American people the midterms might be an extermination even for the Republican party.