Sewage

Good morning people!  We have shower and thunderstorms on the way.  Predictions are that we may get a half inch of rain, possibly more until this storm system has passed us by.  Outside temps are in the upper 60s (F).  They'll get a few degrees warmer.  Our expected high is in the mid 70s (F).  There is, however, a thick blanket of humidity lying over all of Central PA.  This means we'll all be suffering from the sticky-ickies until this system moves off the eastern seaboard.

Yesterday was a sludge... literally, and it was in the aisle right behind my desk at the orange home improvement retailer I work for.  There is a problem with the waste water line running from the restrooms to the sewer line outside the building.  Approximately four weeks ago the pipe ruptured and, as time went on, became more and more clogged.  Yesterday, the stoppage was complete and we had to deal with raw sewage bubbling up from 3 access drains in the aisle behind my desk.  Because of the severity of the issue, it has been escalated to a Divisional level.  This is not a job for Roto-Rooter.  Of course, there were a number of associates who want the store be shut down until the problem is fixed.  These people simply don't understand that if corporate decides to do that, some will be assigned temporarily to other stores, and those that aren't will have to use their personal or vacation time if they want to be paid.  Even our acting store manager was advocating this.  I sat there listening to him and thinking that this man will never be a store manager.  Corporate wants problem solvers in management positions, they do not want non-thinkers.  Instead of looking for ways to solve this serious issue, he's simply throwing his hands up in the air in defeat.

So, I got the cover art for The Body in 4/4 Time yesterday, and, as usual, here's a tease.

A new poll by Franklin & Marshall College, a conservative Central PA college, has, as they say, the Orange Anus bleeding away support.  According to their numbers, he has a 29% approval rating.  That, in case you're wondering, is the Republican party of Central Pa, with a few extra idiots thrown into the  mix; people who live for UFC cage matches.

And his screw up of the reflecting pool is still making headlines.  He's blaming everyone except those involved, the contractors he hired, because that would mean he made a bad choice, and we all know that never happens all the time.

Apparently the US and Iran have once again reached a decision to set up the framework for a possible ceasefire.  Basically, this administration wants to repeat everything that was done previously.  The sticking point is, again, Israel, or, perhaps I should say Netanyahu's refusal to stop a war.  In case you haven't realized it yet, conservatives are the cause of most of the evil in this world.

Revenge

Good morning world!  We have a comfortable 61 (F) outside, here in Central PA.  Last night we were doused with some very heavy rain as I was going to bed.  I don't know whether that was the reason on not, but I slept very well.  Today's forecast will be a repeat of yesterdays, temps in the low 80s (F) with sunny skies.  Since I work, I'll be sitting at my desk inside the great orange box retailer.  Tomorrow, however, we'll have a shadier forecast, high humidity and thunderstorms.

Retail yesterday was slow.  I did get a measure, so I met my measure goal for the week.  In fact, I hit all my goals except sales.  We shall have to see what today is like.  One of my customers might be coming in to purchase a tile installation.  They'd been in on Friday and there was an issue with the stone tile that they had chosen, they were looking for uniformity.  There is no such thing as uniformity when you're dealing with natural stone.  I once had a customer sit on the floor for over an hour going through box after box of marble tiles.  She wanted them all to be alike, unfortunately most of them had either a shade or a hue that did not meet with approval.  The poor thing left feeling rather frustrated and no doubt any wiser.

So, one of our hardware associates agreed to read the first few chapters of The Body in 4/4 Time.  He asked me how many pages and I told him about 8, 2 of the chapters are short.  He made a little face, and told me he really likes to read using audio books.  I smiled to myself.  In the fall, he's going to be starting at Penn State University as a finance major and he has no idea how much boring drivel he's going to have to actually read... in a book.

And this headline is important in so many different ways.

The whole world knows that the idiot in the White House has now made Iran a much stronger entity, a state that funds terrorism around the world.  Not only did he lose the war, he and his Secretary of Defense made the worst possible blunder possible:  they bombed a children's school killing 158 little girls.  No matter how much money this asshole throws at them in his surrender, that bombing has gashed a hole in the heart of every Iranian.  As a result, at some time in the future one of Iran's terrorist cells will take revenge upon the United States.  Will it be a school?  Possibly.  Or possibly a sporting event.  One thing is certain, they will exact their revenge.  Anyone who thinks otherwise is most likely a Republican.