When you hit middle age you really only have two choices: you can get fat and lazy until you roll over and die, or you can can get off your ass and do something, like maybe ride a bike.
Bluntness
I've also been told I have little tact, so if this offends you simply ride on.
Can you believe it? Our outside temp is sitting at 37 (F), which is quite warm when you consider last week we were lucky if our daily high made it out of the teens. This doesn't mean that our nightly lows are going to be be... well, low. They are. The long range forecast has them still dropping down into the 20s (F), but this is a nice beginning to the end of winter.
Much was accomplished yesterday. Shopping was done. So was laundry. I got a very nice 10 mile ride finished. Editing is proceeding. Over all, I'm quite satisfied with yesterday, and today began early. 0500 found me working on the edit. While some might same I'm editing, this is also a period where I rewrite. Things get moved around. Some points are enhanced. Details get added. Words get dropped off. The Body in 4:4 Time is in a flux of variations. Fundamentally, everything stays the same. This period is actually a lot of fun.
I will be baking bread this afternoon. Ah, the smell of freshly baked bread.
Today, among other things, I'm going to need to work on the aquariums. The algae problem seems to be returning. The fish don't seem to mind. I'm thinking of replacing the 50 gallon tank in the writing room with a 20 gallon, within the next month or so. I'd combine the two tanks into one, but the one in the living room as Barbs, and they're not good with other fish.
I needed a pic for this morning, so I just ran upstairs and took one of Howie on the bed.
And the shit show continues. Airspace around the El Paso, Texas airport has been shut down for the next 10 days because of security reasons. As someone else pointed out, the last time airspace was shut down was during 9/11. Back then America knew what was happening. Is this Orangie just causing chaos for the sake of chaos? Could this, perhaps, be another attempted distraction from the Epstein files? Personally, I think that's more likely. Both Congressmen and Senators are able to review the unredacted files and except for the few wack job, cultists, most are stunned, some visibly. There's a video of Lauren Boebert leaving the building. Her comment was that Ghislaine Maxwell deserves more time in jail and in a harsher prison. Bobo was very upset. An hour ago Senator John Thune was call for a full release of the unredacted files. Oh, and did I tell you that the airspace of El Paso has been shut down?
According to NBC, this is where Orangie's approval rating sits.
And his Bureau of Labor Statistics just released the jobs report for January. Don't believe it. They're saying that 130,000 jobs have been created. He needs this lie to back-up the lie that the economy is doing great. He and his administration are not renowned for either their honesty, or accuracy.
Well, we're starting off the day at a chilly 23 (F). The good news is that for the foreseeable future our daily highs will be in the upper 30s (F) to mid 40s (F). We have 38 days days until spring arrives. Personally, I don't think this is too early to begin a countdown calendar.
Work was terribly slow yesterday. When sales associates complained, I reminded them that they are still getting paid. If they wanted to, they could claim they were sick and leave, but then they'd have to use personal time. These people don't understand that they are being paid to be bored. There are things they can do to occupy their time, but that would mean having to... work, possibly. So these people do have a choice, it's just that they prefer complaining about how bored they are.
The first load of laundry is in the dryer and the second is in the washer. The dryer gets used much more in the winter since the drying rack, while economical, takes too much time. When the weather warms up, I'll be using the rack more.
One of the problems with people is that they so quickly forget cultural moments that were at one time very popular. I'm betting that not one of these haters deriding Bad Bunny remember America celebrated an entertainer who sang in Spanish. Now, I'm sure some of you readers might remember a certain Cuban whose character's catch phrase was "Oh, Lucy, I'm home!" Most people don't understand how much of a ground breaker Desi Arnaz was. Have you any idea how many baby boys were named Desi?
And an amusing moment from yesterday at work. One of our new hires, a rather quiet man, was at the flooring desk listening to our conversation, when suddenly, in a sadly silent voice asked, "when will the chaos end?" Well, shit, I do wish I'd have an answer, but I don't. It's constant. A day doesn't pass without hearing about last night's rage posting. I do hope this is tormenting the hell out of his dementated brain. At this point the scales have tipped terribly against him and so many people in this country simply want him to suffer.
Orangie's ballroom is a no go, a Federal judge has evidently put the kibosh on it, however this is after he's already torn down the east wing. Of the $400 million he claimed to have raised, they think $200 million was never received, and the other $200 million appears to have disappeared. Well shit, that sort of implies that Orangie stole $200 million.
While the Europeans are doing everything they can to investigate the Epstein files, Republicans in this country are doing everything they can to cover up them up. They were supposed to allow members of Congress access to unredacted files yesterday, and that didn't happen. Many of the victims names were unredacted, however the pedophile perpetrator's names were still hidden away. This makes it appear that many of these child rapists were either Republicans in office, or big $ Republican donors the GOP desperately wants to protect. This is not going to end well for them, and that's a very good thing.
