Ballroom Dancing

Well, our temps are a nice, comfy 64 (F) outside.  We'll be getting warm again today, but our afternoon high is only supposed to be in the upper 70s (f).  That's an improvement over highs in the low 90s (F)... in mid April.  Sunday we will be cooling off and, if the long range forecast is correct, our temps will stay in the mid 60s (F) for at least a week.  As we head into May, things will be warming up again.

I worked yesterday.  It was boring.  Last week our store was making our sales plan every day.  This week?  Not so much.  At this point, management is no doubt hoping for a big weekend, but Sunday?  Well, the forecast is calling for rain.  Even though there are people who don't mind browsing through the garden department in the drizzles, many will not.  They will stay home.

On the bright side, I did have 2 sales:  a carpet installation, and a blind installation.  This means I will have met my sales goal for the week.  That's a plus.  The few other customers I've talked to had no interest in having flooring installed.  They were either "just looking," or "just starting the process."  Those 2 phrases are completely interchangeable and both mean "thanks, but no thanks."

Howie's dewclaw scratched me yesterday and it did draw blood.  I was sitting down in the living room and he and I were playing catch with his neon green bone, when he decided he wanted to jump on my lap.  I put my arm up to stop him because he's a little too big to be jumping on my lap, and that's when it happened.  t's not really as bad as it looks, though I did wear an long sleeve shirt to work.

So, Orangie was bragging about his ballroom again, or more specifically, about what's going to be built beneath it.  

Let's see, there's a state of the art medical center, a combat center, a drone proof military center, a bomb shelter, his personal MacDonald's... well, maybe not the MacDonald's.  Though he's said there's going to be top, top secret stuff there and in his mind a MacDonald's might be essential, but not necessarily top, top secret.  For those of you who don't know, minor versions of those things were already under the East Wing.  And while I don't mind being a spoil sport when it comes to Orangie, I'm wondering why he thought it necessary to tell the entire world.  Doesn't it seem as though he's setting up his new ballroom to be the number one target?  Especially since he spends most of his time at Mar a Lago?  Since this new construction is entirely backed by private contributions, think Zuckerberg, and Miriam Anderson, and Bezos, amongst others, one can only wonder what's in it for them.  Since most of them already have built rather formidable compounds, I'm betting they're not planning on staying there in case something bad happens.   Makes one wonder, doesn't it.

Finally, Russel Vought testified before Congress yesterday. This man is a soulless sack of shit brimming to the top with unbridled hatred of every he can't control.  He needs to go to jail for a very long time.

Extermination Event

While it seems as though we're living in a slow cooker, these unnaturally warm days will pass.  The temp was 66 (F) this morning and is already rising.  We'll hit the low 90s (F).  In fact, this heat will stick with us for next 2 days before temps crash.  Yepper.  The flip side is coming.  Next week we're going to have frost warnings.  I'm suspecting this might just be a teaser for the real heat waves that will be heading our way this summer.

And yesterday was sort of a good/meh day.  I got things done.  But for some reason I felt as though I should take nap, after nap, after nap.  I chalk it up to boredom.  I finished mowing my lawn, and did some other yard work.  The I've started dismantling the retractable garden hose reel to see if I can salvage the hose.  It fell off the outside wall because I mounted it onto the wooden siding beneath the aluminum siding.  Both sidings together are about 2 inches thick and my trusty stud finder wasn't working through the aluminum.  Rather than drill four more holes, I've decided to see if I can take the thing apart and just use the hose.  We shall see.

I did get my workout yesterday.  That was fine.  I'm doing more reps on the leg extensions and the hammer jack curls, so those routines have been adjusted accordingly.  My trainer always sounds impressed when I do these upward adjustments, since it implies I'm getting stronger.  One thing's for certain, I aint' getting any younger.

And I've started Act III on my playthrough of Expedition 33.  The first time was a lot of fun, this is much funner.  I know things now I didn't know before.  The first time I simply wanted to beat the game.  Now I'm going after bosses that hadn't been part of the main storyline and enjoying the fights thoroughly.

For those who missed it, JD gave a speech at a Turning Point USA... well, I guess you might want to call it a small gathering of small minds.  Erika Kirk was a no-show, no doubt because ticket sales were not going to cover the cost of her pyro-technique entry.  So JD was left to face this.  Less than 25% of the seating had been sold.

And in the shit you can't make up category, we have Petey Hegseth  reading a made-up Bible verse from the movie Pulp Fiction thinking it was from... the Bible, now known as the gospel according to Quentin.

Rather loud whispers are saying that the Republican party is flipping out behind closed doors because Orangie's, and JD's attacks on the Pope are going to hurt them in the mid-terms.  They whining that Orangie is getting bad advice from certain people, like Petey.  Well, they're the ones who approved these people.  That's right, they voted for Orangie to make Petey the Secretary of Defense, and all of those other Christian Nationalists.  And Orangie is never going to give up on those crazy cultists because they make him something he's always wanted to be, a god.  So, when they tell him that the Pope is his enemy, he's going to believe them.  This means we should expect the attacks to continue.  If they hadn't been so power hungry the upcoming losses might have been avoided.  Now, the Republican party might actually be looking at an extermination event.