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.
Our outside temp is a balmy 79 (F)! That's nice. Even nicer is the fact that our high this afternoon is only going to be in the mid-90s (F). Thunderstorms are also on tap for this evening. I'm fine with that.
I do work this afternoon. They're bringing in food. Chicken. This sort of means I'll be spending the afternoon grazing... but only sort of. I'm scheduled to work in the paint department this afternoon. I like working in paint. Because it's a holiday, most of the customers coming in looking for deals will hit the store early; cookouts are planned for this afternoon.
Yesterday afternoon I took a ride in the Netherlands. Very flat. For 10 miles. My trainer was happy, so was I because my left knee was working fine.
Today we celebrate our independence, the day we officially separated ourselves from England.
Today we are also living with an old authoritarian president who believes the best way to win is to divide and conquer. While that tactic is not outdated, it is totally incongruent with what is happening in the United States. He would need to be seen as being successful by a majority of Americans for that tactic to work. This man is an abject failure. On a day when a majority of Americans are going to be celebrating their independence, he's going to be holding a political rally to support his tactic of divisiveness. It's my understanding that the military is requiring personnel to attend dressed as civilians to make it look like there's a crowd. I feel sorry for them. This is not the way you create loyalty. The only thing he is doing is notching up another failure, but then his entire life has been failure, after failure, after failure. There is truth in saying that everything Donald Trump touches dies.
Well, yesterday was a scorcher here in Central PA. My upstairs would have been unbearable without the air conditioning. When I left the house to go to work at 1 PM, the outside temp was 100 (F). When I took the on-ramp to 81 West, the temp had climbed a degree to 101 (F). By the time I took the exit ramp to get to the store the temp outside my car was 102 (F). And it got hotter. The air conditioning was on in the store, however they dimmed the lights to offset the electrical expense. As a result, there was no power to the machine we use to cut blinds. C'est la vie. When I drove my car out of the parking lot to go home, our outside temp was 104 (F). That's hot.
Right now our outside temp is 81 (F). The high this afternoon is expected to be cooler than yesterday. We're only supposed to go up to 100 (F).
And work was slow yesterday. I did get a measure, just before I left. This doesn't mean we weren't going to be hitting our plan. We were making buckos galore thanks to everybody coming in to buy a window A/C unit.
Even though today's going to be another scorcher, there are things that need to be done. I have to go to the post office, buy groceries, and put gas in the car. Hopefully, I'll get all of these chores done before the temps get too hot.
I went to see Supergirl. I thought it was decent. It's doing okay at the box office, but not great, I suspect because audiences were expecting a variation of Superman. You know? Fighting for truth, justice and the American way? Kara, Clark Kent's cousin, was well into her teens when her parents sent her to Earth, unlike Clark who was sent as a baby. Supergirl is not the "all American girl," though she does fight evil.
And the Fourth is upon us. I work. I'll be honest, I'm not happy. Most people I see and talk to are not happy, unless they're a MAGA cultist, and they don't care how bad things are as long as they are in charge. The Orange Anus justified insider trading on an interview and they shrugged away the corruption, they don't care, as long as they are in charge. J.D. Vance laughed at the idea of Nixon resigning because of Watergate, saying it would never happen today. The corruption runs so deep with this administration. Anything and everything goes, as long as they can steel a buck. What they don't understand is that voters are growing more and more angry. They don't care because they're in charge. They don't govern, but that's okay as long as they're in charge. They are the worst possible human beings in the world, and they don't care, as long as they're in charge.
