Dashed

I got up early this morning because... well, I just couldn't sleep.  Our outside temps here in Central PA are a cool 62 (F).  We are going to warm up... a bit.  Halfway through April and our afternoon temps will be cruising the through the mid 80s (F).  By Thursday we should be in the low 90s (F).  Remember that heat wave California had a few weeks ago?  Well, it's here.  The long range forecast doesn't show us getting much in the way of precipitation, so in a day are so we'll be getting warnings about the risk of fire. 

I got a nice workout in yesterday morning.  Some editing was done.  And I worked.  Again, the garden department was hopping, while flooring sat silent for the most part.  I got my laps in, though I've had to alter my route.  Walking through the garden department has become question hazardous.  I'm neither a plant specialist, a hose specialist, nor a fertilizer specialist, so I can answer none of the questions customers pose regarding those and other related products customers might ask.  One thing I did notices, was that this year we're no longer carrying outdoor area rugs.  A lot of people like to put them under their patio furniture, and in previous years we had a nice selection.  Not this year. 

And here's something you rarely get a chance to see.   This is how the cover art for my newest book begins, with standard, water based primer (and no, this is not an advert for Kilz) on a 6" x 9" canvas.  

And Orangie couldn't let the horrific backlash about portraying himself as Jesus die down before he changed the tactic of his chaos.  He had a grandmother deliver Door Dash to the Oval Office..

This is actually an actress, Sarah Simmons, who might be a grandma, but who doesn't work for Door Dash.  In this schticky video, Sarah delivered MacDonalds to the Oval Office and told Orangie that she had to take on a job in her retirement years to help pay for her husband's cancer treatments.  One can only wonder what wacked out idiot came up with this idea.  I do think this was supposed to make him appear benevolent, giving a $100 tip to a senior citizen forced to work in her retirement years because health care in this country is so expensive.  On the left side you have poverty, and on the right side you have the pomposity of gold, glitz and grift.  And, of course, she is an actress.  What a shame we have so many feeble minded fools in this country who believe that this was real.

Blasphemy

Temps are warming up here in Central PA quite a bit.  By Thursday, we should be in the lower 90s (F).  I'm sorry, but we're still in April.  That's way too hot for this time of the year.  We will cool off a bit, with one forecasted day of temps in the mid 50s (F), but most days our afternoon highs will be in the upper 60s (F) to mid 70s (F).  I'm betting we start selling window A/C units like they're going out of style.

I did work yesterday.  Flooring was slow.  Our garden department was kicking.  I got my laps.  Our garden associates were sweating their little patooties off. I know this for a fact because on my trek through the store I saw a patootie lying on the floor in Aisle 55, next the the garden fertilizer, and it was definitely wearing what was left of an orange apron.  Here's a word to the wise, if you're shopping for curb appeal, looking for garden supplies, or feel the urge to peruse the petunias, do it on a weekday.  While there are those who still believe weekends were made for Michelob, there are many more who don't understand that visiting a home improvement garden center on a weekend means long lines and short tempers.

On the bright side, I did manage to sell 2 install measures.  

Otherwise yesterday was same old, same old, and might have been about as quiet a day as we get with this administration, and then this happened.  True, it is AI, but it gives you a good idea of what's going on in Orangie's head.

He posted this after attacking Pope Leo for being weak.  The truth is that Orangie knows that Pope Leo is a very popular religious leader, and Orangie, in his demented state, needs his cult to see him as a very popular religious leader.  Or maybe he felt he needed to do something to change the subject of Vik Orban's landslide loss to some other subject, something more authoritarian, something more blasphemous.  If that was his intention, he somewhat succeeded, at least in America.  People keep asking how can he be even more outrageous, well, they simply need to stop asking because he will undoubtedly find away.

And Vik Orban did lose badly in Hungary.  Tisza party needed a super majority of seats to take total control and then ended up with 138.  Orbie Baby lost so badly he had no choice but to concede.  Keep in mind Orbie still has allies in the government who will try to stall and hinder Hungary from moving to full Democracy.  But his loss was a sucker punch to Putin.  I'm betting Vlad is more than a little miffed.  His war with the Ukraine is now in it's 5th year and his budso Vik just got the shit kicked out of him in a general election.