Dour Days

Well, today's going to be the last comfy day for a while with our high temp this afternoon climbing into the mid 70s (F).  When I climbed out of bed this afternoon, our outside temp was 54 (F).  This is what's called good sleeping weather.  It's also keeps the cooling bills... cool.  How nice it would be to not burn through my bank account in order to keep my house cool this summer.

Yesterday was good in the morning and then ho hum in the afternoon.  My workout went well.  But then I had to go to work.  And it was slow.  I have a commercial tile job in the works, and there's an issue.  The tile the customer chose has a PEI of 3 (PEI has to do with the durability of the tile).  PEI 3 tiles are good for households, kitchens, and light commercial use.  He wants the floor installed in a restaurant which is, if it's a popular restaurant, is considered heavy use, so he needs a tile that has a PEI of 4 or 5.  Those tiles are more expensive and he was looking to go cheap.  This means there's a good possibility he might simply buy the tile and then find a cheap, local contractor who will do the install.  The fact that in 2 or 3 years those tiles are going to start cracking and breaking is something he isn't going  to think about.

And I sold my other tile job.  It went well, except for one thing (key heavy dismay).  After working with this couple for over 2 years on various flooring projects in their house, it turned out that they signed up for their measure with another associate.  This means that even though they know my schedule, and came in to go over their quote and do the changes they wanted, the other associate is going to get the sale.  There was a time when that didn't happen.  Before we switched to the Order Up system, if you did changes for a quote you would get partial credit.  Now, those days are history.

According to an NBC poll, very few people are proud to be an American.  These are our Dour Days.

Only around 23% of the population are proud to be an American.  Everybody else is looking around thinking WTF.  After 9/11, pride in American soared, until we realized that George W. Bush was prime example of Republican idiocy, and then it crashed.  During the Obama administrations pride cruised along on an even plane until Fox News decided they would earn bigger bucks if they sided with the MAGA Cultists.  You'll notice the big crash in pride happened when the Orange Anus got his ass reelected in 2024 and since then pride has been basically in freefall.  Now, it's only  soulless conservatives and MAGA cultists who seem to have any pride in America.  This is probably because they get so much joy in ruining other people's lives.  They are an unforgiveable sour bunch who celebrate the destruction of compassion.  They are the  millstone around American's neck that can only be broken by their defeat and, in their ignorance, have no idea how fast their vanquishment approaches.  This will be a good thing, this end to the dour days.

Transitioning

Well, we did have storms last evening.  Not the serious thunder boomers we had been warned about, but steady rain for a few hours overnight.  We still have a bit of humidity hanging around, but temps are going to be cooler, with today's high in the mid 70s (F).  We should have this cool weather for the next 3 or 4 days.

I did work yesterday.  It was my long day.  Eight hours.  And it was slow.  I did have to spend about 15 minutes explaining to a woman what a square yard is.  You would be surprised at how many people have problems with square feet.  They simply can't wrap their heads around a very basic formula:  length in feet x width in feet equals square feet.  This is basic math... well, maybe a tad more difficult than addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.  Seriously, they will stand there with a phone in their hand and say  "you do it."  This is grade school arithmetic.  How do these people function.

Because it was super hot last Thursday and there was a heat advisory, I called off.  When I checked my timecard this morning, I saw that I was short 6 hours and once again they processed a "no call, no show" against my attendance.  So I sent an email to the store manager telling him that I would like the issue resolved by the time I get to work this afternoon.

Later this morning, I'm going to download Mozilla FireFox onto this laptop so I can The Body in 4/4 Time for copyright.  This is a minor pain in the butt.

So, Mitch McConnell is in the hospital.  I thought he was in for some possibly health related issues.  Then this picture leaked and I realized he was transitioning.  Honestly, this should not come as a surprise to anyone.

And the Orange Anus did have his white trash UFC even last evening, and again, this should not come as a surprise to anyone, he fell asleep.  Even though the administration released a video showing tens of thousands in attendance, main stream media is saying the number was around 4000 "Celebrities and military personnel."  Remember, tickets weren't selling so that "military personnel" is covering a lot of seats.

We also should have expected that the ceasefire Orangie announced is in all actuality nothing more than a "framework" for a ceasefire.  Even though he comes up with a lot of concepts and frameworks, the art of the deal very rarely puts in an appearance.  There is a fairly good likelihood that this framework will fall apart because it depends on Israel to stop bombing Lebanon.  And Bibi?  He can't do that.  Once pease settles down in the area his corruption trial will proceed, and the last thing he wants is to dress his ass up in an orange jumpsuit and spend the rest of his life in jail.