At the 2 Paths in the Yellow Wood

Our 3 day heat wave starts today.  Daily highs are predicted to breach the 100 (F) degree mark.  That's toasty.  For those living in the scorch zone, make sure you stay hydrated.  This is not the day to start digging that swimming pool in your backyard.  This means you should limit what you do outside, no matter what your age.  Dehydration can be  a killer.

Yesterday was definitely the meh day of the week.  I could have done much more but I went to my local Giant supermarket in the morning.  One of the unnecessities that I purchased was a frozen Tombstone pizza (supreme) which Howie and I shared.  It was all downhill from then on.  Unfortunately, Howie is always up for a quick snoozer.  All you have to do is say the word nap.  So, that's what I did yesterday.  Ten minutes here.  Ten minutes there.  One would have thought that all of that napping might have ruined getting a good night's sleep, but no.  I got a full 7+ hours of deep sleep with plenty of REM, at least according to my Garmin watch.  Mostly, I'm blaming the chaotic times we're living in.  We are constantly being bombarded that fritters away at our brains, ruining our normal sleep habits until there's nothing left for us to do but nap away the day and sleep away the night.

As I'd said earlier, I've been playing around making little videos to announce The Body in 4/4 Time.  I'm somewhat pleased with this one.  Those who know their Robert Frost will find this familiar.  It's a very good way to talk about a broken heart.

Of course, our failing Supreme Court released the rest of their decisions for this year.  They saved birthright citizenship,   With his 91 paged dissent, Clarence Thomas, black man, proved he has the heart and soul of Ku Klux Klansman.  No matter how much he hates minorities, he, himself, will never be white.  He is a traitor to the constitution.  So is Sammy Alito, a man who is himself a birthright citizen.  The attempt to destroy the 14th amendment is based purely on racism.  Social Media was filled with vile Republicans denouncing this decision, some calling for the sterilization of immigrants.  One said women should not be allowed in this country because they might have a brown baby.  One woman shrieked about Haitians giving birth to over 60,000 babies.  And these people call themselves Christians.  They are a scourge upon this country.

A Convicted Rapist

Our outside temp is 71 (F).  We're going to get a 20 + degrees warmer today, but I am pleased to announced that this mini-heat wave that's descending upon Central PA is not going to be as hot as originally predicted.  Rather than have highs of 106 (F), we're only going to heat up to 101 (F).  Now, isn't that cool?  I can did that.

I got a nice workout in yesterday morning.  Today I have a bike ride.  I also don't work today.  I did yesterday.  They seem to have, at least temporarily fixed our sewage issue.  The question is how long will it last. I was told that the plumbers ran water down the line for a long time.  There's a difference between water and waste products.

Work was actually busy.  We dealt with a number of customers, some had made set up their installs online, and one who had set up her up with one of our flooring specialists. That last one?  That one required me to have a conversation with the specialist.  He just turned 65 and, even though he claims he's going to work fulltime for another 2 years, he has, for all intents and purposes retired.  He's decided he's not going to include a product when setting up the measure.  As a result, no quote gets built.  We don't build quotes at the store level, so I needed to contact our measurements services and provide them with a carpet.  She was not happy that there was going to be a 3 hour wait to get a quote.  After she'd left, I told him that he needed to key in a product, it doesn't need to be the one the customer is going to purchase.  He admitted that he should have put in a product, however, I know that in his mind he is already retired and he's going to do less and less.

We had a nice sunrise this morning.

So our not so supreme Supreme Court handed down several decisions yesterday.  With one, they gave the Orange Anus more power, edging him closer to being a dictator.  There were 2 other decisions that countered that evil step.  One was that states can still count mail-in ballots that are postmarked on election day if they're received after the election.  And they refused to hear his case against E. Jean Carroll meaning he's still a convicted rapist.

And it shouldn't come as a surprise that Orangie wants to hang a Nazi symbol at the White House.