Priceless

Well, it's 63 (F) here in Central PA and we'll be topping off in the upper 70s (F) sometime this afternoon.  Tomorrow and Friday our daily highs will be in the mid 80s (F). This is great when it comes to saving on your heating expense.  I like to keep the heat turned off until October, some years that has been difficult.  Not so this year.  Except for those 2 weeks during which the sun attempted to melt us, this summer has not been that bad.  Natural gas and electric bills are still going up, but not because of usage.  High bills have everything to do with price increases and little, if anything, to do with how frequently they've been turned on.

Even though I did a lot yesterday, some serious fall cleaning, baking a bread pudding, and working on the new book, I still had enough time for naps.  This tends to be SOP whenever I work 25 hours.  Whether this is actually work related, or the fact that I sometimes just look for an excuse to take a nap is up for debate.  It doesn't help that Howie knows what the word nap means and the mere mention of it sends him racing up the stairs.

As I've said, I've been playing Kingdome Come, Deliverance II, and I will admit to having made some serious mistakes.  This is a Role Playing Game in which your main character (me) has to both eat and sleep... and bathe.  If you don't take a bath, other characters will tell you that you stink and refuse to help you.  If you don't eat or sleep the game will just grind to a halt.  These are things I had to learn.  This being said, this evening I'm going to load an earlier save and start anew.  Here's the trailer.  Be forewarned, there is violence and language, and when I get farther on in the game there will be sex.

And yesterday the Republicans demonstrated on a massive scale their total incompetence. They spent hours and hours building up a case Jack Smith, alleging that he colluded with Frani Willis down in Atlanta at a basketball game.  They went to the hearing fully armed with posterboards.  Kennedy, from Louisiana, also known as Foghorn Leghorn, said that Smith made him want to throw up.  However, they didn't do their homework and all of their posturing and posterboards were for naught. Jack Smith was not with Fanni Willis at an Atlanta Hawks game, he was at a Hawkeyes basketball game in Maryland with his wife.  The look on Katie Britt's face as she came face to face with her "Oh, Shit!" moment rocketed around the internet because they had everything wrong.  Her look is priceless.

They allowed Jack Smith to tell the truth about the Orange Anus because they thought they were going to nail him with a lie... and they utterly failed.

Orange, Red, and Blue

Good Morning, Afternoon, and Evening people.  Weather forecasters are predicting that our high this afternoon will be in the low 70s (F).  Tomorrow's high should be in the mid 70s (F).  Temps are supposed to increase until Saturday, at which time rain is going to once again come into the picture.  Some forecasters are predicting at least an inch of rain on Sunday... again.  We had rain this past weekend thanks to a Nor'easter.  If this keeps up, I'm going to have to mow my lawn again.

So, I worked yesterday and a change happened.  Around 5 PM I was called back to the office.  Usually when you get called back you've done something... wrong.  Being the wonderful associate I am, I knew that couldn't be the case.  I was correct.  My position has been changed, and I have no problem with that.  I am no longer a Flooring Specialist, which means no more sales goals, credit card goals, or measure goals.  I am now a Flooring Aisle Maintenance Associate, at my same rate of pay, of course.  The change was done because corporate only allows so many hours for specialists and that number is predicated by the total dollars in sales.  Basically, our flooring sales aren't high enough to warrant 2 full time and 2 part-time specialists.  This is actually fine with me, because I've really gotten tired of having to call people up to try and talk them into buying a flooring installation.  In my mind, this is a win, win situation.

And I'd like to remind you about the Orange Anus and Carrier, the A/C company.

Back in 2016 there was a big "to do" about Carrier moving its manufacturing to Mexico, and Orangie intervened.  He was going to save all of those jobs.  One of his deals was struck (do you know where this is going?) and jobs were saved.  800 jobs remained in the US, however 1400 from one Carrier plant moved down to Mexico.  Other Carrier jobs followed.  I'm bIringing this up because yesterday Orangie made a big announcement about a steel plant opening in Iowa, a $15 billion steel plant.  Iowa, a very Red state, is very close to turning Blue, and Orangie is scared shitless, hence his $15 billion lie.  We all know that plant will never be built, let's just hope that the Iowans have grown smart enough to know how much Orangie lies.