That Ship Has Sailed

Well, it rained all night and I feel as though I should add "the day I left," but that would mean I'd have to break out the banjo and sing a chorus of Oh' Susanna.  Big problem, I don't have a banjo, which might be a good thing.  Outside, the drizzles continue.  The overcast skies are still hanging close to the ground, and that will help keep our temps cool.  We might get up into the mid 50s (F) today, but that's about as high as it's going to get.  When I left for work yesterday afternoon our outside temp was 48 (F).  Needless to say, the heat in my house was on.  

And work was slow.  When I got to the flooring desk, I had to complete a carpet install that had been started by our aisle associate.  The measure was made on line and the customer hadn't added a carpet.  The sale was simple enough, the only problem was that the customer had doused himself with some god awful cologne that was so sweet and over powering it felt as though it were torching the life out of my nasal passages.  What a good thing it was that the sale only took about 10 minutes, otherwise I'd have had to tell him to stand back at least 10 feet.

Otherwise, the day was boring.  I easily got in my steps.  When I got home, I played the new game I bought.  It's okay.  I have to get used to the differences.  I'm still in the tutorial stage, and I will admit to being tired: must have been all those steps I got in earlier.

Here's another picture of my roses.  This time of year, my yard is awash in color... as well as rain.

 

Evidently Orangie's Secret Service shot someone near the White House yesterday.  I think it is interesting that so much of the online chatter indicates massive number of people believe this to be another False Flag, meaning the administration is attempting to use the incident to drum up Orangie's approval ratings.  It ain't gonna work.  That ship has already sailed.  At this point, nothing is going to improve his terrible status with the American people.

And right now I'm seeing details on the peace deal Orangie's floating as a way to get out of the stupid war he began.  He is, and this is me being as concise as possible, giving them the kitchen sink... and the cupboards, as well as their choice in appliances.  Remember, his best seller, The Art of the Deal was written by someone else.  I understand that part of the "deal" is for us to pay a toll to the Iranians on every ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz.  The ship that sailed?  It's going to be expensive.

The Memorial Weekend Begins

So, here we are on Saturday morning, the first day of a three day weekend, a holiday weekend, and our outside temp is 49 (F), and we have a steady rain.  Folks, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but here in Central PA, it ain't gonna get much better.  Our high temp might be in the low 60s (F).  I'm not talking about a patch of rain, nor a swath of rain, I'm talking about an enormous sheet of rain covering almost the entire northeast of the country.  The skies are not going to start clearing up until sometime on Monday.   Tuesday's going to be nice.  That's a good thing.  I don't work on Tuesdays and I am definitely going to have to mow the lawn.

Yesterday was sort of busy.  I didn't cook anything special.  Dinner was ham salad.  That was the last of the Easter ham.  I did some grocery shopping.  I bought a ham hock so perhaps on Tuesday I'll make bean soup.  I have tons of dried beans, some wrinkly old potatoes, so I'll probably stop off at the supermarket on my way home from work tomorrow and pick up a carrot or two.  

I am scheduled to work this afternoon.  I'm not expecting it to be busy.  It is the holiday weekend.  Those who do show up will only be doing so because they're looking for the Memorial Day sales.  In the flooring department, we're doing a free install on specialty carpet.  Up until about 8 months ago, all of our carpet installs were free.  Then they began charging so could see an install charge on their quote, however, to offset this they lowered all of the carpet prices.  Then, 3 months ago, they repriced carpet according to density and... if you guessed that 70% of our carpets went up in price you'd be right.  And that increase was more than the amount they deducted to offset the install charge.  Remember, it's all about insuring that the customer pays as much as possible. It's all about greed.

And here's another picture of some of my roses.

What about Tulsi Gabbard quitting?  She's always been seen as a Russian asset, so I'm suspecting Putin has more important issues for her to attend.  I'm suspecting that perhaps her resignation was a mutual decision by both her and Orangie.  In his mind women are good for one thing, and one thing only, and diplomacy is not that one thing.  I also suspect that Orangie's blow bro Vlad is not too happy with Orangie's performance.  One of his main objectives, after all, was to insure that Ukraine capitulated.  Now that Ukraine is kicking Vlad's booty boy ass in so many Russian cities, it must be obvious to Vlad that Orangie is too untethered to be any use at all to him.  Even the real estate goons, Witkoff and Kushner seem to have disappeared form the negotiating stage, and both had some serious ties to Vlad.  I'm suspecting that Orangie's abysmal approval ratings have turned him into the biggest political anchor the world has ever seen.