Backrooms

When I got up this morning, our temp was 54 (F).  That was 2 and a half hours ago and it's already up to 62 (F).  The low to mid 80s (F) are where we will be at some time this afternoon.  No rain.  In fact, the skies are supposed to be fairly cloud free for the next few days.  The heat is returning, with our daily highs being in the low 90s (F).  It's difficult to believe that summer is only 3 weeks away.

Yesterday was busy.  My car passed the yearly state inspection.  Since it's new, I would have been truly shocked if there would have been any problems.  Many household chores were completed.  I stopped by the store and bought another tomato cage, which I'm using on the cucumber plant, and while I was there I picked up an eggplant seedling.  The only thing I didn't get accomplished was getting my haircut.  I stopped in and the wait was over an hour.  Need I say anything more?

In the afternoon, I got too a bicycle ride in Ireland.  Nice.

I also went to see Backrooms.  I liked it.  The film is classified as horror and there are a few jump scares, but overall I'd say it was more tension driven.  This is because you don't know what in Hell is going on.  Backrooms is not for everybody.  Two women sitting in front of us left about 3/4 of the way through the movie.  I understand it does make some people feel very uncomfortable.  There is a lot of lore online about the Backrooms, I looked at it afterwards and the history of company Async and what they've done helps.  Backrooms is not undiscovered country, in fact I immediately picked up parallels with the SciFi classic Forbidden Planet, where the long extinct Krell built a giant machine to explore the Id.  

So, there were elections for midterm candidates yesterday.  Truthfully, there were no surprises... well, except for one.  Orangie's endorsed candidate for governor in Iowa lost.  This is a first for Orangie in the primaries, and I don't doubt repercussions are happening in his administration.

And right now people are beginning to wonder just where Orangie is.  The last time he was seen in public was at a Cabinet Meeting on May 27, that was before his visit to Walter Reed for his 3rd physical since stupid voters put him back into the White House.  As for the nightly shit posting on Truth Social that he's getting credit for?  Is it actually him?

CBS is dead.  I suspect that the Ellisons, the billionaire father and son duo who bought the network, thought they'd be able to turn it into Fox New Lite quietly.  Now they know that ain't gonna happen.  This is just one more example of how billionaires are simply unable to read the room.  They have this belief that, like the kings of old, the people will simply bow down to them  and allow to be put into servitude.  They simply refuse to believe that being wealthy does not make them special.  History is littered with the bodies of so many who believed exactly the same thing.  I wonder if the Ellisons ever took into consideration just how much hate their takeover was going to generate.  Probably not.  After all, they are billionaires.

Trump Suffers

Well, we have 52 (F) outside and today is going to be busy.  Luckily, mother nature has seen fit to copy today's weather over into tomorrow when I'll have the opportunity to do some yardwork.  Today's high is predicted to be in the upper 70s (F) without a cloud in the sky.  Tomorrow's going to be repeat of today.  The same weather is on tap for Thursday, but I work so it's not as important.

I worked yesterday.  I was busy.  I sold 2 measures and had to deal with an array of problems that made time fly.  The biggest dealt with this new software they've dropped on us.  First off, it's not fully functional yet.  The ability to change products is just not there.  We're still relying on our measurement services team to build quotes, however the default products they're using are wrong.  The process used to correct this, to give the customer what they ordered, is... interesting.  We have to delete the existing wrong product, add the new product, then go into the install screens and reattach all of the installations.  Oh, and for some reason the system wants to throw in random decimal points.  You can't buy 22.6 boxes of flooring.  As long as the customer isn't sitting impatiently beside you, it's an adventure.  If they're waiting to pay $5000 for an installation, you look like an untrained amature.

Orangie's slush fund appears to be taking a momentary vacation.  The administration said, and remember how much they lie, that they were not going to push for it.  Knowing how deceitful Orangie and his cohorts are, I'd have to say that this is just another... well, for lack of a better word, lie.  Their greed is too intense for them to let go of that prize.

And Orangie's saying he doesn't care about the midterms.  In his dementiated state, he may not.  It could be that he is only focused on his own ego.  The only thing that satisfies his ego lust is having his name on as many things as possible.  This is why having to remove it from the Kennedy Center was a crushing blow, and even though he's supposed to be taking it down, don't hold your breath.  He and his team of cronies are going to delay as much as possible.  However, the more he loses, the deeper the gashes to his ego, and this is a very, very good thing.  A large majority of Americans do truly want him to suffer.