Hypocrisy

 The temperature didn't really drop much over night.  If the air was so thick with humidity, we'd be sitting at a comfortable 75 (F).  Ah, but there is that humidity.  Rain is in the forecast.  Showers with the possibility of a heavy thunderstorm of two are quite possible.  Thanks to that little storm we had on July 4th, we're under a flood watch.  According to Accuweather, the rain should be starting in about a 30 minutes.

My upper body workout went well yesterday morning.  Riding the bike takes care of my legs.  I do, however, want my upper body training to be more than picking up boxes of tile at work.  I jokingly told my trainer that this routine makes me feel swol.  He thought it was funny.  I don't think he has very many semi-senior clients, which means this will be a learning experience for him.

I've decided to can my Norwegian lessons and focus more on refreshing my French.  I get Le Monde, so I have no problem reading French, it's hearing and speaking it where I've lapsed.

I was going to cut up the branch that the storm ripped from one of the maple trees on the hill behind my house, however, the weather is not working in my favor.

An amusing thing about my writing is that I tend to like characters whose names end with s.  This, as one of my editors has told me, creates a conundrum with possessives.   For example, is it Jules' or Jules's.  I sent him a copy of the first chapter of The Body in the Words and he replied how nice it was not to have a character whose name ended in s... so, I introduced him to Carlos Cassadas, the tall, handsome Spaniard who, along with his wife, runs the Hygia Wellness Clinic. 😂🤣😂

The dementia of our 47th president was on full display yesterday when the Orange Anus claimed that the Islamic Republic of Japan launched 111 missiles at the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln.  He also fell asleep again... on the world stage.

You got to hand it to Republicans, while their incompetence at governing is in full view, it has no problem sharing the stage with their boldly glaring hypocrisy.  You can show them a comparison of Biden's slight slippage next to Orangie's full collapse and they will still say "but Biden."  Now the Cultists will accept this, but do they really believe a majority of Americans are that stupid?  The answer's yes.  They have never come to grips with how intelligent Americans are, and so they double down on their hypocrisies. For a long time Americans did believe their deceit, that they were the party of Family Values.  If there is one thing that the Orange Anus excels at, besides lying, it's ripping the mask off the Republican Party.  He has made it so clear that the GOP is the party of selfishness and greed, that no lie is too false, that they celebrate their racism.  Their downfall is that they simply refuse to understand that today's Americans see right through their bullshit.

Pissing on McConnel's grave

If the long range forecast is correct, our daily highs should be in the mid 80s (F) for the next 2 weeks.  Keep in mind, this is a long range forecast and they're reliability is always questionable.  We have 69 (F) outside now, with overcast skies.  The clouds are supposed to remain.

Sometime today I want to get out my saw-on-a-stick and begin cutting up the branch that was torn from the tree behind my house.  I will also need to check on my container garden to see how dry the soil is.  Last year my plants were spindly.  This year, they're so "get out of the way," overgrown.  Next year, I will need to locate them in other areas of the yard so they all have room to grow.  

Yesterday afternoon I got a nice bike ride in along a canal in France.  I rode over 10 miles, and the ride was long and flat.  There was a hill with a steep 10% grade, but it was up over a highway and then down again.  My trainer wants me to bring back the hills.  He also wants me to start doing squats again.  That's probably not going to happen.  I have always hated squats.

Yesterday Big Boy came to my home town.  Who or what is Big Boy?  The last functioning steam locomotive in the United States.  Big Boy stayed overnight in the Enola railyard.  At one point, the Enola railyard was also the largest in the United States, stretching over 5 miles.  The Enola railyard is the reason Mechanicsburg is called Mechanicsburg, because that's where all of the train mechanics lived.  Just to put things into perspective, the Enola railyard is a little over a quarter mile away from my house.  Today, thousands and thousands of people are expected to flock to the Enola railyard to see and take pictures of Big Boy.  A friend of mine whose son works for the Enola police department told me to avoid US 11/15 because the traffic is going to be a freaking nightmare.  I will stay away.  Here's a pic of Big Boy arriving yesterday.

So, Scott Jennings told the world he talked to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes yesterday.  John Thune said the same thing.  Other Republicans as well claimed to have had conversations with Mitch.  No one believes them because Republicans lie more often then they blink.  It didn't take long before thousands upon thousands of people on social media were making the same claim.  I think that's rather fitting, Mitch McConnell becoming the brunt of black humor joke.  Isn't it nice to know that in death... or possibly near death, Mitch's name elicits a joyful mockery, something almost as much fun as pissing on his grave.

The Orange Anus was supposed to release the unredacted Epstein files yesterday.  He didn't, and, as everyone should have expected, the war with Iran is back on.