Don't Let Me Down

Good Morning, World.  It's a chilly 21 (F) here in Central PA, and that's going to be about as good as it gets today.  Well, not quite, temps will rise, but only around 7 degrees if we're lucky.  This means Howie's time outside is limited and he has only so much time to find a stick, or a twig, or a rock to trade for a piece of Puperoni.  Don't let anyone tell you dogs aren't smart.  He's long past the barter stage and I'm surprised he hasn't installed a little stick stand on the back porch with the only currency accepted being a tasty little treat.

There are chores on the menu for today.  Baking bread being one of them.  Here's an interesting thing that I've noticed:  it takes a long time for mold to grow on store bought bread.  I have had pieces in the bag for over a week and a half and, surprisingly they're not even stale.  Home baked bread, however, the kind which doesn't include lots of chemicals will start to mold in about a week, and will be stale in a day if not wrapped tightly.  

Yesterday at work, I sold a measure.  That was fine.  Sadly, $2680 of vinyl plank flooring that I sold two weeks ago was returned because... well, I have no idea.  That information is not provided.  So, instead of having a positive sales figure at the end of the week I was in the hole -$475.  Don't that suck.  And we have our store inventory coming up in 3 weeks, which means they want constant aisle maintenance.  This means filling as many holes on our shelves as possible, which in turn means I will actually have to work.  Can you hear the excitement in my voice.

One of my favorite groups, Milky Chance, recorded and released one of their best songs with a small Viennese orchestra.  There is a 2 album set coming out and I'm thinking it might not be a bad investment. 

I saw this morning that China is considering selling TikTok to Elonia.  I hate to tell you people, this will be very bad if it happens.  For one thing, his ties with China run deep.  They make the batteries for his cars, hell, they even make the cars.  One of the biggest concerns about TikTok is that the Chinese are using it to infiltrate American businesses, that they're stealing American secrets.  So what would be worse than having the man who bought the Orange Anus owning the app that Conservatives fear most.  It almost makes one wonder if that's why the Supreme Court is seriously considering banning TikTok unless the Chinese sell it... to Elonia.  Well, that didn't come up in the arguments, but you know them Conservatives love the idea of bowing down to the richest man in the world.