the 1950s

 Yay!  The temps out side are a balmy 6 (F).  That's better than 1(F), which is what they were yesterday, and the forecast is for them to reach up into the mid to upper 20s this afternoon.  The Polar Vortex is leaving.  Warmer, and yes I do mean warmer, air is slowing pushing the frigid mass that's been chilling America out to sea.  Now, isn't that nice.

There was excitement in the house yesterday.  I made an appointment to have my thermostat switched out with Raddle Electric.  As I've said before, Joe Raddle was killed in an automobile accident and his assistant Jordan is taking over the business.  On arriving, Jordan told me he'd never done anything with thermostats before and, after taking it off the wall and examining it for about ten minutes said he would feel more comfortable if I went with a plumbing/heating contractor. He put the thermostat back on the wall and left, and I called Webber plumbing and heating.  Three hours later, I tried to adjust the temp down and the thermostat fell off the wall.  Twenty minutes later Jordan was back since I no longer had heat.  I told him, "let's put the new one on," and we did.  I pulled up a photo of where the colored wires were to go, and he followed the picture.  I now have heat.  He had a learning experience.  I actually thought the whole thing was rather humorous.  He did mutter "fuck" a few times, which made it funnier for me since I could pretty much figure out what was going on in his head.  As you can see, I'm going to need to touch up the paint.

And in another attempt to take us back to the 1950s, the Orange Anus completely eliminated the EEO.  For those not old enough to remember, back then white man were the office workers, not women.  A woman could be a secretary, that was about it.  Also, if you were a married woman and got pregnant, you could be fired; they didn't want you taking time off from work.  There was birth control, but it was condoms.  Catholics used the Rhythm Method and had very large families.  Of course things were much less expensive, too, and if a married couple lived modestly, wives didn't need to work.  Oh, and everybody got married to someone of the opposite sex.  Women who didn't get married were called spinsters and for the most part frowned upon because not getting married and not having children proved they were failures.  People of Color were forced to do the shit jobs, and they definitely knew their place in society.  Disabled people didn't work, they were supported by their parents, or siblings, or put into homes.

This is not going to go over well at all.  But then Conservatives have never, ever really been known for their intelligence.