Choosing to Fail Rather than Succeed

 Thursday.  It's not as windy today.  Temps will climb up into the mid 69s (F).  This would be a good day for getting a little lawn work done, unfortunately I have to work this afternoon and other things need doing before I clock in.  Tomorrow temps will be in the low 70s (F), and though the skies will be overcast, I have already begun a to do list.

Speaking of work, the new schedule is out and they cut me back to 16 hours a week.  I did a quick calculation and I can easily live on that.  While my paycheck from the large, orange retailer is not my only source of income, I prefer using those dollars to pay my day to day living expenses.  Sixteen and a half years ago, when I began my career with this retailer, part-time associates' would only be scheduled for 5 hours a week when things got slow, usually in the winter months.  I don't doubt that's what corporate is doing right now.  Back then I would ask full time associates if they wanted to leave early, using their personal or vacation time since that payroll expense had already been expensed and accrued.  Those days have already returned.

I did go to PetSmart yesterday to pick up Howie's Frontline flea and tick treatment since we are now heading into flea an tick season.  There was a time when I used Frontline year round.  That was before common sense set in and I realized that in Central PA fleas and ticks are, for the most part, inactive for 6 months of the year.  And, as some of you might expect, while I was at PetSmart I picked up a new toy for you know who, and it just happens to be another octopus.  I had barely gotten it out of the packaging before he snagged it off the kitchen counter.

Another thing that happened yesterday was Senator Chris Van Hollen, from Maryland, flew down to El Salvador to hopefully at least see, if not talk, to Kilmar Abrego Garcia and was not permitted to do so.  In fact, he was told by the El Salvadoran Vice President that Garcia would not be returned because Trump was paying them to keep him.  This should not surprise anyone.  Garcia's return would give both Democrats and the media a win, or, as the Orange Anus's administration calls it, a scalp and the last thing Orangie wants is to be scalped.  His small, and quite possibly drug damaged brain, fails to recognized that taking this hit would actually improve his approval ratings.  However, at this point in this tragedy, he has no one else to blame.  Yes, he would rather fail than succeed.  This is why he has 6 bankruptcies.  This is also why his tariffs will fail miserably.  He went in swinging with a baseball trying to prove his superiority and is only hitting air balls over the fence.

A bit of fluff:  It seems as though those women in designer blue coveralls who touched the edge of space are upset that the vast majority of people see this as nothing more than a rich man's stunt ride.  Can you hear me laughing at them?  It's rather sad that at this supposedly momentous moment Katy Perry chose to release a list of upcoming tour dates and expected people to celebrate.