Trump Avoids (?) the Press

 The temp in the writing room is a cool 68 (F) this morning.  Outside, at least according to Accuweather, Howie's running around in 53 (F) weather.  Skies are clear, and are predicted to stay that way.  Our high will climb into the mid 70s (F).  A warming trend is in the forecast for this coming week, though how warm is questionable.  Will we hit the predicted 80 (F)?  I guess I shall have to wait and see.

And we are in the middle of a holiday weekend.  This will be the last holiday until Black Friday rolls around.  Up until yesterday, our store has been hitting our forecast as far as sales, but then things slowed down. It's anybody's guess as to how busy we might be today since this is the last holiday when people can have cookouts and barbecues until next spring.

I did deal with three women in hajibs yesterday who were buying vinyl sheeting.  Their English was not the best and I one point they wanted us to deliver a fairly large sheet of rolled vinyl, however, they thought it could be delivered at a specific time.  That costs a lot more.  After about 15 minutes, one of them told me that they would return today with a bigger vehicle.  One of them was a bit frustrated, but the other two, like me, seemed to find the conversation amusing.

And, being retail, I found this amusing.

And as far as any of us know, the Orange Anus still breathes.  Yesterday was fun though, wasn't it?  Waiting for breaking news of his demise made the world giddy with excitement.  As more than one person pointed out, if the administration wanted to prove that Orangie was still stinking up the land of the living, they could have done so with him make a personal appearance.  Let's be honest here, normally the man would have no problem walking over dead babies to get is mug on TV.  Yesterday, that didn't happen.  The Press Corp was kept about 1000 feet away (305 meters) at all times.  Even the pictures and video of him getting into his car were taken from quite a distance away.  They were again kept at a distance when he (supposedly) left his golf club in Virginia.  They were told that he just didn't want to talk to anybody yesterday... now wouldn't that be a first?  Another thing is that people who claim to live near his golf club commented that normally when he golfed at that club there are usually a number of security helicopters in the air, and that police cordoned off specific roads, and that didn't happen yesterday.  Orangie's next scheduled meeting is on Tuesday.