Chicken with Politics

 Our outside temp is a cool 41 (F) and I'm going to disappoint those of you who don't like the chill, it's not going to get much warmer.  Yepper.  Maybe 3 or 4 degrees.  Tonight's low might possibly drop more than a degree or two below freezing.  This means the leaves will be dropping from the trees like rain.  I always like to see that, even though it means I'll either be raking them up or mowing them.  And yes, for those of you who are new here, I usually mow and mulch my leaves rather than rake them to the curb.

Yesterday I worked.  Even though it was slow, I did get my 3rd measure for the week.  I have one customer who has to come in and pick out their carpet.  I give them the occasional call.  Pressuring people to spend their hard earned cash is not something that comes easy for me.  My belief has always been that when they're ready to buy, that's if they're ever ready to buy, they'll do it on their own time.  People tend to spend more money if you let them, besides, all I have to do is look at the notes in their file and see that they are getting called, and texted, and emailed by our Measurement Services Department in an attempt to get them to buy.  Of course, this is all about greed.

I signed up for Hulu to watch the last to episodes of Only Murders in the Building.  I enjoy the show because many of the actors I grew up with get cast and it good to see that not only are they still alive, but still practicing their craft.  Unfortunately, this was cheapo subscription and I ended up with commercials.  I truly despise commercials.  Most of the ones that aired were for weight loss drugs and I couldn't help but wonder when did the human species get so damn lazy.

As I'd said, I've been scanning a lot of my old pictures into the computer.  Here's one of me and my dad.  I'm the little one.  This was taken in winter of 1953.  And yes, my parents did own a gray Mercury.

Of course, the Senate approved legislation that if passed by the House and signed by the Orange Anus will open the government.  Many, many Democrats are upset thinking that they caved.  Me?  I think they're playing Chicken with Politics.  For the House to approve it, Mikey Johnson would have to bring them back into session.  With the House in session, he would have to swear in the 2 Democratic votes that will put that other pieces of legislation, the one requiring the release of the Epstein files.  This caving by the Democrats is going to put the Republican House in a very serious position because of those files, and the 2 votes needed to make them public.  Had those 2 votes not been waiting to be sworn in, this would have been a cave of monumental proportions.  Now, the House and the Senate are playing Chicken with each other.

And finally, I don't know if you all saw, but Orangie went to a football game last night and was booed mercilessly.  And those fans were loud.  And Orangie was not happy.  You could see it on his face as he frequently paused while reading some sort of loyalty oath.  This was cutting as hell to a man who glories in praise.  So, after midnight, he punished America by pardoning a whole bunch of criminals.  He will never learn, neither will the Republican Party.