And So It Begins

 They said that the temps were going to drop over night and they were right.  Our temp is sitting at a very cold 10 (F).  That is cold  Everything outside is frozen.  We are going to stay below 32 (F) or 0 (C) until sometime after midnight.  There's another front coming through which should be warming things up... a bit.  And a reminder, we're still in autumn.  Winter doesn't start for another 2 weeks or so.  One bright thing to keep in mind, once we hit the winter solstice, days will begin getting longer again.  Just a few seconds at first, but by the time we get into February we will have an extra minute or two of sunlight every day.

I worked yesterday.  The first thing I do every Monday is check my sales figures.  I made hit both sales and measure goals, however there was a change between Sunday and Monday.  On Sunday I needed one measure to hit my goal, I got 3 last week.  Yesterday, that goal had some how miraculously increased to 2.  I still hit my goal, however no one else in the department did.  We also received a communication letting us know that carpet prices were being "standardized."  Prices were changed to reflect the density of carpet pile.  According to the communication, 40% of our carpets went down in price.  The other 60%?  Well, their prices increased.  The communications regarding price increases are all worded in such a way as to make it sound as though customers will be getting a better deal.  They are not.

On top of that, I eat dried blueberries with breakfast, either in my oatmeal or my cooked barley.  I get them from a company called Nuts.com.  I got an email from them telling me that the one pound bags I buy are now going to be 13 ounce bags.  But rest assured, the prices have been adjust accordingly.  This means that the price per ounce has gone up by 2 cents.  And so it begins.

This doesn't mean that prices haven't been going up for some time now, just that the increases are going to be coming at us faster with more ferocity.  Fasten your seat belts, for I suspect the crash that's coming is going to rock and roll them billionaires who have no idea how thin the ice is they're standing on.

And, in case you missed it, Orangie signed some sort of Executive Order to bail out the farmers his tariffs have been killing.  How much of our tax dollars are going to be spent to salvage their lives?  Between $11 and $12 billion.  As expected, Orangie lied and said that these monies are going to be coming from the tariffs Americans foreign companies have been paying.  In some sort of odd way this is almost like being taxed twice, isn't it?  Not that the billionaires care.  Nope.  I don't doubt that Orangie views billionaires as gods of business and commerce, and since he's fascinated by gods, and dictators, and authoritarians, he's going to give them everything their dirty little hearts desire.  Billionaires really do need to start studying the French Revolution, and just what it was that led up to all of that bloodshed.