Independence Day

Our outside temp is a balmy 79 (F)!  That's nice.  Even nicer is the fact that our high this afternoon is only going to be in the mid-90s (F).  Thunderstorms are also on tap for this evening.  I'm fine with that.

I do work this afternoon.  They're bringing in food.  Chicken.  This sort of means I'll be spending the afternoon grazing... but only sort of.  I'm scheduled to work in the paint department this afternoon.  I like working in paint.  Because it's a holiday, most of the customers coming in looking for deals will hit the store early; cookouts are planned for this afternoon.  

Yesterday afternoon I took a ride in the Netherlands.  Very flat.  For 10 miles.  My trainer was happy, so was I because my left knee was working fine.

Today we celebrate our independence, the day we officially separated ourselves from England.

Today we are also living with an old authoritarian president who believes the best way to win is to divide and conquer.  While that tactic is not outdated, it is totally incongruent with what is happening in the United States.  He would need to be seen as being successful by a majority of Americans for that tactic to work.  This man is an abject failure.  On a day when a majority of Americans are going to be celebrating their independence, he's going to be holding a political rally to support his tactic of divisiveness.  It's my understanding that the military is requiring personnel to attend dressed as civilians to make it look like there's a crowd.  I feel sorry for them.  This is not the way you create loyalty.  The only thing he is doing is notching up another failure, but then his entire life has been failure, after failure, after failure.  There is truth in saying that everything Donald Trump touches dies.