Ticket This

 Today is going to be a repeat of yesterday with our high temp in the mid 80s (F).  We may get an isolated thunderstorm, however nothing like what we've dealt with over the past 2 weeks.  On the long range forecast our daytime highs are staying in the mid 80s (F).  Take warning, though, there is another heat dome moving across the country.  Right now that sucker looks to be skimming past us to the south, so though of you in the southern states prepare yourselves.  This summer is only halfway over.

And I worked yesterday.  I didn't get a measure, a lead or a credit card.  My sales for this week are dismal.  That's okay.  I'm part-time.  My value comes in that I can work in at least one other department:  paint.  For the next 2 Saturdays that's where I'll be spending my time.  Honestly, there are times when I prefer working in paint.  For one thing, the paint department is almost always steady.  When it comes to redecorating you home, paint a room a new color is a lot less expensive than installing new flooring.  As the economy continues to slide in the wrong direction, the paint department is going to become very important.

Someone commented on another blog that I was reading that they'd heard Universal Studios was buying tickets to The Odyssey to make sales look good.  Being the straightforward, no nonsense person I am, I called this falsehood a... well, a lie.  Unfortunately, a lot of MAGA cultists are repeating this same deceit.  These people simply refuse to believe that film with a black Helen of Troy and transgender man can make money.  They don't understand that a movie that is "woke," can be a box office hit.  They said the same thing for "The Hail Mary Project." This is a minority group of people terrified that they are losing the culture wars.  So, this is me sticking them in the eye.  Here's The Odyssey's ticket sales from Box Office Mojo.  That 47% increase for  Friday's sales means that not only are people going to see this movie, they're chatting it up among their friends.