I don't have a wife, I have a dog.

Outside temps are in the low 40s (F) and today is supposed to be a few degrees warmer than yesterday.  That doesn't mean yesterday was cold, we were... seasonal.  It was also the chilliest we're going to have for the foreseeable future, that being defined as a 2 week long range forecast.  Yepper, we're heading for the 60s (F) again.

And there was some amusement at work yesterday.  As I was picking up my store phone, the door to the store manager's office opened and my manager and the store manager walked out.  Upon seeing me, my manger pointed her finger at me and said apologetically, "I've been trying to call your wife!  Three times!  And she hasn't answered!"  And I said, "I don't have a wife, I have a dog."  It turns out that another Dave Snyder set up a measure for a carpet install, and the installers did a shitty job.  Dave's wife, Shirley, called to file a complaint and the manager who took the call made a wrong assumption.  They thought this was hysterical, I thought it amusing.  When I told this story to Cori, my cover artist, she looked at me for a few seconds and then asked, "Are they that dumb?"  I smirked and said, "yes," and then we both laughed because that was amusing as hell.

Of course, this air traffic failure is slowly righting itself out.  My brother and sister in law, who were down in Florida for my nieces birthday, did get a flight back yesterday afternoon as things were coming back on line.  They were lucky, many weren't.  Sean the Duffer had another press conference yesterday during which there were, not surprisingly, many technical difficulties.

You have to remember that Duffer's only expertise is in Self-Promotion, he's a Reality TV star who only knows how to sell himself, which makes him sort of a prostitute.  From what I've been able to learn, the FAA problem was the result of the Federal Government buying untested AI software from a company Duffer's son-in-law partially owns.  Air traffic control in the US runs on a Legacy network relying on copper wires, however the AI software requires fiberoptic wires.  So, they started the AI on November 10 and by the 13th it had overwhelmed the Legacy network and crashed.  Years ago Verizon came out with a fiberoptic cable which would increase your internet speeds substantially.  I signed up, however, they didn't tell you that most home have copper wiring (a Legacy network) which slow things down.  Now they want $60 billion of our tax dollars to basically upgrade the Legacy network to a fiberoptic network.

And there's a big meeting next week between Putin, Xi, and the Orange Anus, however both Putin and Xi know that Orangie's toast, so we can expect even less.