Not a Good Day for America

 We're starting out a bit warm here in Central Pa with our outside temp sitting at 75 (F).  Mugginess abounds.  I haven't checked what the dewpoint is, but I'm betting it's fairly high.  Will we have rain this afternoon?  I work, so I don't really care.  

I will also be working 4 days next week.  That's unusual, so someone must be on vacation.  I don't mind.  Extra hours mean a little extra money and after yesterday I'm going to need a little extra.

And yesterday?  Things began well but then pivoted sharply into "well, that sucks" territory.  It all started with the loaf of bread I was baking.  I use olive oil instead of butter and usually I measure in the required 2 tablespoons.  Yesterday I just poured in what I thought should be 2 tablespoons.  I was wrong, so I ended up so I ended up with a bread cake, rather than a loaf of bread.

Then I tried to print something off.  My laser printer, which is probably abut 3 books old, sat there doing nothing.  My print screen said it was ready, however, my system said it was offline, and when I checked the printer settings in HP Smart, it said it was sleeping.  Well, nothing I did seemed to wake it up.  I then tried printing to my color laser jet and got a print head failure.  I contacted Hewlett Packard and the tech told me my laser printer was gone.  Unfortunately, my ticket was for the laser printer, not the color laser jet and I would need to begin the process again.  Since I'm going to need a new printer, I went to the Staples website and ordered one.  Ten minutes later I get an email from Staples telling me the printer I ordered is unavailable and that they will be crediting my account.  Someone else might have gotten frustrated.  Not me.  flexibility in the face of adversity has always been the key.  I'd had enough of Hewlett Packard, so I went to the Xerox website, checked out their laser printers, looked at some online reviews, and made my purchase:  a color laser printer.  Because it was my first time purchasing from Xerox I got a 15% off, which made this printer less expensive than the one I had tried to buy from Staples.  Here's the new printer:

And, as you might expect, I spent a bit of time yesterday watching the Orange Anus getting steamrolled by his blo bro Vlad.  By the way, that was a reporter on Fox who said Orangie was steamrolled.  Here's Brian Tayler Cohen on what Fox had to initially say.

I don't know about you, but I was embarrassed as hell watching Orangie standing there on the red carpet, as giddy as some school getting to meet K-Pop, waiting for Vlad to arrive.  I hope that I wasn't the only one to see Vlad give Orangie the double thumbs up as he hurried towards him.  Vlad played Trump like a two bit whore.  Vlad sang the golden oldies that Orangie cherishes, like the 2020 election was stolen, or that mail in voting is crooked.  Later on in the evening Sean Hanity threw him some powder puff questions.  He didn't ask him why Karoline Leavitt and Witkoff, and everyone else on Team Orangie, walked into that press conference looking ashen faced; this was universally reported.  Something was off.  Witkoff left the room before Putin began speaking.  Even Orangie looked soggy jowled.  And, of course, there are those videos of his slow, lumbering climb up into Air Force One after his treasonous meeting with Putin was over.  This was not a good day for America. 

Cough, Cough

 And here it is, Sunday morning.  After today, I'm going to have 3 consecutive days off as I move into my part-time status.  One thing that's going to change is the way I do laundry: all in one day.  That doesn't need to be the case anymore.  I can do a load one day, a load the next, and so on and so forth, if the mood strikes me.  Will I?  Nah,  I like getting it out of the way.

Yesterday was rather busy at work... in the morning and early afternoon, and then the customers thinned out.  Evidently there was Penn State football on TV last evening.  Being an hour and 15 minutes south of the university, just about everybody in the area is a fan.  At one time, when I was growing up, they were one of the winningest teams in college sports.  I don't think they're so much now-a-days.  Too many controversies.  The god Paterno turned out to be much less than a demi-god.  One thing, and many of you may find this difficult to believe but traffic is always terrible when there's a home game, even this far south.  Before Covid, (cough, cough) this is what Beaver Stadium looked like, and yes, it is called Beaver Stadium.

There are at least 2 associates out with Covid at the store.  One of them called off for 2 days, and then came back to work before being diagnosed (cough, cough).  An anti-vaxxer Republican, if you had any doubts.  Nationally, the infection rate is declining, however, that's only the case when you look at the entire country, and those states with a high vaccination rate.  Those states, like Alaska, and Wyoming, and Texas, and other Red States, where the anti-vaxxers dominate, people are still dying.  Over 3000 a day, and mostly anti-vaxxing Republicans.  I was talking to a fellow associate yesterday pointed out that this was a lot like watching Judgment (Cough Cough).  And I had to agree, this is like watching Slow-Mo Judgement.