Streisand Sings

There's a storm front that's going to be moving through the area this afternoon.  High winds.  Possibly heavy rains.  They're predicting almost an inch of rain.  This is fine, as long as we don't get it in an hour.  That would be disastrous for low lying areas.  The temps are going to drop a bit too.  Remember, we're still in winter.  The good news is that the warm-up continues.

And work yesterday was... so... slow.  I got more than enough laps to to hit my step goal.  I browsed the aisles, as it were, looking for deals and I found one.  Arm & Hammer laundry detergent: 128 loads for $9.  That's a $4 markdown.  I now have laundry detergent for the next 2 years.  

I also did some research on passports for children.  All American children traveling abroad need a passport, no matter what their age.  So, if you're planning on taking your 10 month-old to France, he's going to need a passport, and that passport is only good for 5 years.  Honestly, you'd think there'd be a way in which you could simply update the picture every year.

And the Oscars were on last evening.  In spite of some sound issues, I enjoyed them.  One Battle After Another won 6 awards, including Best Picture.  It's definitely anti ICE, starting off with immigrants who've been arrested, being rescued.  I laughed a lot when I saw it since it's more of a comedy than a drama.  Michael B. Jordan won for play identical twins with different personalities in Sinners.  He deserved the award.  Timmy Chalemet lost all around because not only was he nominated for Best Actor, he was also one of the producers for Marty Supreme, which was also nominated for Best Picture, and Best Director.  And the high point was 83 year old Barbra Streisand's tributed to Robert Redford.  She sang live, and that brought a tear to my eye.  

Back in the real world, the Orange Anus is peeved that none of the countries that used to be our allies in NATO want to send any of their ships to help us open the Straits of Hormuz.  They know that the longer it stays closed, the more he's going to look like a dumb bastard for starting a war on a hunch.  People around the world are going to hate on America because of him.  

Gas prices are going to continue to climb.  The Orange Anus has evidently opened up the reserves trying to bring prices down and that, so many other of the things he does, failed to work.  MAGA cultists, those on the lower rungs of the financial ladder are beginning to complain.  Perhaps if they hadn't been so gullible, if they hadn't wanted to believe that a man who speaks like he's 12 years old was actually more mature than a... 12 year old.

And finally, RFJ Jr's team put out a video of him wrestling a Twinkie.  This administration has fallen so far.

Allies

Sunday - I slept in until 0530... of course I may go back at some time for a nap.  Naps are good things.  There was a time when I thought them foolish, I was younger then.  Dogs and Cats nap quite a bit.  As we age, we become more like our furry friends... some of us even get a bit furrier.
I rode 13.79 miles yesterday in Riviera Valley... which is, in fact, in the Italian Alps.  Not a lot of climbing, but you don't need hills to push your legs.  You do that by picking up your speed.  The higher your cadence, the higher your heart rate.  As I've always said, your legs are the engines of you body.
Now that I've finished up the second season of "Lost in Space" on Netflix, I've moved on to "The Expanse."  Amazon Prime picked up this series after the SciFi channel cancelled it.  I had seen a few episodes quite a while back and only found it somewhat interesting.  Well, in the years since then the show has transitioned from a science fiction mystery into something akin to Frederick Pohl's classic novel "Gateway."  Here's the trailer:

Oh, and I guess the Idiot Jerk and his Idiot Party were taken off guard by their assassination of an Iranian Colonel.  Mikey Pompeo is claiming our European Allies are helping as much as they need to be....  I think he needs to revisit the definition of Allies.  I do believe he was expecting the groveling of supplicants, but then he is a Crazed Conservative Christian.
And then the Idiot Jerk Tweeted some nonsense about targeting 52 sites if there was any form of retaliation...   Thanks to those Crazy Christians he now has a god complex.  All they see is the power he is going to give them.  In case you didn't know, this is how evil works.  Neither he, nor they, understand those who used to be our Allies are just going to sit back and watch him shit his pants.