Just Call Me Tactless

 Well, we have 54 (F) outside and partial sunshine.  Our high today is supposed to make it up to 70 (F).  If it does, at least according to the weather forecasters, this will be the warmest temps will get for quite some time.  Yes, autumn is in the air.  We had a lot of rain yesterday, not buckets, but constant drizzles and showers, enough to pond the parking lot of the orange retailer I work for.  Today, those showers are gone.

My first load of laundry for the day is in the washer.  Shirts.  They drying rack is fine for some articles of clothing, but certain things, like shirts and pants, need to go through the dryer otherwise you will need to iron them.  When I was young, everything needed to be ironed.  Clothes would go from the clothesline to the ironing board.  And since damp clothing irons better than dry clothing, you would need to sprinkle water on whatever it was you were ironing in order to iron out all of the wrinkles.  Am I like the only person who sees redundancy in this?  Now imagine doing this for a family of four or five.  Damn!

And I did work yesterday.  And even though the store was slow, the flooring department was hopping, at least until I punched in, then everything came to a standstill.  I did cover the paint department while the associate went to dinner, where I had an interesting experience with a tall, young man.  As I gave him his paint, he said he like to give me something.  Reaching into his back pocket he pulled out a small Jesus card.  I glanced at it and handed it back to him, saying, "you can keep it, I don't believe that shit."  He got red in the face and muttered, "you better, it's going to happen," just loud enough for me to hear him as he walked away.  I have friends who are very religious, my friend Jon, the Physical Therapist, for example, and I respect their belies and they respect mine.  I've talked to a number of people about this and it seems that everyone of them has reached the tipping point.  Whereas before they would accept the cards, now they hand them back saying, "no thanks."  I did the same thing, but with a little less tact.

For those who don't know, this is what Gaza looks like.

Yesterday Orangie and Nasty Netty, with the Hamas, officiated Biden's Peace Plan to stop the fighting in Gaza.  Why wasn't Biden's plan signed earlier?  Because Orangie and Nasty Netty put their two vile heads together at Mar a Lago after the election and decided to put it on hold, hoping to use it to their advantage at a later date.  That date happened yesterday.  However, one point missing in the plan is the fact that there is not one sentence stating that the Israelis are going to stop the shooting, and the bombing.  It's a starting agreement which has a few flaws.  You can bet that Nasty Netty is going to take advantage of everyone of those flaws.  You see, Nasty was on trial for corruption until Hamas attacked on October 7, then his trial was put on hold.  Peace would restart Nasty's trial, so one thing you can bet on is that this Peace Plan will fall apart before that happens.

Decimating Mr. Moose

 Well, here it is Thursday.  How fast this week is flying by.  Weather wise, we went from sunny mildly temp days to cold and rainy.  We did get a layer of sleet and snow over night, but just a glazing.  Right now we have a drizzle, not heavy enough to see, but heavy enough so Howie comes back in the house smelling like a wet dog.  

As I expected, yesterday I didn't do much of anything except play with Howie.  I spent some time on Social Media, mostly Threads and Bluesky.  Because I follow the same people on both apps, there's a lot of repetition. 

My first editor gets The Body on the Lawn today.  I'm excited.

I also get to work today.  While the weather outside is not horrifically shitty, it is crappy, but not crappy enough for me to take a personal day.  Our store's inventory was today.  In the past, supervisors and managers were forced to stay until the initial figures came back, that no longer happens.  Where for me inventory meant a 12 - 14 hour day, it's now completed in around 6 hours.  One reason to go to work today is snacky food.  As I've said many times before, I'm a grazer, and because they bring in snacks, inventory day is a good day to graze.

So far, Howie has gotten three of the four toys I bought for him.  Ropey Fox is a little dirty, but otherwise still healthy.  Wally Whale is fine as well.  However, Mr. Moose has lost both his squeaker and his stuffing.  He has no interest in eating the stuffing, but he does love to leave it lying around.

As expected, the Orange Anus's plans to annex Gaza and deport over 2 million Palestinians crashed and burned badly.  The only ones finding joy in his plan were far right Jews, men and women just like Bibi, whose hearts are filled with hatred as well as an uncontrollable desire to expand Israel.  It could also be that Bibi knows Israel could not win an all-out war with Iran, so what better way to possibly insure victory than get Orangie's ass involved.  For those who don't understand, the mid-east is a cesspool of never ending conflict.  What I find fascinating is that a few days back Orangie made the statement that if anything every happened to him, the United States would obliterate Iran.  Then, a few days later, he comes up with this plan to annex Gaza.  This means that if the Mossad were to quietly take out Orangie the American people might find themselves in a terrible war.  

To be truthful, I don't think war would ever happen, at least not on the scale Bibi might want.  Nope, our real problem is Elonia.  He wants to be the first Emperor of Earth and he has no problem sacrificing half of humanity to get that job.

The Palestinian Pogrom

 Late entry today because... I finished the final draft of The Body in History yesterday and stayed up late, and had a couple of glasses of wine to celebrate.  The manuscript will be going to my first editor on Thursday.  Now, isn't that good news?  This is my 8th book! and I already have notes for book 9.

Outside, we have overcast skies and the temps are in the upper 30s (F).  They're calling for ice tonight.  Not much, however, and, you might find this interesting, road crews have been cutting down over hanging branches on Wertzville Road for the past 2 weeks.  And yes, in case you are wondering, there is a suburb of Harrisburg called Wertzville and their road is the main traffic artery from my house to I81.  If you're going west, everyone uses the Wertzville Road.

Yesterday was a pretty good day, in spite of it being Tuesday.  Most Tuesdays are rather meh, I suppose because I've worked the previous 3 days and we all know how much I like working.  Besides finishing the book, the aquarium in the living rooms got a good cleaning, laundry was done, and because it was so warm (in the upper 40s (F) the backyard was de-pooped.  Howie's gotten good about doing all his bathroom breaks outside, and if he has an accident inside it's usually my fault for not opening the back door so he can "go potty outside."

Of course this happened yesterday, too.  As you can see, the eyes have it.

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 In case you missed it, though I doubt any of you did, the Orange Anus wants to send our young men and women (oh, that's right Hegseth's in charge of the military now) to Gaza.  Orangie wants to relocate every single Palestinian so he can build a hotel complex.  Of course, he did get Bibi's approval.  So, what happens when you put two criminal minds together?  They decide to throw a Palestinian Pogrom.  As you can tell from the WTF eyes, this decision of his and Bibi's took everybody by surprise.  Will you just look at them eyes as he just blubbers his way through his early stage of dementia. 

And, of course, I need to touch on Elonia and the Treasury Department.  This info isn't getting a lot of hot air time on Fox Entertainment, but then it is something they want to keep from the Cultists.  Other Main Stream Media outlets are talking about Elonia and his team of young, nerdy males stealing your data from the government.  The recommendations I'm seeing are, if you're collecting Social Security, to print off a hard copy of your Benefit Statement and Benefit Letter, and also a save a copy to your hard drive, just in case Elonia and his team of nerdy sex toys change or delete your data.  

And, finally, I saw Orangie is going to sign an Executive Order ending the Department of Education.  That is something an Executive Order cannot do, but a wannabe dictator thinks he can do.  There will be litigation.  Sadly, his cultists believe this will decrease their taxes.  Hahahaha.  Are you laughing at them, too?  They're going to still owe the Fed the same amount, however their state taxes will need to go up in order to pay for the monies Orangie and Elonia are diverting to their own personal tax break.  Why are Republicans so damn stupid?