Bingo

Good Morning People!  Our temp is sitting right on the freezing mark.  This is a good thing.  Slowly, but surely, the ice and snow are melting.  This afternoon our temps are predicted to climb into the mid 40s (F).  We have the same forecast for tomorrow and Friday.  This is good.  Spring is a little over 3 weeks away and I can not wait for it to be Sprung.

Yesterday was... interesting.  I had meetings with 2 HVAC people.  The first was with Wilbur Plumbing and Heating.  That went very well.  The rep was in my house for a little over half an hour.  Forty minutes after he left, I received an email with four different quotes.  I was impressed.

Around noon the rep from Topline showed up.  He was an overweight older man with bad knees.  I know about the bad knees because it took him almost a minute to go down my basement steps and he told me his knees were falling apart.  It took him just as long to climb back up them.  Did I tell you he was overweight?  He talked about the size of my furnace and basically told me 3 times how much he knew about furnaces.  After the basement excursion, he went out and sat in his car for 45 minutes and built 2 quotes.  After building the quotes, he wanted to sit down and go over them with me.  With an obvious lack of enthusiasm on my part, he began, not with the a description of the furnace, but  with a rubber cuff that wraps around the hoses coming into the house which keeps mice out... and I'm thinking, that's his selling point?  Anyway, he left shortly after that, and he's supposed to be emailing me those quote. 

And for those of you who are interested, you can rent the Shane / Ilya house for only $1000 Canadian a night, however you can't use the fireplace.

Of course, Orangie had his State of the Union speech last evening.  I didn't listen.  He broke a record.  His was the longest State of the Union speech on record.  He also went into it with the lowest approval rating of any president in history.  I didn't watch it, but I know there were those playing State of the Union Bingo.

The Meidas Trouch counter programing had over a million viewers.  I haven't checked to see how many Americans tuned in to listen to the Orange Anus lie, not that it matters.  He will claim it was the highest rated speech in history.  From what I'm seeing, however, no news service is being kind to him except probably Fox and Newsmax.  He desperately tried to play the part of the king by giving out awards to undeserving people, like the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a hockey player.  Many are saying this was basically a rehash of his rally speeches, the only thing missing was his jerk-off dance at the end to YMCA.

Heated Rivalry

 We're cold again.  Back down into the mid 20s (F).  Over the next few days temps will be warming up.  Right now we have full on sunshine, however, the prediction is for it to disappear.  Saturday we will be in the high 50s (F) to low 60s (F), but that temp, too, shall pass.  A week from now we will once again be in the mid to upper 3s (F).  Spring can't get here fast enough.

Yesterday was a work day.  I was number 1 in the department for last week in sales.  That won't happen this week, not that I care.  Within the next week or so I should be getting a pay increase.  That's what's important.  That and the fact that if I last another 2 years in the part-time position, I'll be getting 2 and a half weeks of vacation pay to use in whatever way that I want.  I'm happy with that.  And let's face it, the 20 or so odd hours I spend each week at the flooring desk are not going to break my social calendar.  I'm still doing my lunches, and movies, and video gaming.  As you get older, the idea is to stay busy, not sit back and wait for death to come snatch you away.

Two different HVAC companies are coming today to give me estimates on a new heating system.  To impress upon them the fact that I have connections in the home improvement industry, I'm wearing one of the my Home Depot sweatshirts I've been given over the years.

So, I finally watched Heated Rivalry.  Some parts were very good, like the Scott Hunter bits, and other parts were weak.  The show was overwhelmingly popular with women, mostly because you  could have made the Shane Hollander character Jane Hollander and it would have played out like a straight romance, except with men.  I think a few homophobic slurs in the locker, or even a little more misogynistic sex talk among the players might have given the show a bit more realism.  There would have been a frightening reason for remaining closeted.   However, the representation on national TV was without a doubt the best thing to happen to the gay community in like... forever, even if it did have that Spielberg ending.

And Orangie's first State of the Union speech is this evening.  I'm going to be joining millions of Americans and not watch it.  All he's going to do is lie.  Tonight will be a repeat of everything we've seen over the past year.  He will glory in the attention, all the while spewing deceit, after deceit, after deceit.  No president in history has had a lower approval rating at this point in his presidency.  He is like the our current temperature, the only difference being that our temperature will rise.  That's right, we will heat up while Orange slowly dies in the dead of winter.  

From what I'm hearing, Orangie's going to be kicking at least 2 dead horses, one called Biden and another called Obama.  It's also quite possible he kicked around the lies about election fraud, so that might be a 3rd dead horse.  I also expect him to be seriously medicated, probably a fresh transfusion of young, virginial blood to keep him from soundowning.