Jonathan Bailey

Our outside temp was 48 (F) this morning and today's projected high is going to be in the mid 60s (F) again.  This is nice.  Tomorrow, our high is going to be up around 70 (F).  That will be nice, too.  I don't work today or tomorrow, so this is fine by me.  If the long range forecast is correct, next week we should be in the upper 40s (F), though we all know how far off long range forecasts can be.

Yesterday was okay, meaning it was better than being so, so.  My VPN was down again, so I told the IT people from Panda that if it happened again I was canceling, and that meant I was going to want a refund.  I know that part of the problem is that while most people use only one search engine, I use both Microsoft and Google.  Believe me, results are different.  For some reason, using bookmarks in both Google with Windows creates a bit of a complication.  Verizon had a built in VPN, the T-Mobile I now use doesn't.  Windows will let you add a VPN, but it wants you to stick with Microsoft.  At least, that's how it's been explained to me.

I'm on both Instagram and Threads.  I don't have a lot of followers, and that's fine.  Fans mean having to post something regularly, if not daily, then every two or three days because you need to keep your fans involved.  That is too much of a both for me.  My life is not exciting, and I like it that way.  I just checked and, this too may surprise some of you, I only follow 251 people on Instagram.  This is far different from some people who need to constantly know what someone else, usually a celebrity, is doing.  Not me.  Mostly I use Threads for commenting and Instagram for messaging.  My comments get a lot of reactions.  My messages, not so much.  This doesn't mean I don't get comments back, I do, and some of them are surprisingly nice, and it's even nicer when they have that blue check attached.

And Jonathan Bailey is People's Man of the Year.  What a hoot!  He is their first Man of the Year who is both Gay and Out.  How sad for all of the women with their lusty loins ogling him with licentious thoughts.

The news that Dick Cheney has died left me quite dry-eyed.  While his daughter Liz seems to have some form of conscious, he was soulless and power hungry.  What I find interesting is that while old school Conservatives might morn his passing, Orangie's MAGA Cultists couldn't give a shit.  This is probably because even with all his lies, he didn't lie enough, and wasn't corrupt enough.  They do like to wallow in their immoralities. 

Today is election day.  This means you need to go out and vote, unless you're a Republican, then you should stay home and sit on your hands.  I believe the Democrats will be out in force.  This means we Blue people need to prepare ourselves because the Cultists are going to flip out if they lose badly.  Of course, there is the possibility that too many of them will be flipping out at People's first Gay Man of the Year to even notice.  Something tells me that the GOP is going to be drowning in their own torrential tears.

Rebirth

 Well, we did have thunderstorms yesterday.  We even got rain, though there was no downpour at my house.  There was thunder and lightning, and a bit of wind, but otherwise the worst parts of the storm moved around me.  The temps dropped briefly afterwards, but then climbed back up into the upper 80s (F).  We have the same forecast for today.  

I did get a nice ride in yesterday in Corsica.  At present it's one of my favorite rides.  I rode 10.71 miles.  Today it's free weights and bands this morning, and then a ride down to the Lebanon VA for an appointment.  I have to schedule one of those dreadful colonoscopies, not because anything is wrong.  Nope, my doctor just recommended that I do it, and there's nothing wrong with being precautious.

I went to the movies last evening and it was... interesting.  The young man who sold me my ticket was, I think, more concerned with the fact that he was the only one at the concession stand selling tickets and a line was quickly growing behind me.  He'd called for help twice and no one seemed to be coming for help.

Then, during the movie, my friend Patty became irate because the little boy behind her kept kicking her seat.  She turned around and asked his mother to have him stop. His mother said he was moving to another seat, but 10 minutes later he was back.  And he talked because he's a little boy.  He commented in his little boy voice about what was happening on the screen.  He and his mother really should have moved to different seats.  Instead they stayed until my friend stood up and, with no filters, told them she was tired of him kicking her fucking seat.  They moved.

And what movie did I go see?  Jurassic World, Rebirth.  It was fine.  Entertaining.  There was also a lot of reworking of scenes from the original Jurassic World.  It wasn't all a rehash.  Raptors made an appearance, but only briefly, which was nice. They had become a too reliable predator.  T-Rex returned in a rather nice scene.  Probably the biggest surprise was Jonathan Bailey, who was last seen singing and dancing in Wicked.  He did a fine job at playing a nerdy dinosaur guy who is neither meek not mild.

And MAGA world is still flipping out about the Jeffrey Epstein lists disappearing.  I'm enjoying this.  The really big problem for Republicans is that for a very long time they promised the cultists blood, and now they want them to forget those promises.  Does Orangie's name permeate the list?  I don't doubt.  Another fly in the ointment is that it now appears that during a certain period of time Epstein was collaborating with the FBI in their investigation of insider trading on Wall Street, providing them with a lot of juicy information.  This means it's probably not only himself and other perverts that Orangie is protecting, or maybe I should say blackmailing... or maybe I should say extorting.  If this is the case, I wonder how much those billionaires are willing to pay for protection.  And you know, Orangie would love this kind of racket.