The Stunning Indictment

Good morning world.  I did it again, slept in until 0700.  For someone who's been a morning person all of his life, this is so unusual, and it's not like I'm staying up until all hours of the night.  Every night I'm in bed by 10:30 PM.  Perhaps it's the workouts and and bike rides.  

Anyway, when I got up this morning our outside temp was 54 (F).  Today's high will be on the cool side.  Temps are only expected to climb up into the mid 60s (F).  I have my heat set at 69 (F), and when it does come on, it's only for a few minutes, if that.  This is fine with me, since I've shifted to sweatshirts and sweatpants.  The time for shorts and T-shirts has ended, at least for the next 6 months or so.

I got a nice bike ride in yesterday, over 11 miles on Orust Island, Sweden.  One thing I've noticed after doing workouts and rides 5 days a week for almost a month is that I can feel individual muscles when I move them.  It's not painful.  There's no discomfort.  Yet when I stretch my leg, or arm, I can feel my quad, or my bicep, stretching.  I guess this means I'm becoming in tune with my body.  And where I used to, on average, get around 5 hours of sleep every night, now I'm getting almost 8 hours.  Even more interesting, I'm not taking naps in the afternoon.  I find this fascinating.

And The Guardian published their review of Boots, saying it was a sleeper hit that's a stunning indictment of military homophobia.  Their biggest complaint is that the humor takes away from the intense drama, and it does get quite dramatic for those of you who have only watched the first few episodes.  They think a 2nd season is guaranteed, though hope there will be less humor and more drama.  I like the humor.  I call it comic relief.  Here's an interesting bit.  One of my protagonists is a character named Max Sullivan who is a ginger with a goateed.  In Boots, the character of Sergeant Sullivan is played by Max Parker, so you have Max Sullivan, a ginger sans goatee.

I made a cheesy leek and mushroom quiche for dinner.  It was quite tasty.

And, of course, so many people are talking about the Young Republican conversations on Telegram that were leaked to Politico.  These comments are not too surprising since this is the crowd Orangie has been courting since his first win.  His problem is that they are a minority group and don't even come close to representing the face of America.  One of these young Republicans is a state senator from Vermont, and the Republican party in Vermont is telling him to resign his position.  You see, even some Republicans know where to draw the line, not all, though.   As long as there are hard line conservatives, like Russ Vought, this problem will continue.  These people will never learn.  That sort of education would shatter their egos.  They will accept banishment rather than admit they are wrong.

Boots

Okay, so this morning is cool enough to edge on being cold with the outside temp at 41 (F).  We weren't in the 30s (F) as they'd been predicting, but they were close enough.  Autumn is now officially here.  Our long distance forecast has out daily highs hovering around in the mid 60s (F), with periods of rain this weekend. Now the leaves will really begin cascading from the trees.  I may mow those in the backyard, but the ones out front I'll rake into piles around the shrubs and let winter turn them into mulch.  I like putting the ground back into the ground.

And I did work yesterday.  It was slow.  I had a sale go through on Tuesday, so I've reached my sales goal for the week, and someone gave me two leads, so I've hit that goal.  Will I get a measure this weekend?  That's difficult to say, especially if the weather falls apart.  There used to be a time when people would plan on getting new carpet installed for the holidays in order to impress the relatives; those days are past.  

Since I don't work today, a bike ride is scheduled for this afternoon.  One thing that's good about this Trainwell program I've signed up for workouts and rides are planned.  Too often I'll find myself scheduling something and not following through, so far this small bit of accountability is eliminating that.

I watched the first few episodes of Boots last night on Netflix.  Based on the memoir of Greg Cope White, The Pink Marine, its the story of a gay young man who enlists in the Marines in the 1990s.  It's a comedy, it's a drama, it stars Max Parker as the company commander.  I like what I've seen so far.  Warning: there is male nudity in case you find that offensive.  And it's getting good reviews. If we get enough people watching it, we can move it into Netflix's Top Ten.

Yesterday at work I decided to confront one of the several MAGA cultists I work with, mostly because he's an idiot.  I was chatting with another associate about RFK Jr's claim that circumcision was one of the causes of autism.  Of course the cultist interrupted because that had to be wrong, RFK Jr would never say anything like that... and there was an escalation, not volume wise, I'm glad to say.  But I can only take so much idiocy, like being told that Orangie's approval ratings were in the 50s, or that inflation is dropping, and that millions of criminals were no longer coming across the boarders (yes, these were his talking points).  I ended the conversation by telling him that when Orangie dies, he's going to go to Hell and you'll be right behind him.  He didn't like that, so we mutually parted ways.  And I'll be honest, I felt so good inside.

And ending on a bright note.  Orangie did not get the Nobel Peace Prize and MAGA world is exploding. This means he will do something stupid and his approval rating will drop even lower.