Ludicrosity

 We got rain coming in people, lots of showers, and possibly a few hour-long soakers to make your gardens grow.  Daytime highs are going to be hovering in the mid 50s (F) for the next few days, and showers and mini-soakers seem to be the norm.  There is that occasional day in which the skies are just going to be overcast.  Gloomy.

Though the showers and soakers are going to be nice.  Green is good.  I had an old bag of grass seed which is now strewn over the patches of my lawn that are bare of grass.  Female dogs, more so than males, are sod killers.  Salt in their urine spots and destroys your lawn.  Males?  Not so much since they lift their legs and shoot, meaning your backyard prefers shooters to squatters.  AS I said, the seed is old, so I'll have to wait and see if it grows.  If not, I can always buy another bag.

I installed the cove baseboard in my kitchen yesterday.  Cove is that rubber baseboard that fits in the kick area under your kitchen cabinets.  Some people don't like cove, saying it looks kind of cheap, and I'll admit that using white, or black this does tend to be the case.  But I used a pale brown that coordinates the the brown in the flooring.  I'll probably take a pic or two this afternoon and show the world tomorrow.

And for those who like their religion deeply intwined with their politics there is this.

Yep, Trump is grifting of bibles again, though not just any bible.  He's hawking the USA Bible, so for only $59.99 you can not only read you bible, you can read the American Constitution as well as the Bill of Rights.  These are not signed!  At least not that I'm aware of, though I suppose there is an option for you to buy and autographed copy for an additional fee.

And NBC canned Ronna, though most likely it isn't that she's been fired, more than likely they are just not going to renew her contract.  It's easier to pay her the $600 thousand she's owed, then deal with lawsuits.  I read someone said she should sue them for defamation of character.  Big problem, everything said about her was true, and there are soooo many video clips to back that statement up.

Finally, there was a special election down in Alabama and a Democrat won.  Alabama is a very conservative state, in case you hadn't heard.  It was the Alabama Supreme Court who said that a fertilized human egg was a person.  In Vitro Fertilization clinics immediately shut down because if something happened to one of those frozen embryos, they could be charged with murder.  Marylin Landis, a Democratic using the abortion and IVF issues, just won the special election for a seat in the Alabama senate.  She won in a Trump district.  Ouch.  And she won by a large margin.  Republicans are in trouble.

The Boys in the Boat

 Well, yesterday it rained.  All day.  A steady, soaking rain fell from morning to night across Central PA.  The temps hovered in the upper 40s (F) to low 50s (F).  As a result, I did very little.  For some odd reason, I kept thinking that it felt like some forlorn Sunday, where it's easier to just spend the time in a mini-hibernation, rather than waste the energy to do anything.  

Today will be different.  I go to work.  The clouds are still going to be covering the sky, and drizzles and showers are to predicted, so I'm anticipating a day of a slowness.  Hopefully, I won't have any customers to call.  I'm a staunch believer of calling customers when the time is right.  That week between Christmas and New Years?  Kids are home from school.  Many take vacation.  Contractors aren't working.  It's that space of time when life moves out into left field and it's better to observe the game instead of participating.  Not that people don't move.  I am.  I'm going to work.

I was going to post a picture of the Shepherd's Pie I made, but that will happen tomorrow because I went to the movies last night.  Finally, something was playing at my local theater that I wanted to go see.  And what was it?  The Boys in the Boat; the story of the University of Washington's Junior Boat team going to the 1936 Olympics in Germany and beating Hitlers Nazi team.  This is a feel good movie and I'm certain most people in the audience knew where it was going right from the beginning.  And it was fun!  One thing that did surprise me was the number of people in the audience.  There were a lot.  Sometimes people prefer the "should see" movie, instead of the "must see" movie.

And, speaking of Hitler, or the mini-wannabe version we call Donald Trump, he's still spitting out Adolph's paraphrases, except he's claiming that he, the Orange Anus, has said them first.  And his lies continue.  They will get worse.  He is going to attempt to incite another insurrection, since that will be his only chance for survival.  Some Republicans will go with him.  Let's hope we've learned from the mistakes we made after the Civil War.  Back then we let everyone go home.  This time, the insurrectionists need to be jailed.  It's the only way they will learn.

The Tool

 The weekend has arrived and it's bringing with it some early morning sunshine that will disappear behind dour clouds sometime this afternoon.  More rain is approaching.  The prediction is for it to be heavy at times, like last week, and... like last week, it's supposed to hang around until sometime on Monday.  Now, don't that make you wish you were part duck?

I do have to work today.  I'm not expecting the flooring and decor departments to be busy.  Hardware and Garden are where all the buckos are going to be spent, with possibly some in paint as a few people think a new coat of paint in necessary to impress the friends and relatives.  There was a time when it used to be flooring people wanted to make those impressions and we were forced to stick to a specific calendar in order to insure installation in time for Christmas.  Not anymore.  This doesn't mean that some uniformed soul isn't going to walk into the department believing we can put in a new floor within the next 7 days.

Because I can afford it, and because I simply despise commercials, I upgraded my Disney and Hulu to commercial free.  I did try watching the channels with commercial breaks and realized that my brain required continuity.  Maybe it was because all of the advertising was for products I have zero interest in purchasing.

Back when I had Pronto plumbing install the water water hookups on the second floor for my laundry, one of the workmen informed me that I'd been given some sort of filter that I probably didn't know I needed.  Chances are if you don't know you need it, you probably don't, and the only thing it's doing is adding another charge onto your bill.  Well, the filter they were talking about was in the bathroom faucet.  What it did do was drastically reduce the water pressure from the tap. At first, I though the drop in pressure was because of the washer, but then I realized the true source, this stupid filter, and immediately began trying to remove the damn thing.  I ended up buying a tool, and this past week managed to break part of the filter out.  Water pressure is back to normal.  This is the little devil that was causing the problem and the tool that took it out.

And what about Rudy's million dollar settlement?  Wowza!  I found it interesting that one of his attorneys said Giuliani's drinking was major part of his problem.  I remember when the January 6 hearings were taking place and witnesses were saying that there times when you could smell the alcohol on his breath.  So, basically, Rudy Giuliani is not just a liar, he's drunkard as well.  Why does this not surprise me.  

And The Hill came put out an article this morning purporting that current polls show Trump easily winning the GOP nomination in swing states, and... possibly, those states if the election were to happen today.  First things first: polls lie.  I only know one person who answers random phone calls and he does it to harass the callers, and if it were a pollster?  He'd lie because he'd think it was fun.  Second up is that members of Gen Z might look at a text, but they don't answer phone calls unless it's one of their friends.  Oh, wait, that's actually part of "first things first."  In order for any poll to have even the slightest bit of veracity, they need to begin listing the total number of calls they made in order to reach the1400 voters their poll required.  Honestly, I don't know a single pollster that does this.  So, ignore all polls.