America's Duty

 Even though it's Friday, I keep feeling as though it's Saturday.  Don't ask me why.

The skies are overcast.  Temps are supposed to climb in to the high 40s (F), and there are showers on the way.  Notice, that's showers, not rain, nothing that could be considered a steady soaker.  Tomorrow, temps are predicted to cool off, slightly, but the the warm air the Midwest has been having will begin to move through the area.

I got a measure yesterday for cellular blinds.  The young lady wants one, and it needs to be motorized because the window is too high to reach.  The motorization is going to add about $350 to her bill.  

And while I quite enjoy talking to older people, it's not all of them.  Some people want you to feel sorry for them, it's how they convince themselves that they're special.  Take the older woman I overheard at the post office the other day.  She wanted a Post Office Box, but only for 1 month (you have to rent them for at least 3 months).  She whined this story to the clerk: her husband died suddenly 2 months ago leaving her with a large townhouse that was too big for her, so she decided to sell it and move into an apartment.  However, (and this is a big one), she couldn't move into the new apartment for 30 days, and the closing on her house sale was in 2 days and she needed to be out.  And she definitely wanted those standing nearby to feel sorry for her bad planning.  I listened, and said nothing, as the line behind her grew to at least 7 people.  Finishing my business, I left, and I can tell you, the faces on those waiting were not happy.

When I got home last evening, I found the Lade of the House down on the sofa.  She ate her dinner, did her business outside, and then went back upstairs to bed.  I've decided that Lily is going to play the part of the semi-invalid for as long as she can.  

And what about Alabama?  Is a fertilized egg a person?

Of course not.  But this is what happens when you put the Crazy Cracker Jack Christians in charge.  This is the the religious extremism you see in Iran, except this crazy is in America.  In the 3 days since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled fertilized eggs are people, the country has been in an uproar.  It is the Republican party, the GOP, that has enabled these lunatics, and they are out of control.  The party needs to be taken out of power.  All you need do is look at the House of Representatives to see the GOP can not govern.  In fact, they don't really want to govern, they just want to say "Shut up!  We're in charge!"  And it is every American's duty to take what little power they have away from them.

Patty's Mom

On Monday night, around 11 PM, my friend Patty sent me a text.  "At the hospital with Mom, they say she's not going to live through the night."  Her Mom is 86 years old and bedridden. Since I get up very early, I sent her a sympathy text, planning on calling her later in the AM.  Around 9 she sent back "This is not a good day, I've been to 2 banks and the Funeral Home."
Now, I've known Patty for 9 years, she's a part-time cashier and one of my movie buddies.  Since we both work at the same place, when I got to work I told that her Mom had passed.
And they sent her a sympathy planter.
And then yesterday I found out that her Mom was still alive, that she hadn't died in the early hours of Tuesday morning, that she was still "hanging in there."
Now there are times when my sense of humor boarders on the macabre, so when HR told me that I started to laugh.  Some people didn't like that.  In case you're wondering, Patty thought it funny as well.  She said she was going to send them a card reading "my Mom and I thank you for the sympathy planter."  This is how it goes sometimes.

Segue into the Idiot's attack on Sanctuary Cities and the inevitable judge who declared that attack illegal, and, I believe unconstitutional.  And, of course, the Idiot is Twittering mad.  And only his minority group of supporters is upset.  He is so stupid.  The minute he verbally  attacked the Judge in the Trump University case, the Idiot shit in his pants.  While not all Judges see him as a marked man, the majority do, and they will repeatedly stab him with their steely, little legal knives.  This is what happens when you're an Idiot...  that, ant your campaign promise of a boarder wall gets put on hold by the very party you're representing.