In Summation

Well, it's Tuesday and I get to go back to work.  This little stint is going to be 4 days long.  I'm off on Saturday.  It's Kid's Workshop.  I've been requesting off the first Saturday of every month so I don't have to deal with the 300 + kiddies and their pounding little hammers.
I'm interested to see how prices have gone up.  They started increasing about 3 weeks ago.  One thing to keep in mind about a lot of products, they may say "made in the USA," but means assembled.  The parts come from all over the world.  Cars are a good example.  Toyota, and Nissan, and Honda, and Ford, and General Motors all have assembly lines in the US but the parts are almost entirely imported.
And for those who think the Idiot Jerk in the White House is driving the "Israel is the greatest country in the world" train, surprise!  He isn't.  It's the Evangelicals.  It's the prophecy, you know?  That all Jews will go home... to Israel.  Unfortunately, that's not happening.  In fact, the only ones going back are the Evangelicals.  Tourism is up.  And the Idiot Jerk in the White House is going to give that voting block everything their black little hearts desire.
Speaking of Evangelicals, my brother and his kids are heading down to Topsail, North Carolina in a week and a half.  Two years ago they went down and their cat died.  Last year Hurricane Florence went through and their vacation was delayed for a month... and when they did go, our Mom died.  And now, of course, there's Dorian... slowly inching his way towards Florida.  There's a good possibility he may pick up strength in warm waters between the Bahamas and the US mainland.  This may be interesting.
Finally, in a little over 2 months The Outer Worlds gets released.  The anticipation for this game is very high.  I'm really stoked for the action!  the adventure!  and the sick humor!  This last trailer sums it up quite nicely.  Enjoy.

Concern

Oh my gosh, can you believe August is nearly over!  The nights are cooler.  Waking up the temps are usually in the low to mid 60's (F).  That's a good temperature for big dogs.  Mine go for a walk in the morning when I finish writing this.  They love it.
I have 3 games ordered.  Two, Greedfall and Breakpoint should be arriving within the next week and a half.  The Outer Worlds has an expected delivery date on 10/28.  I began playing video games over 10 years ago when I found out that a game called Mass Effect had same sex relationships.  Interesting.  Very rare back then.  Then I saw a study which theorized game playing strengthened hand / eye coordination.  Because video games force you to use cognitive actions, they are being looked at as way to slow down the onset of dementia.  More and more older people are now playing video games.  Personally, I like games like Assassins Creed and Wolfenstein.  Role Playing Games make you use your noggin.  Many of them require stealth.  While I like first person shooters, I'm more of a stealth player... I like clubbing the hell out of my enemies.  Here's a little vid about Greedfall... there are some real hotties in the cast.

And I guess Dorian is supposed to hit the Atlantic side of Central Florida.  The Idiot Jerk in the White House is so concerned about Mar Lago the state he has cancelled a trip to Poland.  They're predicting a storm surge, you know?  And Mar Lago Florida is a very low lying state...  Just think! 

That surge of salt water might ruin the golf course create a lot of property damage.  This is the type of concern we expect from a president.

One of my readers

Crap, yesterday was Whit Monday and I missed it...  Actually, I saw it on my calendar and had to look it up because no one I know seems to give a whit.  Yep, just another faux holiday the growing majority find unimportant.  Now, if companies started making it a paid holiday... wait, that'll never happen because they don't give a whit either.  That would cost money.
I'm reading my way through the paperback copy of The Body in the Tower, so far I've found 10 typos I missed, which will be corrected.  One of the things I thought I'd do with this book is try and take pictures of the readers and cover artist (if they'll let me) and post them here so you can meet them.  A bit of recognition, you know?
This is Patty.

Patty got to read the first draft.  She went through it with a pink highlighter.  Pink is not my favorite color.  There were so many pink 'question marks, her way of saying "what's up here?"  She's the one who said there was too much cycling and not enough story.  She said the cycling bits were... boring.  Shit.  She's also responsible for Bishop Halsey showing up when he does.  For those interested, Patty graduated from the Anne Marie school of artistic linguistics, so things are never just... boring, and it's never just "what's up here."
Anyway, I guess the Idiot Jerk in the White House tried to put some distance between himself and Nixon, another Republican scumbag who got his ass elected.  I've said this once I'll say it again, when all the dirt comes out on the Idiot Jerk, he's going to make Richard Nixon look like an alter boy, and we know what happens to alter boys.
Of all the games introduced at this year's E3, there were only 2 that tickled my fancy.  Cyberpunk 2077 gets released in 2020, but The Outer Worlds is getting released in October.  I already have my pre-order in, because that's only like... oh, 4 months away.  Enjoy the trailer.  Love that rock and roll.

Favorite line so far:  "The board... their lackies... they're all a bunch of swine!"

Tsk Tsk, so much fraud

Well, yesterday was pretty much of a shit show for the Idiot Jerk in the White House, wasn't it.  Cohen seems to have been talking answering questions to... what is it?  Four different investigations?  And the revelations, woah,... wait a minute, so Cohen was acting pretty much as a liaison between the Idiot Jerk and Russia... I mean, didn't we already know his dirty, little fingers were all covered with shit?
And evidently the bimbo Donnie Jr has been banging, you know, the homewrecker from Faux News, Tweeted some sort of semi-nastiness to Ocasio-Cortez.  It seems Donnie Jr has been Tweeting shit about Latinos eating dog and Ocasio-Cortez fired a reminder his way about the subpoena power she, and fellow Democrats, will have on January 1.  Of course, Jr doesn't have the testosterone to reply himself, so he had his bimbolina do it instead.
And what the Republican sponsored voter fraud in North Carolina?  Holy Shit!  Interesting how the Republicans have decided to play the wolf in sheep's clothing when it comes to voter fraud.  This is not the first time they have a problem in North Carolina.
Yesterday I made sticky buns.  The bun part is simply delicious.  The gooey syrupy topping?  I cooked it too long and it sugared.  It still tastes delicious, it's just not the runny deliciousness I had been hoping for.
And I moved one of my xbox-one's back downstairs ( I have 2 of them - the regular xbox-one and the xbox- one x).  I may end up switching them, putting the 'x' down there instead. I'm doing this because Oblivion is coming out with a new game in 2019.  They've been bought by Microsoft, however their game will be on all 3 platforms (PC, PS-4, & Xbox).  Oblivion is responsible for the initial Fallout game, as well as what is considered the best in the series Fallout New Vegas.  They dropped the trailer for their new game yesterday, and it looks great.  Take a look.

The Youtuber talking about the game is ESO, a blond Brit with a beard.  How interesting.