Not the Same as it Was

 Well, here we are at Monday, the start of a new week.  Isn't it exciting?  Every week is a new adventure in so many ways.  

I'm planning on doing another little video this week for my YouTube channel.  I'm thinking of calling it the Note Tote.  It seems as though I'm constantly jotting notes down when ever I'm working on a new project and I try to save most of them in a plastic tote.  My hard copy manuscripts are also stored in the tote.  So, I'm thinking of exploring the latest tote, the one for The Body Under Ice, and putting some of my notes on virtual display.

There were numerous call-offs at the store yesterday, so I ended up working late... in paint.  

Grammy awards were given out last night.  I don't watch award shows, especially the Grammys.  With over 70,000 voting members often nominations are more about name recognition and popularity rather than quality and talent.  Beyonce led with 9 nominations and... oops.  Well, she did win the award for Best Electronic / Dance Album.  This led some bobo from the Washington Post to claim that the Grammy's, for over 20 years, had ignored talented black women.  He evidently missed the fact that Lizzo, a very full-figured black woman, won the award for the Record of the Year.  Album of the Year went to Harry Styles.  Be honest, how could anyone not like Harry dancing around in his silver, sequined, and tasseled jump suit?  For the first time in her life, Cher has some very serious competition. I can only wonder how Bob's going to rate him in his "who wore it best" listing.

And, of course, the Chinese weather balloon still has Republicans totally frazzled.  One of their latest claims is that the Pentagon never told Trump about the 3 balloons that flew over the continental United States during his administration.  If that's true, I'm betting they knew he'd have said, "just ignore them, we don't want to jeopardize any of Ivanka's trademarks."

What the balloon did emphasize, more than anything else, is just how predatory the Republican party is about everything.  They've been confused for quite some time, they don't understand being predators does not put them at the top of the food chain, so to speak.  They heard about the balloon and went into full attack mode and as a result, when the 3 previous balloons came to light, shit in their pants.  A conservative gentleman I work with was very distraught, and I have to admit I did stay on my good behavior and only repeated, "the Republicans really shit in their pants," only 3 times.  Jeez, if Harry had shown up in his silver jumpsuit, it would have been the icing on the cake.