Size matters

Thursday.  My new schedule was posted yesterday.  Three weeks out I get to work a 32 week.  Yippee!  That takes us into the 1st week of November.  The 2nd week is special to me.  I celebrate my birthday.  In honor of that great event I'm taking short respite from work.  For 4 days I will be able to do what I want.  Some of that time is going to be yard work.  Bulbs need to be planted.  Dahlias need to be dug up and stored.  Leaves need to be mowed.  Yep, that's right.  I prefer mowing and mulching my leaves.  Sure, it doesn't make my yard look pretty, pretty, pretty, but all those nutrients in the leaves will go back into the soil.  No one seems to think about that.  Nope, almost everybody wants a clean and leafless yard.
I saw where the Benghazi Bo Bo has joined the Idiot Jerk's legal team.  That's right, Trey Gowdy is now going to try and help the moral degenerate survive.  I have no doubt every morning Trey prays for guidance and... strength.  Don't you find that amusing?  I do.  That a god capable of creating the entire universe, stars, planets, blackholes, quasars, neutron stars, molecules, and muscles is going to give him strength in his fight against goodness.  You see, Trey has a problem with size.  His beliefs make him think he's much bigger than he actually is, more important, more special.  In truth, he is very, very small.  In truth, he will always be small.  In the scheme of things, Trey Gowdy isn't even the briefest of sparks.  This is something he will never learn.  While here on earth he may splutter around a while, in the universe he is smaller than an atom on the tip of his thumb.  He will never understand how size matters.
And, as I said earlier, Christmas arrived at the store on Monday.

In big brown boxes wrapped in cellophane.  And you thought Santa brought it...

Drowning in a Sea of Roses

Well, it's Saturday and the sun is out... for the time being.  Showers and thunderstorms are forecast for this afternoon and this evening.  Tomorrow things are supposed to be cooler.  Actually yesterday wasn't that hot, 88 F.  Hot happens when the temps soar into the upper 90's.
Walking out my backdoor this morning, I had no problem in smelling my roses.  There are lots of them.  This will pass though, only to be repeated in a month or sow.  I usually get 3 bloomings per summer.  Right now, you could say, I'm drowning in a sea of Roses.

The red antique roses were an accident... the bush just started growing

And I must say, the perfume of blooming roses is much more preferable than the stench oozing up from Washington.  Of course the Idiot Jerk in the White House tweeted out jobs info early because... well, he needed to feed his ego.  And, perhaps, rather illegally let investors know yesterday was going to be a good day to buy... sort of honor among scumbags.

I know there are conservatives out there who are upset that Mueller's investigation has cost over $16 million so far.  Funny, they had no problem spending $8 million to investigate Benghazi.  Interesting how easily they justify money spent for their political benefit.  Interesting, also, is how Trey Gowdy, the leader of the Benghazi witch hunt is telling them to shut up, to leave Mueller alone.  Mr. Gowdy knows full well the difference between a witch hunt and a serious investigation.  He no doubt understands the corruption brought to the White House by the Idiot Jerk is on the verge of boiling over, splattering democracy with an unhealthy spray of shit.

My vacation begins on 6/11, and I've already started planning things to be done.  One of those is to take out the wisteria pushes around my front porch.  This is the 2nd year where they failed to bloom.  There was a time when the front of the house was awash with purple flowers.  Those days started disappearing a couple of years ago.  That will be a chore.  I will probably put in more roses... maybe a red climber to weave among the wrought iron railings.

Fly this plane

Well for once this is my 'hump' day.  Now, how unusual is that?  Working Monday thru Friday with the weekend off is almost unheard of in retail.  Of course next week I have split days off - something I really don't like at all.
And, of course, this is Easter weekend.  My sister's birthday is also on the 29th.  She's having some sort of Easter lunch so I'll take her a bottle of wine.  I asked what she preferred, red or white?  She said it didn't matter, no preference just as long it's not Thunderbird.
I see that the Stock Market is continuing its slow, downward spiral.  You don't hear the Idiot Jerk tweeting about how he's responsible, do you?  Don't worry, you will during mid-terms when Centrist and Liberal Democrats want to remind voters.  Isn't this what always happens to braggarts?  The truth will always bite them in the ass.
Oh, and Trey Gowdy, from the Benghazzi Hate Club recently tweeted at the Idiot Jerk, "stop complaining and start acting innocent," or something to that effect.  This is the same Trey who's not running for re-election.  Trey probably knows there was collusion at the highest levels.  I suspect he also knows the Democrats will take the majority during the mid-terms and investigations will explode all over the place.
Big Seig is out barking at a big truck.  He likes to bark at them.  Lily?  Not so much.  UGI seems to be planning on digging up the street in front of my house.  Yippee....
And I played about an hour and a half of Far Cry 5 last evening, and have just started to meet the characters.  I can't wait until I get to know Nick Rye.

Remember when video game characters actually looked animated?  You know, like those surrounding the Idiot Jerk in the White House?  Now they look like real people.  So, tell me, would you like to fly Nick's plane?

A cold day in February

For those of you who didn't feel it, the earth trembled a bit yesterday as another rat jumped ship.  Trey Gowdy, (he with the ridiculous looking hair) announced he would not seek re-election.  Wait, wait... hold your applause, you see  a vacancy opened up in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals shortly before he made his announcement.  That position is appointed by the President, but still needs to be approved through the House and Senate.  The Idiot Jerk is trying to make the Judiciary as conservative as possible... so I suspect that Trey sees this as a good move.  Of course, the way things are stacking up against the Idiot Jerk, that appointment might never happen.
I am halfway through my work week.  I have split days off.  I'm supposed to be getting consecutive days off...  sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.
We also have inventory coming up in 3 weeks.  This will be the first year that I will be working a regular shift - no getting up at 0300 so I can be at the store an hour later for a 12 hour day.  I do have to say that things have changed a lot - we used to have to wait until preliminary figures were in before we could leave for the day.  Now?  They let people go as soon as REGS starts packing up.  But, as I said, this year I'll just be working my 10:30 to 7 shift.  I'm actually looking forward to this year's inventory.
Otherwise things are relatively quiet, but then it's a cold day in February.
They say we might get some snow late Saturday into Sunday.  I'm off Sunday... no problem.
 

When the Squeaking Stops

Well, it's Wednesday and I have to go to work today.  My daily work schedule is... shall we say rather exotic right now.  I work 2 days, then I'm off a day, I then work one day and am off for 3.  This doesn't really bother me since I'm only working 32 hours per week.  That will change soon enough.
I disconnected my Steam controller from my upstairs TV this AM since I never use it.  The original idea for the purchase had been for me to be able to play PC games downstairs on the big TV, however Big Seig chewed up the wifi dongle.  The only way the controller would have worked downstairs would have been for me to run a direct line from the TV to my router... well, that wasn't going to happen.
And, speaking of Biggie, his Christmas beaver stopped squeaking so he's cast it aside in favor of a Purple Squirrel.

I guess this is his way of saying beavers are no longer fun when they stop squeaking.

And I was reading this AM on my Bloomberg Technology feed that if your PC or laptop is over 5 years old, they are recommending that you update it with something newer, not because it's outdated (even though 5 years old is pretty old), but because the patches that are going to be coming out to fix the Intel chip problems are going to slow it down... a lot.  They suggested a Lenova laptop which starts at about $1300, which is a bit squirrely if you ask me.  There's no way I'd spend that much.

There was some other squirrely news this AM - evidently there have been a number of other people form the Idiot Jerk's regime that have already talked to Mueller; something that's been kept under wraps, so to speak.  Now we know why Ultra Conservative (and bad hair of the year nominee) Trey Gowdy 

Now wouldn't he look so natural in a Nazi Uniform?

is trying to shut down Mueller and his team.  Desperation, you know?  Because this loser is so squirrely, I'm wondering if Biggie would play with him, or just take a big chunk out of his ass before he sends him running home.