When you hit middle age you really only have two choices: you can get fat and lazy until you roll over and die, or you can can get off your ass and do something, like maybe ride a bike.
Bluntness
I've also been told I have little tact, so if this offends you simply ride on.
Around here, Tuesday is garbage day. This is also the day I put out my recycling. All of those Chewy boxes are put out on the curb. Because I live alone, I put my garbage and recycling out every 2 - 3 weeks. Sadly, that does not drop my quarterly garbage and sewage bill. When I moved here, that bill was $65 ever 3 months, now it 3 times that amount. Families who line the curb with 3 or 4 garbage cans weekly are supposed to pay more.
The replacement part for my bar cart arrived yesterday. Assembly will be completed this morning. That means the laundry room will be one step closer to being completed. I'm going to hold of installing the 2 folding doors until after Biggie's test expenses have been paid off. I'm also going to be buying an area rug to put in front of the washer and dryer. The vinyl click / lock floor I put down is nice, but static electricity on the surface has turned it into a horrendous dust magnate.
Nine days until the shortest day of the year. I cannot wait until the winter solstice has passed.
For those who are interested, I am on Twitter, mostly because I find it amusing.
While I can scroll through the comments on my PC, more often than not, I'm on my phone. By now, everyone knows that the richest second richest man in the world purchased the social media platform for around $44 billion dollars. As a result, chaos has erupted. While Elon wants the world to think he's... well, possibly a genius, he's really on smart at certain things, like listening to his advisors. Electric cars? He was smart about that. Going to Mars? Well, he's done a lot of the space program. With his purchase of Twitter, however, he's revealed his pettiness. His release of the Twitter file? Well, all of those boring little emails are not shaking the Twitterverse. Only a handful crazy conservatives seem to care. With every misstep he makes, his pettiness lashes out. He wants recognition and a majority of Twitter users are calling him a dumbass. Most are actually calling him worse.
A little over 24 hours ago Dave Chappelle invited him up on stage and Musk was booed. Loudly. For almost ten minutes. There are videos all over YouTube. Those posted to Twitter were deleted. Those posting the videos had their accounts shut down. Petty Elon was pissed at his public humiliation. Now only links are posted, no videos. Of course, petty Elon was not finished. Yesterday, Musk disbanded the Truth and Safety council. Believe me, he will get worse as more and more people mock him. Me? I have accounts set up on both Tribal, and Mastodon, and am waiting my approval from POST. In the meantime, whenever I pick up my phone and go on Twitter, I'm blocking advertisers. If you're on Twitter do the same thing. That hurts Elon more than anything.
And finally, a bit of a ho ho ho. The Trump legal team appealed to judge Aileen Cannon on some sort of horseshit regarding the FBI and Mar a Lago and she declined to hear the argument saying it was out of her jurisdiction. No doubt Cannon has been advised that her legal career might be expiring soon.
Monday, and I work. 8 hours. Though my shift begins at 0930, meaning I should be home by 6:15 PM.
More was accomplished yesterday than I had expected, including a 2.59 mile trek through Dana Point, CA, on the treadmill. I did not do any laundry. I did cook red beans and rice for dinner. Leftovers will be lunch today.
Four solar lights I'd ordered also arrived yesterday. They will light up the path from my driveway to my house on those winter evenings I work past sunset.
I got an email this morning from the company I bought the bar cart from: they will be sending a replacement part within the next day or two. That's rather pleasing. It is Asian, and my bias tends to expect their customer service might not be up to par. This is a complex problem I have since I deal regularly with a number of Asians at work and most of them are very nice people. It could, in fact, be an online order bias since so many companies selling online are foreign. Example: I bought a cuckoo clock and the time mechanism was made in Germany, however the pine cones were made in Hungary, and the wooden housing in China. Speaking of China, does everyone know they have space station? They are launching 3 astronauts up to it tomorrow.
I know a lot of people are anxious for the indictments to fall. Everybody knows it's just a matter of time. The Georgia runoff election is tomorrow, results should be released probably tomorrow evening at the earliest. By Wednesday morning, America should know who won. The DOJ doesn't like to make political indictments preceding elections, since losing parties (especially Republican) will look to place blame on any and everybody but themselves. The real question is if they will start to arrive prior to the Holiday and ruin Christmas for all those MAGAs?
Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, from Georgia, has said that Herschel Walker "will probably go down as one of the worst candidates in our party's history." No shit Sherlock.
Trump called for throwing out the Constitution. Did any Republican congressmen speak out against him? Mostly I heard and read them frittering around with words and catch phrases, like "he says all sorts of things." They made excuses. The ugly truth is that all they have are Trump and lies. Without those 2 things they are nothing, which means, for all intents and purposes, that right now the GOP is nothing. Republicans are dying on the cross that Trump built.
Well, if today hasn't started out lazy. Sunshine is pouring in through the windows. The temps are supposed to climb into the mid 40s (F). A nice, quiet day is in store. I had made plans to drive down to York to have lunch with my friend Betsy, but we've postponed that until next Sunday. That leaves today open for me and, shock of shocks, there are no loads of laundry waiting to be washed!
The company that manufactured the bar cart I'm using in my laundry room sent me an email. They said they would replace the part that split and asked for a photo of the split and the part number. Honestly, their response seem on the up and up, however, looking at their reviews, fulfillment doesn't seem to be a priority. In the mean time, I've done a search on how to fix the 'split,' and may take the matter into my own hands.
Yesterday was slow at work, at least in Flooring. Garden was busy; lotsa people were buying trees, real and artificial. And Christmas decorations were being sold, secular lawn ornaments were flying out of the store. We don't sell a lot creches. You can have your choice of either a black or white audio animatronic Santas., but just try and fine even one of the Three Wise Men. So tell me, how's this for crass commercialism?
And, speaking of splitting, I saw where Lara Trump is exiting Fox News. She evidently got the gig because of her last name and Fox wanted to both capitalize and commercialize on it. She was a contributor, at least that's what they called her. Of course, since I never watch Fox, I have no idea if she was ever anything more than a mouthpiece of the Orange Anus.
Her father-in-law did post a demented rant yesterday on Truth Social calling for the termination of the election laws in the constitution in order so the bad election of 2020 could be thrown out and he could be put back in power. A day doesn't go by when he doesn't publicly post his desperation. He knows that his Christmas stocking will undoubtedly be filled with indictments, which are far worse than simple coal.
Finally, the Republican party is the minority political party in the United States with about 30 million people voting for what they claim to be a socially conservative agenda. About 20 million of those have sworn fealty to Trump. When the indictments come, and they will be coming, this group will split away from the group considered traditional Republicans. They may, in fact. form a new party, not that they will have any political sway. This is a no win situation for the party. The second the first protests starts after the first indictment, the GOP will launch itself into a death spiral. Splitting and splintering into a thousand pieces.
Everybody's working for a rainy weekend! Well... that might not be quite right. I'm sure there are certain areas of the country where it is sunny and dry, but not here on the eastern seaboard. And the rain is going to continue.
Lily went and did her morning business outside in steady rain and when I left her back in she ran straight to the chair with the towel. She loves being dried off. Truthfully, she doesn't care if she's wet or not, but being toweled is a lot of fun. Biggie? He's still being a slug-al-bed. He lifted his head to look at me as I pulled open the curtains to let the dreary morning light creep into the bedroom, then gave me a snort, and laid his head back down.
So, I was putting together the bar cart for my laundry room yesterday afternoon and there was a disaster, one of the pre-formed, fake wood cross pieces used to hold the drawer split as I was screwing it to the left leg piece. My most favorite words just burbled up quite naturally. "Son of a bitch." So I shot off an email to the seller, and they responded this morning. They will be sending me a new part. They asked for a picture, so I'm sending them this one.
Yesterday was rather quiet politically speaking. Though not really purely political, Alex Jones declared bankruptcy in an attempt to hold onto his millions. Nobody thinks that's going to work, since his lies about the Sandy Hook shooting were intentional, used as a source of making money. This scumbag can never pay enough for the evil he has wrought on suffering families just so he could make a buck.
South Carolina may become the first state that counts in the Democratic nomination process, followed by Nevada and New Hampshire. Iowa Republicans are pissed. Chaos, they shrieked, mostly because they have this desperate need to be first. In their minds, that makes them special, and for them special is far more important than anything else.
And the closing arguments were held yesterday. The prosecution was specifically detailed in mentioning that Donald J. Trump was not only aware of the tax fraud, but also sanctioned it. He is a greedy pig, you know. Of course, the defense went completely bazonkers. They fought long and hard to prove that he was not a greedy pig who had no problems breaking tax laws in order to appear wealthier than he really was. This went on for fifteen years. Sit back and think about that number. Then think about all of the money you have, as an individual, paid to the federal government in taxes. All that time, Donnie was skipping around thinking his swindle was going to work, making him tax free.
