Orangie's Heart

 We had another cool night.  The temp was 46 (F) when I woke up, but that was later than normal, around 0700.  Usually I'm up before then, however I don't use an alarm and so tend to sleep until the sun comes shining in through my side window.  The overnight temps might have gotten a bit colder, but not by much.  

My sister's in the hospital, high sugar and low kidney function.  While that sounds extremely serious, I have to admit she's also a sloppy diabetic.  Translation, she doesn't take her meds the way she should and loves to eat snacks; almost every time I talk to her on the phone she's just finished baking something.  My brother called to let me know.  He'd been called by my brother in law, who didn't have a lot of details, so I texted my niece and the details came flooding back.  While the situation is concerning, it's not serious.  My sister just needs to take her meds and cut out the junk food.  She'll change her ways for a bit, and then in a year or two start eating the junk again and wind up back in the hospital.

I get to work today.  It will be interesting to see how busy we are since storms are in the process of moving into the area.  I am scheduled to sit at the idiotic Lead Table from 3-4 trying to get leads for the store.  When I checked my stats I already had 2 leads for the week, so someone must have keyed them under my user ID.

My ballot for the November election arrived yesterday.  It will get mailed out on Monday.  While this is not a mid-term election, there has been a lot of pressure applied from both sides.  We get to voted on whether 3 Democratic Supreme Court Justices are retained for another 4 years.  Of course, Republicans are pushing a "term limit" decision hoping to get them voted out.  These three judges have kept Republican authoritarianism at bay any most Pennsylvanians know that.  I guess you know who I'm voting for.

So, did anyone else hear that the Qatari's are going to be building an air base in Idaho?  Hhhm, though so.  That not too subtle news didn't go over well with the Christian Nationalists.  Ouch!  A Muslim air base in the heart of America.  As soon as I heard that, I wondered if the Qatari pilots were going to be bringing their families with them.  However, that wasn't my first thought.  Knowing that Orangie is a transactional kind of guy, I immediately knew why the Qatari government had given him that jet.  You know it's always been about him first, and even though he says otherwise, America's always been 3rd or 4th when it comes to his priorities.

Orangie also had his 2nd annual physical yesterday because he's so special.  I had to stop reading it when I got to the line that he has the heart of a man 14 years younger.  I mean, where does he keep it?  Is it in a 1 gallon Ziplock bag?  Does he show it off at cabinet meetings that aren't televised?  Can't you picture him lifting that baggie up and saying, "look, I have the heart of a man 14 years younger than me!"

Joy

 Good Morning People!  Outside, the temp is a comfortable 63 and the sun is supposed to shine all day.  We have the same forecast for tomorrow, too.  In fact, the forecast for the next 3 days is nice.  Tomorrow I'm going to wack weeds and mow grass. We're not supposed to get any rain again until Saturday, when we're supposed to get another drenching. 

I talked to my friend Justin about coming to trim back the holly bush I have out front.  Because he's 6 feet, 6 inches, he'll be able to cut back the top and I will not climb up on a ladder.  A word of advice to everyone out there, make sure you have at least one tall friend.

I drove down to Lebanon yesterday to go over my bloodwork with my new primary care physician, Dr. Rai, pronounced rye.  He's a very nice gent in in mid-40s.  That's a good thing.  I'm tired of having my doctors retire on me.  As for my bloodwork, I'd already looked at the results.  He asked if I wanted to continue with testing my PSA and I told him I didn't think it was necessary.  The big bugaboo was my blood sugar.  It's high... sort of... 138.  This has always been an issue.  I am not overly concerned.  It's a genetic thing.  My sister's is diabetic.  She laughed at that number, telling me, "that's low."  Since this is a "been there, done that," situation, I know how to get my sugar back to acceptable levels:  less grazing, more exercise.  What joy.

Besides the doctor's visit, yesterday was a necessary day away from news and social media.  I played video games and watched TV.  There is so much bad going on in the world right now, breaking away for a day was such a joy.

The oregano I have growing on the windowsill has teeny, tiny flowers.

And, of course, the shit show is continuing.  The fact that states are going to be activating their National Guard troops for this weekend should tell you they know that a very unpopular president is doing something vast numbers of people don't like.  Protests are planned throughout  the  country for  this  weekend.  Rain is predicted for the Washington DC area, so it's quite possible Mother Nature is going to rain on Orangie's parade.  

Are we heading into another Dark Ages?  Maybe a different variant of those old Dark Ages.  Too many Americans are rushing headfirst into selfishness and greed.  They have been taught that credit is the answer to being able to afford everything they want.  Inflation is going to be a ballbreaker.  Too many want an authoritarian government without understanding that for the vast majority, such a life would be totally unacceptable.  As I've said before, I feel we are approaching  an inflection point.  There may be a serious loss of life.  Will society collapse?  Certain aspects will struggle.  Mostly, however, it will be geographical here in the states, and those areas loving their Republican authoritarianism the most will also suffer the most.  They are simply not prepared.  For them, these Dark Ages will be black, and somehow that gives me joy.