Count to 10

Well, even though it's Sunday, I suspect today's not going to be a day of rest for me... I work... at the store.  I had to deal with a really bad MAGA head yesterday.  A short, middle-aged woman without a mask.  "I need blinds cut," she huffed, and walked over to our roller blind section.  "Three room darkening."  I pulled out three light filtering and she barked "those are the wrong ones!  I said room darkening."  Another customer wearing a mask, who also needed a blind cut, joined us.  After cutting them, she said a fourth was needed, 37.5 inches long.   I informed her I'd have to cut a larger, more expensive blind.  "Well cut it!"  I looked through the larger blinds and found no room darkening.  I told her.  "There's a million blinds there," she yelled.  "You didn't look!  Move!  I'll look myself."  And she gave me one of those 'you are so damn stupid glares.'  Believe me, wearing a mask does not mean you can't glare back.  I did, as I politely said.  "Well, let me check," and I pulled out every blind in the bin, over twenty.  I stacked them nicely in the next bay since I didn't want to lay them on the floor.  No room darkening.  I told her.  "You didn't look through all of them!" she yelled, pointing to the cream colored and fabric blinds.  "I've never been treated so rudely!  I don't want your blinds!  I'm going to Lowe's!"  and she stormed off, leaving me with the blinds I'd already cut.  The customer who was waiting patiently, nodded her head and said "just count to 10."  I believe the real problem was that I was wearing a mask.  

When you look at someone who refuses to wear a mask, you are looking at the face of the Idiot Jerk's base.  And they are angry.  The core of his base has always been angry.  Through him, they vent their anger... and he's losing.  That makes them angrier.  His not wearing a mask legitimized their beliefs in him.  The pandemic is a hoax, they believe... and then yesterday he wore a mask in public.  That will make them angrier.  They will think he caved... and he did, out of desperation.  While I can stand there and count to 10, they cannot.  They can't even get to 5 before their anger boils over.  They're furious because their savior is turning out to be a loser... just like them.  

Here's a little bright spot.  Another one of my dahlias.

And remember, all we have to do is count to 10, and wonder if they'll even make it to 5.

Meet Glen

Well, it's Thursday and I go back to work.  I checked yesterday and my schedule has been adjusted all the way to May 10, no more than 5 hours a day.  This is fine with me.
I ordered one of these seamless face-mask / bandannas since I have a feeling they're going to become very stylish and necessary in the future.  Mine has a different pattern.

Tres chic, eh?
For those who didn't see, Kellyanne Conway was demonstrating her ignorance on Fox and Friends yesterday.  No one told her the '19' in Covid - 19 comes from the year the virus made its appearance, 2019.  She believes there were 18 previous iterations.  And those boom boom brains on the Idiot Jerk's favorite show nodded sagely, "oh, yes, oh yes," because the segment was focused on attacking the WHO.  Can we talk about fake news here?
Remember Tuesday when the Idiot Jerk demonstrated to the world how unhinged he truly is?  When he took us into his twisted fantasyland where he's been on top of this whole thing from the very beginning?  Despite his trying to rewrite history on that day, something else happened.  Remember that election in Wisconsin?  The one that couldn't be delayed because the Conservatives in our Supreme Court were hoping Democrats were going to go out and vote... and possibly get sick?  Well, that turned out to be a very bad decision for Conservatives.  You see, those Democratic voters were also voting for a brand, new Supreme Court Justice for the state.  The result was a landslide victory for Liberal Democrat.  The Conservative candidate, the one the Idiot Jerk had been pushing, lost badly.  Ouch.  The Liberal beat the Conservative by over 120,000 votes.  Ouchy!  Ouch!  You can bet the Idiot Jerk must have been seething at receiving such a smack in the face.
And finally, there's a mutant in my yard.  That's right.  Yesterday I was taking pics of my flowers when I spied him... her... it.  Something went genetically wrong.  Being different can be... heartbreaking.  I wanted to be sure she... it... he knew I was being supportive, so I gave.... it (?) a name.  Meet Glen.

The tulip that couldn't decide if it... he... she wanted to be a flower or a leaf.