Tom Tomato

 The forecast was for rain overnight, I think we might have had a shower or two.  Our outside temp is 70 (F).  Again, the forecast is for us to get a few degrees warmer.  There's evidently a small coldish front moving through.  Rain is on the menu for today.  Showers with the occasional thunderstorm are going to limit my yard cleanup.  Originally, they were calling for sunny skies this morning, and while the cloud cover seems a bit thin, the rain is moving in at a fast clip from the west.  The drizzles should be starting in about an hour.

Why is the rain not good?  You may find it shocking, but both my chainsaw and my new wood chipper are electric.  Safety first.

In researching for The Body in the Words, I've learned that the Spanish do not say, "mi casa es su casa."  That's a Mexican phrase.

When I got to work yesterday, I stopped off to talk to Human Resources about my vacation.  I have some scheduled, but I need to take 7 more hours before my anniversary date on September 4.  If you don't use your vacation time, you lose your vacation time.  Mid-conversation, an associate from our service desk interrupted us.  Her hours have been cut and she wanted to see if there was some way she could make up that lost time by working as a cashier.  She got a smile and an, "I'll see what I can do."  After the associate left, I asked if this was happening a lot, part-timers coming in because they're now being scheduled shorter hours.  I was told, "all the time."  Most people work a part-time job, or a 2nd job because they need the money.  I feel bad for these people.  And like the cloud cover overhead, this economy is going to get worse before it gets better.

And here's my first tomato, freshly picked 2 minutes ago.

So I saw a clip of Rosie O'Donnell talking about who was actually to blame for the Orangie presidency.  I don't always agree with her, but sometimes Rosie does hit the nail on the head; this time I agree.  The cult of Orangie can be traced directly back to his stupid reality TV show, produced by Mark Burnett.  He is the one who created The Apprentice.  Burnett is the one put a failed businessman with 8 bankruptcies into American homes, selling Orangie to the American people as a the ultimate entrepreneur.  Of course, everything was a lie.  Reality TV is like the internet.  Remember?  Don't believe everything you see on the internet.  Yet millions of Americans believed the lie, and so the cult was born.  In return for creating this monster, Burnett was rewarded with an ambassadorship, so I guess he understands the art of the deal.

 

Santos, not your run of the mill Pathological Liar

 Happy Friday morning!  The sunrise was on fire, which means sailors need to take warning.  According to Accuweather, we have a 25% chance of rain today.  After they pass through temps are going to drop a bit, but not a lot, back down into the 50s (F) for daytime highs.  And yes, we are just a little over a month away from winter.

I worked yesterday and let me tell you, retail was slow.  I did manage to get a bit sale, but are few and far between.  How bad are they?  On the schedule that was just written, which covers the week past Thanksgiving, I'm only working 2 days, 16 hours.  Payroll is always the expense that gets cut first because it's the biggest liability a company faces, and in retail, that's the part-timers.  Unlike me, many part-timers, especially seniors, are working to supplement their income, so losing hours is going to hurt them.  This is why Trickle Down Economics fails, because those corporations that received Tax Cuts are still getting them, however American Capitalism dictates that they also need to have 5% growth and they have no problem cutting hours to achieve that goal.

So, in spite of the fact that they're cutting hours, the great orange retailer did see fit to give me a cap for Veteran's Day.  This is why I don't wear hats.

And, of course, hilarity upon hilarity ensued yesterday when the Ethics Committee released their report on George (I can spend you campaign contributions any way I want) Santos.  I'm certain most of us thought he was just your ordinary, run of the mill pathological liar.  Ouch.  Wait, you ask, is he really a pathological liar?  Oh, my yes, I'd put him in the same league as Trump, capable of lying about everything without understanding that saying it doesn't make it true.  The difference between the two?  Trump lies in order to prove to himself that he's a god, Santos lies in order to watch the gay porn on Only Fans.  Did anyone hear me laughing when I read that little gem?  And how about the Botox injections?  I wonder how Elise Stefanik feels knowing that the world now knows the man whose candidacy she endorsed was spending his campaign dollars on floppy lips and sex workers, not necessarily in that order.