Worthless

 Friday has arrived!  This is one of my regularly scheduled days off.  The temps are supposed to climb up into the mid 40s (F), which will be nice.  Rain is on the way, though, and so I'm anticipating showers and occasional steady rains for the next three days.  It's not that rain is preferable to snow, neither really matters to me.  Mostly, I dislike the constant cloud cover.  I do like the sunshine.

I did work yesterday and it was very slow... except for those coming in and buying the super reduced Christmas decorations we still had available.  There are decent amount of tree decorations and lights, everything else is too ugly for people to want.  As far as sales go, it's going to be a dry few week.  This is normally not the season for flooring installations.  I only have one open quote and that customer is not going to buy.  She wanted us to price match our competition.  Their quote was $3000, ours was $3800.  For us to price match, she'd need to bring in a printed copy of their quote showing that their carpet was equivalent or better than the one she chose from us.  She's not going to do that.  She's selling her house and wanted the carpet installed before she listed it on the market; the home was listed last week.

When I did get home from work my neighbors were very silent.  They were silent all evening.  The sound of a church mouse would have sounded like a roar.  This is a good thing.  If I haven't mentioned it before, she seems to be the one who needs the volume.  She's also a 51 year-old trying to be 19, however, I suspect her maturity level is around 14.

Of course, yesterday, open warfare between MAGA cultists and pseudo-president Musk erupted.  You see, Elonia had the affrontery to say that he preferred hiring immigrant workers to Americans because Americans were either poorly trained or untrainable.  This is what started the fight.

There were other Tweets stating that Americans were unmotivated and lazy because of poor parenting.  As expected, the Cultist's anger exploded, and as a result many, including that crackpot Laura Loomer, have been banned from Zitter.  Do you think Donnie the Orange Anus is really going to care what happens to his cultists?  Not on your life.  There are those saying that this blow-up signals the divorce between he and Elonia.  I doubt that.  Orangey wants to be buddy, buddy close to the richest asshole on the planet.  Orangey also likes the fact that all these massive tech companies have been greasing his palm with $1million donations.  The reality is he's going to be buckeroos what they want.  Those cultists, the ones who voted for him?  They no longer have any worth.

Silence is Orange

 Another sunny day is on tap for us here in Central PA.  We were under another frost warning last evening but that didn't happen.  When I got out of bed this morning, the temp was sitting at 41 (F).  Our high temp to day is predicted to be in the low 70s (F).  Sadly, I do have to go to work and sit and the flooring desk.

My new schedule starts on Monday.  The only full, 8 hour day I'm available is going to be Sunday.  They tend to be the slowest day of the week.  I have one more schedule change to make.  I've got to remove my availability for Fridays, that will keep me from having to go in and work on Black Friday.  

My car inspection went well yesterday.  Sometime before next year I'm going to need to buy new tires, but that was expected.  My car is 5 years old, and so far I haven't had any real expense.  There's also a problem with the rear break shoes, but again, the front brakes are fine, so right now it isn't something that needs to be worried about.

Howie's 10 weeks old today.  I am still a chew toy, though the number of toys he's gotten have cut back on the number of lacerations I'm getting from his sharp, little teeth.  He slept through the entire night without having to go outside for a pee break.  He likes going outside, and we've reached the point where I can open the back door and simply let him out to do his business.  I still have to keep an eye on him out of the windows to make sure he doesn't chew on any sticks.  Here's a pic I took of his yesterday.  He's getting bigger by the day.

And can we talk about bad Karma?  Last evening the Orange Anus had a rally in Detroit, remember he just said Detroit was a terrible, horrible place, and his mic cut out.  That's right, for almost twenty minutes he wove back and forth across the stage in the award winning roll as Donnie the Silent.  I watched some of it since it's always nice to see Karma in action.  From what I've read, he was seething.  How humiliating for him!  to have to stand in front of a half filled arena unable to say anything!  Someone tried giving him a mic and that, too, wasn't working.  Was the sound company retaliating because Orangie had said Detroit was a shit hole?  I mean, I suppose they could always write off the expense as a campaign donation.