Supposedly

 Well, a new work week has arrived.  Accuweather is still predicting rain for today and tomorrow, however a look at the forecast shows us just having showers on and off throughout the next 48 hours.  What that means is that we're not going to see the sun until sometime on Wednesday afternoon.   It also means I'm going to have to mow my lawn before the end of the week.  Temps may be a bit cooler right now, but the azaleas and the dahlias are still bloomin' their pants off.  

As I expected, yesterday was a very slow day at the store.  I sat around.  I talked to associates.  Surprisingly, I did get a lead for a blind installation, as well as a measure for flooring, though the flooring measure was for vinyl planks not carpet.  They really want their carpet measures.  We probably make more on a them.

The new dishwasher arrives tomorrow, the electrician on Wednesday, and Lyndsey should have all of the new drywall up and the cabinets hung the following week.  Some of the plumbing I'm going to do my self, but the dishwasher hook-up is going to be done by a plumber.  After all of that is done, I'm going to put down the new vinyl plank flooring.  I'm waiting for the new countertop until sometime in December.

I did renew Peacock, they offered me a deal.  $1.99 a month for 6 months.  After that, I will probably keep it for a month or two and then cancel the subscription.  Hopefully another deal will come around just before the Tour de France.

So, is the government going to shut down?  There's a good possibility it might happen.  If it does, guess who looks bad to Independent voters?  Not the Democrats.  Nope.  Democrats are just sitting on their hands waiting for it to happen.  They don't even have to point their fingers.  Thank you Main Stream media.  It will be interesting to see how Fox handles it if it happens.  

Oh, and Rupert Murdoch is stepping down.  Supposedly there's so much bad blood in that family.  Conservatives are actually saying that Lachlan Murdoch is actually Woke, whatever the hell that is.  Another supposedly is that Rupert wishes Trump would die.  Now.  I suspect because backing him has cost Fox sooooo much money.  While I can't be certain, I say that, just supposedly, that might be the main reason Rupert is stepping down.  His decision to back the Spawn of Satan, Donald Trump, has cost the network dearly, and the expenses have not stopped.  There are other lawsuits approaching faster than the $$$ are flying out of the Fox bank account. 

Precisely

 A new work week has arrived.  Notice my exuberance.  

They are forecasting rain for my weekend, which begins tomorrow, with high temps in the mid 50's (F).  Hopefully, I'll get some yardwork in between the showers.  Dahlias need to go into the ground in the front yard.  Lots of tuplipy things are sticking out of the dirt already.  And there are the dahlias.  My peonies are also sticking their buds above the soil.  And, of course, my roses are filled with budding leaves.

The Grammy's were on last night.  Meh.  I didn't' watch.  Pop music is so ephemeral.  No matter what you might want to believe, the timeless songs are very few and very far between.  Time has no problem burying trendy musical hooks.  I got into a discussion with a gent at the store about this very subject, and he said "look at all the great things Beyoncé is doing with music!  She'll be around forever!"  I replied, "they said the same thing about Madonna."  And he said, "What?  she's old!"  And I said, "precisely."

And tell me, does this look like the face of the most evil man on the planet?

I saw where someone had Tweeted that Joe Biden said "Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world."  I believe that's a rather precise definition.  At 91, he maintains control over Fox News, and this bitter, old man has always desperately wanted to be a key player in politics.  He was a problem in the UK that was only solved by a legally forced separation: he was basically buying politicians.  The same thing is happening in the US with the Republican Party.  Here he buys them with frequent appearances on Fox News.  His mouthpieces are pro-Putin, and pro-Republican, spewing out lie, after lie, after lie.  As a result, the GOP, much to his delight, relies upon him.  That is precisely what he wants.  If there is any joy in American politics, it's that the political party he owns is blindly stabbing itself in the eye, and in the back, and in the foot, and, thanks to Loser #45, in the heart.

Cover This

 For a Sunday, yesterday business was sporadic, hectic in the morning, which I missed, then slowing down to spurts in the afternoon.  People looking for sales.

I was called over to appliances to help and had to give the sad news to some customers that we don't carry our display appliances in stock.  Nope.  People come in believing that if we have it on display we're going to have a couple in the back room.  We don't.  We do have a bunch of crappy Vissani refrigerators, the low end of the Magic Chef line, which is one of the lower end products owned by Whirlpool.  You get what you pay for.  Cheap is not good.

My schedule is odd this week.  I work 4 days, but odd shifts.  I have a 7 hour day today and Thursday, a six hour day on Saturday, but only 4 hours on Sunday - from 3PM to 7PM.  Our scheduler must think irregularity makes for a better constitution.  After this week, I'll have 3 day work weeks for a while.  That's just fine with me.

They're calling for snow flurries this AM - no accumulation.

I did get the cover art for The Body in Repose and... well... shit... will you look at that.  It's painted backwards.

And what about Marjorie Taylor dumb shit having her personal Twitter account shut down?  Surprisingly enough, this is not what happened.  It was not space lasers that did her account in; rather her constant regurgitation of Covid lies was the cause.  The fact that her very lies are killing off Republican party does not even register in her brain.  If it does, she is probably one of those who qualifies it by saying, "those that die are not really going to be effecting our numbers, besides, when we lose we're always going to claim voter fraud."

Abandoned

Okay, so today's Friday.  I thought yesterday was Friday for most of the day for some odd reason.  This is how things go when you're not working a regularly scheduled 40 hour work week.  As time goes on, I find my inability to remember which day is which seems to have little relevance.  I suspect those working from home are discovering they also have this issue, no set five-day work week to mark the regular passage of time.

When I write about locations, accuracy is very important.  I look at a lot of pictures as part of my research before I begin describing places, especially if I have never been there.  I've spent some time at the Louvre, so in The Body in the Tower I had no problem writing about tapestries and staircases.  In The Body in the Loch I ran into a bit of a problem.  I have never been to an abandoned abbey.  Since my description may come across as rather weak, here is what I hope readers visualize when I talk about the abandoned abbey at Adairton (not a real place).

I understand Lauren Boebert, that Cracker Jack Crazy Freshman Congresswoman from Colorado, is pissed off.   Seems as though she has been getting death threats because people believe she's the one who led unauthorized tours the the halls of Congress.  She's also the loser who Tweeted out Pelosi's location during the riot.  This woman has so much hatred for Democracy, I can't understand why she didn't moved to Moscow years ago.

Oh, and the Evangelicals seem to be in a bit of a quandary.  The Idiot Jerk in the White House now seems to be more Satanic than Godly.  I like the bit where the one pastor says God has abandoned him because of his arrogance.  Excuse me, but where has this fool been for the past 4 years?  They loved his arrogance.  They said he was brash.  And they're saying he's been abandoned?  I don't know about you, but when I see and smell horseshit, I call it horseshit.

Welcome to 2020

Welcome to 2020.  We are entering a very visible year, filled with foresight, and hindsight.  This is the year we begin to see clearly... you know?  2020 vision.  For some of us, this is going to be a very good year.  For other, like the Idiot Jerk in the White House, this will be the worst year of their lives.  This is the year when we will get to see the true effects of Karma. 
As for me?  I slept in this morning.  Mostly because this is my first day off after working 6 in a row.  I get to go back to work tomorrow.  And I'll be back in the store again on Friday, but then I get 3 off in a row.  In fact, my schedule for the next 2 weeks isn't bad... but then I crash into another 6 day stretch.  I really hate those long weeks.  I will have to endure them for another year... until my car is paid off.  After that, I'm thinking of cutting back on my hours.
Now that we're in a New Year, I've decided to set a goal for myself in cycling - to ride over 2,000 miles.  That means 800 more than I did last your.  This, I think, is very do-able.  A challenge for me would be 2,500...  so maybe I set that as my goal. 
A couple of books on Scotland have been ordered - for research purposes.  I like doing research.  The moment I stop filling my head with information will be a sad day, indeed. 
I'm still getting flowers on my Christmas Cactus. 

There are at least more buds waiting to open.

When Friday isn't Friday

Well, here it is... Saturday, and as I do on almost every Saturday, I'm going to work.  I say this for the benefit of all of those people who do get to work a 5 day work week, and for whom Friday is the last day of that week.  I have friends on Facebook who, every Friday, post these cute little dancing gifs proclaiming how great Friday is... for them.  So, recently, I began reminding them that there are vast numbers of people who work on weekends.  I let them know that if we all had a work week that ended on Friday the world would, for the most part shut down for them.  There would be no movies, or restaurants open, you couldn't go to the supermarket,  or stop by your 7-11 or get gas.  There would be no Emergency Rooms for people to go to were they to get sick.  No police, so don't get robbed, or have an accident.  Imagine Disney World closed on Saturday and Sunday, and Six Flags - no amusements parks because their employees had a work week that ends on a Friday.  Think of everything that would be closed.  Just start ticking things off in your head, the things you can't do because no one is going to be working.  And the number of cute, little gifs has started to decline because my friends have started to realize that without us weekend workers, their own personal lives would pretty much shut down.  A lot of people don't think about things like that.