The Price of Oil

 The temps outside are cool, sitting around 34 (F), but the sun is shining brightly over Central PA.  Our high today will be in the low 70s (F).  That's fine.  Not that it's going to last.  By Thursday our daily highs will be back to the mid to up 40s (F).  This is Spring after all, not summer.  

Sadly, there are those who confuse the two.  Our garden department did have customers yesterday and they were beginning make early purchases for what they call "curb appeal."  For me, curb appeal means mowing the lawn.  I don't need to put in cutesy plants that only live for the season.  There is a hedge between my neighbor's front yard and mine.  It is totally on their property.  They didn't trim it last year, and I'm betting it's a sure thing that they'll not do anything with it this year.  I told him he could borrow my hedge trimmer and the told me he already owned one, but that it was electric.  He complained that they have no exterior outlet.  I told him he could use one of mine and got a "thanks," that's means no thanks.  

Speaking of the neighbors, their son is a sophomore at Temple University.  He was home for spring break.  They took him back down to Philly this morning.  The whole family drives down, including the daughter who's in junior high.  This meant much screaming of obscenities, cursing and swearing, before they loaded everybody into the car.  I don't understand this.  I owned a car when I was a sophomore in college.

I slept on and off last night.  This is mostly because of the war the Orange Anus, at the behest of Benny Netanyahu, has initiated in the Middle East.  At one point I turned on the lights and pulled out my tablet to discover that Brent Crude Oil was up to $118 a barrel.  Ouch!   Will it go back down?  I'm thinking that might be a hard No.  You see Orangie, relying on Benny's deceit, believed this would be like Venezuela, what so many of the hookers in his life have called a Quickie.  However, only the MAGA cultists believe Orangie to be intelligent.  The rest of the world knows he's an idiot.  Right now it's selling at $96.08 a barrel.  That means gas prices are going to go up.

The fact that Iran now has a new Supreme Leader, the hard line son of the Khomeini our military just killed, does not bode well for oil prices to begin to drop anytime soon.

There are some who are thinking Orangie is going to pull a TACO in a few days and declare victory.  Someone needs to tell both he and Benny that Iran is not going to quickly forget what we've done to that country.  The fact that we bombed a girls school killing around 170 children is going to burn in their hearts for decades.  The damage that this loser in the White House has done is inestimable.  We have lost so many allies.  Believe me, when Iranian terrorist cells do something bad in this country, and they will do something bad, those allies are going sigh and say, "now, isn't that a shame."  The Republican party owns this shit.  They alone are responsible.  

The one small glimmer of light is that this turmoil in the middle east will cause Wall Street to shake and shudder and believe me, the one thing those billionaires who are so desperate to run the world hate is for Wall Street to be rattled.  When Wall Street clanks and clatters, they lose money... lots of money.

Douche from Hell

Well, we have 51 (F) outside as I type.  Our afternoon high will climb into the mid 60s (F).  I'm seeing lot of men walk around the aisles of that great orange home improvement store I work for in shorts... some of them shouldn't.  Spring is in the air until Wednesday evening, then we drop back to more seasonable temps with daily highs in the mid 50s (F).  This is fine.  We want to warm up, but we don't want to warm up too fast.  We want a warm summer, not a hot, hot summer.

Something I've learned:  Howie like bones, especially those with lots of fat and gristle.  However, too many bones spoils his pallet.  Because bones make his tastes snooty, his kibble will sit in his bowl for hours, and he'll treat it like a poor man's snack.  Since his kibble, which I think is very expensive, is still far cheaper than beef bones, especially with the price of beef what it is today, the rich treat of fat, gristle, and bone has become a rare treat.  This is the way of the world we are now living in.

Yesterday I sold 2 measures, that was my goal for the week.  On the sales side, I'm getting slaughtered.  I had sold a vinyl plank install a bit ago and the customer decided that he was going to install the baseboard himself.  There was a big disagreement as to whether this would void the warranty on the floor.  In the end, the customer chose to do the install himself rather than pay for us to do it.  This meant they had to refund over $3000 to him.  My sales get charged for the credit they give him, so now, instead of having a goal of a little over $5000 for the week, I now have a goal of nearly $9000.  Well, that ain't happening.

And guess who's getting a lot of blowback for wearing a white MAGA hat yesterday?  That is not a difficult question.  He was at Andrews Air Force Base yesterday for the official transfer of the 6 innocent Americans who died as a result of his ego war with Iran.  We've all know for sometime that he's a douche from Hell.  

Of course, he might have worn the hat to cover the fact that his hair has gone bright orange.  Not blond, mind you, he's put a bright ginger rinse on that dead rat he wears on his head.

And prepare for sticker shock at the gas pump!  Refineries and oil fields are on fire in Iran.  The Strait of Hormuz is closed.  Those 2 things mean we're going to be paying higher prices at the gas station.  I don't know for sure, but I'm betting this is going to put a big burn in every MAGA ass.  Me?  I don't put a lot of mileage on my car, but there are those who drive a lot.  There are people who like to go shopping, who like to go to the mall, who go to the supermarket every other day.  These higher gas prices are going to hit them hard.  This is how it goes when you have a douche from Hell in the White House.