Glass, Food, Traitorous Senators

Greetings!  How are things in your neck of the woods?  It rained today, so Jim took the cars out into the drive way to see if it would wash away some of the salt.  Salt!  They salt the roads here.  To my knowledge the Seattle area does not do that. The car washes here have a chassis flush wherein you drive over a thing that sprays water up on to the underside of the car.  We'll probably be doing that a couple of times a winter.  We did find a touchless car wash place in Spokane Valley, and we'll be going there.  Jim can not bear the thought of car wash brushes touching his vehicles.  

As you no doubt recall we had the glass bricks taken out of the primary bathroom and replaced with a clear glass surround.  The process started at the end of November. The problems were: 1) the glass door was too large and wouldn't close,  2) instead of replacing the door they brought a fixed piece of glass which they initially thought was the wrong size and took it back, 3) more experienced guys brought it back and installed it, 4) then they noticed that the door was scratched and brought a new one out, 5) then we noticed that the fixed glass from item two was scratched, 6) we got new fixed glass yesterday.  Yesterday was the first time any of these guys in my house were masked, and they were not happy about it.  I gave one installer a three part mask, but he did not know he should fold the top up and use the metal strip to better fit his face, nor did he know about pulling the chin piece out and down.  I don't think he's ever worn a mask.  The thing that just irritates the living snot out of me is that they were planning on coming in again, unmasked.  I'm also irritated with us for letting it happen at all.  Yesterday we had the bathroom window open, the exhaust fan on, and a fan blowing down the hall they used to go in and out.  Airflow is key with an airborne pathogen.  Anyway, maybe this time we are done, I'd like to not have people in the house for awhile.

Here are the scratches in the fixed glass.  They're hard to see if you don't have a dark background.  I think they need to improve their glass handling processes.

So, the senate killed voting rights yesterday.  After the vote, the republicans lined up to shake Sinema's hand.  I hope she gets covid from that.  Emily's List, one of her largest donors, has dropped their support of her.  Her popularity in AZ among democrats is 8%.  Republicans, however, think she's great.  Mitch had this to say.

I guess "American" means white, all others must hyphenate. 

We made stoup again, this time we made mass quantities in the Le Creuset.  I don't use it much on the stove top because of the shape, the round ones are better.

We put it in the oven.  It works really well, cooks faster, doesn't require stirring to move stuff towards the middle and puts less food smell in the house.  As usual, I used too much liquid.

We've made a pact to cook big batches of food and freeze parts of them.  It's unfortunate that no one here likes to cook.

Also yesterday, the Supreme Court let a lower court decision stand that the National Archives could release documents related to January 6.  The archivist moved out with all due haste to get the documents to the January Select Committee.  The Select Committee has invited Ivanka to come and talk to them.  I don't know why they just don't subpoena the whole lot of them.  Additionally, a Civil Special Grand Jury has been empaneled in Georgia to investigate the orange ectoplasm's attempts to convince the GA Secretary of State to "find him some votes."  Raffensperger has said he would not testify unless presented with a subpoena, so now that can be arranged.  The call was recorded and released to the public.  Here we have the orange ectoplasm flailing about talking about the call.

I really want someone to put him in jail.