Furniture and Bad Politics

Greetings Earthlings.  How are we all doing, four days before the end of democracy?  I will miss the old days.  

We have reached the end of furniture acquisition.  I gave up on ever finding a cool TV table, realizing that in the mid-Century, televisions came in consoles.  Then they ended up on heavy tables.  So I bought fake wood and metal.  I like it, it's a good height (20 inches), doesn't have a back so the router went in easily.  I have been unable to take a decent picture of it, so here is one from the website.  We would still like something along the lines of a server/side board/buffet with drawers since we are so sadly lacking in storage.  Maybe next year, maybe not. 

I will say, that this flat pack had the best cushioning I have ever seen.  They used honey comb cardboard, and separated everything well.

Today's key learning is that there shall be no art behind glass.  Between the sky lights and all of the windows, it's difficult to not get a reflection.  Canvas art for the win!  I had a 16 x 20 print made at Snapfish.  I have to tell you, print quality is astoundingly good.  Here is a photo I took of the print.  You can see my arm reflected at the bottom.  In person, I can read the sign for El Charro on the right in the back ground.

Here it is on the wall.

Today we did manual labor.  I sat in the dirt and cut out pieces of a dead shrub to make it shorter, and we rearranged rocks in the dry stream that were dislodged when the irrigation leak was fixed.  Jim completed round two of picking up the fallen leaves from our two trees.  They have a lot of little tiny leaves.

As we all learned in civics, there are three branches of government in the US, the Legislative, Judiciary, and Executive.  They are separate and equal, at least that's how it's supposed to work.  Yesterday, the Speaker of the House (who lacks a spine) called Rep. Mike Turner into his office and fired him from being chairman of the House Intelligence Committee because the orange menace told him to. It's not supposed to work this way.  The president is not supposed to interfere with the workings of Congress.  Of course, the speaker, having no spine, did as he was told.  This is bullshit.  All it would take is for two Republicans to change their affiliation to Independent, caucus with the Democrats, and they could put an end to the reign of terror.  But they won't.

Additionally, the orange one is taking credit for the cease fire between Hamas and Israel.  President Biden had been working on this for 15 months.  The pub-tards are giving all the credit to the orange.  When the hostage swap fails, they'll blame Biden.

Then there is this.  RFK Jr. has been nominated to run Health and Human Services.  This is what he thinks.  Stupid, just stupid.

Here is a giant cactus in the neighborhood.  Look at the size of it.  The arm coming off near the ground is not usual.  That arm has put out another arm.

That's it, that's all I have to say about things.