A Good day to stay in bed, ruined!

It started off such an ugly day. Cold, drizzle and with a strong wind. The kind of day that just begs you to stay in bed. Not that there was any chance I was going to do so, but it was a nice idea. Its so much easier to sit at work and work when its ugly outside.

Now it’s all pretty and sunny and damn near shiny. I had to take my rubber boots out to the car at lunch. I like weather with some consistency, if you start out cold and ugly I would rather that instead of going from gray and nasty immediately to bright and shiny that there would at least be a time out in between. Maybe featuring a slowly receding over cast sky and mist. This bouncing from one extreme to another is not right.

If it could have stayed ugly I could have not walked Dogger this evening guilt free. As it is, I’m still not going to walk her but now I’m going to have to feel guilty about it. I hate that. I’m going to another “Thank You Volunteer” thing the Dems are throwing, again.

They can’t get enough of these things. “Hey Kids! Lets all go and hang around and talk about how we snatched defeat from the mouth of victory!” or maybe they really part of some study to plot the trajectory of our depression.

At the earlier events people seemed to range from blind rage at the high end to myopic range at the low end. There was a lot of visually impaired rage. The last one I went to was going fairly well until some idiot said “Okay, show of hands, how many people think the election was stolen?” After that there was a lot of recovery speak about what stage of grief we were in and how we were handling our fury. Lots of fun, that. It was so pleasant before that. No one was crying, conversation was flowing and many people seemed to be discussing things like pets and yard work, learning things about one another and our pets. Happy, normal, non-political topics. We almost seemed like real people at a normal gathering. It was nice.

This event this evening is being held at an actual Hall and might have food that doesn’t come from bags. I’m going, of course because I go to the opening of an envelope if I think the opening might also be a fundraiser for the Democrats. I don’t actually donate, but I like watching other people do so.


Other Things

I went to the post office today to buy stamps so I could maybe start on getting my cards addressed, not mailed yet its too early for me to do that. I like to wait until at least the second week of December, but as it was pointed out to me, I can still get them all taking care of and just not mail them yet. When I went to the post office, instead of standing in line, I went to a machine. I got almost all the way through the transaction when I started to worry about what kind of stamps I was getting a book of. I wanted holiday stamps, not flag stamps. So I stopped the transaction and headed for the lines. Before I made it to the lines I was stopped by a postal worker who explained the machine to me and let me know that all the books of stamps in the machine were holiday. They were of course holiday in a Christmas way, because that is the only card worthy holiday… but, I let it go… but still. I got my stamps and didn’t stand in line and I got the kind I wanted.