Morning Update: 07/18/24

Mowing has been done! Okay, perhaps not as neat as I’d like and no one did any trimming at all. Maybe we can get that done tomorrow. I was pleased that the rain all went to our South so that we could get the work done that was needed before the day got too hot. I wanted to reward the kids with Arby’s for lunch, but when I opened the app, all the roast beef sandwiches were grayed out and marked as sold out! WTF? Is Arby’s out of roast beef? We ended up doing something different instead.

Unfortunately, I ended up sleeping most of the rest of the day. Nausea had hit pretty hard before the kids were done mowing and it didn’t let up until well into the night. I even had to miss the Yats that Kat picked up for dinner! I hate missing Yats! I didn’t dare risk what would happen if I ate, though. I managed to down a strawberry/banana smoothie without any problem, but anything more than that would have almost certainly made the night sleepless.

As it was, I was still awake by 3:30 this morning. I laid in bed, snuggling with the dogs, listening to Frankie, the smashed-face wheezer kitty, coughing up a hairball. Kat had a pretty rough night as well, so if you see her this afternoon, please be kind.

Today marks a new beginning as our baby girl has freshman orientation at PPHS Schweitzer Center at Englewood. This is it. Our youngest starts high school. They have orientation today, a back-to-school event next Thursday, and then classes start on the 29th. Yeah, that’s right, they’re going back to school before the end of July. I assume Tipper will get her student ID today so that we can get her bus pass and do a couple of practice runs before she has to do it on her own. While G is sort of at the same school, he’s at a different campus about a block away and has a different schedule. That means we can’t count on him being able to help her out in figuring out the bus schedule. Her boyfriend (not my favorite word) will be there to help her get from the school to the transit center, but she’ll be on her own from the transit center home. Dad’s going to be a bit anxious for the first week or so and I’m sure I’ll mention that another time or two as we get started.

At least I’m distracted from all the political nonsense. Republicans relished in the whole January 6 debacle last night as they welcomed a speaker who had just been released from prison for lying to Congress. There is nothing being said to give any indication that a GOP administration would be anything but a complete cluster fuck not only for the nation but the world.

But hey, scientists in Japan have made a robot face smile using living skin! Perhaps the days of robot control over the planet are not that far away. If we’re going to be slaves to one system or another, I’d rather it be one based on logic and reasoning rather than mythology and narcissism.

It looks like a lot of people are distracting themselves with shopping. Adobe estimates that $1.7 billion was spent just on the first day of Amazon’s Prime Day. I know we had been saving up so that we could take advantage of the sale for back-to-school items. I’m sure we weren’t the only ones to do so. For all the dangers of scams and shady deals, it seems that a lot of people would rather take their chances with online shopping than anything political.

The US military Corp of Engineers is giving the fuck up on the pier intended to deliver aid to Gaza. The water just doesn’t want to cooperate. Allegedly.

Personally, I’m not terribly amused by anything I’m seeing in the news this morning. The biggest portion of it is either hot air or straight-up misinformation. So, I’m going to focus on getting Tipper to school this morning without embarrassing her by crying as she stands in line.

Damnit, wasn’t it just yesterday she was riding on my shoulders?