The Monday-est Tuesday Ever Was

 We had to run to Walmart last night. I wanted to see if I couldn't find something that the cat would eat. (answer: no. Last night's offering was also rejected.)

I needed to pick up shampoo. I was really craving an avocado. We wanted to pick up milk. I needed to read some labels in the supplement aisle. Tim said, "I want to go take a quick look at the paint aisle." And off he went. 

I got everything that I needed, and then I went looking for Tim since he hadn't come back. I browsed seeds. I looked at the clearance. I made my way back, and then I saw him. He was talking to a tall man I did not recognize at the back of the store. 

I did not interrupt, but he told me the story later. The man was a year behind him in high school. Tim said, "He's a tRUMPer. He wanted to tell me all about Tim Walz, that a police station was set on fire in Michigan, and Tim Walz WAITED TWO DAYS TO CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT!!!!" 

(I will wait for your gasps of outrage to die down.)

I said, "I guess if I had been there, I would have commented that it seems like the police would have called the fire department. I have never heard of a case where someone watched a fire burning and thought it was the governor's job to call the fire department..."

Tim said, "He really believes that. I don't remember him as being intelligent in school. As far as I know, he's been on disability for most of his life." 

But I stand by my assertion: that when tRUMP takes office, people like Tim's friend will be the most negatively affected.  They believe that tRUMP is going to fix everything. They have no critical thinking skills. They will be totally unprepared for what comes next. And there is no point in trying to warn them. They won't believe it until it happens. 

Meanwhile, today, DJT Junior promised the people of Greenland that "We will treat you well..."

Donald Trump wants to name the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. 

Elon Musk says that the US should liberate the UK from their "tyrannical government".

Yep...the new normal. 

Five more inches of snow expected. 

We got about half of the bathroom drywalled. It did not go smoothly. I hate days like this. 

I had a pot of chili going in the slow cooker. Disappointingly, I'm not sure what happened, but my slow cooker shut off. There was no hot chili for supper. 

I'm trying to think of something beautiful, and I can't. Help me out here. 

LATE EDIT: Wellup. I had my beautiful moment. I received a text that I somehow missed receiving. For Christmas, I'd given a friend a copy of my favorite book, "The Immense Journey" by Loren Eisley. He just finished it and messaged me to say how much he had loved it too. I knew that he would. He gave me his thoughts on the subject. 

He wound it up with something that impacted him while reading: "The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger, and the bear. The hand that hefted the axe, out of some old blind allegiance to the past, fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit that man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep." 

There is an optimism to that, isn't there? The idea that we've come from fossils and ancient bones but that the journey ahead of us is no less than the journey before us. 

Anyways, it was a beautiful sharing of thoughts, and I needed that.