Key West cold does not require snow. The temperature alone does it.
Yesterday’s high was 64. Comparable to 10 degrees above zero and 10 inches of newly fallen snow in upstate New York. Even my butt was cold yesterday and early into the night. I have a small heater which only minimally helps. Wore a sweatshirt all day and night. Slept under a heavy quilt during the evening.
The temperature will rise today. Will reach 70 degrees at 1 p.m. The high today at 3 when it will hit 74. Understand how this affects me. I am cold up to and including 74 degrees. As are other Key Westers. Warm begins kicking in at 75. Only those who live in the lower Keys can understand. Those further north laugh. They understand not. You have to experience Key West cold to comprehend.
This afternoon at 2 will find me at the bar at Brady’s Irish Pub. I am going to try watching the Syracuse/Boston College game from the bar. Spoke with Carolla yesterday to set things up for me.
Hope my ankle can handle it.
I have missed Syracuse’s last three games because of the ankle. Syracuse on a roll. Won all three. Hope they win today.
Trump a sensitive person. Thin skinned. Like crepe paper. Easily offended.
Trump threatening tariffs on Nations that “don’t go along” with his Greenland plans. A first class asshole!
I suspect Trump is at the point where he is most unpopular. He may know it, though I suspect he tries to hide it with his false bravado.
Trump more recently giving the finger and fucking this and that. Great conduct by a U.S. President! He has regurgitated back 50 years to a construction site.
Trump is making it difficult for the U.S. to negotiate with other countries. His personality and disposition make him the worst to discuss matters with. It is all him in any negotiation.
I spoke of grocery and restaurant prices yesterday. Another super market item where the consumer is silently screwed involves cereals. Boxed cereals. Rather than reduce the size of the box or merely raise the price, the cereal producer leaves box size as it was. However reduces the contents inside. Consumers can’t tell if the volume is 20 percent less when the purchase is made.
The manufacturer/producer and grocery store come out ahead. The buyer loses. Less product and no recompense in his paycheck or from anyone to make up for the loss in product and monies. The only ones to come out ahead are the producer and super market.
We can’t win!
Many years ago the “weekend” consisted of one day. Sunday. Workers took Mondays off on their own and with no pay. Mondays were generally used to continue “imbibing” or to recover from Sunday’s drinking. Mondays were in effect an unofficial holiday. Referred to as “Saint Monday.” The Saint reference never understood.
Thieves pulled off the famous Brink’s robbery in Boston this day in 1950. I remember the notoriety associated with the theft. $2 million. $29 million in today’s money. The thieves were caught in January 1956 just days before the Statute of Limitations expired.
Benjamin Franklin was born this day in 1706.
I repeat my choice for President in 2028. Mike Kelly. Can’t beat a U.S. Senator, former astronaut and 25 year Navy captain. Donald never any of the three.
Enjoy your day!