Visit (While You Still Can)!

Back in 2017 BC (Before Covid), my sister and I went to Washington, DC and visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture (AAHC). We had a great time, enjoyed a great lunch there, and checked that visit off of our respective bucket lists. Back then, Donny T was in office, but too busy causing chaos elsewhere to bother with worrying about local museums. Well, the tide has turned now with Donny's second term. Now he's grumbling that museums like the Museum of AAHC cause further divisions in society and he wants JD to look into them (i.e. cut their funding). Give me a break. My suggestion for anyone interested in seeing the Museum of AAHC (or any other of the Washington museums that focus on minorities) is that you do it ASAP before Donny/DOGE/JD/Whoever shuts them down.

I, personally, would like to visit Alaska and I'm hoping to do so before Donny decides to give it to his Russian BFF, Vlad. Am I being paranoid? Maybe, but like a guy told me at a job interview once, "The paranoid have enemies too!"

$5.97

Eggs were going for $5.97 a dozen at my local Aldi today. That's about .50 cents per egg. Thankfully, I didn't need any, but my grocery bill from Aldi and Mariano's combined was over $100...for one person. And it wasn't like I was buying lobster and pricey cheeses (no gouda for me today). Grocery prices are still out of control, yet our POTUS was at the White House earlier this week begging folks to buy Teslas to help his buddy Elon out. Poor Elon. His ugly, janky vehicles aren't selling so, according to Donny T,  Americans should pitch in to help the world's richest man out by purchasing his Swasticars or truck. How tone-deaf can you be? Extemely tone-deaf, apparently. People are losing jobs (including many people Elon fired from the government), grocery prices are off the chain, and housing costs are increasing (on top of everything else), yet Dumb Donny wants us to buy a new car from his rich friend? Yeah, right. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I wouldn't give a dime to that dude. Let him go back to his home country of South Africa and beg for money. Let his fellow Afrikaners help him out by buying his cars and Mad Max trucks. 

Just when I think things can't get any worse, they do! This country is going right into the shitter and it pains me to say that. It's hard to try and find some positivity in the world these days. I can only take comfort in the fact that I didn't vote for Donny. Yeah, he's hell-bent on destruction, but my response to that is, "Don't blame me!" It wasn't like he didn't warn folks that this was coming. I didn't choose chaos but, for those who did, you're certainly getting it now, aren't you? 

You Know What It's Like

I was sad to hear that Roberta Flack passed away earlier this week. I've always enjoyed her music. I was just listening to her song "You Know What It's Like" recently. It's such a great song and terribly underrated. RIP, Roberta! And even more celebrity deaths happened this week: Gene Hackman, Angie Stone, David Johansen. I remember when Johansen had a big hit in the 1980s with a song called "Hot Hot Hot" when he was going by the name Buster Poindexter. That song drove me crazy back in the day because it was over-played on the radio. "How you feeling? Hot hot hot!" Oy vey! 

I did my part to not shop or buy anything yesterday for the blackout protest. It kills me that some folks dismissed the one day protest claiming one day of refraining from buying stuff won't make a difference, but what about Black Friday? One day of shopping puts a lot of retailers in the black, but one day of staying home won't make a difference? Whatever. I'm also trying to curb my Amazon shopping habit and I canceled my subscription to the Washington Post (that ends this month anyway). Bezos needs to sell the paper to someone who will run it right. If that happens, I'll consider resubscribing, but as long as Bezos is at the helm, forget about it. I'd like to find another news source to replace WaPo. During the BC times (before Covid), my old boss used to get the Wall Street Journal delivered to the office and I'd read those (when he wasn't there). The paper had interesting articles. It's not something I'd pay to subscribe to because I don't want to help fund the Murdoch media machine, but I enjoyed being able to read the WSJ for free. 

Let's all consider ourselves lucky for surviving yet another week of Donny T and the Funky Bunch and their never-ending bag of bullshit. Every day it's something else. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does! All I can do is try not to lose my mind with this nonsense and focus on the positive things in life.