Pleasant and cool, with sun and a breeze. A lot like yesterday once the overcast blew out.
Spent the whole day indoors. Kept plugging away at stuff in my office, and getting stuff ready for the auction. Ended up rescheduling my dropoff for today when I realized I had a bunch of small items that all needed me to mess with them a bit before sending them, but that the money difference made it worthwhile. So I cranked through a bunch of minor repairs, in between moving stuff around and doing my normal interweb things. And poking at my NVR… and doing the paperwork for my passport renewal… and other paperwork too. Not what I was hoping to do but progress on a number of smaller goals.
Oh yeah, and spent an hour watching the President give a short speech and then get a tongue bath from the press. Oh there were a couple of questions that sent him drifting off the rails, but OMG, one of them managed to sanctify him and damn Trump in the same breath.
I’ll admit there were a few times when he was saying stuff that sounded good, like actually providing a partial demographic breakdown of the illegals. But that was mostly when he started to drift off message, and then he would just stop mid sentence and switch gears. And there were flat out lies, misdirections, and contradictory statements following each other.
He looked less feeble than some other times, but his eyes and eyebrows are very strange, he had trouble controlling his speaking volume (considering all the practice a half century of “public service” has given him), and he needed extensive notes. It was the longest I’ve seen him go without someone hovering near his elbow or just barely close enough to catch him if he falls. Normally he’s got at least one person watching him like he was a toddler walking the top rail of a fence.
He played a couple of weird moments for laughs, and I don’t know if they were intended to be funny or if he just saved a gaffe. Some of those things are being quoted without context. I’d like to THINK he’s an affable guy, playing the fool for laughs, but I suspect that’s not what was happening.
To top it all off, he shuffles his feet like he can’t lift them normally, and he’s got a couple of weird tics that I associate with age and confusion. I wasn’t looking to be impressed, and I wasn’t. The whole business about whether or not he’d run next time was especially weird. It’s like he doesn’t expect to be around for that, so why bother? I agree with him on that.
He’s a train wreck. Called Putin names. Called other countries’ leaders thieves. Promised more gun control, more government spending on stuff the private sector does better, bragged about the crusts he tossed to the peons, forgetting that it was THEIR money to start with. Bagged on the rich, trotted out the old lines about greedy bigcorps not paying taxes, plugged the unions, all the normal playbook. On the plus side, I didn’t have to hear Kamel laugh.
It’s getting weird out there folks. Something’s gonna give. And it’s a lot easier to break than build. Get the stuff you need now, while you can, if you can. And stack it high.
nick