"Well I'm Stuck in Sorry Vista...."

"....and time keeps draaaaaging on."

With that shameless ripoff from Johnny Cash, I now start this entry.  Even though I've called Sierra Vista "Sorry Vista" more times than I can remember, it's a much better place to be than Trashcan or Newark (the one in NJ) or Detrash or Gary Indiana.

There is more in the realm of political theater to discuss, and some current events, but not tonight.  This is one of those nights better spent decompressing by watching the Looney Tunes or Green Acres or Gilligan's Island.  I might do just that, but first, what's on my mind.

The situation at work is fast becoming one of those where the squirrel is shorting out the transformer.  I seem to be seeing a lot more of that lately in life than I remember.  Odds are it's always been that way, but if you're watching Foghorn Leghorn give the dog a paddling and laughing about it you're not thinking about the squirrel and the transformer.

I won't go into details, other than to say I'm really being challenged.  A good friend of mine just two days ago told me that this is what it is really like to deal with that kind of customer, so I wasn't surprised that there is more beating over what you failed to do, since you didn't have time to do it as that you were taking care of something else you were being beaten for.  An individual can put up with this for some time, but that time is not finite, and I have this feeling I'm going to be watching at least one co-worker walk away from this.

My employer, great as they are about taking care of their people, will align with the customer on a few things here and there.  One of them is that they don't want to hear excuses, they want to see results.  A team effort has been put forth in producing results, but we're being beaten for results that we don't yet produce because there is A, a learning curve involved, and B not enough time being allocated to do this.  That's my opinion of course, and if the customer shares that opinion they're not going to pass that along to me.  They in turn answer to someone up higher, that someone answers to someone higher still, and those up they chain don't want to hear about our problems.  Truth is, they have their own set of pressing problems to deal with,

So how do I cope?

I forge on ahead.  I didn't get here by dropping out of high school or quitting college.  That next to last semester was one royal son of a bitch to get thru and I'll admit I was on the edge of despair for a while there.  That said, I was too close to the goal line, and I didn't want to settle for a field goal.

I will eventually get out of this current mess, which is no where near as adverse as the mess that I had on my hands just a few months before I came to Arizona.  No, I won't talk about that mess either.  That situation will never again be my problem.

In the meantime, there's this cold bottle of San Pellegrino mineral water beckoning me, and it's time to knock that one off.

Cheers.

The Political Situation Report (As I See It), 8/1/19

I have deliberately been trying to avoid politics these past few posts (months), but there's been too much political theater to ignore.  Plus, my history teacher back in college in 1977 encouraged us to document from time to time, what we thought of current events, as that historians would appreciate that.  Provided that this entry and/or blog is not censored, you may be reading years (decades?) into the future of what is going on now, as I write this, as I see this.

This evening we had a rally from President Trump.  The previous two evenings we had debates from the gaggle of Democrats who are running for President.  I watched a good chunk of the rally but didn't watch the Democrat debates (I did listen to talk radio analyze them).  Here is what struck me.

One.  On night one, Marianne Williamson, who I will from this point forward affectionately refer to her as the New Age Queen, outshone the others.  She led a prayer for white people who wanted to apologize for being white.  I wasn't aware that there was anyone who needed to apologize for who they are or what they were born as, but it's readily apparent that the universe where my thought resides is different from hers.  In a way I'm rooting for her.  She stole thunder from Elizabeth "I Have High Cheekbones" Warren and the Bern Man himself.

Two.  On night two, the knives were out for Joe Biden, who fumbled since there wasn't anyone there in a wheelchair who he could tell to stand up.  We also had Tulsi Gabbard go after Willie Brown's former mistress Kamala Harris.  When I heard the sound bite I thought "wow!", and the one night a week I get to watch Tucker Carlson on Fox, he's got Tulsi on his show and I'm once again thinking, "wow!".  I wouldn't agree with Tulsi Gabbard nearly as often as I would disagree with her, but I have to give her kudos with which the way in which she presented herself on Tucker Carlson.  And guess what?  She's now being called an agent of Putin!  Cheese Louise!  Is everyone who disagrees with these uber radical Democrats an agent of Vladimir Putin?  Really?  He's really got that kind of reach??

Three.  I watched some of the Trump rally,  He was on fire tonight.  This time he didn't go after the "Squad" (I haven't mentioned their existence until now, and believe me I held off for as long as I could), but he did go after sanctuary cities and the Democrats who run them.  And I'm thinking, has Trump always felt this way?  I knew of him many years ago, and I would have pegged him as a Democrat.....which I have read that he was....and why does he now have the positions he has?   I had trouble believing he was the real deal in 2015 but folks, we know now he means what he says.  I voted for him to keep Hillary out of the White House for more than any other reason, and now I can't wait to vote for him again.

So what do I make of this?  If I were to make predictions, what would I make?

I'm going to confess something here.

I don't like to make predictions.  I don't.  I've seen way too many predictions made by others fail, and that is the kind of company that I don't want to be known for keeping.

I'm not going to predict what will happen between now and the election, or who is going to win it.  I am thinking that the Democrats are so caught up in their ultra left policy positions, that they are too far invested in them, that they don't dare let them go.  They will march off the cliff believing in them, or rather, convincing themselves that they believe in them, and with more than one year to go we're going to hear more about the Green New Deal, reparations, Universal Basic Income, higher taxes, man made "climate change" (remember, they don't call it "global warming" anymore).......what they haven't thought of (yet) is calling for illegal aliens being able to vote.

That said, I don't personally think next year is going to go very well for them.  My advice is that they stock up on six years worth of prozac, and the rest of us better prepare for six more years of Russia Russia Russia.