March 13

 Another nice day though tomorrow should be wet. I won't complain. I am looking for some green in the landscape. Not much hopeful in the patio containers. I moved a bunch of containers, and cleared off the patio table I use as a potting bench and moved it to its new home. I moved the trash tote yesterday. With the moving, sweeping and clearing I am done for the day.

Found David Kaiser's post and you can read it here. I think a lot of what he says is right and with what is going on with the Federal government I think much of what he describes will go away. It will make a lot of people very unhappy, especially the overpriced administrators. Unfortunately, some of what I am hearing indicates that I will be one of the unhappy ones--those who trusted the "experts" who told us that getting the student loans was a "wise" choice that would lead to good jobs and the debt was "good debt" because of the low interest rates. But the rates have gone up and I never got a job (much less a career) that allowed me to even pay the interest accruing. I expect that the American education will look much more like what it did before 1980. I only hope it won't look as white and male as it did then.

Stray thought: I saw way too much of the tussle between the Republicans and the Democrats over the continuing resolution. None of the parties involved has said anything about Trump's treasury secretary who told the Republicans that they could vote for the bill because it really didn't matter--the administration would ignore it anyway and spend, or not spend, what they wanted. That basically allowed the Republicans to vote as a block and pass it with only (unnecessary) Democrat. Now it is in the Senate and the Democrats are obsessing, pearl clutching, and whining about who will be blamed if the bill isn't passed and the government shuts down. It doesn't matter whether they keep the bill from passing or they help it passed. The rest of us lose. I am well past giving an F##K about our perennial s##tshow.

Another stray thought: Mom and I listened to Trump's idiotic musing about the U.S.-Canada border (how it is unfair, how its very straight line is evidence that it was proof that some unspecified person simply drew a line with a ruler on a map). I am sorry but I had American history in grade school, four times in high school, and several courses in my college/university studies and I know how cockeyed his notions are. I said that if he had double the brains he has he would be a halfwit. Mom disagreed. She thought he had a half halfwit. My last comment: it would insult birds to call him a bird brain.