March 8, 9

 Sunny again and warm enough that all of the snow is gone. I still have some of the ice on the patio which is still in shade and will be until the coming equinox. But if it gets warm enough for me to feel comfortable I will start cleaning out those pots that have thawed enough to let me pull the dead plants out.

Well the Musk-Rats are at it again. Chewing through contracts an agencies they don't understand and don't give a s##t who is hurt or inconvenienced. Here is another in that on-going saga. I wondered if Main was the only state affected and found this article. I think the chaos is the goal and screw any "savings."

09************************************************

Nice and sunny again. The forecast says we will have temperatures between upper 50s and 70. Not at all what we expect in early March.

We have had a nice quiet weekend with a full line up of soccer (3 games) yesterday and the Six Nations Rugby (3 games). We look forward to weekends for a detox from politics and other dismal news.

Just finished setting the microwave clock and a regular clock in the living room to the "spring forward" time. This and the fall time change are my least favorite times of the year. It is harder and harder to adjust as I get older. Even though we don't have any job or appointments to go to I just feel so discombobulated and out of sync.

CROOKS & LIARS posted this report of a man who was a Trump voter but was confronted by ICE agents looking for someone else who had given (falsely) his address. He is an American citizen who had ID which he couldn't provide until after the agents had him out of his vehicle and in handcuffs. He did have an hispanic name. I remember discussing the administration's renewed efforts to deport an unbelievable number of "assumed" illegals and saying that Americans with hispanic names would be targeted as well.

And the rest of the shambolic s##t show continues. Details posted by Heather Cox Richardson.

Another example of DOGE stupidity: the Defense Department  is purging a lot of its sites and articles for supposed DEI transgressions. As a result pictures of the Enola GAY, of servicemen whose name is GAY. Reminiscent of the AP trying to use its program's editing functions to change GAY to HOMOSEXUAL with hilarious effect including labeling an athlete whose name was GAY as HOMOSEXUAL. These people are far too reliant on technology to do their thinking for them. A brainless system is run by brainless people.