We had a busy day yesterday. Mom needed to get a replacement Social Security card so we went to the local office. That was the most time consuming site but it went very quickly once our turn came up. We had to stop off at the bank. Our change jars were full enough that we decided to empty them and put the money into our accounts. I needed to get new checks and a couple of check registers. We are going back to cash and checks rather than doing everything electronically. Mom had an issue with her computer stemming from an incident I told you about three or four months ago where scammers almost got a lot of money but we had to put a block on her electronic banking and put an added pass word on all accounts. She decided that it wasn't worth the frustration to re-establish the system. We both requested that they send paper statements. I have electronic banking but I haven't had any accounts on it for several years. That stop took a bit of time but it wasn't as frustrating as Mom feared it would be. The last stop was Target to get my new glasses. That pretty much took care of our morning. We napped most of the afternoon.
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Reading over what I wrote yesterday I realized that we have gone back to older ways of doing things. Several years ago we got tired of changing out non-stick pans every four or five years because their coatings flaked. And we treated those pans far more gently than we ever had. We have completely changed over to cast iron and to stainless steel. We also went back to cooking largely from scratch. I say "largely" because we still do use some prepared ingredients but not that many. We had gone heavily into electronic banking but too many of the systems we had to interact with became balky and dealing with the computerized persons on the other side was too frustrating. We finally got the bank fully back after a scam to drain our bank account nearly worked last December. But other things are equally frustrating. Mom preferred using FireFox but lately she has been getting messages that her machine has been locked and she had to call "support" to unlock it. We never made that call, disobeyed the admonition to not turn off the computer and ran her anti-virus scanning software. Finally, I told her to get off FireFox and use Safari (yeah we use Macs). That seems to be working.
The Former Guy had his first day in criminal court. He seems a ghost (but a malicious ghost) of his former self. Someone said that his people "leaked" the possibility that he would speak (before the hearing, during the hearing, or maaaybe after the hearing) which fixated the news media on the courthouse. Well, all he said was "Not guilty, your honor." At least until he had his pity party of a speech last night. I don't know who is more pitiful: TFG or blubbering Lindsey Graham begging for people to send any money they could to save their messiah and, if they couldn't, to send prayers. I was amused by the news anchors who wryly noted that TFG had suckered them in (again)into covering him leaving Mar-a-lago, of his motorcade traveling to the airport, to him trudging onto his branded airliner, arriving at the New York airport, trudging off the plane and into his limousine, of his motorcade traveling to his tower, leaving the tower and being driven to court, going into court, sitting in court, leaving court, motorcading to the airport.
TFG isn't the only sore loser in the former Republican Party. Did you all see the truly pathetic performance from the losing Republican candidate in the race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He wished he had an "honorable" opponent to whom he could concede. He ran a vicious campaign which the Democrat met with equal force. Someone mentioned that the Republicans used to laugh when the Democrats remained mannerly in spite of vicious Republican ads. But the Democrats have decided that they don't have to play by the Marquis of Queensberry rules if their opponents have jettisoned the playbook.
Of course, many of the news sites are covering the indictment and closely examining what it sets out. Not being a lawyer I really can't say whether the New York AG has a weak case, a strong or something in-between. I do, however, vehemently disagree with those who argue that it isn't really important. That basically argues that just because TFG was once, and is running for, president he should somehow be excused responsibility for so-called accounting law violations. Sorry, the law is the law as the Republicans remind us when the alleged miscreant is a Democrat. The opinions I have seen so far are pretty much divided for and against the case mostly following how they writers feel about TFG. I despise the ultimate con man but I will wait and see if the charges are proved and will do the same when it comes to the other cases being investigating.
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