May 3, 2020

The missus had a milestone birthday today — 70 years old. She’s trying to catch up with me. I haven’t gotten out by myself for ages, so I had to make her birthday card on the computer, and in it I wrote, “Now that you’re in your 70s, it’s time to grow up and stop acting like an irresponsible 60-year-old.” Some friends dropped by and gave her gifts as we socially distanced in the driveway, and then the kids’ came up with Charlie, which really made her day, since we haven’t seen them for weeks due to the current situation we are all in. We stayed outside in the cold the entire time following the distancing rules. It was so cold today it actually snowed up here a little bit this morning. Have a nice birthday, dear.

I see that Former President Bush went on video yesterday and called on Americans to put aside their partisan differences in the face of the shared threat of the coronavirus pandemic. “Let us remember how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat,” Bush said. “In the final analysis, we are not partisan combatants. We are human beings, equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God. We rise or fall together.” A nice call for unity. How does 45 respond? “Oh bye (sic) the way, I appreciate the message from former President Bush, but where was he during Impeachment calling for putting partisanship aside.” “He was nowhere to be found in speaking up against the greatest Hoax in American history!” He was on a roll today, I won’t even get into the other tweets about President Obama masterminding a “hoax” to take him down, Adam Schiff withholding transcripts, threatening aid to states hard hit by the virus unless they sucked up to his immigration policy, and hitting the media again with “GOING WELL DESPITE THE FAKE NEWS!” It seems that Sunday’s have been difficult for him lately.

Well, I’ve gotta go get ready to start the birthday dinner for the missus. New York strip steak, baked potato in the air fryer, green beans, and cupcakes that the kids brought us today. Tomorrow I will discuss some thoughts about relaxing the stay-at-home orders as I read comments and see reactions from trumpanzies to the lockdown and it goes kinda like this.

Sweet dreams, y’all. Ziggyman