Feelin the pinch in a way

Maybe y’all have noted it too.  Seems very few places are carrying the usual inventory they normally do. Went out this morning to pick up stuff I realized i was missing to finish up the polish job on Lizzy.  Three places to get all of the stuff together, where it should have been located at one.  One had ‘this’ part, but not ‘that’ part.  The second place had ‘that’ part, but not the compound (nor did the first place), so a third place to get the rubbing/polishing compound I needed, and that third place didn’t have either of ‘this’ or ‘that’.  

Is it a sign of our disrupted supply chains?  Or is this a symptom of the ‘Zon take over of retail?   Dunno, but it struck me as odd, especially seeing that the first place is the sole supplier to my cousin that does bodywork.  I guess he orders through them and they deliver it when it arrives, but I am not familiar with how he operates so can’t make that judgement,,,

Empty shelves in every store though, EVERY STORE.   And that is definitely a sign of supply chain disruption.  

Lizzy is all polished up and loaded on Buffalo now.  Ready to hit the lake, just not ‘ready’ to hit the lake.  Kinda just wanna stroll through the day doin’ nuthin’ for once. (reason follows, bear with) 

and its cold out right now.

not that the water is cold, it was a lot warmer than the surrounding air this morning and the fog around the waterways was thick enough to cut with a Semi.  Nearer the river, it was thick enough that headlights were only visible from 100′ or so.  That sort of fog is an accident waiting to happen, if there is an intersection in it.   And when the speed-limit is ‘drive it like ya stole it’, as is normal around here,,, (have noted that most cops these days just wait for the speeder to screw up and then stack up charges against them. )

And I have a slight case of laryngitis kickin’ right now.  Lots of sinus drainage the last week and its taking a toll on my vox-cords.  Not my first rodeo, won’t be my last so long as I live in the Mid-WET, with all its mildew and mold spores floating around.   Good reason I don’t live in the the Pacific North-WET, its even worse there as I found out while touring.    (and why I REALLY want to move south and preferably coastal: never seem to have this problem in those areas.). Kinda don’t want to go out and tempt something worse, buggie-wise.  No need to be bed ridden with the Ills, and I make a craptastic patient.    Would hit the alcohol to kill the bugs, but its not a bug that’s eating me, its allergies, and alky does notta danged thing for that.

After loading up Lizzy, I sat on the eastern side porch soaking up sun-rays, watching Mama and Grizz playing in the yard enjoying all that warmth of fresh non-cloud filtered sunlight.  Grizz is a Ninja, with moves that defy physics.  Mama is just a BRUTE, using her guile to lure him in, then pinning him down and having her way.  Apparently the ‘babies’ she thought she was having have worked out of her system.   Frickin’ hormones drive her, and by default, the boys and I, up a frillin’ wall.  Maybe its time to go have that system ‘fixed’ so that our future is more sedate than it had been the last two weeks.   (not like she can have kittens, but she sure thinks she can and will.)

ON other fronts.   BCE notes that his ‘hit count’ is down dramatically.  I noted about 4 days ago that my counts were showing a serious drop as well.  And unlike BCE, this blog doesn’t see that high of numbers to begin with.  When I see a drop of 60 across the board for several days, even with at least ONE new post a day, I know something is up.   And the curious one is my “DIY Carbon Brush” post: that usually sees at least one hit EVERY SINGLE DAY, hasn’t had a single hit in 5 weeks.   That tells me that Giggles is ‘adapting’ the algorithm to re-direct traffic away from any site even slightly ‘Right of Lenin” (that post mentioned, is my all-time heavy hitter.  It’s well over 5 years old and holds a quarter of my total hits in that time frame.  )

And that fact, that Giggles is ‘fuckin’round’, tells me they are losing, BIG TIME.   As Sarah points out, that window is shifting on them, and they don’t like it much.   Reality is a stone cold bitch and ALWAYS wins.  And their “reality” ain’t real,,,

So, all the talk about canned sunshine/russia/stoopidXi-den/etc, is, IMO Inflated to upset the balance that is developing amongst us THE MAJORITY, THE SANE, and THE RIGHT.   

Fuggem!!!   They wouldn’t know how to keep it straight if the did win, so lets kick their asses to the curb and take back what we need to take back and FIX their shit.   

and maybe we can get stuff back on the shelves again,,,,