Vacation: Meme Dump ... Just For Fun

Bobservations

Oy, the last twenty-four at Casa Bob y Carlos have not been fun. The shouting, the yelling, the sullen looks, the pissy faces, and that’s not just me.

Carlos recently bought an iPad Pro for his sheet music. With his eyesight, he used to have to enlarge the sheet music and then manually recut it into manageable pieces and tape it back together so he could have it on his music stand. But then he heard about a music program called forScore™, for people with low vision issues, that you can stall on an iPad and the sheet music adjusts automatically to fit the screen in a  font size he can read and will automatically turn the pages as he needs them turned. Win win.

But, and it’s a Kardastrophe-sized butt, Carlos is horrible with technology and gets flustered and pissy and sullen when he can’t figure it out. He likes to jump from Step 1 to Step 20 and doesn’t seem to realize you can’t.

So, yesterday I helped him set up his credit card for the App Store; I photographed it, entered the information, set it all up, showed him how to work the iPad. .Then he wanted to install Goggle Chrome; I show him the App Store, the search, the download, the install and Google was there. We then searched for forScore™, found it, and tried to download and install, but for some reason it didn’t work.

I had to go into work, so I told him to use the computer, go to the iPad site and ask them for help. At work, I asked three people about the issues, but only one had the iPad Pro, and he talked me through a couple of issues that might have affected it, and I passed those on to Carlos.

Later, on my way home he texted me that Jerry’s ideas didn’t work but he thinks he’s solved it—something to do with his Apple ID—and the proceeded to tell me that I hadn’t helped him and that I yelled at him.

Needless to say it was a pissy sullen night at the Casa. This morning, though, as we do when we argue, we had it out, and he seemed ready to listen, then said we should agree that we were both at fault, and told me he was still upset that I yelled at him, and so there I was, at 6:30AM, showing him what I sound like when I yell, and how that was not what I sounded like last night, so yelling was something I did not do. Flustered, pissy, annoyed? Oh I was all those things; and that annoys him so it’s a vicious circle. But, as we do, we talked it out. I again explained what he should try, and he again explained about his Apple ID and how maybe, he can’t remember, but perhaps, he thinks, he might have changed it and forgotten what it is, so he couldn’t access the payment button to get the program and install the program and use it.

And then it was over. That’s one thing I love about Carlos; he, nor I, hold grudges or hold onto anger. We get it out and we’re done.

Until he needs help with the computer or the iPhone of the iPad again ….

I don’t know about you, but I think Tuxedo is onto something here. Liz? If you’re reading this, give him a call.

I love the traitors and insurrectionist tools who attacked the Capitol on January 6 and come up with the most ridiculous excuses.

Some say it’s because the lying, twice-impeached, one-term loser told them to do it, while another says he watched too much Fox News and suffers from “Foxitis,”while another claims that Thing #45 was like Jesus and as a religious man he does whatever Jesus says.

Seriously.

In Good Religious News, Germany’s powerful Catholic progressives are openly defying a recent Holy See pronouncement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions by offering to perform such blessings at services in about 100 different churches all over the country this week.

Pope Frankie says relax, don’t do it, but German Catholics told him to bugger off.

In Bad Religious News, the Whitefield Academy in Kansas City, has instructed its faculty to expel out LGBTQ+ students or find another job.

School administrators distributed a letter for faculty members to sign that outlined their desire to oust out LGBTQ+ students and anyone that didn’t sign the letter was  not expected to remain employed; oddly, enough, three teachers that didn’t sign the letter will not be returning to Whitefield in the fall.

Whitefield Academy headmaster, Dr. Quentin Johnston, denied the existence of the letter, but did say that the school asks “teachers and parents to understand and consent to the standards outlined in our Statement of Faith and core documents” like listing “homosexuality,” “lesbianism” and “bisexual conduct” as “sexual immorality” akin to bestiality and incest, and saying gender identity and expression is a “rejection of one’s biological gender is a rejection of the image of God within that person.”

God is love, but the fools at the Whitefield Academy don’t know that.

Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger said this week that he warned House Minority Leader, and RepubliQAnon, Kevin McCarthy, that his words about The Big Lie would lead to violence on January 6:

“A few days before Jan 6, our GOP members had a conference call. I told Kevin that his words and our party’s actions would lead to violence on January 6th. Kevin dismissively responded with “ok Adam, operator next question. And we got violence.”

So, now we know that McCarthy was warned and chose to do nothing.

A growing number of Californians oppose the forthcoming recall of Gavin Newsom, especially now that Caitlyn Jenner has announced her candidacy.

Just 6% of respondents said they supported the idea of the former Olympic gold medalist-turned-reality star replacing Newsom.

Bye Caitlyn.

Apparently two members of Thing #45’s family got “inappropriately—and perhaps dangerously—close” to the Secret Service protecting them while Daddy was president trying to destroy the country.

According to a new book on the US Secret Service—Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service—by Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, Secret Service agents reported that Vanessa, the wife of Junior, “started dating one of the agents who had been assigned to her family” shortly before filing for divorce.

The book also alleges that forgotten daughter, Tiffany, broke up with her boyfriend and began spending an “unusual amount of time” alone with her own Secret Service agent.

Is anyone surprised that this family would use the Secret Service as their own personal fuck boys?

More than 100 influential Republicans plan to release a call for reforms within the GOP alongside a threat to form a new party if change isn’t forthcoming. The statement, set to be released today, involves a “Call for American Renewal” saying it’s imperative to “either reimagine a party dedicated to our founding ideals or else hasten the creation of such an alternative.”

Some of the people allegedly involved are former New Jersey Governor and EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman; former Pennsylvania Governor and first secretary of homeland security, Tom Ridge; former GOP Representatives Charlie Dent, Barbara Comstock, Reid Ribble, and Mickey Edwards.

Sadly, or not really, this new party will splinter the GOP for years to come, and I ain’t mad about it.

Henry Watkins. Male model; he gives me sullen and happy and quirky and dreamy and pretty serene man, all at the same time.

Random Musings

It’s not my birthday … it’s not our anniversary. But I just read that the “Oppenheimer Blue” diamond was sold for a record-breaking $57.5 million and I will say this: it matches my eyes and Carlos did leave the house with the checkbook so ….

Fingers crossed.

Have you seen those commercials where the new SUVs have a deal where you wiggle your foot under the rear bumper and the hatchback opens automatically because you’re too lazy to take out your keys and use your hands?

I.Loathe.That.Ad. And that car.

Then there’s this … an ad on TV last night where a woman is melon-balling a watermelon — let’s not get into the sexual double-entendre there —and her husband calls from the store; he’s doing the groceries and wants to know if they need eggs.

The wife is too busy balling to look in the fridge so she tells him to, ahem, “check his phone” ... because their new fridge has a camera inside that you can access from your phone when your wife is too effing lazy to look in the fridge herself.

Seriously. We are getting way too lazy. I say this as I voice type and use the remote to change the TV channel and check the pot roast in the oven while the Roomba vacuums and Tuxedo washes the cars.

Carlos and I are having our Semi-Annual Sometimes Cinco de Never bash next weekend and we are in the planning and preparation stages as the date draws near.

We opted to forgo a fancy dessert and instead are going to do Mexican brownies — they are made while a hint of cayenne pepper — and lemon bars and cookies and finger-ish type desserts.

Last Monday Carlos announced he would be making the brownies that night.

I said, “You wanna make a dessert tonight  for a party we’re having in twelve days?”

“We don’t have much time.”

Twelve.Days. And this from Carlos the Procrastinator who, when we had a new light fixture installed in the kitchen ceiling announced he would repaint the ceiling and then took, wait for it, it’s rich, five years to do it!

Oy, I love that man, goddess help me.

Speaking of Mexico … last week Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto called for the legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide.

Yes, heavily Catholic Mexico is moving forward with equality!

In other Good News, Itzhak Perlman has also Springsteen’d North Carolina by becoming the latest to cancel a performance in the state over their Bathroom Bill:

“As my fans know, I have spent a lifetime advocating against discrimination towards those with physical disabilities and have been a vocal advocate for treating all people equally. As such, it is only after much deliberation that I have decided to cancel tomorrow’s concert in North Carolina as a stand against House Bill 2.”

Bravo, Mr. Perlman!

In other … yes, other as in more … good news, Eric Fanning has finally been confirmed by the Senate as the first openly gay Secretary of the Army.

Fanning had served as Acting Secretary while his confirmation was being held up by the, you guessed it, Republicans in the Senate.

Seriously, the GOP is about twenty steps behind the rest of the world.

Yassssss! Bob the Drag Queen won RuPaul’s Drag Race this season and I was thrilled.

I loved his lip sync and his humor and his whole aesthetic but ….

I will say that when last year’s winner, Violet Chachki, stepped onstage to crown Bob, her drag nearly blew the roof off the auditorium and had me leaping from my chair.

Her picture is now in the dictionary under “fierce.”

Melania Trump is speaking again and she wants you all to know that she knows, ahem, that …

“We know the truth. He’s not Hitler.”

Yes, Melania is worried that people might think The Rump is Hitler.

Meanwhile, Hitler is sitting in Hell, waiting for his future bridge partners Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, demanding that we stop comparing him to Rump.

We started watching a WGN show called ‘Underground,’ a story of the slaves using the underground Railroad to escape to freedom.

It’s kinda hard to watch at times, listening to the use of the n-word and the way in which people treated other people, based on their skin color but …

I found some hot in the show, in, from left to right, Reed Diamond, who plays a slave owner, Aldis Hodge, who plays a slave trying to escape, and Mark Blucas, as an abolitionist.

So far the story is very, very good, and the men very easy on the eyes.

A Miracle In Smallville

On Saturday, Carlos and I were dragged kicking and screaming deeper and deeper into the 21st century. We had the good folks at AT&T bundle--sounds like a Christmas gift, huh?--our cell phones, house phones, internet service and cable TV in one feel swoop.

It'll actually cost us less each month ::::Bonus:::: and, to top it off, we get this thing they call a DVR or some-such. It hooks up to the TV and records the programs digitally; now, I won't miss one second of Lost, and I can backtrack to see if that really is a smoke monster. No more choosing between modern Family and Glee--although it isn't really a choice....I'm a Gleek. But, and this is where the witchcraft comes in, you can pause your regular TV if you, say, get a phone call, or want something from the kitchen, or need a bathroom break, and then you can start it up again. RIGHT.WHERE.YOU.LEFT.OFF!!!

It's a Christmas Miracle.

Then, while glancing through our new channels--and we got just the basic package--there are like 500 channels, and, well, Bruce is right.....nothing's on. But then I stopped at one channel and discovered there is a whole channel devoted to the, ahem, Gays. That's right. FagTV. Or the QueerNet....No, Logo. Yeah, Logo, which I never knew was a gay word!

We are catching up with the rest of the world. Smallville rules!