Scary cold, but not here

My son lives in Des Moines and yesterday it was predicted that the temp was going to be -11 (-23.9C) on New Year's Day.  That's some scary cold.  And snow.  I just checked and the prediction is going the right way.  It is only -9 now.  Still snow.  

We're going down near freezing on F or C scale.

But now it is a balmy 70 (21C) at 11 AM with potential to reach nearly 80 when I'm out with the dogs today.  There will be a nice wind so it will be OK but I need to tank up on water.

I just got through ordering from our very local HEB and scheduled to pick up on my way back from the Canine Ranch this afternoon.  No cost.  It could not be more convenient and safe and easy.  I'm always very tired when I get back from being with the dogs.  Lots of walking and just moving and interaction when I'm so used to doing nothing.  Moving in a lot of different directions while interacting with the dogs is good for me, I know.  And for them.  But tiring.  It is especially nice to just be able to stop off on the way back and have someone put the groceries in the back of my car with only a couple of minutes to go before I'm home.  The way things should be.

I finally screwed up a week with food service ordering.  We received four meals yesterday from Hello Fresh and are receiving three more on Wednesday from Dinnerly that I'd forgotten to skip.  Had to happen eventually.  Not too much of a problem but a little juggling to prevent things from going bad before we get to them.  

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Clearly not conservative enough

I'm on our Congressman's mailing list mostly so I can answer his stupid 'when did you stop beating your wife' kind of surveys about the border wall and abortion/murder and all the usual Trumpist crap.  He asks and I tell him to start governing and stop rabble rousing.

This guy was actually on my list for years of people I'd like to sit and have a beer with.  But in the age of Trump, it would be like talking to Trump.  The days of reason are gone.  Carter votes nearly a perfect party line:

He wandered a few times, but nothing significant.

So now I see down the road signs for Abhiram Garapati for Congress.  Good, I say.  A primary.  Maybe I'll jump in and vote in the only primary that matters in this area, the GOP.

About 2 minutes on the guy's site and I see that he is running far to the right of our current congressman.  He wants a solid wall (the immigration issues are entirely Biden's fault), private insurance that is available to everyone without the government (not sure where he's getting an example for that having ever worked but I think he believes Ayn Rand), and audits for all departments in the Federal Government to find and eliminate waste (no discussion, of course, about audits of millionaires like he is).  

Clearly a Trumpist.

So we've got both kinds of politicians here, Trump and more Trump.

Ah, crap.