election thinking, currently (again)

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I'm at a loss as to why – when saying that Biden's visibly aged in the last several months – no one brings up the toll that Hunter's conviction has to have taken on him. One son dead, the other in a heap of trouble that he can't do a thing about? That would be enough to make anyone age – and the guy’s already in his eighties for fuck’s sake. Congressional Republicans have been trying to break the guy since before he was sworn in – or at least break his spirit. We saw the results of their chicanery in the debate.

As for what I think the next month looks like? While I'm still in the "time to move aside" camp, Biden is, at present, doing what he's good at: being a canny (if glacially-moving) politician and a scrapper. He's using this crisis as a way to reinvigorate his campaign, show he's still got more of that underdog fighter (who happens to be the incumbent president) left in him; if this doesn't move the needle, I anticipate he'll drop out before the convention (if he's planning an exit, he's waiting for Tumor to announce his VP and then use his own exit as a way to take attention away from the Tumor and his successive toady, and the RNC) and pass the torch to Kamala – but I hope it does work: Everyone loves a good underdog tale – but everyone also loves a graceful exit – which, in all likelihood, would push him back into the lead and then make everyone want him to come back...

BabyShed

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Summer project, number two: BabyShed, under construction, while we wait on NuShed to arrive. Why do we need two sheds? Other than because why the fuck not, we're going to turn NuShed - at least partially - into my office (Paintshop will be refitted to make room for my grandfather's pool table) and we need space for garden stuff and I refused to assemble another one of those fucking plastic ones - plus, I learned to do something new. Still very much a work in progress - I'm about 90% done with construction - but K will soon transform turn it into whatever melange of color and whimsy she desires. Note: door is from old shed, the last thing my grandfather built, and the window pane is from the old barn at my paternal grandfather’s place.

babyshed framed
babyshed with walls
int. babyshed with tools
babyshed