VISITORS FROM CHUMBUCKET

My plan today is to get out of the house relatively early for chores and lunch, then relax with my pipe in the alleyways, avoiding the tourists. Simple. Some tourists are chuckleheads from the red states. Bugger hospitality, life is too short to deal with those people. As I understand it, they've decided to shorten the alphabet in those places because they hardly ever need it, and Pi shall henceforth be three, no more no less. Because three is easier to use in calculations than 3.14159265358979323846264 .....

3.14159265358979323 .....
3.1415926535897 .....
3.141592653 .....
3.14159 .....


All school children need is Jesus anyway, and not vaccines or lunches.
Or anything that might interfere with a football scholarship.

If I didn't live in the United States I would sneer at it.

Instead I smile tolerantly and pretend everything is okay.


Also, this weather is getting to me. It was warmish, now it's cold again, and when the wind picks up it feels like it's freezing. Yes, I know it's totally awful elsewhere, but I'm fine with that. Those are parts of the country that I don't care about that should sink into the ocean anyway.
We're not all in this together. Recent news proves that.
Those savages don't deserve weather!



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