Moody Monday: I Didn't Think Mother Nature Would Take Me Seriously When I Said "When Hell Freezes Over"

 Four years ago I may have said that He Who Shall Not Be Named (HWSNBN) would return to Washington DC when hell freezes over. I really didn't think that mother nature would take me seriously.  In case you haven't heard North America has been enduring a bit of a cold snap, including 8-10 inches of snow from New Orleans to the Gulf Coast of Florida - that is the coast along the Gulf of Mexico - no matter what HWSNBN declares.  It has been for a a couple hundred years, one #%^$&@&@ can't change that.  

It may be cruel but I had a hearty laugh at accumulating snow in Florida, Walt Disney World had 2-3 inches of snow (not Disneyland - that is in California.) 

Here in DC area, it has been cold, 14 degrees F the other morning, several days significantly below freezing.  We had one meaningful snow, 5-6 inches (less than Pensacola Florida) and a few minor snows.  The cold has been the worst of the weather.  It is the dead of winter. We get a few days like this almost every winter.  

When I lived in Florida tourists would complain about near freezing weather in January or February, and would point out to them that it was the middle of winter. In central Florida there was good news and bad news about the summer weather.  The good news was that a typical summer day was a low of around 80 degrees F and a high in the low 90s F with humidity matching the temperature. It very seldom was warmer than 95 degrees. The bad news was the weather was like that from early May, until mid November most years.  And now it has frozen over. 

As an old television commercial warned us, "It is not good to fool mother nature!" She appears to feel about the same as I do about the reappearance of HWSNBN and Melanoma aka the Ice Princess - or whatever her name is. 

HWSNBN was apparently upset that Michelle Obama declined to attend the inauguration. HWSNBN spent 9 years questioning her husbands birthplace, and criticising her looks, and their every move.  Bravo for Michelle saying "when hell freezes over."  

HWSNBN has issued a bunch of executive orders on immigration.  It is important to remember, that his friends in Congress killed a carefully negotiated bipartisan immigration reform bill at his request, so he could campaign on the issue. He delayed action on updating our outdated and insufficient immigration system, so he would have an issue to campaign on. He created a "problem." The law is still outdated and in need to reform. He is evil incarnate. And the "Press" largely failed to point out his creating this "problem" and only focused on his actions. 

So how is my mental health? I am not stressing, but not rolling over and playing dead.  Carefully, I am speaking up to point out the hypocrisy. 

P.S. Welcome back to snow days!  HWSNBN has ordered the end of telework for federal workers. With telework government employees didn't get a paid day off because of bad weather, like snowstorms, the workforce went to unscheduled telework.  As long as your work could be done remotely you were expected to put in a full days work.  With the end of telework, offices will close, and people will get the day off with full pay and benefits once again. Snow Days are returning.  I never worked for the federal government, but like many private employers in the Washington DC area, my office followed the feds, if OPM  - the Office of Personnel and Management - said unscheduled telework, we worked. Now my former office will return to Snow Days along with thousands of federal employees .  😃 He really does not think these thing through.