“Sh*t Show at the F*ck Factory”

I’m so happy to have finally arrived at Thursday. It’s been a long week at work, with me having to take 3 days worth of Yellow Belt training as it’s now become a requirement in our facility. No, I’m not taking Tae Kwon Do classes at work(though that would be preferable.) No, Yellow Belt training is like a mixture of problem solving and good manufacturing practices. You find something not working right or just broken and you make that an A3 project. You try to fix processes that don’t work. Which, hey, I think is a good thing. I just don’t want to be the one doing it. I can point out things that are wrong and even offer up some possible solutions, but I don’t want to HEAD one of these things. I don’t geek out over charts and graphs, man. I’m not wired that way. And going through this there’s a whole other dictionary of language involved in it that at this age I barely have hard drive space in my brain for the things I NEED to remember.

This training was supposed to go thru Thursday, but thankfully it went much quicker and we finished Wednesday at noon. So now I just have the actual A3 I need to head and then I’m done. They want people to move on in it and become Green Belts and Black Belts as it looks good for our plant. I’m done. I’ll stay at the beginning color belt. Just what I need, another task added to my repertoire that I won’t get paid any extra for. No thanks.

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Friday night my wife and I are going to go see a show in Fort Wayne. It’s a local female-led group called Whoa, Man!. They play covers of female artists and are really good. They played my wife’s fundraiser dance for her work this past summer and she really liked them. We’re going to Fort Wayne to see them at Electric Works, which is an old GE building that the city renovated into a sort of business plaza. Restaurants and local companies have spots in the place. I went their once earlier in the year with a friend from work. It’s a super cool spot, but the city and building owners don’t really know what they’re doing as lots of owners have jumped ship already. There’s a great brewery in there where my friend and I got lunch. They probably have 30 different beers on tap, as well as decent food.

I’ve heard there’s a great pizza joint in there, so I think we might get dinner there then watch the show. It’ll be a nice way to spend a sunny Friday eve. Saturday my son and his girlfriend are coming up from Indianapolis. Not really sure of the plans as he told my mom that, not me. His girlfriend’s brother, wife, and niece are visiting from Texas so that’s the MAIN reason they’re coming home. Which is cool. I guess they’re actually moving back to Indiana from Texas, possibly moving in with the parents. I don’t know the whole story, nor do I really want to. Hopefully we’ll see my son and his girlfriend at some point this weekend. My wife is volunteering at the Community Center where her office is for a fundraiser for them. They do an auction and serve drinks, maybe? I don’t know. All I know is I plan on chilling out Saturday, maybe working on some music or watching some movies. That’s my idea of a solid Saturday.

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Of course if you’ve been paying attention with the news(or if you’re smart you’re not) you know about the absolute continuous shit show happening here in the states. Everyday feels like I’m in a Cannon Films from the 80s, like Invasion USA, Delta Force or Red Dawn. Something where the US was invaded by nasty communists or some American evil mastermind and they want to enslave us and rewire our brains.

But as we keep moving along it’s becoming less like a Chuck Norris action flick, and more like something like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Night of the Comet, or The Manchurian Candidate. Certainly no actual human beings with hearts and minds would want this country to be how it currently is. It’s too bizarre and cruel and unfathomable to think that fellow humans would be good with this. And that meeting with all of the US generals and commanders with Pete Hegseth and “sleepy” Don Trump might just be the most pathetic display of male hubris I’ve seen since Dave Lee Roth covered “Jump” with a bunch of fiddles and banjos.

It feels like that by now if anything was going to be done about this literal shit show here in the states it would have been done by now. All the trials and 30+ counts of felony charges, hateful, racist rhetoric and of course the fat guy weekend warriors known as I.C.E., all of this should have been enough for someone to do something. But, I think those secret, back room shadow folks that have been pulling strings in the White House for decades approve of all of this. For what reason? I don’t know. We’re all just witnesses to the dumbing down of the US. Pop some more popcorn. This show is going nowhere.

That’s all for now. Hope to see you all soon, or at least until the military starts using my town as a practice space for WWIII.