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Oy, the last twenty-four at Casa Bob y Carlos have not been fun. The shouting, the yelling, the sullen looks, the pissy faces, and that’s not just me.

Carlos recently bought an iPad Pro for his sheet music. With his eyesight, he used to have to enlarge the sheet music and then manually recut it into manageable pieces and tape it back together so he could have it on his music stand. But then he heard about a music program called forScore™, for people with low vision issues, that you can stall on an iPad and the sheet music adjusts automatically to fit the screen in a  font size he can read and will automatically turn the pages as he needs them turned. Win win.

But, and it’s a Kardastrophe-sized butt, Carlos is horrible with technology and gets flustered and pissy and sullen when he can’t figure it out. He likes to jump from Step 1 to Step 20 and doesn’t seem to realize you can’t.

So, yesterday I helped him set up his credit card for the App Store; I photographed it, entered the information, set it all up, showed him how to work the iPad. .Then he wanted to install Goggle Chrome; I show him the App Store, the search, the download, the install and Google was there. We then searched for forScore™, found it, and tried to download and install, but for some reason it didn’t work.

I had to go into work, so I told him to use the computer, go to the iPad site and ask them for help. At work, I asked three people about the issues, but only one had the iPad Pro, and he talked me through a couple of issues that might have affected it, and I passed those on to Carlos.

Later, on my way home he texted me that Jerry’s ideas didn’t work but he thinks he’s solved it—something to do with his Apple ID—and the proceeded to tell me that I hadn’t helped him and that I yelled at him.

Needless to say it was a pissy sullen night at the Casa. This morning, though, as we do when we argue, we had it out, and he seemed ready to listen, then said we should agree that we were both at fault, and told me he was still upset that I yelled at him, and so there I was, at 6:30AM, showing him what I sound like when I yell, and how that was not what I sounded like last night, so yelling was something I did not do. Flustered, pissy, annoyed? Oh I was all those things; and that annoys him so it’s a vicious circle. But, as we do, we talked it out. I again explained what he should try, and he again explained about his Apple ID and how maybe, he can’t remember, but perhaps, he thinks, he might have changed it and forgotten what it is, so he couldn’t access the payment button to get the program and install the program and use it.

And then it was over. That’s one thing I love about Carlos; he, nor I, hold grudges or hold onto anger. We get it out and we’re done.

Until he needs help with the computer or the iPhone of the iPad again ….

I don’t know about you, but I think Tuxedo is onto something here. Liz? If you’re reading this, give him a call.

I love the traitors and insurrectionist tools who attacked the Capitol on January 6 and come up with the most ridiculous excuses.

Some say it’s because the lying, twice-impeached, one-term loser told them to do it, while another says he watched too much Fox News and suffers from “Foxitis,”while another claims that Thing #45 was like Jesus and as a religious man he does whatever Jesus says.

Seriously.

In Good Religious News, Germany’s powerful Catholic progressives are openly defying a recent Holy See pronouncement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions by offering to perform such blessings at services in about 100 different churches all over the country this week.

Pope Frankie says relax, don’t do it, but German Catholics told him to bugger off.

In Bad Religious News, the Whitefield Academy in Kansas City, has instructed its faculty to expel out LGBTQ+ students or find another job.

School administrators distributed a letter for faculty members to sign that outlined their desire to oust out LGBTQ+ students and anyone that didn’t sign the letter was  not expected to remain employed; oddly, enough, three teachers that didn’t sign the letter will not be returning to Whitefield in the fall.

Whitefield Academy headmaster, Dr. Quentin Johnston, denied the existence of the letter, but did say that the school asks “teachers and parents to understand and consent to the standards outlined in our Statement of Faith and core documents” like listing “homosexuality,” “lesbianism” and “bisexual conduct” as “sexual immorality” akin to bestiality and incest, and saying gender identity and expression is a “rejection of one’s biological gender is a rejection of the image of God within that person.”

God is love, but the fools at the Whitefield Academy don’t know that.

Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger said this week that he warned House Minority Leader, and RepubliQAnon, Kevin McCarthy, that his words about The Big Lie would lead to violence on January 6:

“A few days before Jan 6, our GOP members had a conference call. I told Kevin that his words and our party’s actions would lead to violence on January 6th. Kevin dismissively responded with “ok Adam, operator next question. And we got violence.”

So, now we know that McCarthy was warned and chose to do nothing.

A growing number of Californians oppose the forthcoming recall of Gavin Newsom, especially now that Caitlyn Jenner has announced her candidacy.

Just 6% of respondents said they supported the idea of the former Olympic gold medalist-turned-reality star replacing Newsom.

Bye Caitlyn.

Apparently two members of Thing #45’s family got “inappropriately—and perhaps dangerously—close” to the Secret Service protecting them while Daddy was president trying to destroy the country.

According to a new book on the US Secret Service—Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service—by Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, Secret Service agents reported that Vanessa, the wife of Junior, “started dating one of the agents who had been assigned to her family” shortly before filing for divorce.

The book also alleges that forgotten daughter, Tiffany, broke up with her boyfriend and began spending an “unusual amount of time” alone with her own Secret Service agent.

Is anyone surprised that this family would use the Secret Service as their own personal fuck boys?

More than 100 influential Republicans plan to release a call for reforms within the GOP alongside a threat to form a new party if change isn’t forthcoming. The statement, set to be released today, involves a “Call for American Renewal” saying it’s imperative to “either reimagine a party dedicated to our founding ideals or else hasten the creation of such an alternative.”

Some of the people allegedly involved are former New Jersey Governor and EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman; former Pennsylvania Governor and first secretary of homeland security, Tom Ridge; former GOP Representatives Charlie Dent, Barbara Comstock, Reid Ribble, and Mickey Edwards.

Sadly, or not really, this new party will splinter the GOP for years to come, and I ain’t mad about it.

Henry Watkins. Male model; he gives me sullen and happy and quirky and dreamy and pretty serene man, all at the same time.