1. Guys, I’m sorry, every time I try to clear my head the world implodes.
2. Heading into Friday 40 I was like alright, no ‘rona, no Trump, no debate talk. Do something fun.
3. Then the FBI arrested Michigan-based militia members plotting to kidnap Governor Whitmer.
4. It sounded like your garden variety crazy headline until they released details.
5. At a meeting in June the group discussed plans for assaulting the Michigan State Capitol, countering law enforcement, and using Molotov cocktails to destroy police vehicles.¹
6. Then the plot evolved into storming the governor’s vacation home, blowing up a nearby bridge, and grabbing or outright killing Whitmer.¹
7. Let’s recap. A group of white men armed to the teeth with weapons and tactical gear talk about murdering “tyrants” or “taking” a sitting governor to a “secure location” and holding a “trial.” Where else do we see armed insurrectionists snatching government officials out of their homes and executing them?
8. What’s that now about how Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization?
9. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE LIGHTHEARTED WITH THIS KIND OF CRAZY GOING ON.
10. Sigh. Okay. No ‘rona, no Trump, no debate talk. Let’s go.
11. Time is doing that whole slow-as-molasses-gone-in-a-flash thing. It’s seriously disorienting.
12. I mean, how can it be Friday already? I feel like we just rolled into the week.
13. There’ve been some highlights. “I’m speaking” and a rogue fly being two of them.
14. There’ve been some low spots but I’m skipping those.
15. Freak it all if the road crew wasn’t back this week. Only for a couple of days but it was enough to throw Phoebe into turmoil.
16. Part of me is grateful I can usually snuggle her back into relaxing.
17. The rest of me hates that she’s inconsolable while I’m out of the house.
18. Timeout for tiny debate commentary: Pence interrupting or speaking overtime made every woman listening want to throw a brick through the tv.
19. I managed to suppress the urge.
20. I imagine BrightSide is grateful for that.
21. I got my flu shot this week.
22. I’m one of those people who gets it every year but for sure I wasn’t messing around with 2020 flu season. My achy arm and neck muscles have shown up right on time. Ugh.
23. I cannot believe I walked out of CVS without a bag of candy. I knew what was coming, I really should have pre-loaded the sugar supply.
24. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you end up sucking down a Cook Out milkshake at 8:30pm.
25. Now we’ll enter the purely opinionated portion of this week’s 40 things.
26. Truly glorious cheese fries require ranch dipping sauce. I cannot entertain arguments on this.
27. Kamala’s side eye game at the debate was EVERYTHING.
28. Having a teen driver in the family is equal parts terrifying and hey, T, I need you to pick up a milkshake for me on your way home.
29. My gym reopened. Are there really people working out indoors right now??
30. I live in a place where I can get the mail in bare feet in October. It’s nice.
31. Of course it’s also hellfire hot in June/July/August/part of September. That’s not so nice.
32. It may have been eighty degrees yesterday but the calendar says autumn. Bring on the soup!
33. I made this one last weekend and T-man ate four bowls. Love it.
34. Being able to play basketball is overrated.
35. Yes, I know I can be ejected from the state for that. I said what I said.
36. It may have something to do with being laughed at while playing PIG.
37. I am neither interested in keeping up with the Kardashians nor falling for Love Island.
38. I’m knee deep in a “24” marathon and will now be delivering everyday phrases in classic Jack Bauer style.
38a. DAMMIT. I forgot to start the potatoes.
38b. DAMMIT, Amazon should have delivered that hours ago!
38c. THE WORLD IS GOING TO END IF I DON’T GET THIS CODE TO THE PRESIDENT BY NOON, DAMMIT. (Okay, I might not need that one but I’ve got the gravitas down.)
39. Bacon. I know I shouldn’t eat it but still. Bacon.
40. Welcome to another weekend with nothing to do and nowhere to go. Ah, downtime in Corona Days.
¹ Cheney, Kyle, and Nick Niedzwiadek. “FBI Reveals Elaborate Plot by Michigan Militia Members to Kidnap Whitmer.” POLITICO, POLITICO, 9 Oct. 2020, http://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/08/gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-plot-michigan-427953.
Riddle from the Middle 
Not to quibble upon YOUR blog, but that whole “kidnap the Governor of Michigan” (he is their governor, isn’t he? I’m so out of touch)…should discard the un-necessary adjectives including what color the nut bags ARE. Who gives a rat’s ass what color a nut bag IS? A nut bag is a nut bag, whatever skin they wear. Not to diminish from your point it should be noted. You’re more than allowed to state what you want. It is YOUR BLOG. Just gets in my craw a little when horrifying acts of violence or anarchy or whatever have to be LABELLED further. Damn. I’m shutting up now. And I apologize for the rant. Dang it all.. 😦
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Not at all, Melanie, happy to hear the rant. Sometimes I write in shorthand so here’s the full thing. I pointed out that every man arrested is white because of how this news is typically covered in the media. “White” is default, it isn’t even mentioned, but reports never fail to specify if “ten BLACK (or Brown) men” have been arrested for violence. Imagine what the coverage would look like if Black men or Muslims plotted to violently capture and/or kill a sitting governor and storm the capitol. I specify white because a) people still find a need to specify Black, and b) I think it’s very pertinent that extremist militant groups of white men are making these kinds of plans.
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Whoops! One more thing. Also because it’s important to think about the words used. group of white men planning a violent attack = militia. group of Black men EITHER planning a violent attack or standing on a corner or marching in the streets or getting together for Friday night poker/whatever = gang. It all matters.
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I am impressed you got through this list without mention of the anti-lockdown protests in the streets of New York. Or McConnell. I bow to your rise-above determination.
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I for real just needed one day – ONE – when things felt like old(ish) times. It requires a remarkable amount of suspension of disbelief.
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Entertaining post. I watched the first 15 minutes of the debate, but turned the channel after all the evasiveness and lies from Puppet Pence.
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It’s odd. I know it’s coming, it’s never a surprise, yet it’s still infuriating. You’d think I’d be used to it. I wanted to see how Kamala handled the issues (and Pence) so I hung in there.
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When do you think that you might go back to your gym. I heard some are moving some stuff outside.
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Over the summer ours was doing outdoor classes of some sort but North Carolina summers are at least 95 degrees and obscene humidity levels so I didn’t even try. It’s a *really* small gym and the guidelines they’ve put out for procedures didn’t impress me enough to go check it out. Honestly, I might end up waiting until we’re through this flu season and whatever increase it brings before I look into it.
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#1. and I love our governor in michigan, who is not going to take it lying down.
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She is a rock star. Thank God they caught wind of the plot.
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A mix of the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Much like our week! 😉
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Yes!
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