Well…it was a pretty good day yesterday and I had some unexpected money come in so I am going to go crazy at the grocery store this morning…not crazy, really, but I am going to restock the pantry and freezer and get the ingredients to make homemade pizza tomorrow….I think I’m going to try whole wheat flour to make it healthier when I make my own crust….I feel pretty good today with the liver and kidneys getting a rest this week…I really do think I’ll extend my fast into next week since I keep getting up and feeling better every day….it is already 56 degrees outside so I will get the bike ride in early today and maybe even do the 30 that I have been avoiding with it being a little too cold over the past week or so….not much to do today….I am going to splurge on the papers this morning and I am so looking forward to feeling the newsprint in my hands while I listen to music and have coffee…and I will be back for a political one since my lucidity has returned…yay…
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Trying to get caught up…
Well…I really try to not do filler ones just to reach my numbers for the month but there are times that I just want to noodle around and see what happens…something like a musician that just jams a little to see what happens…now, I’m surely not comparing myself a musician since I really don’t have that talent…although, I was first chair in the middle school band playing the cornet for about a day…but, that’s another story for another time…oh, back to the noodling thing…it’s been a weird couple of weeks without much motivation to do the things that I should be doing…like cleaning, or looking for work and the discouragement of looking for so long with no results is starting to wear on me….so, I’ve a taken a few days off to just feel better and get my brain working again with some success…and I do feel better after trying to stay healthier over the past week and it feels so good I think I’ll keep it up for another…I do have to start thinking about a new car of some sort since the Mazda is dying at an ever increasing pace and I will not put any more money into it….so, how do I find a Miata for under 4 grand? Not sure yet but I am going to give it a try…okay….that’s about it for now…I could do more of these later if the urge strikes…
One last thing on the Romneys…
Well…with this whole flap about “working” women and the outpouring of support for women who are fortunate enough to be able to choose to stay home and raise their children and the sainthood that is being bestowed on Ann Romney by the right, let’s not get the annointing oil out just yet…..let’s remember that when she said it was so hard to raise 5 kids and it was so much work, her situation has absolutely no resemblance to what most normal folks go through raising their families. Most families don’t have cadres of nannies, maids, drivers, and assistants to do the grunt work that has to be done to run a normal family..I wonder when the last time was that either Ann or Mitt drove to the dry cleaners or coached their soccer games or stayed up all night with a sick child? This is just another instance where the rich can never understand what the rest of the world is like for real working people….and then they try to tell the rest of us how to run our lives when they can’t conceive what it is like to live in America without the connections and inheritances that have insulated them from the real world…why don’t you just go back to your gated communities and leave the rest of us alone…and stop trying to take what little is left of the safety net away…don’t you already have enough?
April 18th
Well…a disappointing day yesterday with another Wings loss…and with that loss, the playoff beard came off this morning and I don’t mind that at all…I was starting to look like an old homeless guy and that was not good….I’m 5 days into taking care of myself and I feel quite good again today so I think I’ll keep it up for the whole week….not much in the way of dreams last night but I’m still not sleeping that well so that might be it….I did get back on the bike yesterday and it felt quite good to get exercise again…looks like it will be warm enough to go out again today so that is something to look forward to…not much else to do today…I did get some cleaning done yesterday and I think I’ll keep that up and get the living room done today….that’s about it…I do have some topics for later so I’ll be back for more…
Rich people just don’t get it…
Well…I really don’t want to dump on all rich people in this one…I know a few of them and they seem like okay sorts and some of them do good works in our community and make it better than it would be without them….but, and this is a big but, to have people like Mitt and Ann Romney say that they understand what it is like to be just a normal working person in the US is just nonsense…and ole Mitt compounds this by using his wife as his “adviser” on working women’s issues….when she has never in her life worried about bouncing a check or getting laid off or losing her healthcare. I read an interesting article the other day about the “bubble” that surrounds these rich folks…and the assertion by ole Mitt that they know what is going on for the rest of us because he listens to people that come to his campaign functions…but the immediate question that comes to me is ‘who comes to those functions?”…and it is overwhelmingly people that think like him, so he gets the misguided idea that he is on the right track with his policy solutions….and it just reinforces the fact that the repubs never govern for everyone in the country…the only people that they give a damn about are those that give money to them and vote for them…the last I checked, there are other people that are citizens, too…what about us? I think we are in the same situation nationally that we have been here in Michigan when we have had billionaires try to tell us they know what it is like to work for a living when they ran for governor….it is just not true…these folks have not for one day in their lives had to worry every morning when they wake up is this the day that my health fails and I lose everything that I’ve worked for my entire life because I can’t afford health insurance? Their answer is to repeal ACA and tell those of us nearing 60 that can’t find work is to “work harder” and things will work out…it’s just not true.
April 17th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday with lunch with T and then out with G for a couple but the weather was so crappy with the high wind that I took a second day off the bike but I hope to get back out today and get some miles in…I was disappointed with the last Wings game and the loss but I am looking forward to them tying up the series tonight…will be in full gear again…but if they lose, I do get to shave the playoff beard off….it itches like crazy and I look like some old homeless guy…sleep was okay last night but no dreams again so it was not as refreshing as it should be and that is getting frustrating….not much to do today….I did get the taxes in and only owed 196 bucks so that was a pleasant surprise and I may just celebrate that with some fast food for the first time in over a year….but, I may not…who knows? More later….
Mitt Romney is still a liar…
Well….I guess it had to come to this..especially when the repubs have no new policies to help deal with a slow economy other than the tired “tax cuts for the rich” mantra they have been spouting for the past 10 plus years…so that leads ole Mitt to keep on lying to his base…starting with a speech to the NRA the other day where he claimed that Obama wants to “take away our guns” but couldn’t cite one instance where a new law was enacted under Obama that would even modify the current law of the land that is the second amendment…then he goes right in to the “explosion” in new “regulators” under Obama…citing the growth in federal government employment of almost 150K during the current administration…conveniently not mentioning that more than half of that growth was in the defense department as a consequence of the surge in Afghanistan…and another 40K of those jobs were in the veterans administration that directly go to the care of the soldiers that are coming back from 12 years of war. So, Mitt, you spout that you will do more to support the military and veterans and yet when Obama does it it is an “explosion” of regulators? You are just going to make this falls election too easy with your flip flopping and hard right turns….keep it up…the more you talk, the more people don’t want you around…geez…
April 16th
Well…it was a lazy recovery day yesterday and I think it was what I needed to start to feel better…the allergies have started to act up again but I think I can survive it….a disappointing Wings game with another loss but I’m not ready to give up yet…I do have the playoff beard going, after all, and that has to count for something….I really haven’t been into politics lately with Keith getting fired and not going out for the newspapers every day but I will try to get one of those out today…I do have to do the taxes today, too, but that is about a 10 minute process with how simple my return is…not much to do today…I do have lunch with T today and then meeting up with G later for a couple but that is about it….unless the wind calms down, I won’t be riding for a second day and my legs are thanking me….but, the rest of me needs to get out but I may have to wait until tomorrow…who knows? More later…
April 15th
Well…it was a recovery day yesterday and I feel much better today but still warm so I think the process is not complete yet…the coffee tastes crappy and I’m just in a lousy mood right now…so this one will be short and I’ll try to at least be civil…it looks like the rain is going to move off later this morning so I may be able to get out on the bike later…but that will have to be after the Wings game at noon….and there is a Man U match on at 11 so I need to get everything done before that…yeah, I laughed at that one, too…this is really the only thing I have to do today….so I guess accomplishing that is going to be easy since I am done…more later…
April 14th
Well…it was a long day yesterday and I planned to feel pretty crappy today…and the plan worked so this one is going to be short…it was pretty cool that Bertuzzi stepped up and pummeled Weber in the Wings game last night…okay…not feeling it so I am going to go back to the couch and wait for the temp to come up so I can ride…
Okay..it’s later in the day and I have gotten the bike ride in and I am starting to feel better but I think it will be a long term project….I do need to remember to eat more since I think that is part of it….and my right thigh is acting up with that same burning sensation that I’ve had for about a month and it is starting to concern me a little….not much to do today…I think I’ll just lay low here and try to heal up some…might even get the day off from riding if it rains tomorrow…oh, one last thing…last year, the 14th of April was the first day out on the bike…and this year, I’ve already gotten 700 miles in..so, maybe 4000 is possible this summer….