Well…it was fun to get out for a while last night but the Wings stunk up the place for a second game in a row and I don’t know what is going on with them….maybe this is our season that we don’t make the playoffs…that is a thought I really don’t want to entertain…I was good when I got home again so I fell okay other that I was up at 5:30….and up and down all night…and no dreams other than a broken slider door in the house I was in that I had to fix with duct tape….yeah, I know,,,that one was not too interesting to me either….not much to do today…I am debating with myself whether to do the grocery run today or tomorrow but will probably wait…another month is coming to a close without any responses to the resumes and I am getting concerned that I will never work again….more later…
Here’s today’s lyric: “It must have been my lucky Thursday, your dad went on that spree…before the crew put out the fire, you hopped a bus to NYC…”
Well…I find it funny that ole Rick out of Texas is rolling out his “revolutionary” new flat tax plan to match up with ole Herm’s 999 plan and neither one of them understands that things have changed or are changing in this country….the media has started listening to this nonsense and the false equivalency that has rotted our media discourse is starting to be rolled back…and the American people are finally getting the truth behind these plans…that they are slanted to cutting taxes for the rich at the expense of everyone else. I hope the days of cutting taxes for the “job creators” who really aren’t are over….that the nonsense of giving more and more to business with the hope that they will create jobs will finally be reconciled with reality…that not one job will be created by tax cuts, that not one company will add one job unless the demand is there for the goods and services they produce, and the only way to create demand is by rising wages for the middle class. But, the repubs just don’t get it…they are still playing out of the 2010 playbook when no one was paying attention….now, with the OWS protests and a newly awakened media….there is shift back to reality based governance where facts have regained their superiority to the gut feelings that the right truly believes are equivalent….none too soon either…geez…
Well….another night but I did have a little fun going out for a couple with G….and I was good when I got home so i feel good today even with getting up at 3:11…I did get back to sleep for a while but I think there will be a nap necessary later….I do have things to do later today for a change..C is in town and we are going out to watch the Wings game and have a couple….it will be the first time since last season that I’ve been out to see a game and it is just better to do it in person than by text…other than that, not much to do today…..it is already almost 50 so it looks like the bike ride can happen early today unless it rains….wait, let me go look at the radar…maybe I won’t get to ride today..it looks like rain is setting up to the west and it will be raining most of the day…so maybe it will just be working out today…more later…
Okay…I did go out on the bike and misjudged the dry slot that was moving in so it was really cold and wet but not nearly as cold as the other day…it was nice getting the ride in but it looks like it is going to get progressively worse as the week goes on so I may have to adjust the schedule and try to tamp the guilt down that comes with not riding….fall is a new reality when it comes to the bike so I just have to accept it I guess….
Here’s today’s lyric: “I would love to tour the southland in a traveling minstrel show….I’m dying to be a star and make them laugh…sound just like a record on a phonograph…”
Well…just a short one on the ongoing pattern of the repubs that only believes that a law or agreement should be adhered to when it suits them. The latest example of this nonsense is the piling on that happened when Obama announced that all combat troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year….and the republicans went nuts calling it a grave failure of diplomacy by Obama’s administration. I’m laughing right now with the absurdity of it all…after all, the agreement to withdraw the troops was negotiated and signed by ole GW….so now, all of the repub candidates and some others on the right are blaming this on Obama? And, they are proposing abrogating another agreement just for political points in an election? These people are the worst kind of panderers, people who will say anything to inflame their base, no matter the damage to the US’s international standing…just like the neocons did getting us into Iraq…it just proves that these folks have an inability to learn…or to live in a reality based world…geez…
Well…I wonder when the general public is going to wake up and get it that the repubs idea of fairness is to tax the poor and middle class while giving more and more breaks to the rich? The latest folly is ole Mitt’s idea of reforming the tax code by replacing it with a flat tax…and idea that came and went a long time ago that would be a tax cut for the rich while raising taxes on everyone else…just like ole Herm’s 999 plan. Why do the repubs hate the poor and middle class so much? That is evidenced here in Michigan by the scramble of the repubs to take away the last vestiges of the safety net by throwing people off welfare and limiting unemployment and food stamps for the newly poor. And those moves were supported by a sense of urgency, like the entire state will disappear if we don’t save a few million dollars by attacking the least of us. But, when it comes to cutting their own benefits to help with the state budget deficit…like the lifetime healthcare legislators get after just one term in office, that can wait until 2014 when most of this current crop of thieves will already be retired…just more and more of the “I’ve got mine, the hell with everyone else” attitude that has been the repubs mantra for the last thirty years….when are we going to get tired of this nonsense?
Well…it was a boring Sunday but they all are so I shouldn’t be surprised….no dreams or anything else to report except that the sleep was crappy as always…but, today could be better, right? I sure hope so….not thinking right now so I’m going to go get coffee and read the papers…and that is all I have to do today….
Okay, I’m back but the coffee is not working as I had hoped…maybe the workout and bike ride will….there was one disheartening thing that I saw on the ride yesterday that I didn’t report….and for those of us here in Michigan it is not a welcome sight…the first pickup with a plow on the front….I really don’t need anything reminding me that winter is fast approaching…that was all too clear this morning when I got in the car and the windows were completely fogged up…I know the Mazda has that fatal flaw but I still don’t like being reminded of the coming changes…don’t want to have to warm it up every morning just going out for coffee…oh, well….
I am getting to the lyric before the ride today: “I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream…you could have been anything to me…”
Well…it’s a pretty bad sports weekend when all of the teams you follow but one lose. The Lions game just ended with a loss to The Falcons….looked like the same old Lions to me and the mistakes are starting to make me believe that they are not the real thing; just pretenders that might not even make it into the playoffs…and that is too bad, too, since they were so exciting at the start of the season..oh, well….then we have the Wings getting pummeled last night by the Caps but the good news is that it is only the 6th game of 82 and there is plenty of time to get things fixed…and they get to have a bad day every once in a while so I’m not going to get too upset about it. The really bad surprise was the beating that Man U took at home against Man City…it was their worst loss at home since I’ve been alive and, as you know, that is a long, long time. I am really kind of glad that the sports are done for the weekend…I don’t know how much more disappointment I can take…but, the race is till on and the last 25 or so laps should be fun to watch…so I’m going to go back to it….probably not more later…
I am kind of glad that Michigan didn’t play this weekend…couldn’t have taken another loss…
Well…you know how this works on the weekends….I run late, then apologize for it…not today, that’s just how things are and will probably always be..I’m used to it…you should be, too. The boredom level rose to almost unbearable heights last night but it was a good State game that helped some…the Wings looked like crap and got whipped, though, and that wasn’t fun…I do need to find some new things to do…have been saying that for a while now but I think I mean it now…or, maybe not, who knows? Not much to do today….the Lions play and there is a race from Talladega that might be fun….no more steaks today…I think I need to limit the red meat to once a week….going to make healthful chicken stir fry today…but the sauce is loaded with sodium so maybe it’s not too healthy…I am getting tired of watching what I eat….I can’ think of anyone else that keeps a mental running tally of the calories they take in every day….more later…
Here’s the lyric: “When you dance, do your senses tingle and take a chance? In a trance while the lonely mingle with circumstance…”
Well…it’s been another Saturday and I really didn’t do anything much….I did cook a t-bone for lunch and that was really good…I try to stay away from red meat and I’ll be back to that tomorrow with a chicken stir fry I think. I am getting a little excited about the Wings game tonight…going up against the Caps who are the other unbeaten team in the league. Oh, forgot to put the Wings gear on…back in a minute….I’m back…have the oldest Wings shirt on now that I bought almost 12 years ago and got it for the first trip to the Joe….didn’t have to wear the gloves today but I think I may have damaged my little fingers in the cold since they still itch today…hope not….it was a nice ride on the bike…..okay…have been just noodling a little until I get to the time when I can pour a cocktail which is quickly coming up along with the Wings game…so, I’m going to go do that and come back tomorrow with something of substance…
Well…running late again but I’ve been up just screwing around for a couple of hours so I don’t know why…I think I just forgot….it was a nice day yesterday and I did get some t-bones for later today…I think I’m going to go out to get a bottle of wine to go with it to do it up right….I’m waiting for the temp to come up so I don’t have to scrape the car…and I am not looking forward to this starting already…there is kind of a hole in the day with Michigan having a bye week but I guess I can watch State…there was a really cool film on Pearl Jam on PBS last night that had early clips and interviews that made me skip part of the Wings game to see it…not much to do today…I do have to go over to Meijers to get the wine and papers but that is about it…looks like the bike ride will be later in the aft…don’t want to damage the hands again so I think I’ll get the gloves out…more later…