Well…It was kind of a boring day yesterday but the flu is finally receding….I think..slept okay last night but no dreams so that’s a little disappointing…no tiny bunnies or flaming clothes or celebrities….but I got a full 8 hours which is weird in itself….It may have been the antihistamines I took to keep my head clear overnight and be able to breathe so I’ll try it again tonight to see if that was it….I’m not even sore at all and it is nice to not have my neck hurt and be able to move it….little things still make me happy…not much to do today…have been trying to get some work done around here but haven’t had much luck..today should be the day to get moving, though, and I am looking forward to it. I am not looking forward to the snow storm we are supposed to get fri night….I haven’t really shifted into survival mode yet but this storm should do it….if you’ve lived in Michigan or anywhere else where there is lake effect snow, you know what I’m talking about…if not, consider yourself lucky…at least I don’t live in Buffalo…more later…
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Manny, Manny, Manny….
Well….I just don’t get it…don’t these morons on the right think we have memory? Let’s get right to it again…over the past few years, the repubs have repeated, and repeated, and repeated that they think the federal government is too large and intrusive…led by ole Manny Lopez here who has said many times that he thinks it would be better if the state was just left to go it’s own way and to hell with the federal government…and any time that Governor Granholm went to Washington to try to get help for the state, it was a an extension of the welfare state mentality. But, today, in the Detroit News, Manny goes on that it is a wonderful thing that our current governor went to Washington to ask for money for the state going so far as to say that the previous Democratic governor never did that; a statement that is breathtakingly disingenuous. He then goes on to applaud the current governor for going 5 times to business leaders to get their advice, stating that is something that governor Granholm never did. Gee, I wonder why Manny? Could it be because governor Snyder is one of them….and puts their welfare above that of the workers of the state and just rolls over to whatever they want since they bought the election for him? C’mon Manny…at least try to be a journalist….oh, that’s right, you’re not….my mistake…geez…
January 26th
Well…probably the worst night’s sleep in a while….have been up and down since about 1:30 and it’s not a good start to the day…so…my energy level is quite low and I guess I’ll have to take it easy for another day..no flu chronicles today but I think I still have some of it…weird, weird dreams last night that had Helen Mirren and John Malkovich in them…they centered on Walmart selling tiny, real bunnies in happy meal containers that they had on racks throughout the store…and no one thought that was a bad thing…I told you that it was weird inside my head…I did win at pool yesterday and that was fun…made a few shots at the right time….not much to do today…have a few errands and some work to do here but I think I’m going to take it easy….I will have a comment on the SOTU and the repub response that has been predictable to say the least…
January 25th
Well…a semi crappy night of sleep and I don’t think I’m completely over the flu yet…yeah, I know I said I thought I was yesterday but it was just another one of those teasers that come when you are starting to feel better…and then relapse…kind of disheartening since I needed to feel better today…have lots to do and need some energy to do it with….but, I can throttle back if need be….things may be looking up on the job front…had ten resumes go out yesterday and I am of mixed feelings about that…I know I have to go back to work but it’s intoxicating not working….I am becoming bored as heck, though, so it might be a good thing to find work. Other than Ada…which I’m still not sure about, I do have to run a bunch of errands and get some work done around here…I’ll try to get a topic out later but it is Tuesday, after all…….more later…
The flu chronicles…the last one…I hope
Well….got up this morning with an inkling that it might be a good day since I had a couple of cocktails sun night and felt quite a bit better when I got up….still tried to be smart and took it easy other than going out for coffee…just vegged and read on the couch all day…finished a whole book today, it just felt right to have the music on Pandora and watch as the shadows sundialed across my living room….okay, I’m sounding kind of poetic now and you know that’s not me…I had this blast of energy about 5 or so and I have stopped coughing for the most part…even felt good enough to go out and walk a few miles but we’ll see later if that was a good idea….felt good while I was out so that is a good sign….so, this flu was not so bad…it is quickly fading from memory as I feel better and the prospects of a better tomorrow are making me smile a little…
Aren’t you tired of being held hostage?
Well…I have been thinking about this one ever since a new governor was elected here in Michigan and one of his first acts was to propose changing the business tax structure to give corporations a huge tax cut carried on the backs of the workers who will be forced to take pay and benefit cuts to pay for them….these cuts for business would worsen our deficit here by 100% and be another huge transfer of wealth from you and I to the rich…again. The reason for these changes, along with the repub bowing to business interests, are the threats by corporations to move out of the state if they don’t get what they paid for when they gave the money to elect repubs to take control of all of Michigan’s government. The same thing is happening in Illinois, when the legislature there voted to raise taxes (from 4.8 to 6 percent) to deal with one of the most severe budget crises that any state faces and businesses have started those same old tired threats….never mind that most corporations have many ways to avoid taxes that you and I don’t…these ungrateful thieves have started to pout and want to take their ball and go home. I say, good riddance….these guys want all of the rights of citizens (that they were granted in the Citizens United decision) but they want nothing to do with the responsibilities. When was the last time you were given free land to build a house or had your taxes eliminated to keep you living where you do? I’ve had enough of the competition to make our workers into third world laborers who can never make enough money to live a middle class life while corporations and their political lapdogs rake in all of the benefits of those labors.
We need to start a new movement where there is a price to pay for selfish corporate behavior…let’s find out who these creeps are and just stop buying from them…it’s been too long that corporations have been able to do whatever they want and hold the rest of us hostage to their whims….it will never stop unless we do….geez….
January 24th
Well…another day of feeling crappy yesterday and it is getting really old…not much better this morning so it looks like another day of laying low…neither team that I wanted to win did yesterday….and if the Packers play like they did yesterday, it should be a blowout for the Steelers…but, I don’t really have any interest in it…weird dreams again last night and I can’t figure out why I still have the college dreams about losing my schedule and not being able to find my classes…have that one almost as often as I have the phone/computer dreams where I can’t make the damn things work….yep, it’s scary in my head at times…it would be nice to have a different one sometimes….not much to do today….I do need to get back to getting some exercise so I may get a walk in later….but, maybe not….I’m still sitting here with a fever and I want to get this crap over with….there should be topics for later today….and I need to get a last sister Sarah one out before the ban on her starts next week…
The flu chronicles…continued…
Well…I really thought I was getting over this damn bug but it doesn’t look that way….got up this morning feeling as bad as I have felt all week…and now we have new symptoms…yay? I have the worst headache and the itchy eyes and plugged up head have started in earnest….all I have to say is WTF? Maybe I didn’t get the start day straight…and T said that this would last 9-10 days so I might even have 4 or 5 more left…hope not…this is taking a lot out of me…I’m going back to the couch…watch a little football and just hang on until I feel better….have had to turn the heat up to about 80…just can’t get warm, either….
A few thoughts on Keith….
Well…lots of analysis on why Keith Olbermann left MSNBC and I want to throw in my two cents….first, let’s get this out of the way…from what I’ve read of his tenure at many of the shows he was on point to a person much like myself..one who chafes at being told what to do, combined with a huge ego…hmmm…but what I think was the deciding factor was the takeover of NBC by Comcast…I think he saw the writing on the wall, that the ownership of the company was going to become much more conservative…I’ve never been one to go along with the conspiracy theories that sprout out here on the web like weeds but this time I think there may be some substance to it…that the new owners first act was going to be to change his show to make it more amenable to the right’s interests….who else was out there that was telling the truth about the conspiracy between big money, business interests, and the right? I could be completely wrong but I’d put 5 bucks on it that this is one of the reasons Keith is gone….MSNBC no longer exists for me…I think they’ve cut off their nose to spite their face…
Well….that may be a little harsh….I’ll have to think about it for a while….after all, I am TRYING to be more reasonable….
January 23rd
Well…kind of a weird night last night…just hung out here and watched some tv…but that’s not the weird part, a couple pf my remotes lost their programming at the same time and the only thing that I could think of was an EMP of some sort..or someone is trying to drive me even further crazy than I am….but I did get them fixed so I guess that’s okay….the rest of the sat was about normal…don’t have a lot of cash so I decided to stay in and just veg and with the flu still hanging on for dear life, it was probably a good idea. Going out for the paper this morning was an adventure in the deep freeze….the old wreck protested starting and then, since it’s a stick, it was like shifting in concrete….hardened concrete..it took two hands to get the thing from first to second and I let it run sitting in the Family Fare parking lot since the insta fog set in on the inside of the windshield. I will be happy when this cold goes away this week….I hate to have to plan to just make a quarter mile trip. Not much to do today….I’m still coughing and hacking so I think I’ll lay low and watch a little football….might have a topic or two for later…