Well…I was extremely good last night and I woke up today full of vim and vigor…getting through the night was kind of a chore, though, but I did get a lot of stuff done…got the bike maintained, did the dishes, and cleaned some more…boring, huh? Oh, well…even Netflix is starting to be boring so I think I need to start figuring out new things to do…I was so desperate last night that I re-read the Sunday paper and was looking through every corner trying to find a book I haven’t read in a while…I thing I may need to talk to T to get another bag o books to get my brain working on every level again…I think it did that once but it’s been a while….not much to do today…I do need to clean up the car since the pollen and dust on it is about an eighth of an inch thick and the old thing just looks better clean…that’s about it, though and fighting the boredom is going to take some creativity that I just may be able to muster…more later…
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A busy day….and more nonsense..
Well..it’s been a busy day today..had lots to do to get to this point and I am now just sitting down for the first time today to take a look at the world of politics and put in my two cents. I am just amazed at the repub hypocrites that have the gall to ask ‘where are the jobs?” as a campaign slogan when, for the 8 years they held power, not one net job was produced by them or their voodoo economics of tax cuts, tax cuts, and more tax cuts. As I have said many times before, if tax cuts spurred job growth, why aren’t we swimming in new jobs with tax rates being at their lowest overall level in more than 50 years. I am more than frustrated by the dems not standing on any flat surface and shouting these facts; that the repub policies do not work for job creation…and I’m sure that business is not hiring just for the fact that they want a repub back in the White House to de-regulate some more and take the remaing shards of the American dream and rip it from the last few hands of the middle class…ignorance is going to be the end of this country I fear…
June 13th
Well…a normal Sunday yesterday with races and just taking it easy…one of the best F1 races I’ve seen in a while with rain, crashes, and a run from the back to the win for Jensen Button…didn’t do much else but cook and I think I have the foil pouch chicken zeroed in finally since it came out great…moist and tender…yummy….not much else the rest of the day and I think if I add up the sleep between the ups and downs, I only got about 4 hours…I know that’s not sustainable but still don’t know what to do about it. Maybe tonight will be better…not much to do today….I do have work to do around here today so I just may be busy most of the day and that will help…I am finally getting the winter weight off and the goal of 160 looks attainable in the next month or so if I keep up the work…at least that is something I can enjoy…I will have at least one more for today but I’m not sure if I’m going out for coffee today…still can’t warm up to Biggby but it’s the only place out here so I guess I’ll keep trying…more later…
June 12th
Well…a relatively nice day yesterday that I just enjoyed with not a lot to do….it has been kind of cool to have the 24 hours of LeMans on all day so I could see racing whenever I wanted to…and having cable internet let me live stream it when it wasn’t on the tv…so, I’m still watching it right now for the next 30 mins and then out for a bike ride…but I think I’ll wait a while since it’s only 51 degrees and that is a bit iffy for going out in a t shirt….not much to do today…still haven’t heard from K this weekend so maybe today…if not, there are three races on this aft that I can watch and I do have some work to do around here so I won’t be too bored…just a little…I did get three out yesterday so I’m not sure if there will be more today…we’ll see…more later…
Just some extra stuff…
Well…it was a good idea to take the day of biking yesterday…my legs were turbocharged this morning and I did the longest loop without tiring…it just makes me feel so good that I can still do this stuff at my age…58 is creeping up on me…okay, not creeping but coming at me like a freight train and it is becoming easier to accept the changes that come with it. Oh, that’s not where I was going….have been trying to reconcile the loss of anger with being able to do this and have come to an idea that maybe the changes will help but might make the topics somewhat different. After all, none of the screaming I’ve done here over the last year and the 962 posts have made a damn bit of difference to anyone but me. So, I may start trying to be a little more introspective and talk about real things about life…and I do have the idea that I’m going to start another novel that will be about the weird but great childhood I had….oh, I guess that won’t be a novel since it really happened…it will be called “Sledding on the refrigerator door” and that will be one of the chapters that will deal with the creativity you need to have to have fun when you are poor….I’ll put another category at the top for you to click on and read what I have started….
Let’s stop the health care lies…
Well….as you know, the healthcare debate is one that hits really close to home for me since I haven’t been able to afford health insurance for the last nine years and, under any plan that the repubs have presented, I’ll never be able to afford it until I turn 65 and qualify for Medicare. One of the things that just bugs the hell out of me are all of the righties attacking the health care reform bill with the lies that it has already resulted in higher costs and people losing their insurance…when you hear these things being said, just remember that most of the law has not even taken effect yet….so any higher costs or loss of coverage is because the insurance companies have decided to make those changes, not that they have been forced to by the law. Where are the repub voices that decry the insurance companies taking advantage of these lies to further gouge the people? They will never be heard exactly because the insurance companies own the repubs and have purchased their vote to both defeat the current law and to help them get their hands on Medicare to further control the healthcare market.
So, can we at least try to make the repubs tell the truth for once and do what is best for the country instead of just themselves and their owners? Geez….
June 11th
Well…I kind of like that it rained yesterday and I could take the day off of all exercise to try to heal up the little aches and pains that I have been suffering for the past couple of weeks…and with the 24 hours of LeMans coming on in a couple of minutes, I am going to delay the bike ride this morning for a couple of hours…it is kind of wet out there with a heavy mist (yeah, that sounded weird to me, too) that would soak me before I got out a mile so waiting is a good idea…it is still in the 50’s after all. I find it kind of strange that the inner peace that I have been seeking for quite some time is having an effect on my writing…making it much harder to come up with topics and then to find the fire that I need to explode them here…but, I’m pretty sure that I don’t want that seething inner volcano back either….it is a conundrum that I find really interesting but on an objective basis….I do look forward to seeing where this takes me and what effect it has on the rest of my life; I don’t know how I can describe the feeling that has come over me…something like bemusement I guess…oh, well…I’ll keep you updated on the travels in this new world….it was funny yesterday when I asked T if she ever thought I’d be at peace and get to where I am now and she just laughed and said no….
Not much to do today…bet you thought I wouldn’t work that in today….I may meet up with K for a couple later and I have started to clean this place up and I’ll continue that but it’s going to be more of a laid back day…I am going to cook a pork loin with fresh broccoli and roasted red potatoes for lunch/dinner and I can’t wait to smell it cooking….I’ll try to get to another one later but you know how my Saturdays go….
Still no politics…
Well…it has been a nice day so far with another great lunch with T and since it’s raining, I’m going to take the day off from riding the bike and to try to not feel guilty about it. Even though there have been some events in politics that I could comment on, I just haven’t been able to work up the outrage necessary to put together a long one. Okay, there is one that I will drop a short one on…the self-destruction and implosion of ole Newt’s presidential campaign and the smile it brought to my face…the whole thing was just an exercise in narcissism that pointed out that Newt is great at talking and telling people what to do but when it comes to actually doing the work necessary to govern, he just doesn’t want to get his hands dirty and wants to act like the political elite he inveighs against constantly. Who else but one of the elites could have a 500K charge account at Tiffany’s? Oh, I do have another…ole Mitt working across our state claiming that he was the first one to suggest that the auto industry should be saved…but that’s not what he said, he said that the auto companies should be required to go through a non-structured bankruptcy that likely would have resulted in the liquidation of Chrysler and possibly that of GM and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. He was against the government help that preserved all those good, middle class jobs, just as he did running his venture capital company that was responsible for the destruction of many more jobs than he ever created….not to mention hundreds of millions in profit he put in his own pocket that would have saved a lot of those jobs. Flip flopping again, eh, Mitt?
June 10th
Well…I was a good boy last night so I feel okay today even with the lack of sleep…it was nice to have the weather cool off somewhat but I do like it hot…it seems that I’m just not a creaky when it’s warm…I have been sore lately with pains almost everywhere and now I’ve got this grinding thing going on in my wrist…it is kind of fun to listen to it when I move it…yep, doesn’t take much to amuse me…not sure what I’m going to do today but I do have lunch with T and that will be fun and maybe even drinks with K later which would help fill today at least….need to take the clubs out and hit a few but it looks like rain this morning so I may just leave the bike in, too, and heal up some….won’t have to cook today so that moves the pork loin back until tomorrow and that is good since tomorrow is another race day with the 24 hours of LeMans running all day…as you can tell…I’m still struggling with the flow of this thing so I’m going to stop here but I will keep trying later….
I’ve been trying…
Well…it’s been a busy morning with having to take the bike apart to fix the flat…but that’s not an excuse, I’ve been trying to come up with some topics but just haven’t been able to put anything together and it’s starting to frustrate me a bit….of course I could go after Manny again for his idiocy or after Nolan for his naked partisanship but even when they write the outrageous crap they did today I can’t muster up a response…and I don’t want to write crap (you might think it is but you wouldn’t be here if it was that bad) so I think I’ll watch “the Daily Show” and come back in a while to see if that helps….