Well…even the right wing rag “The Wall Street Journal” is calling the trade war the idiot boy started “stupid” and they can’t figure out what the purpose of it is…it’s not like Mexico or Canada is dumping imports to the US to hurt business here…which is the normal use of tariffs…they’re not…and as always, the people the idiot has surrounded himself with people who think economics will work the way they say it will, not as it does…a bunch of wishful thinking that started back with reagan and his voodoo economics and carried tight through the Laffer curve…you remember that one, right…the doozy that said tax cuts pay for themselves with economic growth? Not a thing they are doing has any factual basis…and they really don’t know how much attacking our greatest trading partner, Canada, is going to hurt the US…how are farmers going to deal with the 80% of fertilizer production that Canada sends us being 25% more expensive tomorrow? Or the auto manufacturers who get 50% of their parts from Mexico and Canada? Yeah but the price of eggs the idiots shout about…and then vote for an imbecile who is going to cost the average family thousands due to the tariffs…I guess that will show the rational people who didn’t vote for the asshole…geez…
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Some good health news..
Well…as you know, I had an appointment with the office pharmacist this morning in the ongoing saga of getting my BP under control and it is finally…it was only 132/63 down from 160 two weeks ago…and with it being down to 117 this morning, he thinks we can leave the medicine dosage where it is…it’s already at the lowest dosage that you can get so I feel good about that…and when you took a look at my test results, he saw that my bad cholesterol is a little high but he’s never seen a higher reading on good cholesterol so he sees no problem with that…and the kicker was that commented that he has never seen a healthier 70+ person and that made all the work I do staying in good shape worth it…so, no ticking time bomb or stroke risk at all…so now I can read this afternoon and relax a bit…I did pick up a big pork shoulder today and that will feed me for a week starting Friday…more later…
February 3rd
Well…up at 5:27 this morning and it’s a no coffee morning since I have to go in to have my BP checked at 9 but I am going to get two rides in before I head out…did take both of my BP meds just to see if they will work to get it down…I am so damn tired of all this crap that I may just let it stay high so I don’t have to keep screwing around and going to the doctor all the time…I’m old and tired and can accept that this is going to kill me at some point…I do need to get cleaning this place up today and all week but if I take one room a day I’ll get it done…I do need to figure out meals for the week and I may get a pork shoulder to do in the instant pot and Meijers has chicken thighs on sale for 1.49 so all I need to do is get to Wed when I do the grocery run…have leftovers for today so I really only need food for Tuesday…and that may be the Alfredo I’ve been thinking about…and I have one more serving of pasta so that should do it…it’s raining out here right now and that may make it a little sloppy getting out of here and the alley is still solid ice but I should be able to get out with no problem…it’s going back to cold after today but still no big storms and I’ll take that…3 more weeks til March…more later…
Finished the books..
Well…had been really trying to get the three books that I got from the library last Monday read and today I finished them up..1,096 pages in a week and I can return them and get three more tomorrow…yay…I did get some cleaning done today and organized some paperwork and threw out a bunch that I didn’t need anymore…and shredded a bunch of stuff and will be doing more of that soon…I did get three rides today along with the weight work but not a lot more than that…one of my sons, his wife, and their dog Art are coming over next Sunday to bring me a sourdough starter and hang out for a while and I think Art will like watching the doves on the feeder…no cocktails tonight and no coffee in the morning to see if I can get my BP down…it was good this morning at 117/72 but this aft it was back to 150/77 and I am just getting tired of the whole thing…I hope tomorrow will be the last time I have to go to the doctor until my yearly checkup…I missed the qualifying for the nascar race tonight but was able to see it this afternoon…the LC race is on at 6 tonight and the Clash is on at 8 on fox…so that will give me something to watch…the heat races were fun with lots of beating and banging on the 1/4 mile track they are racing on…imagine 35 cars on that at once…
The attacks on SS have started…
Well…just a quickie on something I read over on Kos yesterday…a few people have tried to log on to their SS accounts and they can no longer do it…so no more information from SS on any subject…and every moron who voted for trump said the same thing “they won’t hurt SS” yeah, you idiots are going to get all of us who depend on SS thrown out of our houses to starve….way to go idiots…
I wonder why?
Well…as the biggest idiot in the world shoots the US in the foot by imposing tariffs on Canada and Mexico…I wonder why China has escaped with just a tongue lashing? And now both of our best trading partners are readying their own tariffs against our exports and every damn economist out there has said this is going to explode into a trade war that is going to tank the US economy…and then we have the idiot in chief going on and on that the US pays hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to Canada and he thinks that Canada should be absorbed like the Borg did in TNG…what a delusional piece of shit…and we all know that this is just idiot boy trying to use the US’s power to bully other countries to do what he wants…and I really think he is going to be personally responsible for the US failing as a country as the rest of the world will unify against us…and that can’t be repaired…so he is getting the shithole country he always wanted…geez…
February 2nd
Well…damn, running late again today and I need to get two rides in before Man U plays at 9…so that means I need to get on the bike in 10 minutes to get that done…and I’ve just started my first cup of coffee so that is going to be a struggle…it snowed overnight and will be snowing this morning but it’s going to be over freezing later so it should all melt…I did check my BP this morning and it was 117/72 so that is encouraging but it will be back over 170 later today…I have to pay my water bill, property taxes, and house insurance this month and that means 1,700 bucks extra going out so I won’t be putting any money in the bank and that sucks…but I am still making money on this house…for now…so I guess I can live with it….didn’t get a damn thing done yesterday but read and I need to finish a book and I’m not sure if I can carve out the time for it…yeah…that sounded weird to me, too…I mean all I have to do is decide to do and do it but the struggle between my guilt and taking it easy is pretty strong and I wonder if I’ll ever be able to take it easy again? Probably not…not much to do today…10 minutes to pour down more coffee and get on the bike…need to get moving…more later…oh, I did have a dream last night where I couldn’t find a pair of socks that matched…weird…
Okay, I’m officially a slug…
Well…damn after the second day in a row to doing nothing, I declare myself officially a slug…I did get three rides in and did the weight work but that was it for the day since I had leftovers and didn’t even have to cook….but I will clean some tomorrow to keep up prepping the dining room for sanding and painting…and I have to take all the scotch tape off the walls that is everywhere from the previous owners….we did lose a lot more snow here with it being over freezing today but my yard has no bare spots yet…still over 6 inches of snow out there and it is going to get cold again so we’ll probably have snow here until spring…I’m finally healing up from the shoveling from two weeks ago but most of the pain is gone…it’s supposed to snow a little bit tomorrow and maybe some freezing rain but that will end before I have to get out Monday morning…it doesn’t look like I’ll get the books done before Monday so I’ll have to go Tuesday…okay, need to get ready for the night…
Moochers all…
Well…”I didn’t think they were going to do that..” was the refrain from all of the red state moochers when their god king threatened to cut off all federal money to the states…after all the states that went heavy for trump are all takers with up to 50% of the state budgets being subsidized by blue states…yeah, you heard that right…those of us in blue states pay for budgets of every damn red state so they can cut taxes for the rich that live there…in Michigan we send 2 dollars to the feds for every dollar we get back in services and the same goes for every reliably blue state…and the hypocrite repub governors were all working behind the scenes to keep the money flowing while their public statements were all in support of idiot boy and his cuts…but we all know they are a bunch of lying hypocrites and have know that for a long time…geez…
February 1st
Well…up at damn 5:09 this morning and I am so worn out…again…I did grind some beans for my coffee today but ran it through my drip coffee maker instead of my pour over and it is just as good so I’ll remember that for the future…slept okay last night but I was lazy yesterday so I need to get on the bike here in a few minutes to get three rides in before 10…going to get to 1,000 miles in Feb and that has never happened before…man, I just want to melt into the couch and watch old movies but I won’t…I remember the days when I used to do that and one of these days I’m going to do that again…but today will be 470 days straight of riding bikes and I need to keep that going….it is pretty cool that the warm weather has melted a lot of the snow so when it starts up again I won’t have to throw it it over shoulder high snow piles…and it will snow more since it February in Michigan…but as every day goes by we get closer to spring and that will keep me going…and grinding through life….not much to do today…don’t have to cook for the next few days but I do have the dr appointment Monday so today will be the last day of coffee before then….and I want to keep cleaning this place up and I’m going to try to finish the third book before Monday so that will give me something to do….more later….