Well…with the appointment of the stupid vaccine hater RFK jr to head HHS, the inevitable has happened…he has put the health of every American at risk by stopping funding for any vaccine work being done by HHS…and that even includes cancelling a meeting with vaccine makers on the next flu vaccine that was set for a few weeks…and after the most deadly flu season in 20 years, that means that there will be no flu vaccine this fall and thousands of Americans are going to die…and kids are already dying in Texas from frickin measles that were eradicated in the US when I was a kid and now these asshole vaccine deniers are going to put every kid in this country in the crosshairs…there have already been 124 cases in Texas and it’s going to get worse since the morons who live there won’t have their kids vaccinated…look, these idiots even put a hold on polio vaccines and you can bet that polio will be circulating in the unvaccinated soon…I have had enough of these ignorant assholes putting the whole damn country at risk just because of their stupidity…geez…
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February 27th
Well…up a little early today at 5:41 but I slept okay so I’ll take it…still trying to stop grinding my teeth and that has been going on for years…at least it isn’t causing pain this time…the snow has been melting like crazy out here and I think I jinxed spring coming by putting the winter coats away yesterday….and we are getting a blast of cold Sat and Sun with highs in the 20′s but no snow so maybe spring is really coming…going to ride outdoors tomorrow with the temp getting to 46 and I am curious how much ice and snow is still on the trail…going to work on the door frame downstairs and get it ready to start assembling it today but there is no urgency so I may take a day off and read a bit instead…hitting the library this morning to pick up 4 more books and it is so nice to not have to think about getting out of here and shoveling the snow…should wash the car at some point and get off my ass and look for a new one…the birds have abandoned the feeder and I haven’t had to fill it for two days so I’m glad I didn’t buy more food this week…not much to do today…just need to get more coffee down me and get on the bike here in a few but I don’t feel like it right now…more later….
Got some things done…
Well…it’s been a little busy today with getting the first ride in, then the grocery run done, and then two and more rides and some work downstairs but now I’m going to take it easy for a while…didn’t get outdoors with the rain still here off and on and it never got over 40 and that is too damn cold for me…I did get some sliced turkey today for 1.50 a pound so I got two two pound packages and lots of it will go in the freezer…have lots of food to make for the next week and will be going back to some chicken tacos and Masala over the weekend and still have enough lettuce to make a few salads if I want…I do need to cut more veggies up to dip and should get on that right now…I did finish the books and can go to the library for more tomorrow after the rides but I do want to try to go out for a ride but it looks like Friday will be the day…
Tesla sales are tanking…
Well…with the fascist musk shitting all over the US and firing hundreds of thousands of government workers, it is coming back to haunt him in the latest tesla sales numbers…all across the globe sales are down by up to 70% with an average of 45%…and you can understand why with over 75% of Americans hating what the idiot trump is allowing him to do…and let’s be blunt teslas were never very good cars and they have been selling the same old cars since they were introduced with no refreshes in either the exterior or running gear…and the cybertruck? The only people who ever bought them were musk fanboys and that is not a large pool of people to draw from…and damn are they ugly…saw one this morning charging on the tesla chargers at the good Meijers this morning and just shook my head…I wouldn’t even take one of those things if they gave it to me…I think ole elon has earned this sales disaster but I do feel bad for the people who work for tesla who are going to be out of a job soon…geez…
February 26th
Well…damn, I’m running late already and it’s only 6:41 and I need to get on the bike by 7 to be able to get the first ride in before I head out for the grocery run…I am going to try to get an outdoor ride in today but it’s all going to depend on the rain and it looks like we’ll get a couple of hours in…but it’s 31 degrees so it may be snow and then I won’t drag the bike out of the basement and I’ll wait til tomorrow…slept okay last night but sure don’t feel like it…it will be a struggle to get going in 14 minutes but I have to do it to keep on schedule…I just made some pour over coffee and I’ll have a cup of that before I head down…need to buy some more allergy meds and I’ll get some more coffee beans so I’ll have 5 pounds in stock here…I did get the work area cleaned up downstairs yesterday along with more work on the door frame but I’m not sure how much I’ll do today…some, I’m sure but I have no motivation right now…Man U plays this aft but they’re playing so lousy that I’m not sure I want to see it…need to get moving…more later…
More destruction….
Well…made progress on the door frame today but it was all backward since I just couldn’t do it half assed like the previous owner…so today I pulled all of the trim off the frame so I could get to the backing lumber that was held together by just a couple of nails on the left side…so I cut a shim and drove some screws through the side trim and shims and that anchored the entire left side so the wall doesn’t move at all anymore…and the saw blades for both my circular and trim saws are so dull it took me minutes to just cut the shims so I’m picking up new ones at Menards on the grocery run tomorrow…then I’ll start re assembling the whole thing tomorrow but not before I try to get an outdoor ride in…the trails will still be ice covered so it will be a road ride…but it is supposed to rain, too so I may just wait it out…I did get the computer on the outdoor bike reset so it’s ready to go with just air in the tires left to do…man, I can wait to get outside for the first time this year…I am stopping at DD tomorrow to get some thin sliced turkey for 1.50 a pound and I have just enough room in the freezer for a few pounds…but I don’t need much at Meijers or Aldis so it will be a cheap week….a little more reading and then some tv…
The hypocrisy should burn…
Well…whenever there is a dem in the WH, the repubs go on and on and on about “un-elected bureaucrats” running the government and making decisions that should be made by congress…that right there makes me laugh out loud when I see what is going on with the idiot trump’s government and the fact that he has appointed (and not confirmed) one person to be in charge of the entire government…yep, and ole elon is not even an American and has no frickin ideas how government works…and he has been allowed fire hundreds of thousands of federal government workers with no oversight at all…as I’ve said before, if the repubs had any shame they would be burning from their hypocrisy but they don’t so they aren’t…not one frickin peep out of any elected repub as elon sidelines them and does thier jobs for them…now if I was one of these assholes, I would be howling and presenting legislation that would put and end to the usurping of my powers…but the repubs are so enamored by elon destroying the government they sit there like the nice little piggies they are and let him run amok…geez…
February 25th
Well…having a hell of a time getting going this morning and the question comes to me “why the hell do I have to get going every day?” yeah, we all know I’d be a fat slug if I didn’t keep up the torture on the bike every day…it stayed over freezing overnight and slabs of snow and ice were sliding off the roof making lots of noise last night…I wonder if winter is over? Not here in Michigan…I can remember 8 inches of snow in April that closed the schools so I guess we’ll see…it’s going to be 46 Friday but then a crash down into the 20′s…might have to drag the outdoor bike out for that and do some city street riding…so I need to reset the computer on that bike to get ready for it….it’s already 7 and I just started the coffee so it might be a late day to get on the bike…I do need a new blade for my circular saw since I tried to cut shims from a 2×4 and it barely did it…I need a good one to rip the trim pieces so I won’t work on that today…don’t have to cook today so that will be okay but I do need to plan meals for later in the week…and I want to use some of the thighs I have in the freezer…I overate with two chili dogs yesterday so I need to cut back to under 1K calories today…so it will be a bowl of soup and one chili dog today….more later….
Door frame is coming along…
Well…got to work some more on the door frame this afternoon and made some good progress on getting the top plate secured and glued in so now it’s not held in by one nail…and I put shims in so the whole thing is level and ties the whole wall together…I may have to trim another 3/4 of an inch off the side trims since I’m using 1 inch top trim and I want to keep it flush with the new headers…but I guess it doesn’t have to be flush…we’ll see after I get started assembling it…my back is still hurting like crazy and I have no clue how I hurt it…still haven’t taken anything for it but I probably should….finished the third book and I’m going to start the 4th right now so I can get to the library this week…I’ll get back to politics tomorrow…
Damn, I’m sore…
Well…I did go out and get the lumber I needed to finish up the door frame work but I did something to hurt my back on the lower right side and it’s pretty bad just sitting here…and that adds to my thumbs that I can’t use from the cracks that is causing a lot of pain every time I hit the space bar…the boards did fit in the car with the top up but just barely but with it 42 right now, it wouldn’t have been bad driving with the top down…I forgot that I had a recip saw and new blades that I can use to cut the tips of the side trim on the door frame and I should do that today along with getting the top plate anchored so I have something I can nail the trim boards to…but with the way my back feels I don’t think I can do that right now…and I have been having problems with finding a political topic that grabs me so I’ll work on that later today…right now I just need to take something for my back…more later…