Well..after having visitors yesterday, today was an easy one and I didn’t do much but watch races and read and I needed that after all the prep work for the visit last week…a strange thing is going on with the eye drops I use to fight against the dry eyes that come from my allergies…have been looking for any kind of Clear Eyes drops for over a month and there is not any on any shelf at three different stores…so I got the brain storm to use my amazon prime and order some from them…and I got it for 29% off, too…but I am laughing about the tiny orders I have been making…I mean card with two button batteries? And then 2 bottles of Clear Eyes with some chain lube? And today I ordered a combo salt shaker and pepper grinder just like one I had for 15 years before it broke….and some tongue scrapers to get rid of the white coating that has been on my tongue for months…and the salt shaker was only 11 bucks which is less than what I paid 15 years ago for the exact same one…it is pretty nice to not have to buy 35 bucks worth to get free shipping…so I’m only buying what I need…didn’t have to cook today with all of the leftovers from yesterday and probably won’t have to until Wed…okay, need to start a new book…
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Go Bernie….
Well…the difference between the repubs and dems have been made extremely clear with the release of Bernie Sanders proposed bill the “Pensions for all act” the would completely reform how pensions are regulated here in the US…50 years ago, over 50% of workers had a pension to go with SS and only 6% of retirees lived in poverty…but now almost 23% of seniors live in poverty and less than 10% of retirees have a pension…and the rich designed the system that way…if they don’t have to fund pensions for their retirees, it just puts trillions more in their pockets instead of in the pockets of the people who made them rich…and Bernie’s bill would force corporations to fund pensions exactly as members of congress get so seniors would no longer have to work until they die…and this bill goes along with his “Social Security expansion act” that would raise benefits by 2,400 bucks a year but then tax all income over 250K a year that would make SS solvent for 75 years…this is the difference between the two parties…one gives tax cuts to the rich and cut benefits for everyone else and the other tries to take care of all the people and make their lives easier…which one sounds like what we should be doing? Geez…
July 20th
Well…man, I’m just worn out today after the visit yesterday and not sleeping too well last night and I’m hoping that the coffee will help me get on the bike before 7…it did rain a bit yesterday but it’s not going to help my lawn one bit unless it rains every day for a week or so and that is not going to happen…and the main rain missed to the south where it rained for hours instead of the half hour it did here…oh, well…I thought my right elbow had started to heal yesterday but I can barely pick up the coffee cup this morning without howling pain…so more voltaren before I get on the bike…don’t have anything in my schedule until October 6th when I get fitted for the partial dentures so there will be lots of beach time starting tomorrow…going to be near 90 later in the week and I may have to spend longer time out there…not sure if my skin will take it but I guess that’s what 100 sunscreen is for…not much to do today…just need to get the rides in and then wing it for the rest of the day…don’t have to clean the house so I’ll just relax and watch races….more later…
A nice visit…
Well…that was a nice visit and Art made me laugh a lot…they brought me cupcakes for a birthday cake and some pasta salad and 2 packages of curry and rice so I’ll be eating off that food for the next few days…yummy…it didn’t rain…again…but it looks like it might in a few minutes…it has gotten pretty dark so I have my fingers crossed that some will come…I did get the batteries for my key fob today and they came in a box that would fit hundreds of them…thunder! I did get the battery replace and the fob works as it should…I have gotten used to opening the trunk with it and now it even flashes the lights when the doors are locked or unlocked…pretty cool! Just put the laundry in and now I’m going to read a bit until the race comes on from Dover…don’t think I’ll eat more today…the pasta salad and cupcake will have to do…
Maybe health problems will get him?
Well…there is so much evidence of the idiot trump’s mental decline but it doesn’t matter to the idiots who elected him…the guy can’t even string two sentences together and when he tries, it’s all just lies anyway…but now I have my fingers crossed that health problems are going to get him…his doctors have just released the fact that he has severe venous deficiency trying to explain why his ankles are swollen in recent photos…and as some one who has that problem sometimes, mine is not 10% of what idiot boy’s look like…and after all, he gets no exercise other than getting into and out of golf carts as he slugs down big macs all day long.;..I really hope this is terminal…after all, he has had 3 brothers and sister die already and younger than he is now…I guess we can hope…and normally, I wouldn’t wish death on anyone…but I’ll make an exception in his case…geez…
July 19th
Well…up at 4:34 again today but was able to get back to sleep…kinda..until 5:30 or so and now the magic coffee needs to do it’s work so I can get moving and get the rides in before I get back to the last part of cleaning this joint up…it really does look like rain this afternoon…ha,ha…I’ve written that so many times without rain ever getting here that it is not even a joke anymore…need to get on the bike by 6:30am today to get two rides in before 9 and get the cleaning done…not sure when my son is coming over but it will probably be early…the bike rally downtown was not nearly as loud as it was last year and there is only one more day to go…have no interest in going down there to see all the maga assholes play acting patriotism as they continue to support the asshole in chief and his racist bullshit…okay, I normally don’t do politics in this post of the day but damn…I just hate these assholes who saddled us with the idiot trump…not much to do today…I’m tired of cleaning but this place is looking pretty good and I won’t have to do anything for a couple of weeks…I do need to figure out some meals with using up the chicken tacos yesterday…more later
Cleaning, cleaning…
Well…it has been a day of cleaning all day today with getting the dining room done, the fridge cleaned, the back stairs vacuumed, and the kitchen cleaned…just need to do a quick once over on the bathroom and vacuuming the living room and I’ll be ready for the visit tomorrow…didn’t go to lunch with T today since her hands have flared in pain as she waits for surgery on them on the 31st…and that really helped me get everything done…I did have to run an errand out to aldis since I ran out of pickles and tortillas and I wanted to drive the car since I cleaned it top to bottom yesterday…the battery in the key fob died just as I was getting used to using it to open the trunk so I ordered a couple and will get them tomorrow…easy to replace and they should last a couple of years…okay, have some messages I need to respond to over on Mastodon…
Let’s talk about water and AI…
Well…with water shortages becoming more and more prevalent across the world as climate change dries out a huge portion of the world, there is a new scourge that is making it so much worse but no one is talking about it…every time anyone asks a question of AI, more than a gallon of water is used to cool the servers where it is based…and there is soon going to be a choice to be made…who is more important, AI or human beings? There are already shortages across the world where people in large swaths of the globe have months where getting water is a problem…and now the billionaires want to empty the reservoirs and aquifers that are vital for the support of agriculture and turn that into profit that they will use to line their pockets and people will have to move since there will be no water left for them as the hogs slurp it all up…what more can the billionaires take? Who is going to stop them? It sure as hell won’t be the repubs so think of that when time comes to vote…do you want to live or not? That is the choice to be made…geez…
July 18th
Well…damn, it got down to 53 degrees last night and it was pretty darn cold in here…woke up at 4 or so but was able to get back to sleep til 6:30 and that makes me late for the day…going to need a fleece to get on the bike by 7:30 and I need to pour coffee down to get that done…I did get a lot of cleaning done yesterday and the rest of it can be done Sat morning before the visitors come over…looking forward to seeing Art, my son’s dog and my son and DIL…got the car completely cleaned and I think I’m going to run out to aldis and meijers this morning to pick up things I forgot on the grocery run…supposed to have lunch with T today but I’ll believe that when it happens…haven’t seen her for over a year and that’s too long…oh,well…my damn right elbow is still howling in pain and it hurts to pick up my coffee cup…I think I’m going to hurt from cleaning the car today and I’m starting to feel it right now…I think I may try some ice cream to see if I can finally eat it after years and years of pain…but there is no room in the freezer so I guess I’ll have to wait a while until I empty it a bit…not much to do today…just need to have more coffee and get off my butt and get going…more later…
Trump’s brain…
Well…what was so important when Biden was in office now isn’t I guess…whenever Joe made a gaffe, which he did his entire life, it would be the most damning thing and every mainstream media outlet would go on and on about it…constantly saying he should retire because he mixed up a name or forgot something…but with the idiot trump? He gets to just make shit up and there is never a report in any media outlet at all…just lately, idiot boy was going on and on that his uncle taught the Unabomber at MIT…the only problem is that he was never enrolled at MIT…and his uncle died before anyone even knew who the Unabomber was…but not one damn reported called him on it…he is constantly making up conversations that never happened…he even forgot the name of the Japanese premier, calling him Mr. Japan…and at an energy summit in Pennsylvania this past week he couldn’t make a bit of sense in any conversation he had with the media…and again, no follow up questions when he just lied and lied…this is a lot more serious than Biden’s decline was since idiot boy has surrounded himself with a gaggle of fascists who know that they can manipulate him all day long…and they do it all day long…geez…