Well…with the idiot’s executive order essentially stopping the government from spending any money, we have reached peak unconstitutionality and it’s only going to get worse…after all we are only a week into idiot boys term and the question is: where is congress? The constitution give the power to spend money to congress, not the executive branch and, if I were a congressman, I’d be right in his face telling him to stop usurping the power of congress…if he wants to be the head of congress, run for a seat…that is what the separation of powers is for…to keep idiots like trump from taking over the whole government and ignoring laws passed by them…but it’s just like everything else, he thinks the constitution doesn’t apply to him…I now need the dem reps to raise holy hell but I have not heard one peep out of them…and they need to get on it now…geez…
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January 28th
Well…damn, it was windy here yesterday and we had one gust last night that just shook the house and it was so damn loud it sounded like a jet was landing in the yard…going to be in the 40′s today and I’ll take that for the end of January but then it goes down into the 20′s for weeks but I’m okay with that if it doesn’t snow…slept okay last night but I should have with getting up at 5 yesterday…stayed in bed til a little after 6 this morning and I need to get on the bike in 30 minutes to get all three rides in before noon and make the Masala for lunch…didn’t eat much yesterday…just two bowls of potato soup and I can feel that right now…but I need to do that since the soup goes bad pretty fast…and with it having milk in it, it doesn’t freeze well…I am going to make some alfredo sauce later in the week and what I’ve learned thickening the milk for the potato soup will work for the alfredo, too….I need to straighten this place up some today but I want to just read the new books I got from the library…I’ll have months worth of reading from these three authors and that is cool…not much to do today…one of these days I’m going to take an easy day but I need to get to 700 miles for the month by Friday and that means 24 miles a day til then…more later…
It’s liberating…
Well…for the first time this year, I was able to just get in the car and do the grocery run without having to shovel or worry about burying the car in the snow…and I didn’t have to plan anything…just got in the car and went…and even after I forgot to go to the library, I just got back in the car and went over there and that is just so liberating after being trapped in here for so long…and getting back in the car, I noticed that I hadn’t disconnected the battery and it would have been dead in a couple of days so that worked out well…and I got the car washed and went to DD to get 2-46 ounce cans of coffee for 10 bucks…I did forget my grocery list but remembered all but one item from Meijers and that isn’t bad for an old guy…and now I have the Parmesan I need for alfredo sauce…but I’m not going to make that until later in the week…have chicken thawed for Masala tomorrow so I’ll just have another bowl of potato soup for dinner…I did get three new books so I want to do some reading this aft…but need to take care of the dishes first…
Buy coffee…
Well…with the asshole in chief blundering around trying to implement his racist immigration policies, he has hit Columbia with a 25% tariff that he is threatening to raise to 50%, so go out and buy coffee now before they hit…your 13 dollar 2 lb bag of Columbian beans is going to cost 20 bucks in the next couple of weeks and that is just the first of the trump taxes that you are going to be hit with as the moron uses tariffs for his personal vendettas against the world…I’m going to order 6 more pounds of beans from amazon today along with getting two 46 oz cans from DD for 10 bucks so I’ll be set for most of the year…thanks maga morons…you did this to all of us…oh, and Brazil is already raising prices on their coffee to take advantage of the tariffs price rise…this is what you get when you put a moron in charge of the economy…
January 27th
Well…up at 5 am this morning and I’m doing this at 5:27 and will be getting on the bike before 6 to get two rides in before I head out for the grocery run at 9 or so…need to pick up a prescription so I need to wait til almost 9 before I go out…this is going to b one busy morning with hitting Meijers, washing the car, then Aldis, then DD and a run to the library for more reading material…then the third ride before noon…slept okay last night but I know I’m going to hit the wall later with only eating a bowl of potato soup and some pasta yesterday….I am going to eat badly this week…have a taste for some chili dogs so I may make them tomorrow but I have chicken thawing for Masala so they could wait til later in the week…have to take the dogs out of the freezer and I have room to fill it again…it’s going to be warmer here for the next few days and we are getting to 40 tomorrow so we’ll get rid of some of the snow…my walks are almost clear and the road is slowly clearing, too…only 4 more weeks until March and spring and I can do that easily…not much to do today…just running around and rides and it will be nice to get out of here for a bit…haven’t started the car for more than a week and it can use a run…more later…
The IG’s push back…
Well…if you were reading the news this weekend, you saw that the idiot trump tried to fire all of the inspector generals Friday night…you know, the people who are charged with making sure the government follows the rules…but yesterday, all 11 of them said no…the idiot boy did it illegally and they won’t go…first, he can’t fire people who were confirmed by the senate for no reason and if he is going to terminate someone, there has to be 30 days notice before he can do it…and he can’t do it with a mass e-mail that gives a flimsy “changing priorities” as the reason…there has to be a cause for the termination such as malfeasance in office and each position has to have evidence for it before anything can be done….so again, the asshole in chief breaks the law but finally he is getting pushback…everyone needs to be part of the resistance to this fascist ass and his corrupt cronies…geez…
January 26th
Well…how the hell can I be running late already at 6:49am? Need to get on the bike in 11 minutes to get the rides in before Man U plays at 10 and I am really tired of being in a hurry all the time…I did sleep okay last night but…okay…I’m going to feel worn out the rest of my life so I’ll stop whining about it now…have the 24 hours of Daytona on right now and I wonder how these guys can keep talking after 17 hours? I won’t be able to get three rides in before 10 so it looks like I’ll be back on the bike this aft…still trying to make the mini goal of getting 700 miles in by the end of the month but that gives me no room to take any time off so I’ll need to grind it out for 5 more days…I do need to cook today and I’m making potato soup later to use up the potatoes that are starting to sprout…couldn’t get any chicken bouillon crystals so I’ll have to use cubes for the soup today and I’m curious how it will come out…I do want to make some fettuccine alfredo this week so I’ll have to remember to get more parmesan cheese tomorrow…it’s going to be a busy day tomorrow with the grocery run and washing the car so I’ll have to get going early…not much to do today…did the kitchen cleaning yesterday so I think I can take it easier today…more later…
Finally, an easy day…
Well…with all of the snow and shoveling all week, it was nice to have an easy day for a change today where all I had to do was clean the kitchen and heat up leftovers…and the 24 hours of Daytona has been on all day on a Canadian channel for background noise to read by…going to have to go to the library Monday to get a few more books since I’ve read all of the new ones I got last fall…finished up a Harlan Coben that I found buried in my bookshelf that only took 3 days…it got up to 35 degrees with a lot of wind today and I can actually see pavement in front of the house…and next week is going to be in the 30′s all week so I should be able to get out to do the things I need to do…will probably do the grocery run Monday since I need to pick up another bottle of the toenail medication I have to use for a year…still have 10 more refills to use….will probably wash my car Monday, too, since the car wash is right over by Aldis and I have to stop there for more veggies…have to check to see if I have enough quarters…okay, going to look for another book to start…
A drunk for secretary of defense?
Well…the repubs keep finding lower and lower dregs to put in important offices under the idiot trump and just yesterday, they approved a taking head from fox news as the new defense secretary…someone who has no knowledge of how the department of defense works at all and the only organizations he has run have been run into the ground…oh, and did I mention he is a white supremacist, a christian nationalist, a fascist and a drunk? Yeah many, many run ins with the law for being drunk in public…and he has promised to stop drinking in the job…yeah, that’s going to happen…so now when there is a crisis int he world, the defense department will be run by a completely unreliable drunk that they will have to find in whatever bar he is in…and whatever woman he is harassing…oh, didn’t I mention that he does that to basically every woman he meets, too…I can’t wait for the wheels to come off and then it needs to be hung around the necks of every repub senator who voted for Hegseth…geez…
January 25th
Well…got the text I was dreading yesterday from T that her mom died and I feel so bad for her…she had been her primary caregiver for 5 years as she was slowly dying from dementia and I really hope she can now find some peace and take care of herself…a sad day…I had an okay day yesterday but last night I was up and down and crawled out of bed at 3:30 and then tried to go back to sleep around 4 or so and then out of bed at 6:26 or so and I am worn out…so the bike rides are going to be a huge chore…and I’m going to need more coffee made after the first ride…I wonder if I’ll do three rides today? Not sure yet…but it’s already 7 and I haven’t even gotten through the first cup of coffee…the racing season starts today with the 24 hours of Daytona starting this aft and it looks like the whole thing will be shown on a channel from Canada so I’ll have background noise for the whole day…the weather is going to cooperate for the next few days and we are not getting any snow and temps near 40 for three days…we’re near the end of January and only a month left of winter but Feb is the month that I grit my teeth and just survive…going to make some potato soup tomorrow but pasta and leftovers today…and I have to pick up a prescription for my toes Monday…not much to do today…I do need to clean the kitchen and microwave today but I’m not motivated at all right now…need to get on the bike by 7:15 so that gives me 10 minutes to pour coffee down and get moving…more later….