Well…after I got the three rides in and had some lunch, I suited up to go out and shovel the alley but when I got out there I found that someone had made a pass down it with a plow truck so I only had to clean out the entry and that only took about 5 minutes…and when I was clearing the inch or so of snow that fell overnight, I looked up and saw that the end of my sidewalk was plugged up and that meant they had plowed the streets again and now they look pretty good and I’ll have no problem getting out of here Monday to get groceries that I need to make some alfredo sauce…ran out of mozzarella and I need a cup of it to go in the sauce…and I need more carrots, celery, and cauliflower…it actually was a pretty nice day out here today and I’m glad we didn’t get any more snow…32 inches since Tuesday night is enough…looks like we’ll melt some of it starting tomorrow so that will be cool…it looks like T’s mom is not going to make it out of the hospital and I feel good and bad for her…I mean taking care of her has been a full time job for over 5 years as she declined from dementia and it has aged her terribly…so I’ll dread that text coming in the next few days….darn….
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Idiot boy’s decline…
Well…if you needed any more evidence that the idiot trump is quickly declining mentally, you just have to read the bullshit he spewed addressing the rich folks party in Davos where they sit around an plot how to steal more money from everyone else…it was an unhinged rant that he lied all the way through…and he didn’t even go there since it was just too much work for him as he enforces his racist policies on undocumented immigrants here….and the reaction to it from Davos was a stunned silence from the ballroom where they were watching it…they sure as hell didn’t applaud his lying on tariffs as he trotted out the big lie that other countries will pay for them and we’ll all get rich from them…so, let me say this again for the frickin umpteenth time…other countries don’t pay the tariffs…people buying things do since the cost of tariffs are passed on to the consumers and that will mean that the hundreds of billions of dollars the idiot is talking about will just be a trump tax on everything imported that you and I will pay…and when other countries retaliate, which they will do, inflation is going to roar back to life…and hurt the morons who voted for this asshole the most…geez…
January 24th
Well…I am damn tired of having to get going every morning when I just want to sit here and do nothing…I do hurt some from all the shoveling yesterday and I’ll be out there doing that again today with the 4 inches we got overnight…and that makes almost 30 inches in the past two days…and I still haven’t done the alley yet so that will be the work for the day today…so that means I’ll be able to get out of here Monday to do a grocery run but that will be the only thing I have to do until the 3rd….I do need to figure out the second meal for the day today and I’m leaning toward pasta since I’ve had garlic bread in the freezer for a month and that would be a nice change…and I have two pork chops in the freezer that would make a good meal…haven’t had any meat in quite a while other than chicken and it would be good with roast potatoes and some veggies…damn, it’s almost 7am and I need to get on the bike to get the day started right now…this is looking like a normal Michigan winter with the cold and huge amounts of snow and I’m not sure how I feel about that…nothing I can do about it but survive and I do feel good that this 71 year old body is holding up to it…more later….
People are going to die…
Well…with the idiot trump’s hatred of fact based science, he just shut down the NIH or National Institute of Health and that will end any medical research in this country and around the world…and I told you maga voters that this crap is going to kill people…no more new drugs, no more new medical breakthroughs at all because the NIH is the largest funder of studies in the world and now the US will become a backwater of the world in science on new vaccines and disease treatment and the brain drain to other countries is make us permanently behind…pharmacuetical companies will cease to be able to bring any new drugs to market since the NIH is essential to approving the drugs and now there is no entity that will follow the law that says they need approval…and that can’t be rescinded with a stupid executive order…and we know the reason this is happening and that is the NIH pissed idiot boy off by continuing to function during the start of the covid pandemic and made him look as stupid as he is…petty bullshit that really is going to kill hundreds of thousands more than he did during covid…and he’s just getting started…geez…
Hit the wall shoveling…
Well…damn, we got another foot of snow overnight and, with the wind blowing like crazy, the drifts were even higher and bigger than yesterday…so much snow that I hit the wall before I finished the driveway…started to shake and couldn’t lift any more so I dropped the shovel where I was and came in for some lunch since I didn’t eat much yesterday and I needed the fuel…feel good now and went back out and finished up the driveway and digging out the snow thrown onto the sidewalks by the plow…and yes, they did plow the street here today and I’m pretty damn surprised…so I decided to wait to work on the alley with fingers crossed that they will get out here and plow it…and I just checked on mychart and my next dr appointment is not until the third of Feb when I thought it was Monday…so, no stress at all since I have enough food for a good week…Man U plays this aft in the Europa League so I need to find a political topic and get that done….
January 23rd
Well…we got another foot of snow overnight and it’s still snowing right now and I am sore from shoveling…we’re still under a winter storm warning until 10am and there are bands of lake effect that will be coming through for a few more inches…and that will make two feet of snow in the past two days and I don’t think I’ve seen this much snow since the 1978 blizzard that shut down the whole state…I may only do two rides on the bike today but we’ll see after I get moving…I will need to make some bean coffee since I only have two cups or so in the coffee maker…have been sleeping okay lately but I don’t feel like it right now…all the stress from shoveling and not being able to get out of here is wearing on me and I’ll need to do the alley today…at least it’s a little warmer and I’ve been able to get through the shoveling without freezing by heating my gloves and boots before I put them on…I am glad I shoveled yesterday or I’d be out there for three hours today…going to need to cook something tomorrow and I think it will be potato soup to go along with the ham that I thawed…I do have ingredients for Masala and just need to thaw the chicken…and I can do pasta…maybe some fettucini alfredo? Not much to do today…just need to get going before 7am so I can do three rides before 11, then lunch and out to do the snow…more later…
Way too damn much snow…
Well…I finally got out to do the first pass at the snow around 2 this afternoon and it took me an hour just to do the walks and in front of my garage door…had knee high drifts all the way to the garage, on the east side of the house, and along the front of both lots…and we are forecast to get a foot more before it’s over at 10am Thursday…needless to say, I won’t be going anywhere for a week or so and that means cancelling a dentist and doctor appointment that are scheduled for Friday and Monday…oh, well…this is by far the most snow we’ve had out here in the four years I’ve lived here and I really hope it stops soon…it’s wearing me out…I wonder how many calories an hour of hard shoveling burns? Okay, just looked it up and it says 600 calories…so that’s cool…
Dragging grandmothers out of churches…
Well…it appears that the orange idiot is keeping one of his campaign promises to deport 12 million people…and he sent his ICE thugs in churches, schools, and hospitals to do it…and yes, that means he sent those thugs in to check everyone’s papers even though it’s unconstitutional to do so…there is no law that says you have to have ID on you and the courts have specifically said you don’t…so now you can guess what is going to happen…US citizens are going to get locked up with no due process since that’s how they treat undocumented immigrants…the first photos from these raids show exactly that they did drag one grandmother out of a church and another one was being treated at a hospital when the ICE agents dragged her right out of the emergency room…this is what you voted for trump voters…and you’d better have ID on you at all times or you’ll be in the idiot trump’s gulags, too…I sure hope it happens to all of you morons…geez…
January 22nd
Well…up and down all night and out of bed at 5:37 anticipating the winter storm and 8-12 inches of snow today…I know I’ve lived in Michigan my whole life and snow is part of it but I just need a break…at least it’s all the way up to 12 degrees instead of single digits right now…my friend T spent the night in her mom’s hospital room anticipating the end after 5 years of dementia care and I feel for her…it’s worn her out and I hope she can find some peace soon…so my whining about snow seems pretty small to me and I find I’m doing that a lot lately….hmmm…I did have leftover whole bean coffee this morning and it’s nice to have to start the day…but I’ll be changing over to drip for the next cup….think I’m going to grind beans for the next pot of drip on Friday….need to do some meal planning today to figure out what ingredients I have and what they will make…pasta and garlic bread and some more masala along with the container of ham soup I took out of the freezer last night….not much to do today…have to get on the bike in 35 minutes to get three rides in but I’m really not feeling it right now…but I need to get off my butt and get moving…it was so cold in the basement yesterday that I had to wear gloves to ride indoors and that sucks…just worn out from the extreme weather…damn, I’m feeling old today…more later…
Shoveling the alley…
Well…after shoveling all the walks, my hands had moved through cold to pain so I left the driveway until I got in here and warmed up a bit…after all, it was only 3 out there still with some wind…while I was doing that shoveling, I lit up all three burners on the grill in the garage and in the half hour the shoveling took, it got up to almost 40 degrees in there so now I know that I can heat up the car to get out for the grocery run tomorrow if I want…still will connect the battery box to give the car battery some help but it should start…and it just did and made a run out to Meijers since the winter weather advisory has been upgraded to a winter storm warning for tomorrow…8-12 inches of snow and winds of 40 plus…and that means the roads here will be impassible…they are barely passable right now and I’ll never be able to get out of here til next week at the earliest….crap…I am tired of shoveling the damn alley and everything else…and just as I had the alley almost done, a plow truck came and did the rest of the alley so my timing sucked..oh, well…time to hunker down…