Well…just got a call from my dentist cancelling my appointment for tomorrow with the hygenist out sick…so I really don’t have to go anywhere for a few days and that may be a good idea with the snow still coming down out here…I did go out and shovel the end of the alley this morning to ensure I could get out but since then it’s snowed another 4-5 inches that I will have to shovel before attempting to go out to the library tomorrow…and I need to hit depot to get some trim pieces I need to continue working on the door frame downstairs…and I just used my sander with the new vacuum attached to it and not a bit of dust got out…so I guess I can start on the trim in the dining room since that was the thing keeping me from getting started…just hate dust all over everything…I did pull the door stop molding off the frame today since I’m not going to hang a door on the frame again and I started filling all of the holes and cutouts to try to smooth it some before I paint it white…it only got to 11 degrees today and it will be in single digits tonight and tomorrow…brrr…oh, well…need to read some more but I finished all the books…darn…hope I can get out for more tomorrow…
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The EU going it alone…
Well…with the putin toady trump in the WH and with idiot boy’s support of forcing some sort of a settlement in Russia’s favor that goes against the rest of the world including having “talks” about Ukraine with only Saudi Arabia and Russia invited, the EU has given up on the US as a steady partner for peace across the world and is going to go it alone an do as I suggested…just ignore the idiot and get on with it…and that even included the UK who just yesterday said they will send troops to help in Ukraine and are vehemently opposed to any settlement that doesn’t include the return of all land that the Russians took including Crimea…after all, you don’t make deals with dictators and invaders since that only rewards bad behavior…so, again, our standing in the world is diminished again with the dumbest person in the world in charge and we’ll have to do the repair work when the next dem president is elected…as always…geez…
February 17th
Well…damn, getting up and getting moving is getting to be a long process these days that takes about an hour….and it’s a lot of work…okay, drinking coffee and doing these is not a lot of work but it is work that helps my brain get started…so, more coffee….slept okay last night but was up at 4, as always, and that is getting wearing…I actually got some work done on the house yesterday with patching the door frame of the bike room and getting it stabilized and attached to the studs with nails instead of duct tape…I wonder if the previous owners knew how to use a hammer? I guess they didn’t with the 20 bent over nails I removed from the trim when I fixed it….it did snow overnight so I’ll be back out shoveling after the rides and it does look like I’ll be out shoveling the alley since I have a dentist appointment at 8:30 tomorrow morning and I’m going to do the grocery run after it so I don’t have to go out again this week…lots of dollar stuff at Meijers this week so I can refill my staples…so I need to do some meal planning today along with reading so I can go to the library and get more books…it’s only 14 degrees out here with the low in single digits the next two days but there is a warm up coming next weekend…and the high today is 15 and I am so damn tired of the cold….more later…
Couldn’t do it…
Well…when I got up this morning, I fully intended to just do two rides and take an easy day today but I just couldn’t do it….I had the first two done before 10am and still had enough time to get another one in before Man U lost so I did…and I even took time to continue the work of the frame for the bike room door…I can’t believe how half assed the work on this house is…I mean, really…holding the trim together with duct tape that they then painted over…and the trim on the left side of the door was even at the top and off plumb by 2 inches at the bottom and they used 3 different kinds of nails along with some screws to hold that piece on…and the frame is not even attached to the studs at all…just to wallboard and the top piece is held on with screws that just go into the wallboard, too…and there is a big hole in the inner piece of the frame where it looks like they ran out of wood and then just covered the hole with the duct tape…oh, well…will need to take some time to fix it all this week….
Abandoning Americans…
Well…with the closing down of USAID by the idiot trump and his minions, the US has basically abandoned the Americans that work for that organization overseas…and some of them and their families live in unstable areas that USAID protected them from…but musk didn’t even care that there was a system in place that was sort of like a 911 for these workers if they needed to get out of an unstable area quickly and safely…but elon didn’t give a shit and just shut off all of the systems that went with USAID…so now some of these people are suing elon and the idiot trump for allowing that to happen…for petting them in danger and voiding the contracts that set out the obligations of the government…so, the next time you hear that the repubs care about regular Americans, just think of the thousands of Americans who have been abandoned overseas…and the deaths that are going to happen from it…geez…
February 16th
Well…the huge snow we’re supposed to get hasn’t gotten here yet but the alert is on until 7pm so we will probably still get 6 inches or so…ick…it’s looking like I’ll probably have to cancel my dentist appointment for Tuesday morning since they haven’t plowed up here all week and I won’t be able to get out…and I am so tired of the stress from it…slept okay last night but I am so damn tired that I may just do two rides today and then work on the door frame downstairs…I started the latest Harlan Coben book yesterday afternoon and will finish it this aft…and that leaves another one for tomorrow…he sure can write…damn, it 6:45 and I need to get on the bike by 7 so I can watch Man U play at 11:30 but with only two rides, that will be easy…it’s going to be cold the next two days with highs below 20 and lows in the single digits but then a little warm up and I can use that…my gas bill was 131 bucks this month and that is the highest one I’ve had since I bought my house…and I’m even 14% under the average for a house the size of mine…not much to do today…and for once, I may hold myself to that…I am going to miss the race today since the idiot trump is going to be there and I will not look at that asshole’s face….more later…
Just a Saturday…
Well…just found out that the idiot trump is going to be at Daytona for the race tomorrow so I won’t be watching it…I refuse to have his ugly mug pushed into my face…the rest of the day today was okay…didn’t have to cook and won’t have to until Monday when I’ll make the stir fry chicken that I just took the chicken out of the freezer for….the chicken burritos will last two more days and maybe three so the Masala won’t be made until Tuesday…that chicken will have to come out tomorrow…I did get the rides in and then out to do the 4 inches of snow that fell overnight and it looks like another 5-10 inches tonight and through the day tomorrow…I really am thinking about getting an electric snow thrower next year even though shoveling is still pretty easy…okay, just looked on amazon and I can get one for about 250 bucks so I can swing that…and they are pretty light so I can hang it on the wall in the garage…I’ll start looking later in the summer…have been looking at a stupid repair on the door frame of the bike room and today it just got to me so I tore off the duct tape they painted and cleaned it all up and have wood to do it right so I’ll work on that tomorrow…oh, and I gave myself a hair cut and trimmed my beard so I look human again…okay, back to the race and reading…
We told them…
Well…Kos over a daily Kos has a series that he does about trump voters who, by their voting for him, have ended up hurting themselves…and he started today with the story of a Mississippi county who voted 82% for the idiot and has a poverty rate that is twice that of the average across the US…and whose residents also double the national average of being on Medicaid and using food banks to be able to stay alive…okay, you know where this is going…the repubs in congress are going to end Medicaid as they have financial assistance for the food banks there…so now many of these voters are going to have to figure out how to get medical care and food…but what about inflation and the price of eggs? Yeah, I’ve used that before but the gross stupidity of these voters is just breathtaking…and they have saddled all of us with this orange lunatic just because of their hatred of everyone who isn’t white, straight, or religious…this is the payment for that hate…I really do hope they starve…cruel, I know but I don’t care…and I don’t want to hear one frickin trump voter whine about it…geez…
February 15th
Well…only two weeks til we get to March and the first sniff of spring and it can’t come to soon for me…we have single digit highs coming for the first part of the week next week and I really have had enough of them…up at 4:16 this morning but was able to get back to sleep til almost 6 so I guess that’s okay…man, I would love to just sit here and have coffee all morning but that’s not going to happen…it’s 6:29 and I need to get on the bike by 7 or my whole day will be off…I did notice a funny thing in the tv show “Continuum” that I have been watching on the bike…the hotel the main character is staying in has the exact same heat registers that I have in this house…and they have just as much paint on them as I have here…weird…didn’t get anything done yesterday but cook the chicken for chicken burritos and today looks the same…have three more days of leftovers but I will have to do some meal planning for early next week and it looks like Masala and some chicken stir fry…have way too much chicken in the freezer and need to start emptying it…not much to do today…just need to get moving and that is harder than it looks…maybe getting on the bike will help? More later….
Cuts, cuts, cuts…
Well…gee, the repubs just passed huge cuts to Medicaid and food stamps to fund the tax cuts for the rich they are drooling over…and when you look at the demographics of the people who depend on these programs, many more of them live in red states than blue and almost all of them voted for the idiot trump…but hey, what about egg prices and inflation, two things that were at the top for people who voted for idiot boy…so now all of these people who depend on Medicaid are going to be on the hook for thousands of healthcare costs that were covered by the program…I wonder how many eggs that would be? You know, if a politician lied to me as much as trump has lied to these people, I would be a little pissed and probably wouldn’t vote for them a second time as these morons did…but, as I’ve said before, maga folks are pretty damn stupid and blinded by their racism so in their eyes losing their healthcare is a cheap price to pay to keep the hate going…geez…