Well…with the stupid trump tariffs in full force now and we are seeing just what I predicted…jobs are going away from demand cratering across the country…last months job numbers were revised down to only 28,000 added when it was predicted to add 100,000…but the real thing is June’s numbers where it was shown that the economy lost almost 35,000 jobs and economists are predicting losses in the 6 figures and the economy accelerating it’s fall into recession…do you think the idiot is going to do something about it? Ha,ha…he has no frickin clue about the economy and it is all his doing that it’s going in the tank…and it only effects poor people so they won’t life a finger…or they will say the rich needs more tax cuts to create jobs like they do for everything else…remember it’s stupid trump tariffs that are doing the damage…and it’s all his fault…geez…
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July 3rd
Well…I am so damn tired this morning and I need to get on the bike in 16 minutes but I sure don’t want to…need to schedule the liver ultrasound today on mychart and I really think it is going to be something serious like liver cancer that my mother died from…forgot to put sunscreen on for the 2nd ride yesterday and I got pretty scorched after just a little over an hour in the sun…skipped the beach yesterday since I didn’t have the energy to go out there and I’m not sure about today…it hasn’t been relaxing going out there lately and it should be…not sure what I’m going to eat today but I really don’t care either…hey, can you tell I’m depressed? Living in this 72 year body is getting to be too much work…all I want to do is lie on the couch and read all day but you know I won’t do that….after all, I’ve been on the bike for 630 days straight and that is going to end next May when I do the trip to Italy with my daughter…was shooting for 1,000 days in a row but does that matter? Not to anyone but me…not much to do today…need to assemble the potato salad this morning but I really don’t feel like eating at all…okay, this is depressing…so I’m going to stop and have one more cup of coffee and get on the bike….more later…
A tiring day…
Well…damn, I am getting so tired of this body giving up on me…got a call about the blood work I had done yesterday and I have elevated billirubin levels and they want me to go in next week for a liver ultrasound…I am so damn tired of doctors appointments that I may just say no and just live out what little life I have left…if I have to give up the few cocktails I have every week, I’m going to scream…it could be caused by a lot of things like dehydration or gallstones and I know I have both of those…but it still sucks because it they find something, there will be more doctor appointments and more medicine, and more pain in the ass…and I don’t like that one bit…crap…
This is even worse…
Well…we know that food stamps and Medicaid are being slashed to give the rich tax cuts in the new repub tax giveaway bill…but there is another part of that foul smelling bill that is even worse…the bill includes a tripling of funding for ICE/gestapo and trump’s brownshirts…yep, he is getting to get his own private army…is that not fascist enough for you? I’m tire of hearing people on the right bleat about that thye shouldn’t be called fascists but damn, when they are doing exactly what the nazi’s did shouldn’t you call it what it is? So now you can expect more shredding of the constitution that ICE does every day…I mean disappearing American citizens and locking up tourists without any way for them to avail themselves of the constitutional rights that anyone in this country is covered by? That is how these brownshirts operate and the SC is just fine with that…god I hate repubs…geez…
July 2nd
Well…no one should be up at 4:36…it’s just wrong and it is going to set me up for a low energy day that I’m feeling right now…slept okay but this damn humidity is going to kill me…there just is no relief at all and it’s wearing me out…need to get on the bike in less than 15 minutes and I don’t know if I can do it…the coffee hasn’t had time to work and every damn keystroke is too much effort…had an okay day yesterday but did way too much work and don’t want to repeat that today…but I do need to hit the library after the grocery run and a stop at Menards and I think I’m going to do a DD stop just for the heck of it…the results of the latest blood draw are on mychart but I think I’m going to follow my daughter’s advice and not look at it until my doctor calls me…it’s going to be hot and humid for the next week and I’m going to shift into survival mode to get through it…not much to do today…and that is a lie since I am going to be running all morning and I may hit the beach again…but the couch has a gravitational pull right now that is going to be hard to resist…need to get going…more later…
A nice surprise…
Well…got a call from my doctor’s office today and what they removed from my forehead was NOT a melanoma…how it got from melanoma on mychart to the good news of no cancer I don’t know…and the kicker was no more treatment needed…so that was a nice surprise and makes me feel better about my health that I haven’t had two kinds of cancer in two years…yay! It was kind of a busy day with getting out on the bike for two rides before I could break the fast I was on for the blood draw…my legs gave up on the 2nd ride and I know it was from no food for 14 hours and I’ve been struggling to make up for that the rest of the day…had another good phlebotomist at the lab and she hit it with one poke, no bruising, so no big deal..okay, a little bruise bit it’s the size of a rice grain and I’ll take that anytime…when I got back from the lab, I vacuumed and washed the car and I used the car wash I bought and the new mitt…used way too much soap and I’ll fix that next time…and then I went out to the beach for a swim, getting back here about 12:45 then I did the laundry and cooked the ingredients for another batch of potato salad…after that, all I did was read and I’m going back to that right now..
The numbers are clear…
Well…there are starting to be lots of numbers coming out about the new theft of the country by the rich bill and one of them is too damn clear and exactly shows that the rich are getting all the cash and the rest of us are paying for it…the bill includes a 1.1 trillion dollar tax cut for the rich,,,and guess what the cuts to benefit programs added up to? Yep, you guessed it, 1.1 trillion dollars and that is 300 billion out of SNAP and 800 billion out of Medicaid and the ACA…and that is going to throw 20 million Americans off their health insurance…I guess the repubs think sacrificing 20 million Americans is just peachy if they give them the money and then the rich give it back to them so they will pass more tax cuts for them…this is just the sickest bullshit I’ve ever seen in this country…and we really do need to make them pay for it…come on dems…get off your asses and scream this from the rooftops…trillions for the rich, trillions less for everyone else…geez…
July 1st
Well…another month starts and more health bullshit with needing to go out and have blood drawn after the rides this morning…I think they are looking for vitamin deficiencies and it’s possible I have some with how I eat…last ate at 5pm yesterday so I’ll hit the 12 hours of fasting needed for these tests…feel a lot better than I did yesterday and the black and blue left big toe doesn’t really hurt anymore…still can’t figure out what I stubbed it on and I can’t remember a worse one since I moved out here…have a lot to get done today with going straight into cleaning the car to get the sand out of the interior and then washing it since it is really dusty out here when it never rains…and it’s not supposed to rain til Sunday…I am not looking forward to the 4th of July and and the war zone that this place turns into…and I still can’t figure out how people in these run down houses can afford the thousands of dollars they spend on fireworks every year…think I’ll be heading to the library tomorrow since I’m on the last book that I should have finished today…going to try to get to the beach after I clean the car up but I do need to load up on food for lunch so avoid feeling like I did yesterday…and it will be 17 hours of not eating anything…have a half hour before I get on the bike at 6:30 so I think I’ll pour another cup of coffee and get a post out on Mastodon…more later…
A no energy day…
Well…damn today was probably one of the lowest energy days I’ve had in quite a while…only did two rides an then some yard work and I was so exhausted that I even skipped the weight work today…and you know it’s probably from not eating enough but I can fix that since I’m having blood drawn tomorrow for them to check to see if I have any vitamin deficiencies and need to fast for 12 hours before I get that done…so no cocktails tonight, either but I can use a night off…ha, I’m laughing again when the forecast says rain later tonight and that’s not going to happen and there is none in the forecast until Sunday so I guess I can wash the car tomorrow and maybe go to the beach since I skipped that today, too…I am getting tired of the heat and humidity out here but it looks like we’ll be in it for most of July and then we have wonderful August that will be even worse…oh, well…tv time…
Medicaid is gone…
Well…with the imminent passage of the give away bill for the rich, it appears that Medicaid is going away…they are going to cut a trillion dollars of funding from the program and make it so hard to qualify that most people that depend on the program to stay alive won’t be eligible…so that means that 20 million people are going to lose their health insurance just to give the rich more tax cuts…and there is something wrong with that…so thousands of people are going to die just so the rich can have a new jet or a 5th house…and a lot of them even voted for the idiot trump and I’m having a hard time feeling any sympathy for them…they voted for idiot boy thinking that he would hurt people they hate…like immigrants and brown and black people and they didn’t believe what we told them…that the cuts to government would come back to bite them in the ass and now it’s happening as the rich steal even more of the country…I wonder if the only way to get it through their thick skulls is to let them die? I know that’s a particularly cruel way to think but they brought on themselves…geez…