Well…new economic forecasts are coming out and they keep getting worse and worse as they drop….now some of them are looking at unemployment going up to over 6%, inflation will start roaring in the 2nd quarter, and real growth has already gone negative since around the start of March…and these are the supposed “economic geniuses” that the maga idiots saddled us with who have no clue how the government or economy works so don’t expect them to be able to stop the crash that is coming…I’m glad I bought my new car now because I wouldn’t be able to afford one later in the year when the full effects of the tariffs kick in…and because all Miatas are made in Hiroshima, Japan and, as the tariffs raise the prices of new ones, the prices of used ones will go up with them…I am going to harp on this coming economic crash until the dems stand up tot he idiot trump and stop his criminal actions that is destroying this country…geez…
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April 17th
Well…damn, I think I may have found a new car and I am excited about that…but it is in Wisconsin so I’ll have to figure out how the heck to get there….Tom, are you up for a road trip? Ha, and that is funny since Tom gave me a ride to pick up my first Miata…I’ll even pay you a few hundred to do it it you can…it’s weird at times how things work out…I’ve only owned one car with less mileage and that was an 88 Caravan I bought new and had to go to Toledo to pick up…but a Miata with under 50K miles and me putting 9 miles a week on it will certainly last me the rest of my life…maybe I can take the ferry over to Milwaukee and have the owner pick me up? I guess we’ll see…have a lot to do today and need to get going on it in 9 minutes or so to get the first ride in…need to hit the library, Meijers, and one more stop…and I need to finalize the deal on the car so I’m going to be busy for the next few days….but a good busy that will end with me having a new car…more later…
I think I’ve found my dream car…
Well…when I finished up the last book tonight, I had a couple of hours to kill so I thought I’d look for cars and I think I’ve found my dream car…a 2008 Miata that looks just gorgeous and only has 49,000 miles on it…it’s a little pricey at 13 grand but it looks new and can be my last car for sure…it’s an upscale grand touring model that has all the options on it…but still no power top and I can live with that…have already gotten a response from the owner…another old guy like me who has his right rotator cuff blown out and can’t shift…oh, and it’s a 6 speed, too, and I really wanted that…I want this car…it’s a gorgeous dark slate color and only two owners since new…oh, and never driven in salt…,can I be this lucky? Things have worked out for me like getting my house so maybe I can have a two fer and get a new car, too…fingers crossed…
Still cold here…
Well…it really did look pretty warm outside so I suited up and went out into 44 degree temp day with the wind blowing 25-30 with gusts to 35….and with the wind blowing out of the NW, it was brutal going out…down all the way to 20th gear when I’m normally in 23rd going out…but the ride back was a hoot and I got up over 25 on the flat street section of the trail in 24th gear…I’m glad I decided to wear my warmest gloves and my hands were thanking me by not turning white…before I did the outdoor ride, I finally did the top to bottom cleaning the bathroom needed and did laundry…finished up the BAH and put the leftovers in the freezer and won’t cook the next one until the weekend so I need to find other food…probably some fish and fries or I’ll just skip the second meal today….okay, weight work time…oh, I did finish the 4th book so I can go to the library again tomorrow…
Trade is gone and it’s not coming back…
Well…after the months of lies by the idiot trump that hundreds of companies are building factories here because of his stupid tariffs, there is still not one that is even planning to do anything here…they really do hate uncertainty and with idiot boy in charge, that’s all they’ll get…so now, another handful of economists have come out to say that their projections are that the US will not have any growth this year after idiot boy inherited an economy that was humming along at a 3% growth rate…and my dire warnings that the rest of the world is going to go on without the US because of the tariffs and the idiot’s belligerence to the rest of the world are coming true…and Morgan Stanley just projected that these tariffs are going to cost millions of jobs and once the rest of the world re-aligns without us, those jobs are not coming back…and the same thing is happening in the vital area of diplomacy that trump has just thrown away and we have far less influence than we have ever had…and it’s all because the repubs won’t do anything to reign in the idiot…the rest of the world has already stopped taking calls from the US and presto, they found out that they don’t need a US run by incompetents…good job maga…geez..
April 16th
Well…I sure as hell don’t want to be up at 5:21 but that is what happened this morning…and my mouth hurts again but not too bad so I hope the tylenol will work…I really do need to figure out how to stop grinding my teeth or the pain is going to continue forever…damn…I did sleep okay so I guess that’s something…and I have another day of taking it easy where I’ll finish up the last book and hit the library tomorrow…but I need to start weaning myself off of reading so much so I’ll have time to do the rest of the things I need to do…it’s been a good run of 4 books a week for months now but I am running out of authors like I ran out of shows to watch…I guess it’s just something new that I have to deal with but I’m getting tired of having to do that…hell, I’m getting tired of everything…I remember having days where I didn’t do anything but that was so long ago that it is fading from my memory….man, that would be such a luxury and I wonder why I just can’t do that anymore? Oh, well…need to get moving and get on the bike by 7am so that gives me time to have one more cup of coffee….more later….
Seeds are planted…
Well…man, it’s been a long day today but I only rode twice so I feel pretty guilty about that…but I had other things to do…I did get the seeds planted in the buckets downstairs and I have enough of them to plant the garden, too so I am going to give that a try after I get plants up and growing enough where I know they will survive…didn’t drill drain holes in the buckets so I’ll just move them under the little roof over the back door when it’s going to rain a lot…and with only having 4, they will all fit and still leave enough room to walk out the door…it looks like I’ll be able to do two outdoor rides Thursday when it’s going to be over 60 here…I did do the grocery run this morning but didn’t have much to buy…I did get another ham but I’m not going to cook it til the weekend so I can use some fish that I have in the freezer…and just one more meal off the first ham and I’ll be freezing the bone and the rest of the ham to make soup in a couple of weeks…so I probably should take out one more container of soup so I’ll have room for the new batch…okay, tv time…
90 billion down the drain…
Well…with the idiot trumps goons arresting people who are here in the US legally say for tourism as one Canadian woman found out (she was locked up in prison for three weeks)…no one should travel to the US for any reason…and the rest of the world is following Canada by putting travel warnings out about that travel…Canadian bookings for travel here are down by 70%…travel from the EU is down almost 30% and if this keeps up businesses in the US stand to lose over 90 billion dollars…how many people are going to lose their jobs just because idiot boy is a petulant asshole? Oh, and liar…just yesterday the idiot was bleating that Honda is in talks to move manufacturing to the US from Mexico and Canada…the only problem with that is that Honda has no clue what the hell he’s talking about and there are no talks and no plans to move anything to the US since they already have unused capacity in the US…and with the reciprocal tariffs that other countries have put on US made goods, there is no business sense trying to export from the US…what a frickin idiot…geez…
April 15th
Well…up early today at a little after 5:30 and I know that is going to hurt later…and I ground my teeth last night and my whole face hurts from it…need to get moving and do the grocery run today and I’m not sure if I’m going to get another ham or a turkey breast for 1.29 a pound…it’s going to be cold today, only in the 40′s and I am so tired of it…we’re in the middle of April and it should be in the 70′s by now…oh, well…need to go down and get a ride in before I head out but need to decide if I’m going to get one more bucket for the garden this year…this is a brand new way of thinking about the garden and really would like to have some tomatoes this year…need to get the outside faucet turned on but it’s still going to be below freezing for the next week and that will ruin the plastic valve I use to turn it on and off…did I say I hate this frickin cold weather? Yeah, I do…it’s going to be a chore to get moving today and I’m pretty damn tired…going to have to mow the lawn later this week and I’m not ready for that…and I need to hit the lawn with weed killer but that means I really do need to open up the outdoor tap…more later…
Got some work done…
Well…it was kind of a busy day today with getting three rides in to start and then raking the leaves from the fence lines…putting weed killer on the front part of the lawn, and then getting the potting soil downstairs and filling the buckets…and that worked out perfectly with each 5 gallon bucket filled by one bag…that cost me 28 bucks but it is going to be convenient to be able to just plant the seeds and then not have to replant them in the garden…it will be a small garden but if I get some tomatoes, cukes, and peppers I’ll be happy…might even buy one more bucket to do some beans and peas…even if it doesn’t work, I’ll have lots of nice buckets…the first boat showed up in one of the marinas on the route today so it is officially “first boat day” and I saw the first freighter of the year on Muskegon Lake so it was a two fer…and I saw Stupid again standing right on the center line of the street stopping traffic both ways…what a weird assed bird…more reading…