Well…the stupid trumpites are still running around saying the economy is “coming back” with a roar any day now…just wait for it…okay, and wait for it….and wait for it. The numbers that came out today tell the real story and it’s the most ugly numbers in the history of economic reporting….in one quarter, the economy contracted over 9.5% and projected on a yearly basis which is the normal reporting, that means we are on the way to a contraction of 1/3 of the economy…yep, almost 35% of the economic activity is gone and there is only one reason why…the idiot trump’s and the repubs handling of the coronavirus pandemic…or I should say their NOT handling of the outbreak…what did trump’s voters think would happen if you put a stupid, lazy asshole in charge of keeping the economy and the American people safe? And this goes for Mnuchin, McConnell and the rest of those morons who are now spouting that they can’t approve any more extra unemployment benefits since all it does is keep people from going back to work…hey, assholes….there are 25 million people out of work and there are only 5 million jobs listed out there…and another 1.5 million people just filed for unemployment as the bungling of the virus response hits the red states right in their smug asshole faces….what jobs are they supposed to go back to? These are the worst economic numbers ever recorded and the repub morons diddle on the sidelines arguing where the deck chairs should go on the Titanic they created…while people lose their homes and apartments and over 150,000 Americans have now died from their callousness and stupidity. There could be 20 million homeless if McConnell and his repub cronies do nothing and they are doing nothing…they’ve had two months to address this crisis and haven’t done a damn thing….so let’s remember that in November and get rid of every damn one of them…cripes…
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July 30th
Well…cripes, it seems like my waking time is slowly moving back toward bed time with this morning being at 3:18 instead of the normal 3:40 but I still got out of bed before 6 so I’m not sure there is much of a difference….I did break down and take both some ibuprofen and allergy meds last night and I feel better for it this morning….my head is clear and the normal pains are down about 50% so that is cool….hope it continues all day….the swelling in my foot is down some too, so that is encouraging…had a nice visit with T yesterday and it was nice to see her and laugh a bunch but the whole thing was marred by DTE being here to move the gas meter from the basment to outside the house and they had to replace the steel gas line with a plastic one that they tunneled under the road for…but that still leaves the meter job and I just hate the disruption to my life that this three day process is doing….need to be here for them to be able to get in the basement so that means another day of only one ride…oh, and I just did one ride yesterday since I needed to clean this place up and that may be part of why I don’t hurt as much as normal…I did pick the first two tomatoes from my garden yesterday and I am going to have them for lunch today…they are pretty small so I think I need to feed the plants more…so I’ll do that today….not much to do today….just going to hang around here after the first ride and wait for the guys to finish the meter job so I’ll work on the gardens and the last of the trim on the front of the house….I did get a big box of baking soda to clean the copper trim and I may try some of that today too….more later….
Trump’s campaign is just a grift…
Well…as everything the idiot in chief does, his campaign is just another grift to take money from the rubes and put it in his pockets and the pockets of his “campaign staff”. It was reported over the past week or so that 170 million dollars in donations have been funneled to companies that trump and his kids still run and to his demoted campaign manager, Brad Parscale, who alone has gotten 30 million dollars to launder through his companies…no wonder he has a couple of new Ferraris and condos worth a couple of million bucks….and you can really tell that it is all a grift when Kevin McCarthy, who is in charge of getting repubs elected to the house, is publicly bitching that trump and his campaign are hoarding donations that normally would be shared with house and senate repubs. Don’t you feel bad for them? This is what they get when they protect a grifter who only cares about himself…and I think it’s great that they are stealing all this money…after all, they won’t be spending it to get the asshole in chief re-elected…
July 29th
Well…okay, my allergies are really bad this morning and I know I should have taken something for them last night…but I didn’t and now the decision is whether to take something this morning with only having a few left….maybe after the first ride…slept okay last night but feel as bad as I have in a while and it may be that I need to take a day off the bike to recover….I may have to only do one ride today with doing the grocery run and needing to clean this place up with having a visitor this afternoon…should have done that over the weekend but just couldn’t get moving to do it…I did take an ibuprofen last night since I was so damn sore everywhere and I think that is making a difference this morning…just small aches and pains that I can live with….I did get some work done yesterday and I bought a small sprinkler to use to try to save the front lawn so I don’t have to use my hose end sprayer and blocks so that will make it easier to keep it presentable….I think I’m going to be able to pick 3 tomatoes from my garden today and I even picked an inch long potato that was on the surface and that made me laugh…I planted the potatoes on a lark from sprouted ones in my cupboard and never expected to get anything from it…and there are more little ones just below the surface of the ground and I wonder how long they have to stay in to get big enough to eat? Not much to do today…just need to get going right now to get the bike ride in…okay, after one more cup of coffee that is….it’s not 7 yet so I can sit for a bit….more later….Oh, and I will get to a political one today…I know I’ve been slacking a bit on that lately but there was a reason for it….maybe even two of them if I don’t take the second ride….
The black veil lifts a little…
Well….as I’ve said over the past week or so, I’ve have had another bout with depression that had me essentially shut off from everything but I’m a little happy to say that the veil seems to be lifting some today and I have been able to enjoy the bike rides and have even got some work done on the house…got the tuck pointing finished on the brick on the porch and have worked on watering the lawn a little but I still do need to buy a cheap little sprinkler so I don’t have to use the nozzle on the hose supported by blocks to water it….have been looking for one of those little ones with a turret that has different holes for different shapes but haven’t been able to find one…and that’s weird….oh, and I got a text from my youngest son that his wife is getting close to delivering and they are thinking of inducing labor so it could be any day now…and I am a little excited about that…and he made me laugh when he told me he is growing a “dad” mustache and he thinks he looks like me from when I was younger…I always had a mustache then and I think it’s kind of cool that he thinks of me….that made me smile…
July 28th
Well…another morning of getting up at 3:37 and I’m pretty damn tired…but, my foot doesn’t hurt at all and the swelling is improved too so I’ll take that…it feels weird to be able to walk without pain but everything else hurts but I guess small progress is all I can hope for right now…yeah, I know, I could take something for it but you know how much I avoid that since I do like to have working kidneys….and I know part of the pain is from pulling all of the crab grass out of the back yard and the abuse that it did to my thumb…and I really expected to hurt worse from all of the bending over but I think it helped stretch my hamstrings and that helps on the bike…I did do the full 36 miles yesterday even though I’ve been trying to convince myself to take a day off but the weather didn’t cooperate by giving me an excuse….so that means I’ll need to rig up my sprayer for the front yard today so I don’t lose it to the heat and drought…I think I figured out what was wrong with the receiver on the garage door not having any power…just some corroded wires that I cleaned up and it has been working fine for the past two weeks…but that means the new receiver that I ordered from depot has to be returned and it just got here and I haven’t even picked it up yet…I wonder how that is going to go? Not going to spend 37 bucks for nothing, though…not much to do today…I am going to test out my foot on a ladder out front today to get some grout repair done and start working on the last of the trim around the front porch and maybe even start prepping the gutters on the garage to paint them…the weather is going to be a little cooler so I need to take advantage of it….more later….
Things got a little better today…
Well…it seems that nothing is easy anymore, even ordering checks from my bank. Back in June, I ordered checks for my checking account since I was down to the last booklet and I write a lot more checks since I moved in here….so the whole thing turned into a fiasco with the check company sending the checks to my old address for some reason and they just disappeared…the company said they were sent on the 2nd of July but I had still not seen them this past Friday so I called to find out what had happened and the person I talked to freaked out that I hadn’t gotten them and cancelled all 140 checks…but he couldn’t get the charge for them removed or order me new checks so I had to go over to my branch to get that done this morning. The woman I talked to was quite a bit of help and took care of everything in about 5 minutes and also changed my checking account to a better one since I keep a high balance in it and that gave me free checks so I got my 30 bucks back and didn’t have to pay for the new ones…and getting it straightened out was basically painless other than the drive over there. So, things got a little better today…oh, and I finally remembered to change the address on my car insurance so I’ll get the bill and can pay it on time…and that only took about a minute so that was cool….still haven’t gotten my new tabs yet but the expiration has been extended until Sept 30 so that should give them enough time to get them to me….I’ll probably start working on on them in a month or so just to guarantee that I get them on time…I’ll take the baby steps…
There are still funny things in the world…
Well…okay, have been quite down lately but I can still appreciate that there are still funny things in the world. Just the other day when hurricane Harvey hit Texas one of those funny things happened…you remember that the idiot trump boasted and boasted about his “big beautiful, strongest wall in the world full of high tech that the world had never seen in a wall”….well, that big , beautiful, strongest wall in the world just got blown down by 60 mph winds…it just collapsed like every other piece of crap that trump has ever built…and I find that not only funny but perfectly descriptive of trump…every damn thing he touches turns to crap….if only all he touched was just the wall…but his tiny little stubby fingers are in healthcare, the pandemic, and everything else in this country and the results are all the same…nothing but crap where everyone but the idiot gets hurt…cripes, November 3rd can’t come quick enough…
July 27th
Well…running a little early this morning with getting up at 5:23 and not sleeping worth a damn…and the rain that I was counting on to keep me off the bike fell apart coming across the lake so it looks like I’ll be back at the grind here in a few minutes…but, I don’t want to…don’t really want to do anything today….at least my foot doesn’t hurt so I guess that’s something….and I noticed that I have reached the last hole in my belt when I was going out for the paper yesterday and that means I’ve lost about 2 inches off my waist this summer which normally I would be happy about but who cares? Didn’t get a lot done yesterday but work outside on a few things and I think I’m going to have to water the front lawn today just to keep it alive until the next rain that who knows when is going to come? This damn weather is just wearing me out….I can’t remember a summer where it has been over 90 so much and doesn’t cool off much overnight….everything is so damn sticky all the time with the high humidity and it is almost impossible to get relief from it…and yet I’ll be out on the bike in a minute sweating my butt off because I don’t know what else to do…not much to do today….sweat, sweat, and sweat some more and I’m going to try to work on the outside of the house some to see if my foot will hold up to it…it’s kind of nice to be able to get my shoes on without trouble but I know that will end if I’m out in the heat and on my feet too much….more later…
Another depressing day…
Well…it’s been another depressing day in a depressing week that is turning into a depressing life and I’m sure I don’t like it much…not getting anything accomplished with the damn heat and knowing that if I work in it it’s going to flare my foot again and I’ll be off my feet for another week…but I need to get off my ass and finish this house soon since all of my efforts now need to be focused on finding a house that I feel is going to be impossible with the weird assed housing market right now…prices are exploding and I’m pretty sure I’m priced out of the market…houses that were going for 120K a couple of months ago are now priced over 150K and that’s too rich for me….and the prospect of going back into an apartment at my age is just too ugly to contemplate….so, I’ve got about 5 months to figure something out….and the stress from all of that is always in the back of my head so I can’t really enjoy anything anymore….I’m getting too old for this crap…and my option of just pulling up stakes for somewhere else is gone with two of my kids expecting grandkids and I do want to be part of their lives…so taking what cash is left and moving to Costa Rica is off the table….I don’t even enjoy getting on the bike anymore but I still do it because I’m supposed to and I have a goal that I need to meet…don’t even care about that anymore…can you tell I’m depressed? I can….and my sunflowers are dying and my three important plants out back are dying, too and I’m not sure why that would be…and my tomatoes are dying to the point that I’ll probably get a dozen tomatoes off 20 plants and that is depressing too….should probably just pull them all out so I don’t have to take care of them anymore…have already pulled out 6 of them that weren’t growing any tomatoes on them and chopped down 6 sunflowers that were attacked by that damn squirrel and a couple that were just mutated and weren’t going to blossom….oh, well…I’ll get over it in time…and maybe something will happen that will lift the depression…what that would be, I don’t know but it’s happened every time and just took time….so I wait….