Well…with the nice sunshine today, I have been watching the back yard to see if the plot I was going to use got enough sun all day and it doesn’t…so, it looks like I’m going to have to put it in the back of the yard since that is in sun from about 10 o’clock until now as I write this at 5…and it will probably be in light until 8 or so and that is plenty to support the veggies I have planned…and I just noticed a little area right next to the garage that could support something…maybe some cukes or something…or maybe I’ll put my beans there and put the cukes in the big garden…I may run it almost all the way across the back of the yard but there is some garage shadow there right now that I hope will go away when the sun gets higher in the sky….I did get the summer wheels back on the car today getting ready to buy the new tires next week if Discount is still going to be open….car shops are supposed to be “essential” so I think they will be…and it’s not a bad price at 200 bucks out the door…will probably not need another set of tires before I die…and that is something that has been creeping into my thoughts lately…but, not a lot…after all, I did get a hard 20 mile ride in today but there are idiots on the trails still with groups of people out again…I’m pretty sure the three women with 8 kids don’t all live in the same house…but, I’m not going to dwell on that…I was out in a t-shirt and shorts today and that will be the dress for tomorrow, too…might just do a double and get 25 miles in tomorrow…
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Where did the idea of “backup” come from…
Well…listening to the whiner in chief talk the past few days and his assertion that the federal government is only “backup” for the states, it made me wonder where that whole idea came from. In my lifetime it has always been the feds who have taken the lead in disaster relief…until idiot boy, that is…I wonder if “backup” is just trump’s shorthand for “I’m just too lazy or stupid to do anything” so don’t expect anything from me or anyone around me…now I’m going to play golf. And the latest whine from the laziest *president in history is that hospitals are “asking for too much” as if the money for the PPE and other equipment they need is coming out of his own pocket….and the lack of federal response boils down to only one thing…trump just doesn’t want to work that hard and even telling other people to do something is too much work for him…so he just won’t do it…and that is killing people all over the country and your friends and family, and me could be next….
April 2nd
Well…running a bit late this morning with not getting up until after 6…but, that was expected after getting only 3 hours or so yesterday…and I feel crappy and warm again today and I just can’t figure that out….and I forgot to turn the coffee maker on last night and I never do that…hmmm…so my day is not getting off to the best start but it doesn’t need to…don’t have anything to do today so I am going to just let it happen without any schedule or urgency…it’s not like any day has urgency….anymore…there was some good news that came out yesterday that trump and his asshole cronies bowed to pressure from everyone and are going to issue the 1200 buck stimulus payments to SS recipients who don’t file taxes without having to file fake tax returns…the system already exists to do that and I couldn’t figure out why they couldn’t just use it to add additional money to our accounts…but with the incompetents running this country, they always figure out how to screw things up…just like the coronavirus response that Rachel eviscerated on her show last night…I haven’t been watching her lately since I know how bad trump is at everything and I don’t want to be more depressed with the prospect of a million people dying because of him….not much to do today…I am going to cook the big ham I got yesterday and try to get two rides in but that is about it…feel pretty crappy right now and just want to have more coffee…I should run out to HF but I think that will wait til tomorrow…or next week…no urgency there, either….more later…
Hey Michiganders….
Well…hey Michiganders…I know we’re all sitting around with plenty of time on our hands and I have a suggestion how to use some of it…with the new, voter passed law from last year, everyone has the ability to request a permanent absentee ballot so, if there are still coronavirus problems in November, or if you’re busy, or for any other reason, you can have a ballot sent to your home so you can fill it out at your leisure…and that means that the repubs can’t shut down your polling place, or move them or change ID requirements to keep our side from voting here in Michigan…I did it when I moved into GR and changed my address and the county clerks, or city clerks will send you the forms necessary to do it…so, let’s do this one little change that will keep the repubs from stealing any more elections here in Michigan…I know you’ll feel better for it…vote!
I’m beat…
Well…I’m pretty sure that getting 3 1/2 hours of sleep is not a good thing…I am so damn beat right now that it’s tough to just sit here and do this…but the weird thing is that I tried to take a nap and got about 15 minutes before I woke up and I can tell that any more is just not going to happen….so, I decided to to defrost the upstairs freezer…well…not really defrost it so much as just scraping the frost buildup out of it….and I found that my car ice scraper works perfectly for it and makes short work of it…so that was cool…I did get out for a grocery run this morning and the car started right up after the dead battery Sunday and just running it for 15 minutes or so then….so it was good to drive it a little…it doesn’t like sitting and is not idling right but getting some injector cleaner should help that….I do need to put the summer wheels back on this week so I can order the new tires for it next week after I pay off my Capital One card…and I got everything I needed at the grocery store…really just wanted to get a Cooks ham for 89 cents a pound and got that so I’ll be eating off that thing for a week…and I got my green bean seeds to plant so I think I have everything for the garden….but, I’m so damn tired…not sure if I should try to do more or just give up and veg…probably just veg and start over tomorrow….I do want to get out to HF to get my new little compressor this week and they have micro fiber towels on sale for 4 of them for 69 cents and they are really hand for dusting around here so I need some of those, too…will probably spend 60 bucks or so there but then I shut everything down and no more spending for quite a while….especially since they are going to stiff people who are getting SS and don’t have to file taxes…no 1200 buck stimulus check and it’s trump’s fault since he told the IRS not to pay anyone who is so poor they don’t owe taxes…what a prick…
250,000 dead is now acceptable?
Well…I really think it’s dereliction of duty for the media to allow the idiot trump to start to normalize the death of 250,000 Americans and are not holding him accountable for any of them…even though it was his denial and incompetence that is responsible for most for them. They just can’t allow those goalposts to be picked up and moved a hundred miles down the road after idiot boy said at the start that “it’s just one guy coming in from China and it will be over quickly” and downplayed that there was any threat at all when an early response like we have here in Michigan would have at least lessened the outbreak…and the bungling of a testing program that would have basically tested everyone in an area with an outbreak would have allowed us to recognize people who were infected but not showing symptoms yet and isolate them would have stopped the spread…just like South Korea did. The only thing I have to scream at the top of my lungs to the media is “do your damn jobs” stop following the shiny new thing that idiot boy puts out there every day…stop going to his daily campaign rallies and reporting on people like the “pillow guy” who have no damn business being at the briefing in the first place…after all, none of this is normal and if you keep trying to normalize trump and his mental illness it will only result in more and more dead….and remember your failings in 2016…when you ignored trump’s obvious unfitness for office and wasted gallons of ink on Hillary’s frickin e-mails…it’s partially your fault that Americans are dying…so do better this time….
April 1st
Well…damn…it was a 4:01 morning today with getting up at 2 for the first time….so that makes it a 3 1/2 hour night and that takes me back to my college days when I had those kinds of nights for 4 years…but, I was in my 20s then and pretty invincible…not the old guy I am now…was a little worried yesterday that I was getting a fever and it was going to progress into something bad…but, I almost stopped coughing and the fever stayed low so I think it will be okay…I do have a bug of some kind but it feels more like a cold than anything else since I’m not sore or tired…and I should be with not sleeping much…it’s a little weird to get up so early to have to wait for 2 hours for the coffee to brew but I don’t want to start too early so I’ll be out by 7….didn’t get much done yesterday and today is probably going to be the same with not sleeping….I know my energy is going to run out really early and will probably only last until the bike ride later this morning…I am going to head out for groceries this morning to try to get a cheap ham at Meijers and a few other things that I need before they start restricting who can get what and there are long lines out the door while they limit the number of people in the store at any one time…with the ham, I don’t have to go out again for 6 weeks or so…I will miss having milk with meals but I guess I’d better get used to it since I am not going to stand in line for hours for food…booze maybe…but not food….more later…
How low can he go?
Well…we all know the the idiot trump is the worst person in the world, and that was before his rant at one of his campaign rallies/briefings the other day where he attacked doctors, nurses, and hospitals for using “too many” masks and ventilators…saying bluntly that he thinks they are stealing them since no one could go through a million masks or that any hospital needs more than two ventilators…how stupid/venal can one person get? It’s all part of trump’s mental illness where he thinks that everyone is on the grift like he is and he can’t understand that people are honest and dedicated to protecting their fellow citizens…and since he is full of scams, everyone else is too. Just this one statement would be enough for anyone with any shred of compassion or empathy to resign in shame…and the rest of the repub party should be pushing him to do it…but the cult of trump won’t allow that…anything is fine if it keeps them approving unqualified, right wing judges that are going to trash this country for a generation…they are all in on the grift…and all need to go…
It’s getting dire…
Well…things are getting pretty dire around here when I’m three weeks past the time to get a haircut and all of the places I use are closed to stop the virus spread…so, I decided to do my own hair this morning using my beard trimmer since it was annoying the hell out of me…just finished it and it doesn’t look too bad…it’s the same way I have it cut when I go out for a haircut…a number 3 clipper over the whole thing with a number 2 on top….I think if my clippers weren’t 20 years old it would have looked a little smoother and I have to figure out how to trim over the ears and around the back but I have lots of time on my hands so I think I can….after all, it’s just hair and it will grow back…but I just bought myself another month so that’s cool….and I saved 13 bucks….woo hoo…
March 31st
Well…up at 5:24 this morning and that pretty much puts things back to normal after the late morning yesterday…and yep, I have some kind of bug….woke up kind of sweaty this morning and have been coughing up lots of stuff and I don’t think that is all caused by allergies….but, I don’t feel too bad so I will be back on the bike this morning to get the miles in and may even be up to doubles starting thurs with a little warmer temps coming in…I am almost to 700 miles for the year and that puts me ahead of where I was last year at this time…but getting to 5K is still pretty daunting….haven’t been too motivated lately and I’m not sure why that would be….I know I haven’t been feeling too hot but that’s normally not the problem….maybe it’s that there is so much to do outside and the weather hasn’t been cooperating…and I know that the abuse my hands are going to get is going to be quite painful when I start chopping out the stumps in the front of the house….I know that all I need to do is just get started and take it piece by piece but I need paint and other supplies that I can’t get right now…not much to do today….I am going to ease into the day until I get on the bike around 10 or so and that will still be in full thermasuit for the next couple of days….I really should clean but I’m still not too motivated…more later….