Well…okay, have had really bad allergies for months now but this feels different…I have started to feel warm this afternoon and just weird…still coughing but that has been going on for months so that’s not a new one…I’m not sure if I’m eating enough and that always makes me feel warm the following day…I mean I had two eggs, two pieces of bacon and two slices of toast along with two pieces of pizza yesterday…and I figure that is over 1500 calories and that should be enough…although the day before that I only had half a chicken breast and couple of bowls of soup…and so far today I’ve had half a chicken breast and a handful of fries and that is only about 400 calories so I could be behind for today…and I am trying my hand at baking bread right now I am so bored…so I’ll have a couple of slices of that in a few minutes….all I know is this feels different than normal…like I have a bad cold coming on…do colds still exist? No one is talking about that right now…crap, I don’t need this right now…or ever…I guess I’ll keep you posted if this gets worse….
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The rat bastards…
Well….I think we now have a new worst company in the US and it isn’t even close…as you know, the US government is sending out 1,200 dollar checks to almost all adults in the US and 500 dollar checks to each child to try to limit the damage the coronavirus is doing to the economy…and how long do you think it would take for the rat bastards that run a lot of the companies in the US to figure out a way to suck that cash up from their employees to enrich themselves? Yeah, you guessed it…the checks are not even written yet and I’ve read we have a company called ImageNet Consultants in Oklahoma City ( a red state, go figure) that sells high end printers, copiers and IT services wanting their remaining employees (after laying off most of them) to forfeit part of their April paychecks equal to the amount of money they get from the stimulus checks with the company even wanting half of any dependent checks their employees may get for their children. Now, I’ve seen a lot in my days here on Earth but this is one of the worst…how the hell does the CEO of this company sleep at night? Yeah, probably pretty well and I’ll bet he is a repub to boot…nothing but grifters and cheats there, that’s for sure…if there wasn’t a depression coming, if I were employed there it wouldn’t be for long…oh, and if you’re doing business with these assholes, go somewhere else…let’s make this 100 million dollar company a zero dollar company…and fast….
March 30th
Well…running really late this morning with a miracle happening and not getting out of bed until 7:18….I did wake up at 3:30 but was able to roll over and go back to sleep for the first time in what seems like a year…don’t think that helped in feeling better though, since I still feel worn out and crappy and just can’t get started…I wonder if you can get too much sleep? If this is going be what my allergies are going to be like this spring, I’m going to be miserable and I’m not sure how long I can take it…have felt like crap for months now and it is getting to be a bit much…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday in shorts but it looks like I’ll be back to full thermasuit for a couple of days…but I just looked at the weather and some 60 degree days are coming…it’s about damn time to be able to get out in a t-shirt and get started on the lawn and outside of the house….need to get the hatchet sharpened so I can try to get the stumps out of the front of the house and get ready to plant flowers…not sure if I’ll be able to get flowers this year and I won’t be here next year so maybe I’ll just fill the spaces in with dirt….didn’t get anything done yesterday but I am going to try to do something today…not sure what but something…cleaning? Man, it’s weird to be on my first cup of coffee and it’s after 8….and I think it’s going to put me behind for the whole day…behind for what I don’t know but behind….more later….
Feel pretty crappy today…
Well…cripes…let’s add something else to worry about with the damn virus going around…have felt pretty crappy all day today and when that happens these days, the first thing you think of is that damn virus…but, I’m sure it’s not that but my allergies going into overdrive…some of which is my fault but some of it is that trees have started to bloom along the trail along with weeds and grass….I know a big part of it is the downstairs project that is going quite well but doing that makes my allergies much worse….but, I am nearing the goal that I set when I started the project so I may be able to shut it down when I get through a few more months….it would be so damn nice to not have the stuffed up head, itchy eyes, and coughing that has been with me since I moved in here….and none of those are coronavirus symptoms so I guess I’ll live another day…and I know the soreness I feel is from being an idiot on the bike the past few days…hey, I just noticed something…I think this is going to be the most posts I have done in a month since I have been doing this! I’ll have to go back and check but I’m over 80 and I still have two days to go…maybe 90 for the month? That would be cool…crap, just checked and in February of 2017 I did 105 of these so no new record…but 90 would still be cool…
I think I pissed the sparrows off…
Well….when I was out filling the feeders yesterday, I noticed that there must be 20 pounds of seed under the feeders on the ground where the birds have thrown it while digging through to get their preferred stuff…so today, I decided to not fill the feeders and let them just eat through the stuff on the ground for a change…and those little shits were perched on the empty sill looking in the window with some of them even pecking at it…but, nope…no food for a couple of days until they at least try to eat some of leftovers…I wonder what the hell they ate before I started filling the feeders in November? They sure weren’t dying from hunger there are so many of them….and not one of them has said thanks…that’s the least they could do….
trump is just what we used to call “an asshole”
Well…you know, I’m so tired of the asshole in chief and am getting brain rot from even hearing of his assholery so I am going to do this one and then take a couple of days off to look at the birds and try to fix my allergies without medicine thanks to all the meth makers out there….as I said a couple of days ago the deciding factor on whether your friends and neighbors are going to die from this virus is whether or not governors kiss trump’s ass to get the medical supplies that will keep our doctors, nurses, and patients alive…and gee, what a surprise the ones that are getting stiffed are in blue states with Washington, California, New York, and Michigan getting only a small fraction of what they requested and are all scrambling to try to find this gear anywhere since the trump led federal government won’t send any. But look at Florida whose governor is a trump toady and won’t do anything without trump’s okay while fluffing him on a daily basis…guess how much of the requested supplies Florida got? Yeah, as sick as it is, Florida got every damn thing they asked for…100% plus more while the blue states got maybe 10% of what they needed…and while we in the blue states are doing everything we can to stop the rise of new cases by staying at home and closing businesses…the asshole governor of Florida, deSantis, hasn’t even closed all the beaches with pictures today of thousands of people still on the beach spreading coronavirus with abandon….and a big part of this is that I think he believes the fox news and trump propaganda that red states are immune to the disease…this is what you get when you don’t believe the experts or the facts…and just today, while the worst still seems ahead of us, we are at least slowing the rise of new cases in California and we should see the same thing here in Michigan in a couple of weeks….but in Florida? Estimates have the death toll there at almost a half million people if this mini idiot there doesn’t act….and this is repeated in all the red states whose governors aren’t taking this seriously. Through it all do we hear any condolences or empathy from trump or any repub? Nope all we get from trump is a tweetstorm of how high the ratings are for his lie fests and more attacks on the people in blue states who are trying to protect their people….that is what we used to call an asshole when I was young…and who knows? I may not get much older with the repubs running things…
The morning got better…
Well….yep…it’s the switch…again…and this one only lasted about 6 months and that sucks…but, they’re only 5 bucks so I guess I don’t need to bitch too much…and I can just remove the positive battery cable for now so no big deal…after I got that figured out, the morning got better with getting out on the bike in shorts about 8:15 and getting a hard ride in…even saw my first bald eagle of the year today and that was pretty cool…and the wind waited to start blowing hard until I made the turn to come back here so I had it at my back most of the return trip and was really flying on the trail…too damn many people out today, though, and some of them were being idiots…I mean running in a group of 10 people 2 feet apart? If any of them are infected, they all will be soon….not sure what I’m going to make for lunch today….I have some bacon the needs to be used and eggs to go with that…but I have soup, chicken, and pizza that needs to be used, too….hmmm….at least I won’t need to go out for anything this week but I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not….I should take the car out and charge the battery up and I may do that tomorrow…want to make a run to HF to get my new compressor for 40 bucks so I can air the tires up on the bike….more later…
March 29th
Well…damn…the battery was dead in the car when I tried to go out to get the paper today and my battery box was dead, too….not sure if it will hold a charge enough to get it started a little later but I put the trickle charger on the battery and I don’t think that is going to help…so I had to ride the bike out to get the paper this morning and I’m glad it is over 50 out there right now…had some problems with the cut off switch falling apart the other day and must not have gotten it put back together right…so, I’m not sure what I’m going to do if the box won’t start it later…can’t ask the neighbors for a jump with this whole virus thing going on…crap, crap, crap….I can get a 50 amp charger at HF for about 30 bucks if I can get it started that will start the car and that would replace the battery box since I have electricity in the garage…..okay….just can’t do this right now…need to try to get the car started….okay, that was weird…hooked the battery box up to the car and it started right up after only a half hour of charging….and I checked out the switch and it seems to be working so I’m going to put it back in after I let the car run for a half hour or so…man, that takes a load off but I still may get a good charger just in case…after all, I’m going to get 1200 bucks in the next few weeks and any house I buy will have electricity in the garage so I won’t need the portability of the battery box any more….so, what else is going on? Okay…I think I may just stop here and get a bike ride in before the wind comes up….more later….
Did anyone else notice?
Well….as I predicted, when the repubs in the senate let the idiot trump get away with extorting the Ukraine to fake some dirt on Joe Biden…a Quid Pro Quo if you will…that he would then know he could get away with continuing to do it…and that is happening now with idiot boy holding up federal aid to both NY and Michigan until the governors of both states kiss his ass…now, doing this to a state that the idiot needs to win for re-election is probably one of the most stupid things I have ever seen…but it’s typical trump since nothing in the world has any importance to him other than his feelings and delusions…and Cuomo and Whitmer had the audacity to tell the truth and ask the moron in chief to do his damn job which trump always sees as a personal attack since he can’t think any other way with his narcissism ruling his addled brain. This isn’t going to end well for idiot boy in November…can you say landslide? Especially here in Michigan when the people whose friends and family trump has murdered go out to vote…
March 28th
Well…made it all the way through to coffee time this morning but I don’t feel like I slept at all…and I’m coughing again and I don’t have any hope that it will get better until I can air this place out…and that looks like it’s not going to happen for a few weeks yet…we did have some storms last night that did wake me up but I don’t mind that at all…it’s not snow and it could be with this being spring in Michigan…and it looks like I may have to take the day off the bike since it’s supposed to rain all day…darn…I can use a day to let the pain in my left thigh to subside some…I think I may have torn something in it with going hard on the bike the past week or so since the pain is localized to a strip about 4 by 8 inches down the front that is tender…and that is weird…did get some good news that the 1200 bucks that they are sending out to everyone is now going to include SS recipients so I should see the cash in my account in about 3 weeks or so…and I can use it…have 4 things I’m going to buy to do my part to get the economy going again…new tires for the car, pay for the new bike, a gas grill, and a new weight machine…and I’ll still have about 300 bucks left over….and I’ll get my latest SS deposit about the same time so that will be 3200 bucks into my account in one week….I know I’m not supposed to eat grilled food since it causes cancer but I haven’t had a grill for three years now so I think I’ve got some life in the bank on that…and there is nothing like a rare steak on the grill…or burgers, or chicken, or ribs…you get the idea….not much to do today…I am going to clean the oven with what little cleaner I have here but that will only do the bottom and the door…I should put the cleaner on now…and I think I will….more later…