Well…it appears that you are going to get a bunch of these every day since I have time on my hands as I wait for the weather to get better so I can start on the outside of the house…have been seeing stories about conservatives who are getting the virus and appearing to change their ways from the selfish, conspiracy theory morons that they have been for decades…yeah, I don’t believe a bit of it…it’s all wishful thinking on the part of the media that they have the capacity to be compassionate human beings and to put aside their hate if even for a little while….after all, 95% of repubs think the idiot trump is going a “great” job of handling this crisis and how can you square that with the facts on the ground that his 6 week delay on doing anything and his lying press conferences are getting people killed as we speak? This whole thing is just the typical conservative’s behavior to hate people and programs that enhance the public good until they personally are affected by a crisis and then it’s a miracle….and they make a big show of “changing” until the spotlight is off them and then they just go back to their anti science, hate filled lives…so, media, spare me the “foxhole conversion” stories about conservatives…they are and will always be terrible people and no virus is going to change that…
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March 21st
Well…running a little late today and it’s another one where I just can’t get started…slept okay last night but I think I’m still making up for the sleep deficit I’ve had over the past week or so…still feel pretty worn out and my allergies are in high gear…was miserable all day yesterday until I took one of the remaining allergy meds…I do still have 24 of them so I can get by for almost a month but I’m going to be miserable again when those are gone…and it would be nice to not have to feel like crap all day…I did get out to get some supplies for the downstairs project yesterday but I still need to get out to get the tomato and other seeds I need to plant the garden in the spring…I’ll do that Monday but then will be in here for the duration…didn’t get out on the bike yesterday with the wind being so high and it looks like I won’t be able to get out til late in the day today with it being so cold out there…damn, I am tired of the cold…I really need to have some warm weather soon or I think I’ll be pretty depressed….I mean it’s almost April so come on weather….I am going to get to some work here today and get all my supplies and tools put away so I can clean the kitchen and make it look less like a construction area….but that will probably be it for the day…unless I get a burst of energy and that looks pretty unlikely….more later…
We’re not a shipping clerk?
Well…now I know we’re all doomed when the person supposedly in charge of making sure that the country has enough medical supplies to fight the virus flippantly dismisses the state’s requests to do something to help by saying “we’re not a shipping clerk” and pushing it back to the governors to do it…if this is what the asshole trump thinks is not his job then what the hell is? The federal government has always stepped in when an emergency happens and the states either don’t have the resources or the ability to deal with the emergency themselves…and I’m sure part of it is that the states that need the most help right now are blue states that didn’t vote for idiot boy and he doesn’t think anyone is worth anything unless they voted for him…and he always makes everything about him…how he’s doing, what the effect of any action is on him….okay, repubs..by voting to acquit this moron you have blood on your hands…the blood of thousands of Americans that are going to die because you put politics and personal gain ahead of your duty to protect all Americans….I wonder if we can survive until we throw moron boy out in the next election?
March 20th
Well…man, I just can’t get started this morning…okay, just poured the first cup of coffee so that may have something to do with it…I did sleep better last night but I think it will take a couple of days to fix the sleep deficit I’ve had lately…it rained so hard around 5 or so that it woke me up and just did it again a few minutes ago…and that is a new sound that I haven’t heard yet since I’ve been living here so it will take a while to get used to it…I can see myself sitting on the front porch watching the storms if I’m still living here this summer…I did get some good news yesterday that I have been waiting for quite a while for…got my checking account up over 10K with the latest deposit and that makes me feel a little more secure than I have in a while…I know there will be loads of cash going out in the next month that will deplete it some but the fact that I got there by being careful with spending just makes me want to continue it…so, I will…didn’t get much done yesterday but the grocery run but I forgot almost all of the stuff I need to make pizza so I’m going to run out again this morning and that will be the last time I’ll need to go out for a month or so with the virus getting much worse…Meijers is going to make Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 7-8 just for us old folks to get our grocery shopping done and I am going to take advantage of that next week if I need to go out….but, I’m hoping that I will not need to…they are doing a good job of cleaning the carts, etc. but I am taking my homemade sanitizer, too just in case….not much to do today….just cleaning and putting tools away and maybe a bike ride if it stops raining long enough…more later…
Social distance…day 4…
Well…yeah, it looks like this is not going to be a series after all…there just isn’t enough happening to support it…but I will come back and do more of them if there are any developments…but, let’s get to today…I did make a run out to Meijers to get some more groceries to support the menu that I want to do over the next couple of weeks…and it looks like they have a handle on the supply problems they had from the run on paper products and some perishables and the shelves are starting to fill again so it looks like everyone has filled up their storage and are starting to get the idea that there will be tp and food available….and they even had a person disinfecting the shopping carts and getting them ready for people to use…I did bring my own bleach soaked paper towel just in case and I used that to wipe off the buttons on the ATM that I used to get some cash out and to do my hands after I finished…I am going to be careful since I really don’t need to get sick…I think I’ll make sure to take that with me whenever I go out….made up a quart of bleach/water and put it in a spray bottle so I could do the door knobs and handles here after I was done with the groceries….but I don’t think I need to go out after tomorrow since I forgot a green pepper and pepperoni and I want to make a homemade pizza next week…even got some bread flour to try out the bread maker sometime in the future, too…I can now do at least a month here without going out for anything other than to ride the bike…I do hope they send a thousand bucks to everyone to try to stimulate the economy since I can use that to pay for my new bike, new tires for the car, a big new air compressor, and a weight machine and still have 50 bucks left over…and they may do it twice…that would be cool…
They knew weeks ago…
Well…the latest story that has just come out on the news wires is that a repub senator knew how bad the coronavirus was going to be and he warned a group of his donors about it over three weeks ago…so, the repubs knew that this outbreak was going to be bad long ago but didn’t do a damn thing about it…no testing, no ramping up of protective gear for doctors and nurses, and no crash “all hands on deck” moment…just lies and preening by trump and his cronies to try to make it all about him…and the “wonderful” job he is doing. So they deliberately didn’t do one damn thing that could have saved lives….while the idiot trump waited for the moron Jared to get a “plan” together to fight this virus…what the hell does jared know about it anyway? Not much since he has been googling what other countries are doing and talking to his family about what to do….geez I can’t wait for these entitled assholes to be gone…and Sen Richard Burr, who was the repub senator who told his donors about how bad this is going to be, should resign today since he did nothing, no call to the WH to get their asses moving, no press…no nothing…just let people die while he scoops up cash…just like the rest of the repubs. They all need to be gone in November…and we can make that happen…vote!
March 19th
Well….I’m exhausted this morning with another morning of getting up at 4:34…and that means only about 8 hours of sleep for the past two days and I’m going to pay for that later…and it was the third day of no ibuprofen or allergy meds along with no cocktails and that has left me sore and coughing with my allergies being so bad….and it is going to get worse as the pollen from the trees and everything else gets started…..and I’m already miserable….didn’t get much done yesterday but start putting the tools and materials away…kinda….I moved the bookcase into the utility room that I am going to use for storage but with no sleep yesterday, my motivation was pretty damn low…I did get a bike ride in and hope to get out in shorts before the rain comes in later today…we’re supposed to get almost an inch of rain over the next day or so and maybe even some thunderstorms tonight as the temps crash Friday back into the 30’s….I am going to try to get out to Meijers this morning to do a little more stocking up and I am going to try some obscure stuff that I think most people won’t be buying like bread flour and yeast to make bread and pizza crust…and I need to pick up soup materials for the two batches I’m going to make next week to put in the freezer….I have one container of ham soup left in there that I am going to thaw over the next few days so I can start fresh…the instant pot is going to get a workout over the next month or so…not much to do today…just the errands and a bike ride…need to get materials for the downstairs project and hit the dollar store for a big mixing bowl and some measuring cups that I don’t have…then, I think I’m in here for the next month…more later…
Social distance…day 3…
Well….with the latest reports that this virus situation is going to get unmanageable with the incompetents in charge and it could lead to a complete lockdown, I admit my anxiety level has ratcheted up quite a bit from earlier in the week….I guess that’s one of the problems with having time on my hands and reading so much news every day…I sure don’t want to have to put the new bike downstairs on the trainer just when the weather is going to get warm and not being able to go out is going to bring the progress on the house to a halt if I can’t get the materials I need…and the rule looks like you have to stay in unless it’s an emergency…but, I’ll be damned if I’m going to let this yard go to hell again and I am going to grow tomatoes and peppers out back this summer….so I guess I need to get the seed for that stuff this week and get it started in the basement…my anxiety is also high that I’ll have enough food to make it through a couple of months so I am going to make another run out tomorrow to see what is available in the stores and buy what I can in small quantities so that other people have the chance to stock up, too…I may even have to practice meal skipping and go down to one a day if it gets to that point…I do have ham bones for ham soup and a turkey carcass for turkey soup that I just need to get veggies for and make…that will give me 4 days per container for 3 containers for both so I can get 24 days just out of the soup if it comes to that…hey, I may even lose some weight….I’m hoping that Meijers institutes what other stores are doing and set aside a couple of hours twice a week so we old people can get in a sanitized store to shop with less crowds….that would help…and I still have a few venison steaks to eat, too….but I’m still a little concerned…have never gone through this in my life and it is new…I guess I’ll adjust once the uncertainty is gone…that’s the hardest thing for me….
Permanent absentee ballots…
Well…with the coronavirus situation looking worse by the day and the prospect of sheltering in place looming for months, there is one thing we can do here in Michigan to ensure that we can vote this fall and throw this incompetent asshole and his cronies out in November. Due to a citizens initiative here ( and no thanks to the vote suppressing repubs) everyone who wants one can now sign up to get a permanent absentee ballot sent to you for no reason at all…it is quick and easy to do at the SOS website and, and you can change it through the county clerk’s office as I did when I changed my address to GR…and the city of GR did it for me when I did that address change. I know that some of you like the process of going out to vote as I did…but I’ve seen the lines that come with repubs closing polling locations and moving them, so to stick a sharp stick in their eye, I signed up and got my first ballot for the dem primary and it was 5 minutes to fill out and send back….and it got here about 10 days before it had to be sent back so no pressure….so, let’s be proactive and get this done so the repubs can’t screw with our voting anymore…oh, and one more thing…if you got the census request in the mail, go to the website and fill it out…it is important for all kind of reasons especially the re drawing of districts here…and lots and lots of funding for our state depends on it…so take a few minute and fill it out…I’m doing mine tomorrow…
Dire predictions….
Well…as more and more assessments of the dire state of the country and the future depression come in, it is clear that the two months that the idiot trump and his cronies downplayed the effects of the virus to both individuals and the economy and diddled around because they don’t know anything is going to have worse effects than even the worst case scenarios. This incompetence and willful dereliction of duty are going to cost the lives of upwards to a million Americans and is going to put over 20% of workers out of work…and do permanent damage to the economy that will not be repaired in my lifetime….these assessments are calling 2020 a “lost year” where all we are going to be able to do is survive…and supply chains of food and other necessary supplies are going to crash unless the government gets involved and right the frick now…so everyone is going to be affected and it is not going to be pretty…and I am so damn mad that the repubs are still playing like it business as usual…with Rand Paul blocking the start of the recovery legislation because he want to know how were going to “pay” for it…we’re going to pay for his obstruction by putting hundreds of thousands more out of work and killing thousands more Americans…the time to act is yesterday..the depression is here and we have morons in charge…not sure if we’ll survive this….