Well…running a little early today with getting up a little early…slept okay last night and feel okay with being good again last night…my back was good most of the day yesterday after doing some heavy work that fixed it…but, the twinges are coming back this morning and it appears the pain will be back in a little while….oh, well….I did get a bunch of stuff done around here yesterday and I got a good bike ride in…I did adjust the position of the seat and that helped me get comfortable on it again and I did another small adjustment after I got back here so it will be interesting to see if that also helps….I did get out in the sun yesterday and got a little scorched…and only after 20 minutes or so on each side…but, it is helping get rid of the biker tan so I guess I can take it….not much to do today…need to clean more and get some resumes out but that is about it…more later….
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Keystone XL dies…
Well….an interesting thing happened over the past week that went mostly unnoticed by everyone…but, I read a little article that didn’t really surprise me given the rapidly changing energy market. You know how the idiot trump has been pushing for more and more fossil fuel use…lying to the people in coal country that he will bring coal jobs back and approving the building of the Keystone XL pipeline that would move tar sands oil through the US to be exported for use in the rest of the world. Just the other day, though, the proposed builders of the pipeline, Trans Canada, said that due to the changes happening to the energy market around the world, where the sharply lowering price of solar, wind and natural gas has made the tar sands oil uneconomical, will probably prevent them from building the pipeline. This is the problem with confusing economics with ideology, trump and his minions are mired in the past…well…maybe not mired in the past but mired in the kleptocracy where the oil and coal companies pushed the cost of their pollution off on the taxpayers while they screwed everyone…and they are setting the US up to be a second class energy country by ceding leadership of new energy technologies to China and the rest of the world while we continue to burn and pollute. But, with this decision by Trans Canada, we can see that economics can trump the idiot and his minions…they can’t stop solar or wind…no company is going to pay more for their electricity just to keep trump and the oil companies happy…and there is not a damn thing the idiot can do about it…Impeach….
August 1st
Well…it was a day yesterday but that’s all I’ll say about it….my back was hurting all day and it is starting again today….thought I’d had it figured out but I guess not….slept okay last night but tossed and turned as always…would just like one night of the sleep that I remember…with that, I’m feeling a little slow today….but I’m hoping the coffee will help in a while….didn’t get much done yesterday but today I’ll have to do better….have to find some storage….and get some cleaning done….think I need to work on the bike, too, but will wait until thurs for that when I take a day off the bike for the rain…at least I’m hoping it rains…I do need a rest day to let the pain get out of my legs…oh, I do need to adjust the seat on the bike, too…I think it’s moved some and that may be making me uncomfortable on it…more later….
Domestic terrorists….
Well…have been sitting here thinking today…and no it doesn’t hurt…about the domestic terrorists that now control our government. Yeah, that’s how I feel about the repubs these days…with the latest attempt to rip health insurance from almost 30 million of their fellow Americans, what else can you call them? I have spent some time reading the stories of people whose lives were immeasurably changed by Obamacare….no longer wondering where the money is going to come from to keep them alive in some cases….I just read about a woman whose 12 year old daughter has type 1 diabetes and is cared for by Medicaid….a program that is the primary target of the blank eyed granny starver Paul Ryan…and without it, this 12 year old’s life will be one of poor health and no future. Now, there are almost 20 million people who get their insurance through the Obamacare exchanges and whose lives are disrupted by stress and fear every time the repubs try to kill the ACA….isn’t this the definition of terrorism? It’s the repubs doing it folks….and that makes it domestic terrorism…impeach…
Time flies….
Well…sitting here feeling a little old and there is good reason for it….my youngest one turns 30 today….cripes, I can still remember turning 30 even though it was a long, long time ago. Not sure what any of this means other than time flies…and my oldest one is going to turn 40 next month….and that is another yow….oh, well….
July 31st
Well…not really running at all today so far…woke up during the night last night with knee pain that I just can’t figure out…must have slept with them positioned wrong…they don’t hurt now so maybe it’s a one time thing…..feel a little iffy right now so I am going to just try to ease into the day….didn’t do a whole lot yesterday and today looks the same…I did get some of the kitchen cleaned and the microwave doesn’t look like someone died in it….and I should do the floor today and I just might….but, I’m not motivated right now so that will have to wait til later….and I do need much more coffee….more later….
Tiny fighter planes….
Well…it was a better day on the bike today and the torture level dropped quite a bit…enough that I did do an entire run that ended up in the park. While there, I was just vegging a little looking out across the field that is right in front of the bench I always sit on and I noticed almost 50 tiny little fighter planes…or scissor tail swallows feeding over that field…if you’ve ever watched them, you will get the tiny fighter plane reference….they look just like that the way they wheel and dive…I was really surprised there were no collisions there were so many of them out there…just fun to watch…
July 30th
Well…woke up this morning with my back hurting like crazy and that continues now….not sure what the deal is….slept okay last night but feel pretty crappy this morning and I think it’s partly from not eating enough….I almost forgot to do this this morning and that is how out of sorts I am today….just feel off and I’m not sure why….and the coffee is not helping…I wonder if I should stay off the bike today? Nope…already took the ibuprofen so I need to get out soon…didn’t get a lot done yesterday other than cooking but I do need to clean some today….and try to figure out the second meal for the day….just missed the meal planning for the week and I’m not sure why that is…I guess it’s part of being off a little….more later….
A mish mash….
Well…haven’t been doing too many political ones lately…I guess I’m just numb from the idiot trump and his antics….and I really don’t have a single topic to write about so this one is going to be a mish mash of small ones….the repubs failed to take health insurance away from 32 million Americans and we have three repubs to thank for coming over to our side….but the cheating and lying that went into trying to get trumpcare passed was breathtaking to see…almost every rule of governing was broken by McConnell but what do you expect from the guy who stole a SC seat? Then we had the idiot trump lying more in the past week than in any other week since he stole the presidency…I am just stunned by the repubs revealing themselves as the America haters they are since they are still protecting trump even though it is now a fact that they colluded with the Russians to steal the election…what would they have done if Obama had done a hundredth of the crap that trump has done? We know the answer to that one since they are now proposing to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary….15 months and 50 million dollars wasn’t enough for them from the fake Benghazi investigation? I found it funny that the sec of defense and sec of state are taking vacations so they don’t have to talk to the idiot trump for a while…and the sec of state, Tillerson, is contemplating quitting already…and the idiot’s chief of staff either quit or was fired yesterday….we’ll never know since they lie about everything….okay, that’s enough for now…going to watch a race….
July 29th
Well…running a little late today…just can’t get going…got out of bed late and left the window open in the kitchen last night…it’s pretty cold in here with it getting down to 54 last night….but, I didn’t have to put the air on last night so I guess that’s something….I got up without pain this morning but I am still thinking of taking the day off the bike…oh, I won at pool yesterday….have been on the bike for 3 1/2 months straight now and I can feel my legs slowly going flat from it….but, the weather is so nice that I don’t want to waste the day…..I do have a chicken brining to cook for lunch today and I am looking forward to that…I know I haven’t been eating enough…cripes, how long have I been saying that? I should weigh about 100 pounds by now…but, I don’t….more later…..