Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I did finally get a few things done…the carpet around the bike had gotten some grease on it so I had to clean all of that…the damn thing has been squeaking like crazy and no lube has helped….cleaning it with some simple green did and I think it may have been that there was sand and dirt in the swing arm bushing…slept okay last night and feel okay this morning but I am anticipating the back starting to hurt again soon..it is damn frustrating when it is so inconsistent and I never know what is going to make it hurt…sometimes it’s bending over, sometimes it’s sitting down…or standing up….you get it…and the weird thing is that it just stabs me with pain and then quits….oh, well….not much to do today…looks like I need to wait until after lunch for the bike ride and then there is soccer on later….going to take it a little easy on the back and see if that helps….more later….
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Fear and more fear…
Well…have been reading a little today and on subject kept popping up as I did…fear…and how scared people are about life in general like everything is out to get them. Whether it’s Islamic terrorists or everyday crime, I am shaking my head how people who are polled are so mistaken about the likelihood of being killed by terrorists or being the victim of crime….and the rates are not high…with regular crime at it’s lowest rate in history, the chances of being a victim is lower than ever…like one half the chance of being struck by lighting, and yet we have people arming themselves to the teeth since the fear mongers that profit by that fear have convinced us we are just one minute away from being in a Mad Max movie. On the terror front….the chance of being killed by a Muslim terrorist here in the states is almost unmeasurable yet the repubs shake in their boots and spread fear and more fear since it’s all they have…I, for one, am not afraid of terrorists at all….I’m more concerned with everyone carrying guns around me and the idiots who text and drive….you are much more likely to be killed by one of those idiots than by terrorists…so, everyone, get a frickin grip and stop being such a pussy….geez…
December 20th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done….didn’t even ride the bike since it was so cold and windy…slept okay and feel okay today but a little worn out…my back is confusing me some since it doesn’t hurt when I get up but then gets progressively worse as the day goes on….weird….but, the neck pain is gone so that is something….it looks like I’ll have to wait a while to get on the bike today since it is only 22 right now and I want it to be in the thirties at least before I go out….okay, this one is going to be short…just not feeling it right now and need more coffee….more later…
December 19th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I even got a few things done….slept okay but lost an earplug and I can’t find it anywhere…that is just weird and I’m a little perplexed….no dreams to speak of and that’s okay….my back hasn’t hurt a bit today yet and I am just waiting for it to start….it is just crappy anticipating the pain that I know is going to come later today….I did get a bike ride in but I am going to skip today with the snow and Ice that I know will be on the trail….I can use the rest and just don’t want to be cold today…or maybe I’ll wait until this aft…it’s only supposed to get to the low 30’s so that won’t help get the ice melted….tomorrow will be warmer so maybe I’ll wait til then…..not much to do today…going to clean but first I’m going to be disappointed with watching Man U lose again..cripes they are getting to be the Lions…more later….
Another one for the B-3 count…
Well…as you know, I have the long-running thing going where I report when I identify a band using the Hammond B-3 organ….it seems that almost all of the bands I still listen to use one and today I heard one in “Cry Baby” from the “Pearl” album by Janis Joplin. Yeah, I still call it an album…that makes me really old but I’m okay with that….more to come….
Exploding snowflakes…
Well…I did get out on the bike today even though it was only about 30….and I saw the weirdest thing that I can’t remember ever seeing before….just as I was hitting the trail it started to snow but instead of just hitting the ground and sticking like they normally do, when these flakes hit the ground they exploded into tiny, dust-like particles and blew away in the wind. Now, I’ve been around a long time but the world and the weather still make me grin at times….and never ceases to surprise me….pretty cool…
December 18th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…again….and I will try to make today different…how much different, I don’t know….running late again, too, for some reason and I didn’t even shower this morning…yet….just can’t get started even with the second cup of coffee….sitting here, I was hoping that the back pain had subsided with all of the cracking it did yesterday but then I moved and it hasn’t…darn….feel okay, though, so that is something….not sure what, but something…haven’t had to put the snowies on the car yet and it looks like I won’t have to until late next week….I do need to take advantage of the warm temps to get that done….had them on the first week of November last year and I am pretty happy that there hasn’t been any snow yet this year….it is cold today, though, an that will make for full thermasuit if I decide to take a bike ride today…have been out with it as cold as 19 degrees but that is pushing it…not much to do today….just going to clean since the spiders are in the bathroom again and the kitchen looks like an abandoned house…more later…
January 20, 1975
Well…sitting here watching ‘Celeration Day”…the concert film with Led Zeppelin and it made me think back to when I saw them in person…January 20th, 1975 at the old Chicago Stadium, of course in Chicago. I know my friends have heard this story many times but I just realized today that I missed my chance to write about it on it’s 40th anniversary last January, so I thought I’d do a short one on it today. Getting the tickets is another story that I’ll talk about another time but it involved standing outside for a day at the box office…and had blood, ripped stitches and other cool stuff in it so maybe there is a post in there somewhere. The crazy day started when we checked into our room at a Holiday Inn at 1 south Halstead, in what we didn’t know at the time was the real inner city…we realized it when we noticed we were the only white faces in the place, and coming from west Michigan, it was a surprise to say the least. Okay, to the concert…we took a cab out to the stadium, which, at the time, was in the middle of a part of the city that looked mostly abandoned….the concert was cool but Robert Plant’s voice was totally fried and you could barely tell it was him…one funny aside, at the time I wasn’t really a Zep fan yet so I don’t know a lot of the songs but it was still fun….after the concert, the plan was to catch a cab back to the hotel but the cab driver that took us out neglected to tell us that they didn’t run out into that neighborhood after 11 pm since so many of them had been robbed…so, we set off walking through the worst neighborhood in Chicago, dressed for a cab ride, on the 20th of January, 20 blocks back to the hotel…a bunch of white kids freezing and stumbling through the dark. After the first block, my girlfriend at the time got some of the swirling dirt in her eyes and, wearing contacts, was basically blind the remaining 19 blocks. But, we made it okay…I think it may have been too cold for any muggers to be out and I was really glad we had turned the heat up to 85 before we left our room. It’s a day I remember vividly even 40 years later….the crazy crap you do when you are 21….
Oh, one last thing….the tickets cost $7.50….a lot of money at the time when I was renting a two bedroom house for 100 bucks a month…
Carly Fiorina is either a liar or just plain stupid…
Well…the repub presidential candidates have show themselves all to be liars, but one stands out in the crowd by being the best liar or just plain stupid. Carly Fiorina started her jaw dropping lies with the whopper that she saw a video that showed PP taking live babies and selling them for their parts…never taking that one back when it was a proven to be a lie….but now, she continues with a newer, better, and more delusional lie from the last debate this week. During the debate she rattled off a bunch of retired generals who she said were “retired” by Obama for telling him what he didn’t want to hear…two of the generals, Petreus, and McChrystal, were forced out for misconduct and one of the remaining, Jack Keane, retired in 2003, five years before Obama even took office and commented that he has never even spoken to Obama…but, did that stop ole Carly? Nope, she said that she didn’t “misspeak”, and that means she meant to tell this lie and didn’t give a damn that it’s not true….we all know that ole Carly is a liar, now we can also say that she is just plain stupid to go with it…geez…
December 17th
Well…running a little late today just because I can…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…didn’t get anything else done and today looks the same…just not motivated to do much…and it is snowing out there and that is depressing…it shouldn’t be since this year is just so much better than last year…we had already had below zero temps last year and all I have to do is get through the next three days of cold to get back to the 40’s and 50’s so I guess I shouldn’t bitch too much…my back seem to be a little better today but we’ll see as the day goes on….it still twinges some when I move and I am still going to try to get it to crack later so the pain will really go away….it looks like full thermasuit for the ride today but that’s okay if I can get out for a ride in the snow…..not much to do today….going to try to get a few things done around here and do some cooking but that’s about it….more later…