Well…running a little late this morning since I am having a little trouble getting moving…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get a few things done…finally did the bathroom and today looks like the kitchen will be in the plan…slept okay last night but my back is still killing me and it is really wearing….not sure what to do about it….I did get the bike ride in in the aft since it just didn’t warm up until then but it was just torture and I’m not sure why….just can’t get comfortable on it lately….will try another one today but probably not until the aft again….not much to do today….going to try to get to the kitchen and maybe start the living room but I’m not sure if I’m motivated enough to do that….more later….
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My idea for gun control…
Well…with all of the shootings that continue to happen all across the country, I have an idea for gun control that dovetails quite well with the repubs continued insistence that the constitution be read and interpreted as it was written with no exceptions for the 2nd amendment especially. But, as you know, they are selective when it comes to the rest of it…ignoring the first and 14th with the latest row about Muslims and gays. Given this insistence, I propose that, if they want to live with an 18th century interpretation of the 2nd, they need to go back to the 18th century’s interpretation of arms. So, the only weapons that should be allowed for anyone would be a smooth bore, flintlock musket or pistol since they are the only guns that were available back then. So, let’s get right on that repubs, since you just frickin love living in the past, live there with your weapons too….geez…
December 5th
Well….it was a pretty good day yesterday…bet you didn’t see that coming…had a nice lunch with T that brightened my day and there are not enough of those these days…slept okay last night but my back is still really sore and I’m not sure what to do about it….I did get to put the top down on the way back from lunch and that was fun and I got my December top down run in…didn’t get anything else done yesterday so today has to be different…the bathroom needs a total scrubbing and I will get to that today….there is something weird going on with my phone where some of the apps know where I am even without the GPS turned on…the Weather Channel just did it yesterday adding Cutlerville to the cities and switching automatically to that when I got home….not sure if I am cool with that…not much to do today…need to watch Man U play at 10 so the bike ride will wait until this aft and I may be able to go out in shorts if it warms up enough….more later….
The scariest thing about climate change…
Well…there has been lots of discussion about the effects of climate change like riding seas and growing season changes for crops…but the other day, I read an article about climate change that was the scariest one so far. If we do nothing to limit CO2 emissions and we get the predicted 6 degree rise in temps by the end of the century, one of the most important ocean plants, phytoplankton, will state to die off. Now, this will play havoc with the food chain since phytoplankton is the base for all of the life in the seas…but that is not the scary part, the scary part is that phytoplankton is responsible for almost 50% of the oxygen production on Earth and if they go away, there won’t be enough air left to breathe. Now, how’s that for a direct danger to us from climate change? But, I think that will not be enough for the climate change deniers out there…after all, that’s 85 years away and they will all be dead by then anyway…that’s the way they think…that’s the way conservatives think and I continue to shake my head at the stupidity that is on display every day from these folks…geez…
December 4th
Well…running late today and it is because I didn’t get up until 7:20…..I know, that’s is just so odd that I was in bed that late…and I feel pretty crappy today…had the hiccups all night last night and I think that wore me out…it can’t be the cocktails can it? Nope…..slept okay last night and had some dreams that I don’t remember so they couldn’t have been that good…I did get out to have a couple with K last night and it was good to see her…might see her and her sister again this weekend and that would be fun….got a bunch of stuff done yesterday and now I settle into a lull again for a few weeks…still haven’t done the bathroom yet and I don’t think I’ll get to that today…might have lunch with T but I haven’t heard from her so I’m not going to plan on it….not much to do today….need more coffee and a little time to get moving and then I’ll get on the bike….more later….
I’m tired or writing about these….
Well…another day, another mass shooting here in the US and I really don’t know what to say…that is 355 of these this year…that’s right, more than one a day so far this year and the only thing we get out of the repubs is more sympathy for the victims…you know what? I’m tired of sympathy and treating this crap as if it is inevitable….there is something to be done if the repubs will just get off their asses and do it…from background checks to limiting the kinds of guns that can be bought to buybacks of guns to get them off the street. Something needs to be done and that is not more hand wringing….it not “more guns everywhere” it is not a “good guy with a gun”….it is admitting that there are just too many damn guns that have no purpose other than kill other people…and I have had enough….geez…
December 3rd
Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool for the first time in a month so that was cool…slept okay, too and feel okay today except for the cough that has come back this morning and I can’t figure that out….I have been good all week and I think that is part of feeling good today and I may just continue that for the rest of the week…my back is still giving me fits but I am learning how to deal with it again so I won’t mention that again….I did do the grocery run this morning and I am still on time with this even with having to let the car run for a while to get the ice off it…and now I have food for the week and can change to something other than turkey…that was getting really tiring and it will be good to eat something else…but that something else is chicken so I’m not sure how different that is….not much to do today…I do have lots of stuff to do around here today and then the bike ride and cleaning the bathroom…and I will get to that today….more later….
December 2nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but the bike ride was a wet, brutal mess and I think it took me most of the day to get warm after getting back here…almost lost one of the crank arms on it, too, the bolt that holds it on came loose and I had to stop about every quarter mile to tighten it so I wouldn’t lose the bolt….that has never happened before and I’m not sure why it would come loose…and it contributed to making the ride kind of a pain in the butt….slept okay last night and feel pretty good this morning except the back pain that I just can’t get rid of….feels like earlier in the year when the vertebrae got caught and wouldn’t move….making problems for the nerves in my right leg but I guess that’s part of getting older….the weird thing is it doesn’t hurt on the bike…..oh, said that earlier, I think……not much to do today…have an errand to run this morning and then pool this aft but that is about it….have been good for three nights now and I may go the entire week…more later…
More Walmart extortion….
Well…another day goes by, and we have another case of Walmart trying to extort another city into not raising it’s minimum wage. the city of Desert Hot springs California is considering raising the city’s minimum wage to $10.20 an hour with a dollar an hour increase for the next two years and then indexing it to inflation…not an unreasonable way to ensure that people make enough to eat and pay their rent. But, that’s just too much for Walmart who owns land in the city and has told the city council that if they pass the wage changes, the store will not be built…going so far at to take out a full page ad opposing the council saying that their 300 jobs would not happen if the ordinance is passed. Other than the fact that this is corporate thuggery at it’s worst…I’d say to them “good, keep your damn 300 jobs”….especially in light of the studies that have been done that find that every time a Walmart is built and opened it leads to a net loss of jobs in the community…and this has been shown all across the country…..and this goes along with other economic studies that peg the cost of each Walmart to the taxpayers of a million dollars a year….since they don’t pay enough for people to live on, most of their employees are on food stamps and Medicaid…so, I’d say to Walmart from any city across this country…keep your damn, poor paying jobs and don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out….geez…
December 1st
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…I did get a nice surprise when I went out to get the papers this morning and with it raining, there were no leaks in the car…weird….slept okay last night and had dreams about earthquakes and the first house I lived in…and there were cameos of lots of people I haven’t seen in years so that was weird but it was also the first time I’ve had a dream in a long time….still haven’t been able to get my back to crack and I think that may be contributing to the dead legs on the bike…it hurts to move but it doesn’t on the bike and that shouldn’t be….I’m hoping the temp comes up enough this morning to cut back on the thermasuit and go out with no stocking hat….not much to do today…might have pool but I’m not sure about that….and I have some work to do around here so that will help with the boredom…..more later…