Well…after shoveling again today and with it taking over 2 hours, I read on the local news that Muskegon got 27 inches of snow over the past two days…the largest two day snowfall total since the blizzard of 1978…and that really sucks…I am going to be really sore tomorrow and won’t be able to get out of here for at least a week…and I got a bad surprise that the steel winter wheels I was looking for are about 120 bucks each and tires are over 200 bucks each…so if I want to have them, I’ll be out 1,200 bucks or so and that is going to hurt…but I guess if you extrapolate that out to 10 years, it’s only 120 bucks a year so I guess I should bite the bullet and buy something…crap, I hate making decisions every damn day…
Category Archives: My Life
December 2nd
Well…up and moving at 5:25 this morning and that follows waking up around 4am and I sure don’t want that to be the new normal…the goal is to stay in bed til at least 6am but that seems like a goal too far these days…we got another foot of snow last night so I’ll be out there shoveling for a couple of hours after I get the weight work and rides in and that sucks…it’s barely December and we’ve had 22 inches of snow in the past two days and that is so damn depressing…but there isn’t anything I can do about that but just hunker down and hibernate…have 5 1/2 books and enough food for a week and I don’t have to go out until the10th….so damn tired of the weather running my life…not sure what I’m going to do today other than read…should do some meal planning and I am going to make some ham soup but not until I use up the container I took out of the freezer a couple of days ago…so, I need to get going and get the weight work started…more later…
That was scary…
Well…that was scary…they finally plowed the alley and one lane on the street so I took the car out to take some due books back and pick up a few things at Meijers but I won’t be doing that again…the tires on the car do not like the snow and the car was sliding all over the place…had to start stopping a quarter of a mile from the stop lights or the thing would just go into a slide…and it was almost impossible to get moving from a stop…so, since this is my last car and I don’t want to be isolated here, next spring I’m going to start looking for some steel wheels and mount some winter tires…so I’ll have to start saving now…should be about a thousand bucks or maybe I’ll look on the Miata forums to see if anyone has some used stuff…so that means I won’t be going anywhere until the roads are dry…yow!
It really is Murder
Well…the consensus is in and the entire world thinks that Hegseth committed murder when he ordered the military to “kill them all” and did kill survivors of an earlier attack on the same boat…I mean you have two guys who are barely alive clinging to their shattered boat and you send another missile to murder them? What kind of a ghoul do you have to be to do something like that? This violates federal law and the UCMJ and it is true that the military personnel are also liable for carrying out this illegal order since they are required to not follow illegal orders and now the betting now is how much time Hegseth is going to serve in prison for these crimes…finally even the repubs have had enough and have started bipartisan investigations of this bullshit “war” the idiot trump thinks is one because he said it was…and the whole drug thing is just crap since idiot boy doesn’t care a bit about drug trafficking since he just pardoned the former president of Honduras who was in jail here for importing 100’s of tons of cocaine into the US…I wonder how much the idiot got paid for that pardon? Geez…
December 1st
Well…up and out of bed at 5;22 this morning and I would really like to get to 6 am at some point before I get up but I am enough of a realist to know that’s not going to happen anytime soon…just poured my first cup of coffee…there is another winter storm warning on for today with 6-12 inches forecast and that means I won’t be getting out of here until later in the week if I get out at all…don’t really have to go out until next week…have planned for this and have everything I need to hibernate for a week or so…might have to walk over to the library since I have books that are due back on the 9th…this is just too much, too early for winter…I really need to get more done around here today but I am so depressed about the damn snow that all I want to do is sit here on the couch and do nothing but I won’t…weight work first and then on the bike to get the rides done before 10am…not much to do today…I do have to cook since the turkey went bad yesterday and I had to toss the carcass so no turkey soup…but I have ham bones and they will end up in soup this week….more later…
Too damn much snow…
Well…just finished taking an hour to shovel the 8-9 inches of snow we got overnight and that included a drift of a foot and a half that was along my front fence…and I am already tired of the damn snow…my new neighbors asked me when they plow the snow up here and I had to break it to them that they only plowed twice up here all last winter…I think they will make the complaint so I won’t have to…we’re supposed to get 4 more tomorrow so it looks like I’ll be shoveling all week…and it’s going to be cold with highs in the 20’s…ick…
November 30th
Well…up at 4:14 and out of bed by 5:40 and I’m on the first cup of coffee that needs to work right now…we did get 5 inches of snow overnight so I’ll be out shoveling after I get the weight work and rides in…had an okay day yesterday and finally finished the 641 page Robert Ludlum book that took days and days to read and now I’m back into a Dean Koontz that should be a faster read…pretty damn worn out today and it would be nice to have a day off but that’s just not me…not sure what I’m going to do today but Man U plays at 7 and that is going to make me late for getting my work done…I did make whole bean coffee this morning and I can even taste it a little so I’ll take it…I wonder what would happen if I just sat here for a bit? Probably die but I’m not ready for that yet….okay, time to get the weight work started…more later…
New dentures…
Well…in the time that I’ve been gone from here, I finally got my partial dentures 3 weeks ago and I’m finally getting used to them…still can’t talk for crap but I just need practice for that and I don’t get any being alone all the time…think I’ll go back to reading aloud since the only way to train my mouth is by talking and I read all the time so that does help…over the past couple of days I’ve even been able to chew hard stuff like pretzels with no pain…they replaced the molars that were lost to infection and it is nice to have molars again and to not have to chew so carefully…still can’t taste anything so that is the next thing I’ll address at my yearly checkup in the spring…
Ran an errand…
Well…since it really hasn’t started to snow yet, I decided to run an errand to get the egg noodles I need to make turkey soup in a couple of days…and with the snow coming in, I won’t be able to get out of here until mid week next week…the computer on the car has gradually started to reset itself after I took the battery cable off Wed…it didn’t stall but the idle is still pretty rough but that should get better as I drive it more…already have the weight work and one ride done and I will get back on the bike after the F1 sprint race that comes on at 9…not sure if I’m going to do anything the rest of the day but the kitchen does need some work…I guess we’ll see…more later…
November 29th
Well…it’s been 2 months since I had to do one of these as soon as I got up and I didn’t remember how hard it is to get my brain working this early…had a good day yesterday but didn’t get anything done but some reading and shoveling the snow off the walks…and that will probably be the only work I get done today with the 6-10 inches of snow that is in the forecast…it’s not even December and the winter crap starts…and I’m nowhere near the acceptance that I get as the winter drags on…oh, well…up and out of bed at 5:26 today and that is a bit too early for me…but it’s been the pattern for quite a while so I guess I have to get used to it…need to get on the weight work in a few minutes to get my day started and I don’t want to…my bp was through the roof this morning so I’m going to take it again before I start on the coffee…just reading, riding the bike, and cleaning on the agenda today…and that seems like too much work right now…more later…