Well…that was fun to be out for a change..have been here since Wed night and the boredom was becoming normal…don’t want that to happen since I’m isolated enough…hmmmm. It was nice to see K and V but it was a short one…only a couple of beers and a shot, but I am a little worn out since I’ve been up since 5:45…yep, still not sleeping but, as I’ve said, not going to bitch about that any more since everyone I know has the same problem…I’d love to just once sleep like I did when I was a teenager…where your head hit the pillow and you are out for 10 hours. Oh, well…
I DO have some outrage percolating over the Grand Rapids Press and how slanted they are to the point of being another mouthpiece for the repubs…I mean, c’mon…Michele Malkin and Jay Ambrose as their star columnists…geez…what are they, Fox news midwest?
Well…it is getting kind of irritating that I can depend on the DSL going out on Friday night and coming back on Sunday morning…but I did get a lot of stuff done yesterday do maybe there is a silver lining. Just watched the F-1 race from Monaco and I don’t like the idea that they moved it from Memorial Day weekend…it was always the coolest race weekend with Monaco, Indy, and the World 600 all on the same day…it used to be wash and wax the car day, too, listening to Indy on the radio..bygone days, I know.
Getting ready to take the bike out as soon as the temp gets up to around 60…going to take a nice long one today but I’m not sure if it’s Pink Floyd for the ride or maybe some Peter Gabriel “Secret World Live”….or Neil Young….hmmmm. More later….
Just a short one this Sunday morning, no post yesterday since the DSL was down from Friday night until this morning…so there will be more later after I have my coffee and read the newspaper….Sunday Funday today!
Look…I may have looked at the political implications and how the parties are using the gulf oil spill, and that is relevant…but I don’t want to minimize the human cost of the explosion of the oil platform…11 people died there and they should be remembered as well as the oil spill…..
Okay…I’ll get started on the whole change thing now…while I’m waiting for a Kubrick movie to start. In a novel that I wrote about 15 years ago, I presented the idea that there are times in life where an event happens and from that point forward, how you look at life and how your life unfolds is different than it was before. But that is not the only premise that I have to speak to, I’ll get to how change has a personal effect; in this case the effect on my life and how hard it has been throughout my life to adapt to change while others that I see around me can just take it all in stride and go on in a straight line…like there is only one path and no matter what happens, they will be on that path. I don’t know if there is a purpose to all of this, but change is something that has been troubling to me for about a year now and has occupied my thoughts to a great extent. So, this is going to be a multi-post subject that will probably unfold over a while….if you’re interested, come back…hope I don’t bore you too much.
Well…this whole idea of the gulf oil spill being “Obama’s Katrina” that is being pushed by the delusional righties is so egregiously political that I have to add a few more comments before I let it go. First, the idea of comparing a natural disaster to a man-made one is a false analogy at best; and at worst a blatant attempt to re-write history and minimize the failures of the Bushies to do what government is supposed to do…take care of it’s citizens in the event of natural disaster. The role of government is not to go around cleaning up after companies that have made world record profits on the backs of Americans, and then, just like the banks, move the costs for their mistakes to the government. Why are the righties screaming that Obama is not doing enough when they yell out of the other side of their mouth that government is too big and we are on the path to socialism. YOU CAN’T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS….or I guess you can when all of the their followers only watch Fox news…Geez….
It’s been kind of uneventful for the last couple of days so I don’t have too much to say today. I did figure out what was wrong with the grill (spiders in the gas tube) and I am ready to use it…bought almost 90 bucks worth of food today so I’ll have burgs, fish and steak over the weekend. Made some ocean perch with G’s mustard honey glaze for lunch and it was okay..neglected to skin the fish and it curled up and didn’t cook evenly…and I need more mustard since the fish has such a mild flavor.
No real plans for the weekend as yet, except drinks with K Sunday…so maybe a Sunday Funday this week. Haven’t seen her for a couple of weeks so that should be fun.
I WILL get back to change sometime later this aft but I just got back from riding and I need to take a short break…
Oh, one thought popped into my head today that I thought I’d share…but it might be one that only us old guys have to think about…why am I trying to take good care of myself and live 25 more years when the money is going to run out in 4 or so? Just asking…
Well….I have to point out this new set of hypocrisies coming out of the righties and their attempts to paint the Obama administration as a failure. Throughout the Bush administration, even when their policies were objectively abject failures, (read that Katrina, lies to get us into Iraq, etc.) the supporters of Bush and his cronies, and Bush himself, had not one word to say on the failures or even a word of criticism of his dilution of civil liberties that the courts have since ruled were illegal.
So what do we see happening now from the right wing attack machine? They have now taken to comparing the oil spill in the gulf as Obama’s Katrina, now trying to make the point that Bush’s handling of Katrina was a failure. Well guys, you can’t have it both ways, your beloved GW was incompetent (which most of the evidence points to as being true) or the comparison could not be made. I’ve had it with these supposed “experts” whose only claim to fame is that they have been the upholders of a failed philosophy; not unlike the southern apologists who are still revering the south’s role in the civil war. Geez…
Had fun out in Ada last night and finally won the night at pool after losing for the last 4 weeks. Kept it pretty low-key so I feel okay today but this whole not sleeping thing is starting to get to be a pain. Looks like no bike ride today and I’m not too motivated to work out but if I just get my butt on the machine and get started, it will be okay. What else do I have to do anyway?
I so have to say thanks to the Montreal Canadiens for knocking off Pittsburgh in game seven of the East hockey semis…go home and cry Cindy…I just hate these guys after we let them win in the finals last year. Still not as good a rivalry as Colorado used to be but it’s nice to have a team that you dislike. Could it be an original six matchup with Chicago and Montreal? Hope so…the Sharks have to lose but I didn’t see anything in the Hawks playoff perfomance that would give me hope…oh, well.