Well…it has been a nice day so far with another great lunch with T and since it’s raining, I’m going to take the day off from riding the bike and to try to not feel guilty about it. Even though there have been some events in politics that I could comment on, I just haven’t been able to work up the outrage necessary to put together a long one. Okay, there is one that I will drop a short one on…the self-destruction and implosion of ole Newt’s presidential campaign and the smile it brought to my face…the whole thing was just an exercise in narcissism that pointed out that Newt is great at talking and telling people what to do but when it comes to actually doing the work necessary to govern, he just doesn’t want to get his hands dirty and wants to act like the political elite he inveighs against constantly. Who else but one of the elites could have a 500K charge account at Tiffany’s? Oh, I do have another…ole Mitt working across our state claiming that he was the first one to suggest that the auto industry should be saved…but that’s not what he said, he said that the auto companies should be required to go through a non-structured bankruptcy that likely would have resulted in the liquidation of Chrysler and possibly that of GM and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. He was against the government help that preserved all those good, middle class jobs, just as he did running his venture capital company that was responsible for the destruction of many more jobs than he ever created….not to mention hundreds of millions in profit he put in his own pocket that would have saved a lot of those jobs. Flip flopping again, eh, Mitt?
Monthly Archives: June 2011
June 10th
Well…I was a good boy last night so I feel okay today even with the lack of sleep…it was nice to have the weather cool off somewhat but I do like it hot…it seems that I’m just not a creaky when it’s warm…I have been sore lately with pains almost everywhere and now I’ve got this grinding thing going on in my wrist…it is kind of fun to listen to it when I move it…yep, doesn’t take much to amuse me…not sure what I’m going to do today but I do have lunch with T and that will be fun and maybe even drinks with K later which would help fill today at least….need to take the clubs out and hit a few but it looks like rain this morning so I may just leave the bike in, too, and heal up some….won’t have to cook today so that moves the pork loin back until tomorrow and that is good since tomorrow is another race day with the 24 hours of LeMans running all day…as you can tell…I’m still struggling with the flow of this thing so I’m going to stop here but I will keep trying later….
I’ve been trying…
Well…it’s been a busy morning with having to take the bike apart to fix the flat…but that’s not an excuse, I’ve been trying to come up with some topics but just haven’t been able to put anything together and it’s starting to frustrate me a bit….of course I could go after Manny again for his idiocy or after Nolan for his naked partisanship but even when they write the outrageous crap they did today I can’t muster up a response…and I don’t want to write crap (you might think it is but you wouldn’t be here if it was that bad) so I think I’ll watch “the Daily Show” and come back in a while to see if that helps….
June 9th
Well…an okay day yesterday but I woke up this morning to another flat on the bike so I’ll have to get a repair kit when I get groceries this morning or another tube, not sure yet…but I guess that’s the only decision I’ll have to make today and that makes it easy…I am a little irritated that I missed the storms last night but I can stop running the air and don’t have to watch the money running out the door every time it starts…I wasn’t good last night so I do feel a little crappy today but I may survive it…not much to do today…groceries, of course and then repairing the bike but that’s about it…I did watch a good small movie last night called “How do you know” that was a little odd in that even though there were characters with flaws, they were all still likable and nice people…but, not much happened in it and that is okay…I will get to more later but the hope of a long form one is quite slim today…more later…
It’s not that easy…
Well…don’t have a long-form topic again today…it seems that there are so many things up in the air about my life that I’m just not thinking clearly enough to be lucid for long periods of time. So, this is going to be a short one with a few topics….let’s start with Anthony Weiner…what a fricking idiot…what the heck is wrong with politicians these days? Don’t they understand that electronic records last forever once they hit the web? I’m not sure if he should resign but this whole incident just shows that he’s not too bright…but what politician is? Hmmm…oh, the whole lost jobs thing in Obama’s term…the repubs just keep lying about the issue and no one is calling them on it….blaming Obama for the 2 million jobs lost before he even took office…so, that means he’s responsible for 9/11, Katrina, and anything else that happened before he was sworn in, too, I guess. Then, we have ole Tim Pawlenty coming out with his economic plan that includes more tax cuts and a promise that these cuts will result in a 5% growth rate for the economy….never has happened…never will happen….these guys are just pulling figures out of their asses and their base is eating it up…I really fear for this country now…geez…
June 8th
Well… a quite different day yesterday…got up early and headed for the beach and the was okay but I’m not going back until the water is warm enough to go swimming…no way to cool off…and I was kind of an idiot when I got back, waiting until 2 to go out on the bike and it was like riding in liquid…almost dangerous since you just can’t dump that heat and it took me almost two hours to cool down when I got back…going out early this morning since it is going to be worse today….still can’t warm up to Biggby coffee but I may give it one more try today just to get out of here…not much to do today…going to just kind of hibernate here after the ride and stay out of the heat…I will be back later with more…there are things happening again…
Back from the beach…
Well…a nice morning on the beach with the fog rolling across it when I got there and a nice breeze keeping the temperature bearable but the water temp was only in the 50′s and that is just too cold for me to go in…maybe tomorrow if I go back again…but that’s not what I wanted to talk about this time…well…I did or I wouldn’t have written it. But, let’s get to the real topic…I know you’ve heard of sister Sarah’s revising of the history of Paul Revere’s ride and her adamant defense of that on Fox News where even Chris Wallace could barely keep a straight face when she admonished him when he asked if she misspoke, and she then went on to dig the hole deeper by explaining with a jumble of random words that made absolutely no sense. Then we had her legion of troglodyte followers (I’m sure spurred on by her protectors) that then attacked Wikipedia by posting false information on that site that would mirror what she said. This is normal repub behavior and just reflects and amplifies their disdain for objective truth or history…after all, these folks believe that the world is 6,000 years old and can’t be convinced of anything else…geez….
June 7th
Well….I’m sure you noticed that I’d titled these wrong over the past couple of days…still stuck in May…or maybe that was wishful thinking on my part…so, I went back and fixed them…need to stay consistent, after all. It was an okay day yesterday…didn’t do much but I did go out for a couple with G and ran into T at GL…it was good to see her…and then I was good when I got home so I feel okay today…so okay that I think I’m going to the beach this morning to hang out and read the paper….and get the color started evening out…it’s already 75 degrees at 7am so it will be nice…have to look up what the Lake Michigan water temp is to see how badly I’m going to freeze if I go swimming….probably should get my workout in before I go so I can just ride the bike when I get back…decisions, decisions…so you know that means I’ll be late for the next one but I normally get off the beach by noon…more later…
A mixed bag….
Well….got a slight shock this morning with the coffee shop that I have gone to every morning for more than 6 years closing with no warning…I’m a little un-anchored right now sine the Biggby that is up the street is not Kava….I am going to miss the ladies that worked there and seeing the rest of the regulars…oh, well….next, it finally hit me that my daughter is moving to Seattle next week….I know that I didn’t visit much while she was in Chicago but there was always the possibility that I could….but things change and I have to get used to it…just a little unsettled today…
On Politics….we have the idiot repubs in the US Senate blocking the nomination of a Nobel prize winning economist whose specialty is labor markets to the governing board of the Fed…if you had any thought that these guys don’t give a damn about job creation, this is another brick in the wall and goes along with the decisions made in the boardrooms across the country (after consultation with the repubs), that business is going to sit on their hands with job creation to make sure that jobs remain an issue into the 2012 election….this should be against the law…geez…
June 6th
Well…it was kind of the day I expected yesterday…not much going on but races so I made the best of it and just watched them….and napped..it is Napcar after all….I did nave a nice ride and it still feels good that at my age I can rip off 20 miles on the bike in almost a sprint…I wonder when that is going to go away like everything else…there were some neat things to look at on the trail yesterday…a deer was about 20 feet from the edge and just stood there as I rode by…it was paying attention to me but no skittishness as all and that was unusual…there were muskrats, bunnies, more snakes…I did look up and see things since it was a no sprint day and that made me smile. Didn’t hear from G but I really didn’t expect to…will probably hear from her today..if not, that’s okay, too. Not much to do today…the weather is going to be beach-like all week and I am going to have to load the car up and go one day early in the day…I can use the evening of the bike tan….I will try to get a few out today…had many ideas as I was trying to sleep last night but they are all gone now so I’ll have to start over…