Well…I know, I’m late but you know with the problems I’ve been having getting thoughts down here, I thought I’d try to change things up and take the bike ride first to see if that would help…nope, it didn’t…didn’t think about anything on the ride but “Dark Side of the Moon” and that was okay….and I feel better than I should today…I think I slept okay and that may be it….it was a bunny alert day today and I decided to count how many just for the fun of it…57….and two deer…and the gorgeous woman….and it was a good ride but it’s 10:15 and I have everything done I wanted to do..so what’s next? Oh, the F1 race is on at noon so that will be a diversion at least…other than that…not much to do today with everyone out of town or working…oh, well…I am going to try to get a couple more out today…maybe another econ 101 since the repubs here in Michigan don’t seem to understand it at all….
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Does anyone else find this disturbing?
Well…I just had to comment on the new Mercedes commercial that tries to sell their cars by pointing out that they will keep you safe in an emergency….but then they go one to have the people say that they fell asleep, wasn’t paying attention and other ridiculous anecdotes. All of this put a question in my head….”do only stupid people buy Mercedes?” Since when it is a selling point that your customers are so stupid or inept that they need the car to think for them? I find it disturbing that the skill and responsibility level of the American driver has sunk so low that they can’t even stay in their lane or keep from running up the back of a truck that stops in front of them….in all my years of driving, I’ve never found the need to have my car pay attention for me, or wake me up, or stay in the right lane for me….geez….
July 23rd
Well….it seems that I’m always running late these days and there is really no reason for it….I did want to read the newspapers first and get some coffee in me but it’s not helping much….it was a normal day yesterday but I did get the kitchen cleaned and today I will get the bathroom done and get started on the rest of the place….I may go out for HH by myself today since everyone is out of town and I do need to get out of here for a while….other than that, not much to do today…I am going to get out in the sun since my hands are looking really weird with the tips of my fingers still white since they are wrapped around the hand grips on the bike when I’m out…and the ankles look really weird, too….I will try to come back later for at least one since I am still about 4 under where I need to be to get my 60 in for the month…I did have to take more money out of the IRA to get through Aug and Sept and I don’t feel good about that….but what can I do?
Still trying….not much success..
Well…I have really, really been trying to get the ability to write back again and you can see it has been with little success…so today, I decided to just chill and clean and try to sneak up on it but that didn’t work either…so, now what? Not sure…after I cleaned the kitchen today, I just couldn’t use any of the things I cleaned so the stovetop, pots, and pans, are still sitting there clean…even though I know I should eat more than 4 ozs of pork loin and some potato salad…..and I did get the bike ride in after the rain so that probably took care of those calories…okay, this one isn’t going anywhere….I think I need to start going out more and seeing new people…I’m just not inspired by this boring routine and I’m losing all touch with the discipline it takes to write…hmmmm…I think I need to think about this for a while…
July 22nd
Well…another bore of a night and for some reason, I’m running later today….was planning on going out to the beach today but it looks like it’s going to rain off and on all day so I think I’ll just hang out here and get the bike ride in and then clean…my stove needs a complete tear down and the rest of the kitchen doesn’t look much better so I guess I’ll have to get off my butt and get things done….so, there are things to do today if I just decide to do them….or I might not, who knows? More later….
Didn’t get to it….
Well…I was going to lie out in the sun for a while but it was just too hot to do it comfortably so I took a pass….looks like I’ll have to live with the weird looking tan for another day….I did want to get to the Michigan tax thing….I saw an analysis the other day that really describes what the “shared sacrifice” that our gov and the rest of the repubs here are trying to sell. Under the new plan, and with the deletion of the homestead tax credit for the middle class…a retiree making around 50K a year in retirement benefits will pay more than 3,000 dollars a year more in taxes…taking almost 8% additional from that meager amount. But, people making over 250K per year that are still working will pay less than that in their tax increase. Now, does that sound fair to anyone? Does that sound like shared sacrifice. Nope, it didn’t to me either….I have only one more comment….where are the jobs from the 2 billion dollars you just gave away to business? There are none….but ceo pay just went up again and I am pissed about having to pay for a raise for someone making millions a year….
More repub nonsense…
Well…with all of the talk of economic apocalypse that will come from the failure to raise the debt ceiling, what do we see from the house repubs? We see them spending a whole legislative day on a symbolic bill called “cut, cap, and balance” that everyone in the country knows will never pass the senate or be signed into law. What we have is a bunch of right wing thugs playing chicken with the economy to make a point for the 20% of the country that say they are tea party aligned while the rest of us sit here and wait for our retirement money to be worth nothing when the stock market crashes, which it will if these idiots keep this nonsense up. I really hope they keep this crap up…then we will take back the house, keep the senate, and Obama will get 4 more years…..and I would pile on our own gov Snyder…in fact, I think I will….where are the jobs governor? Where are the jobs Eric Cantor? It just shows again how the repubs just care about ideology, not about you and me….I do have more about the tax shift here in Michigan but that one is for later….I need to lie our in the sun and try to even out the tan….
July 21st
Well…another night and one that is just like the last hundred or so….I could not believe how hot is was last night…helped my neighbor get her car started by pushing it and in about 2 minutes, I was soaked. Looks like the same sort of day today so I need to get all of my activity done early and then just veg out here until I head over to T’s later…but this is about the fourth time this week that we were going to get together and I’m not sure if this one will happen either with her busy schedule….we’ll see. I feel kind of okay today but not 100% and I think it may be a bug of some sort or allergies kicking in…not sure which but it is tiring. Not much to do today….going to get groceries I think, but I’m not sure if I’m motivated enough to do that this morning…..I would like to have some food here but it’s not a driving force by any means…more later…
Trying to get caught up…
Well…I’m running so far behind this month that I don’t know if I can catch up but I’m going to give it the old college try….it’s been a weird couple of days and I have been resisting putting the air on since I’ve already told you I see dollars leaving this place every time it comes on….but, I just couldn’t stand it today since it’s 95 degrees outside and almost 85 in here…maybe I’ll just cool it down for a while and then turn it off…I might have to meet up with T later and that is going to be fun opening up the car after having it bake in the sun all day…I will be soaked by the time I see her but what can I say? I did have to re duct tape the windshield pillar today since the old stuff had kind of melted in the sun….and I think I have another exhaust leak that is going to cost another 300 bucks that I don’t have…these little drips, drips, drips of cost are going to drive me nuts unless I find a job soon….I think I’ll stop here for now and come back later if I can think of another topic….
Another day….more stupidity…
Well….before I get to the political stuff…I do have to relay one bit of trail weirdness…well…maybe not weirdness but coolness let’s say….there must have been a huge hatch of those little blue butterflies yesterday….there were hundreds of them on the trail and when I went through the swarms they looked just like blue snowflakes blowing in the wind…just the coolest thing…
Okay, now on to the stupidity….there is so much crying on the repub side about deficits that they want try to pass a constitutional amendment to limit the governments ability to respond to slowdowns by codifying the percentage of government spending to an average of the last thirty years….basically saying that they can see the future and know what is going to happen 10, 20, 30 years down the road. They didn’t even see the crash coming in 2008….how can they now believe they are prescient? Just another bunch of stupidity by the party of the know-nothings who are proud of their ignorance and who willfully confuse ideology with good policy and who choose ideology over the needs of the citizens of this country…geez….