Well…it was a day yesterday and I still haven’t gotten out on the bike in a while…I think it’s been over a week…did get out for about a mile yesterday but I am just not going into a 20 mile an hour wind anymore…and, I didn’t come back for a second one yesterday but is that any surprise for a Sunday? I did take the car out for a drive since I needed to get out of here for a while and I had shorts on with the top down…but I’m not ready to get into shorts for the summer yet since it is supposed to be int he 30′s later in the week…slept okay last night but no dreams to speak of…darn….I did make some thick pork chops on the grill and they came out great….not much to do today…going to continue the cleaning and then maybe meet up with G later for a couple….more later…
Monthly Archives: April 2013
April 14th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get a bunch of stuff done around here so I feel good about that…slept okay again last night but I know it was the cocktails and I do need to find a better way….I’m looking out the window right now and I just can’t believe that we are half way through April and it is still snowing…have not had even one day yet where is smells like spring and I am starting to get depressed about that…and the weather has been too crappy to get out on the bike which just adds to the feeling of being cooped up here…and being broke again doesn’t help….but, Man U plays in a few minutes and I have some nice thick pork chops to grill later so that is a good thing…not much to do today…I am going to continue to clean but the day will be quite low key and I’ll be moving with some deliberateness….more later…
Are we in 1913 or 2013…
Well…I woke to a news story that makes me question if we are really in 2013….in NC, there are a group of students in a high school there who are trying to have an integrated prom for the first time ever…yep, in 2013 the racism still runs so strong in the south that in 2013, segregation is still acceptable and being taught to the children there. And, when the repub governor was asked to support these kids and their bid to end this nonsense, his only comment that it was a “Democrat stunt” and he was not going to comment or support the integration. I marvel at the hate and racism that still runs so strong in the repubs….even in this day and age….but, I am not surprised…especially with the latest meme from their side is that the “god fearing christians” are going to be rounded up and made to wear signs on their clothes since they oppose gay marriage, and then the next step is concentration camps…I am not making this up….what a bunch of maroons…geez…
April 13th
Well…running late but it’s Saturday so who cares? I was an okay day yesterday and I had the top down on the way out to shoot pool…and I won so that was okay, too…but the way back was top up with it raining so much…just saw in the paper that we got the normal average for the entire month of April last week…no wonder I feel like all it does is rain…and then, getting up this morning to snow on the car again is almost too much…slept kinda last night…but was up at 5:40 and that is getting really old…so it looks like it will be a take it easy day today with just cleaning and cooking…broke down and bought some burger since the grill is working so well….it looks like cheeseburgers for lunch…not much else to do today…just going to screw around here and write a little….more later…
Religion is no excuse for bigotry…
Well…have had this one rattling around in my head for a couple of days now and I’m still not sure if I can get it out and make any sense…it started with the latest gambit of the bigots on the right where they are playing the persecution card now that they have been called out on their bigotry towards gays…saying that they are just following their religion so that gives them a pass to be racists and bigots…that may be so within their religion but it doesn’t give them license to push their bigotry on the whole country. That is what they have been doing for years with DOMA, prop 8 in Cali, and the constitutional amendment here in Michigan that bans gay marriage. I, for one, am just damn sick and tired of having religion in the public sphere at all…why should my life and the lives of anyone be affected by silly assed writings done by a bunch of superstitious goatherders over 2,000 years ago….especially since all of them were cribbed from earlier writings…some from over 1500 years before Jesus was supposedly born. I have just one thing to say…if you want to live by the Bible or the teachings of the flying spaghetti monster, go ahead…just leave me out of it and stop trying to jam this crap down the throats of us who think…geez…
April 12th
Well…it was a long day yesterday but the weird thing is I didn’t get anything done…no, that’s not true…I did get the trunk of the car cleaned up and painted the brackets that hold the battery down along with repairing the vent tube that had split…slept like crap and I was really hoping that the cocktails would make it better…no luck…I am getting really tired of the fact that there has been no spring so far…it was just damn cold working on the car yesterday…not much to do today..was supposed to have lunch with T but that got canceled so it will be just pool today…and that’s okay, really…more later…
I’m done with Obama…
Well…I am sitting here really, really pissed at Obama with the nonsense in his budget that cuts both SS and Medicare…two programs that have absolutely nothing to do with the deficit and which are solvent for the next twenty years…and I am not one of those supporters of his who think this is some “11 dimensional chess” where he is going to be able to get the tax increases the country needs and still not have to make cuts to the programs that seniors and the middle class depend on. I think he is just enthralled by his own legacy where he would be hailed for some stupid “grand bargain” that he could get from the repubs…I think he is just delusional if he thinks he will ever get any compromise from those idiots and why should he even try? When the rich keep getting richer by stealing more and more from the workers that make them successful…where ceo’s pay has gone up by almost 100% in the last three years while they plead poverty and cut benefits…and Obama sits there and does nothing about it…I guess the hope of the middle class now rest with Bernie Sanders and Senator Warren….we’ve all been abandoned by Obama…you guys keep up the good fight…geez…
April 11th
Well…it was another day yesterday and I had fun going out to have a couple with G but have to stop that since I’m broke again…slept okay last night but had weird dreams that I don’t really remember already…probably should have done this about 20 minutes ago so I would have remembered it…oh, well…feel okay this morning but I am just tired of waiting for spring to come…haven’t even been able to get motivated to go out on the bike since I don’t want to go back to thermasuit and gloves…but, it looks like I’ll have to today…have been getting into the curling world championships and Canada is playing Scotland right now which is kind of cool….not much to do today…do need to do the grocery run and get some baking soda since the trunk has a little rust from the battery and I need to get that taken care of before it gets past the surface rust….will have to wait until it gets warmer to paint but at least I can neutralize the acid…more later…
Didn’t meander yesterday…so I will today…
Well…there have been some political things happen over the past few days but just don’t feel like doing one of those today….just want to do some meandering and see where it goes…I still can’t believe that the top on the Miata doesn’t leak even with all of the rain we’ve had over the past few days…my last convert, a Fiat 124 Spyder, leaked almost constantly and you could never get it sealed to keep the wind out…and the Miata is so much better of a car…Still no bites on the resumes this year so far and I am just so disappointed by that…and being broke is still a pain in the butt…the grill that I got for free is working like a champ and I have been grilling almost every day…have some rainbow trout to go on tomorrow and need to make a marinade for them this aft…it looks like the Red Wings aren’t going to make the playoffs this year for the first time in 21 years and that is really disappointing…but, the Tigers are hitting their stride so that will be fun to watch this summer…might be going out to have a couple with G this aft but who knows? Hmmmm…what else? One cool thing that I have found as a Miata owner is the Miata.net site where other owners hang out…without taking the car apart, I feel like I know it so much better just reading others posts…..and it gives me something to do….that’s it….
April 10th
Well….I need this rain to end…I am getting cranky just sitting here after working out and not being able to ride the bike…and, where the heck is spring? It is supposed to snow again later this week and I am tired of it…oh, well…not much I can do about it…it was an okay day yesterday but I just couldn’t get motivated to cook anything so I am feeling the effects today…it’s nice to be losing the winter weight but I have no energy and that is really a pain…I do have to try to get some things done around here today but the gloom is draining all of my motivation…maybe I’ll feel like it later…and I will get to another one today…just need to think about what it could be…