Well…it was a dull day yesterday but I did get the bike ride in so that is something…slept okay, too, but still feel a little crappy from cocktails that I think will go away after the ride this morning….at least I hope so….there is really not much to report on yesterday so I’m not sure what to write about today…I am going to go and meet up with a new car group this aft for a color tour and I hope they are not as old as the folks in the Miata cloub…I am the young guy after all in the Miata club and I am tired of hearing how many houses, cars, etc, that they own….okay…not feeling this right now so I am going to finish the coffee and get out on the bike before it rains…more later…
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Just wow…
Well…I have been laughing a little today about one of the features out on Kos where Kos goes out to the right wing echo chamber and finds the craziest ideas and people out there…and this week was a special one since there seems to be a surge in people hating us over at Kos since we are starting to win some of the political battles that are being fought…and what I find the funniest thing are the comments that we are violent socialist, totalitarians that are the worst people who have ever lived on the earth because we care for other people, want healthcare, and want the tea party to go back under the rock they crawled from….and then the righties that are posting invariably say they are coming with their guns and we’d better watch out…and much other violent imagery…..so who are the violent ones? I’ve never seen anyone on Kos say anything but that we need to continue to win elections…and the right thinks that is violent? I think these idiots are really, really, confused, since they equate losing elections to coups, government takeovers, and a loss of freedom….just a big ole bag of stupid over there on the right…geez…
October 26th
Well…another day gone by with nothing to show for it….I did win at pool but it was mostly that the luck has returned and that is okay…I need a little luck right now…it was just another night last night, too, getting pretty boring just sitting around here every night but I do need to conserve cash so I guess that is all I can do right now…tonight should be better with a Wings game to watch….not much to do today…I did get behind with not coming back for another one yesterday so I’ll have to do a couple more today…not even going to cook today since I have leftovers to use before they spoil…and I do have some smoked fish that Tom gave me that I am going to have right now…bagels, cream cheese, and smoked fish with coffee as I wait for the rain to end so I can get a ride in…
October 25th
Well…it was a long day yesterday but I had some fun going out for a couple with K…but, that led into cocktails so I do feel a little crappy today…and sore from head to toe probably from the windy, cold bike ride yesterday…my elbow continues to get worse and that is a surprise…all the other joint pain I’ve had has gone away after a few months but his one has been there since April and I am getting tired of it…oh, well…not much to do today..pool, of course but not much else….I am going to wait for the temp to come up before I get on the bike so that will give me some time to take some ibuprofen and I hope that will help on the bike…more later…
Hypocrisy seems to be the theme of the day…Ted Cruz…
Well….with all of the efforts by ole Ted to try to make sure no one in the middle class or working poor get any subsidies to help make their healthcare affordable…we have this delicious little tidbit about where he gets his healthcare….turns out he is covered by his wife’s policy at Goldman Sachs where she is a managing director making over 10 million dollars a year…and, since her policy that is conservatively estimated to be worth over 20 thousand dollars a year is considered part of her compensation, she doesn’t have to pay the estimated 8,500 in taxes it would cost if it was compensation….so in effect, they are getting a tax credit or subsidy of over 8,500 dollars a year to help them purchase their health insurance. I find it so damn hypocritical that ole Ted spends all of his time trying to eliminate Obamacare and it’s subsidies to the little guy while he and his family wallow in the largess of tax breaks for their healthcare…and I bet she even has her income treated like ole Mitt’s as carried interest and pays only 8-10% while the rest of us pay up to 30%. Typical hypocrisy that is rampant from all of the repubs these days…geez…
Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy….
Well…I am still laughing about the abject hypocrisy that is oozing from the repubs in the house today as they try to use hearings on the glitches in the Obamacare sign up website to continue their fight to end it…but, as with most repubs these days, they have no memory of even 6 years ago when Medicare part D was rolled out…and guess what? The same sort of glitches happened…exactly the same sort…and not one dem came forward to say that it should be eliminated since the rollout was glitchy….they agreed with the repubs at the time that people should be patient and allow the fixes to take effect…what is different now? Could it be that these crazy repubs just don’t give a damn about anything but scoring political points and trying to hurt Obama? That is sure how it looks…and they couldn’t look worse…but I’m sure they’ll try…geez…
October 24th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I finally got the thermasuit figured out so I didn’t freeze on the bike….and I am running late since I did have to get some groceries today and gas the car up…still haven’t had the nerve to find out how far below empty I can go on the gauge…the old car would cough about 2 miles before I ran out of gas…probably not something I really need to know…one needle width below empty should be far enough….slept okay and don’t feel too bad today but part of it may be I may have things to do this aft…definitely going to meet up with K later but might even have a meet up with T…although the one sched for yesterday didn’t happen….it was a little disheartening to see the snow falling on the way to groceries today…and to having to warm the car up to melt off the ice…way too early for that to happen…not much to do today…I’ve already said what may happen….and I hope it does…will be nice to get out of here for a while….
It’s just a glitch…followed by GOP hypocrisy…
Well…I am laughing about all of the hand wringing in the media about the glitches in the healthcare.gov website that is the portal to sign up for Obamacare for many of us in the US since the repubs in many states refused to set up their own state websites….I guess that kind of stuff should be expected from the troglodyte repubs who think that dial up internet is still just fine…but, for anyone who has ever had to deal with a software roll out, this kind of stuff is not unexpected…just ask Microsoft who just recalled the latest update of Windows 8 since it caused many, many devices to crash…and this is from a company that was founded on software and has decades of experience. But, what I find the most funny is the repubs hypocrisy on the matter…trying 40 times to repeal the law and now switching over to fake concern that some people haven’t been able to sign up for the insurance that they hate…going so far as to hold hearings on why this happened…but, you know the only reasons these asses want to hold these hearing is to try to beat up on Obama since he and the rest of the dems just kicked their butts on the shutdown….and the repubs have learned nothing from that defeat…as they talk more and more about Obamacare it becomes more popular and more people head out to the sites to check it out…nice job repubs for all of the publicity…please proceed…geez…
October 23rd
Well…it was a strange day yesterday and it was just more of the survival mode that I have been in lately…and the ice on the car this morning didn’t help….but the coffee is so I am going to try to get a few things done today…not sure what that will be but I think that will sort out as the day goes on….might have a meet up with T later but that looks a little iffy right now…slept okay last night and had some really strange dreams but they are really jumbled so I won’t report them now….feel pretty good today and it was a smart move yesterday to go with a half thermasuit on the bike with a stocking hat and gloves…will have to up that today since it is going be cold before I go out…..but the wind is down so that will help….not much to do today….I do need to clean a little since my cooktop is kind of greasy from all the cooking but that is about it…more later…
October 22nd
Well….it was just another in a long line of boring days yesterday and I think I’m shifting into survival mode..can’t remember the last time I had a good day that gave me a reason to smile and the fact that it is going to snow over the next few days is landing on my head like a large piece of lead…it would be nice if it was Led as in Zeppelin but that is not the case…it was a no cocktail night last night so I do feel okay today but I do need to stop the sleeping pills that I have been taking for over a month now…so, tonight looks like that night and I am gearing up for a night of no sleep and a bad day tomorrow….but, it has to happen some time so why not now? not much to do today…It looks like it will be full thermasuit on the bike today and that is not anything I am looking forward to…but, I will be back for more later since I really don’t have anything else to do…more later….