Well…waiting for the Tigers game to start and thought I’d put a few words down about the gov’t shutdown and the debt ceiling fight that is coming up…and let’s keep repeating this…the repubs are to blame…or, more to the point ole Boehner is to blame for this…never in the history of the country has the minority party tried to nullify duly passed laws by holding the world economy hostage with the threats to crash it…and then sitting there in their ignorance and saying that the default on our debt will have no effect…even when every economist in the world says it will cause a crisis that is only rivaled by the great depression….so, we need to keep repeating “the repubs are to blame” and then take back the house in 2014…these are some of the stupidist people I have ever seen in my life…and they just may wreck the country before that….geez…
Monthly Archives: October 2013
October 7th
Well…running right on time this morning and that is even with going to the grocery store…I think I’m starting to like not having cocktails…feel pretty good this morning and I have some energy to get some things done…slept okay but tossed and turned like normal….it would be great to sleep through the night just once more before I die…that’s how frustrating it is to be up and down all night…it was an okay but veggie day yesterday…as you can see, I didn’t come back for a second one so I do need to catch up today…which may be hard since there is a Tigers playoff game on at 1 this aft and I have a bunch of stuff to do this morning….and I do have to wait our the rain to get on the bike..the guilt would be unbearable to skip two days in a row so I’m not going to do that….made homemade bread yesterday that kept falling until I just said the heck with it and baked it…I made a nice little brick but it was still fun to try….I think next time I will not punch it down but just put it in the pan and let it rise the first time then bake it…not much to do today….oh, I’ve already said what I have to do…more later…
October 6th
Well..it was an okay but very lumpy day yesterday…just couch and football for most of the day although I did get out to Logan’s to have a couple of beers with K and her sister…it was nice to get out and drive around a little…slept okay…well, not really…but I am getting used to that again..and no dreams so it was a bust all around…I am in the middle of making homemade bread and need to punch it and knead it to get it ready to bake…not much else to do today….it looks like I am going to take the day off from riding since I have to be here to do the bread and it is going to rain before I get that done…so, I’ll try to keep the guilt at bay for a while…hope it works…
The repubs hate government unless they can steal from it…
Well…in another scam that has been deployed by ALEC…the group that gave us the stand your ground laws and others….we have repub owned companies that are now stealing education money through the scam of “cyber academies” that have been popping up around the country. One of the most egregious thieves is a company called K12…I’m sure you’ve see their ads on tv, whose former teachers have just come forward to reveal the scam. Aided by laws that have been bought from repubs by ALEC, this company has charged the states where they operate hundreds of million of dollars for students that never once signed on to the so called “academy”, who never once did any homework, or answered any e-mails, etc….as you know, these “academies” are just the last, blatant attempt to destroy education here in the US…or, more to the point, to destroy the teacher’s unions as they have gone after every other union in the headlong rush to the destruction of the middle class. These hypocrites rail and rail against government unless they can steal more and more and more from the American people through these scams…we need to put a stop to it….geez…
October 5th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday…made a little cash and won at pool so that was good….and the Wings and Tigers both won last night…didn’t stay up to see the whole Tigers game since it didn’t start until almost 10…I’m glad the Wings have moved to the east so I don’t have the 10 and 10:30 games anymore….slept kind of crappy so I am a little slow today and I know I have to do three of these since I am already behind for the month…not much to do today…it looks like the rain is going to hold off for an hour or so and I need to get the ride in so I need to get going…I am going to try to smoke some fish and some pork chops today since I really don’t have much to do…go Blue!
October 4th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t accomplish much…slept okay last night and I am a little proud of the fact that I have made it through the week with no cocktails here…I did go out and have a couple with G last night and didn’t win at Keno…that seems to be the pattern these days…I am still feeling the allergies a bit and have had a twitch in my right eye for a couple of days and that is getting annoying…but I am still trying to get through the whole allergy season without taking anything just to see how bad the allergies really are…the headaches have been tolerable but the sneezing, coughing and pressure in my head are still there…not much to do today…pool, of course, and I am looking forward to the first Wings game with Ken and Mickey early tonight and then the first Tigers playoff game later in the evening…and I am going to enjoy them with a cocktail and the couch…have been looking forward to that all week…I was going to skip the bike ride and use rain for the excuse but the storms are falling apart so I guess I should get going…more later…
Down they go….
Well…it has been really nice to see the desperation on the part of the repubs who are still trying to undo the results of the last election and holding the country hostage by shutting down the government to end Obamacare. I guess what they knew was coming was that once people saw what was available on the exchanges and that they were a better deal than anything currently available, they would no longer be able to demagogue the program an substitute their lies for the truth. Hell, there are many repubs who are now seeing that they have been lied to when they save $1,000 a month on their premiums and see their co-pays cut in half. How are you going to spin that repubs? I am happy to finally see Obama say “no negotiations, do your job” to the idiots that are gleeful they have shut down government….what are the 2 million that have been put out of work going to say and vote in the next election? For the idiots who don’t give a damn about them and their families or the dems who are acting like adults here? This is the first time in history that the government has been shut down by a tantrum of a minority just because they don’t like a law…and we on the left need to stand firm and not reward these asses for being asses…anyone who has ever raised a child knows that you can’t give in to the tantrum or they just get worse….and these folks are just big children…we should treat them that way…geez…
October 3rd
Well…running late today with Brian stopping at my door this morning to share some photos of the deer from his back yard…and, I know, their are political things to write about but I just can’t seem to get motivated to do one about them…I’ll try today to make some sense and be a little lucid…it was and okay day yesterday but I had to go out to see the Wings first game…what a pain…they did though, so that was cool…slept okay with weird dreams about my bike being torn down by idiots and lots of wind…not sure what that is about but who cares? I do need to get going to get the workout in and ride before it starts to rain…so, I will come back for more later…up to 4 days now with no cocktails…is that an accomplishment? Maybe…
I finally did it!
Well…this one has been coming for the summer and I finally did it….got under an hour for 15 miles on the bike…I’ll be you thought I’d gotten a job…no such luck….this morning, with three cups of coffee, little wind, and cool temps…I got down to 58 mins and 22 secs for the 15 miles…and that even includes 32 seconds at the light at Eastern and 52nd street. I know I haven’t said much about this all summer and part of it is that I wasn’t sure if I could do it…my best until today was 1:04:42 and the legs just didn’t feel up to getting much better…maybe it was the two non-cocktail nights that helped? This goes along with almost getting to 16,000 miles on this bike…only have 18 more to go to reach 16K…I wonder if I can get 9K more and have the equivalent of riding the thing around the world? That would be pretty cool…..more later…
October 2nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday for it being the first…and, I did get out to see K and V and have a couple which was fun…slept okay, too, so I feel okay today…and, it is the Wings opening night but I’ll have to go out to see it since it is on a channel I don’t get…it’s not the same without Ken and Mickey doing the play by play…at least I have the cash to go out for the first two perlods…it might be fun to get out for a while….not much to do today…the normal stuff, of course, but not much else….I do have a little work to do around here to be ready for later in the week but that is about it…I should get the wheels for the snowies painted but I’m not sure if I am that ambitious….more later…