Well…I was going to put this in the morning one on my life but I forgot for some reason…so, I’ll do it here and it will serve two purposes…it will get me caught up, and it will say Happy Birthday to one of my favorite rock and rollers…Joe Walsh turns 66 today and he has been a large part of the soundtrack that has accompanied my life from the days of the James Gang, through the Barnstorm years,, and into his solo stuff…who could not like an album named “The Smoker you drink, the player you get” or “you can’t argue with a sick mind”….so, Happy Birthday, Joe…and many, many more….
Monthly Archives: November 2013
More hypocrisy..guess where from?
Well…this one would be funny if it was just so sad how much hypocrisy is oozing from the repubs these days…if you haven’t read it yet, there was another repub congressman caught the other day buying cocaine from a dealer in DC…and he explains it away by saying that he is an alcoholic so that should excuse his lapses…no, it shouldn’t…now, I know full well that people have their failings and sometimes it can lead to drug use…but, the searing hypocrisy here is that this idiot voted to test food stamp, welfare, and unemployment recipients for drug use and throw them off assistance if they tested positive…well…I guess there is a different set of rules for the ruling class…they get to do whatever they want and still collect their government pay but if someone that has reason to use drugs to cope with being poor and unemployed, off with his head! I have had enough of demonizing the poor for doing the same things that everyone does…if they want to test the poor, then anyone who votes for the law should be tested, too, after all, they shouldn’t mind if they don’t have anything to hide…snark…geez….
November 20th
Well…running really late this morning and the reason is that I just forgot to do this one…did a long one over at Kos and then straight into the workout…and the power went out, and the dog ate my homework….heard enough excuses yet? It was an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much accomplished….the Doctor Who marathon on BBC is drawing me in and I just did some vegging…oh, one last excuse…when the power went out, I restarted the computer and it had 27 programs to update and that takes forever…slept okay and had weird dreams about Singapore…yep, strange to me, too….my elbow seems to be getting more sore as the weeks go on and I am getting really tired of it….can barely pick anything up if I have to squeeze it…maybe I’m just getting old…not much to do today…I am going to wait a while to go out on the bike since my hands and feet got really cold yesterday…and, I’ve got the whole day so what’s the rush? Should clean some but I don’t want to do the kitchen until after thanksgiving since I will make a huge mess…more later…
Bad, bad Walmart….
Well..I don’t want you to think that the only thing I can write about is Walmart, but the terrible, terrible company is starting to have it’s methods exposed and it is being held responsible for them. The latest of their cringe inducing tactics to underpay and control their employees has come to the attention of the NLRB who is bringing legal action for the company’s thug-like tactics in trying to prevent their employees from organizing to get better working conditions; which is their right here in the US…but not if you hear the right talk about it…according to the right, this organizing is either communism, socialism, or an affront to the owners of Walmart who should be able to suck 3.5 billion dollars out of yours and my pockets in subsidies to their employees….it is their right as part of the 1%. So, finally, the government is saying enough to this kind of crap…but the thing I just can’t understand is the bleating from working people on the right attacking their friends and neighbors who just want to be fairly compensated for their labor….the brainwashing of the working poor on the right is one of the things I just can’t understand…they will consistently vote for people who continue to steal from them and then make sure that everyone else gets taken by the 1%, too….what happened to pride in intelligence? Doesn’t exist on the right anymore…geez…
November 19th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday…didn’t get much done but I did have a nice HH with T that lasted a few hours and it was nice to get caught up and have an adult conversation….slept really crappy again and I have to remember to turn the heat down at night….no dreams but lots of tossing and turning and I am getting frustrated again….I did get started on getting the new printer set up…well.. I took it out of the box and started to read the instructions….looks like a neat little unit for 35 bucks…and I got the papers recycled so the room looks less crowded…not much to do today…I do need to get back on the bike since I took the day off yesterday with the wind blowing so hard….I ca take the cold but not the wind….more later…
Can Walmart get any more tone deaf?
Well…if you follow the news at all, you’ve seen the veneer start to crack on the supposedly wonderful company Walmart over the past year or so, exposing the just awful employee policies the company has…and the amount of subsidies that the American people give to each and every store (over a million dollars a year per store, 3.5 billion dollars total). But now, it has even gotten worse…with a store in Ohio setting up a food donation area in an employee lounge so workers can donate food so other workers will have a Thanksgiving dinner…yep, you heard it right…Walmart wants its poorly paid employees to subsidize even worse paid ones so they don’t go hungry. There is so much wrong with this I don’t know where to start…if Walmart was so damn concerned that it’s full time employees don’t make enough money to buy food without food stamps (and it’s not…it’s a policy they support), why not just pay them more? Or, buy every employee Thanksgiving dinner? But, even with the countless billions of dollars in profit they make every year, they won’t pry even a few extra dollars out of their grasping hands to make sure their employees don’t starve….what a poor excuse for a company…and the reason I will never set foot in one….geez…
November 18th
Well…it was a strange day yesterday with all the storms and I discovered that the shingles that had blown off the roof here have left black goo and scratches on the hood of the Miata…going to have to go out and try to get the crap off this morning…not sure what I’ll use…might have to go out and get some tar remover…the rest of the day was just like every other one this month…boring, and I really didn’t accomplish anything…and the Lions lost so that was pretty crappy…and, I didn’t sleep well at all so I am a little worn out today…I think I’ll take the day off the bike with the wind still blowing like crazy…just no motivation….not much to do today…might meet up with T later for a couple but that will be it for the week….more later…
Danger trails….
Well…while I wait for the Lions game to start the second half, I thought I’d relate some trail danger that I went through on today’s ride…while I was out, riding through the woods at the end of Hanna Lake…the wind was just howling through the trees and I heard a really loud crack, then a huge thud that I could feel even on the bike…I turned around to find that an 8-10 inch thick branch had fallen across the trail no more than 20 feet behind me….only a 5 second delay in my ride and the damn thing would have hit me….needless to say, I was just completely freaked out when that happened….oh, I did get out in just shorts and a t-shirt today…not the latest in a t-shirt but pretty close….
November 17th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I had some fun meeting up with K for a couple but the rest of the day was just another normal, boring day….I guess I should get used to it…don’t want to but need to…slept okay and didn’t get up until after 7 which is really sleeping in for me….and didn’t know that Michigan won until this morning…I was just so disgusted with how they were playing I turned it off…and, I was out so that was easy….didn’t get much done but cleaning and that was okay, too, but I do need to do more of that today after the bike ride…need to wait for the next wave of rain to come through but then there looks like about an hour window to ride…going out in a t-shirt since it is over 60 already….other than that…not much to do today…football and races and a nap…more later…
Trails and other stuff…
Well…just sitting here waiting to meet up with K in a few minutes and thought I’d do this one to try to stay close to caught up….out on the trail today it looked like someone had driven their car into the swamp at the end of Hanna Lake at 60th street….nice set of tire tracks that went up over the sidewalk and into the trees….I think that is the fourth or fifth time I’ve seen that…haven’t seen any deer with hunting season starting and that is a little weird…I always see them in the woods and I have even been looking for them….not much else to say right now…Michigan is stinking up the place again and I had to stop watching…but, I will try the Wings later even though they are crappy, too….