Well…it was another long day yesterday and I did get out to see C for a few minutes but couldn’t afford to spend any money so it was water at the bar…kinda weird but I may be able to get used to it…and the lunch with T was canceled since she is not feeling well and I am starting to worry about her…I know the stress from being out of work and the constant knot in the stomach is something I really want to go away….slept okay but I am finding that I no longer can sleep in my left side…just won’t sleep until I shift over and it is really strange since it has never happened before…I did have to spend what little I had in my checking account to buy food since I had cleaned out my freezer and there was just no food left…even without riding the bike I have been losing weight and I know part it is I can’t afford cocktails so that saves a thousand calories a day…I did buy a nice ham today for 11 bucks but that should last me through next week…going to cook that today with the glaze that came with it…haven’t had much protein in the past week so that will be good…not much to do today…going to hibernate with it being 12 degrees outside and no money….more later…
Monthly Archives: December 2013
You just gotta love Bernie Sanders…
Well…just a shorty on a couple of things…not sure if I am going to comment on this stuff but just pass it on…read the other day that Senator Bernie Sanders is readying legislation to institute a single payer plan for people to get health insurance to cut the insurance companies out of the profits and immediately lower the cost to everyone…this would help in a couple of ways…with a pool that large, it would be easy for the plan to control costs of medical procedures across the country and you wouldn’t have different costs depending on where you live…one example of this is the spread from high to low for an appendectomy…one study showed a cost that ran from 1,000 dollars to 14,000 dollars for comparable cases…and, in Bernies plan, the single player plan would be allowed to negotiate drug prices with the drug companies which could save billions of dollars every year. So, give em hell, Bernie…we need people like you….
December 11th
Well…it was just a normal day yesterday but I did get some cleaning done so that made me feel good…and slept okay last night but no dreams but that is okay…I do like the entertainment value but sometimes it brings up things that I really don’t want to think about…like being broke and it being winter and I’m already tired of it…but, I do need to slide into the endurance mode that gets me through most winters but it is almost too early to do that…not sure if I can do endurance for 4 months..we’ll see…it is kind of funny when I look at my computer and how much I use it…the letters on the keys are starting to wear off and the e and d are gone…I can type without knowing but there are times that brain freeze has me starting at the keyboard and wondering what they are….not much to do today….might have lunch with T and then out for a couple with C later…but, might have to just have water since I am broke again…more later…
Handshakegate….
Well…with the improvement of the ACA website and the spate of good news stories coming out, we just knew that there would be another shiny object that the right and Fox “news” would trot out to keep their rabid followers salivating on how bad Obama is…the latest, as you can see from the snark headline above, is the fact that Obama shook Raul Castro’s hand at the funeral for Mandela. Now, is this the next impeachable offense that the tea partiers will bring to the House? Look, this is one of the stupidist controversies that I can remember the right pushing…well, no, all of them are stupid, but these folks think that no one remembers history anymore…like maybe Nixon shaking Mao’s hand? Or Cheney fawning all all over Saddam? Or Eisenhower shaking Khruschev’s hand? These guys on Fox seem like they just aren’t trying anymore…if you have to gin up a controversy over a handshake, it just means they have nothing…and never have…geez…
December 10th
Well…it was another long, long day yesterday and I think I’m getting into the bunker mentality that normally doesn’t come until Jan or Feb…and, 12 degrees this morning? It’s not even winter yet and it’s colder than it was all of last year…at least the car is starting and the trans is shifting well with the new fluid in it…it was the second no cocktail night in a row last night and I think I’m really starting to like it…feel so much better…wonder if I’ll eliminate them completely? Never thought that would be an option but it has started to creep into my thoughts…would really help keeping the weight down over the winter and save a bunch of cash…not sure if the boredom will be bearable, though…..slept okay but the strange thing was I could only sleep on my right side…normally, I flop back and forth all night…not much to do today..I do have to clean since my brother is coming over today and I am not looking forward to the cleaning…it needs to be done, though, so I guess I should just get to it…after coffee, that is…more later…
Delusions and lies…
Well…just read an interesting article about the post mortem of the Virgina races that was done by one of the higher ups in the RNC and all I can say is that these folks really have gone over the line into delusions…what this idiot comes out and says is that the conventional wisdom that they lost the election because they were too far to the right is just wrong…if they had only talked more about taking way womens rights, about hating gays, and the ACA, they would have won in a landslide…no matter what the polls said…they were just not mean and assholish enough. The only thing I have to say to that is “please proceed” keep reminding people that you don’t care about anyone unless they are rich and white…people will just flock to that kind of message and vote you in for life. They just don’t get that the country is getting away from them…and with these changes, they can’t even beat a weak dem candidate for governor.
Oh, the lies part…just one more reason to understand what the repub party has become…they have set up a fake website in California and sent out official fliers on official stationary sending people to the fake website that is full of lies about the ACA that have all been debunked…and the taxpayers of Cali are footing the bill for this crap…I hope the repubs feel good when they convince people to not sign up for insurance and they either go bankrupt when a medical emergency happens or they die since they don’t get the care they need….what a bunch of absolute assholes….geez…
December 9th
Well…it was another long day yesterday and the Lions lost, again, so that made it even worse…but, I shouldn’t be surprised at that….slept okay, I think, since the blankets and pillows are still on the bed and not the floor but I am a little tired this morning…I am looking forward to another week of no cocktails…I was pretty good last week and felt so much better…so, I’ll keep it up to try to keep my weight down now that I can’t ride the bike….not too motivated this morning but I do need to work out at some point…but, I think I’ll have my second cup of coffee first….not much to do today…I am going to clean some since the kitchen really needs it and the bathroom could use some work, too…so, another boring day…more later…
Cruel, wonderful irony…
Well…if there wasn’t enough evidence that the repubs are irony challenged, we have just one of the most delicious ones I have seen n a long, long time with the refusal of the idiot repub governors to allow for Medicaid expansion in their states. Since Medicaid is funded by general tax revenues, the people in the red states that refuse the expansion are going to have to help pay for the expansion in the states that accepted it…so, for example, Texas is going to be contributing 9 billion dollars that they will get nothing for…the same for other red states like Georgia who will pay 3 billion and get nothing, and Florida who will pay 5 billion and get nothing. so, let’s recap…just because these prick governors just don’t give a damn about poor people and are trying to do anything to derail the ACA,, they are going to help pay for Michigan’s expansion while their people get nothing for their money…if I lived in one of those states, I would be really pissed off…but, they keep electing these thugs so maybe they deserve it…geez…
December 8th
Well…it was a long day yesterday and the party at G’s was lots of fun…did come home pretty early…at 10, but 5 hours of wine and food was enough for me and the drive home was quite easy…and, the drive was only 15 minutes by back road so it was not a bad one…slept okay last night, I think, but feel pretty crappy today with getting up at 5:30 so there will be a nap sometime in the future…the bean dip I made for the party was a hit and it really did come out good for just winging it…okay…need to hit the couch for a while and have my coffee…but first, not much to do today…going to just veg the day away and watch foot ball…more later…
December 7th
Well…it was a long day yesterday with going out for pool…which I lost again…and then out to meet up with K and V for a couple and then having a cocktail night…feel okay this morning, though, which is a little bit of a surprise…and it looks like today is going to be another busy one with meeting up with C this aft and then the big dinner party at G’s…I am looking forward to the party but it will be nice to be home when it is over..I am glad I put the snowies on the car this week…they are just so much better than the summer tires and they do look kind of cool….and it looks like snow later today so the trip down to Dorr will be safer….not much to do today…other than what I’ve already said that is…just going to hang out and wait to hear from C and do some reading this morning…low key stuff…more later…