Well…it was a sports day yesterday and every one of my teams lost but the Tigers so that was not good…slept okay last night but still feel crappy today with all of the coughing and sneezing last night…not sure if it is allergies or a cold but it is a pain in the butt…and I have a sore throat this morning so maybe it is a bug….the computer seems to be working today again so maybe it’s fixed…hope so since the delay was such a pain in the ass and having to take the battery out to get it to restart was getting old….not much to do today…need to work out and then get on the bike before it rains…can go out with just a t shirt this morning but then it gets cold again for a week…I am damn tired of this cold spring….more later…
Monthly Archives: April 2014
A sports day…
Well…with this being a Sunday, it’s nice that it is a sports day, too…have already watched Man U lose and look bad doing it…and now the Tigers are on until the F1 race starts in a while, then the Wings are on at 3…might have to have a shot and a beer with that one but I don’t like to drink during the day so maybe that will be out…I am looking forward to the game and already have the gear on for it…but, there is no way we’re going out of Boston with a 2-0 lead….the split will be okay…just can’t get blasted out of the arena 6 to nothing…might be bad for the youngsters…but, then again they just let it roll of their backs like only youngsters can…and, if we can take this out to 7 games, Hank may even be back but if we’re playing well, who do we sit? Not going to be an easy choice that’s for sure…My only problem is what am I going to do after the game? Maybe take a drive with the top down….who knows?
April 20th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t really get much done…and today looks much the same since Man U plays this morning and then there are the Wings and F1 this aft…and, I do need to wedge a bike ride in there somewhere after the temp comes up some…I can’t wait for the days where all I have to do is go out and it will be warm enough already…slept crappy but this time it is from the allergies going crazy and plugging my head up so I couldn’t breathe…and, that is still a problem that I’m not sure what to do about….I am going to cook today and it will be nice to have something other than leftovers for the first time in almost a week…not much to to do today….going to clean a little between sports but that is about it….more later…
Running out of ideas…
Well…I have been sitting here thinking, trying to figure out what to write about but have had no luck today…politicians haven’t done anything stupid so that’s out…I could talk about the Wings and probably should with how well they played last night…the Bruins are supposed to be just too big a skilled for the Wings but we played with them all night…and Pavel’s goal was something I’ve never seen before…pretty cool…it’s probably out there on the internet somewhere and you should go watch it…the ride today was not anywhere near as interesting as yesterday’s but it was still nice to get out…I do look forward to a day with no wind and a little warmer, though, going all the way out to the east in a 15 mph wind was tiring…it looks like there won’t be a lot of action around here the rest of the day…just can’t get motivated so I guess I’ll just veg and think some more….
Oh, the computer seems to be working well again and I can’t figure it out…
April 19th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…slept okay bu just okay so I am a little tired today…there were some strange things that happened on the trail where two women stopped to talk to me and ask me how I was since they hadn’t seen me out there yet….that was weird…but, the night was cool with the Wings beating the Bruins in the first game of the playoffs…and, they played well…I guess the pundits talk about the Wings being the team no one wanted to see in the first round could be true….didn’t get much else done yesterday and today looks like more of the same…the temp is not coming up fast enough so it looks like a long wait to go out…and, this damn computer is screwed up again so it looks like a call to my son is in order…more later… Okay…have gotten this thing to restart but I’m still not sure if it is fixed or not…at least it doesn’t have a delay in the keyboard so that is a plus….spoke too soon…it still delays…damn…and now it’s freezing up all the time…crap…
Okay…it seems to be working now…at least for this sentence…we’ll see later today whether it holds up…
The problem with Koch money…
Well…int he wake of Citizens United and the McCutcheon decision, the supreme court has torn away the last vestiges of control of the government for and by the people and replaced it with one for and by the Kochs…let me explain…when the Kochs started out, limited by campaign finance laws, they concentrated on national issues since they were limited in how much they could spend…but now, since the supreme court has taken any limits away, these asses are now taking away the right to self determination across the country by getting into races as local as school boards. And, this is done with the single mindedness of hatred for unions, democrats, and the middle class that is just breathtaking…with them going so far as to spend millions in Tennessee to defeat a mass transit proposal that would have allowed people to leave their cars at home…something the oil rich Kochs could not stomach. This same interference and hatred for unions is seen in their assault on local school boards where they are buying seats for their tea party cronies on the boards and then instructing them to fight the unions, ensuring that teachers fall out of the middle class….so, when someone says the Kochs are not the problem, they are lying, lying, lying….geez…
April 18th
Well…have been having computer problems this morning and that I am going to blame for being late…not really the problem but I’ll blame it anyway….slept okay last night but feel a little crappy today with not being good…but part of it is not eating enough…again…not sure why it is so hard to get the calorie count up but it is….didn’t do much yesterday but look for work and I am tired of doing that so today is going to be all Red Wings all day since the playoffs start tonight….might shoot pool today but I’m not sure…the computer is still screwed up so I need to shut it down and see if that helps…more later…
Okay…just had to pull the battery out of this thing but it seems to be working right now…so, I will be back later for more…but I need to have coffee and ride the bike first….
Still no outrage…
Well…even after yesterday’s post on the takers in the repub party, I still can’t work up a lot of the outrage that normally fuels this thing…it’s not that I haven’t tried….but I think I’m in outrage overload and just a little numb from the whole direction of the country….where the ACA is doing good across the country and the repubs are still trying to take insurance away form those who have benefited from the law…and the bad thing is that these same people will vote for them since…freedom or something…not sure why the poor folks who vote for the repubs keep doing it…it’s not like they give a damn about them…they don’t…and have shown that for decades now…and no amount of regulation or tax cutting is going to get them into or keep them in the middle class…it only works to make the rich richer and make the rest of pay for their pollution and stealing of the natural resources that belong to every citizen….I guess that is communism or something…will never figure it out….geez…
April 17th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so I don’t feel it was a totally lost day….didn’t sleep much and was up at 5:30 or so today but I was good last night so I feel okay today….at least it’s above freezing this morning so I won’t have to warm the car up…skipped the bike ride yesterday since I was still waiting for it to get above 45 at 4 in the aft….just don’t need the cold anymore…it looks like I’ll be waiting again today since it is only going to be around 55 for a high….I do need to do the grocery run this morning and I am out of food so that is really necessary….I am a little tired of the ham I cooked last week so I think I’ll put the rest of it in the freezer to make ham soup later and get back into the boring old chicken routine….think I’ll do leftovers first today, though, and start fresh tomorrow….more later…
The lawlessness of the right…
Well…I’m not sure if you heard about the little showdown between a rancher out west who has been illegally grazing his cattle on federal lands for over twenty years in defiance of many court orders for him to stop…with the latest chapter being his use of armed right wing militia groups to stop the confiscation of his illegally grazing cattle since he doesn’t recognize that the federal government’s laws have any validity in his state. Yep, you heard it, just another instance where the “law and order” repubs pick and choose what laws they are going to follow…but, my big bitch is with the feds and their enforcement people for letting this tin horn idiot get away with it…when the militia folks arrived at the scene, they feds backed off since they didn’t want any bloodshed…armed men in defiance of the lawful actions of the government is against the law…so now felonies are allowed to pass since there may be bloodshed? What’s next, armed robbers being left alone to rob since there may be bloodshed? The more time that these so called patriots are allowed to get away with ignoring the law…and, in effect stealing grazing land from the federal government, the more emboldened they become…this crap needs to be stomped on right now and these folks need to go to jail…now…geez…