Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I was in recovery mode for the whole day…even slept in until almost 8 this morning since I was just worn out…no dreams to speak of but that was okay….it was nice to have a day to just veg out after the three days over in Livonia….still feel tired today so there may not be much going on…I do have a bunch of stuff to do around here but I’m not sure how much of it I’ll get done…still need to work out and get the bike ride in but my energy level is so low that I will really have to drag myself out…not much to do today…oh, I’ve already said what I m going to do…so, nevermind…
Monthly Archives: May 2014
The facts are in…
Well…as you know, I have been doing wedding stuff for the past few days and haven’t really had any desire to do any political stuff but today is different…there have finally been studies done on the ALEC pushed economic policies of cutting budgets, tax cuts for the rich, and deregulation, and guess what? All of that right wing conservative nonsense is just that, nonsense…and the facts are in to prove it. In all states that have implemented those policies, including Michigan, growth is slower, jobs are scarcer, and budgets are in disarray. Take the state that has implemented more of this nonsense than any other, Kansas, who trails the entire country in job creation and has a huge hole in its budget that is a direct result of tax cuts for the wealthy and business that shifted the burden to the lower and middle class. And now, who does the idiot governor Brownback blame? Obama, of course…and tax increases that are only figments of Brownback’s imagination…and the funny thing is that the deficit is falling faster than ever under Obama and the federal government ran a 120 billion dollar surplus last month. I want this moron to tell me how federal policies that apply across the country only hurts red states? I hope we can use these studies to hammer these idiots this fall…but, most of the country is not fact-based so maybe it won’t work…geez…
May 11th
Well…up early and getting ready to head back to GR…had so much fun at the wedding yesterday and, as always, we were the fun table…it was a no drama day with a great ceremony and reception….got back here about 10:30 and crashed out early after quite a few brandy manhattans…feel okay this morning, though, but the allergies are acting up and I am completely plugged up….going to get moving back to GR in a few minutes but have to have coffee first…more later…
May 10th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and the dinner was really good…had some fish and chips that were cooked perfectly and the rest of the dinners were great, too…I think the Bass ale might have had something to do with that….slept okay but I am still sore today…so, I think it must be the bed and that will be fixed when I get home tomorrow….I am starting to get excited for the wedding this aft…it has been such a pleasant couple of days and so low key with no drama that I am relaxed myself…I am looking forward to getting home tomorrow, though…just not as good of a traveler as I used to be…..more later….
Afternoon update…
Well…it has been a low key day today and there was nothing scheduled but we did go over to my son’s house for a while in the afternoon to just hang out…and now I’m getting ready to out for dinner at 7 at an Irish pub near here and then will make it an early night….I am still really sore from something and I need to make sure I take something for it before I go to dinner…might be the new bed here but I think it feels more like bike riding pain…oh, well….still have leftover pizza in the fridge for a snack for later so I’m going to keep dinner light…I did get a gift of some men’s care products from my son’s wife since it is the first time we’ve met…kind of a cool thing…
May 9th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday…long but okay and it was fun to see everyone….slept okay but had weird dreams here in the hotel about an infestation of moths that were everywhere….the rehearsal went well and I finally got to meet my oldest son’s wife…didn’t get the chance to talk to her much but I think we are all going out to dinner tonight so there will be a better chance to talk….today looks like a nothing day where we are just going to hang out…haven’t even gotten to coffee yet but I have a coffee maker here in the room and I am going to make some in a minute…have leftover pizza in the fridge for breakfast so I really don’t have to do anything for a while…more later…
First update…
Well….I figured I’d do an update of the day so far…got over here on time and got my tux….oh, then I had beers and hung out with Steve for a while…now, I’m back here and just hanging out while I wait for 6 and the rehearsal….then out for pizza for dinner then back here for a cocktail or two…not a bad day so far but I think I got sunburned….more later……
May 8th
Well….have been up for a while and didn’t sleep too well so today could be somewhat of a chore…have most of the stuff ready for the trip out for the wedding and I have just a few things to do around here to finish….and, this is one of them…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get the car washed and waxed but then it rained so it will be spotted again..oh, well….I am going to take the computer with me to do updates over the weekend and give me something to watch if there is nothing on tv….need to get to the coffee and finishing up so I can get a bike ride in before I take off at noon….more later…
All the hypocrites are on the right…
Well…here we go with more kabuki theater on Benghazi…where the repubs are going to spend millions more on what they surely know is a cynical ploy to derail Hillary in 2016…all of the investigations that have been done…20,000 pages of them has said the same thing, yes, it was tragic that 4 Americans lost their lives (in ole GW’s term, there were 15 embassy attacks with 54 killed but not one investigation from the repubs) but the “coverup” or lies or whatever that the repubs think are there just aren’t….and I call hypocrites on this whole nonsense of the right’s newfound outrage that there may be politics involved….let’s go back to one example from ole GW’s term….when Cheney planted a false story with the NY times, and then he and Condi and others went on the Sunday shows saying “see, it must be true…it’s in the Times” and used the false story on the aluminum tubes to gin up the justification for going to war with Iraq…bald faced lies that Cheney and Bush knew were lies a year before they went on tv…where was the outrage then? Where were the investigations then? No where to be seen…in fact, Fox news basically said that it was in the past and it was time to move on….and now these same hypocrites want to spend taxpayer money that could fix a bridge or two on this useless partisan nonsense…I hope they keep it up, the ads will write themselves in the fall…geez…
May 7th
Well…running a little late and am waiting for the coffee to finish so I thought I’d come here and get this done…I may be turning the corner with the tooth…no pain this morning and the swelling seems to be going down…hope so….slept okay last night and feel okay this morning…have already been out to the grocery store to get the supplies I need for the trip and I need to get going on getting ready for that all day…need to get the car cleaned and laundry done but I’m not leaving until after noon tomorrow so that leaves me the morning to finish up…have all of the sites mapped out so I know where everything is and my hotel is right about in the middle of them so that worked out well….need to get to the papers and coffee and then get on it so I need to end here…more later…oh, I will be taking the computer and doing updates while I’m gone so stay tuned….