Well…running early today since it is 7:16 and I am bored already…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…again….but I don’t feel bad about it…slept okay last night and had dreams that had to do with a wedding at a run down resort that was at a mall…can’t remember who was getting married but Randy Quaid was in it…yep, pretty damn random and it ended with me walking over a newly tarred roof and ruining my shoes…..it was nice for one last day to get out in half thermasuit yesterday but today will be cold so I may not even go out…looks like the car is a solid block of ice after the rain and the freeze so I may have to use some hot water to get it open again…not much to do today…going to try to clean again and I finally get to cook after having leftovers for days and days….haven’t been eating enough and need to correct that to get more energy…more later….
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Vaccines work…
Well…with the huge outbreak of whooping cough in Traverse City over the past couple of weeks, we are seeing the results of the misguided efforts on the right to cater to the anti-vax crowd and their wrongheaded idea that vaccines cause autism. A few years back, the repubs here in Michigan effectively gutted the herd protections that vaccines bring by allowing parents to opt out by just filing a paper with the state saying they object to vaccinating their kids for any reason whatever…and this is what we got from that law…hundreds of cases of whooping cough, measles, mumps, and other preventable diseases that were on the verge of eradication before people started to believe that vaccines were a plot or a danger to their kids…driven mostly by fox news and fear mongers there. I just want every parent that wants to not vaccinate their kids to be shown the pictures of the polio epidemic before the Salk vaccine was invented and see the death and destruction that occurred before this breakthrough. I have vaccinated all of my kids with no reservations whatsoever…I still remember how sick I was with mumps and measles when I was a kid before the advent of vaccines for those diseases and surely didn’t want my kids to go through it…for the sickness or even the deaths that came from these diseases…I hope people come to their senses and vaccinate their kids…if they don’t, they put everyone at risk and I don’t think it’s their decision to make…geez….
December 16th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool…and got out to have a couple with G and it was nice to get out of here for a change….slept pretty crappy last night and woke up too many times to count with dreams that I don’t remember…and the tooth hurt like crazy which is not normal and I had to take something for it at 3:30….so, I’m running a little slow today and I’m not sure what kind of day that is going to make it…probably just more coffee and then on the bike before it starts to get colder today…it has been a nice run of weather for December and it looks good but cold until next wed when it starts to snow…but, it is Michigan so we should expect some snow…not much to do today….the bathroom is crying out for a good cleaning and the kitchen could use it, too, so that will be on the agenda for today…and I have a topic for later so there will be another one of these for later today…maybe even two if the brain will allow it…more later….
A little sports…
Well…as promised, going to do a little commenting on sports that have happened recently…or maybe not recently but I have something to say about it that I just haven’t gotten to…first…we had a Man U victory yesterday over Liverpool but they looked pretty bad doing it…the final score was 3-0 but without the goaltending of DeGea, it could have easily been a loss of 5-3…I can’t understand why it is so hard for them to defend and why they continue to get caught out on breakaways…a win is a win, though, and it gets them closer to champions league next year…second, the Lions are 10-4? They too played like crap yesterday and the defense had to bail them out time and again…again, I can’t understand how they can gain 500 plus yards one week and then can’t do anything the next….oh, one last thing…they should let Suh go to anywhere else next year…he doesn’t want to be in Detroit and I think his best playing is behind him anyway….okay, third….I am confused about the trades that have been going on with the Tigers lately…last year, they gave up Doug Fister for basically nothing, and this year they give up Rick Porcello for some old journeyman center fielder….and Fister has his best season of his career and Porcello is looking to be developing into a great starter and he is only 25…they had a good 7 or 8 years left in him and they just gave him away…oh, well….still have the Wings….but they are on a losing streak that needs to end soon….more later…
December 15th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I got nothing done again…nothing but sports, that is, and there was some good news and some bad that I need to comment on later…have been meaning to do that for a couple of days now but just haven’t been able to get motivated lately….slept okay last night and had crappy dreams again…I wonder when the movies are going to start again? I like the ones that tell a story and are like movies but that hasn’t happened lately…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday and thought about wearing shorts but it was about 2 degrees too cold to do that…I did get out with no stocking hat or gloves and that was cool…and today looks the same with the same temp right now….not much to do today….I do have lots of stuff to do around here today and I will come back and do that sports one I promised….more later….
Not sure about a topic…
Well…have been sitting here trying to think about a topic for today that would mean something…but, there are just little snippets that I can’t flesh out right now…and that is quite frustrating…it has been kind of interesting listening to the tea party idiots who are just outraged that the repubs are making a deal on the budget when they think it should wait until the repubs take control in January….but, they just don’t understand that it won’t matter…there is still the veto hanging over their nonsense and they are never going to get what they want…and, in that same vein, I have been chuckling at their delusion that this last election was a “landslide” and their assertions that the entire country backs their crazy assed agenda just because some more repubs got elected…I know they don’t believe in math but if only 36% of eligible voters voted in the past election and they got a little more than half of that, that means they got elected by about 19% of the people in this country…now, let’s do some simple math…100% minus 19% means that 81% of the people didn’t vote for their crazy assed crap…I know…subtraction is beyond most of them….geez…
December 14th
Well…sitting here waiting for the Man U match to start and thought I’d get this one done before that….it was an okay day yesterday and I did get the slow cooker soup done but I’m not sure about using veggie stock for the liquid…way too much flavor but after I ran it all day it got better…it will be interesting to see how it tastes after having it in the fridge overnight…slept okay and had some boring dreams that are not worth relating…and, I missed the meteor shower last night with it being cloudy…oh, well…didn’t get much of anything done yesterday, either, but I will try to do better today…might be able to get out on the bike in shorts today since it already 45…at least I will be able to go out without gloves and a stocking hat….okay…the match is starting so I have to go…more later…
December 13th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I won a pool so that was something…slept a little better and had some weird dreams that I don’t remember and that is a little frustrating since I wanted to relay them here…oh, well…maybe tonight will be different…there is a meteor shower tonight that I will go out and take a look at but it looks like it will be cloudy so it will probably be a no go….I did get the car fixed and no air in the cooling system so that is a good thing and takes a little worry off….my back is starting to heal up after hurting it working on the car but the damn tooth is starting to hurt again…luckily, ibuprofen takes that pain away so I guess I should take some before I get on the bike…not much to do today…it is already warm enough to get on the bike so that will happen soon…and i want to run the slow cooker again today so I should get going on that soon…more later…
A little home weirdness…
Well…was going to put this one in this mornings first one but forgot to so it gets it’s own….had a little home weirdness happen yesterday and I can’t figure out why…around 3:30 yesterday afternoon, all of my remotes for the video equipment stopped working all at once…three separate ones for three pieces of equipment…Roku, tv, and dish box all stopped working for about 5 minutes but then started working again like there was never anything wrong…at first, I thought it might be an EMP but that couldn’t be it since they use infrared light to control…all I know is they are working fine today and I am still mystified….
December 12th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a lot done so that was cool…slept crappy and woke up with a headache that won’t go away and my tooth hurts so I am a little crabby this morning…it is nice that there is still no snow so I have to keep looking at the good side of things….and, my car is fixed with little cost so that’s one less worry….I did get a nice bike ride in and it is getting to be less and less of a pain as I get used to it again…and I am going to get out in a few minutes to get today’s in…but, I may wait for the temp too come up a little since I don’t really have anything to do other than the ride today…and pool of course…not much to to today….as I said, pool, but that is about it….it has been a busy couple of days around here and it will be nice to just luxuriate in coffee and the news this morning…more later…