Last one for the month…

Well….it has been a long month but at least I’ve stayed current here and haven’t had to do any fillers…you may consider this one a filler but there just isn’t anything to write about that interests me right now….politics have gotten a little repetitive with the repubs saying the same old stupid crap they have been spouting since I started this a few years back….I really think there has been a change in this country where no one really cares anymore…the repubs can lie and lie and no one calls them on it…they can take one position in the morning and then another in the afternoon and no one in the media calls them on it…they just sit there like the worthless cheerleaders they are…okay….need to get the blood pressure down and get back to the calm that I have found over the past few months….it has been a pretty good day so far with Man U winning and the Chelsea and Man city tying and that moves us up by 2 points…still in 4th but 2 points closer….okay….the Red wings are on and I want to watch that so I’ll end here with another month’s goals met….yay….

January 31st

Well…running a little late for the weekend and it’s because I had to run out for some groceries and I just haven’t been able to get motivated to do more than that….slept okay but still feel worn out today…but much better than yesterday so I guess that’s something…and the teeth are okay this morning, too, and I think that should be something to celebrate…and I am…yay…..had problems with the car for the first time yesterday and I’m not sure why…one of the rear tires was soft so I decided to air them all up but when I got out to shoot pool one of the fronts was soft…so, I aired it up with my compressor but it was soft again when we finished so I aired it up again but doing that ran the tiny little battery dead and I had to jump the car…thanks, Tom….the weird thing is that the tire stayed up overnight and the car started just fine this morning…but I had to reset all of the settings on the radio again and that is a pain in the butt…so, I have my fingers crossed that everything will be fine going forward…I did check on a new battery and the store near me has one in stock so I can replace it if need be…not much to do today…going to do a little work around here but the Man U game is on at 10 so that will be first…one more later…

January 30th

Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I woke up feeling like crap today and I’m not sure why…so, this one is going to be short since I can’t really think too well right now and it is all I can do to just sit upright in a chair….slept okay but no dreams to speak of and my lower tooth is killing me…just feel so damn decrepit today like everything is falling apart and I don’t like it….and my lungs are bad again today and that doesn’t make it easier….not much to do today..pool and then back here to rest and relax….and I will come back to add to this one in a while after I get the energy level up….

Here’s the sick thing with ACA repeal…

Well….not sure if you’ve been following the King v. Burwell case that is in front of the supreme court…you know, the onethat the repubs think will undo the ACA because of 5 words that they want to interpret that healthcare subsidies are only available to those on state run exchanges even though every lawmaker that worked on the law says is not the correct interpretation…they intended that all people on the exchanges, both federal and state would get subsidies for their healthcare costs. Here’s the sick thing about this whole case…if the repubs are successful in gutting the law, the fallout will be on people who live in repub dominated states who petulantly refused to set up state exchanges just because they hate Obama and don’t give a damn about anyone but the rich…and the real irony is that most of the people who will no longer be able to afford insurance will be the ones that elected the repubs….I would say they get what they deserve but no one deserves to be without health insurance…and I should know…I have been without it for 13 years now and not a day goes by that I don’t think about what could happen if I get sick…will have no choice but to pull the plug and just die….something the repubs think is how healthcare should work….and I hate them for it…

January 29th

Well….it was an okay day yesterday and the car finally thawed so I could get the door locks open but it looks like more ice this morning…going to need to thaw the car so I can do the grocery run in  a few minutes…slept okay and had dreams about a 77 Chrysler that I owned a few years back and that was weird…and there was lots of snow…so much, in fact, that the car was buried…the one thing I noticed was how quiet the car was in comparison the Miata….yep, even in my dreams the Miata is a loud car….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I did get a bike ride in an now I am waiting for the pain to kick in from that….may even be able to get back on it today after the ice thaws….not much to do today…need to continue cleaning after getting much of the summer clothes finally put away….and the grocery run since I am out of food…more later…..

Back on the bike….

Well…as I was just hanging out here today, I looked outside and it looked kind of inviting so I suited up and got back on the bike for the first time this year…the trails are still snow covered but the complex here is clear of snow and if I take the outside roads it is about 1.2 miles around…so, I did 5 laps today and got about 6 miles in…but, yow, my lungs are really screwed up…have been coughing since I got back here but maybe that’s a good thing…cleaning all of the crap out of them that you just can’t get to without working them some….I don’t remember if that’s what happens every time I restart after being off the bike for a time but it seems familiar….but, it looks like today will be the only day for a while but I’ll take the little things….

Ball gate…

Well…I’m not sure if you’ve been following the whole nonsense with the under inflated balls that were used in the championship game a couple of weeks ago but I just can’t believe how big of a deal this has become…especially since the Patriots won by more than 30 points…2 pounds of air give that much of an advantage? Never in a million years…this just goes back to every sport since sport was invented…people cheat, one of the best lines I ever heard on this subject was said by Junior Johnson about NASCAR racing many years ago…”if you’re not cheatin’, you’re not tryin”…..not that I condone cheating but 2 pounds of air? Seems to be sour grapes by the team that lost…and lost by a humiliating margin….maybe they should play better…this is what the whiners do…make excuses….and tear down the super bowl that they are supposed to revere so much….not that I give a damn about a bunch of guys making millions to play a kids game….maybe they should stop complaining or go really work for a living….geez…

January 28th

Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I even got a few things done…even washed the car but forgot the WD for the locks so the driver’s door wouldn’t open this morning…or, I should say wouldn’t unlock…had to go in through the passenger’s side but the car is so small that it is no big deal….it should thaw with it getting to 35 or so today…at least I hope it does….slept crappy as always and the stupid wheezing that I have in my lungs annoyed the heck out of me as I tried to sleep…so, another night of about 3 hours of sleep but I don’t feel that bad this morning…seem to have some energy and I am going to enjoy that while it lasts…part of that is I have had no pain in the tooth for two days now and I am going to enjoy that, too….I did get a few errands run to charge the battery up in the car and it started great this morning so I guess that will be the plan every day that it is going to be cold…not much to do today…going to clean some and get a workout in but not much more than that…have been thinking about getting the childhood book going before my memories go so that might be part of the plan…more later….

Pravda of Indiana…..

Well…reading the news today was a little boring until I came upon this little nugget of weirdness out of Indiana…the governor there has decided to create his own “state run media”  so that small newspapers there will be able to get the “news” from the government without sending poor reporters to do that job….it’s goal, stated by the governor is to create pre-packaged “news” stories about what’s happening in the government and to break “news” exclusively on this new website/press release machine without having to have all that messy interaction with the media. I wonder if these idiots have ever read history or anything about the constitution and a “free press”? This whole thing seems to be modeled on the Soviet Union’s “state run” media which was basically the propaganda arm of the state…even more so than fox news is for the repubs on a national level. So, they can’t afford to fix their schools, or their roads, of feed their poor, but they have plenty of cash to pay a bunch of “journalists” to create propaganda that will no doubt say how wonderful things are in Indiana and how great the governor is and how terrible the “libruls” are….I cringe at the tone deafness and stupidity of these folks…geez…

Oh…there was one quote that I forgot to share by a commenter over at Kos…”George Orwell, the author of 1984, is spinning in his grave screaming “1984 is supposed to be a cautionary tale…not a how to manual”…pretty funny….

Boehner is still an idiot….

Well…I thought I’d seen the low that the repubs could sink to and then ole Boehner goes even lower…in case you haven’t heard, the repubs have now started to meddle in foreign policy by inviting Bibi Netenyanhu to speak in front of the House next month to try to undermine the nuclear negotiations that are underway with Iran. Nevermind that ole John has come out today and petulantly said “I have the right to do it”…this kind of crap has never been done before in the history of the country…and even Fox news has said that it is bad form and has savaged ole Boehner for this bone head move…and there is no secret whey he is doing it…the right in this country are really pissed with the results that Obama has been getting with negotiations when all the repubs want to do is start another war with Iran to reward their military suppliers with more no contract profits and to “show up” Obama…even to the point of committing treason or maybe “treason lite” to do it…there is no end to the things these idiots will do to hurt this country just to score political points….how much more anti American can you get? Geez…