Hockey hall of fame…

Well….just wanted to do a short one on our Red Wings inductees into the hockey hall of fame this week….of course it would be Nick Lidstrom…one of the best defensemen to ever have played the game and we got to watch him for his entire 20 year career…but he was just as good off the ice or even better…never heard one unkind word about him in all the years I followed the Wings and I think that’s why he is so missed in Detroit….the other inductee I have mixed feelings about…Sergei Fedorov…while he was a good player with the Wings, I have never forgiven him for taking less money to move to LA…a selfish move that I think tarnishes his on ice accomplishments….and he was never the two way player that Stevie Y was…they had to bribe him to play defense and he always made it known that he didn’t like it….probably should get over it, huh? After all, it has been 15 years…and this was the last one for the month….

June 30th

Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made some cash so that was cool…back to the not sleeping again and I am tired of it…had another tube failure on the bike yesterday so I went to another brand to see if I can get past it…rode the thing home 3 miles with it flat since I was just not going to walk….didn’t get a lot done other than the ride and repairs, though, and today looks much the same….going to get my hair cut in a few since it is long enough to rub on the lining of the top of the car and that just annoys the heck out of me….and it looks pretty shaggy…not much to do today…going to get some stuff done around here and get one more of these done but that is about it…more later…

Long day…lots of crazy…

Well…it has been  a long day that has been filled with lots of crazy on the right…leading the way was ole Ted Cruz who just ratcheted it up to eleven over the weekend with his comment on marriage equality…where the hell do they find these guys? Ole Ted just went off on the supreme court, saying that he has an idea to “fix” it by making the justices run for some kind of an election every eight years…something like a vote of no confidence…who knows what the hell this guy means about anything. Then he goes on to say that when elected president (yeah, that one made me laugh, too) he will push for a constitutional amendment ensuring that a group of his fellow citizens have their rights taken away from them…but, I don’t think he understands the process that takes….2/3rds of each house of congress would have to vote for it…and then 37 states would have to ratify it through their legislatures…listen to me…never, ever going to happen, but the rubes that he is playing to will eat this crap up and think it’s the best idea ever. I just shake my head….

June 29th

Well…it was and okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done other than lying in the sun to try to even out the biker tan…and races but no cooking or anything else…so that makes today one where I need to get the spiders done at least…there are some big ones in the bathroom that I think are eyeing me….slept okay last night and had a few dreams that were not too good so I really don’t remember them….I am sore and run down for some reason this morning and I think it may be that I didn’t eat enough yesterday…only about 900 calories for the day and that is not sustainable…just don’t feel like cooking or eating….not much to do today…I do have an errand to run this aft and I think I’ll make enough cash today to buy my groceries this week and that takes a little stress away…more later….

Typical repubs…

Well…having had the weekend to digest the supreme court’s decisions of the past week and to read the dissents, all I can say is that the losers are just typical repubs…throwing a fit and attacking their peers when they don’t get their way…just to read Thomas, Alito, and Scalia in their dissents, they are nothing but personal attacks and intentional misreading or ignoring the law…what don’t they understand about the 14th amendment? Equal protection under the law…very simple for someone who hasn’t studied the law to understand and apply….in the gay marriage case, how can you not see that there was a group of US citizens that were being denied the rights that everyone else has? But, no, not for the haters on the court who tried to twist the law to their own warped view of what should be..and centering not on what the law says but on what their religions say or what tradition says…neither of which has any place in reading the law and interpreting it. Now, the right is going frickin crazy about their fellow citizens finally have equal rights and have threatened everything under the sun to go against the law from secession to trying to put unconstitutional roadblocks in the way in the state legislatures…typical repubs…crybaby sore losers…

June 28th

Well…it was an okay day yesterday but, as always, I didn’t get anything done…I did get the slow cooker loaded and finished and the chicken came out pretty good…slept okay but feel a little crappy today and I think I have another bug since I have been coughing all morning and I’m sure it’s not allergies this time…we’ll see how the lungs hold up on the bike in a few minutes…I do have some plans today but they only include getting rid of the spiders in the bathroom…they are getting way too big for them to remain….I feel pretty sore this morning so there will be some ibuprofen before I get on the bike…not much to do today…it will probably be racing all day since there is no other sports that I want to see….I did get over a thousand miles on the bike in the past few days and that makes only about 1400 more to do to get to the goal for the year…and to get to 25K on this bike…..more later…

June 27th

Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…well…I kinda won…only put one 8 ball in out of the 6 games…slept okay last night and feel okay today…already have the slow cooker going with some chicken and smoked sausage along with potatoes and carrots….did a pasta sauce for the liquid and I hope it turns out okay….not really sore this morning but a little creaky that I hope will be worked out on the bike ride…I did get the bike cleaned the other day and the shifters finally started working after about 12 miles yesterday…have to lube them again today before I go out to make sure they continue to work…nothing more annoying than having them hang up and not shift when I need them to…not much to do today…going to clean today but that is about it…more later….

Another good decision…

Well…it is another great day and another great decision by  the supreme court when, just a few minutes ago, the court made gay marriage legal across the country….striking down one of the most egregious bits of discrimination that is still left in the country. One of the best things about this decision is that was on a  broad reading of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment which will then lead to ending discrimination in hiring and firing and every other mode of discrimination that the idiots out there have dreamed up….I applaud the supreme court for dong what is right…it had to go this way…

June 26th

Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done…again…oh, I did get the bike cleaned but now it doesn’t work too well so I’m going to have to re-lube it and make it dirty again…slept okay but no dreams and I am a little resigned to that….I don’t hurt anywhere so that is a good thing and that will make the ride better today…I am training to break the 15 mile record and I think that will take place next week…need to get under 56:42 and I think I can do it…we’ll see….the spiders are back again and they will have to be dealt with over the weekend as will the vacuuming and most of the other cleaning…I am going to make crock pot chicken tomorrow so that will be good but I need to get rid of the leftovers so I will have containers to put stuff in…..not much to do today..pool, of course and I think I’ll wash the car this morning, too…more later…

Funny, funny, funny…

Well…with the heads exploding on the right with the Obamacare decision today, I have heard a bunch of conspiracy theories sprout on the right about how it could possibly happen this way…and one of the funniest is the one that says the only reason the decision went that way was that Obama was blackmailing the repubs and John
Roberts…that they had something on them that would ruin their lives if it was revealed….now, I wonder if any of the idiots pushing this one understand the implications of what they are saying. If you believe this crap, that means that every powerful repub has done something so bad that it would ruin their lives if it was revealed….I wonder what that would be? It is funny that these repubs that the right reveres are common criminals in their eyes but that is okay because they are repub criminals…man, this stuff just makes me laugh…