Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done…hope to change that today but I’m not sure I will….slept okay last night but feel a little slow today…the damn bug I’ve had for a while now is getting worse and I have been coughing like crazy this morning…so, I guess I’ll take it easy today and just rest a little…T got back into town yesterday and it was nice to hear from her….can’t wait to see if she is tanned and rested….my heel is hurting like crazy today and I’m not sure what to do about it…if it keeps up, it may make my back hurt again since I’m walking strange to keep the weight off it…not much to do today…going to watch Man U in a few but that is about it….more later….
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Two more for the B-3 count….
Well…have been watching a lot of music over the past couple of days for some reason…and as always….I look for a Hammond B-3 on stage whenever I do…so that means I have two more to add to the B-3 count….saw Tom Petty on Farm Aid yesterday and there it was, hidden near the back of the stage….and just a few minutes ago I saw Government Mule and the B-3 was featured prominently out front…so, two more to add to the count…
January 16th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get a whole lot done…I was happy that the car was not a frozen block of ice this morning with all the rain yesterday….opened right up without having to melt it…slept okay last night but no dreams again but that’s okay…I did watch a nice little movie last night called “Mr. Holmes”…I do like the character studies and no explosions or excitement…just easy to watch….had a nice surprise this morning when I got up with the Who in a concert that I haven’t seen and that started the day off right…my back is okay today but the cracks in my right heel are hurting like crazy to the point I can’t put any weight on it…normal for the winter but still really annoying….not much to do today…have to watch soccer and have coffee but that is about it…should clean but probably won’t….more later….
Another one for the B-3 count….
Well….as you know, I have a fascination with the Hammond B-3 organ and the people who use it…and today, I have another band to add to the count. Just sitting here watching this year’s Farm Aid concert and John Mellencamp’s band is using one…I can always tell when I hear one…I wonder why no one has been able to make a modern organ that sounds like it?
Hillary is lying…again…
Well….as you know, I normally don’t go after those on the left since they actually have some good ideas that would make people’s lives better here in the US…but when they lie or propose something that would be normal coming from a repub, all bets are off and I will. The latest comes from an attack on Bernie by Hillary the other day over healthcare and how it should be delivered in the US…it is well known that Bernie wants a “Medicare for all” single payer system that would insure everyone at birth…and Hillary has stated that she wants to nibble around the edges of Obamacare and try to fix the flaws in that system. Now, that is where the lies come in…the other day Hillary trotted out her daughter to lie and say the Bernie wanted to “eliminate Medicare, Obamacare, and Medicaid” and throw millions of people off their insurance….while technically true; those programs would go away and be replaced by single payer…under Bernie’s plan everyone would automatically have insurance in the new program so no one would ever go without medical care again. Now…I can understand Hillary attacking Bernie since he has pulled even in the polls, but to use lies to do it just echoes the worst of the right and was what led to her downfall in ’08….so, since I want Bernie to win, keep it up Hillary…keep using the repub lite playbook…that will alienate the base that you need to win…what an idiot…
January 15th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday and some of the snow melted so that was cool….and today is supposed to be over 40 so more of it will go….slept okay last night but I now know I have a bug of some sort since my lungs are involved and I am coughing a lot…damn….at least my back is okay today but the dry weather has brought back the cracks in my heels that hurt like crazy when I walk….that’s pretty normal for the winter but I really don’t need more pain….just don’t have any energy this morning so it may be a pretty low key day…hmmm…kinda like every day…..I do have to clean a little but I am feeling a little warm so I won’t overdo it…..not much to do today…going to just have more coffee and see how I feel before I commit to doing much…more later…
What did Snyder know and when did he know it?
Well…I know the title is somewhat of a cliche, but I think it gets to the crux of the matter in the Flint water crisis…not only did they do a minimum of 1.5 billion dollars in damage to the Flint water system by choosing to not treat the Flint river water to save a couple hundred thousand a year, but did they know they were doing it? Ole Snyder has said he didn’t hear of the problems until October 1st of last year, even though they had been going on for over a year, but then why were members of his staff ordering the installation of water filters in Flint back in July? It appears that ole Snyder is just another of the lying repubs who really don’t give a damn about anyone but the rich and business…just like ole GW did with New Orleans and the poor there, ole Snyder has done to Flint…permanent damage to the state and it’s people to serve their god of tax cuts and austerity…he should be in jail…
January 14th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool….didn’t get much else done and today looks the same other than I will come back for another one…you know that pool days put me behind so that is why no second one yesterday….slept okay last night and the congestion in my lungs is breaking up so that is a good thing…and my back continues to improve to the point that I have had no pain so far today….it is going to be weird to not have pain since it has been more than 6 weeks since it started to hurt…but, I’ll take it…now I just need the pain to not move to some other part of my body like it normally does….not much to do today…going to clean a little and watch some soccer this aft but that is about it…more later…
January 13th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and my back has gotten a little better to the point that the pain is only intermittent and that is a relief…had a really bad night of sleep last night and a lot of it was from the wheezing that has come with the little bug I’ve had a few days now…don’t feel bad just coughing and a plugged up head so I guess I can live with it…didn’t get much done yesterday since I got off schedule with the internet being down all morning…and, I really didn’t have much to do so not doing it didn’t bother me too much…I am really tired of the snow and there is supposed to be another 5 inches this aft so the run out to shoot pool might be a little dicey….but, I’ve seen worse so we’ll see how it goes…will just have to shift into go-slow mode and leave a little earlier….not much to do today…pool, and then nothing really….oh, and win the powerball…if that happens, there will only be one more of these as I drive off into the sunset in my Ferrari….more later…
A little political stuff…
Well…there have been a few developments in politics in the past few days but I’m not sure if they have given me enough to do a whole one on each, so I guess I’ll just start and see what happens. On our side, it looks like the race is tightening in Iowa with the latest polls showing it to be close…not quite a dead heat but Bernie has been gaining…or, Hillary has been sliding back and now we see what is going to happen from the Hillary camp…they are now starting to attack Bernie and I had hoped that we would have stuck to the issues instead of the nastiness that flows from the right….but, I guess it’s politics and to be expected…especially when Hillary was the anointed one back in 08 and she lost that one, too…then we have the latest where Carly and Rand have been demoted to the “kiddie” table debate and ole Rand is throwing a hissy fit about it…saying that he won’t participate…basically saying that the rules don’t apply to him…just like every other repub when they don’t get their way…what a bunch of losers…geez….