Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…and I made some cash so there will be groceries for another week…slept a little better last night but still up and down most of the night…feel okay this morning, though, so no damage there….and my back still continues to improve with almost no pain this morning so I am hoping we’re going to get to the point that it doesn’t hurt at all…didn’t win the powerball last night but already have my tickets for Sat’s drawing….675 million bucks and you can always hope….running late today with deciding to do the grocery run this morning but that gets it out of the way for the rest of the week….going to have to clean out the freezer today since it is full of carcases and that will make me decide what soup I want to make next week…probably the ham again since I have 3 ham bones in there…not much to do today…going to wash the car to get the salt off it but that is about it…probably should clean and do some other stuff around here but we’ll see…more later…
Monthly Archives: January 2016
January 6th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday but the damn furnace quit here…late….it is such a pain have to prepare for the service guys to come…they did get it done but have to come back to make adjustments to spark plug that lights the flame….slept really crappy last night and I think I may have gotten around 3 hours total so there will be a nap later…my back is improving in increments and I can now get up and down without much pain…still thinking it may be my hip that is partly to blame…..might have a little bug, have been coughing some and a little warm…oh, well….not much to do today…pool, maybe, and then some stuff around here when I get home…more later….
Creating a research brief article: assistance to beginners
Creating a 
research brief article: assistance to beginners
Producing research papers doesn’t come normally to many of us. The everyday examine paper is known as a profoundly codified rhetorical type . Expertise in the rules-some express, many others implied-goes a lengthy way toward writing a paper that would get approved in a very peer-reviewed journal. A solid homework paper addresses a certain investigate concern. The exploration question-or study goal or essential investigate hypothesis-is the central arranging theory for the paper. No matter what relates to the groundwork question belongs during the paper; the remainder does not. It is certainly clear when the paper stories on the clearly prepared basic research project. Nevertheless, in applied domains for example superior quality improvement, some papers are authored determined by jobs that were undertaken for operational explanations, instead of while using major intention of producing new information. 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A new one….
Well….it has been another of those days when i have struggled to find a topic that interests me…I could have done one on the new gun background check stuff but the responses are just too damn predictable….talk about new requirements…gun sales and gun stocks go up….man, what a weird damn country we live in….I did have a little good news with my back today…looks like I may have turned the corner since it has only hurt a little today and I have been able to bend over and stand and sit with no sharp spikes so that is a good thing….I could talk about the weather and how damn cold it was this morning…8 degrees and had to warm the car up for quite a while…but, the good thing is that there is no big snow coming for at least the next week and I may be able to get out on the trail later in the week….okay…I need to make some dinner so I’ll end here…better ones tomorrow…
January 5th
Well…running really late this morning and I can’t figure out why other than I feel quite weird…..just off and strange…slept okay but it is 11 degrees outside and that make it cold in here…hmmmm…that’s not really related is it? That’s how I feel…kind of disjointed and fuzzy….didn’t get anything done yesterday, either, and today is going to be the same if it continues like the past couple of hours….and, the coffee doesn’t seem to be helping yet…might have to make more to get through this….at least my back seems to be better this morning..I wonder what will happen when everything starts to fail….not much to do today….I am going to just survive this morning and see how I feel later…..I do have some stuff I need to do but it may be able to wait until tomorrow…..more later…
Typical republicans…
Well…as I do these things every day, I just shake my head at the shameless repubs and the damage they are causing to the US. The latest one is a huge gift to their corporate masters and VW in particular by changes to the class action suit that would make it almost impossible to continue to hold corporations responsible for their misconduct and the individual damage they do to consumers. In VW’s case, the damage was done to people who bought their cars and saw the value of them destroyed by the emissions cheating that VW admitted to….but the repubs want the class action suit laws changed to say that you have to have actual physical damage to be able to file suit and that every case has to have the same physical damage to be granted class action status…so that would mean that if VW made a car that had defective brakes and lots of people got into accidents and were injured, it couldn’t be considered for class action unless everyone broke the same arm or had the same ribs broken; something that would never happen in the real world. This is your modern repub party folks…protect the corporate “people” and screw the real ones…
January 4th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…again…that’s starting to be a pattern and I’m sure I don’t like it…slept okay but no dreams again and that is not annoying but puzzling…still can’t get on the bike and the calorie reduction is sapping all of my energy but there really is nothing else to do…my back seems to have plateaued with some pain but not a lot so I guess I can live with it….just like the tendon pain that seems to move around my body at random….it is a bitch getting older…I am a little chagrined that T didn’t say goodbye before she left for the Bahamas but I’ll get over it….winter is here and it was cold cleaning the car in shorts this morning and the temp is only supposed to get into the teens tomorrow…I am glad I bought the battery booster so I don’t have to worry about the car starting…not much to do today…have an errand to run this morning but that is about it…and more coffee that I need right now…more later….
Armed “thugs”
Well…I am shaking my head about the response to the armed, white, right wing thugs who have taken over a federal building in Oregon…now, if these were black guys, they would all be dead and the building would be burned to the ground to get to them. Where were the “christians” that should have turned them in like the Muslims do? Look, I have had just about enough of these militia assholes being able to break whatever laws they want while the sheriff says he’s “studying” the situation. How many felonies does it take for anyone to take action? This is a direct result of letting them get away with threatening federal officers at the Bundy ranch and one of the organizers is even Cliven Bundy’s son, so the direct thread is there for anyone to see if they just open their damn eyes. All of this from the “law and order” folks that scream bloody murder about anyone in the “inner city” committing a crime, but then think they are above the law when they are committing theirs….geez…
January 3rd
Well….it was a nothing day yesterday and I got nothing done…slept okay last night but had no dreams so that is a little disappointing…my back is a little better today but I am really grumpy since I haven’t been on the bike in a week…I do need to reset the computer on the bike to keep track of this years mileage….I have been successful in keeping the calorie intake down but that leaves my stomach a little hinky and irritated but I guess I’ll have to live with it…my back is a little better today and I have been wondering if it’s not my hip instead of my back…will have to think about that today…I did get to watch “The Hateful Eight” last night and I’m not sure if I liked it or not…kind of complicated and reminded me of “the Petrified Forest”…..not much to do today…going to watch soccer now and have more coffee but that is about it….more later…
Some good news in sports…
Well….not sure why I haven’t written about this yet but there has been some good news for the teams I follow over the past couple of days…starting with Michigan just pummeling Florida in their bowl game and it is even more delicious that they beat a Florida team…for some reason, I just don’t like the teams from Florida and 41-7 was a pretty good beatdown. A good way to head into next season….not sure they will do better than a 10-3 season like this year but I can always hope. In a huge surprise, Manchester United won a game for the first time in 8 games and they even played okay…not sure if they should keep van Gaal or not but they need to keep playing in a more up-tempo fashion like they still like the game…it hasn’t looked like any of them really wanted to be out there and that has to change. In the past few minutes, even the Red Wings won a game…not in a shootout or overtime, but in regulation….and that breaks a three game losing streak that they had to get out of since they were sliding down the table toward not making the playoffs….so, overall…not a bad couple of days for sports for me…needed one of those…