Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done, again, slept okay last night but woke up with cramps in my calves and feet and that is a new one…the handle broke off one of my coffee cups while I was drinking and spilled coffee everywhere…lots of cleaning today and it’s not something I look forward to….I did another Route 66 marathon yesterday and I still need to do a post on it and the time capsule it is back to the time before freeways….it looks like the Wings start the playoffs wed so that will give me something to look forward to for the next couple of weeks…not sure how they will do but maybe the second round? Who knows? Not much to do today…going to get back on the bike this morning since it is already about 45 and it’s not raining or snowing and then there will be the cleaning….no cooking today since there are leftovers and I still need to restrict calories to make up for not being on the bike for a week…more later…
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Thanks Pavel….
Well…it’s sad day for Red Wings fans with the news that Pavel Datsyuk will be leaving the Wings at the end of the playoff run. Not really a surprise to those of us who follow the team closely, it is still a shock to see one of the best players in franchise history leave with a year left on his contract. But, reading the great article by Mitch Albom in the Free Press this morning, I hope that we all can understand why he is doing it…the pull of family and home just got too great for him to stay…when he talked about his 13 year old daughter and not being able to be there for her, you could hear the longing in his voice and how can you fault someone for that? It has been a great run for the “Magic Man” in Detroit and we will surely miss him…thanks Pavel…..
April 10th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done….slept okay but feel a little slow today so I am easing into the day with coffee and the paper….I was going to clean yesterday but the Wings were playing in the aft and that broke my day up…to be honest, I didn’t really want to clean anyway…I did do a “Route 66″ marathon yesterday and I am going to do a post on that later today…have the first 4 seasons on my son’s server and that makes almost 120 episodes….not sore again today and that is almost a month since I’ve had pain so I am wondering what will come next….still no bike ride today since it is snowing again but that will break later in the week and I will get back in the groove…I do miss riding but I am not going to be cold anymore…not much to do today….Man U plays at 11 and there will be more “Route 66″ but that is about it….I do need to do laundry today to clean my bedding but that is about it…more later….
Short sighted stupidity…
Well…with all of the pro discrimination laws that are being passed by repubs across the country, I wonder if any of them thought through what the ramifications are going to be? Okay…yeah, I know…by definition the repubs don’t think, they just hate and that hate is aimed at anyone that is not straight and white…but, if they truly think these laws are going to allow them to discriminate for more than a couple of years, they are delusional. In fact, I think they just sped up the process where the 14th amendment will be applied across the board to everyone in the US….that equal protection under the laws will mean actually that and they will no longer be able to hide behind their hate based religion to try to ensure the LGBT community is just a little less equal than everyone else. These folks need to take their religion and put it back where it belongs; in churches, not being used as a club to hate….one funny thing that has come out of these laws is the fact that how they are written, they allow discrimination against christians as well as the LGBT community…I am waiting for an atheist business owner to put a sign up saying “no christians allowed” for a laugh…but, we atheists don’t go in for that discrimination crap…who are the better people? Geez…
April 9th
Well…woke up this morning to 4 inches of snow and ice on the car and that will set the mood for the day….it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was cool…slept okay but the bed is torn apart so I must have tossed like crazy…and feel a little slow so maybe I didn’t sleep okay….didn’t get a thing done yesterday so today will have to be different…maybe….still no pain so that is a plus but I haven’t been on the bike in a week and it looks like a few more days until it gets warm enough to go again…and that makes me grumpy and guilty but I guess I’ll have to live with it…the trip out to get the papers with the summer tires on ice was interesting to say the least…it is a skating rink out there and I hope it melts today….not much to do today….the Wings play this aft in their last game that they have to win to get into the playoffs so I’ll be watching that one….more later…..
Nice job Space X…
Well…just finished watching the live launch of another Falcon 9 by Space X and I never get tired of seeing them…but this time, they finally landed the first stage on the barge in the ocean off the coast of Florida and it was one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while…it’s only been a few years that they have even been in business and they are doing things that the others in the space business said couldn’t be done….Well done Space X…..
Some civility…
Well…not a lot going on today except for the Tigers home opener so I thought I’d just talk a little about politics….there has been some huge amounts of sniping going on between Bernie and Hillary over the past month or so and I’ve had a problem with it…after all, we’re supposed to be the party of ideas not of nastiness like the repubs…but, in a good sign for the general, the two campaigns have called a truce…at least on who is qualified to be president anyway…but, I think they need to stretch that truce to include everything…we have made the mistake in the past of being repub light when that’s not what people want…at least on our side…and, you don’t appeal to independents by being meaner and nastier than the repubs…and I don’t think anyone can be nastier than Trump or Cruz….what we need to do is continue to highlight the policy differences between us and them…and we’ve had 35 years to figure that out since the repubs have been saying the same things that don’t work since Reagan and they aren’t going to change now…geez…
April 8th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get a lot done….made a little cash and that was cool but I am so damn tired of the cold weather…had to warm up the car again this morning since it had ice on it…and that has kept me off the bike for a week now and that makes me cranky, too…slept okay last night but the Wings lost so now the suspense carries over to a must win Sat night…aargh….I’m not sore today so I guess that’s something….haven’t had a lot of energy lately and I’m not sure why….and I’m tired of thinking about it….I would love to have a week where I didn’t count calories for every bit of food I eat….but, that’s not realistic so I guess I just have to live with it….not much to do today…going to make a little cash later in the aft and the Tigers have their home opener today so I guess I’ll watch some of that and clean a little but that’s about it….more later…
Let’s Go Red Wings!
Well…it has been a nail biting couple of weeks watching the Wings try to get into the playoffs for the 25th year in a row….their play has been inconsistent and infuriating at times but, with two games to go it comes down to winning one of them. Last night, they put in one of their best performances of the year beating the Flyers 3-0 and looking like a complete team for one of the first times that I have seen. Tonight, they go up against the Bruins in Boston and, if they win, they’re in since Boston is tied with us and that will be the four point swing we need….so, the only thing left to say is…Let’s Go Red Wings!!
Ted Cruz is just damn dumb….
Well…it isn’t very often that I see a political story that makes me laugh out loud but it just happened a few minutes ago. How dumb is Ted Cruz? If you remember a few weeks back, he attacked the Donald for his “New York values” that I guess are not as good as his “Texas values”….then the idiot goes to the Bronx yesterday and tries to do campaign stops to raise money from New Yorkers…as you can guess it didn’t go well…at one stop, he had all of 12 supporters listen to his normal, racist crap while hundreds of protesters stood outside…then he was confronted by a protester who told him to get out of the Bronx with his anti immigrant bs….then, after it was announced that the idiot would be doing a speech at a school there…the student body sent a letter to the principal stating why he shouldn’t be allowed to speak there…again citing his anti immigrant, women, gays, and everything else views and threatening to walk out if he came there…the administration agreed with the letter and cancelled the speech….New York values in action! I think this idiot is getting payback for his spouting hate at every turn and denigrating the values of a huge portion of the country…I really do hope he gets the nomination…he will lose in a landslide everywhere outside his tiny little right wing bubble…couldn’t happen to a bigger asshole….geez…