Well…I’m still screwed up on what day it is…it felt like Saturday all day yesterday and I was in Saturday mode all day…even cleaned the bathroom which usually happens on Saturday so I’m not sure what I’m going to do today…the one key should have been that there was no soccer on which is my go to on Sat mornings….it looks like today may be the day off the bike that I have been hoping for with the huge blob of rain that is aimed right at this area that looks like it will take a few hours to pass…and if it doesn’t finish until after noon, I will have F1 qualifying and Man U that I need to watch…I really don’t like to go out in the aft with all of the traffic on the trail and the light just doesn’t look right….I do want to go over to Rogers Plaza this aft to look at the car show but not if it’s raining…could be a really good day to just veg the whole day out today…okay need more coffee and a bagel so I’m going to do that…more later…
Monthly Archives: August 2016
She let them off the hook….
Well…it was refreshing to see Hillary tear into Trump yesterday and his connections to the white supremacists that appear to be his core of support, and to call out his racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and every other phobia that the Donald has embraced. But, one thing I don’t agree with was that she let the rest of the repubs off the hook for being exactly the same as Trump, but just being that way with the dog whistles that were their mode of operation until Trump started using his bullhorn. At least since Obama was elected, and much sooner than that if you look at history, the repubs have been the party of hate, an you can still see that with the passing of all of the anti LGBT laws that are always pushed by repubs…the model being HB2 in North Carolina but that was preceded by the crap in Indiana. So, I think it was a mistake to give the rest of the repubs a pass on their roles in fomenting hate across this country…the light needs to shine on them, too….geez…
August 26th
Well….I am a little confused today…it seems like a Saturday after playing pool yesterday…oh, and I won by the way….so I think it will take part of the day to get used to it….the venison and fish I smoked yesterday came out great and I made some dip for a snack yesterday that was just great…going to have a bagel with cream cheese with my next cup of coffee here in a minute…with some of the smoke fish….might give me some energy on the bike this morning…but I still need to take some painkillers before I go out since it helps with the cramps….didn’t get anything else done yesterday so I will have to do better today since the kitchen and bathroom needs work….I also have to go out and get an antenna so I can watch the Lions tomorrow night and the lid on my trashcan broke so I need another one of those, too…I need some tomatoes, too, so that will be piled on and done all at once…more later…..
August 25th
Well…running a little late today with having to do the grocery run where I spent 70 bucks…yow….and didn’t get much….at least I won’t run out of milk this week…or potatoes…got 10 lbs for 3 bucks…not sure how I’m going to use them before they spoil but I think there are recipes in the cookbook that T gave me…..did make a little cash yesterday that almost paid for the groceries so that was cool….and I do have enough in the drawer to get through another week….I am happy that the Olympics are over…oh, I said that before, didn’t I? I have to get caught up on the shows on the server and that will start tonight with a couple of Ray Donovans…no, it will start with Mr. Robot and then into Ray…..I do need to remember to take some stuff for the pain before the bike….I seem to have cramps everywhere and it may be that I’m low on potassium….who knows? Okay…need to get the coffee finished and get out on the bike so I can smoke some venison and some steelhead today….hope it comes out okay….more later….
The Clinton Foundation…
Well….another day, another fake “scandal” by the idiots on the right who just know that there must be a “scandal” if Hillary is involved. Unlike ole Donald, who cheats everywhere he can and uses his foundation to bribe the AG of Florida to drop the Trump University case, the Clinton foundation follows all of the rules and discloses all of their donors and has never been found to have done anything illegal or unethical since it’s founding in 2001. The Clintons have never even drawn a penny of salary from the foundation…in fact, they have donated millions in speaking fees to the foundation to help continue it’s work…you know, the work…like keeping 800,000 kids with HIV alive in Africa who would have died without the foundations work to make HIV drugs available to them. Now, the shouts from the idiot Trump to “shut it down” since he thinks the crooked way he runs his foundation is how everyone does it…need to be tied to the death sentence that these kids will be under if the foundation is shut down…but, that never matters to the repubs, the only kids they have ever cared about are unborn ones…once they are born, they are on their own…this is the real “death panel”…staffed by modern repubs….geez…
August 24th
Well…day one of red loctite on the bike and so far so good…it is the first time I’ve gone through an entire run without having to tighten the arm in a month….let’s hope it stays that way….didn’t have a lot to do yesterday so I didn’t do a lot….the toe soreness is gone this morning and that made me kind of laugh a little with how much it hurt yesterday….but now my ankles hurt so I know this is just the moving pain that I’ve had for years now so it will be no big deal….looks like a rainy one this aft so I need to get the bike ride in this morning after I get my hair cut…it is rubbing on the inside of the top and feels like spiders so I do need to get that done…and, I have a coupon to save 5 bucks so that is cool…and, I am going to make a little cash this aft so I can buy groceries tomorrow….okay, need more coffee so I am going to go get more and read some news…more later…..
I just couldn’t resist…
Well…it you didn’t already know that old Donald’s entire campaign is just a huge grift to separate the rubes from their money, you just have to look at the latest little nugget that showed up in the press today….since ole Donald started taking outside money to run his campaign, the rent for his headquarters magically went up by 500%…in a building that Trump supposedly “owns” (but who knows if he won’t release his tax returns) so he is now paying himself almost $200,000 a month to rent the space….and it’s not only in the rent that the grift goes on…he’s paid his own properties millions for food, lodging and incidentals; never using anything but his own properties or cronies for campaign expenses…a good gig if you can get it…take money from the rubes and pay yourself millions…sounds like the televangelist playbook to me….sad…I just couldn’t resist this one…
Some lighter stuff…
Well…yeah…have been writing about the idiot Trump and his brood a bit too much lately so I think I’ll do a little lighter stuff for this afternoon….I forgot that I saw a Ferrari 458 Sat sitting at the strip mall in front of my place…there were two Porsche 911′s and a Porsche Panamera, too so I’m not sure what the heck that was about….I do have a photo to prove it if anyone wants to see it….I did see a really cool video of some SpcaeX launches and landings…and I didn’t know that the landings were done with only one of the 9 rocket engines firing…they were all in slow mo and it was pretty cool…found out about them from Phil Plait’s column over at Slate, again, and if you haven’t checked out “Bad Astronomy” over there yet, you should, pretty cool stuff. The big GR Metro Cruise is going on this weekend with a car show at Rogers Plaza that is always some fun…there are plenty of cool old cars and lots of weird people to watch….there was even a beater Miata there last year that made me laugh….okay…that was good for me to cleanse the politics out of my head and do something different for a change…might even come back for another one today but I’m not sure about that yet….
August 23rd
Well….the moving pain has struck again and is now in my right big toe…if it didn’t hurt so much, it would be funny…getting up every morning and wondering where the pain is going to be this day….might have done it to myself with clenching my toes during the night….had to go nuclear on the bike yesterday and use the red loctite since the blue didn’t even make it through an entire ride…..if this stuff doesn’t work, I’m not sure what more I can do….and the bike has been riding so well the past few days that I just want to get out on it….I am a little steamed this morning with trying to get the papers…the damn family fare had no one on and, of course, there were 6 people trying to take huge orders through the self check outs that are clearly marked for 12 items or less….was just about ready to walk out and take them without paying….okay, I’m calm now…finding it easier and easier to return to the peaceful state I find myself in most of the time…but, that took a lot of work over the past few years….I do need to get out to get some wood chips to smoke some fish and venison thurs….Tom gave me the idea for the venison and I can’t wait to try it…need to get a marinade made up for both of them…more later
Stupid doesn’t fall far from the tree….
Well…when you listen to any of the Trump kids, you can see that the stupid from dad doesn’t fall far from the tree. Just today, Donnie junior was opining on why wages have been stagnant for workers and made the assertion that it was Syrian refugees coming here that were the problem. Donnie, Donnie, Donnie….wages have been stagnant here since the 70′s not since the Syrian crises began in 2011…and we have only taken in a few thousand..compared to the 145 million workers in the US, the number of refugees is a not noticeable tiny little blip that can’t possibly have the effect that Donnie the stupid younger thinks. But that is the thing with the modern repubs, they are the party that has no relationship with the facts…and facts are facts, not the opinions they think are facts…oh, and it is people like little Donnie’s father who trash unions, stiff small businesses, and offshore jobs who have depressed wages here…not some small handful of refugees….sad….