Well….it seems that the days are all running together again…I think it’s kind of sad that the highlight of my week is going to the grocery store…when I don’t shoot pool that is….but, I’m not spending a lot of money so that is cool…I did spend over 50 bucks this morning and that did not include any meat…I did have to restock some of my spices and that is not cheap…I mean over 7 bucks for just some crushed rosemary and chili powder? Oh, well….I do have a pork loin to slow roast Saturday…going to make a rub for it and wrap it in foil to cook at 275 for 5 or 6 hours to see how it comes out….I may have fixed the pedal arm on the bike by lying it on it’s side and filling the cavity with loctite…..two days now without having to tighten it…..don’t have a lot to do today….started to clean the kitchen yesterday and that should continue today…or maybe the bathroom…or maybe the car….hmmmm….whatever, I need to get going….
Monthly Archives: September 2016
A few things…
Well…really haven’t come up with a topic that would take a whole one of these so I guess I’ll just think for awhile and see what I come up with….it is pretty cool to see Keith Olbermann back doing his rants on the internet…they finally got the links sorted out and now I can see him every morning a little after 8…just what this campaign was missing…there is going to be some cool new science released this afternoon with the first data from the GAIA probe that has a 2 billion megapixel camera on it that is has been working for a few years now to make a map of the Milky Way…a 3d map that will be able to really show where we are in the cosmos….it’s goal is to map about a billion stars over the next few years and that should be really cool to see…We have the second lowest reported minimum of arctic sea ice in the history of records and the deniers are out in force saying “see…the ice is growing, not shrinking”…and that is worthy of a headslap when the trends are easy to see on the graphs…in a few years there won’t be any ice in the summer and it is due to climate change you morons….okay…that’s enough for now…I may come back for another one later if I can work up the outrage….
September 14th
Well….it ended up being a pretty good day yesterday with making some cash and getting some work done around here….and the pain in my thigh subsiding somewhat…so, as days go, it didn’t suck….hoping today will be be the same…I have a few errands to run after the normal stuff and I really do need to put the trash out and clean the kitchen….so, that will be the agenda for the day….might have to push the bike ride back awhile since it is sprinkling and I’m not sure if I want to get wet on the bike today…..I’ve been good for quite a few days now and that feels good in the morning….not sure how long that will continue…at least through today and maybe tomorrow…didn’t win the Mega last night but I do have 4 tickets to check Friday to see if I may be able to get a freebie’s worth of winnings….that would be nice….okay, need more coffee and to catch up on the news so I’ll have a topic to think about on the bike this morning…and, I am ahead for the month for the first time in a long time….
Does this one count?
Well…was just watching and episode of and old tv show called “Run for your life” and in the opening scene they have a jazz band on stage that has a Hammond B-3…does that count? I’m going to count it since it is so cool to see a show from 1965 with a B-3 in it….
This is a “real” American?
Well…I am getting really tired of this BS….just the other day another one of the supposed “real” Americans threatened Hillary Clinton’s life by saying that “blood will flow in the streets” if she is elected. And this didn’t come from just any Joe Schmoe…this came for the frickiing governor of Kentucky…the idiot tea partier Matt Bevin. Now, advocating violence against the government or the president is called sedition and this idiot has certainly committed it and now the justice department needs to do their jobs to see if he is connected to the white supremacist groups that regularly spout this crap and murder people…that would be conspiracy and it is another felony. Where the hell do these idiots get off constantly wrapping themselves in the flag and then in the same breath egg their followers on to destroy the country if they don’t get their way? And, of course, these remarks were delivered at the Values Voters summit…the thinly disguised convention of hate where every repub spoke over the weekend to groups that overtly push hate of minorities, gays, immigrants and everyone else who is not a white evangelical….some religion you got there…Jesus sure wouldn’t recognize it….geez…
September 13th
Well….running a little late today since I have been trying to find Keith Olbermann’s new show on GQ…man, they are really bad at making it available…just a link or something would be good on their part….did get a few things done yesterday and ran some errands and it was nice to get out for a while….the pain seems to be subsiding in my right thigh but I am still at a loss at how I hurt it….just getting old, I guess….it looks like it may rain in a while so I need to get out on the bike soon to miss it….but, every time it looks like rain around here it doesn’t so I’m not sure why I’m even thinking about it….I do have a bunch of work to do around here today so that will happen after I get the normal stuff in….it was nice yesterday that the humidity had dropped….and it was cooler…probably shouldn’t hope for that with fall fast coming…don’t want to wear gloves on the bike…..more later….
And another one….
Well…needed to do this one before I forgot it….was watching tv the other day and Steppenwolf’s “Born to be Wild” came on and the organ part is certainly a Hammond B-3….so, add another one to the B-3 count…oh, and I saw another commercial that had “Magic Carpet Ride” in it and that is almost all B-3…
Another one for the B-3 count….
Well…keeping with my obsession with the Hammond B-3 organ…am watching a concert on AXS tv right now with the jam band from Colorado, the String Cheese Incident…it it raining so hard that they have the instruments covered but there is no mistaking a B-3 when you hear it…so, let’s add another one to the B-3 count…
Okay, they just uncovered the organ and it IS a B-3….
Here’s a scandal for you….
Well…I think it is a conscious plan for the right to make up lots of fake scandals so when a real one comes along, no one will notice. Luckily, someone did notice this one…a real one, and did a story on it last week. As you know, the right would love a country where companies can pollute as much as they want and push the cost on to the taxpayers when cleanup time comes…and that any environmental regulation is a “job killer” that has to be stopped by any means possible. To the repubs, that means suing the government any time we try to do anything to improve the environment…but this time the suits against the new carbon regulations have a buried little scandal that no one is talking about….before any repub state AG filed any suits against the new regulations, they met with all of the usual suspects to plan strategy…and that means coal companies, oil companies and every other one that poisons the people for profit. It was also revealed that these AG’s received millions of dollars in political contributions….and, of course, this didn’t have any bearing on whether the suits were brought (snark)….but, the worst part is since these repub state AG’s are bringing the suit, you and I are paying for it…yep, our taxes are paying to sue our own government to allow companies to poison us…and the companies walk away with their only cost being the donations to the repubs, not the true costs of the suits which would be hundreds of times more cost to them. Pretty normal for the repubs…use government to reward their buddies while we pick up the tab…geez…
Now pneumonia?
Well…I am so damn tired of the media these days when they ignore the slush fund that is the Trump foundation that has been used illegally to make political donations and to secretly fund lawsuits against AG’s who sued the fake Trump University…and what do they focus on? Hillary has pneumonia…every network, every news show…wall to wall today about a common sickness and the effects she showed from it. Of course, the right wing slant in the media is that having pneumonia disqualifies her from the presidency…and that has already morphed into: “what is she hiding about her health”….now, I’ve had pneumonia and the symptoms I had mirrored what Hillary had…the long term cough that drags on and then the rest manifests in quickly declining…it put me in the hospital in the course of one night after walking around with it for a couple of weeks…and yes, you do feel weak…I hit the floor after getting off the bed getting ready to go to the hospital….the really sick part is that there is no sympathy for her feeling bad…just the normal Clinton conspiracy crap that is constantly floated by the right….while Trump continues to lie, cheat, and steal and not a word about it in the press….I fear for this country if the media continues on this path….geez…