December 19th

Well…running early today with getting up early and I’m just shrugging about that….have been sleeping okay lately but that ended last night with another up and down night….feel kinda crappy today and I think it’s the calorie restriction that is doing it….should be able to tell for sure later in the day….have been fighting cracks in my right heel and it is starting to hurt when I walk…this happens every winter and I am pretty tired of it….oh, I did win at pool yesterday and had  a nice drive out and back….I still like that crude old car….didn’t get anything else done yesterday but today I will…going to wash the car and then clean a little around here but that is about it….more later…

Indian movies….

Well…as I talked about before, I am quite a big fan of movies from India and spent the nights this weekend watching a couple that popped up on the server….Baahubali 1&2….now, there is a wonderful strangeness to most of them, with most of the ones I’ve seen having lots of music and dancing…and that is even in the gangster movies that they make. Baahubali was no different….a huge, sprawling epic set of movies that reminded me of American movies from the 30′s in the way they were almost naive and simplistic in how they treated right and wrong. The only problem I had with the movies were the subtitles and the work it takes to read them that distracted from the visuals somewhat…and they were gorgeously shot movies…but, at 2 1/2 hours each….it took quite a bit of work to get through them….worthwhile, though to see the world through a different culture’s viewpoint…..

December 18th

Well…not running early or late today…hmmm..so I guess that means I’m on time? But, for what? I just realized I haven’t had a watch on for 15 years…I wonder if the one I have still works…probably not…oh, well…slept okay last night but it was another boring day yesterday that I really didn’t do anything….should have cleaned some but just couldn’t get motivated but I will have to do some things today with it being a pool day…and, I want to get my hair cut but that will be about it for the day….I do need to work out to try to stay in shape this winter….I think I’ll do that every day from now until March…don’t have a lot of energy today with the calorie restrictions that I have to do over the winter and I can tell it’s going to get pretty annoying trying to stay around 1,000 cals a day….but, I guess it’s just like the early start to the winter…I’ll just have to live with it….more later….

Now we know why….

Well….haven’t seen a lot about this on the news so I thought I’d talk about the reason none of the repubs are holding the idiot responsible for his destruction of our democracy….they know they are in it, too…in a long article in Newsweek yesterday, it was described how deeply Russian money has infiltrated the repub party…with Mitch McConnell’s PAC getting more than a million dollars from Russian billionaires that was laundered through American citizens to circumvent the ban on foreign money in our elections. And, this goes to one of the reasons that Paul Ryan is thinking about not running for re-election…he got money from the Russians that was then distributed to many, many other repubs for their campaigns. While not technically illegal since the money was run through Americans, it still came from Putin and his cronies and, while the ignorant idiots that vote for repubs won’t care, the rest of us do and they will be held responsible as the traitors they are…..impeach…

Taking it to the streets…

Well…with the criminal in the White House edging ever closer to obstructing justice even more than he already has by trying to get the justice department to fire Mueller, and with the repubs in congress ignoring their responsibilities by aiding and abetting this attack, we move on to the next phase for us as concerned citizens…and that is to take it to streets in massive protests that will shut this country down until the criminal is removed. Now, it has been many, many years since I have taken part in active protests…the last one when I was in high school and walked out to protest the Vietnam war and the lies we were being told on a daily basis…and I am no longer young, but I will be joining them next Friday when the idiot trump is going to try to subvert the rule of law by firing Mueller….and this will just be the beginning, next year we need to vote every damn repub out of office since they have shown that they don’t believe in democracy anymore….with their voter suppression, their payoffs to the 1%, and their constant lies, the cancer on this country that is the repub party needs to be cut out and I am going to do my part….I have my warm clothes out and I will be on the front lines come Friday…and every person who cares about this country should join me…it’s almost too late….impeach….

December 17th

Well…I’m already tired of it being so damn cold lately…I’m almost in hunker down mode and have started to count the weeks until March…slept okay last night but still feel worn out today so it looks like I’ll just take it easy for a while until the coffee starts to work….have been fighting cracks in my heels already this year and that normally doesn’t start until later in winter…it’s not even officially winter yet and it seems like it has been snowing and cold forever…okay…no more obsessing about that….it’s warm in here, after all, and I really don’t have much to bitch about….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but laundry so today I’ll have to clean some…no cooking since I have leftovers and I am trying to limit calories, again….more later….

December 16th

Well…sitting here waiting for soccer to start and thought I’d get this one done….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get a lot done…slept okay last night and don’t feel anywhere as bad as I should…I was not good last night, as you can probably figure out….and my back is still not hurting at all so maybe I can stop thinking about it….I did cook a big ham that I got Thursday…I know ham is not good for me but how can you pass up a spiral sliced one for 97 cents a pound? I can tell I’m going to be grumpy with the weather being so crappy I can’t ride the bike….not sure if I can start to hibernate yet but it’s looking more and more like I am going to have to…..not much to do today…going to clean a little but no cooking today…and I have laundry to do…another kind of boring day….more later….

Not much going on…

Well…sitting here trying to come up with a topic without much luck so far…so, I guess I’ll just talk for a while and see what happens…I did see the Space X launch today and it was pretty cool…they even had a long distance shot of the maneuver that the first stage makes when it starts the descent process…and then they had the onboard camera showing it landing and it was so clear you could see the smoke trail from the launch as it came down…pretty darn cool. Oh, the repubs tax giveaway is going to be released late today and these idiots want to vote on it Monday…giving interested parties only two days to go over the 500 pages and figure out just how bad it is….even more of a reason for us to get out to vote next year so we can undo this monstrosity….hmmm.. what else? Not much right now, I guess….trying to stay away from the news a little today so I don’t have much to say right now…more later….

December 15th

Well..running a little later today since I didn’t get up until after 7 today….and that is a little unusual…slept okay last night and I am wondering why there have been no dreams for months now…oh, well….have been feeling slow with not being on the bike for a week now and it looks like I’m done for the year….winter just started way too early this year and I’m not really happy about that…I did get over 3100 miles in for the year and that makes it a good one….I am going to buy the new bike in January but I still need to take the Motobecane apart and strip the good parts off it….and find a place to store them…not too much room around here….not much to do today…I did clean the kitchen some yesterday and I hope to continue the cleaning today….more later….

This is huge and no one noticed….

Well…with all of the election coverage of our great win in Alabama, a huge occurrence happened here in Michigan an no one really noticed. Just this week, petition signatures were approved that puts non-partisan redistricting on the ballot for 2018….yep, you heard that right, this proposal would take the 2020 redistricting out of the hands of the repubs who have cheated through gerrymandering to maintain their strangle hold on Michigan politics even though they have gotten many less votes…and now, that is going away if we can pass this citizen fueled effort on the ballot. One of the things that people must understand is the only reason that the repubs control the government is that they cheat…without the ability to cheat, they would be the minority party they deserve to be…and I don’t mind that this same gerrymandering would be prevented when the dems take control in the future…why wouldn’t anyone with ethics and honor want our elections to be fair? With the court cases across the country that are throwing out the repub drawn maps almost daily, and now with referendums that will force fairly drawn maps, we are finally turning the tide from the repub cheaters and taking back our democracy from the big money that props up these cheaters….it’s about damn time….