March 31st

Well…running late this morning…have been up for an hour or so and I just can’t get going…probably should have started drinking coffee earlier but the couch was just too comfortable…slept okay last night but woke up with a pain in my right shoulder so I guess I slept on it  a little too much….but, it’s not too bad so I can live with it…but, no dreams after two days in a row of having them and that is disappointing…oh, well….I did cook a big ham yesterday and that was pretty good and will mean I don’t have to cook for a few days…forgot to get canned potatoes for my ham and potato dish so I’ll have to use some of the Idaho potatoes I got Thursday…they are so huge that I only used three of them to fill my largest pan….not much to do today…may have to skip the bike ride with the wind later…it’s supposed to gust to 50 or so and that is way too strong to get out on the bike…more later…

Not sure I like this…

Well…sitting here watching the Tigers playing their opening game which is a tradition for me, and they just announced that the safety netting that normally is just there to protect the people behind home plate has been extended all the way down the baselines to first and third base. Now, I’m not sure I like this….part of the fun of going to the game was the chance to get a foul ball hit into the stands and now that is gone for almost half the park.  I understand the perceived need for safety of people in the park, but I’ll bet there are more people injured going to and from the park walking or in their cars than there are from balls going into the stands. So, I’ll have to think about this one for a while….I’m okay with a little danger at the park or at the  arena and I wonder how other people feel….hmmmm…

March 30th

Well…running late today and it’s because I slept in until 7:20…yeah, I know, I bitched about never being able to sleep in but does 7:20 count as sleeping in? Not sure, but it is weird to have it light when I got out of bed….had an okay day yesterday and got a bike ride in but it’s almost April and I’m going to be back in thermasuit for the next week and that is a little depressing…I am itching for a 60 degree day that I can go out in a t-shirt and shorts…..didn’t get a lot done yesterday and the only thing I plan on doing today is cooking a big ham that I got cheap yesterday….I was going to clean but I guess I’ve lost most of my motivation over the past week….I do need to go out this morning and get my Mega tickets since it is over 500 mil for tonight…I need the idea of the hope of getting rich for at least a night….more later….

Boycott “Roseanne” part two…

Well….just when you thought Roseanne couldn’t be any worse of a person, it comes to light that she has been attacking the Parkland shooting survivors, David Hogg, specifically by re-tweeting the right wing conspiracy that claims that David Hogg gave a Nazi salute during his March for Our Lives address…and this is just one of the harassments and conspiracies that the right has been pushing since these brave kids said enough to school murders and have started doing something about it. To have someone like Roseanne personally attack  and slur a 17 year old kid for speaking his mind and expressing his first amendment right to speak, is just frickin wrong and the execs at ABC who support this person need to do something about it…a fake apology is not enough…we need to boycott this rotten to the core person and ensure that this hate is not rewarded…after all, boycotts work…just look at Laura Ingraham, whose advertisers are abandoning her show on fox after she also attacked David Hogg on Twitter….this type of hate can’t go unpunished in a civil society…and I hope Roseanne pays with the loss of her show….geez…

Anybody else worn out yet?

Well….with everything happening in this country right now, is anyone else worn out following it? I long for the days of “No drama Obama” and the good governance that came with that administration….and the contrast with the fools who are running this country now is so stark that I struggle to think that this country can survive it. The latest attack on our institutions was the firing of the VA administrator yesterday to be replaced with the WH doctor who cheated the idiot trump’s physical to make him look like he is healthy, adding inches to his height and shaving pounds from his weight to make sure he wasn’t seen as obese, which he is, and then lied that trump has no cognitive impairment….and that is the biggest lie of them all. But now, this moron has been put in charge of the VA with the sole purpose of privatizing it…to make the VA just another profit center that trump’s cronies can bleed dry while they ensure that our veterans will never get the care that they have earned with their service to this country. This is the repubs wet dream of governance….from Betsy DeVos and her for profit charter schools, to Eric Prince’s proposing to privatize the US military’s action in Afghanistan, and now the VA…the only thing the repubs want is to steal and steal and steal from the taxpayers and line their pockets…November can’t come quickly enough for me…I’m just so damn tired….impeach….

March 29th

Well….on time today with the grocery run and getting up on time so I guess that is something…feel pretty good this morning and I’m not sure why…l was good last night so maybe that’s part of it, and I slept okay last night and had dreams for the second night in a row…I’m excited about that since it has been months since I had a repeat night…and this one had David Bowie in it along with typewriters and cop cars…yep, pretty weird but fun…I did get out for a good bike ride yesterday and I think that had something to do with remembering my gloves….the temp was borderline but I was still able to get out in shorts and I am working up to a full blast ride in the near future….but, the weather is going to crap by Sunday and I may have a few days next week that I won’t go since I don’t want to wear a stocking hat again….not much to do today…I am going to clean some and use up all the leftovers before I make the ham I got this morning…a 9 pounder for $8.67 is not a bad deal…more later….

A little fun….

Well…okay, I know…it’s been way too heavy around here lately and I really don’t want to be known as that person….after all, I have been really laid back for the past 6 months and things have been okay so let’s try to have a little fun with this one….have been trying to figure out when spring is going to come this year….it was supposed to be 56 today but that is not going to happen…and it’s supposed to be 31 for a high on Sunday with the rest of the week around 40 or so for highs…oh, well…no need to be irritated about that since there isn’t anything I can do anything about…and it was cold until May last year so there is precedent for it….I’m still laughing that I am on pace for another week of more miles on the bike than on the car….and I remembered to take gloves with me today and that made all the difference…really had a good, hard ride today and I look forward to that happening again some time….but rain is coming tomorrow and after how cold I got yesterday in the rain, I’m not sure I want to do that again…okay, so this one wasn’t fun…it wasn’t mean or mad so I guess that is something….

Boycott “Roseanne”

Well….I’m not sure where the media and the right come up with the idea that Hollywood has a “liberal bias” when crap like “Roseanne” and “The Ranch” keep getting made. I wonder why the producers or the studio heads would approve of this trump fluffing nonsense if they are so liberal….probably because money trumps anything…money trumps the truth…money trumps morality…get the idea? Just read an article with Roseanne where she was asked about trump’s anti gay bias, his affairs, his criminality, and she just let it all go saying that she didn’t “believe” that trump has done anything wrong…giving him a pass during the week where he and Pence rolled out their new trans bashing policy that would throw all trans people out of the military…and where Pence spoke at a conference saying that gays shouldn’t have the same rights as the rest of us and that he will work for a constitutional amendment to permanently make them second class citizens. That’s not homophobia, or bigotry, or wrong…at least not in Roseanne’s eyes…and that is just the kind of normalization of trumpism that these shows are all about…that’s it’s perfectly fine to hate the “others” and live with no moral character at all…the only response to this whitewash is to boycott this toxic brew and make sure that this hate is not rewarded….geez….

March 28th

Well….not sure how to start this one today…didn’t win the Mega last night and that is a little disappointing but I feel okay today so that is something….slept okay last night and even had some dreams that involved the battleship New Jersey and that was a little weird…but kinda fun….did get out on the bike yesterday in shorts and no gloves but that was a little bit of a mistake…started to rain as soon as I left here and with the wind blowing over 15 I was cold by the time I got back here and it took all day to warm up again….so today, I’m going to wait a little to get out….but it is going to be sunny today so that will help some….didn’t get anything else done yesterday and the kitchen and bathroom are still waiting for attention so I think I’ll choose one and just do it today…after coffee and a little news, that is…more later…

The tax scam revealed….

Well…just go suited up to get on the bike and it started to rain again and it is nowhere near warm enough to get out in the rain, so I thought I’d come back here to do one of these while I wait for the weather to cooperate. Just read a short little article on Kos that is just another small bit of evidence that the tax cuts for the rich and corporations that the repubs passed, using investment and job growth as the reason for cutting taxes, is just the scam that those of us in the reality based world said it was. The Federal Reserve does a survey every quarter to judge the state of the economy, asking CEO’s to report if they are going to invest the tax cuts and/or crate more jobs….I think you can guess where this is going…almost 80% of those surveyed said that they have NO plans to increase investment or to hire anyone for both this year and next…let that sink in a minute…the entire reason that the repubs gave for screwing over most of the US and exploding the debt was to get the economy going and that they would create good jobs….but, I guess they didn’t check with anyone other than their masters when they did the tax cuts that ended up benefiting only their masters…with the rich getting over 90% of the cuts. But, don’t expect anything to change as long as the repubs are in charge…after all, they don’t believe in facts or empirical data…just their “gut” feelings….so, let’s get out and vote this fall…they need to go away soon….geez…