Well….if any of you have been following my saga of trying to buy a house to retire in, I have a little update today…the check from cashing in a life insurance policy finally came yesterday and now I can get down to it…it is a little weird to have $45,000 dollars sitting on my kitchen counter but a little cool, too….I guess I did one thing right by buying that policy 15 years ago….need to get to the bank Monday….had to make an appointment since there is a lot of fed reporting that goes with a deposit that large….
Monthly Archives: September 2018
Just some stuff…again…
Well…since I had a couple of doctor appointments this week for the first time in 16 years, I thought I’d talk a little about that…and maybe some other stuff, too! One of the things that came out of my higher than normal blood pressure (it was still only 138 over 77) was that my doctor recommended that I get a home blood pressure machine and log the times of the day that it is higher or lower…so, I went out to Amazon and got a pretty cool little unit that got rave reviews for only 20 bucks or so shipped and that should be here Wednesday…but, I know why my BP is higher than normal and I am going to fix that after this weekend…unfortunately, this is going to be my last cocktail weekend and I am going to stop drinking, other than the beers I have out shooting pool…this should help with two things, my weight is higher than I like and by cutting out the cocktails, I should start losing weight like crazy and that will help with the blood pressure, too…and with my cholesterol being the same number of 138, weird, huh? I do need to start eating better, too…so, no more burgers or pork after I clean out my freezer…but, with not buying any booze, I will be able to afford some more healthy food like fish, fruits, and veggies….oh, and I do need to stop taking so much antihistamine, too, since that is directly related to high blood pressure. It should be an interesting journey but a bittersweet one…I mean, giving up your last vice? Oh, well…if it adds a few healthy years I think it’s worth it…it’s just nice to know where I sit and how to make it better..I’m going to miss the burgers, too…and the sausage, and the salami, and the smoked sausage, and the pork chops…you get it….
How much perjury is enough?
Well…I have a really, really simple question for every damn repub in this country: How much perjury is enough? How much perjury should Brett Kavanaugh be able to commit before he is rejected for the SC? Eight, nine, ten? It is already documented that he has lied to the senate at least six times…and that is six felonies, folks…but the repubs sit there and conspire to place this unqualified liar on the court for the rest of his life. But this isn’t even the worst of this guy…this is a guy who believes that a sitting president can’t even be questioned about committing crimes…that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and he lied to the senate when he said that Roe was “settled law” that he won’t vote to overturn…we have the damn e-mails that prove he was lying and can now understand why the repubs are trying to keep his record secret….even in this day and age, this far right woman hater believes and has stated openly every time that birth control is used by a woman it is in fact “an abortion” and he will vote to outlaw all birth control. What do you think about this guy ladies? Do you want to go back to the days when there was no birth control and families of 9, 10, or 12 kids was commonplace? A vote for Kavanaugh will deliver us back to the bad old days where women were not in control of their bodies or lives…so, place some calls to your senators and get out to vote in November…this one is important, folks….impeach…
September 7th
Well…having a hard time getting moving today and the soreness from playing in the waves is pretty widespread…but, that is a good thing…slept okay last night but my back is caught again so there is pain running down my leg and that is annoying but I’ll live through it…that hasn’t happened in a while….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but cleaning the bike and re lubing everything on it…need to maintain it after getting out in the rain and sludge last week….I was going to clean the bathroom yesterday but just didn’t get to it so that will be something to do today….or the kitchen, not sure which but I do need to do something today…but, that will wait until after the coffee works some…and the temp comes up…it’s only 55 right now and I don’t want to put a sweatshirt on just yet…more later…
RIP Burt Reynolds…
Well…this bit of sad news just came across the interweb…Burt Reynolds died today at the age of 82. Now, I know that Burt was not everyone’s cup of tea but damn, did he make me laugh in Smoky and the Bandit and Cannonball Run…I don’t remember a bad movie that he did and they always were entertaining…and he even showed real acting chops in Deliverance…but he will always be known for the inside joke snicker that he brought to his roles and the genuine sense of fun that permeated his movies…he will be missed…RIP Burt…
Cripes, what a liar…
Well…if you look in the background of the “qualified” SC candidate Brett Kavanaugh, you can see that his entire career in the repub party was built on lies and conspiracy theories…starting with his pushing of the blatant lie that the Cintons somehow murdered an aide of theirs, Vince Foster, and then covered it up so craftily that there was never any evidence uncovered. Then, he moved into the Bush WH where he was a cheerleader for torture and was even involved with the SC court case that installed GW into the presidency before that…so we can see that instead of the “fair and unbiased” bullshit that the repubs in the senate are pushing, we see a partisan hack who lies as much as trump does…at least the dems are calling him out on his perjury in the hearings and exposing him as a criminal for his acceptance of stolen e-mails that he used to get other unqualified judges installed…but, with today’s repub party, criminality is seen as a plus and a qualification for any job, not the disqualifier that it has been until this group of thugs came along…I still stand by the idea that if this moron is confirmed, we need to impeach him as soon as we take back the house….impeach…
September 6th
Well…this is going to be short one for right now since I have a doctors appointment in a few minutes…need to have them look at the sore on my neck that won’t heal…hoping it’s not skin cancer but it could be since we northern Europeans are almost transparent we are so white…so. I’ll be back to finish this up after the appointment…and after I have some coffee and read the paper…okay, I’m back…got a little good news that the sore on my neck is not skin cancer but some kind of a cyst that won’t go away on it’s own so they are going to send me to a dermatologist to have it removed…it is really, really weird to have insurance again and have all this healthcare happening…now, I just need to take care of myself a little better…but, the good thing is that I don’t need any medications, I can get everything back in line just by not being stupid…not much to do today…still haven’t gotten on the bike yet but I need more coffee before I do that…and I am going to clean the bathroom today…more later…
60 years and counting…
Well….it has been a pretty cool day other than finding out I need to have someone take me and bring me home from a medical test I need to have but I don’t have anyone to do it so I guess I’ll just cancel it and figure it out later…but, that’s not what this about…since I was 5 years old, I have gone swimming in Lake Michigan at least once a year for every year that I have been alive…but, this year, I thought I was going to miss it with the huge weather change coming up tomorrow where the highs will only be about 70 and a storm coming in will turn the lake over and drop it’s temp by 25 degrees..so, after the bike ride today, I jumped in the car and headed out to Grand Haven and I am glad I did…the water was 74 degrees and the waves were 6-7 feet tall…and, if you’ve been here before, you know I am a wave geek and just love to have them pummel me…my shoulders and ribs even hurt from the waves slamming into me….and I got a few rides surfing them with the longest one being almost 100 feet…pretty damn cool and it keeps the streak alive…
Leahy is shredding Kavanaugh…
Well…if you haven’t been watching the Brett Kavanaugh hearing on C-span, there has been a miraculous happening where the dems are growing spines and are doing their jobs by questioning Kavanaugh’s fitness for the SC…and Senator Leahy just told him that he has evidence that he lied to the senate during his earlier confirmation hearings and, to top that off, Leahy also has evidence that Kavanaugh used information stolen from Democratic senators to prepare other judges for their confirmation hearings while he worked for the Bush WH. Now, is this where we are? That a candidate for the SC can commit perjury multiple times in lying to the senate and the repubs will still install him on the SC? And, that he can commit multiple felonies by receiving stolen information (again stolen from the senate) and using it to further other unqualified candidates? This is all from the supposedly “law and order” repubs who have shown that they all feel that the law doesn’t apply to them, or to the criminal they want to install on the SC to protect trump. So, I propose this little action to be readied when we take the house this fall…that we immediately subpoena all of the records that the repubs are withholding to protect Kavanaugh and make sure his criminality is hidden…Ted Lieu, you’re going to be the chair of the Judiciary committee so we need you to get started right now so on January 20th the subpoenas can go out the day the new congress is sworn in….and, soon after that, to start impeachment proceedings against the unqualified criminal Kavanaugh to remove him from a seat that no perjurer should sit in…get on it…impeach….
September 5th
Well…running a little late today and just can’t get started…and my shoulders hurt where I got shots yesterday but it’s worth it to already have my flu shot done…and I have another appointment to look at the sore that won’t heal Thursday and that is weird…no doctor for 16 years and now two appointments in one week…I am still wrapping my head around that one…slept okay last night and don’t feel too bad today but I do need more coffee to get to the workout and bike ride…still had a little distress on the bike yesterday but it was so hot out there in the afternoon that I think that was part of it…my lungs are still full of crap and I can’t wait til the allergies are done…it looks like a huge weather change tomorrow with the high only going to be in the low 70′s and low humidity so that will be a welcome change…not much to do today…going to take it easy today and try to clean the bathroom but that is about it…more later….