Well…it looks like I figured out that I am going to have to keep using the generic flonase before I go to bed at night to be able to breathe….was miserable and coughed all night Monday night when I skipped it but last night I was back to being able to breathe and slept quite a bit better…but that goes against my trying to not take any kind of medicine on a regular basis so I guess I’ll have to figure that one out….got up at coffee time this morning and I can live with that if I can keep that up…much better than 4:53 that had become almost normal…had a nice day yesterday with getting my hair cut and running a few errands in the morning and getting out for a long one on the bike in shorts….it looks like it’s going to rain some the next few days but less than they were predicting yesterday so I may still be able to get to 1K miles in the next couple of weeks…I did talk to my daughter for almost an hour yesterday and it was nice to get caught up with her…lots of laughs and she suggested that I move to Belize instead of buying a house here…she has friends who are building in an American enclave there and they just love the place…going to check it out over the next few days to see if it is affordable for me on SS…would be nice to live in a warm climate and be able to go to the beach every day….not much to do today…I was going to clean yesterday but didn’t get to it but I probably will today…just need to get started but that has been the problem lately…and I need to get my paperwork ready to apply for a passport next week….more later…
Monthly Archives: April 2019
A new record…
Well…trump and his idiot minions just set a new record…one that no administration in the history of the country even came close to…after being confirmed 4 days ago, the new Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt, is already under investigation for ethics violations…only the best people…trump only hires the best people…the investigation has been prompted by multiple requests by lawmakers owing to the clear conflicts of interest he showed while working for the last corrupt Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, and meeting just with oil and gas companies, then giving them everything they wanted…rolling back regulations to give these companies almost free access to public lands along with gutting regulations protecting endangered species. Oh, and after the Deepwater Horizon explosion that polluted the Gulf of Mexico, this guy was the one pushing weakening safety regulations so the oil companies will never have to pay when they are responsible for the pollution that comes after these accidents. So, one frickin day is all it took for this guy to be under investigation…and the repubs are doing what they always do when a repub is found to be ethically challenged…ignore it and diminish it….until it’s a dem…impeach…
April 16th
Well…that was a mistake…have been trying to not use to much allergy stuff since it screws with my blood pressure but not using the spray last night kept my nose plugged up so I couldn’t breathe all night….I should have known better with how bad my allergies are getting already but I was pretty clear all evening so I thought I’d take the chance…so, that leaves me exhausted this morning and sore from all of the tossing and turning…oh, well….I did get my huge turkey cooked yesterday and it came out great…I’ll have turkey to eat for the next 5 days or so and still have a bag to put in the freezer…along with the two for the carcass for soup that I’ll make later that pretty much fills my freezer…still have some ham bones to use, too, and I’ll probably have to use those first…I did get out on the bike yesterday but it looks like rain for the next week or so and I am thinking about putting the bike back on the trainer for a while so I can get to 1,000 miles by the end of the month…but, it’s just not the same so, if it’s warm enough, I’ll go out and get wet….not much to do today…I do need to get my hair cut and run a couple of errands this morning and Man U plays this afternoon so it appears my day is pretty much set…I do need to clean my living room and vacuum but I can do that while the match is on…or not…the coffee needs to work much, much better before I’ll be motivated to do much….more later….
Still thinking…
Well…it has been kind of a busy day today with cooking my 16 pound turkey for lunch and then getting out on the bike (in shorts) for a ride before I came back here…the problem is that I’m still thinking about a topic right now and haven’t been able to figure one out. So, let’s just start and see what happens…idiot boy trump is in meltdown mode today after it was announced on his teevee that the Barr report is going to be issued Thursday…you notice I didn’t say the Mueller report since it no longer is Mueller’s after Barr edited it to protect trump…and it was revealed that Barr misled the congress at least once before to justify for his bosses at the DOJ that the kidnapping of foreign nationals without the permission of the country where they lived was just peachy…and then they proceeded to grab Manuel Noriega and bring to the US…the only problem was that his “summary” in that case was misleading, according to the congressional committee who had to subpoena that background info that Barr used to write his opinion…and once misleading, always misleading when it comes to Barr…and it looks like another subpoena is going to be necessary to get the Mueller report and it’s background material…so, Barr has been a partisan hack since at least 1989…surprise, surprise…impeach…
April 15th
Well…we’re half way through April and I have 4 inches of snow on my car this morning…and that is just damn depressing….at least I didn’t get up until 6:03 so I guess that’s something…had to flip the turkey over this morning so the bottom half of it could get brined for the next three hours and spilled the brine everywhere and that was damn annoying for first thing in the morning…even before coffee and that is way too damn early to be cleaning anything…had a pretty nice day yesterday even though I didn’t get anything done…didn’t even ride the bike and might not be able to ride again today since the snow is still on the pavement and will probably still be on the trails most of the day….but, it is supposed to be almost 60 tomorrow so I may even be able to get out in shorts…I think I may be able to substitute aspirin for ibuprofen for the overall pain that I have been feeling…tried it yesterday and it seems to have helped some so I think I’ll try it again today…my shoulder was okay most of the afternoon but it hurts some right now…I just realized how much it has improved with taking the turkey out of the fridge…the last time I did one was just after the crash and I could barely lift it then and my shoulder was howling in pain…not much to do today…just cooking and cleaning…am looking forward to having turkey with mashed potatoes and gravy today…but not until much more coffee and some news….more later…
A little Monday surprise
Well…I think this one has kind of flown under the radar of the trump scandal tornado but it could really be an important day in getting the information that will prove just how big of a criminal trump is. Tomorrow, the accounting firm who does accounting for all of trump’s businesses will receive a subpoena from chairman Neal of the Ways and Means committee to produce all of the financial records of all of those businesses, along with all communications with trump and his criminal organization (including his children) and all underlying information that trump provided to the firm…and there is not a damn thing that trump can do to stop it…the firm even requested the subpoena in response to the letter sent by Neal just to protect themselves from liability….they can’t be sued by trump for following a legal order to turn over the information, and the adults in charge there are surely not going to die on this hill for trump since they know that he is a criminal who has tried to use this firm to break the law in the past by lying to them on financial statements he provided. So, it may be a pretty interesting meltdown day from trump tomorrow…or tonight as it always is when he is being exposed as the criminal that he is. Impeach….
The GOP is now a party of lawbreakers…
Well…hey, GOP…where the hell did your party of “law and order” go? You have been the ones harping for the past 40 years that the dems are “weak” on crime and I guess that meant that we don’t break the law enough? Over the past week, we have seen almost every damn officer in the trump administration either break the law or incite others to do it…if it isn’t Barr obstructing justice by “editing” the Mueller report, to Mnuchin directly breaking the clear law by not releasing idiot boy’s tax returns to congress, to trump blatantly ordering his CBP officers to break the law at the border and dangling a pardon to get them to do it, all of the repubs are nothing but criminals now who only mouthed their allegiance to the constitution all the while doing the bidding of the criminal in chief who squats in the WH. Now dems, it is time to use all of the power of government to bring these criminals to justice starting with Mnuchin who you can hold in contempt of Congress and actually have him arrested and held until he complies with the law…and then Nadler, you need to subpoena the Mueller report and file suit against Barr and trump to get a judge to order the complete report released to congress as is their right as part of their constitutional responsibilities of oversight of the executive branch…and then, Nadler, start the damn impeachment of this asshole…there are so many things he has done that meet the standard of “high crimes and misdemeanors” that this needs to be done…now…get after it…impeach…
April 14th
Well…running a little late today with not crawling out of bed until 6:30 and had some weird, weird dreams that had boats, meat and losing my ear buds in it…yep, as I said weird….slept pretty crappy, as normal, but don’t feel that bad today…still sore everywhere but feel okay…I may need to take something for it since I am getting the yearly tendonitis that has settled in both shoulders and both Achilles tendons and need to get the swelling down…at least I’ll get the chance to rest everything today since I won’t be getting on the bike with 3-6 inches of snow predicted for the day…so, I’m settled in here on the couch and am trying to figure out my day…don’t think I’ll be doing much but getting the turkey in the brine so I can cook it tomorrow and watching some soccer and races later…I missed the F1 race since it was on at 4 am and I was not getting up that early…so I guess I’ll have to check later to see if there is a repeat….more later….
Trail stuff….
Well…haven’t done one of these in a while and I’m really not motivated to do anything in politics right now…there is one topic but not right now…just noticed on the bike this morning that I have gone over 800 miles for the year and we are not even halfway through April so maybe my goal of 1,000 miles before the first of May is doable? I thing the whole thing is going to depend on the weather and looking out the next two weeks, it doesn’t look good with rain nearly every day…but, I’ll try…one last thing, yesterday when I was riding the diagonal trail up through Kentwood by 60th street, I saw the biggest flock of turkeys I have ever seen…or rasher of turkeys, you can call it either…there were at least 23 turkeys that just strolled across the trail as I was riding up it and only the last two males seemed to be in any way concerned that I was there…I never remember seeing even one turkey when I was a kid and I was out in the woods all day, every day….so, that was pretty cool to see…now if the damn weather would warm up and the wind would quiet down, riding may be fun again…my legs are really sore form bucking the wind today…think I’ll probably have to take something for them…
April 13th
Well…it didn’t work this morning….tried to go back to sleep after getting up before 5 but it was all tossing and turning and shoulder pain so I just gave up…and now I have a sinus headache that I am going to have to take something for pretty soon…I finally get to have some different food today with getting through all the leftovers I’ve had for a week…got really tired of bean and chicken burritos and am looking forward to some chicken thighs for lunch and then some turkey soup that I thawed for later…I do have that huge turkey that is thawing in the fridge that will need to go in the brine Monday and then will do the whole turkey dinner thing on Tuesday and I am looking for ward to that…hope I have enough room in the freezer for the carcass after I break it down…so I can make more turkey soup in the near future….I did get out on the bike in the wind yesterday and it was pretty brutal and left me sore this morning…but it is too darn cold to get out today until the afternoon and I’ll have to go back into light thermasuit again…or should I say still? I can’t wait for the weather to break and get a little of that spring smell….not much to do today…just a little light cleaning and soccer…and probably lots of vegging…more later…