Well…what the hell is it about 4:14? Up again today at that time and it is getting gritting my teeth annoying…and then trying to get back to sleep is such a chore I wonder if I should even try anymore…I think this is almost a month of this crap and something has to give with me sleep walking through the day without any energy…oh, well…as you saw, I did get a lot of work done yesterday and today will be filled with more on the house starting with getting the last of the heavy lifting done this morning…going to be a chain sawing fool today and I think I’ll get on that early….and I need to unload all the supplies from the car…I’ve taken up every bit of room in it and I still need to find space for 3 gallons of water and the chainsaw….it looks like I’m going to need a fleece on the bike today since it is only about 54 out there right now but that will make it more comfortable working on the house today…I do still need to cook something today, too since all of the leftovers are gone and I have chicken in the fridge that needs to be cooked…or frozen…I’m into another I hate chicken stage after having so much of it lately so I’ll have to think of something else for a few days….more later…
Monthly Archives: July 2019
House 5
Well…the house made it a busy day today with lots of running around to get ready to start painting…I did have to take the sawzall back to HF since the blade release lever broke but I didn’t really need it anymore after cutting the pipes so maybe that was not a bad thing…tomorrow is going to be chainsaw day getting rid of the stumps in the fence line but I don’t think that will take all day so I’ll probably get into exterior prep for painting after I get that done…I did get everything I need for painting from HF and I bought a small wet/dry vac that will help with interior clean up when I get to that…I will need to use that on my trunk tomorrow since the cement bag leaked all over my trunk and I do need to clean that out….went out and got the exterior paint, too, only needed two gallons but even with cheap Glidden paint, it was still over 60 bucks for that and another 60 for all of the paint brushes, tape, wire brushes, gloves, and the rest so the bucks are adding up fast. One thing that irritated me some is the contractor who I selected to do the roof and windows appears to have decided to not do the job so I will need to start the bidding process over again to try to find someone who will meet that cost…I wonder if that is a thing now…that contractors are so flighty that they do a quote and then just ignore your e-mails? That took me two weeks last time but I don’t have the time to do that again…will have to think about that over the next few days and figure out what I need to do….
Did you just see that?
Well…have been working hard today trying to get ready to start painting wed but just had to comment on the idiocy that just flooded out of the WH with the idiot trump talking to the press with the Pakistani PM sitting next to him…he starts off by bragging to the PM that he could end the war in Afghanistan in 10 days but that he would have to kill 10 million people and he “doesn’t want to do that”…he bragged that he could kill every man, woman, and child there by committing genocide but that would “win” the war there easily in 10 days or less….and the unhinged rant continued when he rambled on about something on the ocean floor that reporters could put on “scooby” gear and go down and take a look at…whatever IT is…he never got around to telling anyone what IT is…and then he finished up with saying he would campaign for the Pakistani PM the next time he was running for office…you know, I am really tired of this know nothing asshole polluting the country…and any elected official from the US is barred from campaigning for officials of other country by the law here…but trump wouldn’t know that, his is just to damn ignorant to know almost anything…and I am tired of writing about him so I am going to stop here and try to take a nap….I think we need to invent new terms for how stupid trump is…dumber than a box or rocks just doesn’t describe it anymore…impeach…
July 22nd
Well…damn, another early, early morning with getting up at 4:14 and I wonder if I’m ever going to sleep again…I walk around all day like a damn zombie and I know that can’t be good for me…but, I’m at a loss what to do for it…don’t want to take the otc sleeping pills again since that screws with my blood pressure but not sleeping probably does, too…and I’m going to be too busy to take naps in the afternoon this week with getting the contracts signed for the windows and roof and then getting on the stump clearing and starting the painting this week….just want to crawl back into bed…I did get the bathroom finished up yesterday so I wouldn’t feel guilty about letting this place go to hell as I work on the house…and I do need to come back here for a political one later…there really is too much to talk about but that may make it a little easier…I might want to take Wed off to see the Mueller testimony…or maybe I’ll just get the paint and wait til thurs to get started on that…who knows? More later….
July 21st
Well….running about on time this morning and remembered to come here on a Sunday morning for the first time in a while….I did sleep okay last night but it was another short one with not getting to bed until late and back up before 6…just feeling fatigued today and I’m not sure if I’ll get out on the bike today or not…did a double yesterday in the heat and that took a lot out of me and it is still raining…are those good enough excuses to take the day off? Not sure yet…I just want to have coffee and read the news right now so I’ll think about that later…I did get a little cleaning done yesterday and may do some more today with the heat going away but it is still humid as heck so that will wait until later…I do have a clean microwave so I guess that’s something…don’t have to cook again today with leftovers for chicken tacos and club sandwiches so it will be an easy one for me and I think I need that with the work I need to do on the house this week…want to get started on the painting after I get the path cleared for the new fence and that will signal that all of the heavy work is done for me so I won’t be as sore as I have been lately…but painting will use new muscles and will probably stress my shoulder some but I’m sure I’ll live through it….more later…
Don’t get too frustrated…
Well…with the announcement from the SDNY that there won’t be any more charges coming to anyone in the campaign finance violation case that Michael Cohen went to jail for…yeah, I know…my reaction to that is that the fix is in from Bill Barr in his role as protector of trump, not as AG….and that raised my frustration level quite a bit but, after thinking about it for a while, there may be something else going on. It is clear the both donnie jr, and Hope Hicks were part of the scheme and there is plenty of evidence to convict both of them…but, what happens if they get charged? Yep, idiot boy trump will just pardon them and obstruct justice some more with it…but, what I think the SDNY is doing is waiting on the charges until both Barr and trump are out of office so idiot boy can’t do anything about it…the statute of limitations will not have run out by then and they can then roll all of them, including trump and indict the lot of them for the multiple felonies the evidence shows they committed…I sure hope that is what’s happening and not that Barr has subverted justice again and protected a bunch of criminals just because of his fealty to trump…impeach…
July 20th
Well…do you remember where you were 50 years ago today? It’s been 50 years since we first landed on the moon and I remember being glued to the tv while the first steps were happening…think I’ll watch some docs about it today…it was another 4:54 morning this morning but I was able to get back to sleep until 6 so that was a little better…still not enough but better…I took the day off yesterday and it appears to have done some good since I feel okay this morning even with not getting enough sleep…the half hour nap I took in the afternoon helped, too, and I think I’ll try that again today….I did get some cleaning done yesterday and will do the bathroom today…and the microwave needs to be done, too so I will have things to do today…I did have to put the air on last night for a while with the humidity and it looks like I’ll have to do that tonight, too, but the weather is going to change and get cooler next week so I will have to bust ass on the house and take advantage of it…but not today…don’t even have to cook today with baking some chicken yesterday and having leftovers for tacos and club sandwiches….more later….
Snakes on the stairs…
Well…not sure if I’m going to do a political one today…after all, what more can you say about a racist, asshole president who has been implicated in many felonies and the only reason he wasn’t perp walked out of the WH is a misinterpreted DOJ memo from 1974? But, that’s not what this is about…this morning early as I was carrying my bike up the stairs out of here, I looked down and saw a small garter snake just sitting on the top step…I must have scared him since he quickly bailed down under the stairs but I was curious enough to put my bike down and look for him but couldn’t find him…so I got on the bike and took my ride but when I got back he was back, too…and took off under the stairs again…I really wanted to see where he went so I came inside and got my new led flashlight, went back out and looked under the stairs, and still couldn’t find him…and that was weird since there is no place to hide….haven’t seen him since but I really wanted to and that was a little disappointing…oh, well….
July 19th
Well…running about normal for me this morning but I didn’t have the breakthrough on sleep I was hoping for…up at 5:04 again but I do feel a little better today so I guess that’s something…okay, a very little better but I hope the coffee will help…I really should get out on the bike right now to beat the weather coming in but I just can’t do it without coffee…so, it looks like I’ll be waiting for a few hours to go out…I do have an errand to run this morning after I wake up so maybe after that….it’s kind of hard waiting, especially when storms this year have been falling apart coming across the lake and then I’ll be waiting for nothing…we’ll see….I did have a nice day yesterday with getting out of here for a while to shoot pool and on the run out I had the air on in the car and it still works great…first time I’ve run it this year and that’s pretty cool for a 25 year old car…I am going to get some cleaning in today and will probably have to run the air here but I just looked at the weather and it is not supposed to get to the 97 degrees they were predicting earlier in the week…still going to be hot but not dangerous hot and I can live with that…more later….
House 4…
Well…have been so damn exhausted all day today that I had to take the day off from working on the house…I did get the fence contract signed and delivered and will be sending the check tomorrow….and I’ve made the decision on who to use for the roofing and windows and will get that contract signed Monday and that makes all the heavy lifting almost done…and for a better price than I expected so that makes me happy. I do still need to rent a chainsaw to prep the ground for the new fence but I’m not going to do it in the dangerous heat tomorrow…there is plenty of time since the fence is about 4 weeks out…the roof should get done next week, though, so I need to get the last of the cleanup done so I can put the trash in the dumpster that they will have there for the roofing material that is being taken off……so, I’m taking the weekend off to rest and recover and try to get some sleep…these days of 4-5 hours of sleep are killing me…and only having one brat for food for the entire day is not good either….