The fridge is coming tomorrow!

Well…sitting here a little depressed by seeing the snow falling and not having a winter car yet, but I did get a bit of good news about the compact fridge I ordered yesterday…just got an e-mail from UPS saying it will be delivered tomorrow and not on Monday as it was originally estimated…and that is good news since I am getting pretty damn tired of having to go downstairs to get ice and food all the time…I’ve even given up on ice water just because of it….but that will end tomorrow and I am looking forward to it…but it is funny that most fridges in Europe are the size of the one I’m getting or just a little bigger and they live perfectly fine without having one that is big enough to hold a whole cow or a months worth of food…we’ll see how it works when it gets here….and that does it for the month….I don’t have to pay rent tomorrow for the first time in over 15 years!

As expected, they are all criminals…

Well…with the whole house vote on going forward with impeachment of the criminal trump, we found out something else about all of the damn repubs…they are all criminals just like the idiot trump…what else can you call someone who aids and abets trump’s crimes by ignoring the mountain of evidence that has already been revealed that trump and his cronies extorted Ukraine to get them to attack Joe Biden with a bogus “investigation”. Today, every damn repub voted against going forward with the impeachment and we saw them bleating all day about how it’s “illegal” for Nancy Pelosi to go forward…and now they are diving right into the trump swamp by filing ethics complaints against Nancy and Adam Schiff for doing their jobs to uphold the constitution…another bit of obstruction of congress that these criminals should pay for in the next election….and they are going to…when almost 60% of the country wants trump impeached and removed…much more than who voted for the idiot boy by the way…this is going to be a stone around the necks of all of these conspirators and are going to cost them the senate and the presidency. We just need to hammer them every day and make sure that the public knows that their support of trump is no different that of a getaway driver in a bank robbery…he is still guilty of the robbery as much as those who went inside…they need to pay for this betrayal of our country…

October 31st

Well…I am so damn tired of seeing 4:17 awake every morning and I think I’m going to take something for it tonight…and, I didn’t even take a nap yesterday afternoon…aaaargh…oh, well…don’t feel too bad this morning with only 5 hours of sleep and I did say that I wouldn’t bitch about it any more so that’s enough….really got tired of going up and down the stairs to get food for my meals so I bought a small fridge/freezer to put in the kitchen yesterday that should be here Monday…only 160 bucks and it looks like it’s big enough to keep a few days of food up in the kitchen…and I’ll have ice for ice water again and that will be cool….and it was 100 bucks off at Best Buy so that was cool….I did get out and run errands yesterday and hit 4 stores on Alpine…and didn’t really plan it at all like I used to for the Meijer’s run in the south end so I can go any time I want except the afternoon during rush hour…and that was one of the things I was concerned about moving over here…and none of the stores were busy so that was cool, too…I even found  a dollar tree right out by Aldi’s and got a bunch of stuff for 6 bucks yesterday…finally got some oven mits for a buck a piece and got to use them yesterday….oh, and my biggest bargain of the day came from a mistake I made at Meijers…I was looking for some socks to wear around here and found some black crew socks for only 7 bucks for 10 pairs …but when I got to the checkout, I noticed they were something called quarter socks but I bought them anyway….when I got back here and tried them on, they were just what I was looking for and didn’t even know it…higher than the footies that I have been wearing but about 4 inches lower than a normal crew sock…so I’m set for the winter….yep, little things like that make me happy…more later…

The fence is done!

Well…I was really surprised today when the fence guys showed up and finished the fence in the rain…and one of the guys had 9 stitches in his thumb where he cut it with a saw here on Monday…it looks really good and I am quite happy with how it came out…and the final total was just a bit over 1800 bucks so I think that was a pretty good deal, too…one really cool thing that happened was the lead guy left me the material I need to build a  gate for the side of the house and that must be at least 150 bucks worth…they charge 300 bucks for a gate but I wanted to try my hand at building one and save some cash…so I really saved with getting the stuff free…so now, the last of the big projects are done and that feels good…I wonder if I can take a few days off now? I do need to send the final payment tomorrow but that will be the last of the big outlays…but, I do want to order a small fridge for the kitchen but that will have to wait until I get my next SS payment in November… I guess I could order it now since the card that I am going to use is not due until the 24th and the payment will be here by then…

Cracks in the wall of obstruction..

Well…with the testimony of Col.  Alexander Vindman to the house impeachment inquiry yesterday, we now know that the “transcript” of trump’s extortion call to Ukraine’s president had been altered to make it look less incriminating to trump and his cronies….editing out trump’s constant pressure to get Ukraine to investigate the 2016 election interference and the many times he mentioned the Bidens by name.  Hey, let’s add this crime to all of the other crimes trump has committed just this year…and add another article of impeachment of obstruction and cover up…hmmm…I wonder who else was guilty of a coverup? Could it be Nixon? Yep…but this coverup is so much worse since it involves our foreign policy being subverted to benefit trump and only trump…while Nixon’s crimes were within our borders…an order of magnitude less in damage to our country. There are still more witnesses testifying all this week to add to the already damning information that has already come out and the dam appears to be breaking on trump’s attempt to use mafia tactics to keep everyone quiet and himself out of jail….I think some of this is patriotism, especially in the case of Col. Vindman, but some of it  is just CYA as the rats start to desert trump’s sinking ship…don’t care which as long as trump goes to jail….

October 30th

Well…slept okay last night but still up early today but I don’t feel bad so I guess that’s something…still having problems getting motivated, though, so we’ll see how the day goes…been here for almost two weeks now and need to start getting my stuff put away…need to move a dresser into my bedroom so I can get some clothes out of the black garbage bags so I can use them and start getting the basement straightened up…and I still have the vestibule here in the living room that needs painting and the spare room needs to be repaired and painted, too so I do have work to do…need to find a winter car and that is going to be my focus for the next week since the weather looks like it is going to hell with some snow…at least there won’t be salt on the roads for a couple of weeks so that’s the deadline…I am going to run all my errands today since all of the stores I need to get to are on Alpine and it’s a little weird they are all on the same side of the street….but there are 4 of them and that may take some time…it looks like rain all day so I’m pretty sure the fence guys won’t be here so I can take off at 9 or so…found some smoked salmon in the freezer so I am going to get some bagels and cream cheese and treat myself a little….and I have a couple of venison steaks to have, too so at least I’ll have some good food….more later…

Plumbing update…

Well…as you know, I had scheduled a plumber to come and fix the faucets in the bathroom and clear out a drain clog in the bathroom sink since I could only run the water in it very slowly and it would back up after about 10 seconds…I’m glad I had these guys come since they found that the seats for the washers were cracked and notched and even if I could have gotten the stems out, they still wouldn’t have stopped the leaking and that would have irritated the heck out of me…so, I just guessed and called a place called Budget Plumbing and they came out and completely rebuilt the faucets, put new seats in, and cleared two drain clogs and it only cost 145 bucks…which I thought was quite reasonable…I was expecting about 300 bucks so to have everything done for less than half that was a pleasant surprise…so, less depressed now…

October 29th

Well…running a little late today with my site being down when I got up but it seems to be okay now…slept okay last night but was up at 5:14 again but I guess it’s not 3:14 so that is a win…still feeling pretty depressed but better than yesterday so this may be  short one…at least until the plumber gets here and I find out how much it’s going to cost me…then I’ll probably just lie on the couch the rest of the day and feel bad…but, it has to be fixed and I can’t do it so it’s the only way…the fence didn’t get done yesterday since one of the guys working slashed his thumb with a saw and had to go to the hospital…and it’s raining today so it may not get done this week…but, that’s not depressing since there is progress being made and it looks good so far….I did get some stuff done around here yesterday but today looks like just waiting for the plumber and then maybe some work this afternoon…and maybe a bike ride if the rain will cooperate…I did get out for an errand in the mid afternoon and the traffic was not too bad so maybe getting places will be okay…but everything is on one road and I know the weekends are no go’s so I guess I’ll just do what I did out in the south end….more later…

Figured part of it out…

Well…after a few days of feeling pretty damn depressed…with some reason, I might add…I think I’ve figured out part of it…I’m just not working hard enough on the house after moving in…was feeling kind of overwhelmed with all of the work that still needs to be done here and taking time off to rest and recharge was supposed to help that…but it worked the opposite….taking time off was a mistake that was making me even more tired and worn out because all I could do was think about everything that needs to be done and that was depressing the hell out of me…so today, kind of by accident, I got started on some of the projects that need to be done and that really did make me feel better…after fixing the utility sink faucets, and making an attempt on the faucets in the tub, I ran out to depot and got some weather stripping to put on the front door and that stopped the air leaks there, then I worked on the back door handle that was loose and got that fixed….then, I hit the attic and fixed the light up there, and started to clean up the debris from the roof job that covered the floor along with sweeping some…but that dust left me coughing and miserable so I am going to have to take something for it here real soon…but, even with that, I feel better now…oh, and I went out and bought a cool aluminum valve remover for the bike to take the one out the one that was plugged up and replaced it with another one so I can now put air in the rear tire again….it was all the way down to 40 psi and making it a little too much work to ride….

This is too damn funny…

Well…even though I’m pretty depressed, there are still small smiles to be had just by watching the news…but not much news, I know that adds to the spiral…just last night, idiot boy trump and his cronies went to game 5 of the World Series to supposedly bask in adulation that he thought would come from some soldiers killing one of the ISIS commanders in Syria….but, I think trump forgot where he was and when his picture was shown on the jumbotron, the entire crowd broke out in boos that were so loud that even an oblivious asshole like trump had to notice….and that was followed by loud chants of “lock him up!” and the look on idiot boy’s face when he realized what was happening is just too damn delicious and has been put on loops on almost every news website on the internet…now, I think the people at that game voiced what many of us in the country feel….and sent a message to the world that we know how ridiculous and criminal trump is and we are trying to do something about him…the wheels of justice move slow but they do move….