Well…with all of the people that the house committees investigating trump’s Ukraine extortion want to talk to and who are going to talk over the next week or so, it only took the first four to prove that trump and his cronies committed multiple crimes in trying to get Ukraine officials to lie about Hunter and Joe Biden. Since the ex US ambassador testified last Friday, and with the three since then, all have told the same story…that Rudy, Mulvaney, Pompeo, Pence, and Barr all were involved in the scheme that was fought hard by career diplomats who all knew that what they were doing was not only illegal, but that would damage the US standing in the world by showing that trump and his cronies were just as corrupt as anyone in the Ukraine…or anywhere else in the world, and with them in charge the US could no longer be trusted. That is where the huge problem is…and with idiot boy’s unfathomable abandoning of our Kurdish allies in Syria, no one in their right mind can ever trust a thing that trump says or does…that right there is as impeachable an offense as you can possibly commit….and yet he just keeps on criming every day..and the repubs continue to support the flushing of our honor just to get a few more judges approved….every damn one of them needs to be held accountable…not just voting them out but holding them criminally responsible for being part of this conspiracy…one thing that I want to hear is a pledge from every one of our candidates that none of these criminals will be pardoned if they are elected….life in prison is too good for them….
Monthly Archives: October 2019
October 15th
Well…it’s another 4:14 morning….sing that to the tune of “Tequila Sunrise” by the Eagles and it makes it a little more palatable and less frustrating than normal…okay, no it doesn’t…it’s still a bunch of crap that even with all the work on the house and getting a bike ride in, I should be tired enough to sleep more than 4 hours but no such luck…it was weird taking three days off the bike and it was going to be 4 but when I walked out to load the car it was just warm enough to get out without the cold weather gear that I packed and moved over to the house…and I forgot to bring back over here…and I packed most of my dishes to be moved today so I guess my diet is going to consist of sandwiches for the rest of the week…or fast food that I haven’t eaten in over a year and I’m not sure I want to start that….that would be easier for sure but I’m not sure how my body would react to that…I am thinking of getting a pizza after the move Sat but I have one in the freezer I got from Aldi’s that should work for that, too and it was only 2.50….it’s only in the mid 30′s right now so I am going to have to put the heat on at the house since I want to paint today so I can put blinds up tomorrow and then get on cleaning thurs and friday so I don’t have to clean around things after the move…may even do some of that in the kitchen today since I don’t need all the tools in the kitchen anymore and the walls and dinette set are pretty dirty…more later…
Progress…
Well….was going to do a political one but I am waiting for the reports on the testimony from one of the idiot boy’s aides that is going on right now…so, I think I’ll do a house update instead…made a bunch of progress at the house today…tried to get the built in microwave running today and the fan and light worked but when I started it, it blacked out completely and started to smoke so I just pulled the unit and cleaned up the area to get ready for installing a new exhaust fan but I’ll have to install a backsplash first since the fan is much smaller and there is just bare plaster there…that should be pretty easy but I think that will wait a while…I got some filling done in the numerous holes in the plaster in the kitchen and on the back door…but then remembered that I bought some 9 volt batteries since I wanted to try to fix the garage door opener and get the remote working again…found the problem with it pretty quickly…just a broken wire so now I have a powered garage door again…and it locks down so I don’t have to install a hasp to lock it…now that made my day and it’s time to take a break and watch the postponed race that’s on at 2…more later….
October 14th
Well…man, I feel lousy this morning and could use a day off but can’t take one with coming down to the wire on moving…feels like it’s all catching up with me but I just need to power through until sat night and then I can rest…I’m sure not sleeping has something to do with it but we all know I haven’t solved that over the past few years and won’t now…I do have almost everything small out of here and with 4 more trips after today, this place will be empty by Friday….I do need to start putting things away at the house after I work on the microwave today and I have new shades that need to go up in the kitchen but I need to paint first and I’m not ready for that yet…should prep for that today but I may put that off for a few days….need to put the tools away and clean the kitchen up today so it will be usable sat…haven’t been on the bike for three days and I can’t figure out why everything hurts from the waist down…might have to take something for it…at least my foot is just stiff today and won’t take anything for it again today to just let it heal some more…more later….
Quick one on politics…
Well…wasn’t going to do one on politics today but a couple of things popped up about the idiot trump that I wanted to comment a little about them…the first thing was that it was revealed yesterday that the 8 page long screed about not cooperating with congress on impeachment, that was supposedly written by one of trump’s lawyers was actually dictated by idiot boy himself…and now we know why it wasn’t up to the very basic standards of a first year law school student…but I can’t understand why that lawyer who was the stenographer would put his name to anything like that…opening himself up to disbarment by the lies that were included in it…are everyone around trump just that damn stupid? Oh, hell…we all know the answer to that…yes, yes they are. Another little tidbit that came up is that it appears that the cone of silence (I know the experienced people that read here know what that refers to) is starting to crack with the former Ukraine ambassador testifying to the house Friday even though she was ordered not to by trump…and next week, the American ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, is going to tell the House that it was trump that ordered him to put “no quid pro quo” in the text to the present Ukraine abassador, Taylor….another incidence of trump trying to CYA after everyone around him told him he broke the law with trying to extort Ukraine into smearing Biden. Okay, so that one wasn’t that quick…it was going to be about the house but my memory just kicked in and I remembered this stuff…whatever, trump is in even more trouble now since that text message can be construed as part of the coverup of the extortion of Ukraine…man, is trump stupid…
October 13th
Well…that was a weird night of sleep with getting up twice but then getting back to sleep and having dreams twice…and that never happens so it was cool for a change…still got up at 5:15, though, and it would have been a trifecta to sleep in, too…but, I guess that’s too much to ask…my foot doesn’t hurt at all this morning and that is even with tapering off to one dose of medication so I may try to not take any today…the redness is almost gone but the skin on the joint is peeling off and I wonder if that has something to do with the gout….strange….it’s also a strange feeling that this is my last Sunday here and next week I’ll have a new routine at the house…hope it is as peaceful as the ones here normally are…and it should be even more peaceful with no one stomping over my head or running up and down the stairs…and I think I’m going to try to wean myself off wearing earplugs to sleep since I started that to blot out the noise from the heating unit upstairs a few years ago…but that will mean getting used to brand new noises at the house like I used to have to do in hotel rooms when I traveled for work….it is going to be a little busy today with trying to get a bike ride in after the run over to the house…need to measure the back door window for a shade and bring the faceplate for the microwave so I can epoxy the fasteners back on it after I clean it…and stop at depot to get the shades so I can get them up before the move…then I need to stop spending money for a while to build my account back up…more later…
A successful morning at the house…
Well….as I close in on the move date, I needed to work on details that will make the place ready to go…and today, I needed to test out the new thermostat, burn the crud off the stove top burners, and check out the over the range microwave/fan….and today, I was successful at all three…got the burners cleaned off with them red all the way from the inside coil to the outside one on all 4 burners…but boy did they stink and smoke doing it…think I may have to clean the ash off of them before I get into any cooking…when I got over there, the first thing I did was to turn the heat on and the furnace fired right up, ran a cycle, and shut down again…and did it one more time before I shut it off when I was leaving…I can’t believe how quiet the thing is compared to the 747 sound of the one here…and at 60 years old, I still think that’s a miracle…I had it set at 66 degrees and that was plenty warm enough to work in shorts and a t-shirt but we’ll see what it’s like just sitting and watching tv…still think I’ll have to go with long pants, socks, and a long sleeved t-shirt but I think I can get used to it…the last thing I worked on was the microwave/fan over the stove top that my son said hasn’t worked in more than 10 years but I have experience with microwaves and normally, when they don’t work, it’s just a fuse, so I took the face of it apart, located the fuse, and wrapped it in tin foil to just test to see if that is it…and I laughed out loud when it lit up and the fan worked so now instead of a replacement job, it’s now turned into a cleaning and repair job that I can do after I move in…so, quite a successful morning at the house…just need to get to the final cleaning to get ready to move and put my tools away….6 days….
October 12th
Well…running a little late this morning even with getting up a little after 5 but just haven’t been able to get moving yet…it’s damn cold outside and I think that will keep me off the bike again today as the rain did yesterday…but, my right thigh can use the rest with the damn pain that started a few days ago…my foot seems to be better today but it is still discolored so I’m going to keep taking the medication until it’s gone…I was able to get my slip on shoes on yesterday with just a little pain so that is progress…I did get the wood floors waxed at the house yesterday and they came out pretty good and I cleaned the stove top, too…but that was a greasy mess that took me longer than the floors…and the burners all still work but need to burned to get the grease off them…I may go over and do that today but I need to take my fan so I can open the windows to let the smoke out so the smoke alarms don’t go off….and the drip pans have been soaking overnight and I need to try to get the burned on crap off them…or see if I can find new ones but I can live with the old ones for a while….I do need to vacuum the last carpet that is in the bedroom I’m going to use and try to clean the spots off it, too…and get all that done before next Sat when I move in….but, not right now…just going to sit here and have my coffee for a while before I decide if I’m going over with another load….more later…
So much winning…
Well…as every day goes by, the village idiot squatting in the WH gets more and more deranged as he hears that the walls are closing in…just today there is a hearing in the house where the previous abassador to the Ukraine is going to tell Schiff exactly what happened in her firing to clear the way so trump and his cronies could pressure Ukraine to lie about Biden…and that is going to be good…and Gordon Sondland, who is another diplomat enmeshed in the scandal (okay a fake diplomat who paid a million bucks to get appointed) has agreed to testify, defying the state department’s order to not cooperate with the investigation. And it appears that Bill Taylor, who was serving in the ambassadors post after Marie Yovanovitch was fired, is negotiating to testify what he knows…so, much, winning for idiot boy…and let’s top that off with the dc appeals court that ruled 2-1 that Mazars has to produce trump’s tax returns and give them to congress…of course trump is going to try to appeal this case to the supreme court but it is unusual for them to take the case if both the district and appeals court agree…but, with the hacks that McConnell has infested the court with, who knows? It is only a matter of time until trump goes down and take all of the damn repubs with him…hope I have enough popcorn to watch this show…
October 11th
Well…it’s pretty sick that I now consider sleeping only til 5:14 a win these days…just once…damn, just once I’d like to “sleep in” until 7 or so….oh, well…haven’t taken any ibuprofen for pain all week but I just had to since my right thigh is screaming at me and it hurt like crazy trying to carry the bike down the stairs yesterday…and that is with only one ride a day this week and I don’t understand that…and my head is stopped up…okay…going to quit bitching…at least for now…I did get the lawn mowed at the house yesterday and got the thermostat set…I think, and I think I’ll try it this morning when I go over….need to wax the wood floors today to get ready for moving in next week and the cooktop is filthy so that is on the agenda for today, too along with putting some stuff away….it looks like rain out there but I am going to take a look and see if I can get out before I go over after it gets light…need to lube the rear shifter before I go since I washed all of the wd off cleaning it wed and it was terrible on the run yesterday…I do have almost everything moved that I can in the Miata and still have 4 runs over after today so this place will be cleaned out before the move day sat….I am really tired from this whole process and I think sat night is going to be a collapse night along with sun….I do need to get some long lounging clothes this week to get ready for having the heat set at 68 instead of the 75 I have here….and socks…lots of socks…and I’ll have to find my sweats in one of the many, many bags in the basement….more later….