Well…cripes, I’m running late this morning and there is no reason for it other than I just forgot to do this one…and, the MotoGP races have been on so that has been distracting me, too…and, I stayed in bed until almost 6:30 today…not sleeping but trying to sleep but I think that may have helped just letting the frustration go and trying to stop my brain for just a little while…so, I don’t feel too bad this morning other than my damn thumb still being sore…I think I have a decision to make about that….a doctor’s visit only costs me 5 bucks so I guess I should just go in and have them look at it and see if there is something that can be done…the pain has really extended into my forearm, elbow, and shoulder so it may be just the moving tendonitus that I have been suffering for years now…who knows? I did get a start on clearing out the spare bedroom yesterday so I can get working on it and will try to complete that today so the prep work can start…and I do need to get a bike ride in after it warms up to get to my goal but that will wait until later…right now I need to finish my coffee and veg for a bit….more later….
Monthly Archives: November 2019
November 16th
Well…that was some night…felt worse than I have in a long time with my molar giving me fits of pain and my stomach went to hell for the first time in a long, long time and that continues this morning…and I feel hot and crappy so I think it may be a bug but it can’t be the flu since I had a shot…at least I hope it isn’t….we’ll see as the day goes on…I did sleep all the way in to almost 6 this morning and feeling so crappy might have something to do with it…I did go back to my regular coffee this morning since the extra caffeine stuff is just too much….I guess it would be okay for someone who is used to energy drinks but I’ve never had one of those so my tolerance level is much lower….I just want my coffee to wake me up, not get me so wired it is overwhelming….I’m down to only 7 1/2 miles to go to get to my record but it looks like that is not going to happen today with the temp in the low 20′s and only getting to 34 or so today…and that will leave the trails icy all day and I am not going to risk crashing and hurting myself again…so it will wait til tomorrow when it’s supposed to be almost 40…not much to today…I do need to get some work done to prep the spare bedroom for paint and clean some if I feel well enough…but, right now I need more coffee and to catch up on the news…more later….
What a day…
Well….it has been an interesting day today with lots of things happening…some good…and others that all I could do was laugh at…this morning, I ran a couple of errands that I really needed to do to get some things that I wanted instead of needed, starting with a cable that lets me hook my mp3 player up to the my receiver and it sounds better than I expected it to even without working on the equalizer in the player to match it up better with the receiver…that’s a job for another day…it is so damn cool to now have all 1700 songs on the player available to listen to in the living room without having to use my ear buds…and that along with the vinyl…some of which was never available on cd’s makes my library complete to me…oh, and I went to Kohl’s to get a pair of lounging pants to add to the two that I have since it is damn cold in here and I need to dress warmer…and at only 10 bucks they were a deal. After that, I decided to get out on the bike to start riding the 20 miles I had left to do to break my record, but about a mile and a half out, I had a flat from a staple that punctured the sidewall of the tire that is not protected by the tube protectors that I have in the tires…so, after a mile and a half walk back here, I luckily had a new tube that I bought a couple of months back so I changed out the old one and got ready to put it back on the bike…but, as I was doing that, I noticed that the cords were showing through the tread so I again, luckily, had a new tire in the box so I took the whole thing back apart and put the new tire on with the new tube…finally, and got out for a bike ride that wasn’t bad but still a little icy and now I’m down to 7 1/2 miles to go to break the record…and my new piece of equipment came this afternoon and I had to install that before I could take a break…but, it’s veg time now and I’m taking the rest of the day off…
Bye, bye Roger…
Well…this little bit of good news just came across the news pipes and it made me smile just a little bit…okay, it made me smile a lot when I read that Roger Stone was found guilty today of all 7 felony counts against him including lying to congress…lots of times…and witness intimidation…hmmm.. where have we seen that today? If you said from the idiot trump, you’d be right….and this means that ole Roger will possibly be going away for 20 years…and that means he will probably die in jail…and trump should think of this of a preview of his fate after he is out of office. Remember that it was Stone who was the contact point with Wikileaks during the campaign and coordinated the response of the trump campaign with the knowledge that the stolen e-mails were going to be released…so the campaign could coordinate with fox news and the rest of the right wing lie machine to ensure a coordinated message was put out. This is how dumb ole Roger is…he was supposed to be free until his sentencing in February but the idiot just couldn’t help himself and he violated the terms of his release by enlisting Alex Jones to put out Stone’s appeal for a pardon from trump to “show the deep state they aren’t going to win” with the “bogus” charges against him…and now the prosecutors are asking that Stone be taken into custody immediately for violating the terms by talking to the media….what an idiot….
Witness intimidation in real time…
Well…cripes, can a day go by that the idiot trump doesn’t commit more crimes? Just today, while Marie Yovanovitch was testifying in his impeachment investigation, idiot boy tweeted at least two tweets that were aimed at the ambassador but even more than that, it was aimed at anyone else that is scheduled to testify that trump tried to extort Ukraine for fake dirt on the Bidens…and I smiled a little when Adam Schiff broke into the testimony to tell her what trump had done and to make sure that everyone knew that he takes witness intimidation very seriously…I can guess where this is going, that today’s tweets from the mob boss in chief are going to be the basis for another article of impeachment against the moron…and I think he just can’t help himself…but, where the hell are his lawyers in all of this? They should be wrenching his phone out of his tiny little hands because this is a crime that can be prosecuted after he’s thrown out of office…to add to the hundreds he’s already committed..doesn’t he understand that he is going to spend the rest of his life in jail after prosecutor after prosecutor gets done with him? I just think he’s to dumb to understand that things have changed…he was able to get away with this crap while he was a two bit developer in NY but now it’s bigger than that and moron boy is going down…counting the frickin days….
November 15th
Well…cripes…didn’t get up til 6:04 this morning…for the second time, that is but it’s an improvement and I’ll take it…but, I’m sore again today and there is no reason for it…all I did was fool around yesterday and do a little prep work on the vestibule getting it ready to paint so for my back to hurt is weird…I did carry the speakers upstairs but if that is enough to make me hurt then I am getting damn old and that is no fun….I really hope we get some warmer weather so I can get out on the bike and take a look at the trails…I only have 23 miles left to do to get to the record and it would be a shame if I have to do it indoors…and I can sure use the exercise…just feel sluggish when I can’t ride…this is the second day of the supercharged coffee and I think it will be saved for times when I need a good wake up…it may be a little too much for daily use, especially after I get some sleep the night before…it was only 1.49 so no big investment….not much to do today…I do have a couple of errands to run…need to go out to office depot to get a cheap audio cable so I can plug my mp-3 player into my fixed receiver and then to kohl’s to see if I can get some more long lounge pants to try to stay warm….I have a sinking feeling that it is going to cost 400 bucks a month to heat this place so I need to budget for that…and that will really cut into the money I was going to save by moving in here….oh, well…more later…
This is pretty cool…
Well….as you know from this morning, I got my old antique receiver working and have been playing vinyl all day but it didn’t sound as I remembered it…I guess it’s getting old or my ears are…I guess both…but, I remembered that I saw another pair of speakers sitting in the basement and thought what the hell, I’d hook them up and give them a try….and they worked! So now I have the living room filled with sound and they made all the difference! Now this is how I remember my stereo sounding and it is pretty cool listening to some Joe pretty damn loud…I’ll bet my neighbors are freaking out a little…good….
Impeachment is boring?
Well…you know the media is almost too far gone to save when they call the most important hearings in our lifetimes “boring” and try to dismiss them just for that opinion. What the hell are they supposed to be? Full of dancing bears and fireworks? These are damn serious times and if the hearings are “boring” to you, then you are either a trumpbot or just plain stupid…after all what was revealed yesterday by just the first two witnesses was that trump personally ordered his cronies to extort and bribe Ukraine into fabricating dirt on the Bidens and to try to say that the Russian hacking of the 2016 elections was actually done by the Ukrainians…and, guess what? Bribery is specifically mentioned as one of the actions that should get a president impeached and removed…and it doesn’t fall under the “high crimes and misdemeanors” catch all….so there is no interpretation necessary…it’s right there in black and white that trump should be removed because he tried to bribe Ukraine with military assistance that was appropriated by congress and should have not have been subject to any conditions but those in the legislation that appropriated it…look, every damn thing that trump has done since he was installed by Putin was for his own personal gain or that of Putin and Russia and it was made clear yesterday how foreign policy has been subverted for that purpose by trump….and he should be removed…now….
I fixed the JVC!
Well….I guess this new coffee does work…after a couple of cups I looked down at my forlorn JVC receiver that I’ve had since 1974 and just had to take it apart to see if I could fix it…since I moved in here it didn’t work and not having music was starting to get to me to the point that I was looking for new receivers to buy online this morning…but, I just couldn’t pull the trigger without taking a closer look at the JVC…and I found it was just one of the 5 fuses in it had blown…so, I replaced it and now I’m sitting here driving the neighbors nuts at 7:15 blasting Aja by SD on vinyl and it is just so damn cool to have something work out…so now, there is a Yamaha one sitting downstairs with the same problem…no power output so I am going to take that apart this afternoon to see if that one is a fuse, too…that would be cool since it is a 5.1 surround sound with 500 watts of power…I just laughed out loud that I could fix this old thing…going to have a smile on my face all day….and it is so cool to have a house to play it in so I can play it LOUD….
November 14th
Well….have been up for an hour already and it’s 5:54 but I did sleep through the night so that’s okay….and I just feel a little worn out but I think that will pass as I have my coffee…tried a new style that I got a DD yesterday that has 50% more caffeine in it just for the heck of it and I am wondering how that will work…and, it was only 1.49 for a can of it that normally costs me 3 bucks at Meijers so I may just keep this in reserve for days when I need a boost in the morning…but, we’ll see…ha, ha…on days when I need a boost in the morning…that’s only on days that end in y….it tastes okay if a little bland but that’s not much different than the coffee I make every day so I can live with it…it’s a little strange that my car is running a lot better just by putting the new battery switch in so I wonder if it was limiting the voltage that the car had to use…all I know is that it starts great in the morning now and idles better but I am still going to get a new set of plug wires after I get my deposit next wed since the old ones are held together with blue silicone….I am going to try the car wash that is just around the corner this morning before I run a couple of errands since I need to get the salt off the car and can’t do it here in the driveway when it’s this cold…then I need to go out to depot in the south end since the one out here doesn’t have the patching plaster that I like and I need to get the last gallon of paint so I can get started on the second bedroom next week….and start work on the last of the pink in the kitchen….need to get off my butt and get this place finished….more later….