Well…I guess today is the day that shit is going to get real here in Michigan with the coronavirus…last week, our governor took the necessary step of closing down all of our K-12 schools and universities and colleges did the same…but this morning, if the reports are correct, governor Whitmer is going to issue an order closing all bars and restaurants except for take outs since there are enough idiots our there who are stupid or repubs, or both who are not taking this disease seriously and are still going out and packing themselves in these crowded spaces when it is clear that this lack of personal space is what fuels transmission. To show how stupid the repubs really are, just yesterday we had the idiot Devin Nunes going on tv telling people to go out to restaurants and bars because it will be easy to get a reservation and the repub governor of Oklahoma posting photos of he and his family mugging it up at a crowded restaurant while dismissing the severity of this outbreak. Now, maybe this will spur the natural selection that we need to rid ourselves of such stupidity but I don’t wish any disease on anyone….I am pissed because these idiots could infect me or any one of my brothers or sisters who are all over 60…and two who are pushing 80 and the death rate for people that age is pushing 20%…maybe they’ll stop being stupid when grandma dies…but, probably not….what morons….
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Ten percent more gone…
Well….just finished up doing my last grocery run for a month and took a look at the dow averages…yow, down another 10% this morning or about 2300 points which took back all the gains that the idiot trump was crowing about last week…and these losses show that traders have lost confidence that idiot boy and his minions know what the hell they are doing…and this was after the fed just cut interest rates to zero and pumped 1.5 trillion…yep, with a T, into the banking system to maintain liquidity….now, I am not a great believer that the Dow is a gauge of the health of the economy, but it is an indicator of the carnage that is going to happen because trump and his cronies fiddled while the cornonavirus got a foothold here and is now exploding across the country…and it has been left to governors and mayors to do make the hard decisions as trump crows ‘I’m not responsible” for the lack of testing and information about the spread of the virus….information that is vital to keeping the virus from killing thousands here. To emphasize the depravity of trump and his minions, you just have to look at the news reports from Reuters that detailed trump’s efforts to buy a German company that is working on a vaccine…and the big stipulation that trump put on the transaction is that the vaccine would be exclusively for use in the US….yep, as normal, trump is saying “go to hell” to the rest of the world in the midst of this crisis an showing that he really is “the worst person in the world” to steal a phrase from Keith O. I wonder how long it will take to fumigate the stench from the WH and get our allies to trust us again? I guess we’ll find out in November….
March 16th
Well…running late again today with sleeping in all the way to 6 again…but, that didn’t help how I feel today…just worn out from the allergies that have flared like crazy over the past few days and I’m sure are going to get worse…I know that working downstairs yesterday didn’t help either but that had to be done….I do have to make the last grocery run this morning and I am a little curious if there is anything on the store shelves to buy…I have enough food for a few weeks but I do need some toothpaste and cocktail materials if I am going to “socially isolate” for an extended time and not go out anywhere…shooting for enough for a couple of months of this but I don’t want to be one of those hoarders who are buying everything in sight….I should hit target for some allergy meds, too to get everything done at once…I did get a bike ride in yesterday but ran out of adjustment on the rear shifter trying to get the downshifts to work as they should so I had to make a big swing at it by moving the cable and resetting the fine adjuster…I think I have it set but we’ll see when I get out later today….I did get the fine adjuster freed up with a little wd so I guess that’s a bonus….not sure how much work I’m going to get done today with doing the grocery run and the bike ride…should probably take it a little easy for a day or so to let the allergies settle down so I think I’ll make today a work planning day and get a new set of tasks ready to be started….more later…
The latest Star Wars movie…
Well….the latest and last Star Wars movie showed up on Plex yesterday and I just had to watch it last night…finally, a Star Wars that lived up to the first three in the series…it kept me interested all the way through and there was a chemistry between the three leads that has been missing in most of the other movies and that was a fun to see…and there were a couple of pretty cool easter eggs that I laughed at…during a scene where the leads were walking through a bar, there was one to Doctor Who when one of the patrons in the bar was a Sontarun…and near the end of the movie, they fixed one of the big mistakes from the original movie where Chewy was the only one of the leads who didn’t get a medal in the last scene…when Leia dies near the end, one of her aides hands the medal she got to Chewy and I thought that was pretty cool….all in all, a fitting conclusion to the Star Wars saga…and well worth watching if you’re a fan…
March 15th
Well….running really late this morning and it’s not a case of forgetting to come here as it normally is on Sunday morning, but I didn’t get out of bed until 6:37 and have been trying to catch up ever since…yeah, I know catch up to what? Don’t have anyplace to be or much to do so why am I in a hurry? There isn’t even any soccer to watch today so I don’t have to get things done before that…I think I just need to relax, even though I do have some downstairs work to do this morning and I still have that need to get any work done since I hate having things waiting to be done…I did sleep okay and feel pretty good this morning other than the damn allergies are really, really bad and I may have to take something for them during the day today and I don’t like to do that…I need to save them for later in the day so I can breathe at night trying to sleep…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but cook and get a bike ride in and today looks the same….I am going to clean some and start putting my tools and materials away…the next time I’m at HF I may buy one of those cloth tool bags to keep the stuff I use a lot in…that will make it easy to just grab it when I need to do some work inside or outside….I am going to finish up the the paper and have some more coffee before I get to work…and then wait for the temp to come up before I get on the bike…more later…
Happy Pi day!
Well…to all of the nerds out there…happy Pi day…and if you know what that means, you are one of them…really have been looking for a political topic for the day today but have decided it is just too much work for my tired brain so I’m just not going to do it…everyone needs a mental health day once in a while and today is going to be mine…I never knew how much I used sports as background noise as I did other things around here until there are no more sports with everything cancelled for the virus…it has been a boring day for that and with most of the channels in emby gone since yesterday…but I did discover a new free streaming service called Pluto that I put on my roku and that has some old tv shows and movies that appear a lot like broadcast tv since they have commercials but that really doesn’t bother me much…they have a Doctor Who channel along with the Addams Family and a bunch of other stuff and for free you can’t beat it….again, good for background noise when the antenna isn’t working…I did get the corned beef and cabbage made for lunch and it was the best one I’ve made so far…really came out tender using the instant pot and the mustard sauce started to grow on me…but, I’m still so full from lunch that I may not even have another meal today…and that will keep me going for 5 more days or so…but the place still smells like cabbage…I do like it, though….I did get a bike ride in today but I’m not going to do anything else today since it is already 4…I do have some work to do downstairs tomorrow but that shouldn’t take long….oh, and the new Star Wars movie showed up on Plex today so that is going to be the plan for tonight….and cocktails…
yesterday
March 14th
Well….that was an okay night with only getting up once at 3:34 and then making it til coffee o’clock…even had a few scattered dreams that I don’t remember…yeah, I get it…how do I know I dream if I don’t remember them? That’s a question that I think I’ll ponder a while…but not right now…I was going to take some time off yesterday with finishing the last big painting project but then noticed that I still have one more to do…the linen closet doors need to be removed, sanded, and painted but that will wait until next week…I did almost flood the basement doing laundry yesterday when I left some paper towels I used to clean some equipment in the sink where the washer dumps and it clogged the drain…and the wash water filled the sink and the over the sides…but luckily the overflow just went down the floor drain and I only had to mop a little to clean it up….won’t do that again….I did get to cleaning the bathroom, too and that was way overdue….just so much dust and pet hair…still…even after months of vacuuming the crap up…but it looks pretty good now and I am debating if it will be the kitchen or living room next…I did skip the bike ride yesterday with it being so windy…just not going out with 20 mph steady wind and gusts on top of that…it would be different if it was 80 degrees but not 38….I am going out today but will have to wait until after I make lunch…going to do my St. Patrick’s day corned beef and cabbage today in the instant pot and I have found a 5 star mustard sauce that I am making, too…okay, does this sound good? 2 eggs, mustard, brown sugar, vinegar, and more regular sugar along with margarine….and whisk over heat until smooth…I have all the ingredients by chance since Meijers had eggs on sale for 79 cents and I got a dozen…and with the brisket being a point cut and 4 pounds, it needs 90 minutes in the pot under pressure so I’ll need to start it by 10 if I am going to have it for lunch…but first, more coffee, some news, and some downstairs work…damn, this is going to be a boring morning without any soccer since everything is cancelled….more later….
The only words I want to hear from the idiot trump…
Well…it appears that the idiot in chief is going to speak again today about the virus that is on pace to devestate this country…wasn’t one worst day in the history of the stock market enough for him? Every damn time this moron opens his mouth something bad happens…and he continues to lie and lie and lie about the measures that are being taken to at least find out the scope of the problem…and new reporting this morning has trump actively preventing testing from happening because the numbers would make him “look bad” and the only thing he has ever thought about in his entire life was him. Think about that for a minute…this asshole is going to kill thousands of people just because he didn’t want his fee fees or election chances hurt by truthful reporting that there were more than the “12 to 15″ cases of coronavirus that idiot boy has been lying about since the start of this crisis…hey trump voters, what are you going to think when grandma gets sick from this preventable virus just because your cult leader didn’t want to look bad? Yeah, they will think that it’s Obama’s fault because something, something….scary black guy. Look, the only words that I want to hear coming out of the idiot in chief’s mouth today is “I resign, effective immediately”….since he is worse than useless and is actively making things worse for his own personal gain…hey senate repubs…you are all responsible for this for letting his criminal ass off with your votes in the senate…and we are going to make you pay in November…
March 13th
Well…made it all the way to 6 after getting up at around 5 for the first time so I’ll call that a win…couldn’t figure out why I hurt so much last night and was hobbling around here and then it hit me…I did a fast double on the bike yesterday and I’m just not used to that much riding yet…I do remember that it was really a chore to get on the bike for the second ride and I almost turned around after the first mile….but then I just shifted down to lower speed mode until I hit that trails and that did the trick…once I got going it was okay…I did get the last window completed and put back together yesterday and it looks really good compared to what I started with…so, I think I’ve earned a day off working other than I need to clean my bathroom today…and I am going to try the new vinyl cleaner I got to replace the D-3 fluid for my discwasher as I clean…damn, the D-3 bottle only lasted 40 years…I wonder if I should complain? I may even take the day off the bike today since the wind is going to be a steady 20+ and it is only going to be in the 30′s and that is not a combo that I enjoy too much…I did get the car and bike washed yesterday afternoon, too and that may just tip me over to vegging today…but all the sports I watch have been cancelled so I’ll have to find something else to do…I suppose I could start putting my tools and repair materials away downstairs since I won’t need most of them with the interior almost done….I could take the trim off the kitchen and get it ready to paint but I don’t want to paint indoors anymore…I guess that can wait…okay, I need more coffee and to let myself take the day off…and that appears harder than I thought it was going to be…more later…
How terrible are the repubs?
Well…sitting here watching Man U play in Austria in an empty stadium and it is really weird that there is just the noise of the players and coaches…but that’s not what this is about…did you see the debacle of a speech that the idiot trump did last night? I sure didn’t but I read enough about it to know it was the worst speech in presidential history….and the financial markets thought that, too with the dow futures market falling over a thousand points while the speech was going on…and that carnage continued this morning with the dow circuit breakers kicking in and suspending trading about 10 minutes after the market opened and losses hit 8%…it continued to fall until it was down almost 2,500 points and has recovered a bit but it is still down by 1,800 points at 2 pm this afternoon…and you know about that “greatest of all time” stock market that the blowhard in chief has been crowing about? It has lost all of the gains since the idiot boy was installed by Putin…down almost 8,000 points just since Feb 12th…and what did the repubs in the senate do with this carnage and the potential death of hundreds of thousands of American lives? Moscow mitch scheduled a recess that they were supposed to leave on today but the public outcry shamed them into staying in Washington to work on the bills necessary to fund the coronavirus response…and here’s the really terrible part…they are so ideology driven that they just can’t help but try to put abortion restrictions into the bill that they know will be DOA in the House but they don’t care…they are fine with wasting time and killing real people so they can impose more restrictions on women’s lives…these assholes are going to be know as the murderers of millions if they keep playing their games…that is how terrible the repubs are…