Well…running late this morning and I just can’t get started for some reason….I think I slept okay and didn’t get up until after 6 but that’s not helping a whole lot…I think I’m going to take the day off today after getting the last window painted yesterday…but, even after two coats, I still have some rust bleeding through even with treating it with clear acrylic so I will have to put one more coat on the bottom of the frame….that one was a pain with having to stand in the kitchen sink and contort myself to get at the little cove with the light in it…had paint everywhere and I think I’m still going to have to get more of it out of my hair today…I did get a bike ride in yesterday and want to try to get two in today but it looks like there is rain coming in from the west…it is supposed to be 60 today and I really did want to get out in a t-shirt since it is going to get cold again starting tomorrow…and then cold for the rest of the month…ick…I do need to start cleaning today since the dust bunnies are turning into dust raptors again and my bathroom is edging up to being ugly….but, I want a day off…damn…at least I am going to be able to watch Man U play in an empty stadium this afternoon if the match is not cancelled…with everything that is going on, who knows what is going to happen? More later…
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Not this time…
Well…with Joe Biden’s performance in the primaries held yesterday, his path to the nominations seems assured and all of us who had another candidate as our primary need to mourn a little, but then step back and look at the big picture…and that has to be getting behind our ticket to beat trump and his cronies and fumigate our government of him, moscow mitch, and the rest of these amoral, hypocrite assholes once and for all…and we can’t let the Russian misinformation, lies and bullshit affect our determination to throw trump out on his ass. If you remember 2016…the Russian backed ‘independent” candidate Jill Stein took enough “protest” votes from our side to give trump the election…and we all need to think, not this time. No more purity votes, no protest votes, no holding our nose votes, but votes for our side that will end the trump national nightmare that we have been living through for the past 3 1/2 years…I know I harp on this a lot, but this is the most important thing that any of you are going to do maybe in your lifetime…I mean isn’t saving our country worth voting for the one person who can do it? That person is our candidate…and there are going to be a group of happy people on our side when the VP slot is offered to another one of our great candidates…so, cry a little but then let’s get back to work and frickin vote….
Computer problems…
Well…this really sucks….have had computer problems all morning with it taking almost two minutes to switch between sites and that is just damn annoying…but even more annoying is re-starting it and it taking almost 20 minutes to update so I could use it again…it seems to be better now but it still has lag to it and I’m not sure what that is about…I never save anything to the hard drive so it still has plenty of room for anything I may want to do…I wonder if it’s connected to emby being so unstable lately? I guess I should start getting ready to buy a new laptop…need to get all of my saved passwords out of this one before it dies on me…damn…don’t want to spend any money right now…
March 11th
Well…running a little late this morning even with getting up at 5:11 and there is a good reason for it…when I have work staring me in the face, I just have to get started on it…so, I got the last window started and finished the sanding…getting ready to paint later this morning after it dries from wiping the dust down….will need to put two coats on so I may have to finish it up tomorrow since the paint doesn’t dry too well on the cold window frames….that will finish up the big painting jobs on the inside and that will give me a couple of weeks to clean everything and put my tools away before I get started on the exterior and the lawn….I may even just take some time off to get some rest and let my body heal before I start abusing it again outside….I do need to remove and paint the rest of the trim in the kitchen but I’ll probably wait until I can do that outdoors to keep the smell out there instead of in here…I do need to buy an airless sprayer to do the awnings and the siding on the dormer and the garage but I need to wait to spend any money until I get my new tires and air compressor…..damn..still a lot to do and I need to work on the car, too….need to change the oil, replace the valve cover gasket, and do a coolant flush…and that will take some time, too…just too much work to do…still…and I have the grocery run to do this morning if there are any groceries still on the shelves….I sure hope the panic buying hasn’t hit here yet since I have a pretty long list to get today…but that won’t happen til later…I need more coffee and to read the news first before I get started….oh, I’ve already started…cripes, I need some time off….more later…
I’ve had enough…
Well…it’s another primary day in the vote for the dem candidate and with the polls showing that Joe Biden is going to be the big winner today, the predictable morons on our side are all over the internet saying that they can’t vote for Joe because he is just another republican or that the nomination was stolen from Bernie or there is no difference between the idiot trump and Joe…hey morons, if you are so stupid that you think a non vote for Joe is not a vote for the idiot boy you are dumber than a box of rocks. Yeah, Joe may be more conservative than you’d like and he may have taken some centrist stands over the years but comparing him to trump? That is just whining that your guy is going to lose…do you think there is a chance that any of your progressive agenda is going to be enacted if you sit this out and trump wins? With Joe, and the rest of the congress in our control, you bernie supporters still have a chance to shape the agenda and get some of what you want if Joe is president…and let’s remember, even if Bernie was elected, the congress is more conservative and cautious than he and you guys are and you are not going to get everything he wants either….you know, I’ve had enough of this damn whining from people on our side…Joe wasn’t my first choice but he is a decent human being that won’t keep children in cages, will fight for a woman’s right to control her own body, and will protect the working people in this country along with agreeing to much of our agenda…if that is not enough for you than go back to your whining and wait for another 4 years of trump and you’ll never get a bit of your agenda…go ahead, cut off that nose….
March 10th
Well…that was a little better but was still up three times overnight even with going to bed late and being good last night…but, I don’t feel too bad so I guess I’ll take it….and I was and am coughing again and it has to be allergies and that doesn’t make me happy at all…think I’ll take some of the cough stuff I got for the last time it was this bad…I’ll probably get some pretty dirty looks tomorrow when I do the grocery run with the panic about coronavirus and me coughing…that should be pretty funny if I don’t get shot…I wonder when they’ll start closing grocery stores and the rest of retail? Not going to worry about that with a full freezer downstairs that I know has more than two weeks worth of food in it…especially with how little I eat…I mean I turned one boneless chicken breast into 4 days worth of chicken burritos…and I just started to thaw a 4 1/2 pound corned beef brisket for St.Patrick’s day…that I’m going to make in the instant pot this weekend…okay, enough of that…I am going to get started on the last window today so that should be done in a few days…but I need to tarp off the kitchen to control the dust and paint chips along with treating the rust on the frame….but, it’s a small window so it shouldn’t be too hard…just looked at the weather and it’s going to be crappy and cold for the rest of March…would like to get started out on the yard but that looks like that will wait for a while…I’m even going to be back in full thermasuit for the ride this morning….I do need to get my veggies started inside so I’ll be ready for outdoor planting as soon as the frost is gone….I need more coffee…more later…
A semi productive day…
Well…the way today started out, I really didn’t have much hope of getting anything done…not sleeping will do that to you…but, I did get out on the bike as soon as it was light enough to see and got a nice ride in but the fact that I hadn’t put the tire liners in yet was nagging at me the entire 12 miles….so, when I got back here I took the bike apart and got to use my new tire tools to break down one side of the tires to make room to put the liners in…and I just love the new tools that are specifically made to remove tires from the rims without damaging them…and they clip onto the spokes to stay in place until the tire is off so you don’t need three hands to get the job done…I did discover that I need a new compressor since neither one of mine work very well anymore…but, I can’t spend any money until May now so that is going to have to wait…unless I decide to not buy any groceries for a week and buy the compressor instead…I can get a nice little pancake one from HF for 39 bucks that will deliver 100 psi and that would be enough since all I’ll use it for is to air up tires and to blow things off that I am working on…I did get laundry done today, too since I damn near killed my dryer with a load that was just way to big for it and needed to start doing smaller ones…what else? Nothing…just these and that and now it’s time to watch soccer….
It did get ugly…
Well…as I wrote about this morning, it did get ugly today with the stock market down almost 2500 points about an hour ago but it has rebounded to being down “only” 1700 points with a half hour to go until close…and with the idiot in chief’s happy talk response to the coronavirus crumbling as his brain (what little of it there is) does the same…with reports that idiot boy is ranting around the WH that he doesn’t have anyone left to protect him from the media and that someone should be doing something to make him look better….but that ranting has taken a really dark turn with trump convinced that members of the media are intentionally going to infect themselves so they can give the virus to trump on AF 1…yep, he actually believes that…and he has tasked the Secret Service to set up barricades around the WH to check everyone coming in and out to make sure they are not coughing….even though the NIH has said that this is going to be one of the worst allergy seasons in years…and guess what allergies do…they make you cough just like I am now…hey repubs, is it 25th amendment time yet? Folks, trump’s delusions are going to get worse and worse as he finally realizes that he is going to be out of office in the fall and then will have no protection against criminal charges from the crimes he has committed while in office….eat another burger, donnie…that will help keep the virus away…
It’s going to get ugly today…
Well…as the moron in the WH fiddles, there is a convergence of problems that are going to slap idiot boy upside the head this morning…if the coronavirus response bungling wasn’t enough, we now have oil prices that are in free fall along with a major meltdown in the stock market that is going to hit when the markets open this morning. After the rout in oil prices started Friday with a 10% drop across the board, Saudi Arabia has decided to destroy Russia since they wouldn’t go along with supply cuts necessary to support the price with demand crashing…so with the Saudis opening the taps in the face of falling demand, oil is set to drop by 20-25% today which will surely destroy many shale producers here in the US since they were barely staying afloat with their huge debt loads…can anyone say recession? In the stock futures markets, the fall was so severe that the automatic “circuit breakers” cut in when the losses got to 5% and that much of a drop in the Dow will translate to a 1500 point loss that will probably happen in the first few minutes of trading….I wonder what moron donnie is going to say now? The only thing he could point to was the stock market doing well and the myth that he had anything to do with it is going to be exploded this morning…I wonder who he is going to blame for this one? It is going to be an ugly day economically for anyone who has a 401K…and you can blame it on the incompetents in the WH who have systematically destroyed the US influence in the world and have left chaos in their wake….cripes…
March 9th
Well…that was an ugly night with having the worst case of acid reflux I’ve had in a long time…woke me up at 2 and kept me up most of the rest of the night as I waited for the antacids to work…and it didn’t help that it was the first full night of the time change and that always screws me up for a few days…not sure why that would be but I know I’ll still be doing time corrections in my head for a few days…you’d think that getting 50 miles in on the bike the past two days that I would be worn out and sleep better but it really never works that way…oh, well….didn’t get anything done yesterday but it looks like I’ll have time to get a few things done this afternoon with the rain coming in later this morning…so that means I need to get on the bike around 9 after the showers that are on the way move through and before the rains starts again at 11 or so…there won’t be enough time to get a double in today so I guess I’ll get started on the last window in the kitchen…if I feel better…feel pretty crappy right now and my allergies are flaring like crazy so that is going to make for a day to be endured…and I really do hope that I can get a nap during soccer later but that hasn’t been working lately, either….more later…