Well…I made it…5 days of no cocktails and it is getting easier as time goes by….and my foot and liver are thanking me today…I did sleep okay and had some weird dreams again that had to do with my gardens being pulled up for some reason and that was a little strange…but, I feel okay this morning and the first ride is coming up in a few minutes that I am looking forward to….it feels good to have gotten so much done yesterday that I don’t have a lot to do today but work downstairs and on the gardens and watch some soccer this afternoon…I do need to start cleaning the oxidation off the garage siding so I can paint it next week but I think I’m going to wait to do that until next week…I am taking the weekend off to just fool around and clean…this place needs a scrubbing everywhere and I have been putting it off to get other things done…and this afternoon could be the perfect time with the storms that are predicted…the damn power outage from a couple of weeks ago has ruined storms for me…I used to anticipate seeing them and watching from the porch but now, after the 10 hour outage, I cringe when I see them coming in….I guess I’ll have to see how durable the power is here but it doesn’t look good with it failing during the first big storm of the year…my lawn sure needs the rain after hitting it with crabgrass killer yesterday and not having any rain to speak of for weeks…water costs too damn much here in the city to water it so I guess I’ll just let it go brown…not much to do today….going to finish the first cup of coffee and then get out on the bike by 7 so I can get two rides in this morning….then I’ll just wing it for the rest of the day with no plans….more later….
Monthly Archives: June 2020
Cripes, another busy day…
Well…man, this has been another busy day and I have been running since I got out on the bike for the first ride around 7…and it was a good ride with fog, cool temperatures, and so many animals I felt like I was in a Disney cartoon….after I got home from that one, I needed to make a run out for some more groceries since DD had pizzas on sale for 1.99 again and I splurged on some beef brats for 1.88 for 6 of them…then, over to Aldi’s for some chicken since they are a block away from DD…and then to Menard’s to get some crabgrass killer, and then to Meijers to get the rest of the stuff I needed to make a pizza later in the week….after I got back here, I jumped back on the bike for the second ride and when I got back, I mowed and edged the lawn, then put crabgrass killer on…then, on to leftovers for lunch and then back out to wash the car…whew…pretty damn busy for someone who is supposed to be retired….oh, and then I did two of these and that does take some time and effort….so, I worked from 7 to 3 today and got a solid 8 hours of work in…and I still have to vacuum the car and do the glass since I haven’t done the glass yet this year…and I have work to do on the downstairs project that needs to be done too….I wonder if I should have saved some of this for the weekend? Nope, I like to take weekends off just like when I was working…okay, didn’t take them off then either….I am going to take an hour or so off and watch a little soccer and get some more water in me….
This is what happens when you believe trump and not science…
Well….stupid, stupid repub governors…you morons believed a serial liar and your own political nonsense and look where that got you…the damn virus is not political and it can be ignored or wished away, it can’t be stopped with politics or conspiracy theories, and no matter that trump has given up trying to save American lives because he got bored…the virus doesn’t care…if you give it a chance by jamming people onto the beaches, bars, and rallies…it is going to win…if you have morons who won’t wear masks in public, it is going to win…if you have people running government who are too stupid to understand how this virus spreads and kills, it is going to win…and that is the case now in 27 states who “opened” up before meeting any of the milestones that the experts told them they would have to meet because trump said it was all a dem plot…and they don’t have the smarts or guts to buck him…or they fear losing the moronic trump base who are just a death cult at this point but who are necessary for any repub to get elected today and they have made the choice that the base is the only thing that is important…as of today, we have the highest new cases in the US since the pandemic started and the trump bleats that “but deaths are going down” as he again doesn’t understand or care that deaths lag reported cases by a couple of weeks or so…so now we have a situation where we could end up with half a million Americans dead due to trump’s and his cronies political malfeasance….and it is all on the heads of repubs who did nothing until it was too late…and who won’t use what we have learned from the dem states that went through this early just to “own” the libs…this is murder, plain and simple…when the head of the federal government just stops doing his job and lets Americans die, is is murder…trump should be impeached and removed for this but it won’t happen because the repubs in the senate don’t much care for Americans either, and getting unqualified, right wing judges is more important than American lives to them….they need to pay in November when there will be half a million less Americans who can vote….criminal…
June 25th
Well…okay, that was weird…went to bed early last night from boredom and had some strange dreams where I was in charge modernizing Russian industrial production in the 50′s…yeah, I get it, who the heck dreams about that kind of stuff? Just the fact that I had dreams at all was pretty cool but the weirder, the better…I even slept okay with the normal tossing and turning and didn’t get up til 6 so that’s a win for me…. and my foot could be back to normal if I skip cocktails this weekend but I think that is a bit much….I’ve been so good this week with no cocktails or salty foods and lots of veggies that I think I have earned being bad just a couple of days….we’ll see….I did get some stuff done yesterday and today I want to work on the lawn and car….fooling around stuff that I don’t consider work…this is kind of funny…my car gets dirtier just sitting in the garage with all the dust than it ever did sitting outside…and I haven’t done a full interior cleaning yet this year and the glass is pretty ugly so that will be done today even though it’s going to rain tomorrow and saturday….I got some detailing brushes at HF for 1.49 last week that I am going to use to try to clean the wheels since they really need it…and I’m going to make another grocery run this morning since I only did Meijers yesterday and only spent 10 bucks…I may splurge on some brats since I have been good and they are easy and they have pizzas for 1.99 again at DD so I think I’ll get one of those, too….but I need to get on the bike first and have another cup of coffee….more later…
We are officially a “shithole country” now…
Well…with trump’s blunders and stupidity over the past 4 years, the US’s standing and respect in the world is at an all time low with former allies going their own ways and enemies taking advantage of the incompetence of trump and his cronies. But, the latest coming out of the EU and the UK officially stamps us as a “shithole country”…both Europe and the UK are going to ban travel from the US since trump and his federal government have given up on fighting the coronavirus and have decided to delude themselves that the pandemic is “over” and everything is just fine…no matter that the red states that followed trump’s lead while kissing his ass have seen an explosion of cases and that explosion is just going to get worse as trump shuts down all federal testing in 9 states that are crumbling under the virus caseload. It is so bad in the south that New York is implementing a mandatory 2 week quarantine for anyone traveling from one of those failed states to keep the hard work they did to control the virus for being for nothing…and I’m pretty sure that is going to happen here in Michigan where we had under 300 new cases yesterday and only 19 deaths as compared to almost 8,000 cases in Texas and, since the liars in Florida won’t report accurate numbers, an estimated 12,000 cases in one day in Florida….all this from a virus that repubs said was just alarmist bull from dems to hurt their states. How many times do the people in red states have to bear the stupidity of the leaders they elect? Probably forever since they have shown that they can’t learn and don’t care that people are dying from this incompetence….so now, trump, welcome to the shithole country you created….
June 24th
Well….cripes, I wonder if this no cocktail thing is going to be a habit now? It is getting easier and easier to sit here with a glass of water at night and I think I’m easing up to it being a no decision thing but the default for my nights…and I slept okay again last night…tossed and turned, sure…but, all in all, not a bad night and I can live with that…and my right foot is down to only about 20% bigger than my left and it doesn’t hurt at all this morning so how can you argue with those results from no cocktails? I can’t so I’ll keep it up and see where it goes…I did get the front door painted yesterday but didn’t use the new sprayer I bought…it was just too much work to put up the sheeting to capture the overspray and then try to use a new tool so I just painted it with a brush like the back door…came out pretty good but it needs a second coat after going from beige to dark brown…but, I’m out of paint so I’ll need to get another gallon mixed today so I can get that done…and I forgot that I’m going to use the same color on the awnings so that will be the trial for the new sprayer…I do like how the color looks on the door…looks sleek and modern and I think the awnings will be the same…oh, and DTE came yesterday to put a new gas meter in since the old one was put in in 1980 but that was pretty painless so that was cool….not much to do today…need to get on the bike in a minute so I can get the first ride in before the grocery run, then I need to get out and get the paint for the door and siding before I get back here for lunch….then I think I’ll take a ride before I paint and watch Man U play…going to be a busy day…more later…
Come on Nadler, drag out a subpoena..
Well…as Bill Barr runs rampant over the rule of law in this country, the one person that can put a check on him has given up…the chair of the house judiciary committee, Jerry Nadler, said over the weekend “there’s no point in impeaching Barr, the corrupt senate will just let him go”…Jerry, Jerry, no, no, and damn no! Just because the senate repubs are corrupt, is doesn’t mean you should stop doing your job…and your job is to hold these criminals accountable…and what really sucks here is that Nadler hasn’t even used all of the tools available to him to force accountability….he could use “inherent contempt” to force Barr to show up and testify and if he doesn’t, Nadler can have the capitol police arrest him and have him brought to the house…but why not start with a subpoena? At the very least a subpoena…and then Nadler needs to make these criminals understand that the election is not a “get out of jail free card”…when trump loses…things are just getting started in bringing trump and Barr to pay for their crimes…but, these assholes don’t seem too worried even though Biden has said catergoricly that there will be no pardons for any of these criminals….if they were as smart as they think they are, they would stop criming all damn day and start trying to figure out how to minimize their jail sentences….tick, tock Barr…the noose is closing….
June 23rd
Well…that wasn’t a bad night…didn’t get up til almost 6 with only the normal amount of tossing and turning so I’ll take it…and I don’t feel too bad this morning after being good for the second night in a row…I wonder how I’ll feel after another 5 days off week? I know my foot is appreciating it and it may even be back to normal since it looks good this morning….the poison oak is finally healing pretty well and the only thing left on my arm is a red mark and it doesn’t itch too much but I am still going to treat it with hydrocortisone again today to keep the progress going….going to be much more careful about the trail from now on….I am going to get the front door painted today and I am curious how the new sprayer is going to work on it….I do know I need to build a little paint booth in the vestibule with a drop cloth since I just noticed that the dust from sanding is all over the living room and will need to be cleaned more…don’t want any overspray to get on the floor or walls since the dark brown would look nasty on my clean white walls…..or the hardwood floors…I think the brown is going to look classy on the door but I do still need to buy a new lockset and dead bolt so the door will work normally….not much to do today…need to get out on the bike here in a few minutes but want more coffee and to read a little news first….the bike rides felt good yesterday and I went hard on both…yeah, stupid, I know but damn, what’s the point if you can’t go hard? More later…
Finally got something done…
Well…finally…got something done today! Got the front door filled and sanded today and it’s ready to paint….it has been a struggle to get moving lately and part of it was the pain everywhere that I’ve had for the past couple of weeks…along with the pain in my foot it has been tough at times…I am so glad that the dust from sanding is finally over…I am tired of cleaning up and having it everywhere…I think I may try out my new sprayer if I have enough paint left…really don’t want to spend another 38 bucks for a gallon if only have the door and 4 feet of trim to do…it’s going to be close….but I think I’ll be able to thin the paint with some water for the sprayer and make it work….hope so anyway….time to take a break…
Call it what it is…the traitor’s flag…
Well…the fight over a stinking flag took a turn yesterday in the hotbed of traitors, Alabama, when nascar made good on banning the “traitor’s” flag from their venues…okay, and let’s call that flag what it is…it is not “the confederate battle flag”…calling it that imbues it with some sort of veneer of acceptability….remember, it is the traitor’s flag, flown by traitors who tried to tear this country apart just so they could continue to own slaves…and don’t give me the bullshit that the war was about “states rights”…in the constitution of the confederate states, it states bluntly that protection of the institution of slavery is the reason they were trying to destroy the US…and every fact based historian agrees that is the reason…and it wasn’t “brave or noble” to tear apart this country and kill almost a million Americans for slavery, so let’s cut that bullshit out too. Just yesterday, the racists in Alabama put on a show at Talladega speedway where they had a rally outside the gates with hundreds of traitors flags and they even flew a huge one over the track just to make their point that they are a bunch of racist asses…and that point was driven home by the discovery of a noose hanging in the garage of the only black driver in nascar, Darrell Wallace, whose suggestion that maybe, with the nation getting on board with the “black lives matter” movement, it would be a good idea to get rid of the racist symbol of traitors and make the sport a little more welcoming to everybody. It was heartening to see the response to this racist thuggery as swift and sure condemnation of this hate crime…and unlimited support of Darrell as he tries to do his part to make this country a better place…as I do…it’s about damn time that we have this conversation…but it is the 50th time in my life that this “conversation” has happened but just the conversation…it is past time to take on the racist assholes in this country and tell them to go back under the rocks they crawled out from….their time has passed and they deserve to be thrown on the ash heap of history along with their traitor’s flag….keep it up Bubba, we’ve got your back….