Well…it appears that the trump crime administration is trying to get a record number of laws broken if you look at what has happened just over the course of their hate party, or the RNC. Cripes, where to start? Okay, Mike Pompeo broke the law saying that no federal employee is allowed to use his position to push any politics…but here we had him do a speech to the RNC from a roof of a hotel in Jerusalem…something that every damn person that has ever worked for the state department knows is illegal…but to these guys illegal doesn’t matter…after all, they let idiot boy off the hook for his crimes so it looks like everyone on their side is getting into the act. Then the idiot in chief used the WH for political purposes which is the same as and using any other federal resource to benefit any political party…illegal, again, and compouded by idiot boy using the Marine corp as props for a political rally…heads should roll at the Marine Corp for allowing this blatantly illegal act that damages the integrity of the Corp….enough crimes yet? Man, they are not even trying to hide their criminality any more…so I hope the Commission on presidential crimes is getting copies of the tapes of all of this crap and will hand it over to the justice department for prosecution when idiot boy loses…and this is not political at all, it is restoring our justice system to the ideal that no one is above the law…something that repubs have ignored for far too long….
Monthly Archives: August 2020
August 26th
Well…I’m a grandpa….and hearing that news last night, all I could do was flash back to when my daughter was born and remember what it felt like…my son told me he was running on adrenaline after the birth since it took almost 20 hours…he texted me a photo since I can’t go to the hospital to see them…..I’ll get the details later today…and I am so happy for them…can’t wait to see my grandson in person…okay, back to normal…slept okay last night and feel okay this morning if a little slow since I had cocktails to celebrate last night…it looks like there are storms to the north but they appear to be staying there so the run out to GH is still on for this morning…I wonder if it will ever rain here again…it’s storming from GR all the way to the UP but nothing here…oh, well…didn’t get much done yesterday and probably won’t today, either with the beach run and then the second ride and cleaning this place up….I am still stiff and sore and I know it’s from riding too much…or from painting Monday…it’s the dreaded two days later so the pain from climbing the ladders a hundred times should hit today and keep going for a day or so…maybe more since I am not doing anything for it…maybe the swim will help? I know my back is stiff today and that is kind of new…but it’s not the normal lower back pain I have all the time…must be from wrestling the 50 pound wooden ladder around Monday…not much to do today…damn, I hate waiting for it to get light to get on the bike….just need to do the beach run after I ride then back here for screwing around the rest of the day….not sure how much work I’ll do but I do need to put the groceries away from yesterday and straighten up…more later….
It’s been a day…
Well…the past two days have been busy but with a lot of waiting for word on my daughter in law who went into labor at 2:30 am this morning and is still waiting for progress on the birth…last update around 5 or so was that she was sleeping she was so worn out from it…I wonder if it could go 24 hours or if doctors will do something? so, I wait…but I did get out to get groceries this morning and just had to get a bargain at DD…I mean 12 pounds of cheddar brats for 9 bucks…but you had to buy a whole case so I have a freezer full….Tom, you want any brats? I am going to do my yearly Lake Michigan swim tomorrow morning and it will be the 62 years in a row as I said this morning…the lake temp is still 70 degrees so it shouldn’t be too cold and it is supposed to be 90 degrees air temp…but I’ll be heading back before 11 so it won’t be too warm and I won’t be cooked like a lobster…then I need to clean this place up since my brother is bringing my new bike over around noon thursday…and bringing something else too, what, I don’t know…but it will be good to see him…and then later I’m meeting up with G for a couple so, with getting two rides in, it will be another busy day….oh, and I am going to hit 4,000 miles tomorrow…only have 8 more to go so I’ll make it on the first ride of the day…cripes, I’m going to need Friday to rest and recover….
Little donnie is going to freak…
Well….this is just too damn funny…for a monster who is only concerned with his tv ratings, little donnie is going to freak out with the numbers that just came out…the idiot’s cocaine fueled shitshow of hate and screaming got 15% less viewers than the first night of the DNC….and now they are spinning that to say that if you count the 400,000 people watching on c-span…something something….the truth is that they can count all of the zombies they want and they won’t make up the 2 million plus more that watched a real political party giving hope to America than the amateur hours they put on last night….these idiots have been in charge for the last 4 years and speaker after speaker went on and on about how terrible things are, that blacks are coming to the suburbs so hide the white women…well, maybe not that explicit but the appeals to “suburban women” by trying to scare them into voting for trump were a staple of the second rate crap that was put on…and, I have a question…how can things be so bad if the greatest president in the history of the world has been in charge the past 4 years? I guess they expect the entire country to have amnesia and forget the bungling, grifting, incompetence and racism and the 182,000 Americans who have died because trump and his minions couldn’t be bothered to do anything about it. I am sure glad there are people getting paid to watch this mess…I sure couldn’t take it….
August 25th
Well…okay, I hurt everywhere this morning and I can’t believe how badly my hands hurt and how stiff they are…and everything else feels the same so this is going to be an interesting day on the bike…and I need to get out as soon as it gets light since there is some rain coming in and I really don’t feel like getting wet today….it is going to be a big day today…going to become a grandpa this morning and I am excited about that…just wish I could be there and I wonder how I’m going to be able to see my grandkid with the distancing still going on? This whole thing just sucks….I am going to do the grocery run this morning so I can do my beach day tomorrow morning and that is the reason why I had to do the two awnings yesterday…and I just realized that I have the decorative railing around the flat roof to clean up and paint still and that is going to be a lot of detail work and a lot of peeling paint that needs to be removed….could take three or four days to get that done but I’m going to wait until it cools off later in the week…still feel worn out from the heat yesterday and I don’t think I should test my body by doing another day like that…not much to do today…just riding and the grocery run and I can get to 4K miles if I do both rides at 18 miles this morning….but that will depend on how I feel after the first one….more later….
I’m beat…
Well…damn, it was hot outside today…and, like an idiot, I chose today to paint the last two awnings just to get them finished…and that was after I did 20 miles on the bike to start the day…started on the awnings at 9 and kept busy until almost 1:30 until I was done…by the time I finished, everything I was wearing was soaked…all the way down to my shoes and I am beat up from it…and I really struggled while I was doing it at times….having to stop to get some water 3 or 4 times and to take a breather when I just couldn’t go up that damn ladder again….my feet didn’t fare too well and I am expecting that the gout will flare after all the abuse today but it was worth it to get the job done…now I just need to figure out how to get the last one down so I can take it apart to paint it…man, I just feel used up right now but I am going to celebrate finishing by having a cocktail or two tonight…I think I’ve earned it….texted photos of the before and after to my son and daughter in law and my daughter in law replied that she loves what I did to them…I do think they look much more modern…oh, and one funny thing that I noticed today is that the ladders I’m using have paint on them from the last time they were painted probably 40 years ago….and now they have paint on them from this time…pretty funny…I wonder if the ladders will last til the next time? I’ll be dead and gone by then….
More doom, gloom, and lies…
Well…as I said the other day, I won’t be watching any of the trump fluffing that is passing for a repub convention but I have read some of the people who get paid to watch that crap and it is just more of the same doom, gloom, and lies that is at every one of idiot boy’s “rallies”…and since the repubs didn’t even produce a platform of what they stand for and plan to do, they are just leaving all that up to the idiot and whatever he spews during his “speeches”….and, if you didn’t think that the entire repub party is now a trump cult, every damn person that spoke today just praised idiot boy as the bestest, most wonderful president that there ever has been or ever could be. Nothing for the people of the US, nothing on how many people have died from his bungling, nothing about the wildfires decimating California, or the derecho that devastated Iowa…nope, but we knew that was going to happen, there is not one once of empathy in anyone in the repub party and they sure don’t give a damn about the people they supposedly represent….but, there was a bit of light today…the AG of New York just filed a suit against trump and all of his organizations for manipulating the worth of some of his properties when trying to get loans or pay taxes…hmmm… I wonder if the details will come out before the election? One more thing for trump to worry about when he loses…tick tock, trump….
August 24th
Well….damn, I think I’ve got another eye infection…at least it feels that way…or it could just be allergies that I haven’t taken anything for in a while…so maybe I’ll try that today to see how it feels…didn’t sleep for crap last night and had dreams about forest fires for some reason…but I’m back to getting up at 3:40 and that just sucks….and I still have two awnings to do the next two days but I am still sore from the last one and that is going to make these two a little more difficult…at least they are in the open and I won’t have any problems getting the ladders to them like the last one….I do have to get my Lake Michigan swim in this week and I think that will be wed since it is supposed to be hot and the lake temp is almost 70 still so that will make it nice….and that will make it 62 years in a row that I have had a swim in the lake….and it will be nice to get the hell out of here for a while and drive the car a bit…so that means I’ll have to do the grocery run thurs but that’s okay…or maybe tomorrow…we’ll see….not much to do today…just the bike ride and the awning but I should mow the lawn too…I did get the grass to start in the big bare spot out front so I’ll have to patch the rest of them out there and keep watering it to maintain it….more later…
The repubs truly are a death cult…
Well…just wanted to do a shorty on a jaw dropping poll result that came out this morning…when asked if they are okay with the response to the coronavirus and the fact that 180,000 Americans have now died from it, 57% of repubs said they were just fine with it…and many of them echoed the idiot trump’s comment that “it is what it is”…and that is the true measure that shows that the modern repub party is a death cult…that 180,000 people dead are just fine since trump said it is and that’s all they need to know….how deplorable do you have to be to just dismiss the suffering of 180,000 families who have lost someone to this damn virus? And now this hits home when I have a friend that just went in yesterday to get tested since she thinks she has the virus…or at least the majority of symptoms of it and with her underlying conditions, she could frickin die from it…and the death cult says that’s just fine…and now we have 4 days of lies and hate coming up starting tomorrow with the repub convention where 180,000 dead will be held up as a success since millions didn’t die…yet, and they will try to paint Joe Biden as a scary socialist who is controlled by Soros and the “deep state”….needless to say, I won’t be watching one damn minute of it…I have had more than enough of the repubs to last me 17 lifetimes…this nightmare needs to be over….
August 23rd
Well…cripes, I just noticed that I didn’t do a second one yesterday and there really is no reason for it…I wasn’t busy and didn’t do any work on the house…I did chase the damn squirrel that has been eating my tomatoes and knocked him off the fence…I’m at the point that I’m going to kill the damn thing the next time I see him…and I’m not a violent person but I didn’t grow my garden to have that little varmint ruin all of my tomatoes by taking a bite out of every damn one of them….so, I’ll have to look for it this morning…slept okay last night but still feel pretty crappy right now but one good thing is that I’m only doing one ride today and that is not going to happen until 9 or so since there is a Moto GP race on at 7:30 that I want to watch and that will last until then…and there are races on all day again today with the Indy 500 on this afternoon that I never miss…so there probably won’t be any work done again today…and it is supposed to rain a bit so no painting today….my foot is still not hurting and it has been a couple of weeks now…I’m even almost back to my normal walk and I’m surprised that it has taken so long to stop favoring it….I still think about the pain so I think that will take a while to fix….not much to do today…need to get some cleaning done but I don’t need to cook since I have leftovers to use…and I have chicken downstairs that I haven’t even opened yet….and lots and lots of tomatoes…need to eat a couple today before they get overripe….more later…