Well…I was going to wait to put the last awning back up til tomorrow but, you know me, I can’t stand to have work hanging over me when I can do it now…the paint was dry enough so I hoisted it up and struggled to get it back in place…trying to hold the 40 pound awning up with one hand while starting a screw with the other is quite a challenge and the screw that I was planning on hanging it on while I did that pulled out and let the damn thing bang me on the head…took a nice little divot out of my scalp since I forgot to wear my hat while I was working….but, I got it up…finally and it now has 5 screws holding it when it only had three before….just have a little repair work to do on the paint since I scraped it a little putting it up but that’s easy enough…and that finishes the paint on the outside of the house that I am going to do…7 hours on one damn awning is a lot of time…and I can’t even celebrate with a cocktail tonight since I’m taking the week off…damn…oh, well….
Monthly Archives: September 2020
This is pretty cool…
Well…yeah, I’m running really late today but I have an excuse…did two bike rides and spent 6 hours painting the last awning today…what a pain with all of the detail…oh, the pretty cool thing…after RBG’s death Friday night, the dems have raised over 135 million dollars from small donors across this country to put toward defeating the cheating, hypocrite repubs who have vowed to fill RGB’s seat before the election. One of the names being mentioned is a woman who thinks that being a lawyer and a judge is just a means to and end…to do god’s will here on Earth…can you guess how she’ll vote on a woman’s right to choose? Let’s make this really, really clear…to everyone who has health insurance because of Obamacare, it is gone after this seat on the SC is stolen…to every woman who thinks the government has no right to control what you do with your body…that is gone after this seat is stolen….to everyone who thinks that legalized religious discrimination is wrong…that will be allowed after this seat is stolen…to everyone who thinks that voting rights are important to this democracy…they’re gone too after this seat is stolen. So, at this point, the only thing we can do is get out and vote these assholes out…and then spend the next 4 years undoing all the damage they’ve done….vote, vote, vote….it’s all we have left…
September 22nd
Well…that was a little odd….was good for last night for the first time in a while and that made sleep a little broken but I tried to not get up until after 6 and was successful…so I think I’ll keep that up all week and see how that feels…feel okay this morning so that alone may be worth it…not too sore this morning even with doing 30 miles yesterday and painting the underside of the last awning but I will be sore tomorrow with doing the rest of the awning this morning after the first ride….I may take a day or so off working after I put the awning back up tomorrow…need to find a house and that will be my sole job from now on until I find one…along with getting to 5K miles on the bike…had some damn animal digging into the garage next to the door so I had to mix up some mortar and plug the hole…couldn’t figure out where all the rocks and dirt were coming from but I think I have it fixed…and I patched a small divot in the front sidewalk with the leftover mix that I have been meaning to get to for a while now…damn amazon split my order and that’s why part of it got here so soon…they just sent the chain lube and not the rear cassette that I ordered…luckily, lubing the chain has stopped it from skipping so I think I can limp the bike for two more weeks…not much to do today…just the rides and the awning but that is going to take hours with all of the detail work that needs to be done on it and I will be sore tomorrow….more later….
Pack the courts…
Well…the shortsighted asshole who runs the repub party, Mitch McConnell, is going to jam through another SC justice before the election to replace RBG…never mind that the hypocrite in chief running the senate had a “rule” that said that you can’t approve a new justice in the last year of a president’s term…but we all know that only applies to dem presidents….so I say let him…and then we need to get out to vote to ensure that we take back the WH and senate…then play some damn hardball for a change…and that would mean expanding the SC to 15 justices and appointing liberal justices to all 6 of the new seats…after all, moscow mitch has been tearing the rules of the senate up to jam through unqualified judges for the past 4 years and we need to grow a spine in response. The number of SC justices is set by law, not by the constitution and all we would have to do is pass a new law saying that there are now 15…but, let’s not stop there…if the repubs want to break every convention to get their right wing asshole judges installed to go against the will of the people…especially on Roe v. Wade where 70% of the American people want it left alone…then we need to respond in kind and expand every damn court and blunt the damage that the repubs have done. Then, we need a real investigation of Brett Kavanaugh and impeach the lying sexual assaulter and get him off the court….we need to let the repubs know that if they jam through this RBG replacement, there will be hell to pay….but we need the entire government in our hands to make them pay…so, get out and vote…
September 21st
Well…damn, my allergies have gotten really bad to the point that I feel like crap and my eyes are so itchy I just want to scratch them out…have been coughing and sneezing like crazy too…just damn miserable…so, sleep was pretty rotten last night and I have a headache today…okay, enough bitching…I had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done other than ride the bike but I will have to do better today…need to head out to depot to get some spray paint to do the inside of the awning today so I can paint the outside tomorrow and get it back up this week…and that will about do it for what I’m going to do on the outside of the house other than some caulking and cleaning…the grass seed I put in the front yard has started to sprout but I think I’ll have to re-seed some spots that didn’t come in but it looks quite a bit better and the back yard grew in with just feeding it so I’m not going to do much there but clean it up…..had a brand new pain on the bike yesterday…or one that I haven’t had in a long time…my right hip was howling in pain when I got off the bike and I’m not sure what the heck I did to it to make it do that…doesn’t hurt right now but damn, I could barely get off the bike when I got back here and then limped around here all day….hope it was a one time thing….more later…
A new record…
Well…I finally made it! Got to 4,585 miles today for a new personal record on the bike….only 415 more miles to get to the 5K goal for the year. That is more than twice the mileage that they rode in the Tour de France this year…yeah, I know…they do the 2155 miles in 3 weeks and it took me 9 1/2 months but still…that’s a lot of miles and to continue to pile them on at my age is some sort of an accomplishment…what sort, I don’t know but it’s something….so, I’m taking the rest of the day off to watch some football and soccer…
The furnace works…
Well…that takes a load off…the furnace just kicked on and is running fine..stinks with 5 months of dust on the burners, though but I’ll take that to know I don’t have to pay someone 150 bucks to come out and fix it…or to replace it..don’t need to spend 5 grand for a new one….yay!
September 20th
Well….running a little late today but that’s pretty normal for a Sunday…got up way too damn early at 5:20 and couldn’t get back to sleep so I just gave up and got up…had to get out the warm clothes to just sit here yesterday since it is only 66 in here and I wonder if the furnace is going to work without having someone come out and take a look at it? I did check the pilot yesterday and it is running so I have my fingers crossed it will work when I need it….I did get a pleasant surprise in my e-mail this morning that my new rear cassette is going to be here tomorrow when they initially said it was going to be October 5th so that is cool…I did lube the chain to help the worn one keep working and that helped on the rides yesterday…it didn’t skip once but I kept the power lower as I pedaled in top gear since I knew it would if I laid on it hard….okay, need more coffee….there, that’s better…still haven’t adjusted to having to wait to get on the bike with it being so cold but I am not ready to get the gloves and long pants out just yet….I guess I’ll have to in a week or so since the highs are only going to be in the 60′s starting later in the week….only have about 25 miles to go to beat my all time mileage record and I think I’ll do that today…need to get to 4585 since I rode 4584 last year and then it’s downhill to 5K…I was pretty sure I could make it and the day off when I do is going to be welcome….not sure about what I’m going to do next year but doing doubles every day has gotten to be a habit and I’ll probably continue that….not much to do today…just going to take it easy and look for houses…then I’ll get back to working on the last awning tomorrow….more later…
RIP RBG
Well…the thing we were all hoping would not happen until after the election has happened…Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last night at the age of 87. I am filled with despair today for this country…no one did more to protect the rights of every American than justice Ginsburg did for the last 27 years…she was out in front fiercely protecting our LGBTQ friends and family from the discrimination and hate that the right wing justices tried and tried to codify into law by giving religious people the right to discriminate against them under the guise of “religious freedom” while RBG read the constitution as meaning equal treatment under the law is for everyone, not just rich, white, straight people….she carried the hopes of people all over this country that someone would do something to keep the hard fought gains in equality that people had bled for…and she took it upon her tiny shoulders to carry this country through these dark times but the time came to lift that burden from her shoulders and let her find the peace that we all deserve. RIP RBG….we will all miss you…and thank you for showing us what dignity and perseverence looks like…now it’s time for the rest of us to pick up the fight….
September 19th
Well…that was a little odd…slept all the way through the night until 6:13 and that should make me feel okay…but I still feel quite slow this morning…but, I haven’t had any coffee yet so that could be part of it…it’s only 38 degrees outside right now so I am curious if my tomato and pepper plants will survive it…it’s getting close to the point where they will die and that will take away any chance of getting any more tomatoes to ripen…have about a hundred of them on the plants still and it would be a shame to just put them in the trash….and with the temp outside, I won’t be able to get on the bike til at least 10 am and that will mean only one ride today since Man U starts their season at 12:30 and I do want to see that…it looks like a good sports day if I decide to take the day off…Moto GP qualifying is on right now and then soccer starts at about 7:30 and goes most of the day until the nascar race on tonight….so, at least I’ll have something to listen to in the background as I do a couple more of these….not much to do today….need to pay a couple of bills that I will put out for the mailman but will probably have to drop it off at the post office tomorrow to make sure they get there on time…and I am going to clean the hard floors today since there is a lot of dust and grit that I have tracked in from outside that is annoying the hell out of me….more later…with all the change to my gas service, I wonder if my furnace is going to start when I need it? One more damn thing to worry about…