Well…that was a little better…didn’t get up til 6:24 this morning but I didn’t do anything different so I’m not sure if that’s repeatable…I did put earplugs in for the first time in a while last night so I wonder if that’s it? Think I’ll try that again tonight just to see….still coughing this morning and I had really hoped that I was healing up since it had been better yesterday afternoon….just can’t wait til I can take a full breath and not feel like I’m suffocating…I think it didn’t help working on the linen closet doors downstairs yesterday and making lots of dust sanding them….I did have a mask on but that doesn’t seem to help much….didn’t get on the bike for a second day yesterday with all the rain and the temp not getting over 37 but I am getting out today but I’m not sure when that will be since it is only 33 out there right now and I do have to do the grocery run this morning….one good thing about not riding is that my legs don’t hurt at all today but being off for two days is going to set me back on fitness and I’ll have to take it a little easy…have thought about making it a two ride day but Man U plays this aft and the nascar race my finally be run at 3 so I think it won’t fit in my schedule…not much to do today…I need to get the filler sanded on the doors I worked on yesterday so I can paint them later in the week but that should only take a few minutes since I got the hardware off of them yesterday….then just the normal stuff….more later….
Monthly Archives: October 2020
File an ethics complaint against Barrett…
Well…cripes Barrett is just sworn in an is already breaking the norms and ethics of the supreme court…last night, in her swearing in ceremony, she did a commercial for the idiot trump and his campaign by going along with the WH ceremony and then thanking only repub senators who voted for her. Isn’t his a judicial no no? Okay, yeah, I can hear you laughing from here…she has shown that she is just a political hack who is going to do her best to try to get trump elected and then take away voting rights and a woman’s right to choose as soon as she takes her seat…shouldn’t there be a way to file an ethics complaint against her since justices are not supposed to be political or take part in political activities? This spectacle has just shredded any legitamacy that the court had and makes it even more urgent that we win the senate and expand the court to 15 members…and then reverse any damage that these unqualified right wing assholes do in the next 3 months….then impeach Kavanaugh for lying during his hearings….look, the repubs are the ones who have destroyed the court by their bullshit packing and they have only themselves to blame for whatever happens next…and we need to just tell them to shut the hell up since they set the precedent of doing whatever the hell they wanted on judges, ignoring rules and conventions that have been observed for a hundred years or more…now we just need to win the senate to make this all happen…get the hell out and vote!
October 27th
Well…damn, I’m tired…another night of coughing and waking up at 2:34 to take something for it….this needs to end sometime, doesn’t it? Oh, well…and it’s raining out there again so I’m not sure when I’m going to be able to get on the bike today…tried twice yesterday but both times I suited up it started to rain by the time I got out a quarter mile and, as I’ve said before, I can take it cold and I can take it raining but not cold and raining….so, it looks like an afternoon run today…and that fits in with having the nascar race rained out again yesterday and scheduled for 10 this morning…I did get some work done around here…finally, with getting the doors off the linen closet so I can paint the last part of the interior that isn’t painted….need to remove the hardware and prep them today and I have a door frame in the room I’m using that needs prep for paint, too, so I may not get to painting until the weekend…I did have to go out to HF to get some more painters tape and then to dunham’s to buy a pair of waterproof slip on shoes they had on sale for 15 bucks…my outdoor shoes had cracks in the sole so working outside in all of the wet had gotten uncomfortable….they fit pretty good once I remembered that with these cheap brands you need to buy a size larger than normal and they are pretty comfortable…going to try them out today when I mow the lawn this afternoon….at least they won’t fall off my feet as I walk…not much to do today…I do want to get on removing one of the gardens today and cleaning that up and I need to pull up the snapdragons I used to fill some empty spots both in front and by the garage door,too, but right now I need more coffee…just can’t get started but I’ve only had an eighth of a cup of coffee and that is not enough to even feel it….more later…
Can we have hope yet?
Well…I think this next week is going to be one of the most stressful in my life after enduring 4 years of bullshit from the idiot trump and his criminal minions….maybe just one more week and we can have hope…can we start that now? It appears that all of the lying of trump and his cronies trying to tar Joe with something, something Ukraine….no China…no..fracking, no…you get the point…none of these lying smears have stuck and Bill Barr has disappeared so what’s the next “October surprise?” It appears that even Putin and Netanyahu have given up on trump by pointedly saying that they haven’t seen any evidence of Biden wrongdoing and they look forward to working with “anyone” who can repair relations in the world. Yeah, does that sound like idiot boy? Nope. Oh, and my ballot has made it to the city clerk and will be counted on election day…so, now is it time to have hope? The polls have mostly been good for Joe across the country this past week with him being up almost 12% here in Michigan and Gary Peters is up by 5…by only 5? Have you seen the lies that John James has been spewing about Gary? Oh, and don’t watch Pluto tv until after the election…it appears it is really cheap advertising since every damn commercial is a political one and I got tired of turning it off when the idiot boy and his cronies come on and lie and lie and lie. Look, I think I’ll continue to do some more of these freeform posts since I need it to lower my stress level…I remember election day 2016 vividly and I’m not sure I can survive another day like that one….I just hope that my fellow progressive have gotten out to vote and we can eradicate the moron next Tuesday….I need to have some hope…
October 26th
Well….that was a little bit better…was able to get back to sleep after waking up at 4:15 and didn’t get up til 6:30…and the coughing is not as bad this morning but it’s still here and still annoying…and tomorrow makes it 2 weeks and I am tired of it…other than that, I just feel worn out today and I think that is the effect of not sleeping more than 5 hours for months now…man, I hate bitching about this stuff so I think I’ll stop now…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday and I hope to get out for another one today but that will have to wait til this afternoon since it is cold and raining out there…I do need to start taking the gardens out today…or maybe not since I have a couple of weeks to do it and it shouldn’t take more than an hour for both of them…and I’m not putting the plants out in the trash for a couple of weeks…I do need to run an errand this morning to get some margarine since the stuff I have has turned rancid again and I need it for the mashed potatoes I made yesterday..this is the second container I’ve had go bad in the past month and I wonder how old the stuff is that I have been buying…I guess I’ll have to look at the sell by dates more closely…cripes I wonder if my taste buds are going weird on me again like they did a couple of years ago? Back then, my toothpaste tasted like ashes but I haven’t noticed that…yet…not much to do today….think I’m probably going to veg it out a while before I run the errand and the race from Texas was moved to this morning with the rain they had yesterday so that will give me something to do at 10 and through lunch…more later….
“we’re not going to control the virus”
Well…hey, undecided voters…and even you trump supporters…this is what the idiot boy’s chief of staff said on one of the news shows this morning…that they have just given up doing anything about the virus that is killing more than 1,000 Americans a day and infecting over 80,000 a day…they are just going to wait and do nothing until there is a vaccine or other treatments…but until then? Not a damn thing…everyone is on their own and it’s perfectly acceptable to them that there will be another 150,000 dead before a vaccine is ready…how is this not manslaughter? Or reckless endangerment? How the hell can anyone be undecided when this news comes out every damn day…do you really think that trump is a better president than Joe Biden will be? I just saw a cartoon that puts the undecided voters in perspective…it has a child in a cage being asked by a woman with a cup of coffee in her hand…”who do you think I should vote for?” If you are still undecided you are one ignorant son of a bitch if you haven’t seen how atrocious idiot boy is….and if you can consider voting for trump after he has killed over 225,000 Americans by his inaction, you are dumber than a box of rocks and probably shouldn’t vote anyway…geez…
October 25th
Well…I am getting damn tired of this crap…back up before 5 with coughing like crazy again and didn’t sleep much at all…so, there will be a nap later on…can’t go on with 4-5 hours of sleep a day…and I had to take something for the coughing this morning…it’s been two weeks since this started and I still hurt like crazy from coughing…this is just so damn tiring….had an okay day yesterday but didn’t do much with all of the sports that were on but I am going to get some cleaning done today in between the stuff that is on today…and I do have to cook again today and I am looking forward to having some chicken and mashed potatoes and gravy…I did put jeans on to go out for the paper today and it was kind of funny with how much weight I’ve lost riding so much this summer…they were falling off and I should have put a belt on….normally when I go into jeans, they are pretty tight but not this year…I should be sore after getting back on the bike yesterday but I’m not and that is a little strange….the only thing that hurts this morning are my abs from all of the coughing….okay, my thighs are a little sore but not much…I am going to try to get back on the bike this afternoon but it is supposed to rain some…nothing on the radar yet so maybe it will hold off a while…more later
Got a bike ride in…
Well…have been trying to find a topic in politics to write about today with no luck so I think I’ll talk about this….I got a bike ride in today for the first time in three days and it felt good to get out and get some fresh air…but it was only 42 degrees when I went at 11:30 and that is borderline for going out in just my riding gloves…but the sun was shining and it was clear when I left but that turned into a cloudy day and I was freezing by the time I got back here and haven’t been able to get warm since….I think I’ll have to start thinking about my winter hat and full gloves if I go out tomorrow….my lungs were okay for the entire ride but I’m back to coughing and wheezing again but I think I’m better than yesterday….we’ll see how the rest of the day goes…I did make chili this morning and it came out pretty good once I remembered that using my tomatoes meant that I would have to add more brown sugar than I normally do to tamp the bitterness down…and I put a little frank’s in, too, and that brought it to life…I even got the chicken in the brine but had to use my big roaster since the chicken was too big to fit in a gallon bag…it’s almost 7 pounds and that’s a pretty damn big chicken….so that will keep me fed for a week and at 79cents a pound, it’s a pretty good deal….maybe more later….
October 24th
Well…damn, I’m so tired of feeling crappy and coughing all the time…and my abs hurt so much from it that it hurts just to move at all…and let’s top that up with a headache I’ve had for a week now and it adds up to feeling miserable…I wonder if part of it is not being on the bike for two days with all the rain we’ve had? I am getting out today but it will wait til the afternoon since it is cold out there right now and I don’t want to do full thermasuit just yet…..what a waste of a day yesterday…didn’t do a damn thing but put the trash out and roll the empty bins back behind the house…they finally picked up my recycling after a couple of weeks of trying so I can get back to it again instead of putting it in the trash…I had things to do but just couldn’t get motivated with all the coughing and feeling sore…and today will probably look much the same with all the soccer and racing that is on this morning and Man U plays at 12:30 so that will put me out on the bike at 2:30 unless they are losing…I do have to get the chicken in brine to cook tomorrow and make chili today so that will be fun to do….but right now I’m watching MotoGP qualifying and then F1 qualifying and having my coffee…and there will be news in there,too….more later…
What a difference a day makes….
Well….you know I talked about the pasta sauce in this morning’s post and I was not too sure about it…with the bitterness that comes from using fresh tomatoes that I had to try to smooth out by adding a little sugar…okay, what a difference a day in the fridge makes…just made some pasta for lunch and it doesn’t even taste like the same sauce…I guess sitting in the fridge overnight gave it a chance for the flavors to smooth out and meld together and all I wanted to do was make another batch of pasta to have more…I didn’t, of course, since it is the second day of not riding with all the rain and can’t afford the calories….I was disappointed in the sauce yesterday but I am so pleasantly surprised today that I may just freeze some of it for another time…yummy…