Well…running a little late today with not getting up until late but I still feel like I didn’t get any sleep last night…just damn exhausted and I’m sure part of it is the stress from house hunting without success…and I know part of it is just from getting old and I don’t like that much…I did get a ride in yesterday that went okay and my hands and feet survived it and it looks like I’ll get two more days in before it turns cold thurs…highs are only going to be in the low 20′s and that is just too damn cold to go out…but it is going to be almost 50 tomorrow so there may even be some thunderstorms tomorrow night…weird….I did get some cleaning done downstairs and need to do more of that today to start to pack my stuff back up for the move…still have most of it in bags and never unpacked it so it should be relatively easy…and I am going to do the grocery run today…I am going to look at some sirloin burgers at DD since they have it on sale for 99 cents a pound…you have to buy a 10 pound case but I can use it for tacos, too, so that won’t be too much…not much to do today…just groceries and then cleaning and looking for houses…another boring day in the neighborhood….more later…
Monthly Archives: December 2020
This is depressing…
Well…okay…just an observation on the winter solstice that is happening today…it’s 3:31pm and it’s already getting dark…I just had to put the floor lamp on here in the living room just to be able to see to do this one….one good thing about it is that after today, the daylight starts to get longer and longer….and with the lack of snow so far, it’s been okay…still getting on the bike every day and I can remember a few years back that I was off the bike starting around t-day since the trails were covered in ice and snow….and just looking at the weather, there are no big snow storms all the way til the 8th of January…but, that can change…it is going to be cold later in the week with a high of 22 on Friday but then it gets back into the 30′s for a while…but I’ll take two months without snow…and keep my fingers crossed for two more….
Plan B isn’t working, either…
Well…with time running out to be able to buy a house before my son moves back to town, I have moved to plan B and cut my requirements down to just a house with a garage and I have discarded the other things I needed like a basement, not in the city, and some acreage…but, that’s not working in this new real estate environment where houses sell too damn fast and it doesn’t give me any time to think…so, I’m not sure what to do…I have 10 days to make a decision on something or I will end up back in an apartment in March…crap…I sure don’t need this stress….
I still hate Bill Barr…
Well…with all the damage that Bill Barr has done to this country and the rule of law, no matter what he does from now until forever I will still hate him…I wonder if there should be a but here, but that would mean I excuse his crap just because he acted like a real AG one damn time…but I don’t at all…over the past few days, since his resignation, he has stood up to the idiot trump a few times and who cares what the reason is…after the election, while he let trump go on and on about “voter fraud” before he weighed in and said there was no evidence of widespread fraud, he could have said bluntly there wasn’t any, but I guess that’s better than nothing…and just today he came out with a statement that there is no evidence of voter fraud so he will not appoint a special counsel to investigate that…and the second part of that statement is that he will not appoint one to investigate Hunter Biden, either, stating that any investigation is being handled through normal channels so there is no need….so, I wonder if idiot boy is now going to “fire” Barr even after he resigned and install a toady as AG that will do it? It appears that the Barr reputation cleansing tour is on with these statements but there is no way it should be allowed to work…every time this asshole pops his head up after trump is gone, he needs to be asked the questions about all of the crap he has pulled as AG, especially turning the justice department into a trump protection racket and not let him even try to be the “elder statesman” that he has not earned…geez…
December 21st
Well…got up at coffee o’clock but just couldn’t get going so it took me an hour to get here…and I didn’t sleep much so this is going to be a rough day…and I wonder why that is after sleeping okay for a few weeks? Oh, well….I did get out to see my grandson yesterday and he is growing like crazy can’t wait til he can see me without a mask…it was nice to see him smiling and laughing…and I know it was good for the car to get it out on the e-way and get it warmed up all the way for a change….didn’t get anything else done but the bike ride yesterday and today looks the same but I should clean some to get ready to move…not sure if I will but I should…and I can get out on the bike as soon as it gets light since it is already about 35 out there and I’m used to freezing my butt off…well…not used to it but I know I can tolerate it…but it still takes the rest of the day to warm up…not much to do today…I need more coffee before I even think about what I’m going to do today so I think that’s what I’ll do…more later…
Small acts of kindness…
Well….have been a little pensive today and thinking about what can be done to remove the stain and stench of the hate that the idiot trump and his followers have smeared on the world…and a story that I just read on Kos points to a path that I have been following for a few years now…small acts of kindness. In the story, a woman in England was trying to get to the nursing home where her mother was staying after fighting off both cancer and covid…but the directions and the bus number she was given was wrong and she was going the wrong way…and she only had a half hour window for her appointment…once she realized it, she approached the bus driver in tears thinking she wouldn’t be able to see her mother after their months of separation….and when the driver heard her story, he said to her not to worry we’ll see what we can do. Then he stopped the bus and asked the passengers if it would be okay if they took a little detour…and every one of them said yes so he turned the bus around and took a 20 mile detour so the women could get to see her mom. When asked later why he did it, the bus driver just said “because that’s what you’re supposed to do”….and that is what I’m supposed to do…just the little acts of kindness that says to me and the world that people can be okay…they don’t need to be the nasty assholes that infest our country right now…just a smile or laugh when someone isn’t paying attention on the trail or in the store and cuts in front of you or their dog is running crazy and I have to slow down….it’s such a small thing but from the reactions I get, it is making a difference…maybe for just a minute, maybe less, but in that small moment I know that my life and theirs is just a little brighter…and that makes me smile….
December 20th
Well…things sure are back to normal with waking up at 5:24 and then out of bed before 6….and that is a little disappointing…but, I feel okay this morning and not too sore so I guess that’s all I can hope for…and I didn’t take anything for my allergies since I’m running out of medicine and can’t get more for a few more weeks…but that brings my sinus headache back and that is pretty annoying…oh, well…the damn mice are back in the garage and one of them chewed a hole in the bird food bag…that didn’t last long as I got two of them in the traps over the past few days and the trap that is left was empty this morning so maybe I got them all…I really do hate to kill anything but it is annoying to leave a trail of bird food out of the garage when I go out to fill the feeders….didn’t get a lot done yesterday other than look at house listings but I have plans to go out and see my grandson this afternoon and hang out with my son and his wife for a while…he’s growing like crazy and is almost 5 months old and I’ve only seen him once with this damn virus still around…can’t wait for my turn to get vaccinated to help put an end to this crap…I don’t think I’m going to make it to 6K miles on the bike…just can’t bring myself to do any doubles after getting cold on the first one…but I think 5900 miles or so should be enough for the riding to be successful…not much to do today….just going to take it easy until it gets light and then get on the bike and then more work on finding a house….more later….
It’s only 614 million dollars…no big deal…
Well…you know, I can’t believe that the maga assholes out there know about the outright theft of their donations to the idiot boy…I would be pretty pissed if I donated to a political campaign and found out that 614 million dollars of it was skimmed off by the trump family and made to disappear…but, then again, I have a working brain that knows the only reason the idiot got involved in politics was to grift as much cash as he could….just this week it was reported that Kushner created an LLC that funneled over 600 million dollars of campaign contributions through it with no reporting on where it went or who it went to…this is just another bigger version of what these criminals did with all of the inauguration cash that disappeared but that we all know ended up in trump’s pockets and it is still illegal to do that….do you think that trump’s justice department is going to look into that? Ha, ha, ha…that made me laugh out loud just writing it…but, as I’ve said before, on January 20th at noon, they lose their protection and they are so stupid they think that just because they got away with it during the idiot’s term, they are in the clear….I wonder if that smoke I see over DC is the indusrtial sized shredders running wide open to destroy the evidence? It won’t matter in this digital age where there are multiple copies of everything out there in the cloud….and DC can bring charges if the stupident pardons everyone…tick tock, trump…prison is coming….
December 19th
Well…it appears things are back to normal with getting up a little before 6 and not even trying to go back to sleep…and I tossed and turned all night so thing really are going back to normal…darn….and I feel worn out this morning but I probably should as old as I am…I did get a nice ride in yesterday but I am a little confused about it…it was the same temp as the day before with the same clothes but my hands were not frozen and my toes were just a little numb….weird…and I am getting out today as soon as it gets light since it is already warmer than yesterday out there right now…maybe I’ll do one of the doubles I need to make it to 6K today…but I’m sure not motivated to do that right now but we’ll see as the coffee works and the morning goes on….at least my phone and tablet are working this morning so I don’t have to think too much yet…not much to do today…just looking for houses and riding and I guess that is going to be the plan for the rest of the year…it is looking more and more that I am just going to have to buy something I don’t want just to get out of here and have a base to start looking for something I do want…more later….
185 miles more?
Well…two weeks until the end of the year and I hit 5,815 miles today…and that made me think “I wonder if I can make it to 6,000 by the end of the year?” After all, it’s only 185 more miles and that works out to 14.23 miles a day…but that is with no days off for cold, wind, or soreness…there would have to be a few doubles in there to make sure…but I wonder if I need any more goals for the year? It would just add to my stress level of not being able to find a house that I want and only having three months to find one and buy it and move…and I really don’t need that right now…so, I guess we’ll see….