Well…I don’t know what changed but I’ve never been able to go back to sleep after waking up early…but, I have been able to for weeks now and it is starting to concern me a little….I wonder if there is some hidden health problem that is allowing me to do it? Or, maybe I had one for 30 years and now it’s gone? Who knows? All I do know is that it’s making me late getting here in the morning and I’m not sure I like that…I did sleep okay but no dreams to speak of and the pain from working on the bathroom is subsiding some so that is a good thing…I did finally get my hair clippers figured out yesterday and gave myself a short, short haircut that looks pretty good on what hair I have left…and I paid for them twice over with not paying to get my hair cut since March….it only took about 5 minutes this time so I can keep it short anytime I want…yeah, I know, I’m probably the only person in the world who gets geeked out about cutting his own hair…didn’t get much done yesterday but laundry and the bike ride but I need to get started cleaning the downstairs today and probably will…unless I decide to take the day off and just veg it out…it can go either way the with the coffee not working yet…more later….
Monthly Archives: December 2020
Not a bad day…so far…
Well…aside from getting such a late start today, it has been a pretty good day today…had a long text convo with my daughter and it was good to get caught up with her…and I found out she made me some socks and a stocking hat that are on their way to me and I can’t wait to see them…she has taken to knitting and making her own yarn so that is pretty cool…and she has been promised a promotion next year with a large pay raise…it is so cool to see your kids so successful…and I made a huge ham for lunch that I got for 8 bucks that came out great and I even made some tasty smooth gravy for the mashed potatoes…and I got a hard bike ride in with no lung problems again so that made me smile…I am a little conflicted about a house that came up in my e-mail today down in a little town called Nashville…only 80K and it has everything I want…basement, big two stall garage on a quiet street with a good sized yard…but, it’s 50 miles away from GR and doesn’t have high speed broadband, just dsl…would have to get satellite internet and that costs about 80 bucks a month…but, it doesn’t really need any work so that would be cool…will have to think about that one….the 250 bucks a month payment would be cool….oh, and it was built in 1900 so that is a little too old…I think….I only have three weeks to find a house and the stress is starting to get to me…but, I’m done for the day…going to go back and look at that house again…it may be a placeholder house that I can just buy while I look for another one…hmmm….
Why do repubs hate democracy so much?
Well….Joe Biden won the election…why the hell is that so hard for repubs to say and accept? There are even parts of the repub controlled government who have prohibited their people from even saying president elect Joe Biden and have retaliated against people for saying it…my question is: Why do repubs hate democracy so much? Why are they still trying to overturn the election that has been called the “Safest and most well run election” by even repub Secretaries of State across the country? We all know why…they just want power to be able to keep hurting people and stealing as much as they can for the 1%…and to keep putting brown people in cages who legally apply for asylum…they get their jollies from hurting people and they love that feeling so they are desperate to be able to keep doing it…and this lawsuit filed by the criminal AG of Texas Paxton (who is doing this to make sure he gets a pardon before trump is gone) and joined by 16 other repub controlled states? They want the results of other people’s elections nullified by the SC…not any state that idiot boy won mind you, but 4 swing states that he lost…since when does one state have the power to void an entire other state’s votes? To put it bluntly, they don’t….but these people are so damn dumb they think they can go to the SC with lies and bullshit and they will get their way….even though every other court has called bullshit on every suit….that’s not how it works in this country…the votes were counted and certified and Joe Biden is going to be sworn in January 20th….but this election aftermath has laid bare the fact that the repubs don’t care about our democracy at all…and the sooner they can be voted out the better….geez…
December 10th
Well…I think I’ve discovered why I got up so early for so long…when I wake up at 4 or 5 and I do get back to sleep, it makes me late to come here…this one should have been out an hour and half ago but I went back to sleep when I woke up around 5…but, I did have weird dreams after getting back to sleep so I’m a little torn about that…man, I hurt like crazy after working on the bathroom faucet twice in a day yesterday….you know how cats like sitting in boxes that are too small for them? That’s how I felt pretzeling my body into the tiny little space under the vanity to get to the pipes and hold downs….and here’s the weird thing…after I re-installed the old faucet, it doesn’t leak now…and that was the only reason I was replacing it…probably should have let it leak for a few days to see if it would stop…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday but that contributed to the pain I felt late in the day…but, my lungs were okay after a few days when they weren’t so that was a good thing…I did get started on the cleanup downstairs yesterday but that was about it for work…and I don’t feel like doing much with how I feel right now…everything still hurts but my elbows and back are the worst and I think need some ibuprofen right now so I can get on the bike in a few minutes…going to make a big ham today since it was cheap ad I haven’t had one in quite a while….more later….
What’s the end game?
Well…with trump and his idiot cronies up to 1-53 in suits trying to overturn the election results, and every repub SOS across the country saying the election was clean and the counts accurate, what the heck is the endgame of trump and 80% of repubs still saying that Joe didn’t win the election? With 296 EV’s for Joe certified by yesterday, there is nothing that anyone can do about it, they can’t bribe legislators to appoint electors for trump, no lawsuit is going to disenfranchise anyone and throw out their votes, and the SC has said loud and clear they are not getting involved in any more suits…so what is it? Is it just fleecing the rubes? Is it that simple…that the repubs know idiot boy lost but they just want to keep their rabid base placated and squeeze every last penny out of them before they move on? It would be on point for them to do that…after all, they don’t give a rat’s ass about governing or making life better for Americans other than the rich….what a bunch of chickenshit assholes…geez…
Well…that sucked…
Well…it is a pain in the butt to work on old houses…as you know, I was going to replace the leaking faucet in the bathroom today…even went out and bought one this morning but it wouldn’t work with the sink so I put the old leaker back in to think about what I can do…the new one has the feed lines that come out in the center of the faucet where my sink only has a small hole that the control for the pop up goes through and there is no way it is going to fit…so now I guess I need to just cross my fingers and hope the leak doesn’t get worse until I can find a faucet that has the feed lines on the outside and that doesn’t cost a hundred bucks…what a pain in the ass….
December 9th
Well…running almost on time this morning with getting up for good around 6 or so…but I feel like a car with a dead battery…the starter is grinding slow but not enough to start it….hmmm…that would make the coffee a battery charger or a set of jumper cables…yeah, that metaphor is a little tortured but it is still how I feel…I did wake up around 4 or so for the first time so that makes it a 400 which lots of companies made including Pontiac….had some really weird dreams that I can’t even understand so I’m not going to bore you with them…I did get some work done yesterday that I hope to finish this morning but I know it’s not going to be that easy…going to have to figure out how to adapt the new style flexible water feed lines to the soldered in compression fittings on the valves…it would be way too easy that they would just fit….what a pain….I am going to get out on the bike today no matter what since it is going to be above 40 and that will make for a nice ride after the numbing cold it’s been for the past week….and I do need to do the grocery run here in a bit but right now all I want to do is have more coffee….more later…
Even Alito won’t bail out trump…
Well…if trump and his cronies were banking on the SC to overturn the election in any of the swing states, they better think again…just today the supreme court refused to hear anything more about the certification process in Pennsylvania after an appeals court shot the suit down..so that ends it there…but the court telegraphed today that they are not going to get involved in election cases and that leaves trump and his idiot lawyers 1-49 having lost all but one of the suits they have brought…and the fact that even Alito didn’t dissent to the ruling says for trump to stop and accept that he has lost and no suits challenging the results will be successful….so the stupid Texas suit where the indicted AG Paxton has sued 4 swing states for some reason having to do with who the hell knows is going nowhere as all the rest of them have….can we finally get rid of these assholes?
What a day…
Well…if the rubber shoe debacle wasn’t enough for one day, the damn faucet in the bathroom started to leak again after I replaced the cartridge about 6 weeks ago…even with that replacement, it never worked right and it had a leak around the aerator that sprayed all over the place…so, I decided that I wasn’t going to put another cartridge in it for 15 bucks when I can get a cheap replacement faucet for 20 bucks and it should last until my son and his wife move in here in a couple of months. The problem was that this faucet has been here for at least 40 years and has never been touched…so, of course, it was going to be a pain in the butt to get out and to get to the hold downs and the water connections, I had to bend this old body into a pretzel shape since the cabinet it is in is tiny and there is very little space between the opening and the opposite wall. Surprisingly, the fittings and the hold downs came off with just a little wrenching and it only took about a half hour to get it out and get the sink cleaned up for the new one that I’m going to get at Menards tomorrow during the grocery run….will probably have to get some kind of an adapter since the water lines that are soldered in use a nut and ferrule fitting and I’m sure the new ones use flexible lines instead of copper….but, it’s no big deal living without the bathroom sink if it takes a day or so to get it installed. Probably should have done this instead of wasting 15 bucks on the cartridge for the old one…oh, well….
Shouldn’t this be a crime?
Well….after 4 years of living with the stupidity of trump, I guess we all thought we knew how bad that was, but we were wrong….just today it was revealed that PFizer came to idiot boy when the results were certified and it was determined that their vaccine was effective and offered to sell millions of doses to the US…and as with everything else the idiot touches, he screwed it up by saying no thanks so Pfizer contracted with other countries to sell out their capacity. So, with the virus raging across the country, shouldn’t the choice to not protect Americans be a crime? He just is so damn stupid he didn’t understand that there is a fixed capacity for manufacturing these vaccines and this choice of his means that the US will be last in getting them with only 50 million doses available for 330 million people…so this choice is going to cost hundreds of thousands of American lives…isn’t that a crime? I am so damn tired of this asshole getting away with screwing this country over just because he doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself…and this morning he said he would sign an executive order preventing Pfizer from selling the vaccines outside of the US…hey, donnie, it doesn’t work that way…this vaccine was invented by a Pfizer partner in Europe and they were just going manufacture it here…so now Pfizer will just produce it in Europe and put Americans out of work since they won’t produce it here…nice job, donnie…are you trying to screw everything up or does it just come natural to you? geez….