Well…just got back from running out to look at the house in Ionia and it doesn’t look good…the whole house is trashed and looks like it hasn’t been taken care of in 20 years…and the garage is full of trash along with the house…just loads and loads of work to be done and boatloads of money to be put into it…and unless I can get it for around 80k, I don’t think the financials will work…it is on a huge lot on a hill in a quiet neighborhood but with the asking at 109K, I don’t think there is any way I can get there…oh, well…
Monthly Archives: January 2021
January 6th
Well…didn’t sleep at all last night with all of the happenings…a new grandchild, maybe a new house, and the dems took back the senate with wins in two seats in Georgia…so I woke up at 4:22 and didn’t get back to sleep but this time it’s okay….I sure hope this house is going to be the one…and there is another house in Ionia that is for sale at 96K that doesn’t need any work at all but it’s right in town and I’m not sure I’d want to live there…going to have my brother do a drive by when we are out there just to take a look at it…of course I didn’t get anything done yesterday and today will be the same with all of the traveling and with Man U playing City in the semi finals of the league cup this afternoon…I am going to try to get a bike ride in today after I get back from looking at houses…it hasn’t been bad riding in the streets but I think I’ll go out and take a look at the trails to see what condition they are in….I am pretty excited that today could be the day all of the stress of house hunting and moving is gone…the we go into the stress of applying for a loan and getting the closing done but I should have enough time to make it and only move once…that would be cool….more later…
I have a second grandchild….
Well…just got a text from my middle son that my granddaughter was born tonight….and he sent me the coolest video that he took….my son said “hello Lily” and she answered him with a little baby noise….I have tears in my eyes tonight….I’ve been damn lucky to have such great kids that are such nice people….life is okay….can’t wait to meet her….
I may have found a house…
Well…what a whipsaw of a day…I was going to run out and look at a house but when I pulled it up to get the address, it was already sold so I was pretty depressed all day until another listing came up that I might just want…okay, update…just talked to my brother and we are going out to take a tour of it tomorrow morning…this could be the one…it’s an old house but 1600 sq ft….needs work but at 110k asking, I think it’s a pretty good deal and my brother thinks I may be able to get it for 100…even has a two stall garage which I wanted and city water and sewer along with cable so I can get internet…and it’s empty so I could move in at close…oh, and it’s on double lot that is combined .6 of an acre and is close enough to bike trails that I can ride to them….and I can move in and work on it from there since it is essentially livable….it’s been empty for a year so that might affect the price some….so, I’m a little excited but will probably be disappointed when I see it…now I need to think what is acceptable to me and will probably just buy it no matter what…oh, and it has a front porch and a sun room on the back of the house….and, it’s only 20 miles from Ada so I can shoot pool when the pandemic is over….oh, and it’s on a side street so it should be pretty quiet….damn…I sure hope this works out….
No “looking forward”
Well…damn, it only took me a month to be disappointed in the Biden administration and they haven’t even taken office yet. And it is because of the same bullshit that Obama did when he took office and even sounds the same…that the new administration is “looking forward” when asked if trump and his cronies are going to be held accountable for their crimes…no, damn it, there is no forward without making sure trump and his cronies pay for their trashing of the US and their blatant lawbreaking or everyone on the right is going to say that “how can they have committed crimes? They weren’t prosecuted so they must not have done anything wrong.” We on the left have to grow some spine no matter what the political fallout is…after all, we don’t ask what the political ramifications are in every case that comes through the justice department and then don’t prosecute if it’s going to be hard…and we can’t leave it to the states, either…most of them are cash strapped and can’t afford to mount a multi million dollar prosecution that could drag on for years…so Joe, no damn looking forward…tell your justice department to follow the evidence and charge these bastards if the evidence is there for it….we need to save the rule of law in this country that trump has trashed every damn day since he was installed by Putin…I fear that if we don’t do it now, it will be gone forever….as will our country…
January 5th
Well…damn, don’t you just hate it when you are having a nice dream and then you just wake up for no reason and can’t get back to sleep? That just happened and it is annoying to be on the way to a good night’s sleep and then 5:24 comes and it ends…oh, well…my internet tv works again so I guess that’s something….and the Mega is up to 410 mil for tonight’s drawing so I think I’ll blow a few bucks to have at least one day of hope….my heel still hurts like crazy but it may have the signs of getting better…at least I hope it does since the rest of my foot now hurts from favoring it and just walking on the ball of my foot….man, I’m feeling pretty decrepit right now…I did get out for another 6 mile ride yesterday and I think I may double it today to see how it works…but that will come after going out to see a house that is for sale over on west river drive….need to go see at least one a day if I’m ever going to get out of here….the listings have slowed to a trickle and I’m sure I’m going to have to settle for anything just to get out of here…not much to do today…just the grocery run and riding…and maybe some cleaning but I’m not sure of that right now….more later…
Repub traitors day…
Well…I guess the new repub talking point about the traitor trump trying to get Georgia to “find” 12K votes to give him the win there is “how dare they expose our criminality”…not a damn thing about maybe not doing crimes? This criminality is going to continue on Wed when the seditious traitors in the House and senate try to have idiot boy’s landslide loss reversed by throwing out all of the votes in the swing states that overwhelmingly voted for Joe…and that gave me a thought….we need to make a name for wed…so every year it on January 6th we can remind this country what these traitors tried to do….and publish a list of all of the repubs that took part in it…I vote for “Repub traitor’s day” but I would be amenable to any other name that describes what these fools are doing….nope…it has to be traitors day….and we need the media to do their damn jobs for a change and stop using euphemisms for it like “disputed” votes or any other bullshit that softens what these un American assholes are doing and any time they get mentioned in the press, they need to say “wannabe traitor” and then the reps name…we can never forget that these assholes are trying to kill our democracy and they need to be shunned completely….or expelled from the congress like reps were that supported the confederacy….treason is treason after all….geez…
January 4th
Well…crap…my damn heel is worse this morning and now has started to bleed like crazy and that makes this bout with cracks the worst one I’ve ever had…I am so tired of limping around trying to get stuff done…didn’t sleep for crap, either, so this is going to be a wasted day it appears…I did get out for a short 6 mile ride on the streets yesterday and I think I’ll be able to do that again today if it’s warm enough…but I can’t go as hard so it feels colder and I’m not sure I can work up to the full 15 miles…had a few weird dreams last night that centered on trying to find the parts to repair my glasses that I rolled on when I was sleeping…yeah, that in itself is a little weird…I mean how many times do you sleep in your dreams when you’re sleeping? I did get my internet tv back last night but I haven’t checked to see if it’s still up…it was a pain not being able to watch sports over the weekend since I use that to make up for not sleeping at night….there’s nothing like a soccer match to nap to if there is no napcar on….didn’t get much done yesterday but cook and today looks the same with my heel so bad….it now hurts to just sit here but I am going to do that for a while to have more coffee and read the news….more later….
More crimes on tape…
Well…geez, what the hell is it going to take to remove the criminal in chief this time? Yesterday, the idiot got on the phone to the Georgia SOS to threaten him into “finding” 11,780 votes to give the win in Georgia since Joe won by 11,779 votes….and he kept this crap up for an hour and even threatened the SOS with “crimes” if he didn’t commit fraud and manufacture the votes. Now, in Georgia, this is a felony…well…it’s a felony in any state and I’m sure there are even federal laws against it and it is clear as day he is asking for fraud to be perpetrated against the US and the people of Georgia…I am getting damn tired of trump being let off for the hundreds of crimes he has committed and I hope that the AG of Georgia now will be filing an indictment to be presented on the 20th of January at 12:01 pm…this has to happen…and what should be happening today is another impeachment article…no hearings or anything like that…just pass the article and deliver it to the senate and make the repubs there defend committing another felony that will destroy forever the idea that the repubs are the “law and order” party…get on it Nancy…oh, and get another indictment ready for Mark Meadows, who was on the call with trump….
Traitors…all of them…
Well…sitting here contemplating going out on the bike for a short one and thought I’d give this one a try…if you didn’t already know it, the repub party is now the party of traitors who are trying to ignore the will of the voters and install idiot boy for another term…and anyone who tries to commit sedition against the US and the 7 million more voters who voted for Biden can only be called traitors. I’m not sure what can be done about it, but if I were Nancy Pelosi, I would make them pay before they are sworn in today…at least a censure on all of 140 repub traitors in the house who have said they will contest the election Wed…or maybe just not seat any of them until they admit that Joe won the election and that any other move to attack this country will be met with expulsion…these morons are so scared of the frothing mob of trump cultists that they will throw the country under the bus just to protect their jobs…and their new talking point is that “millions of people” are concerned about fraud in the election and that is why they are challenging the results…hey morons, the reason these people believe there was fraud is your damn lies about it…and fox news lies about it, and idiot boy’s lies about it…and these folks are so stupid that they think they have a chance of keeping Joe from being elected….but there are 4 still sane repubs that are going to vote to certify Joe’s win and with the dems all voting for it, there is no damn chance of winning the vote….I’ve had enough of this bullshit…idiot boy lost the damn election…and there was no fraud…and no, your fewer votes don’t override the will of the people this time….just get the hell over it…