Well…damn, another 5:21 morning and it is starting to sound like a broken record…and I feel pretty slow today and think I’m going to have to depend on the coffee to jump start me…at least I’m not sore…or not too sore since I didn’t have to shovel snow here or at the new place yesterday and that really helped my right elbow…it has been hurting like crazy with all of the pounding it has been taking while shoveling….I did get the word that Tuesday is the set closing day at 9am and then I’m running out to the house to get my keys and take a load of clothes and a bike out there and start cleaning….and I still have packing to do here over the weekend but were getting close to being ready to move…have two more totes to fill and then I’ll have to empty a couple out at the house to get the rest of the stuff…but I have two weeks after next Sat to clean this place up and move the rest of my clothes….but, right now, I am going to have coffee and watch some soccer before I get started packing…..more later…
Monthly Archives: February 2021
Ghouls…every damn one of them…
Well…god, just reading about this made me sick…as you know, there has been a humanitarian emergency from storms and cold in Texas where people haven’t had electricity or heat for almost a week now….and I wrote about the woman who had a 2,800 dollar electric bill for just two days with how the utility companies are allowed to charge in an emergency….just this morning the ghoul Jerry Jones, who is the ceo of a gas company that services Texas was heard on a company call just frickin giddy at how much they are able to charge with the gas shortage that was caused by his company by not winterizing their pipelines…”This week is like hitting the jackpot with some of these incredible prices. We were able to sell at super premium prices for a material amount of production.” Nothing about how his screw ups caused people to die from the cold but just giddily rubbing his hands that he is going to be able to bankrupt people with gas that is 100 times the normal cost…and this is the same Jerry Jones that got 500 million of the cost of the Cowboy’s stadium paid for by the taxpayers of Texas…1% welfare while the little people pay for it. I just hate these guys and the systems they have paid for that allows them to steal even more from the middle class and poor in an emergency…they are all damn ghouls for gleefully hurting people as they line their pockets….and they are all repubs….that’s all there is to say….geez…
February 19th
Well…damn, I’m tired this morning…didn’t sleep at all last night and feel like crap right now and I’m just getting to the first cup of coffee so that is going to take a while to help…at least I’m not too sore today but I am going to aggravate that later with a run out to the house and starting on the snow removal…not closing until Tuesday but I don’t think they’ll mind if I get the walks cleared so I can start moving Tuesday….instead of waiting to do the snow until then…but, I’m not in any hurry to get going since I have all day and that’s the only thing I have to do all day…other than pack that is…I already have 9 totes filled and three more to go but I’ll have those done this weekend….and then it will be two trips a day starting Tuesday….got the bathroom and my tools packed yesterday and I need to organize the garage here to make sure I get my stuff out of there…did I mention I’m tired? Not much to do today….just the snow removal and then back here to watch some soccer and pack the living room….more later…
Perseverance has landed!
Well…yeah, I’m a space geek and had to watch the landing of the new Perseverance lander on Mars just a few minutes ago…and the lander is in good shape and sending photos already….I just love seeing the reactions of the people running the show when they get the announcement and data saying the landing went off without a hitch and they have a healthy rover…man, to have a job you love that much and to be successful looks like a great thing…can’t wait to see photos from the helicopter…
Texas is now a third world country…
Well…I’m sure you read about the ongoing problems in Texas where there are still widespread power outages that the moron governor Abbot is lying his ass off about, telling anyone who will listen that it is because of the green new deal that never passed the congress and is not in effect…or that the wind turbines froze up, or, or, or….you get the picture, the reasons keep changing…just to make the words rhyme…yep, stole that from Joe Walsh but it is true here….first, it’s not the wind turbines since they only supply at most 10% of the power for the state and wouldn’t cause this mess even if all of them froze up and fell down…..the great majority of the outages are caused by the fact that the energy producers aren’t required to make their plants weatherized at all and the gas and coal plants froze up…just like chemical plants keep exploding because they have also been deregulated to the point where there is no regulation and the owners can do whatever they want….and the Texas electrical grid is a stand alone that can’t draw power from the rest of the country so the feds can’t regulate it and make sure it’s reliable….one of the egregious giveaways to the power companies is that they are not required to have any excess power built in for emergencies, and are allowed to charge whatever they can get in an emergency….and that leads to exploding electric bills that are a hundred times what people normally pay per month….one example was from a homeowner who got a bill for 2800 dollars for two days of electricity that she got when the power came back on…and this is by design since the morons who run the system think that unfettered capitalism is just the best thing since sliced bread and ripping off the people is just how it is…and it makes their donors richer so it’s all good. I know the feeling in Texas is that people should take care of themselves…the “rugged individualism” that they spout every day…but if you can’t depend on government to help during a disaster, what the hell is it good for? Texas is turning into a third world country before our eyes….maybe this will open some of them to see how their state government has failed them…nah, probably not…
February 18th
Well…damn, back to 4:55 wake up time today and didn’t get back to sleep so I got up after trying until 6:30….and I feel pretty worn out and disappointed that I’m not closing on my house until Monday with the title problems that the seller is having…crap…I was looking really forward to getting started on the move this weekend…oh, well…I guess I’ll just keep packing stuff up…got the kitchen done yesterday and I have my tools to do today along with all of the car related fluids and stuff that I have downstairs…put that stuff in garbage bags for the last move and had gear lube leak all over my passenger’s seat…and it took months to get that smell out of the car….so they’re going in a tote this time so if they leak, no problem…my arm is healed up from the vaccine I got on Sunday and the only lingering effect is a runny nose but that may be from stirring up dust around here as I pack and triggering my allergies….and I think they will probably be bad until I get both houses cleaned up in a couple of weeks….not much to do today…have to remember to watch the new rover that is being landed on Mars this afternoon…it can’t be4 live since it takes 8 minutes for the signal to get here but they have cameras on this one that will record everything for playback later…and this one even has a little helicopter that they are going to fly but I wonder how that is going to work with the atmosphere there only 1% as dense as Earth’s….should be a fun diversion….more later….
Goodbye and good riddance…
Well…I’ve been waiting quite a few years to write this…rush limbaugh is dead…and when I read the news this morning I actually shouted “good” and I don’t feel bad about it. This cretin was one of the driving factors behind the modern repub party becoming the hate filled, stupid party that it is now…along with fox news, this thug pushed conspiracy theories, lies, and personal attacks against everyone on the left and was one of the authors of the “birther” nonsense that idiot boy trump rode to prominence in the repub party and caused us to be afflicted with trump for four of the most terrible years in the country’s history. I don’t remember actually being happy that someone has died before…I may have in the almost 9,000 of these that I have done…and if I believed in it, I would hope limbaugh is burning in hell for eternity for all of the damage he has done to this country and the world…good riddance…
February 17th
Well…running a little late today with not getting up til after 6:30 and need a coffee jump start to get going…I broke down and took some ibuprofen last night since I was so sore everywhere but especially my right elbow from the pounding it’s been taking from shoveling….and that one dose seems to have helped quite a bit…I could barely take cleaning out the end of the driveway yesterday it hurt so bad but it doesn’t hurt much now…and it didn’t snow last night but it is 4 below right now so I’m wondering if my car will start even with it being in the garage…I do have the new charger/starter that I bought the last time it didn’t start so I should be able to start it…I am going to let it run in the driveway for a while to warm it up and that will be the first time this year…and I hope the last time since it is going to warm up starting tomorrow…I did get the entire kitchen packed up yesterday but it took 5 of the 8 totes I bought the other day so I think I’ll buy a few more this morning to make sure I have enough….not much to do today…need to make the grocery run after 9 and that will be 4 stops today with hitting DD for some chicken patties that I bought the last time they were on sale and they are pretty good for a quick, easy meal when I don’t feel like cooking….more later….
Progress today…
Well…I got some surprising news on the house front today with the possibility that I can close on Friday instead of next week…had to run over to the mortgage broker’s office to sign a paper that should be the last one…and I got the gas and electric put in my name starting Friday along with getting the cable internet turned on then, too….now I just need to transfer the water and sewer into my name after close Friday and then the hard work starts of digging out the sidewalks so I can get into the house…that will start Sat…and that means I can clean the place up some before I move my stuff in and that will be cool…would like to wash and wax the wood floors…oh, damn…almost forgot I need to buy a washer…but that won’t happen until after I move in so I can be there for them to deliver it…will need to get my mail address changed and then have it forwarded to me for a year…all of that and my day started with shoveling another 6 inches of snow off the walks and driveway…so there has been progress on the house today and that makes me smile a little….oh, and I got the whole kitchen packed up in totes but I used more of them than I thought I would so I may have to go to Menard’s tomorrow and get a couple more since I only have two left and the rest of the house to pack….right now, though, I am going to take a break and watch a little soccer…
Delusional, delusional, repubs….
Well…man, it’s going to be a damn lot of work to try to return some semblance of normality with the delusions running so wide and deep in the repubs….just this morning a poll was released on who was responsible for the January 6th attack on the capitol and, if I had three hands, I would be facepalming with all three of them…in the poll, 64% of repubs placed the blame for inciting the attack on Joe Biden…the same Joe Biden who wasn’t even in office yet and who never even commented on the attack on other than general terms of sympathy for the officers injured in the attack….and yet, they think it was all Biden’s fault for….reasons? Look, as long as fox news keeps lying and lying all day there can’t even be any agreement what the truth is and what facts are since their brainwashed watchers will only believe what they say….so this is going to be a long haul…just like deprogramming cult victims and you can’t do that unless they want to be deprogrammed….geez…