Well…yeah, I know I haven’t come here this afternoon but I have a good reason….had a damn flat on the bike today in the worst possible place…all the way out to the beach at exactly the halfway point of my daily ride…okay, a little under halfway but I was still 6 miles away when it went and that meant either walking back or riding the damn thing on the flat so, of course, I rode it back…after all 7 mph riding for 6 miles is much better than walking at 3 mph for 6 miles…and no damage to the tire or rim but the tube had a hole in it as big as my little finger so I think it was just a failure with the tube being an old one that I found in my totes that must have been at least three years old….so, no political one today after all the work I’ve done…I need some time to rest after mowing and feeding the lawn and putting the hooks up in the garage for the ladder I’m getting tomorrow, and of course, riding back on the flat that is no fun at all…
Monthly Archives: April 2021
April 22nd
Well…that was okay, only got up once at about 4 and didn’t get out of bed til after 6 and I feel okay this morning…and I discovered or re-discovered something overnight…if I sleep on my right side, my nose stays clear and I can breathe quite well all night and I think that has something to do with how I feel this morning…and I was good for the fourth night and tonight will be five in a row and that HAS become my new habit….man, it’s cheap not buying cocktail materials every week….I’m still walking without pain this morning and I am going to test that today with mowing the lawn, putting weedkiller down, and feeding the new grass for the first time so we’ll see how I feel later today….damn, I have so much work to do around here….need to put hooks up in the garage for the new ladder I’m buying tomorrow and put a shelving unit together to store all of the stuff that is spread all over it….and with it warming up over the next few days, I need to get the weeds pulled from around the house so I can put in my flower seeds and keep them watered until it rains….and I still have 6 windows to be cleaned along with buying a couple of new shades for the dining room since the ones there are dirty and don’t work….so I won’t say not much to do today since I do have lots to do….now I just need to get to it….more later…oh, and I ordered my free parking passes for the city parks on Lake Michigan last night just in case I want to take the car out there this summer…a small perk of being a Muskegon city resident…saves about 10 bucks in parking fees every time…pretty cool…
I’m walking again…
Well…cripes, big yards are expensive to restore and maintain….went out to get supplies to do just that this morning and spent 72 bucks on food, weed killer, a new push broom, seed, a hose end sprayer, and a pack of green pepper seeds…but, the good thing was that I was able to walk around Menards with very little pain…no heel pain, no calf pain, no back pain and I almost have my normal gait back after favoring everything with how bad the pain was…it may have helped that I skipped riding yesterday and I’m going to skip again today since it’s snowing here again today and I just refuse to ride in the snow again…so, some good news that I hope will survive after I mow the lawn and feed the new grass and walk all over spraying the weed killer on it tomorrow….and I started the day with over 17K in my checking account which give me some breathing space and it is about 5K more than I had after closing on the house in Feb….but, I’m going to burn a bunch of that this week buying my new ladder Friday and the new garage door opener next week….but that will be the extent of what I’m going to spend until June….I almost got to just living today…so close but no cigar…I think it’s coming soon…
MTG is a liar…
Well…Majorie Taylor Greene has proven that she is the worst of the worst of the qanon believing repubs…so bad that she was relieved of all of her committee assignments by other repubs in the House for her attacks and lies…and now she is back at it trying to foment hatred and racism in the wake of the Derek Chauvin conviction, spewing her lies that DC was deserted and there were soldiers on every block in anticipation of riots that were sure to follow after the announcement of the conviction…the only problem was that people have cameras on their phones showing that people were out in the streets, going to ball games, eating in outdoor restaurants, playing in the parks with no police or National Guard presence to be seen anywhere…and no riots, or buildings being burned down, or any looting that she was sure was going to happen in that racist pea brain of hers….and here’s a big part of the problem…not one repub has come out to rebuke her lies or racism…they just sit there bitching about black congresswomen hurting their fee fees by calling them racists…which they most certainly are. There has to be a price to be paid for this egregious lying behavior by MTG…she should be expelled from congress…today, and sent back to the hole she crawled out of before she can do more damage….geez…
Soccer and greed…
Well…as you know, I’m a big soccer geek with a great affinity for the Premier League in England, so if you don’t care about soccer, you can wait til later when I do a political one…go ahead, I won’t mind…I really can’t say that I’m sure you’ve heard about this…that the richest teams in Europe tried to create a new league called the super league that would allow them to insulate themselves from competition and the thing that makes the Premier League so cool…that, if you have a bad season, you can be relegated to a lower league and have to fight your way back to the Premier League over the next season to get to the financial windfall that being in the Premier League brings. I would be like if the Detroit Tigers had a bad year (don’t they always?) they would be demoted down to AAA ball and play teams like the Toledo Mud Hens or if they were really terrible, they may even go down to AA ball the next year…and this is what the new Super League was designed to do…to guarantee that the money keeps rolling in no matter what the performance of the team is….and this bastardization of soccer would have ruined the entire league set up across Europe where the seasons would mean nothing if there was no way to qualify for this new league. And, guess who this money grab was engineered by? Of course the American owners of three of the Premier League teams along with a few of the big teams in Spain…this announcement was met with outrage across England where soccer is more than just a game but is a way of life for the fans and they saw this as a betrayal of their support over the years that made them the success they are….fortunately, the outcry of the fans and of soccer organizations across Europe killed this stupid idea before it was two days old…and I share the relief of the English fans since I am a huge fan of Man U and to have them as one of the traitors to the tradition of the league irritated the hell out of me and I was prepared to stop watching them in protest…but, thankfully that won’t need to happen and I can continue to enjoy my game….
April 21st
Well…running about on time this morning with getting up a little after 6 and I consider that a win with only getting up once overnight….and I feel pretty good this morning so that’s a win, too, but I’m laughing that yes, I can hurt myself sleeping…my left side ribs hurt today and I know it’s not from doing anything since it was too cold to work outside yesterday and all I did was scrub parts of the kitchen…and that looks pretty cool and makes me want to get to the stripping so I can repaint the cupboards…but, I want to do that outside so I don’t die from the fumes and it won’t be warm enough for that until May at least…I do have to make a run to Menards this morning to get some more outdoor supplies….need a push broom, a hose end sprayer, some weed killer, grass seed, and some more green pepper seeds so I can get them started in cups inside…didn’t get out for a bike ride yesterday but I am going to try to get one in today if it gets above 43 so I don’t have to wear a stocking cap….I am so over having to put my thermasuit on to ride but I know it’s not good for me to skip getting exercise….the weed and feed I put on the lawn doesn’t seem to be doing anything for all of the weeds in the lawn so I am going to get some liquid stuff to treat it again over the next few days and I still have lot of bare spots that need seed and I would like to get that in before it rains on Sat….not much to do today…just the errands and maybe some weeding outside and I need to cut the sod out for my garden so I can prep the soil but nothing has sprouted in the cups so I have a couple of weeks to get that done….more later…
Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts….
Well…I’ll admit that I was concerned that the jury would come back with a not guilty verdict for Chauvin murdering George Floyd and I am happy that finally, Chauvin is being held responsible for kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for 9+ minutes until he died….it’s about damn time that one of these assholes is convicted and is going to jail for a long, long time….from the start, I was outraged that this smug prick…grinning while Floyd died was not charged for months…and nothing could bring George Floyd back but again, finally, one of these thugs is held responsible…it’s about damn time…
Snowing in April?
Well….damn, just looked outside here in Muskegon and it’s snowing…on the 20th of April…it’s so darn cold out there that I just skipped doing any work outside today and my furnace has been running like it’s February….so it looks like a hibernation day for me…I did get errands run this morning and then continued to clean the counters on either side of the sink that were just coated in black goo and splashes of food that took me almost 3 hours to get to the point that I can live with it….lots of razor blading and bleach cleaner that took all of the oil out of my hands and I’m still coughing from the fumes…but it looks pretty good and the shiny trim is shiny again and I can put things on it again and not cringe from it being so dirty…and I’ve been putting stuff away that had piled up from the work I’ve been doing around here…but I need to get after the rest of the things that I haven’t put away yet…but not now, going to watch some soccer and take a break…at least my legs are not as sore as they were and I was able to walk around all day with just a little limping…baby steps…
Another covid denier bites the dust…
Well…okay, I probably shouldn’t revel in other people’s suffering but hey, it’s the idiot Ted Nugent so here goes…ever since the start of the pandemic, old ted has been one of the most vocal of the covid deniers…ridiculing people doing their part for our society by wearing masks and taking other precautions…along with getting the vaccine when it became available…and constantly telling anyone who would listen (and who would?) that the “china virus” was a hoax and even if you did catch it, it was no worse than the flu so you should just “man up” and not lose your “freedoms” by doing anything…and in the sweetest bit of irony, ole ted announced today that he has covid and has been “sicker than he could ever imagine” for weeks and he “thought he was dying”…so, does the flu make you feel that way? In my long life, I’ve had the flu numerous times and never felt like I was dying…I felt lousy, yes, but there was never the fear that I was going to die from it like there is from covid…and assholes like ted make things worse as his right wing moron followers do what he says to “own the libs” even though almost 600K people have died in this country since the pandemic began…and guess what? The virus doesn’t care if you’re a science denier or don’t “believe” that it exists, or bluster that people are “sheep” for taking precautions….if you give it the chance, the virus will get you and no amount of bloviating bullshit like ted spews will stop it….I have no f’s to give for people like ted who has caused the deaths of many people by his lies…and even getting the virus won’t change him…just wait, I predict his next statement is going to be “be a man, I beat the virus and you can, too”….just sick…
April 20th
Well…running quite early today with getting out of bed at 5:44 after waking up for good at 5:20…but, I feel pretty good this morning so I’ll take it….but that makes me early for everything I have to do today…need to do the grocery run and go to the bank but that can’t get started until after 8:30 so I have a couple of hours to kill…I even have an hour or so until the news sites I read update with the new articles that usually start my morning….it is kind of weird now that I look more forward to the no cocktail nights than I do to the cocktail nights…and the pain is not too bad today…I am almost walking normally again and I sure hope that doing the grocery run doesn’t flare up the pain in the calf again….I did get all of my garden seeds planted yesterday and I have all of my window sills in the kitchen filled with them…and that means I need to prep the garden soil over the next week or so and work a little manure in…I think the outside is going to be a full time job over the next few weeks since I need to weed around the house and get my flower seeds planted…have all kinds of flowers to get in and I’m not going to plan it too much…I do have some tall poppies that need to go near the house but then the rest of it is just going to be a mix of everything I have…I kind of like it being unorganized and surprising when the flowers come up…..not much to do today….just the grocery run and will probably skip the bike ride today with how cold it’s going to be all day today and tomorrow….but then it appears that the temps are going to moderate and get back to normal next week and I am looking forward to that….more later…