Well…after getting the yard work done this morning, I have been reading a bunch of news as I finish off my last cup of coffee and one thing strikes me after that reading…the repub party has nothing left but hate to offer anyone…and that revelation was spurred by an article where an army of the asshole tucker’s minions were standing outside a damn middle school in California screaming at the kids and their parents for wearing masks to keep them safe from transmission of the virus…I mean, how would you feel if your kid was walking to school and a bunch of crazy assed adults started getting right into their faces…trying to use fear and hate just to intimidate them…and what kind of an adult would do that to other people’s kids? This is the modern repub party folks…when was the last time you read anything positive that the repubs are doing for you and me? Yeah, me either…all there is now is hate and trying to make the “libs” uncomfortable by passing laws targeting trans kids, by restriciting the votes of people of color, and now passing laws that would allow for voter intimidation at polling places with the same angry mob that was at that middle school this morning….they have nothing but hate…and that isn’t good for our country…
Monthly Archives: May 2021
May 4th
Well…it just dawned on me that it is Star Wars day…may the fourth be with you…yeah, kind of corny but it still makes me smile…slept okay last night with being good but I forgot to hit the timer button on the coffee maker so my first cup of coffee is about a half hour late…and I woke up at 5:24 but that is okay, too, since I didn’t toss and turn too much…and that still give a a solid 6 hours and I’ll take that any day…I’m a little sore this morning with doing a double on the bike yesterday and finally getting some plants in the garden…but, I may have jumped the gun on my beans and cukes with the possibility of frost coming over the weekend…but, I can cover them if I need to since I only have two rows in…have lots of work to do today since the lawn needs to be mowed again and I need to seed a big part of the front of the lawn where there was nothing but weeds that I finally killed with liquid weed killer so that means seed and covering it with some topsoil to keep the seed moist and watering it for a week or so along with the flower seed I put in a week ago…and I need to do the grocery run to Meijers to get some veggies this morning since I need to get more fruit and veggies into my diet…wouldn’t hurt to have a few salads and some carrots and celery for snacks instead of the dry roasted nuts that I know have huge amounts of calories….more later….
No herd immunity thanks to the repubs…
Well…this is a little disturbing…news reports all over the internet today are giving the US the bad news that, because of the idiot repubs not getting vaccinated, the holy grail of herd immunity that would allow us get our society back to normal is just not going to happen if 30+ percent of the population refuses to get vaccinated…and that means that this damn virus and it’s variants and even new variants will be with us for “a generation” and that means that the disruption to our lives will due to spikes in infections and mutations that are sure to come is going to become permanent, along with the slow, painful deaths that come from it….and this will mean yearly vaccinations for those of us who don’t have their heads up their asses and rolling restrictions that will be re-applied whenever a new variant comes along….and all because these morons won’t get a tiny little jab in the arm. We all know that repubs are the most selfish people on the planet, but this is beyond the pale…putting people at risk of death or serious illness just because idiots like tucker and the rest of fox news are still telling them everything is about “freedumb” and they are lapping it up like the dogs they are. At least some companies have had enough of this bullshit and are requiring their employees to be vaccinated or they are out of a job…and no stupid excuse is going to work…either get the jab or leave….I wonder how the repubs will react to this? Not well, I’ll bet…
May 3rd
Well…damn, that Sunday sucked….had the idiots in the house a street over starting their party at 8 am and it went on all damn day long with the loud, thumping music that everyone plays out here and I had enough of that bullshit so I made a noise complaint with the city and they sent some cops out to try to quiet them down…and that worked for about 5 minutes until the cops left then they were even louder so I called them back again and they sent out two cars to put an end to it…all I want is to have a little peace and quiet and be able to open my windows on a warm day without having to put earplugs in to sit in my own living room…so now I guess I’m the hardass old guy that will be shunned by the neighborhood but I don’t care…my question is why hasn’t anyone else complained about this house before? This crap has been going on since it got warm out here and even the cops said that I should be able to sit on my front porch with the windows open and not have to hear that thump, thump, thump all day….I guess I won’t be getting an invite to their next party…oh, well….I did get a ride in yesterday…finally…and it was a good one but windy…and it is already 60 out there so I can get out as soon as I have coffee and read the news….I do want to get 5 bean plants and 4 cukes planted today since it does look like there won’t be a freeze later in the week but it is going to get down into the high 30′s and I hope they will survive it…and I put 8 more beans in so I’ll have two rows of them when they sprout…the tomatoes have sprouted but I am going to wait a while to plant them…want them to be a little larger before I transplant them….not much to do today…might mow the lawn after I get a ride in and just fiddle around in the yard for a while since I’ll be out on the bike by 9….and I’ll be enduring the dirty looks from the neighbors since I am the designated enforcer of neighborly courtesy…and I don’t think it will end here…but, I’m up for it….more later…
Grasping at straws in Arizona…
Well…to see just how far the repub party has fallen, you just have to look at the debacle going on in Arizona where they brought in a firm to “recount” the votes in just one county…and guess why it’s just that county? Yep, because Joe won it and those votes put him over the top in Arizona…and the company the repubs brought in has never had anything to do with elections before and it’s run by a Qanon spouter who truly believes that trump won the election…so guess how it’s going to come out? Look, if I were one of the people in that county whose votes are being questioned and the repubs are trying so hard to discard, I would be talking to a lawyer right now to sue these assholes….especially since the re counters don’t have a clue what they are doing and ballot experts are certain they are ruining them as they use UV light and are also using blue pens that are the same color as the ones used to mark the ballots in the election…gee…I wonder why they would want to use the same color pens? Yep, I’ll bet these morons are changing the ballots as they “count” them…..and these “counters” are looking at the thickness of the ballots and whether or not they have been folded….not that either has anything to do with the election but lying is all the repubs do these days and you can just about guarantee that this “count” is going to show trump as the winner…lying bastards…
May 2nd
Well…running a little late for a Sunday morning since I’m back to the normal schedule and read the newspaper first…damn, just looked at the weather and it is going to be in the 40′s for highs later in the week and that is so damn depressing…I have beans up that need to be planted and now I’ll have to wait another week since there is going to be a freeze later in the week, too,…crap….Oh, well…need to just grit my teeth and live with it….I did sleep okay last night and don’t feel too bad this morning and I am going to get a ride in just a little later since it is already almost 60 out there but I need to see the F1 race first at 9 so I’m not sure if I can get two rides in today…would like to since I couldn’t ride with the wind yesterday or Friday and it is still going to be blowing around 15 today but, if it’s out of the South, it won’t be too bad….I have been slipping back into bitching and complaining too much and I just don’t like myself when I do that…have had some streaming tv problems and have been texting my son too much about it…he has his own life and family to take care of and I need to remember that….don’t want to be that crabby old guy that complains about everything when I really do have a pretty good life…other than the damn groundhog that is back to digging under my sidewalk again and, if I ever see him, I am going to hit him with a shovel and kill it….okay, probably not…he’s just doing what they do and I can’t even kill spiders in here and try to not run over bugs on the trails so killing an animal would be too much…it may be a challenge to get him to move somewhere else but I’ve got the time…sure hope it’s not a skunk…one of my neighbors said that there are a lot of them around here but I haven’t seen any yet…not much to do today….just going to ease into it and have some more coffee…I do need to plant a few more bean seeds today since I really like fresh green beans out of the garden and only have 5 plants when I need 10 or so….more later….
Got the garage work done…
Well…finally…got a lot of work done in the garage today…got the old opener down and in the trash and then built the shelving unit and organized all of the stuff that was stashed all over and still have some room on the shelving for more stuff so that is cool….and then I swept the garage floor and cleaned it up pretty good and all of that took about 3 hours so I am taking the rest of the day off and watching some races…didn’t get out on the bike with how hard the wind has been blowing out here today and we even almost got a storm…heard some thunder but it looks like it missed here to the northeast and that was disappointing…really wanted to open up the porch and watch but I’m sure I’ll have plenty of opportunities over the summer…after all of the dust and tree pollen outside, I am miserable right now and I think I need to use some nasal spray to help it…darn…at least I have a halfway clean and organized garage…nice to see the results of working for 3 hours…
May 1st
Well…damn, can I go down to only one night a week of cocktails? Or be done with them completely? Last night was the first cocktail night of the week and I think it will be the last one…didn’t sleep well at all last night and feel pretty crappy right now and I think it’s just not worth it anymore…we’ll see…and it looks like another day off the bike since there are gale warnings out here with winds kicking up to almost 30 mph with gusts of even more and it’s only 35 right now…on the first day of May? I really have to stop thinking about this weather even though it’s the coldest spring that I can remember…it just depresses me to no end to not be able to wear shorts yet and the highs are still only going to be in the 50′s for the next two weeks and that sucks….okay, enough of the whining and bitching…the weather is the weather and I can’t do anything about it….if I can’t get on the bike today, I may just clean the garage….boy, I’ve waited a long time to say that…clean the garage….and I need to put the shelving unit together so I’ll have a place to put all the stuff that goes in it…the gas cans, clippers and other stuff that is spread around it will look much better organized…not sure where I’m going to put it yet but it’s small enough to move it wherever I want….and I could take the old opener down when I have the garage cleared…so I might get some stuff accomplished today….but right now I’m going to have coffee and watch some F1 practice and qualifying….more later….