Well…it’s been another busy day but I finally got some stuff done….did the first ride early, then went out and got the paint I need for the door frames and it was only 20 bucks so that gallon should last me the rest of the time I’m here since I have very little that needs to painted….got back here and got the rest of the grass seed in…then out on the bike for number two…shaved my beard off just to see what I look like without it…and then out to the beach for a swim…had a beer in my Contego sippy cup and must have shaken it a bit much since it blew the top off and sprayed beer all over me and shot the thing six feet away…so that meant that I had to spray off my beach chair and clean everything when I got back here and do laundry to clean my towel so I thought I’d do bedding, too….so, I skipped lunch so I could get out to the beach sooner and I put that hour to good use….need to get the washing into the dryer so I’ll end here…taking the rest of the day off…
Monthly Archives: August 2021
Just remember this…
Well…with all of the attacks on Biden about his handling of the exit from Afghanistan and the Taliban taking over…again…just remember one thing, the Taliban offered to surrender and give up all of their weapons in 2001…but ole GW and his war mongering neocons wouldn’t accept since their biggest donors needed the war to go on for the purpose of profit and to prove they were the baddest army on the planet…so, 20 years of death and destruction and 2 trillion dollars later, the idiots who gave us that war are now criticizing Biden for ending it? These chickenhawks should just shut the hell up and go away, they have been wrong on every point starting with the WMD’s in Iraq and could have gotten us out of Afghanistan 20 years ago…and the media needs to stop feeding the right wing talking points to the rest of the world…just a sordid bunch of lies to sell papers and to try to weaken Biden so they can have a “horserace” in 2024….geez…
August 23rd
Well…that was a little weird…around 5 am my bedroom was flooded with moonlight and I thought I had left the lights on….weird but pretty cool…slept okay last night and feel just a little slow today and I hope the coffee will work soon since I need to get on the bike in about an hour to get the first ride in…might only do one today since my legs feel like they could use a little rest…and there is rain on the way….yeah, right….and more forecast for tomorrow and wed but I’ll believe it when I see it…think I’ll run out and get the paint for the door frames this morning and maybe I’ll skip the second ride to prep the garage door frame….might have to mow the front of the yard but the rest of it will be fine until later in the week….and I need to figure out how to fix the gate in front, too but I have until winter to do that…but, I need to get off my butt and get moving on some projects soon….and, I also need to get out to the beach a few more times before labor day, too, but I am going to try to not stress myself out about any of it…it has been pretty quiet up here for the past week and I am a little relieved about that…I wonder if it will ever be normal to not have to call in noise complaints? Hope so….not much to do today…just going to sit here for a while and have more coffee and read the news for a bit….need to figure out what to make for food today and I do need to process some tomatoes into sauce to freeze to use up the tomatoes….I’m getting tomatoed out….more later…
Did they change the definition of affordable?
Well…yeah, I know, I’ve bitched about this before but reading about a new condo project that is going to go up on the lakefront in the area that they have been cleaning up all summer and that the bike trail I ride goes through, I just had to comment…and I have the question: “did they change the definition of affordable?” In the story there are a couple of things I have a problem with…first is the affordability of the 300 condos they plan on building on the site that will sell from 599,000 to 999,000 thousand dollars…now, is that affordable to you? My house is affordable…I only paid 90K for it…but 600K? I really don’t know many people who can afford a 600K condo and stats show that more than 60% of Americans can’t even absorb a surprise 400 dollar bill let alone a house or condo payment of 3,000 dollars a month…so I wonder who will buy these things? Oh, and the second part…the developers say they are going to keep the lakefront open to the public and I really don’t think that is going to happen…if these people have enough cash to pay 600K for a condo, they sure are going to want an exclusive use of the property and are not going to like the idea of having to mingle with the riff raff…and I’ll bet that my bike trail, that runs along the shoreline and that the developer has promised will stay where it is, is going to be closed as “under construction” for a few years until people just get used to it not being there and they will tear it out….I know, pretty cynical thinking but just looking around here on my rides, everything is behind fences and gates and rich people just love them some fences and gates to keep everyone away from them….so, I guess I’ll believe it when I see it…if I live that long…
August 22nd
Well….running about on time this morning with getting up at 6, running out for the paper, and now doing this since I have to get out on the bike by 7:30 to make it back here for the Man U match at 9….and I had the headlights on in the car for the first time since about April…it is still so humid out here that I am sweating at 7 am just sitting here….had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done but ride the bike and cook…and today looks the same with lots of soccer, racing and the Michigan team plays in the LL world series and I would like to see that…and that may mean only one ride today and I’m okay with that…my legs went flat during the second ride but it was still a good one….my water bill went up by 30 bucks a month with trying to get keep my lawn alive but I can live with that to have a nice looking lawn…and it has to start to rain at some point…we are now down by almost a foot of rain this year out here and I hope that doesn’t carry over through the winter…although the prospect of shoveling all that snow does not make me smile….still haven’t been able to find a used snowblower but I need to keep looking….I am thinking about going out to the beach every day this week to wind down the summer but I do need to paint the exterior door frames before it gets cold out here….not much to do today…just what I described earlier and I should do some cleaning…my bathroom needs work and the floors need to be cleaned with all of the sand that gets tracked in….more later….
This is child abuse…
Well…someone please tell me how what the repub governors are doing to endanger children is not child abuse? Sending them back to school with no protection at all and essentially forcing them to expose themselves to a deadly virus is the essence of child abuse…how must these kids feel when the are old enough to understand how bad this virus is or have had a family member die from covid? And the people who are supposed to protect them show them they don’t care at all…I’m amazed that most of them don’t have symptoms of PTSD and no kid should have to deal with that…but the repubs across the country are letting ideology rule and making nice with the 22% of the country who are the freaking nuts is the new order for them….in every damn district that opened with no mask mandate in place, almost all of them have closed with so many kids and teachers sick that they can’t hold classes….and this only took a week of holding these superspreader classes….in any other time, every damn one of these asses would have killed their political careers by killing children…but not now…for the modern repubs it is a badge of honor, and that makes me sick…I hate them all….
August 21st
Well…running quite late this morning with waking up at 6 but then just staying in bed for another hour just for the hell of it….feel okay today if a little worn out from allergies and was pretty stuffed up all night last night…I did get out to Hackley park for the first party in the park last night and that was a little strange….had a couple of beers and watched a mediocre band and saw my brother and sister in law who were selling beer as volunteers…there is another one tonight but I don’t think I’ll go….not as much fun alone as it would be with someone….I did get the lawn mowed and watered again yesterday and it is starting to look pretty good but I still have bare spots that need to be filled in and I may have enough seed and dirt to do them….the seed I use is only 8 bucks for 5 pounds so I guess I can buy more…..it should look pretty good by fall if it will ever rain out here….I did give some of the overflow of tomatoes to my brother yesterday and to the guy rehabbing the house across the street…but I still have tons of them that I need to get the blender out to freeze some of them to use over the winter….not much to do today…it’s going to be another hot one out here today so I need to get the rides in before it gets too terrible…only did one ride with mowing the lawn and I only had one meal yesterday so I’ll have to be careful and eat two today…..more later….
The “fraudit” ends…
Well…just got done with the lawn and thought I’d talk a little about the “fraudit” that has been going on in Arizona for almost 6 months now….I guess the auditors are going to release a report Monday that says that they found mountains of evidence that idiot boy won Arizona even though there is no such evidence…and the repub SOS and repub county election head are both out with statements warning the media not to run with the report since it is all going to be lies and conspiracy theories and there is no voter fraud for them to find…and just the past couple of days courts have ruled that even though the “cyber ninjas”, the company that is handling the “audit” is a private company, they have to turn over all of the info about their processes and everything else and that the senate has to turn over all of the correspondence they had when hiring that unqualified company in the first place….so the crap is going to hit the fan Monday and will probably determine whether or not Michigan is going to go through that crap, too…sure hope not….geez…
August 20th
Well…I wonder what would happen if I didn’t get out on the bike today? My toe hurts along with my legs and I got scorched at the beach yesterday with doing the same amount of time as always and I can’t figure that out….I mean 6 Steely Dan songs lying on my front and back has been my way of measuring time for years but it didn’t work yesterday and I had to put aloe on my face last night to soothe it….weird….I did finally get my stovetop cleaned yesterday but that is about the only thing I did other than water the lawn and I’m still worn out today….I do need to get at the garden and pick tomatoes and I may get the blender out to make some tomato puree to freeze for use over the winter…the food mill I bought is going back next week since the acid in the tomatoes is leaching some black crap off the axle and dropping it into the puree so it’s unusable….and it didn’t work too well anyway….I’m thinking of going to the “party in the park” this evening but I’m concerned about being in crowds with the delta crap going around and I don’t want to wear a mask outside…so, maybe I’ll skip it….not much to do today…going to get out for only one ride today here in a few…and I am going to work on the garage door frame but it is going to be hot out here and I may just let it go until next week….it’s supposed to be almost 90 out here and that is a bit much to work outside….more later…
Busy and didn’t get anything done…
Well…it’s been another busy day and another day where I didn’t get anything done…just not enough time…got on the bike by 8 and back on it by 10…then back here and made lunch then out to the beach for a swim and some sun…then back here to take care of the yard and unsuccessfully look for a topic for the day…I think I’m going to have to change out what I’m doing since I haven’t been able to relax at all…even at the beach in the water, no relaxation…I think I’ve forgotten how to do it and just can’t let go and just enjoy what I’m doing anymore….I’m sure it’s guilt from not working around here but damn, when do I get to just live? Oh, well….maybe if I just work all day for a week or so and get the rest of the outside work done then maybe I can enjoy myself a while…yeah, no…then I’ll just worry about the inside work and getting the winter wheels done and all of the rest of the stuff I need to do…and the garage door opener…and finding a snowblower….you get the idea…it is never going to be done….I’m going to have to accept that I’ll never be finished….and that is going to be hard…darn…