Well…it looks like I’m going to be forced into easing into the day today with rain that is about a half hour away so I won’t be getting on the bike until after I run errands around 8:30 or so…and I probably need that with feeling so worn out lately….I did get out to the beach yesterday but even that is feeling like a task to be accomplished lately….just like everything else and I need to figure out how to enjoy things again…I am going to make a pizza tomorrow and I know I’m going to enjoy that…haven’t made one since I’ve lived here and I don’t know why….I make a pretty good crust but I need to find the recipe in one of my notebooks….but I need a new mixing bowl and that means a run to the dollar store today, too….and they don’t open til 9 so I can just take it easy this morning….I will probably have to put the top up on the car this morning…can’t remember the last time I’ve had to do that with the lack of rain out here….it will probably be a bit of a pain since the tops shrinks when I don’t latch it…not much to do today….just the errands and one ride today and then working on the door frame on the garage so I can get paint next week and get the 5 of them painted….will still probably need to water the lawn today, too, with the small amount of rain that is coming….more later….
Monthly Archives: August 2021
Maybe killing your voters is not a good thing…
Well..with the terrible news out of Florida where almost 25% of the new cases of covid are happening is a really bad thing, but to have the governor actively suppress all of the mitigation strategies like vaccinations, mask wearing, and social distancing is looking more and more like a bad political move, too. The latest polls from Florida have DeSantis trailing Charlie Crist by a few points so it looks like “deathsantis” letting the virus kill more and more of his voters is not too smart as he panders to the far right anti vaxxers while leaving everyone else to fend for themselves…and this time, there is no way for him to spin it that he “defeated” the virus with this surge that is much worse that last spring before the vaccines were in wide use….and a lot of the people who are getting sick in the wave are the un-vaccinated youngsters under 12 and how is that going to sound in a political ad for next year….”you have your freedom but you don’t have your kids anymore”, vote Desantis….what an incompetent piece of crap….geez…
August 5th
Well…another 6:40 morning today and I am still waiting for a real day of sleeping in…I seem to be fatigued all the time lately and I’m not sure why that would be other than I’m getting old…I do feel good that my elbow seems to be able to heal after I abuse it and it only has a little pain this morning…and my right foot is almost back to normal size after a year of swelling….yeah, I do sound pretty creaky….going to get out on the bike here in a minute but I’m not sure if I’m going to do two rides today since I want to go out to the beach for a swim and doing two would put me out there when it’s a little busy but we’ll see…didn’t get much done yesterday and today will be the same if I go out to the beach but I’m running out of summer and need to get busy on the outside of the house and I need to get my winter wheels cleaned up and painted so I can buy new snow tires for the Miata…will probably need to start planning my projects again so they will all get done…but I’ve had to plan everything my whole life and I thought being retired I could stop that….not much to do today…it’s 7:27 and I’m already getting anxious about getting started and that seems to be a little sick…I’m retired damn it….I need to figure out how to just live and I don’t know how….more later…
At least I got two rides in today….
Well…after getting the grocery runs in this morning, I got on the bike and did the first ride and my legs were okay but very painful and the second ride was about the same…taking a couple of days to only ride once after working around here was probably a good idea…I know I have to tamp down the guilts when I only ride once, especially when I work outside in the heat and humidity…but my elbow is so stiff I can barely move it but it doesn’t hurt too bad so I can live with it…and it should get better until I get back to cleaning the house siding but I’ll probably wait on that til next week…or Friday if I get out to the beach tomorrow…need to get out there more and I need to clean my car…it is very dusty out here and the interior is full of it so that could be something to do this weekend even though I like to take the weekends off…we’ll see…I did get the lawn watered today but just the little watering I do has driven my water bill up by more than 50% to 38 bucks last month…I can afford it and I know I have to keep doing it if I want to have any lawn at all with how little it rains out here….and I have made improvements to it that I don’t want to have to start over with….okay, that’s it….going to take the rest of the day off and just veg a while…still didn’t get my mixing bowl yet since my dollar store didn’t have one today…will have to check at the one on the other side of the city Friday…..no more later…
Stupid repub of the day…
Well…gee, I guess no one could have seen this coming…after the right wing asshole governors got laws passed that prevent mask mandates, I think one of them, Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, is having second thoughts on the bill he just signed since his state is one of the hot spots of the revived pandemic….and now he is whining to the repubs that passed the law that they have to come back in a special session and repeal the law so most of the kids in his state won’t get sick and possibly die when the go back to school. Folks, this is what happens when politics replaces science in public health decisions….and this guy was pandering to the far right morons who won’t get vaccinated or wear masks but the virus doesn’t care and most people who are dying right now are the un-vaccinated, and it is a shame that most of them are kids up to 12 years old and these morons don’t care and won’t protect them by being vaccinated…so, the next time anyone says that the repubs are pro-life, just call bullshit on that idea…they are pro life until a fetus is born, after that you are on your own….
August 4th
Well…running a bit late today with staying in bed til almost 7 but I don’t feel like I slept at all….doing the front steps yesterday really hurt and my elbow is the worst it’s been in a long while….I really hate getting old…..had some computer problems yesterday that I fixed on my own but I thought I was going to have to get a new one…this one is getting pretty old and I guess I’ll have to start planning for the day when I will have to buy a new one…along with getting a new phone that I should have gotten a couple of weeks ago…have a lot to do today with the grocery runs and hitting the dollar store to get a new mixing bowl and measuring cups so I can make a pizza later in the week….but my green peppers have stalled in their growth so I may have to wait until next week…my garden is a disappointment and I do need to figure out what went wrong so I can fix it next year….a little consolation is that the flower seeds that I planted along the back of the house have come up and have added some color to the yard…I do need to remember to water them when I plant next spring….not much to do today…I really should clean my car in the next couple of days since the interior is pretty dusty and the floor mats need to be vacuumed but I’m still not too motivated….just damn tired and could use a day off….more later…
Need more Thompson’s…
Well…I really did think that a gallon of Thompson’s water seal would be enough to do my front steps but I was wrong…still have about 1/4th of it to do after using the gallon so I guess I’ll have to buy more next week…it does look better with it treated but my elbow is shot after using a paint brush to do the detail work and the pain is pretty intense…and it took forever with getting to take a tour of the house that is being rehabbed across the street when Dan, who is working on the house, came over to chat…they used the color scheme that I am going to use on this place with differing shades of grey…looked very cool and modern and I hope it will do the same here….needless to say, that not getting done until almost 2 will keep me off the bike for the second ride and I’m okay with that….I’m sore everywhere and need to rest a bit….
August 3rd
Well…another 6:42 morning today and I feel pretty damn tired…and that comes with skipping the second bike ride yesterday trying to be smart to not trigger another dehydration episode with mowing the lawn and doing the edging out front….screwed up my elbow again but it seems to be healing faster this time and barely hurts this morning…but the front looks good so it’s worth it…I am going out to get some wood sealer to do the front steps today since the wood looks so dry after I cleaned it and you do need to treat wood to keep it from deteriorating….so that may keep me off the bike again this afternoon but we’ll see…I’m slowly getting the outside done and should have it ready for fall and winter…I’m still disappointed in my tomato yield and probably won’t even have enough to make salsa and that sucks….but I like the pickles I’ve made and need to make another couple of jars…and I do have flowers that have come up along the back of the house so that is cool….never thought they would with the lack of rain but I guess watering for the sunflowers has helped that….I think I’m going to the beach Thursday so this week may be one of only one ride a day and I can live with that….running out of summer and want to have a few days to take it easy….not much to do today….going to get on the bike here in a minute but need to read some news and have coffee first…I am a little excited about doing the front steps today and seeing how that will look….little things still make me happy and I want to finish the outside by the end of the month to be able to relax during the fall….more later….
Delusion, thy name is trump…
Well…cripes, the idiot in chief is still delusional and is taking all of his cronies with him…they are still having “cabinet” meetings and “making plans and working hard” to quote the ex-chief of staff meadows…trump, working hard? Ha, ha…it is to laugh to quote Daffy Duck….idiot boy has never worked hard in his life and the only reason he is doing anything at all it to keep bilking the rubes out of their cash…and that’s it…since he discovered the group of morons still willing to believe his lies and he can raise 60 million dollars just by keeping them worked up and sending out a few e-mails, do you think he would ever do anything but that again? I guess he is in the endorsement business now but he is not very good at that either since the first two candidates that he put his considerable weight behind have lost their elections….and let’s not forget all of the lawsuits/criminal charges that are coming from SDNY and all over the country…one funny thing to remember, even after raising all that cash, idiot boy is still stiffing rudy and not paying any of his legal bills…and rudy is reported to be almost broke…couldn’t happen to a bigger asshole….geez
August 2nd
Well…I wonder if you know how disappointing it is when you wake up and think you’ve slept in and it’s only 6:42? Then you realize you didn’t load up the coffee machine either? Not a good way to start the day…..and I forgot about the US vs Mexico in the gold cup last night and that sucks….so I’m depressed this morning and that is getting to be the new normal and that sucks, too….didn’t get anything done yesterday and that is depressing, too….crap…everything seems to be depressing…..one good thing is that my right foot is much less swollen than it has been the past year and I’m not sure what is going on….but it feels good so I’ll take it….I do need to mow the lawn today and do some trimming on the front so that will mean only one ride today if I’m smart…and I need to get out on the bike here in a minute but it’s only 56 right now and that is too cool to go out in a t-shirt so I’ll have to dig out a long sleeve shirt to wear…and I have to get started on prepping the door frame on the garage so I can paint it later in the week….but I’m just not motivated right now and want to sit on the couch…but I know that can’t happen….more later….