Well…just got done with the last hand car wash of the year and was looking at the hole they dug for the foundation of the new house across the street and there is one thing I don’t understand about all of the new houses they are building out here….they are all on slabs with no basements….I find that to be a little weird…I mean it doesn’t cost that much more to put in a full basement and have all that extra room so why don’t they do it? These new houses are all from 150-250K so throwing another 20 grand for twice the room seems like it would be a good idea…but, what do I know….what I do know is that I can’t wait for them to get the house framed in so I don’t have to look at the trashy rental a street over…and it looks like it’s going to be a two story like most of the rest of the new ones being built out here…and that will be the 24th new house within 2 blocks of me and means my house will be worth even more…cripes I may have a 130K house within the next couple of years….and that would be cool….
Monthly Archives: December 2021
December 15th
Well…running a little late today but there is no reason for it other than I think I’m stuck in second gear and the coffee hasn’t kicked in yet….cripes, we have 4 weather warnings up out here for the day today and tomorrow…small craft, high wind, storm, and lakeshore flooding warnings are up…gusts of up to 60 later today and waves of up to 15 feet…yow….will probably have some branches down later today….if the wind really comes up, I may even go out to the beach today to watch the waves a bit…15 footers would be cool to see….didn’t get much done yesterday and I don’t have a lot of motivation right now…need to do the grocery run in a few minutes then get the bike ride in….and continue to work on the window in the kitchen….I think I’ll cut the chair on the front stoop loose and put it in the porch instead…it will be rattling around all day if I don’t and I don’t want to hear it….not much to do today….just the grocery run and working on the windows…but I do need to cook today since I have no leftovers in the fridge to use but I don’t know if I’m going to make a pizza or chicken for lunch…decisions, decisions…more later…
Took a little easy today…
Well…I really didn’t plan it but I took it a little easy today…was going to work on the kitchen windows but I remembered to chronicle it this time and couldn’t get photos since the camera on my tablet is pretty crappy and the light coming in washed it out…so I took the photos a few minutes ago and will get on to the work tomorrow…will take a few days to get them sanded, filled and then re-sanded but I may be able to paint them later in the week…and the kitchen windows are by far the worst of the 12 I have to do so it looks like about a day of prep for each of the rest of them…and I need to look at depot to see if they have grey shades in the sizes I need….I still can’t believe how half assed everything is around here…and forty years of half assed is going to take a while to fix….
The public hearings are going to be lit…
Well…as more and more information comes out about the attack on the capital, including the committee reading out texts from the moron Meadows yesterday, I think the public hearings are going to be pretty damn explosive….and I think that McCarthy made a huge mistake by withdrawing repub support since he now has absolutely no control over the questions that will be asked or who is going to be asked to testify…..but, we all know he is not too bright and was just trying to keep the idiot trump’s support by obstructing the committee…and he was doing that because he knew trump was in on the whole thing…and I won’t be surprised if McCarthy was in on the attack, too. Damn, how long ago were the Watergate hearings? okay…1973…I remember at the place I was working we would sit down at lunch and watch for an hour every day…this time, I’ll probably watch the whole thing and do a series on it with at least one post about it every day….but that won’t be til later in 2022….sure wish they’d get their butts in gear….
December 14th
Well…did something this morning that I never do…after I got up at 7, I crawled back into bed for another 45 minutes since I just didn’t want to be up yet….and I had a school dream of missing class that I haven’t had in years during that 45 minutes…weird….man, I’m worn out this morning and just can’t get started…haven’t even read the news at all and it’s almost 8:30….had an okay day yesterday and got a bit done and I am planning on tearing into two of the kitchen windows today but I think that won’t be a one day job….don’t have the paint for the windows yet and should pick that up this week….need to see if I can get grey shades in the size I need for them, too, but I wonder if I should do white shades in there….don’t want to spend money to just throw it away…burned through a hundred bucks yesterday with the new sander and gifts for the grandkids so I need to watch what I’m spending….I did get my new SS statement yesterday and I’m now up to 27K a year and I can live pretty well on that…after all, I’ve put 10K in the bank since I moved in here even with all of the expenses from working on the house….not much to do today….need to get on the bike soon and then it’s window work the rest of the day….will probably need a couple of days of prep to be ready to paint them since there is so much paint on them and they need lots of filler…but I’ve got time so I don’t need to rush….more later…
Made some progress today….
Well….finally, I made some progress today on quite a few things and I’m starting to feel okay about that….got on the bike early and went as hard as I could for 20 miles and it felt pretty good and I’m over 240 miles on that bike so 4800 for the year looks doable….then I got out to HF to buy a new sander and upgraded to a better one than the one I planned to buy since it was only 5 bucks more and that was cool…then I got back here and got the christmas presents ordered for the grandkids and they should arrive Sat….sent them straight to their houses addressed to them…got them some pj’s and socks and kids can always use them…will get on the sanding tomorrow since I have 8 windows to do…will have to put newspaper up on the kitchen windows tomorrow so I can get going on them…I think I’ve decided on grey shades for all of the house but the dining room since I bought those white ones before I had a plan for the rest of the house…I wonder if I should paint that trim grey….hmmm… will have to think about that….
Chef Andres is a saint…
Well…after the devastating tornados that ripped through the central part of the US, one of the first people there to help was Chef Jose Andres who has been instrumental to feeding people after every disaster since 2010 when he formed his World Central Kitchen…partnering with locals wherever he goes, the WCF has provided over 60 million meals around the world to survivors of natural disasters….but it’s not just food that he delivers…always a positive message that helps people understand that we are all in this together and to treat each other with kindness and respect…something that, in these times, people do need to be reminded of….if you can afford it, please send a few bucks Chef Andres way….this saint needs to be supported….
December 13th
Well….ick…a 4:14 morning this morning but was able to get back to sleep for a couple of hours so I guess that’s something…feel pretty worn out today and just can’t get moving…I am still marveling at how half assed the windows were done here with the previous owners just leaving the old shade/curtain brackets on them when they put up new ones….and there is not one of the shades up now that is level and there is one here in the living room that is a full inch lower on the right side than the left and I could eyeball it better than that….I did get the kitchen windows cleaned up yesterday and took the last of the ugly curtains down and now only have the three bedroom windows to do….but now the big work starts with having to sand and patch the frames to get them ready for painting….I may go out and get the new detail sander today but I’m not sure yet….trying not to spend any money until I get the next cash infusion on Wed…it looks like it will be warm enough to ride outside today but the damn wind is still blowing almost 20 so I guess it will be a downstairs ride today….my taking Sunday off the bike plan lasted one week with getting a ride in yesterday and I’m getting ready to get down there in a few minutes so I can get out to run the errand by 9 or so…..not much to do today…if I get the sander, I’ll get started on the kitchen windows but need to figure out what shades I’m going to put up in there…I’m going with grey ones in here but I don’t know what I’m doing in the kitchen…probably should plan it….more later….
Good on ya, Gavin…
Well…it’s been in the new a lot lately that the corrupt supreme court has let stand a new anti abortion law in Texas that lets private citizens sue anyone involved in helping a woman get an abortion even though it goes against the roe precedent that made abortion care legal….and the twist is that since private citizens are doing the enforcing, the state can’t be sued to overturn the law…too cute by half and that a non corrupt SC would have thrown out in a flash….so now that the SC has made this precedent, Gavin Newsome, the governor of California, is going to pass a new law that would allow any citizen to sue anyone who buys, sells, imports or possesses military style assault weapons such as the AR-15….if the repubs can take away a women’s right to choose, then the dems will take away the fake right to own these kinds of weapons. The court has gutted the supremacy clause in the constitution that says that federal laws are supreme to state laws with letting Texas get away with a law that is blatantly unconstitutional on a federal level so you can expect that dems will use this ruling in blue states that will smash the smug repubs in the mouth in where most of the population in this country lives…it’s about damn time the dems started to fight back with repub methods instead of just sitting there letting them ruin this country…good on ya, Gavin…geez….
Boycott Kellogg…
Well….I should have written about this last week when I read about it in the news but I forgot so I’ll do it today…not sure if you read about the crap that Kellogg is pulling on it’s workers who have been out on strike for better working conditions for a couple of months, and with the crappy offers that Kellogg has made to them the workers have had enough and want a fair share of what they produce….so what is Kellogg’s response? They are going to fire all of the workers and replace them with scabs saying that they can’t afford to give the workers any of the things they bargained for such as no more 80 hour weeks or weeks and weeks on end with no time off….this is the normal “we’re too broke to give raises” crap that every damn company uses when their workers want to get out of the poverty level even working full time…Kellogg can afford to pay it’s ceo almost 12 million dollars a year and made a profit of almost 2 billion dollars so that’s all bullshit….I will always support workers trying to improve their lives by collective bargaining and I will always hate that these greedy companies feel the need to hoard the fruits of the worker’s labor for the rich owners…so, as the title says…Boycott Kellogg….no more cereal for you…geez…