Well…I think I’m on time for a Sunday since it’s only 7:25 and I’m here already….woke up early but went back to bed for 45 minutes and that meant not getting out to get the paper until almost 7 and I can’t believe how many people were out and about at that time….the wind has died down some and it was really crazy yesterday….had to tie my chair down on the front landing to keep it from blowing away but I probably could have just put it on the porch and I think I will after it dries out….had to pick up a bunch of trash that blew into my yard yesterday and it was fun being out in the high wind…it was hard to walk with the wind gusting to 50 but it was warm enough that I could be out there for a bit…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but ride the bike and lube the parking brake on the car and probably won’t do much today but ride after the F1 race is over…it is nice that there is not any snow in the forecast for the next week or so but it is going to get colder later in the week after getting to almost 60 Wed…..I may try to get out for a ride but the wind is going to blow almost 20 all week so that may not happen….not much to do today….going to just ease into it with more coffee and the last F1 race of the year and may take the curtains down in the kitchen but I’m not sure yet….have to let the coffee work and read the news first….more later…
Monthly Archives: December 2021
All the repubs were in on it…
Well…even before everything is known about the traitorous attack on our democracy on January 6th, enough is known to be able to say that all of the repubs were in on it….in on treason against this country and yet are any of them even charged yet? Nope…and that means the danger is still there and still festering and there is circumstantial evidence that trump was in the middle of it…do you ever wonder why idiot boy was never moved to a “secure location” during the attack as he was when there were protests in the streets? It’s because he knew the plan and it didn’t include anyone going after him…and from the power point presentation, we know they were going to use a fake kidnapping of Pence as the excuse to call a national emergency…but at the last moment, Pence chickened out and wouldn’t get in the car the Secret Service sent for him….maybe after hearing the bloodthirsty crowd yelling for him to be hanged, he thought that there was more danger in carrying out the plot? Oh, and one last little tidbit came out today concerning Senator Chuck Grassley….he mentioned to an aide that he didn’t think Pence was going to show up to certify the votes so he would go ahead and do it…gee, I wonder how ole Chuck knew Pence wasn’t going to be there? Yep, he was in on it, too….as they all were….I can’t wait for the rest of it to come out since idiot boy lost the suit to keep his papers away from the January 6th committee….I wonder if any of the new justices that trump installed on the court were in on it, too…wouldn’t surprise me in the least…geez…
Got some work done….
Well…after the total slug day that I took yesterday, I really felt like I needed to get off my butt and do something today….even after getting up late, I was on the bike by 9:15 or so and got a nice, hard ride in and nothing hurt afterward so I decided to go out and work on the car…pulled both rear tires and squirted the parking brake linkages and cables with some ATF that I put in my new pump can, and I hope that will work in over the next week or so to keep it from seizing up like it did Monday….okay, Man U is going to start in a few minutes and I have to find the channel it’s on….more later…
December 11th
Well….running really late today with not getting out of bed until almost 8 and I must have slept okay but no dreams to speak of….the wind is blowing like crazy out here right now and it must be going at least 40 mph with gusts…..the chickens were being blown all over the place while they tried to feed and when the gusts come, it is really loud….it is 48 degrees out here and I may have to go out and just feel the wind in a bit….I did get some work done yesterday with taking the curtains and hardware down off the windows here in the living room but I just realized I missed the ones on the kitchen windows and will have to do that today….I can’t believe how sloppily the curtains and shades were put up….they must not have had a tape measure or a level since not one of them was in the same location on the window frames as the others….I am going to replace them with grey ones in here but that won’t happen until I do all of the repair work from the damage from all of the brackets, nails, and screws….oh, some good news the other day when it was announced that every insured driver here in Michigan is going to get a 400 buck refund on their car insurance that will just about cover my insurance for a year so that is cool….not much to do today…I skipped the bike ride yesterday but will get that done here in a half hour or so after F1 qualifying is over….and then more work on the interior…and Man U plays at 12:30 so I need to get everything done before that….more later…
Deaths in the news today
Well…there were a couple of deaths in the news today that I wanted to talk about…Al Unser of the famous Unser racing family died yesterday at the age of 82….Al was one of the characters that was in racing when I first started to follow it, especially at Indy and for 30 years he was still part of the scene…a great driver that could race anything and won in Nascar, Indycar, USAC, and on dirt and pavement…very smooth style and a personality to go with it. The second one was a little surprising to me when I read that Mike Nesmith of the Monkees died today at the age of 78….I remember the Monkees fondly and his dry wit on the tv show was something that I liked even at 12 years old….born a rich kid and heir to the Liquid Paper fortune….okay most of you probably don’t even remember Liquid Paper but those of us that came of age when typewriters were the only way to do school papers sure do, you would never know that he was a rich kid and I think he was the only one of them who could actually play an instrument when the group was formed for tv….this is starting to happen much too often as I age….more and more people who have been fixtures in life are disappearing at an accelerated rate….not too cool…RIP guys….
Why haven’t they been arrested?
Well…with all of the information that has already come out about the treasonous attempt to overthrow the government on January 6th, the question I have is “why haven’t they been arrested?” Why isn’t trump’s butt in jail right now? The committee even has the power point presentation that Meadows did to tell people what to do and how to do it…why hasn’t he been arrested and why is he being allowed to run around stonewalling the committee? The most serious attack on the country since the war of 1812 and no one is doing anything to stop the continuing attack that is still going on…the repubs are still rigging elections across the country and making sure that their 30% of the voters will win every election and no one is doing anything about it…where the hell is Merrick Garland? Where the hell is the justice department? There is enough evidence in the Mueller report to arrest trump right now…so why isn’t it happening? Every day we allow these criminals to roam free is another day closer to losing this country to these thugs but no one seems to care….I am tired of having to write about this every damn day but I will until they start holding people accountable for this treason…..geez…
December 10th
Well….running late again today and just can’t get going…up at 6 or so but was able to go back to sleep…or tried to until 7:14 but then just gave up…not too sore today and the is a welcome relief from the overall pain I’ve had the past couple of days…but I think most of it is my own fault…went hard on the downstairs bike the past few days and have been working on windows the past few days and whenever I work over my head, my shoulders usually hurt from it….I think I’m going to buy a new detail sander to work on my windows since there are a lot of angles that I need to sand…and the new ones have dust collectors on them so that might make it easier to get them done without having paint dust go everywhere…..and I can get one at HF for only 20 bucks but the sandpaper for them is not cheap….it looks like a windy couple of days out here with gale warnings and high wind warnings on until tomorrow night and I wonder what that will do when it snows later in the winter? I can see some big drifts everywhere that will have to be shoveled….not much to do today…need to run an errand after F1 practice ends at 9 but that is about all I have to do today….other than ride the bike and taking the curtains and their hardware down….going to be an easy day…..more later….
Hey, antivaxxers, listen to this…
Well…I have a question for all of the antivaxxers out there….is your “freedom” from the vaccine or wearing masks worth 1.14 million dollars? Just read an article where the father of an antivaxxer who died after 3 weeks in the hospital posted the bill they got for the stay…1.14 million dollars just for the hospital part of the bill…it didn’t include any fees for the doctors or specialists who treated this guy…I would guess when all is said and done, the bill will probably be 1.25 million dollars…never mind that even if this guy would have survived the virus he would have had years of rehab that would add hundreds of thousands more…not to mention that he wouldn’t ever be able work again so his family would take that hit, too….so, I ask again antivaxxers, what is your “freedom” from vaccines and mask wearing worth? I doubt it’s 1.14 million dollars….geez……selfish pricks…
Best jobs number in 52 years…
Well…I wonder how the media is going to spin this one….the numbers for first time unemployment claims came in at the lowest since 1969 last week with only 190,000 people filing…but the media will either ignore it or gin up some fake scandal and spend days reporting on it…like corded earbuds or 350 dollar pots….or the headline will read: “190,000 more people out of work!!!” You get what I’m saying…and I’ve bitched about that a lot lately but it is so frustrating that we are on the verge of the best two year economy in the history of the country if the big bank’s projections are correct…and yet people still think that the economy sucks really bad even though they are doing okay…and child poverty is down by 40%, and wages for the lower third of workers are up by 13% this year and are on track to rise more next year…and more people are changing jobs than ever before…and yet, crickets from the media…if the idiot trump had done even one of the many, many things that Biden has done to help the people, they would have run article after article about it and called it a miracle….but no, it’s like the media want Biden to fail or to make it look like he failed…we know the repubs want more people to die from the virus to make Biden look bad, but the media is supposed to be objective and report the news…and the economic numbers we’re seeing are good news…just no one knows it yet…geez…
December 9th
Well…cripes, running really later today with not getting up til 7:30 and I just can’t get going….feel like I didn’t sleep well again but I can’t be sure of that for a while yet….I could go back to bed but that has never happened so I guess that’s not an option…I’m not too sore so I guess that’s something….even after shoveling yesterday….my right shoulder should hurt but it’s just a little stiff and I’ll take that….I did get started at taking the old brackets off the windows yesterday and got three done…it’s a pain in the butt to chip 40 years of old paint off to get to the screw heads and they even had 3 inch nails holding some of them on….I wonder why they didn’t just remove them when they put new shades/curtains up…I have one in the kitchen that has 4 sets of old brackets on it and that just makes me shake my head…it’s going to take a couple of days each to prep them for paint…and I think I’m going to have to buy one of those small detail sanders to get into the corners and get the old paint off…don’t want to have to strip them but that may be an option with how much paint is on them….not much to do today….just going to continue working on the windows and clean some but need to get on the bike here in a few minutes first….I’m edging up to taking a day off soon but I don’t think it will be today…maybe….more later….