Well..I think this one kind of slipped through the cracks over the past couple of days but I wanted to talk about it so here goes….the January 6th committee is investigation whether the idiot trump oversaw a criminal conspiracy to stop Biden’s certification that he won the election…and they are not just looking at trump but the sedition caucus in the House and Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley in the Senate…and all of the e-mails, texts, and phone calls they used point to the fact that this conspiracy did happen…after all, you only need two people to have a conspiracy and you could say that every repub that voted against certifying the election in the House and Senate were part of that same conspiracy and the good thing is that the committee is considering referring criminal charges to the DOJ for all of them…and this dovetails quite nicely with Garland’s speech last week that all of the people involved need to be held responsible no matter if they were active participants on Jan 6th or they were the planners, money men, or just supporting the coup attempt…now, I’ll believe these idiots being charged when I see it since there is no inkling that the DOJ is doing jack to bring these traitors to justice….but I think the committee saying there probably is a criminal conspiracy is a shot across the bow of all of these traitors but now we need to see charges and perp walks to save our democracy….geez…
Monthly Archives: January 2022
January 9th
Well…running a little early today with getting up a little after 6 and then going out to get the paper even with the streets out here solid ice…almost buried it in the snow on the last turn coming onto 7th but I had just enough momentum to get through….it’s nice to get back to the normal Sunday routine and it’s going to be an easy day without riding the bike today….need a rest day at least once a week….and I am going to take the day off of everything and just relax….and that’s pretty hard for me and will probably clean some later…or not…who knows? Had a good day yesterday and got a bunch of little things done that I hadn’t planned at all…they just kind of happened when I was wandering around here…I feel pretty good about getting started on freeing up the front forks on the black bike but I don’t think it will work as good as new again but it’s certainly going to be better than it was frozen…that was hard on my hands when I hit bumps on the trail and it shook all the way into my shoulders….will keep hitting it with wd all winter to make sure it doesn’t freeze up again….and I tried one of the repaired tubes int he front tire to see if that works at all…it never has before so I’ll be surprised if it did….I did have my 6th day of being good yesterday and I tried to eat more to see if that was why I was so exhausted the past couple of days…I am pretty excited to have a day off today to just veg out and do nothing…I do have to remember to get some salt wed since my walks are pretty icy and the last thing I need is to slip and fall and break something….not much to do today….just going to play it by ear and have more coffee and see if there is soccer on that I can put on in the background as I read the news….more later…
Got the bike forks unfrozen…
Well…after sitting around here with no energy all afternoon, the idea that the front forks on the black bike were frozen started to bug me so I decided to go down in the basement and take a look at it to see what I could do before I start looking for a new set of forks…so, I pulled the rubber seals off the top of them and flooded it with wd just to see what that might do…after banging them hard on the floor they started to move again…very stiff but moving so I kept that up for a while until my back wouldn’t take it anymore…but it did start to move…not smooth like the grey bike but they moved again so I may try some rust remover on them since there was rust under the seals when I took them off…and I had to change the tube out on the front wheel since it had gone flat and I tried one that I had patched to see if it would work…if it does, I’ll patch the one I took out and use that for a spare….so I guess I got things done today…and I am feeling a little bit of energy so I probably should eat more to see if I can keep that going….
Got some work done…
Well…even with how worn out I’ve been feeling the past two days, I got some work done today that I really hadn’t planned to do…got all of the first layer of filler done and I think that is all I’m going to do today…felt okay when I got up and had some energy but that ended around noon or so and now I’m worn out again and the only thing it could be is not eating enough…so I’ve been eating a bit more today…still only had a small plate of spaghetti and garlic bread for lunch…and that can’t be more than 500 calories so I think I need to eat more later but I don’t have anything planned other than a small pork chop and some tots which will be another 500 or so calories so I may have to make some popcorn with butter later to make up for it…I’m so damn tired of feeling worn out that I have to do something…and I’ve been good for 5 days now so I should feel better, shouldn’t I? At least my back didn’t hurt riding the bike this morning so I guess that’s something…but not much…
Getting some birds now…
Well…the Juncoes that have been hitting my feeder the past few days are pretty darn aggressive….they just chased a Bluejay off the sill and it is 3 times the size of the Juncoes…pretty fun…but the coolest thing is the new bird that just landed on the feeder…had a Northern Flicker and that was just so cool…large bird with tan and white with a red patch on the back of it’s head…it’s in the woodpecker family and very seldom visits feeders so that is doubly cool….finally, starting to get some bird tv going and that will keep me entertained for a while….
This is dire and we need to do our part…
Well…do you remember when delta hit and every health care system in the country was overwhelmed? Omicron is worse with warnings going out from almost every system in the country that they are on the verge of collapse with how contagious omicron is…I saw a graphic the other day that even with an N95 mask within 15 minutes in an enclosed space with omicron infected people, you will become infected…and throw in all of the unvaccinated assholes out there that won’t wear masks, and it is even worse…I read just today that every damn unvaccinated person in the country is going to catch omicron by the end of the month and spread it to we who have done the right thing and got vaccinated and boosted…and all of the blather that omicron is less severe than delta doesn’t matter…with how many people who will be infected…many, many more than with delta, hospitals are overwhelmed and people who have symptoms will be turned away to die at home….this is pretty damn dire and we need to do our part…wear a mask, only go out if you have to, stay away from people for the next few weeks…I will go out for groceries once and get enough for me to not go out again until the end of the month…and I will double mask and stay away from people in the store…and hunker down here and not go anywhere for a while….damn, I feel like the walking dead is happening right now….and I want to avoid the zombies….geez…
January 8th
Well…okay, the snow shoveling pain in my mid back just showed up after I got out of bed and it hurts…unless it is from sleeping wrong…my left side is so stiff that any movement hurts like crazy so I guess I won’t be doing much today….I have gotten into REM sleep every night for the past 5 days and that means lots of weird dreams, too…like last night where there were spies and redi mix concrete poured into fountains…yeah, I don’t know what that means, either….but I kinda like the weird and I know it’s from being good…it didn’t snow overnight and that’s a good thing with how sore I am but we’re supposed to get freezing rain overnight and I am really happy that I have a garage to keep my car in…I think they might have finally plowed the roads out here last night but I’ll have to walk to the end of the alley to see for sure…would like to go out and get the paper tomorrow morning but we’ll see how the roads are….I do have to remember to get some salt to salt the walks on the grocery run this week along with some more bird food since I have some birds hitting the feeder now with all the snow….but that will all be covered by not buying cocktail materials and I can even throw in a couple of spare bike tubes since I need to stock up while no one else is buying them….not much to do today….just the bike ride and working on the window but that may be curtailed by the pain….might try an ibuprofen here in a minute to see if that will help….more later….
New birds….
Well…I finally have some new birds on the window feeder and I had to look them up on the internet to figure out what they are…it appears that they are a small sparrow species called a dark eyed juncoe…I guessed that they were juncoes and the only place I would have gotten that information was in 3rd grade where I had a teacher, Miss O’Beirn, who was a bird watcher and passed that on to the class..I even went bird watching with her and a couple of classmates early on a Saturday morning when we piled into her 59 Ford and went out into the fields armed with binoculars and birdcalls to see what we could identify….I got part of my love of science from this grey haired, 60ish woman and I can still see her face this 60 years later…teachers are important and I wish people would appreciate them more than they do….oh, and juncoes are a lot more fun than the titmouses that were here earlier….they act a lot like the brown sparrows I had in GR…
I’m exhausted…
Well…after being good all week, I really expected to have energy all week like I started out…but I hit the wall today and feel exhausted and I wonder why that would be? Have been sleeping okay or no worse than normal but as I sit here doing this, I am just drained and don’t want to do any work at all…I know I’ve been shoveling a lot of snow the past couple of days and that is not easy but it didn’t have any effect yesterday…I wonder if I’m back to not eating enough? I had a half a chicken breast and some cauliflower for dinner and a small plate of spaghetti for lunch and I guess that’s only about 800 calories and if I’m honest, I know that’s not enough with the bike ride burning 600 and snow shoveling another 400…but I need to maintain my weight this winter instead of gaining the normal 12 pounds….just don’t feel like working on the windows today…I do need to remember to just live instead of working all the time but the work won’t get done unless I suck it up and get at it…aargh…
Gorsuch and Alito spouting fox talking points…
Well…with the arguments in the SC today about vaccine mandates that the Biden administration has imposed to try to stop the spread of covid, it is just stunning that Gorsuch used a fox talking point to justify striking them down saying that flu kills “hundreds of thousands” every year….the only place that is a “fact” is on fox news when the real death toll is in the 30-40K range…in no way comparable to covid…and if he gets his way, mandatory vaccination for any and all disease…say measles, mumps, and rubella that is now required for kids to go to school will be struck down and then you can guarantee that these diseases will explode and he will basically gut any government regulation of public health issues. but the stunning thing came from Alito where he worries that the news will report that he is responsible for thousands of deaths if he strikes down the regulations…not that people will die, nope, how it will reflect on him is his only concern…and he is pushing for allowing an injunction that would stop the mandates from taking effect until they “study” the arguments more….in direct conflict with how they ruled in the Texas abortion case where they allowed the law to go into effect as they “studied” the arguments. This is how you delegitimize a court, where it is clear they aren’t following any precedent but are working hard to support their right wing views with little regard to the law…after all, vaccine mandates have been in force since the 1920′s and every court has found them to be legal…but that doesn’t matter to these hacks…geez….