Well…I can’t remember when I had a more relaxing time running errands in the morning…the roads were clear and very little traffic and when I got to depot to get the first batch of grey paint there was no one waiting so it only took about 5 minutes to get the paint mixed and I was able to wander around and get an outlet to try to put a light over the sink…it’s just a plug in with a pull chain but I thought I’d try it and see if I need the light….then I stopped at Aldi’s to get 10 more pounds of chicken leg quarters and I was the first in line at the checkout so it only took me about a minute to get out of there…then a run across Sherman to HF to get sandpaper and a short handled brush to paint the inside of the cupboards…and the sandpaper was only 2.47 for 7 sheets while it was 7 bucks for 4 sheets at depot and that was just a little ridiculous…and I got some new style pads for my detail sander that I wanted to try…so, all in all, a good day so far and I was back here by 9:30….now I need to get a couple more leg quarters in a marinade for later and put the rest of them in the freezer…I think I have just about enough room with giving Tom some ham soup yesterday…oh, Tom…the Ray Donovan movie is out on Plex…going to watch it tonight…
Monthly Archives: January 2022
This is welcome news…
Well…as the revelations of the depth of the repub plot to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, the tentacles of the conspiracy made their way to our state of Michigan where many, many repub leaders conspired to send a fake set of electors to the National Archives as a way to cast doubt on the outcome of the election and allow Mike Pence to throw out the votes of the people in 7 states that went for Biden…but today, we had a welcome bit of news when our AG, Dana Nessel, referred this group of traitors to federal prosecutors…and to add to that she stated that there are state charges that are coming for “forgery of a public record” which carries a 14 year sentence and election law forgery which has a five year sentence attached…and the lies and forgery purported that the idiot trump won the state, falsely claimed to record the official slate of electors, and falsely claimed that the electors had been selected at the state capitol….when this scheme was hatched and the forgery was done at Michigan repub headquarters…and these morons sent the forgery by registered mail to the NA and signed their names to it…and the forgers included the state repub chair and vice chair, and a member of the RNC and a township election clerk…and as part of plot, to make it appear official, these forgers tried to enter the capitol so they could say that the vote was taken in the capitol but they were turned away…and this plan was part of the entire scheme that was presented to repubs in congress so they would know what to do on January 6th. Sounds like a pretty broad based conspiracy to me…and I applaud AG Nessel for not putting up with the bullshit here in Michigan and making sure there will be consequences for this seditious conspiracy…they all need to go to jail as a deterrent to them trying it again….geez…
January 14th
Well…darn…another 4am morning this morning but I was able to get back to sleep until a little after 6 so that is a win…but, I wonder why I don’t feel like I slept at all? I have been good for 11 days now and you would think that would be enough to feel better but I just feel worn out…again…had a nice day yesterday with Tom bringing out his new puppy and I couldn’t help but laugh at all the energy Lucy has…damn, I would love to harness some of that…think she is going to be a good dog and a lot of fun…didn’t get much done yesterday but clean but the house needed that and I have plenty of time to get to the kitchen cupboards….I had a brainstorm last night on the colors for the doors and it may work and it may not but I’m going to try it and see….will probably start taking the doors off today so I can get started on sanding and filling them or I may just prep my workspace downstairs and call it good til Monday and take the weekend off…I am going to go out and get the first gallon of grey paint for the insides of the cupboards and some more sandpaper for my sanders since there is going to be tons of sanding on both the doors and the inside and outside of the cabinets….just realized I have about a grand going out in Feb for my property taxes and house insurance so I won’t be gaining any cash in the bank next month and that kinda sucks but it is part of life…I am going to stop at Aldi’s this morning and see if I can get another 10 pounds of chicken leg quarters for 4.90…and that will give me protein for the next month or so…the marinade I use for the last chicken really made it taste good and I am going to look for a few different ones to add to my recipes to expand my taste and that may be the task for the weekend….more later…oh, found out this week that there is a Ray Donovan movie coming out today on Showtime and I am going to try to find a channel to watch it on…
Arrest the traitors….
Well…not sure if you read the news over the past couple of days but it has come out that in 7 states that Joe Biden won in 2020, repubs conspired to send in fake slates of electors to the National Archives with the intent of getting them accepted as real and installing the idiot trump as president again….in Arizona, the repubs that broke the law and betrayed the country were even so brazen as to take a photo of the group of them who faked the electors and signed their names to the fakes…look, come on DOJ, all of these people admitted to breaking election law and you do nothing? Every damn one of these people should have been arrested and indicted for this scheme…and this same thing happened here in Michigan…where the hell is the AG here? Why haven’t these folks been charged? Every damn time this type of behavior is allowed to go unpunished, it erodes the rule of law in this country and emboldens the repubs to go farther and farther in destroying our democracy…this bullshit has to stop now if we are to salvage any pretense that the law applies to everyone…Garland can speechify all he wants but without action, there is no rule of law anymore…geez…
No paint today…
Well…the plans that I had for this morning changed and I decided to not go out and get the grey paint I need for the insides of the cupboards…took a look around and decided that the place needed cleaning more that it needed paint so I did laundry and cleaned up instead..I can’t believe how far the dust traveled from doing the kitchen windows….it’s all the way into the living room and I am debating cleaning it up when I know I’m just going to spread more when I get to sanding the cabinets in the kitchen…will probably wait until I sand the first cabinets…I am setting up a work space downstairs to sand and paint the cabinet doors but I need to get out and get some more sandpaper at HF tomorrow….looked at depot yesterday but they only have 3M and it costs almost 7 bucks for 4 sheets and I’m not going to pay that much…and I need more diamond shaped sheets for my detail sander and HF is the cheapest for those, too…so today is going to be a down day and I’ll get back to work tomorrow….more later….
January 13th
Well…woke up this morning and took a look at my phone and thought I saw 5:14 but then my coffee alarm clock said it had to be after 6 since I could smell the new coffee brewing…so I’m up and here I am…again…had dreams last night about Steely Dan concerts and people that I met before but didn’t know where I met them…it was one of those things where you see someone and you know them but you don’t know where from…kinda weird….it was my 9th day of being good and it is starting to be a habit and I am curious how long this is going to last….one place that it has really affected is the bike ride every morning…it is still a bit of a struggle to force myself to get on the bike but once on it the rides have been much easier and more fun…I think part of that is that I have the plans for working on the house to think about while I’m on it and that is a good distraction…I did get the salt I needed to do the walks yesterday and they are finally clear….and the chicken I got from Aldi’s is really good after I marinated it in balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, worst sauce, garlic and onion powder along with some Italian seasoning….and the leg quarters are pretty big so one makes a meal and I have another one for later today….if I had room in my freezer, I’d run out and get another 10 pounds at 49 cents a pound to stock the freezer for a month…not much to do today…Tom is coming out in the afternoon so I can meet his new dog and hang out a while…and I have to remember to send him home with some of the latest batch of ham soup that I made a couple of weeks ago…and I have laundry and cleaning this place up a bit to do before then…it is nice to finally be making some progress on the house and to have a vision of what I want it to look like when I’m done…going to go out tomorrow to get the first of the grey paints so I can start painting the inside of the cupboards…it is going to be a subtle grey that I think will look cool…more later…
I guess we’re all going to jail…
Well…hey, everybody…get your go bags and get ready to make a run for it….the pillow guy has “evidence” that 300 million Americans committed voter fraud during the 2020 election and he is just this close to sending the information to the supreme court who is going to arrest us all and put us in jail….okay, yeah…I’m laughing my ass off at this clown, too…how the hell is he still walking around when he is this delusional? Hey, Mike…there were only about 150 million people who voted in the 2020 election…so are the other 150 million accomplices? Damn, why didn’t anyone tell me that this was going on so I could join in? So, I guess the 70+ million who voted for the idiot trump were in on it, too, since, using ole Mikey’s logic every adult in the US was in on it…man, this is some eleventy dimensional logic going on from ole Mikey…okay, it’s really easy to make fun of Mikey since he is such a delusional ass but shouldn’t there be consequences for being this crazy in public? Cripes, this kid of crap would at least have resulted in a 72 hour psychiatric hold when I was a kid…but now, he gets to go on tv and there are many other delusional morons that are listening to him…this is some deep cult crap right here….geez…
Rut Roh, idiot boy…
Well….boy, some news I’ve been waiting for out of Georgia in the case of election fraud against idiot boy…in early December, idiot boy’s lawyers were seen meeting with the Fulton county DA to talk to her about the case she is building against trump and all of his cronies who tried to interfere with the election by having the SoS “find” 12,000 votes to give idiot boy the victory…and normally when these meetings take place, it is because the DA has enough evidence to indict the targets of the investigations…and the DA herself has said that she feels the evidence warrants the empaneling of a grand jury for just that end….so, while the DOJ may not get it’s head out of it’s ass and charge trump for all of his crimes, this state case is a felony that could land him in jail for 20 years…and maybe even Lindsey Graham since he did the same damn thing by calling the SoS and spouting the same lies that idiot boy did and putting the same pressure on him to declare that trump won the state…this case should come to a head sometime in the spring and we just may see trump doing the perp walk that he has been able to avoid his whole criminal life….geez…
What a pain…
Well….darn…got most of the shopping done by 10 this morning but no one had any salt for the sidewalks…Meijers and depot were out and I tried menards website to see it they had any…and they did but that meant another run over to Sternberg Road when I was just there for Aldi’s, Meijers, target, and the dollar store…so, I jumped back in the car for another 10 mile round trip and finally got 50 lbs of a blend for 12 bucks so that was cool…so now, after lunch, I’m going to go out and clear the sidewalks and salt them since it is warm enough for the salt to work really well….and it is going to get much colder later in the week…I did get the 10 lbs of chicken leg quarters for 4.90 this morning so I need to marinate a couple for later today and that will keep me going for a week or more…going to make some alfredo sauce tomorrow for fettucini and I got eggs and thawed some bacon so I’m set for food for at least a week to 10 days….I will be back for a political one later but I need to have lunch first…
January 12th
Well…a 5:39 morning this morning but I was able to lie there until a little after 6 so that is pretty normal for the past 10 days….don’t hurt as much as I should with all of the climbing, carrying, and twisting yesterday and that is welcome news when I thought I’d be limping around here…still a little stiff but I can deal with that….it’s nice that I have a plan to rehab the kitchen over the next few weeks and I will be happy if I have it done by the end of the month….going to be a ton of sanding, filling, and painting and I’m going to buy a new range hood to replace the ugly painted one that is in there…a nice stainless steel one will look good when I get it done…I may start tearing the doors off today…have 11 of them to remove but I need to fit them first so I don’t have to do that after I’ve painted them….and I need to empty the cupboards into totes so nothing is in the way…and that means I’ll have to get a gallon of grey paint to do the insides of them along with the walls….but I won’t do that til next week since there is lots of prep to do before I can paint…..man, I have a busy errand day today and I can’t remember having a list so long…and having to hit 5 stores in one morning…going to burn over a hundred bucks but I’ll have everything I need to go a couple of weeks and get a lot of work done….hope I can get the 10 lbs of chicken from Aldi’s since I’ve planned to marinade some and have that later today…and fill my freezer again….more later….