Well…damn, that was a night of hard sleep….went all the way through until 6:06 today and had weird dreams about real estate and condos being built in Chief Hazycloud Park in Ada…and the only people who will understand that are those who grew up there as I did…I am having a little bit of a hard time getting going this morning and it may be from just eating a little too far under what I need for the day…but, that may be a plus with the article I read yesterday that said that if you eat around14% less calories than you need, it helps you avoid some of the problems that come with aging along with helping maintain weight….and I’ve been doing that my entire life so maybe my obsession is going to pay benefits and I’ll be able to keep going longer…who knows? I am starting to get bored with getting on the bike every day and it is getting harder and harder to keep it up…I did get over 300 miles since the start of the year yesterday and that keeps me on pace to get to 600 before the trails melt and I can get back outside…and I think this is going to be the first year that I don’t gain weight over the winter and may even lose some and that will set me up to be at summer weight before I get outside…that would be cool….not much to do today…will probably continue to clean and organize the downstairs and start getting my tools ready to make the push to finish the kitchen….need to clean my sander and get the dust out of it so I can get on the baseboards and I have a little filling to do on some cracks in the corners but I am not going to overfill them so I can keep the dust down…still have rashes from the dust and may have to get more cortisone cream on the grocery run tomorrow….more later…
Monthly Archives: February 2022
This is big…
Well…yeah, it’s unusual that I do six of these a day but damn, big news about the idiot trump and his accounting firm just broke and I wanted to talk about it before I forget…just today the accounting firm that has done trump’s financials for years and years just resigned from working for trump, his organization, and his family stating that financial statements from 2011 to 2022 can no longer be relied on given the new information that has come out through investigations from various sources….meaning that they are bailing since they know trump and his family have been lying to them for the past 10 years and they don’t want to get dragged into the wrongdoing…and with something this serious, idiot boy and his family are going to have a hell of a time finding a new firm to do their taxes and other financial reports…and the funny thing is they told trump’s lawyer that there are returns due tomorrow and they need to figure out what to do since they are done with the whole crime family and will perform no more work for them….gee, I wonder if part of this is that idiot boy sued Mazars to keep them from obeying a subpoena for the records that they are now saying are bullshit….now we know why little donnie jr. went off yesterday on a coke fueled rant about Hillary…to try to deflect from the noose that is tightening around all of them…tick tock donnie, start getting fitted for that orange jumpsuit…
Just couldn’t do it…
Well…gee, who would have thought I couldn’t just take it easy around here…after sitting here this morning and watching some Olympics, I just couldn’t sit anymore so I went downstairs and started to finish up cleaning the dust that got everywhere when I was sanding the kitchen cabinet parts…got the walls washed along with one fan, the ac unit, and some electronics that needed dusting badly to keep them so they will work if I need them to…and then washed all of the hot and cold air ducts in that area and cleaned the dust off my two outdoor bikes that had gotten a thin coat on them…and I found a set of Samsung earbuds that must have come with this phone when I bought it but that I forgot about…and now I have a backup set just in case my Betrons quit…but, I’ve had them over two years now and I’ve never had a set last that long…the cords are pretty heavy duty on them…not like the rest of the earbuds I’ve bought and have taken a lot of abuse and just kept on working…so, I guess the precedent is set for tomorrow to keep working downstairs until I get that done and organized…I’m even thinking about buying a cheap door to hang in the doorway of the bike room where there was one before when it was a bedroom….not sure why I want one but it would make it a little more finished…one crappy thing is that my hands hurt and are stiff again just from cleaning for an hour and a half today…crap, crap, crap…
I think Putin has miscalculated….
Well…with all of the worry around the world about the idiot Putin invading Ukraine, I think Putin has miscalculated with telegraphing his intentions there…I’m sure he didn’t think that every country in the world other than ones run by his toadies or China would band together to oppose him…and the possibility of him losing billions by his choice to invade should be giving him pause…and when the foreign minister of Russia comes out the other day and says that diplomacy should continue to resolve the situation, there are two things that it could mean…that Putin is just laying down another smoke screen to lull everyone into thinking that he is not going to invade, or that he really is looking for a way out in the face of the solid opposition that Biden has built to his adventurism…I think he may have misunderstood that the deference the idiot trump showed him was national and European policy and he could continue to do whatever he wants with no consequences…but, that is not the case and he will pay dearly for any more aggression towards Ukraine or any other country…now, I may be completely wrong as I have been before, but I still think that the costs will be too high for Putin to absorb if he continues this bullshit…at least I hope it is….geez…
One cool commercial…
Well…there are times when the new commercials during the SB are more exciting than the game itself…I’m not sure if that was true this year but there was one that was pretty cool…in an ad for the new electric Chevy Silverado, they re-created the opening credits to “The Sopranos” with the same song…one of my favorites of all time and they even had the two actors who played Meadow and AJ in it…with Jamie Lynn Sigler doing the Tony Soprano part in the drive into the city….and then having them embracing at the end even answered one question about the ending of “The Sopranos” where the screen just went black and you didn’t know what happened to the family…as a fan, I thought it was pretty cool…
Watched a movie last night…
Well…you would think with being a big sports fan, I would have watched the SB last night especially with Stafford trying to do something he would never have gotten the chance to do if he was still with the Lions…..but I got bored and I am not into hip hop so I skipped the half time show and the second half and watched a movie instead…it was a small little thriller called KIMI about how the big tech companies and their digital assistants like SIRI and Alexa are always listening to everything that is going on in your house if you activate them and there was agoraphobia and murder included… parts of it reminded me of the Coppola movie “The Conversation” which had a similar theme…pretty predictable stuff but it kept me occupied for an hour and a half and that was cool…I did watch The King’s Man the other night, too, and that was a serviceable movie that kept me interested and again got me through a night that would have been boring otherwise…there’s not much else out there that interests me so I guess I won’t be watching anything else soon….
February 14th
Well…running about on time this morning with not getting up til 6:22 and I don’t feel too bad today…I am still dreading getting on the bike for some reason this morning and it may be how hard the ride was Sat…but, I felt like crap then and I feel okay now so maybe it won’t be as bad…and I really don’t have anything to do today other than clean a bit downstairs so it looks like another easy day…the cracks in the ends of my fingers started to heal pretty well with the rest from the last couple of days and I am still going to take it easy on them for a few more days before I get back into working on the kitchen…still have some crack filling to do in there before I get to the rest of the painting…and I need to hit all of the extra plaster on the ceiling so there are no blobs before I paint it…I will need to hit depot Wed to get more filler and some more ice melting salt before we get the rain/snow/ice that is going to come in Wed night…man, I burned a lot of cash this month and I think I spent all of my SS deposit with the house taxes and insurance that were almost a thousand bucks but this month should be better with nothing extra going out…but it has been so cold my gas bill is almost 115 bucks and that is the highest one I’ve had since I’ve been out here…but this week should help with highs being in the 30′s most of the week…although it is only 12 right now and that is damn cold….not much to do today…just the bike ride and then I’ll figure out what I need to do to keep the guilts at bay…and I’m making chicken and asparagus for lunch so that will be cool…more later…
I made pizza!
Well…I have been making homemade pizza for a long time now but I really haven’t been happy how it has been turning out…I know I haven’t made it since I moved in here so my memory of how the last one came out could be a little fuzzy…but I do remember that it didn’t have a lot of flavor and that I have been adjusting the crust recipe bit by bit over the years and I think I may have screwed it up doing that…I added an extra quarter cup of water to it since it felt a little dry and I started to use vegetable oil instead of olive oil in the crust….and I think those two changes were wrong since the crust came out really sticky and didn’t taste like much…so today, I went back to the original recipe and it came out so much better and the crust was even a little crunchy and not the gooey consistency it had gotten to…so, I have enough materials to make another one Wed…and the idiot I am, I think I may add some garlic powder to the crust or maybe some Italian seasoning to bump up the flavor even more…but just enough so you barely taste it but it’s there…but, that’s all I had to eat today…two pieces of pizza and I wonder if that’s enough? I think so….or I may have some cheese and crackers with the SB tonight….who knows?
Spring is slowly coming…
Well…I know we are in the part of winter that tries people’s coping skills here in Michigan and it is only about 15 out there right now and that is damn cold…but, when I went out to shovel the snow, by the time I got the front walks done the sun had already started to melt the remaining snow on my walks at the back of the house…and that means the sun is getting slowly stronger no matter what the temp is out there…and looking at the 10 day weather forecast, I can see that we have a short spell of moderating temps that give me a little hope that the worst is over for this winter…and it gives me a little bit of a smile that I’ve survived another winter here without much damage…but, I don’t want to speak too soon since I remember getting over a foot of snow in an April snowstorm when I was young and that can still happen….I will take any small hint that spring is coming…I’m an optimist, after all…kinda…
The apologists at fox news have a new talking point…
Well…damn, the idiot apologists at fox news have a brand new talking point that they are using to help justify Putin invading and annexing Ukraine…listen to this one: it is okay for Russia to invade since Ukraine used to be part of the old soviet union and all Putin is doing is re-capturing what used to be theirs anyway…now, yes, this is just as stupid as it sounds…so let’s think about this for a minute…under those terms, England has every right to invade and annex the US since it used to belong to them before the Revolutionary War….or go back farther…the Native Americans have every right to attack and annex the entire US since it belonged to them before white people came here and took if from them…or how about England attacking and annexing India since it used to be a colony of theirs and belonged to them…or France or Portugal could take back any part of Africa that used to be colonies of theirs…you get the idea…there are no great minds at fox news…and in my long lifetime, I can never remember a “news” organization in the US that rooted for or is rooting for the US to fail and for our enemies to defeat us….this is some sick crap and there should be a law against it…the first amendment be damned…okay, yeah…the only way the first amendment works is for all speech to be protected…not just what you agree with….geez…