Well…I really didn’t know that I would have just as much work to do cleaning up as I did repairing the cabinets in the kitchen…and I didn’t think it would hurt my hands as much as that work did either….I did have to run an errand this morning to get some pepperoni that they didn’t have yesterday so I can make a pizza this weekend but then the cleanup started in earnest…had to wash all of the dishes that I wanted to put in the cupboards and I am on the 4th load of those but I think I’m done with that for the day…and I vacuumed the basement floor again this morning to get the dust I missed yesterday and then mopped it so I can start using the space again without tracking dust all over the place…then, on to the dining room where I had to organize my work materials and get rid of the trash in there that had built up from using it for a work area for weeks….and then vacuumed that floor and washed it and the dining set since it was covered in a thick film of dust…and, even though my hands felt okay when I got up, they hurt as bad as they did when I was working on the cabinets and the stiffness has returned making typing this painful on every stroke…so, the living room is going to wait til tomorrow even though the dust coating is bugging the hell out of me…I was supposed to be able to take a week off but I sure couldn’t do that with the house so dusty and messy so maybe I can start that after I finish up the dust removal tomorrow…sure hope so, I am worn out….
Monthly Archives: February 2022
Maggie Haberman is not a journalist…
Well…you know, I’m getting damn sick and tired of so called “journalists” who do reporting and find crimes committed by politicians but then lock them in their little boxes labeled “book profits” and keep quiet about them until the book comes out. This is a plague on the media these days since it seems that not one damn journalist does what he or she was hired to do…and that is report the news as it happens…and that is no more true that with the NYT’s Maggie Haberman who has taken segregating facts for profit to an art form when she should have reported what she learned about the idiot trump over his 4 years in office…and the big bombshell that she should have reported on when she learned it years ago was the idiot boy regularly tore up presidential papers and ate them, shredded them, or flushed them down a toilet which plugged up and aides had to go fish them out to preserve them in accordance with the law…now, wouldn’t it have been nice to know this stuff when the impeachments were going on? At least we now know why idiot boy was so obsessed with it taking “10 or 15 flushes” to clear out his toilets…look, let’s fault the NYT, too, since they ran the “scandal” about Hillary’s e-mails on the front page for months when there was nothing to it but where there is the real scandal of trump stealing classified documents and hoarding them at his bedbug palace in Florida, it gets two paragraphs on page 15 and that’s it…no continuing story, no nothing…and when one of it’s reporters, Haberman, lies to her editors to hold back things she has learned on their dime to make bucks for herself with cost to the country…not a damn peep out of them….Haberman should at least be fired for her ethical lapses during the trump debacle…but that won’t happen either…the media has completely lost sight of it’s responsibilities and none of them are worse than the NYT…geez…oh, and here’s a post script…during Watergate, Woodward and Bernstein didn’t “save facts for the book” as Haberman did…just sayin…
February 10th
Well…that was a little better….slept okay and didn’t toss and turn much and feel okay this morning but, when I look at my right hand, it looks like I have been in a bare knuckle fight with all of the cuts and bruises on it….it does feel a little better and not as stiff this morning so I’ll take that…and it gives me hope that rest will make it usable again…I did finish the kitchen cabinets yesterday and started to fill them back up with my dishes and food and it is kind of cool to not work out of totes anymore…but I will need to complete that today so I can clear off my dining room table since I want to make a pizza in a couple of days and need it to press the homemade dough out before I put it on my pizza pan…and I was bad and bought some brats yesterday since they were on sale and I had a taste for them….I do need to run out to Meijers on Sternberg this morning since the one over here was out of pepperoni and it just isn’t pizza without pepperoni…it is pretty cool that my grocery bill has gone down from around 60 bucks a week to 20 with not buying cocktail materials anymore….almost had a cocktail last night, though, to celebrate getting the major work done in the kitchen but I am so used to not doing it that it has become a habit and that is pretty cool…not much to do today…just the bike ride and then more cleaning today with the patina of dust that everything has in the upstairs and I need to continue to clean downstairs, too…it looks pretty good where I had the dust room in the basement and it has never been cleaner…I did have to laugh how the dust highlighted the cobwebs that were in the floor joists but I got them all removed and will have to do that for the entire basement to make me happy….and it just looks good clean…I even cleaned the water heater, furnace, and water meter yesterday along with the water and gas pipes in that area and it sets a standard that I want to continue for the rest of the basement….more later….
Do they know something we don’t?
Well…it has been a curious couple of days with the first cracks appearing in the trump hold on what is left of the repub party and the question comes to mind is why? Why now when it has been more than a year since idiot boy instigated the attack on the capital and they have been silent until this week? What I think is happening is that there is huge amount of CYA going on with McConnell, Pence and the rest of the repubs who have broken with trump…I think they know that trump is toast with what is coming from the January 6th committee and the rest of the investigations of the criminal…and they just want to start distancing themselves while they still can before idiot boy gets charged and that distancing gets much, much harder. It will still be fun to watch…maybe the dam has broken and the orange moron is going to be left to rot at bedbug palace in Florida…we can only hope…
Let’s talk about Dolly…
Well…with news every day about crappy celebrity behavior that seems to flood into the air every day, the latest news about Dolly Parton is a welcome breath of fresh air…not surprising, but fresh air anyway. For a little personal background, I’m not a country music fan and don’t really follow it much but when I was young, my mother was a huge country fan with WJEF always playing with the real country music…at least to my mind, and she liked to watch the country music shows like Rem Wall and the Porter Wagoner show that Dolly was on…so I have been aware of her just about my entire life…and in that time, I don’t remember anyone saying a bad word about Dolly, and her genuine niceness was always who she was and that never changed in all those years…and there have been too many times to count where she used her well earned fortune to help people all over the country, and you very seldom heard about it…and now, her latest bid at making life better for a lot of people just made my jaw drop….just yesterday, it was announced that every employee at Dollywood no matter whether they are permanent, seasonal, or temps qualify for having their college paid for completely…tuition, books, fees and any other costs will be covered…and the cool thing is that you didn’t see Dolly out there taking credit for it even though it has to be her idea….now this is one of the coolest things I have ever heard and it puts all of the whining CEO’s across this country to shame as they bitch and moan that they can’t afford healthcare for their people, or raises, or anything else…and we all know that is because it would cut into their pay and they all think they are worth the millions they get paid while their employees are worth nothing. So, all I have to say is good on ya, Dolly…just keep being you…
Got the kitchen cabinets done…
Well….damn, that took a long time and lots and lots of work but it is finally done…not the whole kitchen, that will take another couple of weeks…after I take some time off to let my hands heal so they don’t keep me up all night again…but the kitchen cabinets are complete after putting the pulls on the drawers and putting them in…and putting the new blinds up on the window over the sink…oh, and cleaning the windows and the other two sets of blinds that were coated in dust…and that is a pain in the butt having to do each slat individually but it’s done and they are re-hung and look pretty damn good…so, am I going to take the rest of the day off? Ha, ha…no…I almost did but I really do want to get started on the dust room downstairs…won’t get it all done today but I’ll get a start at it and then cleaning is all I have to do for a week or so as I take it easy for my poor body…when I was cutting down a screw to make it fit in the top drawer’s thin head using my grinder with a cutoff wheel, I cut off a bunch of skin on my left hand this time so there is even more to heal….but, right now all I want to do is finish my coffee and make a marinated chicken leg quarter with some asparagus that was on sale for 1.49 a pound at Meijers today…I need a break….more later….
February 9th
Well…damn, running late this morning with waking up at 5:11 and thinking I was up for the day but laid back down and didn’t get up until 6:44 and that puts me late for doing this and getting on the bike by 7:15….didn’t sleep well at all last night with getting up an down all night and I am waiting for the coffee to work so I can get moving…I really can wait a little while to get on the bike since I can’t get out for the grocery run until 8:30 or so with Aldi’s not opening until 9….I am a little excited about finishing up the cupboards and getting the last blinds up in the kitchen this morning and then starting to clean up the dust room downstairs…that is so bad that it is going to take me a few days to clean up and I need to do the entire basement since the drop cloths didn’t contain all of the dust and there is a thin film on everything down there as there is up here from fitting up the doors a couple of days back…but cleanup means progress on the house and I can start putting the food back in my pantry cupboard today and will be back to normal in the kitchen in a couple of days…I do need to clean the double window and shades today, too, along with the walls and ceiling so I can get ready to paint in a couple of weeks….not much to do today…need to get my butt in gear and get on the bike right now after only one cup of coffee…and I’m not sure how that is going to go…more later….
Almost done…
Well…after eating dust for another day and finally getting the drawers painted with two coats, I can say I’m almost done with the kitchen…kitchen cabinets that is and will put the handles on them tomorrow and put them in their places…and I even got the last set of blinds today and can clean the window and install them tomorrow…and then two weeks of cleaning up downstairs and up here since I can leave trails in the dust everywhere and that can’t be healthy for me after the rashes I got from dust exposure the past few days…I did have a nice lunch with my brother today and that in itself was weird…went down to the no name saloon just down the street where you can get a burger, fries, and a beer for 6 bucks for lunch and I even picked up the tab…talking about the two new houses going up across the street, he mentioned that he thinks my house on this double lot is worth 140K now…and if that’s true, I’ve made 50K on this place since I bought it a year ago…. and that gives me almost 90K in equity…and that’s not bad with being broke 3 years ago…and that gets me well over my goal of having over 100K in assets that I thought I wouldn’t get to for a few years at least…so that makes me pretty comfortable and I am really looking forward to the week off after I clean this place up….life isn’t bad…
Is this enought to arrest idiot boy?
Well…just got back from lunch with my brother and I’m running a little late today…but I did want to talk about he latest criminal behavior by the idiot boy and am wondering again: is this enough to arrest him yet? Just a while back, the National Archivist had to raid the idiots bedbug ridden Florida golf course to retrieve 15 boxes of presidential records that he had stolen and I’m sure was going to try to sell to the highest bidder…but, none of that stuff belongs to him, it belongs to the US people and there is even a law against removing these records from the WH that has a penalty of 3 years in prison…and the kicker is that if he is convicted of this crime as he should be, he is disqualified from holding any office again…so no more running for president or anything else but we just need the DOJ to get some guts and prosecute him for at least one of the hundreds of crimes he has committed…this one should be a slam dunk…after all, how else would the records get there? Indict this ass now, and it will shut him up forever…do it!
February 8th
Well…the pain in my hands has finally gotten to the point that it is keeping me up at night even with taking an ibuprofen to try to make it tolerable…and I have one last day of abuse to load on them to finish the drawers today…I have decided to take a week or so off after today to let them heal up and the place needs a huge cleanup anyway with the dust I spread around fitting up the doors yesterday…I am looking forward to tearing down the dust room downstairs and getting that cleaned up in the next couple of days…the last set of blinds for the kitchen are out for delivery so I may get them today and that will be a project for tomorrow to install them but that means I need to get the window inset cleaned up and wash the window but I’ll wait til I get the brackets up before I do that so I only have to clean once…okay, that’s enough about the house…this is a little weird but I find myself enjoying going out to shovel the snow and getting some fresh air while I use new muscles that I don’t use working on the house….it seems just so old fashioned to have my sidewalks clear and not done with some kind of power equipment…I am thinking about buying a work bench to put downstairs so I can mount my vise to it and have a place to work on things…not sure where I’d put it but it could go in the space I’m using for the dust room or in the bike room…I saw a nice one online for about 150 bucks with two levels and other features that would make it handy….but, I burned a couple of grand this month with paying my property taxes and my house insurance along with all of the stuff I needed for the house so that will have to wait a while…not much to do today…just the drawers and starting on cleanup…and I think I’ll start putting the food back into the upper cupboards but it all needs to be sorted and cleaned first…and I need to toss stuff that has been in there for a year….more later…