Well…just a short one on a bit of good news that happened today on Staten Island in NY…an Amazon warehouse workforce voted to approve a union and it is the first one that Amazon hasn’t been able to lie, cheat, and steal to prevent…and the delicious bit of irony is the union organizer was a former worker that was fired for promoting the union…which is really against the law but Amazon got away with it somehow…okay, we know how…payoffs and millions of dollars to professional union busters that come in and lie to and threaten the workers with the bad things that will happen to them if they vote for the union…and with the record of abuse that Amazon piles on it’s workers, it is easy to understand why it would scare the workers into voting against the union. But, not this time….and it is a brand new union that Amazon is going to have to negotiate with as they try to make Amazon pay a living wage and actually adhere to the labor laws that they regularly ignore or break. So, congrats Amazon union… good job and let’s hope it’s just the start…after all, Jeff Bezos can surely afford to compensate his workers fairly…but, as we see with all these billionaire assholes, they are not happy until they have all the money that they make on the backs of their workers…oh, and one last thing…a quote from the organizer, Chris Smalls…”we want to thank Jeff Bezos for going into space, because while he was up there we were organizing a union”….a good bit of shade there…
Monthly Archives: April 2022
Progress…
Well…after waking up and feeling sore as I have in a while, I really never entertained taking the day off to heal…so, after a good bike ride, I get started on removing the leftover wallpaper backing and adhesive in the big bedroom…and 3 1/2 hours and 3/4ths of a gallon of wallpaper stripper later, that part of the job is done and making progress made me notice the pain a little less…not completely, but a little less but I do have to pay attention to how my body is reacting to all of the work…as you know, I’m not young anymore and just powering through a full day’s work on this place just isn’t in the cards…it is nice to have a clear path to finishing the room and that starts with hitting the sloppy patches with my grinder Monday to see what has to be done to smooth them and make them less noticeable…I may start with my sander first just to see if I can smooth them without spreading dust everywhere….I may start on filling the divots tomorrow since that takes little work and I can even sit on a stool while I do the low ones…but, I’m done for the day…I do have to remember that I’m not trying for perfection on the wall surfaces…just clean and better than it looked before…again, the next owners are the ones who can shoot for perfection….or they can live with my work…I’ll be dead so I won’t care….
God I hate republicans…part infinity…
Well…how terrible can one group of people in this country be? Cripes, it appears that the repubs are again racing toward the record and they are all smiles while doing it…just yesterday, after the repubs promised that if the dems separated the price of insulin from the big budget bill, they would vote for it to help people paying thousands every month for the drug that will keep them alive and take it from 1200 a month to a cap of 35 bucks a month…so, did I mention that repubs lie their asses off all the time? And this time is no different as 192 repubs voted against the bill…and their reasons are full of the inarticulate bullshit that they normally spout or they won’t explain it at all… but, we all know that the big pharma companies got to them and paid them off to keep a drug that costs 10 bucks to make at over 1200 bucks a month…and they don’t give a damn after hearing from Americans who have to ration the only thing that is keeping them alive since they can’t afford it…how the hell are we losing to these guys? This vote needs to be tattooed to the forehead of every damn one of them that just sentenced Americans to death with this vote…and then they have the gall to go on tv and whine about gas prices that are up a buck and try to blame Biden for it when it is the oil companies that are driving the price increase…now, I hope you get why I just hate these assholes….geez…
April 1st
Well…it appears that the two day pain rule is in effect today and I hurt everywhere from scraping the last wall Wednesday with how hard it was…but I am going to be back at it today to try to get the remaining paper and adhesive off the last three walls…and then I’ll have to wash it to get the stripper off the walls before I start the repairs of all of the divots and missing plaster….I am a little depressed that my allergies are really bad today and my eyes are affected and filled with crap that is making my vision blurry…just used eye drops to try to fix that and it seems to have helped a bit but the small print on my tablet is still a bit of a chore to read…when is the damn snow going to stop out here? We got another couple of inches overnight and the ground is covered again and that is a bunch of crap for it being April 1st….and, with just one nice day day next week, we are going to be two weeks into this month before I’ll be back out on the bike outside….I am tired of it being in the 40′s…but I have to remember that I shouldn’t waste my energy thinking about it or I’ll just got more depressed….not much to do today….just the walls in the bedroom, the bike ride, and cleaning the bottom of the fridge to get the blood out of it from the pork chops I thawed the other day when the bag leaked…what a pain in the butt…but I am going to get to have a marinated pork chop for lunch and that almost makes up for it….not quite, but almost….more later…