Well…as I sit here waiting for the pizza to warm up, I thought I’d do one of these before I head out to the beach….Ohioans, don’t be fooled over the next few months when your airwaves will be flooded by ads for the right wing asshole Jd Vance that will try to lie and lie to you and make him into a reasonable person…but the only thing you need to know is that the 28 million dollars that are to be spent come from a political slush fund run by mitch mcconnell…you know the guy…he stole 3 supreme court seats that led to women losing their right to control their own bodies and now with some states trying to ensure that these rights are restored…that, by the way, over 70% of the people in this country want…mitch is trying to pack the senate with trump wannabees that would pass federal laws that would make sure the states couldn’t do it…that guy…and Vance’s opponent, Tim Ryan, would do everything in his power to protect those rights along with social security and medicare…so there is not really any choice to be made here…trump junior or a fighter for the people…Ohioans, don’t be fooled..vote for Ryan…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
August 19th
Well…my sleep deficit caught up with me last night and I only woke up once at 5:41 but didn’t get out of bed until after 7 and that felt pretty good…but, I feel a little groggy this morning and I know it’s going to be hard to get going especially when it’s already 7:26 and I just poured my first cup of coffee….my skin is getting pretty abused with all of the beach time so I had to slather it with some lotion last night to try to make it not look like old leather but I’m not sure if it is going to work or not…I did watch the new top gun movie last night and it was okay…not sure if it rated an 86% rating but it entertained me for a couple of hours so I guess that’s good enough….I do need to find another show to watch since I am running out of Killjoys to fill the time from 7 to 8 pm until I watch the new shows on plex…not sure what that will be since there are few shows that I want to watch a second time…or that enough time has passed so I don’t really remember them and they don’t bore me….I did make the pizza that I had in the freezer yesterday and it came out good with loading it up with extra toppings instead of just the 4 cheeses that came on it….but I think I have too much stuff to use up before it spoils with tacos, pizza, and pasta salad in the fridge….and I have a head of lettuce to make salads to use the tomatoes I’ve gotten out of the garden…and you know I have to manage my caloric intake so it’s going to be a chore…oh, well…not much to do today…not sure if I’m going to the beach today…I did get a swim in yesterday but it was pretty damn cold and I couldn’t stay in long…not feeling it right now and it’s almost 7:45…so I won’t get out on the bike for a while and that’s okay…need to stop having a schedule and feeling I have to keep it….yeah, that’s not going to happen…more later…
Weisselberg pleads guilty to 15 felonies…
Well…gee…didn’t see this one coming except for forever…Alan Weisselberg, the guy who ran the trump orginization for 40 years just plead guilty to 15 counts of felony tax fraud, larceny, and a bunch of other counts for fraud that went on for decades…and given that nothing at the trump company happened without the idiot trump’s okay, we are finally on the road to holding the entire trump crime family accountable for their business model of committing as many crimes as they can. There have been reports that he would only get a 5 month sentence for all of these guilty pleas but the caveat is that if he refuses to testify in the other trials of trump and his cronies, the ag will ask for the maximum sentences which would put him in jail for the rest of his life…so it appears that we are just getting started seeing the trumps on the hotseat and it needs to speed up and we need to see a perp walk of trump and all of his kids…it can’t happen too soon…geez…
August 18th
Well…still a little confused about not sleeping at all for the past week or so with not doing anything different to cause it…I guess I’m just getting into the insomnia caused by getting old and I don’t like it…but I feel okay even with only a few hours so I can live with it….and I’m not too sore today but I did have my right hamstring start to hurt on the bike yesterday and that is a little weird since it’s normally the front of my thigh that hurts….okay, that’s enough of that…it was nice to get a few things done around here yesterday and I’ll probably keep that up today…didn’t get to the living room yesterday but it only needs some dusting and vacuuming and should only take about an hour or so….and I’ll get out on the bike here in a few minutes to get the day started….the bike has been working great since I figured out why the rear shifter was going out of adjustment and why it was shifting so hard….haven’t had to touch it for a week now and that is pretty cool….I should put the pedal back on the black bike and take it out for a ride since it’s not good to have them just sit in the basement…and I know it will need to be lubed but it was working right when I put it away so I hope it still is….I am a little wistful that the summer is coming to a close but it has been a good one with taking some time for me for a change….and I still have a week or so before labor day to get ready to get back to work and I am looking forward to it and the changes that will come from getting the dining and living room painted…going to be lots of work but I have all winter…not much to do today….just going to get on the bike after I have another cup of coffee and ease into the day…I am going to the beach after lunch and I hope the water is warm enough to swim….running out of those days…more later….
Good idea to skip the beach today….
Well…I had waffled a bit on the idea of skipping the beach today but it has turned out to be a good idea and is making for a productive day today….after I got the groceries done and took the second ride, I got right on doing the trimming on the lawn and finished that up by noon and that would have been enough time to get out to the beach but I didn’t want to rush and had lots of other things to do instead…got the laundry started and now in the dryer, got both the garden and the flowers watered and had some pasta salad for lunch but still need to put the groceries away and get to cleaning the living room and bathroom…but I have two hours to get that done before soccer at 3 and it is really nice to just take a relaxing day and give my skin a rest…..and that will make tomorrow a free day so it will be back out to the beach thurs and fri….I still have sand in my fingernails even with showering and using my fingernail brush a couple of times since yesterday…I think it’s going to take me weeks to clean it all up out of the house and car after beach season is over….but, I’ve enjoyed the beach a lot even if I don’t know how to relax…..right now I need to get moving again if I’m going to get anything else done….
They are not good people…
Well… with Liz Cheney losing her primary to an election denying moron and the media still trying to rehabilitate her and Adam Kinzinger…let’s all just remember these are not good people…they voted with trump over 90% of the time and continued their attack on voting rights by voting against the restoration of the voting rights act that the supreme court gutted, voted against disclosure of presidential candidate tax returns, voted against the John Lewis voting rights act…and let’s not stop there, they both voted against abortion rights, transgender rights, and they both voted for cutting taxes on the super rich and corporations while trying to get the ACA repealed so that regular Americans would lose their healthcare….and they both never saw a war they didn’t love and were against getting out of Afghanistan even after we were spending money and lives there for 16 years….these are despicable people who only did one thing right…opposing a violent coup from the idiot trump…so, let’s not get too carried away…neither of these people are a “national treasure”..they can be commended for their January 6th committee service but that is a very low bar to get over…it used to be all repubs would have opposed the fascism on the right..but no more..they love them some trump and the permission he has given them to be the worst people they can be….and these two went along until now…geez…
August 17th
Well…damn, that was the worst sleep I can remember in a long time…up too many times to count with a result of about a 2 1/2 to 3 hours night…ick….had an okay day yesterday and did get out to the beach but the lake had turned again and it was just too damn cold to go swimming and that sucked since it is the major reason I go to the beach…so, I may skip today and just clean the house some since I noticed I have lots of spiders in the corners and I’ve let the living room and dining room get pretty messy…and my skin does need some rest since it feels tight today…and I do have the grocery run to do this morning after I do the first ride….don’t have a lot to get but I do need to stock up on paper products since I will be getting back at working on this place right after labor day…and I need to get more drain cleaner to keep the kitchen drain flowing…don’t have a lot of food to get since there is no cheap protein on sale….going to live on big salads using my own tomatoes for the next week or so and that will help me keep the calories down…not that I need to think about that, I do that by accident almost every day….not much to do today….need to get on the bike here in a few minutes but don’t really need to rush since it is still dark and I need to be able to see….and I’m hitting the local Meijers today instead of the nice one on the east side since it will take time to put gas in the car and get the rest of the Meijers stuff before Aldis opens at 9….then I’m just going to work around here after the second ride…should be out by 10 for that one….but I’m damn tired this morning and wonder how I’m going to fare with little sleep…is there a nap in my future? Who knows? More later….
No news…senate races…
Well…it appears to be a slow news day so I think I’ll just start to write and see what happens….it looks like we may be able to keep the senate and even expand our majority there with our side being ahead in 3 races where we are trying to replace retiring repubs…in Pennsylvania, Fetterman leads the carpetbagger Oz by almost 10 point and the trends are favoring our side….in Ohio, Tim Ryan leads Vance by 4 or 5 points…and one outlier poll in Florida has Val Demmings ahead of Rubio by 4 points but that is just one poll and I really don’t think she is ahead but it is close….and even in Wisconsin Mandela Barnes is ahead of the Russian traitor Johnson by a few and there is a real chance that we could pick that one up, too…one big key in all of this is the repub senate election committee has pulled almost 15 million dollars in ads that were to run this fall since they are having fundraising problems and we are out raising them by 2 to 1….and the push from our side is going to be the extremism of even the “moderate” repub candidates and will pound them with the overturning Roe and the rush to take women’s rights away…a winning strategy since 72% of the people in this country want those rights restored….now we just need to hold the house and we can make new laws that will guarantee that women will keep their rights…fingers crossed…
August 16th
Well…damn, I’m exhausted this morning and I know part of it is from not sleeping well at all and my stomach is very upset to the point I need some antacids…but that means I didn’t eat enough yesterday and, thinking about it, I was under 1k calories again and I need to stop doing that to myself….I think I can fix that today with making tacos for dinner later and having a big container of pasta salad that I made yesterday…but I still do need to eat it and that is the hard part…didn’t get out of bed til quarter to 7 today but that is not as good as it looks…tossed and turned all night and only got about 4 hours again and that is just not enough….oh, well…I did get some stuff done yesterday and with mowing the lawn, I don’t have a lot to do today other than the normal routine but I’m not sure if I’m going to the beach today…just got a little burned yesterday and that wears me out, too so I may skip today….man, I need to get going but I don’t feel like it….I know I’ll feel better when I get on the bike but I have no motivation right now….and it’s only 56 out there so it will be pretty damn cold…it will wake me up but I’m so tired…can I just sit here and read the news? Nope…more later….
Ow….
Well…damn, how the heck do I hurt myself just mowing the lawn? Sitting here now, my right side and back just had a stabbing pain in them that has continued as pretty persistent and tight which makes it quite stiff and a little uncomfortable…oh, well…I did get a lot of stuff done today and was pretty busy most of the day…I even made some more pasta salad with some tricolor rotini that I got from Aldi’s that came out pretty good and I can’t wait til it gets cold so I can try it….and got some tomato sauce that was just what my homemade salsa needed and I can now use it when I make tacos tomorrow….had to pick up some more allergy meds today at Meijers since I’m down to my last four and I noticed that the ragweed is blooming right now along the trail so I expect I’ll get hit with that later in the week….and that is the worst for me and started me down the allergy path about 25 years ago…I do have a small self rising 4 cheese pizza in the freezer that I’m going to enhance with pepperoni, green olives, green pepper, and onions along with just a bit of the shredded cheddar I have for the tacos…and that will last me the rest of the week so I won’t have to cook again until the weekend….and that will be out of the freezer since there is not any protein on sale this week…so far, we’ll see about DD on wed….time to read some news…