Well…that was okay…tossed and turned a bit but slept well and had dreams all night…and I can’t remember the last time that happened but I take it all day long….I wonder if it was the late bike ride yesterday? Had a good day yesterday and got a bunch done and want to continue cleaning up the dining room just to make a mess of it again with starting on the trim in there today….it has been so nice not living in dust over the summer but that has already ended with doing the bathroom door and frame and the dust settling on the stove and everything else out there but I’ve learned how to clean it up quickly…I do need to figure out why the vacuum is not pulling the dust out of the sander anymore and I may have to blow it out with compressed air to clear it….it looks like I’m going to wear gloves on the bike today with the high of 51 happening right now and it not getting any warmer…and the wind is already blowing over 10 out of the west so the out runs are going to be brutal again but I will do two runs today…I should get the bike out when it gets light to hose all the grit off it since it was interfering with shifting on the ride yesterday…I do need to drop my ballot off at the drop box this morning on the first ride to make sure it gets counted but it’s 3 weeks before the election so I think I’m okay….the January 6th committee’s last hearing is on today at 1 so I need to have everything done before that so I can watch the whole thing….not much to do today…don’t have to cook since I have leftovers but I may make a last batch of pasta salad since I still have a green pepper and celery that needs to be used and don’t want to throw that away…and I like having an easy side to go with sandwiches….more later….
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Got a bike ride in!
Well…damn, never thought the rain was going to let up enough to get out on the bike, but at around 5:30 I looked at the radar and then out the front porch and it had stopped…so, like an idiot, I suited up and got on the bike and it was cold, wet, and dirty and the wind that was supposed to be blowing at 3 out of the nw was actually blowing 10-12 and that made it a bit of a slog going out…and by the time I started back from the beach, the temp had started to drop like a rock and by the time I got back here my hands were frozen and I was nearly shaking…but a hot shower fixed that and now it’s time to settle in for a little tv…feel a lot better with getting one ride in at least….
Alex Jones is toast…
Well…sometimes justice is served…just a few minutes ago,the verdict came down in the trial of Alex Jones, the owner of inforwars who spent the past 10 years lying about the massacre at Sandy Hook where 20 children and 6 adults were killed by an idiot who just wanted to be famous….and in that 10 years he hammered on his internet program that the massacre was a hoax and that the kids murdered didn’t exist and were played by “crisis actors”…and he made millions upon millions of dollars from his orc followers from his lies…and he also spurred many of them to threaten the families with death and constantly harass them..to the point that many of these grieving families had to move multiple times to try to escape from the non-stop threats that Jones asked for every day…so today, some small amount of justice came for the families when the jury awarded them and an FBI agent who responded to the massacre 965 million dollars in damages which should put this asshole out of business…but now, the feds need to go after Jones since it has been clear since the first suit against him and the first award of 49.5 million dollars that he has been trying to hide all of his assets in shell companies and then plead poverty to the courts to get out of paying anything to these people who he terrorized. I really wish the judge would seize everything he has today or he will be back on the air riling up his followers again that will lead to more violence…and more fundraising from his orc followers…that has to stop…
Taking the day off…
Well…it looks like there is a window to get out on the bike with no rain right now, but then sitting here, I heard the wind howl along the side of the house and shake it a bit and that is going to keep me off the bike with how bad my back has been lately….and there is only a small break in the clouds that is going to end in about an hour and I sure don’t want to get wet….I did spend a ton of money today with having to pay 60 bucks for the medication I need for the colonoscopy since it is not covered by medicare…even the liquid stuff that I took last time was over 40 bucks so 60 bucks three years later isn’t bad…Meijers didn’t have the Hatfield pork loins but they did have some small Meijer ones that I am hoping will be as tender as the ones I got earlier in the week…that may be the key, getting smaller ones but we’ll see when I cook some of one of them….and I still have room to cut these two up and put them in the freezer but won’t be buying any more protein for a couple of weeks…I did get the couch and living room rug vacuumed and laundry done so I have accomplished a couple of things today and will continue to do a few small things for the rest of the afternoon….will probably clean up the dining room, too since the table in there is covered in junk that needs to be put away so it doesn’t get dusty when I start sanding in there later this week…damn, I spent 147 bucks on prescriptions and food today but that included 13 bucks for paper towel that will last me the rest of the year and lots of staples that will do the same…and almost 12 bucks for the pork loins didn’t help…oh, well…won’t have to spend any money next week…
Got my ballot filled out….
Well…with all of the attacks that the repubs have made on voting rights across the country, I have to remind people here in Michigan that they haven’t taken away the one thing that makes voting so easy there is no excuse for skipping any election…permanent absentee ballots…here in Michigan you can still get put on the permanent absentee ballot list for any reason or no reason…all you have to do is apply for one at the Michigan SoS or your local city or country clerk and then every ballot will show up at your door at least a couple of weeks before the election…and then all you have to do is mail it back or drop it off at the clerks office….here in Muskegon, they have a drop box in front of the cop shop that you can save money on postage if you want…that’s what I normally do since the box is only about 4 blocks from here and I can ride my bike there…and I already have my ballot filled out and I will drop it off as soon as the weather permits…probably later in the week…all you have to do is make sure it is mailed before 8pm on election day but to make sure it’s counted, a week before is a good idea…and there is no standing in line, no finding your precinct, and no driving there…I do miss the camraderie that came from actually visiting the polling place but, as I get older, I find that convenience trumps that…so there is no excuse to not vote anymore…and,if you’re reading this, you probably have a progressive leaning and we need all the votes we can get and this election is the first one using the new non-partisan district lines drawn by the independent commission that could even out control of the state if we just get the hell out and vote…and remember, voting rights and women’s rights along with financial disclosure rules are on the ballot, too, so get out and vote and take that attack by the repubs away from them….and make the repubs say which billionaires are trying to steal the election from this one forward…lots of reasons to vote and make Michigan a better state….
Big news no one is talking about…
Well…read an article yesterday that seems to me to be a pretty big deal but no one is talking about it…just the other day, the Biden administration put new restrictions on chip sales to China, restricting those for AI and high performance computing and the machinery to make these chips…curbs to the machinery necessary to make logic and memory chips and restrictions on US people supporting the development or manufacture of those chips…and bans exports of American designs to China and and stops them from buying tech…and the reason is the well known tactic that China uses to steal US technology and then use that tech to try to monopolize chip production by undercutting prices of other manufacturers and tryin to put them out of business so you have to go to China…and the folly of depending on China is exactly what happened during the pandemic….shortages of chips and huge negative effects on the US economy. It appears to me that this is all part of insulating the US economy from supply chain problems by not relying on China for chips necessary for damn near everything, starting with the auto industry, and is part of the announcements of 50 billion dollars in chipmaking capacity that has been happening almost daily since Biden took over…this is what happens when you elect an intelligent, experienced person to be president and who surrounds himself with knowledgeable, competent people who can understand global commerce and the dangers that parts of it poses….every day, I’m glad that Biden and his team are in charge…the US is moving forward because of it….
October 12th
Well…darn…up three times overnight and I am running out of steam…but it looks like I’ll have the day off the bike today with it raining right now and forecast to continue all day…glad I got the lawn mowed yesterday and two rides in….my damn back is still hurting and this is the longest time it has hurt in a long, long time and I’m not sure how I continually hurt it but it is so stiff that I am trying not to move much….so the rain means I’ll be working on this place after the grocery runs this morning and I do need to clean the living room and rotate the couch cushions…and vacuum everything so I will have stuff to do even with the rain….don’t need to cook anything today with still having pork loin leftovers and a couple of brats to use before I make the pork stir fry later in the week…and I think I may even do the slow cooker recipe that I made with chicken last week but I think I’ll make it with pork this time since I like these pork loins so much…that is if they have any left at Meijers when I get there this morning….I do like hearing the rain hitting the house since it happens so rarely…it is kind of relaxing knowing I don’t have to rush to get on the bike…and I don’t have to get out of here until after 8:30 since I do have to pick up a prescription and the pharmacy doesn’t open til 9…so forced relaxation, how does that work? Not much to do today….still have two hours before I have to get out of here and it will be cool seeing my newly waxed and rain-x’ed car shedding the rain as I drive it…yeah, little things like that make me smile…and my garage door opener has worked for two weeks now without any problems and I wonder if it was my cleaning of the electric eyes that stop the door from hitting things that are in the way? Whatever it is, I’ll take it….more later….
So now Elon Musk is a Russian agent…
Well…a long time ago, I thought that ole Elon was actually not a bad guy even with the racism that is rampant at his Tesla factory in California…but now, with his choice to pal around with trump and his minions, he is showing he is just another maga asshole and that fact was further highlighted with the revelation that, before he commented that Ukraine should “negotiate” with Russia and that Crimea should stay an occupied Russian territory, ole Elon talked personally to the war criminal Putin to get what talking points Putin wanted him to say…now, if I was elon, I would be registering as a foreign agent of Russia before the feds show up at his doorstep…or better yet, if you think so much of Putin and Russia as the whole repub party does, I don’t think anyone would miss you if you moved there permanently…I sure wouldn’t miss your bullshit or you letting the criminal trump back on twitter if that sale ever goes through…this is how you treat a country who welcomed you from South Africa? Now, I’m as big a free speech supporter as anyone, but when you consort with our enemies and push their propaganda, that is giving aid and comfort to the enemy…and that is the definition of treason….better lawyer up…geez…
A disjointed day…
Well…it was just so easy over the summer figuring out how each day was going to go and the routine was pretty consistent…but, as the weather has started to change, I’ve found I have to be much more flexible and that makes my days pretty disjointed…like today when I had to wait to get on the bike and had to find something to fill the time until that happened…so, I cleaned the bathroom and the new cleaner I bought to do the shower worked pretty well but I think it will need another spray and scrub to get all the calcium and soap off…after I got back from the second ride, I grabbed an already cooked brat and wrapped it in a slice of bread and ate that on the run for lunch as I went out to mow the lawn…it looks like it’s going to rain off and on for the next few days with some high wind and I wanted the grass to be short so at least some of the leaves would blow away and I won’t have to pick them up….after that, I got cleaned up and used my sparkling shower and finally had the chance to read the news and get a political one done here…finally…but I was still hungry so I got out the piece of leftover pork loin fro yesterday and sliced that up and had it with some horseradish mustard that I got from aldis…after having the other half of the pork loin in marinade for more than a day, I decided to cook up the other 4 pieces that were in the bag and I cut the other pork loin up and got it in bags in the freezer…so I really do hope that they have more and I can get another couple of bags in the freezer to have some that will last a while….so now I’m back here after this day of winging it with no plans and it still feels disjointed…like I’m missing something…and it looks like rain here for the evening and through most of the night that should start here around 5 or so and we can sure use it….right now it’s soccer time and then a leftover dinner of chicken, pasta salad and tomatoes…..that’s enough for the day….
The rubes get screwed again….
Well…I wonder if the rubes that support the idiot trump and continue to give him millions of dollars as he lies to them that it is going to be used to support other maga candidates are ever going to wake up? They have given him over a hundred million dollars to “stop the steal” or whatever other bullshit he feeds them and it really doesn’t matter what it is, they just send him cash just like any other cult leader or mega church pastor…I mean how many jets does a “pastor” need? So, it was just reported that idiot boy doesn’t have any of that money left other than what is going to pay his lawyers…no money for candidates, no money for ads, no money for anything but the idiot’s lawyers…I guess he does need a lot of them since he committed a minimum of 56 crimes since he came down that escalator and started off the national nightmare that goes on to this day. I’m pretty okay with him spending money on lawyers and not having any to interfere with our elections although pushing maga candidates is the best way for us to keep the senate and house in a month….I know people keep admonishing we on the left for looking down on the maga crowd…but how stupid do you have to be to keep giving money to an obvious grifter who is just going to take your money and run? And to believe the 10′s of thousands of lies the idiot has spewed over the past 6 years? I will look down on people who allow themselves to be duped by an obvious conman and revel in the grift…and I won’t feel bad about it…geez…