Well…when I got up this morning and we didn’t get any snow last night, I decided to head out to Meijers to try to get the ingredients I need to make ham soup and the store was still nuts…nothing on the shelves and long lines to check out…but I did get what I needed so I am ready to start hibernating and get ready to start shoveling snow later today….didn’t get much done yesterday and I’m not planning on doing much but clean a little later but I need to get on the bike first…only had one meal yesterday and I’m feeling it today…pretty worn out and feeling a little old….I had to buy 1% milk instead of non fat this morning since they were out of what I normally buy….maybe that will be good to put on the cheerios I’ve had in the cupboard for months….man, doing all the work of going out was really hard this morning and all I want to do is sit here and do nothing…but I won’t…need 75 more miles to hit my goal and it’s in sight….but it’s cold downstairs and I am not looking forward to it….not much to do today…going to clean the living room so I can hibernate in peace and not look at the mess…okay, not a mess but I do have books piled on the coffee table I need to put away…and I need to dust everything in here since it is bugging the heck out of me….and I need to rotate the couch cushions and dust it, too….more later….
Monthly Archives: December 2022
One good thing…
Well…one good thing about the aborted afternoon Meijers run…when I was leaving, a guy walked up to me to ask about my Miata and I found out he used to own one…then we got talking about mountain bikes and trails to ride around here and I found out he lives right next to the trail I ride outside every day…we stood outside in the cold for 45 minutes…these are the kind of things that make me smile after not talking much for a week….
I gave up….
Well…when I forgot to get a couple of things this morning to make ham soup, I decided to make a quick run out to Meijers to get the veggies and containers I needed and that was a mistake…starting with getting virtually the last parking spot in the lot, I walked in the door and the lines for the cash registers were all the way across the entire store and even the self checkouts had a line that snaked all the way through the produce area and would take a good half hour to 45 minutes just to get to the checkout…so I just gave up an turned around and walked out…I guess I can make soup next week…glad I got the big stuff in the morning but even then I had to wait in line for the self checkouts….it’s just nuts out there….
Trump’s taxes…
Well…the House ways and means committee released the idiot trump’s taxes yesterday and, as expected, there are dozens of shady real estate deals and the fact that he doesn’t pay taxes…offsetting any income with “charitable deductions” that are shady, too…using nonexistent property that he “donated” to save himself from paying millions in taxes….and there are lots of missing documentation where he is just making things up to lower his tax bill…like writing off two million dollars in property taxes in NY when the limit for those deductions is 10K….and all of this has been discovered in the few hours the returns have been public…what will they find once a forensic accountant goes to work…it’s pretty clear why idiot boy didn’t want anyone to see these returns….they are filled with fraud of the same sort he has pulled his entire life, changing evaluation of property depending on whether he was getting a loan or paying taxes….now I wonder if they will charge him with tax fraud? After all, they have already convicted his company of fraud so you can bet the same things are being done in his returns…get after it IRS…geez…
December 21st
Well…running about on time this morning with getting out of bed around 6:30 but I’m not getting started and I need to…only have a few minutes until I need to get on the bike so I can start the prep day for the big storm that is coming…it is going to get ugly tomorrow and I want to be ready to hibernate for a week or so…and that means hitting three stores after the bike ride…didn’t get much done yesterday but laundry and I do need to clean with all of the dust in here that is coating everything even with not working on the house…I may even head out to DD to get some ham…yeah, do I need more ham? They have it for 99 cents for a half pound and I could use some for the freezer…we’ll see….my back didn’t hurt at all yesterday for the first time in months and I wonder how that happened….I did heat it once even without pain but I am going to put the heating pad away today if it holds up…damn, this is going to be a busy morning and I’m not looking forward to it…just frickin worn out and I’m having a hard time getting started….oh, goody…now my computer is flashing a winter storm warning at me…2 feet of snow is coming and I have to deal with that….not much to do today…just the grocery runs and then the second bike ride and I really can’t wait til it’s over…more later….
Need a new furnace filter…
Well….don’t know why I did it but I just remembered to check my furnace filter and I just had to laugh…with all of the filling, sanding and dust in this house since I moved in, the filter has about a quarter of an inch of dust on it and it must have barely flowed any air….so I just took it out and will have to get a new one tomorrow during the grocery run…I need another bag of melting salt anyway with the big storm coming an now it looks like we are going to get almost two feet of snow starting Thursday through Saturday with high winds that will make for blowing and drifting and lots of damn shoveling…oh, well…
Bring it on…
Well…with all of the threats the repubs in the house have been leveling for investigations on everyone for everything, the only thing I have to say is bring it on…the one thing our side does is follow the rules and I don’t think the public really wants the repub bullshit anymore…they are admitting that they are not going to govern but just take revenge on the dems for doing their jobs and helping Americans and the world…I am getting pretty damn tired of the projection that these asses perform every day…since the repubs are so corrupt, they think everyone is but look what happened the last time they controlled the house…8 investigations of Benghazi and Hillary sitting in front of a committee for 11 hours and what did they get out of it…yep, nothing…they found no wrongdoing of any sort and that is what they are going to find this time no matter what the crazies like jordan think….I mean how do you investigate a conspiracy theory? That is all the supposed wrongdoing by dems is and I think it’s going to expose the repubs for who they are….lunatics…geez…
December 20th
Well…running late and I really don’t know why…was up before 6:30 so I should have had this done 30 minutes ago…just had my first sip of coffee and it’s 7:26 and that is just wrong….not sure why I feel this compulsion to get going every morning but I think it’s the only thing that prevents me from becoming an undisciplined slug and melting into the couch….didn’t get a lot done yesterday other than the rides and today is going to follow that template…I do need to get the grocery lists done today so I can get ready to hibernate for a few days as the big storm comes in and I do need to hit depot tomorrow to get a furnace filter and a bag of salt to keep the walks clear….just looked at the weather and they are forecasting 15-17 foot waves and wind gusts of up to 50 mph from Thursday night through Saturday night….ick….the plows did come through last night and all it did was clear the snow off the streets and exposed the ice under it…so now the roads are a skating rink and I will be sliding around when I go out for groceries tomorrow….they still haven’t plowed the alley behind the house so I may have to shovel it out to 7th but that’s only about 20 feet and I can do that…..not much to do today…just need to drag my butt off this couch and get going…but that will need more coffee and that even seems like a lot of work right now….more later….
Big storm coming…
Well…the news just keeps getting more dire about the storm that is supposed to hit here Thursday and continue through the weekend with over a foot of snow and steady winds of almost 40 mph gusting to 50 or so and the high is going to be about 17 Saturday…so that will make the wind chill way below zero…so, I need to get my groceries Wed and have enough to get through the weekend which really isn’t that much since I don’t eat much…but I am going to get a turkey at 55 cents a pound to make Sunday and get the ingredients I need for ham soup if the weather is going to be crappy, but that will fill the freezer back up again…I will have enough soup for the whole winter, though, and that will be cool…not looking for ward to shoveling a couple of times a day for the next week or so…I suppose I could work on the dining room trim…we’ll see….
Four charges for trump…
Well…the January 6th hearing is over with 4 charges referred to the Justice Department against the idiot trump and his cronies…1. Obstruction of an Official Proceeding 2. Conspiracy to defraud the United States 3. Conspiracy to make false statements 4. Insurrection
Yow! All felonies and all pretty damn serious and they are referring some of conspirators in the House to the ethics committee for failure to do their jobs and cooperate with the investigation….and the committee was clear that there are many, many more people who were involved in this conspiracy that will also be referred as part of this package…I am still waiting for idiot boy’s reaction to the committee slapping him in the face and that will be glorious….more later….