Well…man, I need to get off my butt and start getting some things done around here…haven’t done anything but water the garden, flowers, and grass out front and make lunch so I feel like a slug….so, tomorrow I’ll get back to it and get more packing done but I don’t want to pack my shirts until the day before I leave so they won’t be as wrinkled when I get to the UK…have another rehab appointment tomorrow at 11:45am and I think I’m getting to the end of what I want to pay for…so this week will be the last week…and then I’ll keep up the exercises they have given me and just do them here….I do have to log my exercises from yesterday and today on my rehab page…so I guess I’ll get back to it…
Monthly Archives: August 2023
August 27th
Well..dang, it got cold out here last night and I forgot to close my bedroom window so I was freezing overnight….still cold right now but I can live with it after the heat and humidity….slept okay last night but my allergies are really bad today…I really want to get on the bike and this last week of waiting is going to be hard…I did expect that the heat was going to come on last night with it only 53 right now and having the window open but it hasn’t…the little weather widget at the bottom of the screen is shouting “humid” and “near record lows” still and now I’m waiting for “high pollen” to come up and I will have hit the trifecta….don’t feel too bad right now but I am still discovering new pains and I am not sure where the heck they are coming from…still have the neck pain on my right side and it must be from sleeping on that side lately…don’t have a lot to do today after getting the laundry done yesterday and I have leftover chicken masala to eat today so I don’t have to cook but I should do more than one meal even without getting any exercise….have to figure out what to do with the tomatoes I have in the fridge and plan on getting the garden taken out before the UK trip….I am just do damn worn out…need coffee….more later…
Greedy billionaires…
Well…just wanted to do a short one on a chart that I just saw on Mastodon about the Hollywood actor and writer’s strike that has beewn going on for a couple of months now…to hear the studios talk, you would think that even giving the writers a penny more would bankrupt every studio and they would all go out of business…but the reality of it is the studios have taken advantage of the writers for decades and have never paid them anywhere near what they are worth to the studio’s bottom line…and the chart I saw showed that…for example, if the writers that work for Disney got everything they are asking for, it would cost them 72 million dollars a year…which is .088 of a percent of their revenues…at Netflix, it would cost them 65 million dollars or .205 of a percent…and at Warner Brothers, it would cost them 45 million dollars or .104 of a percent of revenue….yeah…piddling amounts that they can surely afford but the billionaires who own and run the studios are just greedy and want to hoard all the money for themselves…in fact the ceo of each one of these companies makes more than what all of the writers are asking for…so what’s fair? One greedy ass getting everything or thousands of writers finally making enough to live on? I know what’s fair to me…geez…
August 26th
Well…man, it got colder than I expected with the low of around 60 last night and I tossed and turned enough to throw the sheet and blanket off the bed…so I didn’t sleep that well but that’s okay…it is going to be an easy day today with lots of sports and races on…Man U plays at 10 but they have so many injuries so who knows what the team is going to look like…my shoulder, neck, and back hurt today and I wonder if it’s from the swim or from sleeping…all I know is it hurts and I may put the rehab exercises off for a bit…okay, the little weather widget on my screen just changed to “near record lows” for tonight so it will be in the 50′s and I’ll have to close this place up later….yep, just checked and it’s going to be 53 tonight and that is getting close to having the heat come on…in August? That is just too damn weird…it’s supposed to be in the 90′s in August…hmmm…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I am going to do laundry this morning since I need to keep packing and there are clothes in the basket that need to go in the suitcase….have a lot of tomatoes that need to be eaten and I think I may just make today a tomato day and just eat those all day…but, I’m not supposed to eat more than 2 a day to avoid irritation of my bladder as it heals…too many damn restrictions…I really want to get on the bike and we are getting to 5 weeks after the surgery and I wonder if I could try a short ride today? Not much to do today…going to pretty much be a veg day after I get laundry started but it’s not even 7 yet so I have time before I have to get going….more later…
What an idiot…
Well…damn, I laughed out loud when I saw the idiot trump’s mug shot from being arrested last night…I’m pretty sure he thought he was looking tough but he just looks like he just filled his diapers and ran out of new ones….I know that he has been told to shut the hell up by his lawyers or he’ll end up in the can until his trials so this is what he does for his deranged followers…giving them a visual cue that he is the toughest guy in the gang and it is just so sorry…and memes out there are really funny, too, as people take the mug shot and turn it into very funny ideas…and you noticed he didn’t say anything as he went in or out of the jail or at his plane at the airport…I’m pretty sure the lawyers told him they were out of there if he keeps up his bullshit attacking everyone…I still don’t think he believes he’s in any trouble and will get out of all of this just fine…and within an hour, he had the mugshot on a fundraising e-mail sent out to his glassy eyed disciples…and one of the newspeople on MSNBC last night made the funny comment that his followers were going to pay for the fuel for his jet in just the time he spent going from the jail to the airport…what a bunch of morons…geez…
Got to the beach…
Well…got to the beach today and got a short, short swim in…more of a dip really since the water was so damn cold…the storms that came through yesterday must have turned the lake over and brought the cold stuff up since it felt like it couldn’t have been warmer than the upper 50′s…so it was a splash and go…when I got back here I made a batch of chicken masala that came out good and now I’m sitting here feeling stuffed and looking for a political topic so I’ll get to that by reading some news over on Mastodon…be back in a bit…
August 25th
Well…that was better…slept okay and didn’t get out of bed til around 6 and I’ll take that any day…allergies are nuts, though, and I’ll have to try some flonase here in a minute just to be able to breathe…don’t feel too bad this morning and I really should after having cocktails last night…so I’m not sure what the day is going to be…have been thinking about going out to the beach for a swim and it’s already 70 degrees out there so I may be able to…but right now I am enjoying the coffee and F1 is on in the background and it’s nice not having anything to do this morning….I do need to make some chicken masala this afternoon since I thawed the chicken but that all goes into the instant pot so it will be easy…need to make some rice to go with it and still have some nan bread too, so that will be a good meal instead of o-rings and chicken I have been having…and I have lots of tomatoes that need to be eaten, too so that will be my second meal for the next few days…not much to do today…just going to do the exercises here in a minute and then get ready for a lazy day…I feel cheated that the storms blew up after they went through here and we just got a few spits of rain…oh, well…more later…
Today’s the day…
Well…today is the day when the idiot trump is going to be arrested, cuffed, fingerprinted, and a mugshot taken like the common criminal he is…and it appears that it is dawning on the other 18 co conspiritors that they really are going to jail…and a couple of them were so stupid as to invoke the speedy trial rule to try to get their cases moved to federal court and that has only driven Fani Willis to say she will oblige them and move the trials of all of them up to this year instead of next…meadows even tried to avoid getting arrested by saying she couldn’t do it until the motion to move the trial is heard and a judge just flattened that by saying he has to surrender before the motion…so, they are all going to be going to trial soon rather than later…and that suits me just fine…geez…
August 24th
Well…damn, that was a terrible night of sleep and I’ve been up since 4 or so…it never got below 74 last night and it’s going to be a hot one today….have to be at the rehab place by 7:45 this morning and that is going to be a stretch…and I’m going to the beach for a swim today since it’s going to be 90 or so and it will probably be the last one this year…still sore from using the string trimmer this week and I’ve been slathering myself with the menthol pain reliever my daughter left and it works some….I finally got some work done yesterday and my bathroom is cleaned for the first time in weeks…I did get started packing yesterday and realized I don’t have enough shirts that fit me anymore…not sure what I’m going to do about that but I may run out to Kohl’s and see if there are any clearance items left….might hit DD after the rehab appointment this morning if it runs an hour…they have Jalapeno poppers on sale for 3 1/2 pounds for 5 bucks and some dark meat chicken chunks like the breast meat ones that I got last week that I like….but are probably bad for me…not much to do today…just rehab and then the beach…it is so humid out here that I am sweating already….you would think this would be storm weather but no…dry as heck….more later….
Putin was involved in January 6th…
Well…just read an article that puts evidence together that Putin was involved in January 6th and that the idiot trump used him to help plan it…there were scores of private phone calls between Putin and trump in the run up after idiot boy lost the election in 2020, and one reporter has even uncovered evidence that the planning for it started in Helsinki when idiot boy had a 2 hour long private meeting with Putin…and let’s throw another wild card in here…the Saudi leader, MBS, was also the recipient of many private calls from the idiot and his SIL Kushner was basically a shadow Secretary of State who was rewarded for his helping out MBS by giving him a list of opposition people who MBS promptly arrested and had many of them killed…and we know what that top secret list was worth to MBS since he gave Kushner’s brand new investment company 2 billion dollars of which none of it has been invested yet…now does this sound worse than Hunter Biden have an illegal gun and not paying taxes? To me it does but the repubs won’t touch Kushner with a ten foot pole while they ahve had Biden under investigation for 5 years with only two misdemeanors to show for it….one good thing that happened today is that Leonard Leo, the billionaire who has been bribing Justice Thomas with gifts, trips, and cash, is under investigation by the AG of DC…I can’t wait to see what crawls out from under those rocks…geez…