Well…look, I’m an old guy and I have never seen what is happening with the climate in the entire world…I mean half of the world is on fire…Lahina is gone…a 20,000 population city in Canada is evacuated along with one that has a population of 130,000…evacuated because the fires are so intense that they can’t be stopped….the island of Tenerife is on fire and they are going to evacuate the whole damn island…and new fires are popping up every day with how warming has dried out the world…and now for the first time in 90 years, a hurricane is going to hit California Sunday as a category 4 storm that is going to dump 22 inches of rain in the desert and on Los Angeles….and that is going to cause billions in damage…and yet the climate deniers keep saying the excess CO2 in the air has nothing to do with it even though Arizona has had 37 days in a row over 110 degrees and no rain in that time and the highest level of CO2 in the air in the past 100,000 years…so yes, climate change is real and it is baking the planet…and it is not going to get better until we stop burning gas and oil…we need a war like push to de-carbonize the entire planet and go with renewables…they are cheaper anyway so let’s do it…geez…
Monthly Archives: August 2023
August 19th
Well…it’s 30 days until I head out of Philly to the UK and I am getting a little excited…slept okay last night and think I’ve figured out something with my sleep and I need to try it again tonight to make sure…had an easy day yesterday but I am going to get out for a walk this morning before the 10 am soccer games come on…Man U plays at 12:30 so I need to have everything done before then….but it’s only 57 out there so I am going to wait for a while…okay, nope…it’s only 55 out here right now and I wonder if the heat is going to come on? Sure don’t want to wear a fleece to walk today….man, I am sore everywhere this morning and I noticed that my back started to hurt yesterday afternoon and I can’t figure out how I did it but I’m barely moving today…and the neck pain is bad again with stiffness so I am going to use some of the topical menthol stuff my daughter brought that seems to work okay…and I like how it smells….don’t have a lot to do today but to start getting the list together of what I want to pack and start getting things in the packing bags…had too much coffee yesterday so I only have a couple of cups of leftovers for this morning…not going to make more since I really don’t need more…not much to do today…still have leftovers to eat today so I’ll have tacos for lunch or maybe some breakfast for lunch…not sure yet….more later…
Glad I called…
Well…as you know, I have to start rehab for my surgery next week but I couldn’t remember what time they said so I called them this afternoon and I’m glad I did…I knew that it is on the 21st of the month but I thought it was Tuesday when it is really Monday…and I would have missed the appointment and would have to wait until after the UK trip to get started…getting that straightened out means I’ll get three sessions in before the trip…not sure what they are going to be able to do for me but the nurse I talked to earlier in the week said I still need to do it to make sure everything in there is supported by the muscles that are left…doing okay but insurance will pay for it but I’ll bet I have a 45 buck copay for each session…and that’s going to hurt….oh, well…still waiting on the big bill to come and when it does, I’ll be down to about 25k in the bank but that’s still not too bad…
No “Exoneration” Monday…
Well…the idiot trump has been shooting off his mouth that he was going to present a 1,000 page “report” that will totally exonerate everyone charged in the scheme to steal the election in Georgia…and he was going to hold a press conference at his tacky golf resort in NJ Monday…but that’s not going to happen…I guess his lawyers finally got him to shut the hell up since every time he opens his mouth he digs the hole deeper and opens himself up to more charges…and I think they sat him down and told him that if he keeps it up he will go to jail until his trial in January…and with the evidence against him, he will never get out…he will spend the rest of his ugly racist life in jail and maybe it finally soaked through his thick skull that he can’t pull this bullshit in a criminal trial…so now he has said that the 1,000 pages of bullshit will be presented in “court filings” but if I was his lawyers, I wouldn’t touch those lies with a 10 ft pole since they are already facing sanctions for lying in a filing trying to get the trial moved out to 2026…I really didn’t know there were people dumb enough to see the wreckage that idiot boy makes of everyone’s lives who come near him and say “I want me some of that”….morons…geez..
August 18th
Well…running late today with not getting out of bed til after the coffee had brewed and that makes it after 6:20 or so….I really hurt this morning and didn’t do anything that I can point to that would have done it…damn, is it just from sleeping? I know I tossed and turned a lot since the sheets and blanket were on the floor halfway through the night…it looks like we are going to get high winds here today since they have a beach hazard warning out for waves from 6-8 feet…and, from experience, that would make the lake a mixmaster that is pretty dangerous to be in…it got pretty cold here last night…down to 58 and I had to close this place up to keep the heat from coming on…allergies are pretty bad today and I have a slight headache that will probably get worse as the day goes on…I really can’t waste another day doing nothing like yesterday but I am not motivated at all right now and I wonder if that will change anytime soon? Not much to do today…I should go out to DD to get some onion rings and breaded chicken pieces for when I get back from the trip and need a meal out of the freezer…and make a run to Kohls so I can look through the summer clearance stuff to see if I can find some shorts and maybe a new belt since I have run out of holes on the one I’m using now….more later….
Another reason to tax the rich…
Well…just read an interesting article about who is responsible for most of the co2 emissions and the first thing that popped into my head is that this another reason to tax the crap out of the rich…the study ran from 1990 and 2019 and found that the super rich or 1% are responsible for more co2 emissions than the poorest 50% of the country…let that sink in for a bit…if we just taxed the rich so much that they have to give up the private jets and superyachts, helicopters and 40,000 sq ft mansions, we could immediately lower emissions by a huge amount with no sacrifice by anyone but the rich…and to be blunt, they can all go to hell anyway…they have ruined this country by buying the SC to get rulings they want and need to be stopped as they are trying to buy enough politicians so nothing gets done on climate change….and these selfish bastards only care about themselves and think they are rich enough that they can sit in their mansions and be comfortable while the rest of the world bakes and burns to the ground…tax the rich and as soon as possible…geez…
One more left…
Well…as I’ve talked about before, I have been trying to get all of my monthly bills set up to auto pay before the UK trip and I just got my 5th/3rd credit card set up…and the reason I did that today was I didn’t get my bill in the mail and it’s due in a week…so I figured I’d set that up today while I looked at my balance…did it all online and it took about 3 minutes…now I just need to do the same for the water bill but they have an outside firm handling it and it costs 1.50 per month for that…I know it’s only 18 bucks a year but still…no other bill charges to pay online since it is cheaper for them to do it that way…I thought I was going to have to actually go to a bank branch and it was a pleasant surprise to be able to just sit here on the couch and get it done…
August 17th
Well…having a hard time getting going today and have very little energy…it looks like there are some storms coming through in a few minutes but I’ll believe it when I see it….I am going to take the day off today with feeling so run down…have been trying to eat more but I don’t think that’s working yet…yow..the wind just started blowing so hard I can hear it over the tv so I think the storms are coming…sure hope so…okay, so now the wind has stopped and it was just a gust for some reason….got a few things done yesterday and I really should do more today but I don’t feel like it…need to get packing for the UK trip and I need to get organized in the next couple of days….damn, this one is pretty hard to get flowing for some reason….can I just live for a bit? Not sure if I know how to do that…but I am going to try…I think I need to buy a timer for the light here in the living room when I’m gone to simulate that I’m still here when I’m on the trip…and I think I should get another set of earbuds so maybe I’ll buy that stuff today….but I just hate to give that money to amazon and make the idiot billionaire that owns it more money…not much to do today…just want to sit for a while and have more coffee before I even contemplate moving at all….I may just sit on the porch when the storms come if they do…damn, I’m depressed this morning….more later….
Unintended consequences…
Well…with the repubs doing there best to essentially end immigration here in the US, an unintended consequence is that bordering countries such as Canada now have a huge pool of talented people that used to come here and contribute to our economy that are going there instead…over the past few months, Canada has instituted a new program that welcomes skilled tech workers and give them permanent residence after 6 months of working in the country…and in the first lottery, over 10,000 workers applied and were accepted in 48 hours…and now since the program is so successful, employers are now asking for the program to be expanded…and with a permanent green card issued after 6 months, the workers are free to change jobs which keeps employers from exploiting them by paying less than market pay and that doesn’t depress Canadian citizen’s wages…this is what happens when you legislate for the good of the country and not to promote racist hate as the repubs do here….so dems, we need to vote these assholes out so we can get this country moving forward again…geez…
That’s done…
Well…got the day moving, finally, with getting the zoom meeting out of the way and then heading out to do the grocery run to get the ginger and Greek yogurt for the chicken masala I’m making in a couple of days…started breaking in the new shoes and they are going to need it but they are really comfortable already so no big deal…have the laundry in and I’m getting ready to saute some peppers and onions for the soft tacos I’m making for lunch but I just want to sit here for a bit and have some more water since my right big toe is hurting and a reminder that I need to stay hydrated to avoid a flare up of the gout…now I’m going to read a bit of the news to find a topic for later….