Well…another day of waking up pretty worn out and I know it’s from tossing and turning all night…thought I was done sleeping at 4:09 but I was able to get a little more sleep and got up a little after 6…it’s been raining off an on all night and that is going to make getting out of the alley this morning pretty tough…at least I only have to walk a few yards to get the shovel to dig the car out…it looks like it’s going to be near 40 for the next week or so and I hope we lose a lot of the snow…going to make some potato soup tomorrow to use up the potatoes that are going to spoil soon…still using up the leftovers I’ve had all week but I will need to plan some dishes for later and the weekend…still need to empty the freezer and that is going to take some time…not too sore this morning but the twinges of pain are still in my elbows and I’ll probably have to treat them later…don’t have a lot to do today other than the grocery run and bike rides and I really should take an afternoon off one of these days….emby is finally working after a rebuild from their end over the past few days and I’ve had to reconstruct my channel list 4 times and that is a pain since it takes an hour and a half each time…oh, well….need more coffee and to get a post out to mastodon….more later…
Monthly Archives: January 2024
This is getting old…
Well…you know, I am getting so tired of being busy all the time…started the day today with getting on the bike for the first ride around 8, the off around 9, back on it again by 9:15 and finished up the second ride around 10…did two of these and then outside to shovel the slush so it wouldn’t freeze into an ice sheet when it gets colder…then out to shovel the end of the alley again…oh, and did laundry and put it away…that was about 2:30 and then had to make dinner and do the dishes…and I still have the weight work to do here in a minute and that will take about 45 minutes…and this is almost every damn day…tomorrow will be as busy with doing the grocery run if I can get my car out and in, then back to the bike for two rides and it will be noon or so…don’t even have enough time to read the two books I got at the library…being retired was supposed to be easy…oh, well…
This doesn’t surprise me…
Well…just read an interesting article about crime in California that the repubs keep bleating about…with their main point being that the big cities are hellholes of crime and especially the ones run by dems…so this researcher did the math and found out something that doesn’t surprise me and shows where the repubs are getting the idea that things are so bad…and they are in counties in California that are run by repubs…in those counties, the murder rate is up 65% and other major crimes mirror those numbers…but in the blue counties and big cities run by dems, the murder rate is down 37% over the past couple of years…and again, other major crimes have seen the same drops…part of the murder rate in red counties is from the fact that sheriffs there refuse to enforce the sensible gun laws that have been passed over the past few years…things like red flag laws and universal background checks that have been shown to work…but there is more than that going on…the overall lack of respect for the laws of the state in repubs that has been pounded into them by the idiot trump over the past 7 years has led to more and more crime since they feel the law doesn’t apply to them…the repubs are turning the areas they control into hell holes and they like it that way since they just love to whine about things…while the dems continue to make their states better like here in Michigan…geez…
January 23rd
Well…running a bit late today with just pouring my first cup of coffee at 7:24…up and down all night but I did get 4 hours in before that started so I guess I have to live with it…it’s supposed to rain/snow all day today with high winds and we have another winter weather advisory on and I think we’ve only had a couple of days without some kind of weather alert this month…treated a lot of pain last night and the treatment seems to be holding this morning…at least my elbows don’t hurt like they did yesterday….they plowed the streets here…kinda…and pushed a two foot high snow pile across the entrance to my alley that no one could get through…so I suited up and went out there to shovel it so I can get out for the grocery run tomorrow…couldn’t depend on the city doing the alley…need to get on the bike here in a minute to get this day started on time…didn’t get going until almost 9:30 yesterday and that is way too late….have a few potatoes that need to be used so I may make a batch of potato soup today or tomorrow…not much to do today…it should be an easy one after the rides since I still have leftovers for today…should clean a bit and probably will but right now I have no motivation….maybe later….
Good on ya, Germany…
Well…with the far right seemingly on the rise across the world, the one place where fascism should be hated is showing that it really is…over the past few day, there have been millions of people in the streets of almost ever city in Germany to protest the fascist meeting held there to plan on how to throw all of the immigrants and even naturalized citizens out of the country…along with plans to try to install a far right government in a return of the nazis…and the German people are not having it…now, can we do that here? We really do need to send a message to all the right wing assholes in this country, too, that there are many, many more of us and we won’t put up with their right wing terrorism…all you have to know is that putin is funding these “movements” all across the world…why do you think the repubs in congress won’t support Ukraine’s struggle for survival? Putin is paying them through shell companies as I talked about a couple of weeks ago…we need to stop thinking you can reason with the far right…they are fascists and need to be treated like the nazis they are…geez…
January 22nd
Well…woke up this morning to emby being screwed up again and it took me an hour+ to kind of get it working again…and that puts me behind for the whole day…should be on the bike by now but I still need coffee to work and I just started the first cup…didn’t get much done but scrape some paint downstairs and I need to get work done today but I sure don’t feel like it right now…the wind has been howling and there is snow coming down but I’m not sure how much since it’s not light yet…will probably have to shovel later but at least it’s not in the teens….my neck is pretty sore this morning and I’m not sure what the heck I did to hurt it…probably just getting old…ate way too much yesterday so today will be a light day with only lunch for meals…still have lots of the chicken masala leftovers and some bean burrito ingredients that I bought sour cream for and now I wonder why? Don’t have a lot of plans for the day but I should go to the library later…I can hear the doves on the feeder already and they are eating a lot of food…have gone through a hundred pounds this winter and will probably do a hundred more before spring…more later…
Go back to ruining Florida Ronnie boy…
Well…the good news came today that ron desantis is dropping out of the presidential race and the only thing I have to say is good riddance…ole ronnie boy was probably the worst candidate I’ve ever seen…just a wooden, stupid prick who thinks he’s smarter than he is and has done his best to turn Florida into trumpworld…and his surgeon general just come out last week and told everyone to not take the latest covid vaccine…that’s the kind of unqualified people all of the repubs appoint…the only good thing that came out of ronnie’s run was that a few hundred million dollars that he blew won’t be available to any other repub up and down the ballot…bye, bye ronnie…don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out…geez…
An easy day…
Well…took it easy today and only did the rides and the weight work…again…I’ll get back to working around here tomorrow with cleaning the living room and doing the floors…oh, I did give myself a haircut today, too since I was looking a little shaggy and needed that cleaned up….the weight work is putting some strain on my elbows and they have started to hurt some along with my back but I think it will go away after I get used to doing it every day…I want to get the second coat of paint on the downstairs wall and I have some more paint that needs to come off the stairway since it is peeling and then I’ll paint that, too…will probably need to start picking out a color to paint the entire basement sine I really don’t like the blue it is right now…have to get working on this place…
January 21st
Well…my eyes are so full of crap from allergies this morning that I can barely see…and my head is plugged up and I am miserable…so tired of allergies that I have have to start taking medicine for them today…didn’t sleep well last night and if there was a day to take one off it would be today….but I won’t…I’ll be down on the bike in around an hour but that seems like a lot of work….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and I need to get everything done today before 3 when the Lions play…haven’t looked outside yet but it looks like it snowed last night…probably just enough to shovel it and maybe put some salt on the walks…ate way too much yesterday so I should just starve today to make up for it…had a small bean burrito and half a bowl of soup yesterday and I know that’s under 1K calories but that seems like a lot these days…just feel so fat and I’m not shedding weight like I need to…so that will make me get on the bike today…man, I’m tired…need more coffee…you know, I am tired of having so much discipline…when do I get to just live? Not much to do today…I am going to take the next hour to have coffee and relax and then get moving….more later…
A too lazy of a day today…
Well…yeah, the title says it all…didn’t do a damn thing today but the two bike rides and weight work and I feel guilty about that…should have cleaned the living room at least but that will have to wait til tomorrow since I just didn’t feel like doing it…it’s been three days since I’ve had to shovel snow and the pain from shoveling is almost gone….and it looks like no snow until Monday but then back to 3-6 inches again before the warm up comes Tuesday…can finally start taking some food out of the freezer tomorrow and I think I’ll make popcorn chicken and fries for a change…have pounds of those left in there and they need to be used….the tv show “Slow Horses” with Gary Oldman in it showed up on plex and I am going to make that the show for tonight along with svengoolie maybe….