Well…I really thought I’d fixed the car the other day when I put the new pads in the right rear but it still made noise coming back from the grocery run…a different noise but still noise so yesterday I took three of the 4 calipers back apart and lubed the pins with moly wheel bearing grease but then I also took some WD and lubed all of the suspension bushings in the back…and, when I went out to run an errand today, no noise at all…so now I have to take the front tires off and do the same with the front bushings…that was a load off and I didn’t even order the new front pads…going to wait a while for that…when I went out to mow the lawn, the lawn mower wouldn’t start so after I pulled it about 15 times I got the manual out and remembered that my brother included a new spare spark plug in the packet..so I changed it out and it started on the first pull…and I just stood there for a minute thinking that was just like him…thinking about everyone and trying to make their lives better…I really miss him…and tomorrow I’ll go over to his house with my last brother to help getting everything in order…going to be hard…I did get three rides in along with mowing the lawn today…and the getting up at 4:31 has left me exhausted…
Monthly Archives: May 2024
No security clearance for you…
Well…as I talked about yesterday, a convicted felon can’t get a security clearance so guess who that is? You guessed it, the idiot trump…and it was reported this morning that normally, when a person is selected to be a major party candidate for president, they start getting classified briefings and get looks at classified documents…but that’s not going to happen with idiot boy…and it really shouldn’t just be the fact that he is a multiple felon…look what he did the last time he had access to those kinds of documents…he stole the damn things and who knows what he did with them…we know for sure that he showed them to multiple people who didn’t have any security clearance at all…and I think Joe Biden did the country a favor when he cut off his access to briefings after idiot boy was out of office…and lets remember that at least 75% of the world won’t let a convicted felon in…so is he going to do zoom meetings with world leaders…the whole damn thing is just so ridiculous….geez…
May 31st
Well…it’s a little after 5 am and I’ve been up since 4:31 and there is no chance of getting back to sleep so here I am…it’s shaping up to be another busy day today and I need to get started but it’s only 45 degrees out there and the heat is running and it’s June tomorrow…there is something wrong with that…need to get on the indoor bike by 6 or so…okay, not really…it’s just that I’m already bored and need to do something…the schedule looks like this: an indoor ride, then the errand to Meijers to pick up the stuff I forgot Wed, and stopping at the zone to order the brakes…then mowing the lawn, then out on the bike for two rides and figuring out when to cook the chicken masala…I wonder if there is going to be a nap in there at some point? I did start the coffee maker and it is starting to smell good in here…I am sore from the work yesterday and I’m going to be even more sore after today…and tomorrow is going to be more work at my brother’s house that needs to be done…I won’t say not much to do today since I’ll be busy all day…should get going…more later…
A few other things…
Well…I am still smiling that the idiot trump has finally started to be held accountable for his crimes with the 34 guilty verdicts that came down this afternoon…there are some consequences that come with being a convicted felon…in a lot of states you can’t vote…or serve in the military…ha, ha, that one made me laugh, too…or get a security clearance…so how does that work for a president? Oh, and travel to a lot of other countries that don’t allow felons in…and here’s another one that just came up over on Mastodon…how many banks will be willing to lend to someone convicted of 34 felony counts of fraud? We all know that idiot boy runs his businesses on debt and I’ll bet that most banks have rules to not lend to anyone convicted of fraud…or they will want so much security that he can’t come up with it unless one of his billionaire buddies foots the bill…but I think that some of his support is going to go away since he is just so frickin toxic…and now convicted…couldn’t happen to a bigger asshole….
Guilty on all counts!
Well…the idiot has been found guilty on all counts…34 felonies…I just cheered out loud when I turned on the news…it’s about damn time…and now the repub nominee for president is a felon and that shows how far the repub party has fallen…happy day!
This day was crazy…
Well…I don’t know why I keep doing this to myself but it was another crazy busy day…started out with the indoor ride and then right out to the garage to try to find the brake noise and ended up pulling three of the four calipers to take a look at the pads and didn’t see anything that would do it…the fronts are down to about a third of the friction material and it could have gone hard so I’m going to order a set from the zone tomorrow morning when I run another errand I have to do…only takes about 15 minutes a side for the fronts and I should get them later in the day tomorrow so I’ll probably change them out Sunday since I’m going over to my brother’s house to help my SIL figure out what tools are there and get them ready for sale…my last brother and I are going and will probably be there most of the day…happy to help…after the car stuff, I did two outdoor rides and then got the string trimmer and edger out and did the entire yard and didn’t finish until almost 2:30pm…..from 7am and I am going to be sore later and tomorrow since I’m already pretty sore and stiff…oh, and I did a load of laundry and took care of the garden, too…so yeah, a crazy busy day today and I still have the weight work to do…I am going to skip cooking today and move that back til tomorrow…
More corruption at the SC…
Well.I’m pretty sure this supreme court will go down as the most corrupt in history…after thomas’s bribes, and alitos naked partisanship and refusing to recuse from the January 6th cases as it was revealed how deeply he and his wife have supported the attackers that day, now we have a spouse of another getting paid millions by fox corporation to represent it in some trial…amy barrett’s husband is now on the grifter gravy train and you know it’s because she is going to rule on suits that fox is either bringing or subject to…and the naked corruption is breathtaking and roberts won’t do a thing about it even though it breaks every ethics rule that the SC is subject to…so, now is this a big enough reason to get out and vote blue this fall…if we can take the house and senate and Joe is reelected, we can expand the court and then we will only have to listen to these corrupt asshole fume that the newly expanded court is actually following law and precedent again…wouldn’t that be nice?
May 30th
Well…damn, up at 5:40 this morning and it’s already 6:30 and I haven’t gotten started yet…it’s only 43 degrees out there so I won’t be getting on the outdoor bike until later when the temp comes up…so I guess I’ll work on the car after the indoor ride and try to figure out where the noise is coming from…at least I’ll be working on it in a clean garage…the heat was on all night and it’s damn near June and that’s not right…but the lows will be in the 50′s starting tonight and I sure hope I don’t have to keep paying 60 dollar gas bills…I do need to cook today since I thawed some chicken for chicken masala and I did buy some chicken thighs that I will grill probably Sunday…and I have one salad to make…no, two since I have a tomato and green pepper that needs to be used…maybe I’ll cut some of it up and put it in with the pickled red onion just to see how it tastes…I’ll probably have to mow the lawn tomorrow and I should put the edger attachment on and do some edging since I haven’t done that this year…and I have more weed killer to put on those damn little weeds that have taken over the yard…and grass seed to put in the bare spots…just too damn much work to do and not enough time to do it…more later…
Well…crap..
Well…I really thought that I found what brake was making the noise and fixed it…but no, it just changed the noise…it’s not as bad as it was so there must be another one that is bad…going to take the front wheels off and look at the pads tomorrow…it still sounds like it’s in the rear but I’ll look at the easy ones first…sure hope I don’t have to replace the caliper that has the broken pad retractor…that’s over a hundred bucks and the are a pain to change…it has been a busy one today with getting the indoor ride in, doing the grocery run, two outdoor rides, and then cleaned the car completely along with the garage, grill, and ramps…and that all started at 7am and I didn’t get done until 2:30….and, with only having a bowl of soup and an ear of corn yesterday, my legs were really flat on the bike but I’m doing that again today like an idiot…I suppose I could have a salad, too…I guess we’ll see…
Now we wait…
Well…darn, have been too busy to come here for a political one until right now at 2:45pm…but, I’ll talk about that in the next one…after over 90 minutes of jury instructions from the judge in the idiot trump’s election fraud trial, the jury has retired to the jury room and I hope they came back tomorrow with a guilty verdict on all 34 felony counts…after all, there was no defense against the fact that they have a huge paper trail that proves what the idiot did…and that is cover up paying money to Stormy to keep her quiet until after the election by lying on financial documents…it’s a simple as that and he even signed some of the checks to Cohen faked to look like just paying legal fees…so now we wait…the pundits are all over the place and if he gets off, the rule of law is over in this country…that is one thing we know…geez…