Well…it’s been a busy day today with having to go to the bank and get a check for the car money and send it express mail…and the owner Richard and I have been figuring out the logistics after my discovering that the last ferry back to Muskegon leaves 45 minutes after I get there so he said he would bring the car and meet me there when the ship pulls in…and he was nice enough to lower the reported price enough so I save enough in sales tax to pay for ferry trips both ways…that was cool…then my grill ran out of gas just as I started the ham so I had to go get the tank refilled and didn’t get the ham done until almost 3 so only one meal today…I did get three rides in but I’m not sure about tomorrow…I do have an errand to run early but then the rest of the day will be mine…so, on May 2nd I’ll have my new car and be back here by 3:30 or so…won’t be able to transfer the title and plates until the following Monday and then I’m going through the car and do a detail even though it looks already done…time for tv…
Monthly Archives: April 2025
The carnage is beginning…
Well…yow, the Philly fed just came out future forecast for economic activity and the carnage to the economy is beginning…it’s survey of future orders fell from an 8.7 positive to a 34.2 negative telling everyone that there is a recession coming and businesses are preparing for it by emptying their inventories and not buying new materials…and this is as low as the depths of the pandemic when the economy just about shut down…so these moron tariffs are going to gut the economy and we can see unemployment of over 10% by the end of summer…thanks you maga assholes…geez…
April 18th
Well…boy, what a day yesterday and that is going to continue today as I need to go to the bank and get the check for the car and then to the post office to get it in the mail…it’s 7 am and I am having a hard time getting going today but one thing can say is that I didn’t have to take anything for my mouth yesterday for the first time in over three weeks but it does hurt a bit from grinding my teeth overnight and I need to figure out how to stop that…life has seemed to be a lot of work lately and I just want to get through today…just did a salt water rinse to get the sockets cleaned out and I am going to really try to not take anything for the pain…think I’ll do one ride indoors to start the day and then try to do two rides outdoors if I can miss the rain…but that is going to be some work…holy crap, there is a big storm just over in Wisconsin that is going to hit here in a couple of hours so I may wait to ride outdoors until this aft…going to hit the bank after it opens at 9 so I’ll be able to get the indoor ride in and another cup of coffee down before that….more later….
A good day…
Well…I had a pretty good day today with getting the car and logistics figured out and I’ll be heading across the lake the first week of May…going to send the check tomorrow to seal the deal…this is going to be the best car I’ve ever owned and it has 100,000 miles less on it than the first Miata when I bought it so it really is going to be my last car and I’m not sure how I feel about that…I’ll be an 80 year old driving around in a Miata and that’s pretty cool…and I get to take the ferry over and back so that’s cool, too….what the heck is the chance that I find a car in Wisconsin near where the ferry dock is? I guess my luck has held again but pulling the trigger fast helped, too sine the owner had other people interested… I did get three rides in today with two of them outdoors but I think I’ll be indoors tomorrow with the rain in the forecast…but right now it’s new book time…
It gets worse…
Well…new economic forecasts are coming out and they keep getting worse and worse as they drop….now some of them are looking at unemployment going up to over 6%, inflation will start roaring in the 2nd quarter, and real growth has already gone negative since around the start of March…and these are the supposed “economic geniuses” that the maga idiots saddled us with who have no clue how the government or economy works so don’t expect them to be able to stop the crash that is coming…I’m glad I bought my new car now because I wouldn’t be able to afford one later in the year when the full effects of the tariffs kick in…and because all Miatas are made in Hiroshima, Japan and, as the tariffs raise the prices of new ones, the prices of used ones will go up with them…I am going to harp on this coming economic crash until the dems stand up tot he idiot trump and stop his criminal actions that is destroying this country…geez…
April 17th
Well…damn, I think I may have found a new car and I am excited about that…but it is in Wisconsin so I’ll have to figure out how the heck to get there….Tom, are you up for a road trip? Ha, and that is funny since Tom gave me a ride to pick up my first Miata…I’ll even pay you a few hundred to do it it you can…it’s weird at times how things work out…I’ve only owned one car with less mileage and that was an 88 Caravan I bought new and had to go to Toledo to pick up…but a Miata with under 50K miles and me putting 9 miles a week on it will certainly last me the rest of my life…maybe I can take the ferry over to Milwaukee and have the owner pick me up? I guess we’ll see…have a lot to do today and need to get going on it in 9 minutes or so to get the first ride in…need to hit the library, Meijers, and one more stop…and I need to finalize the deal on the car so I’m going to be busy for the next few days….but a good busy that will end with me having a new car…more later…
I think I’ve found my dream car…
Well…when I finished up the last book tonight, I had a couple of hours to kill so I thought I’d look for cars and I think I’ve found my dream car…a 2008 Miata that looks just gorgeous and only has 49,000 miles on it…it’s a little pricey at 13 grand but it looks new and can be my last car for sure…it’s an upscale grand touring model that has all the options on it…but still no power top and I can live with that…have already gotten a response from the owner…another old guy like me who has his right rotator cuff blown out and can’t shift…oh, and it’s a 6 speed, too, and I really wanted that…I want this car…it’s a gorgeous dark slate color and only two owners since new…oh, and never driven in salt…,can I be this lucky? Things have worked out for me like getting my house so maybe I can have a two fer and get a new car, too…fingers crossed…
Still cold here…
Well…it really did look pretty warm outside so I suited up and went out into 44 degree temp day with the wind blowing 25-30 with gusts to 35….and with the wind blowing out of the NW, it was brutal going out…down all the way to 20th gear when I’m normally in 23rd going out…but the ride back was a hoot and I got up over 25 on the flat street section of the trail in 24th gear…I’m glad I decided to wear my warmest gloves and my hands were thanking me by not turning white…before I did the outdoor ride, I finally did the top to bottom cleaning the bathroom needed and did laundry…finished up the BAH and put the leftovers in the freezer and won’t cook the next one until the weekend so I need to find other food…probably some fish and fries or I’ll just skip the second meal today….okay, weight work time…oh, I did finish the 4th book so I can go to the library again tomorrow…
Trade is gone and it’s not coming back…
Well…after the months of lies by the idiot trump that hundreds of companies are building factories here because of his stupid tariffs, there is still not one that is even planning to do anything here…they really do hate uncertainty and with idiot boy in charge, that’s all they’ll get…so now, another handful of economists have come out to say that their projections are that the US will not have any growth this year after idiot boy inherited an economy that was humming along at a 3% growth rate…and my dire warnings that the rest of the world is going to go on without the US because of the tariffs and the idiot’s belligerence to the rest of the world are coming true…and Morgan Stanley just projected that these tariffs are going to cost millions of jobs and once the rest of the world re-aligns without us, those jobs are not coming back…and the same thing is happening in the vital area of diplomacy that trump has just thrown away and we have far less influence than we have ever had…and it’s all because the repubs won’t do anything to reign in the idiot…the rest of the world has already stopped taking calls from the US and presto, they found out that they don’t need a US run by incompetents…good job maga…geez..
April 16th
Well…I sure as hell don’t want to be up at 5:21 but that is what happened this morning…and my mouth hurts again but not too bad so I hope the tylenol will work…I really do need to figure out how to stop grinding my teeth or the pain is going to continue forever…damn…I did sleep okay so I guess that’s something…and I have another day of taking it easy where I’ll finish up the last book and hit the library tomorrow…but I need to start weaning myself off of reading so much so I’ll have time to do the rest of the things I need to do…it’s been a good run of 4 books a week for months now but I am running out of authors like I ran out of shows to watch…I guess it’s just something new that I have to deal with but I’m getting tired of having to do that…hell, I’m getting tired of everything…I remember having days where I didn’t do anything but that was so long ago that it is fading from my memory….man, that would be such a luxury and I wonder why I just can’t do that anymore? Oh, well…need to get moving and get on the bike by 7am so that gives me time to have one more cup of coffee….more later….