Well…have been trying to recover today but I think I can’t recover from this bug until it gets really, really worse..it looks like that’s the path I’m on for the weekend so that is a bunch of crap…there have been some odd things going on…at least odd to me…have been getting Neil Young’s twitter feed lately and he is really going after the tar sands crap that is fouling large swaths of Canada…I know he is from there and I shouldn’t be surprised that he is socially responsible…but it is nice to see that even at this late date, he is still trying to make a difference….and it has been such a good weekend for those of us who think Chris Christie is a lying bully…the latest is that his thug aides withheld Sandy aid to Hoboken just because the mayor there wouldn’t give contracts to one of Christie’s cronies….and this time, the mayor has evidence of it all…I can smell indictment all over this last bit of news….and it couldn’t happen to a bigger thug…as I said in an earlier post..”bye, bye, Christie”….should do one more for this one but I can’t think of another right now…so, I think I’ll make the next idea the catch up post for the weekend…
January 18th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but both Tom and I weren’t feeling too hot so we skipped pool for the week…I did go out to have a couple with K but that might have been a mistake…still have no energy today and feel like crap with a fever so it looks like a veg day for me…I do have to clean the microwave today but that will be all that I can muster..didn’t sleep well and I could take a nap right now and it’s only 9…I will try to choke down the second cup of coffee and see if that helps…not much to do today…going to just take it easy and hope the lungs don’t get worse….and come back for two more of these to get caught up…more later…
Wandering around…again…
Well…I am still feeling like I have no energy even after lunch with three venison tacos and I’m sure that it is not eating enough….but, how do you eat if nothing sounds good? It took all the energy I had just to walk across my place and sit down here….and, with crap happening in politics…those idiots are going back on vacation after being back a week…and they bitch so much about the unemployed and how they think they’re lazy so they won’t extend UI benefits…since people are living large on the 300 bucks a week avg they get….that wouldn’t even pay my low expenses…what if you had children and a house payment? I hope the repubs pay in this years election…bastards….and now they are back at taking away womens rights to control their own bodies…once they are pregnant, the new laws that the repubs are pushing would make the rights of the fetus supercede the rights of the mother…essentially saying that the woman no longer has any rights to her own body if pregnant….what the hell is wrong with the repubs…I guess it goes back to their “faith” that says that women are property and should do what their husbands tell them to…and now, in Wisconsin, these asses have just introduced legislation that would allow a woman’s family to trump her decisions on abortion…even if a grandmother, or mother, or father objected…the wishes of the mother would be trumped…leaving women second class citizens with less rights than anyone else…this crap even hurts to write about…so, I’ll stop here….
January 17th
Well…I may have been wrong about getting sick yesterday…I now think it was the lack of food for the past few days…have had to cut back since I don’t have any cash to spend…looks like I’ll have to empty the freezer over the next week and eat all the fish that is still in there…I do have some venison, too, that I am going to use for tacos later today…..it is really a pain to be this broke…oh, well…other than that, it was a strange day yesterday…okay, nope, I am getting sick…I can feel the warmth again as I sit here…and I even pulled something in my neck when I was sneezing and it hurts like crazy….didn’t do much yesterday but clean a little and I need to do more of that today…haven’t heard from T since she left for vacation and that has been two weeks now…I think she’s been back for a week so I guess that’s over…and I’m okay with that….not much to do today…it looks like this week will be the last pool week until I make some money…I’ve reached my mooch limit and just can’t do it anymore…..it’s been too long and it’s just not me….more later…
This isn’t good…
Well…it has been one of those days where I thought I was starting to come down with something since I was so damn tired….and now I’m sure I am…sitting here at the computer just sweating like crazy and the coughs have started…looks like I’m not going to get through this winter without getting sick…just hope it’s not the flu since I can’t afford to go to the doctor….the aches haven’t started yet but, if they do, I know it will be the flu and the only thing I’ll be able to do is hunker down and try to survive it….there have been a couple of deaths already here in GR and I hope I have enough of an immune system left to fight it….we’ll see….
January 16th
Well…it was a day yesterday and I didn’t get much done but the few things I had to do around here…but I have gotten an early start today and have laundry running already and will cook something for lunch…slept okay but had another of the technology dreams that have been dogging me lately…was in NYC trying to find my son to hang out with him for a while but all of my equipment (phone, computer, etc.) had turned into Apple stuff the I couldn’t figure out how to use…pretty weird…I have been good all week and with tonight, it will be 5 days of it…have quite a bit of energy since I forced myself to eat yesterday but I’m not sure if I can keep that up today….habits are hard to break…the brakes on the car have been working for 6 days now and I am creeping up on calling it fixed but the failure is still in the back of my mind and I’m not sure if I’m there yet….not much to do today….I do need to clean this place and maybe get going on the new novel…want to mine the darkness I have been feeling lately…more later…
It’s the republicans fault…
Well…with the vote yesterday in the senate that blocked the re-instatement of UI benefits for the long term unemployed…there is only one party that is responsible…and it’s name starts with an R…can you guess which one? Yep, the damn republicans are at it again, showing their disdain for anyone that is not rich and trying to spin it that is mean ole Harry Reid’s fault since he wouldn’t let the repubs add amendments that would repeal Obamacare and add more giveaways to big business. The sickening thing about all this is how transparently political this sham is…when ole GW was in office, the dems never asked for anything in return for taking care of Americans…they went along because it was the right thing to do…but the repubs don’t give a damn about Americans…even the unemployed R’s that vote for them…I think they are going to be surprised at the backlash for this one…there have been numerous stories that have die hard r’s that are unemployed who say they will never vote for a repub again….and we just might get Harry Reid to change the filibuster rules again that will let them get things done with a simple majority…and cut the repubs out of the process all together…they don’t want to govern anyway…geez…
January 15th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I had a little fun going out to hang with G for a while…okay, too long of a while but things happen sometimes…slept okay and that is two in a row so I’m not sure what is going on…maybe I’m adjusting to being good? I know I feel much, much better and this week I’ll keep the cocktail nights down to two…which I want to be the pattern anyway since I do have to remember my health and do everything to keep it…the brakes on the car seem to be fixed since it has been 4 days since I worked on them and there has been no repeat of the no brakes problem…it would be good to get through the winter without having to work on it again…getting too old to get out in the snow, and wouldn’t know what to do if the pins weren’t the problem….not much to do today…I do have to get some stuff done around here and get some resumes out but that is about it…yep, boring, I know, but that’s life right now….more later…
The problem with open carry…
Well..If you’ve been here before, I know you’ve read how I feel on the open carry for guns laws that have spread like a plague across the US over the past decade or so…I will say right up front that I have been a gun owner and I see no problem with people having guns in their homes for protection or whatever else they tell themselves they need them for…okay, that was a little harsh since I have been a hunter and I do enjoy the venison I get from my hunter friends…but that is an entirely different thing than carrying a handgun around on your hip everywhere you go. As I’ve said before, I am extremely uncomfortable and will leave any establishment that allow people to bring guns into it…and the “responsible gun owner” is always responsible until he or she is not and takes the gun out and shoots someone…I just don’t want to be in that crossfire. So, a couple of days ago, a “responsible gun owner”, a retired police captain in Florida got into an argument with another patron at a movie theater…the guy was texting during the previews and the gun owner didn’t like it…you can guess what comes next…the retired officer took the gun off his hip and shot the guy to death…something that could have been avoided if the guy just didn’t have a gun with him…and that is the gist of my aversion to having everyone and their brother carrying guns around everywhere…what used to be just an argument that might have come to blows now is a life and death situation…and ends more more and more often with someone dead and a family shattered…I’ve had enough of this nonsense…geez…
January 14th
Well…it was just another day yesterday…I did have a little fun so that was good…slept okay last night and with being good, I feel okay today…wonder if I’ll get to like this so much that I’ll be good all the time? Never know….I do need to make sure I eat enough today since the past two have been low and I am feeling it a little…I am a little surprised I haven’t heard from T from the Bahamas…maybe this will be her way of ending things? Oh, well…has been coming for a while now and with not hearing from her for two weeks, the transition will be easier than it was the last two times…not much to do today…I do have to work out and then make a run over to C’s house to check it out and make sure the water is working right…but that is about it…more later…