Well….it was just another day yesterday…just like all the rest…but, it’s not snowing so that is good…slept okay last night…no, that’s not true…slept like crap and feel it today so it looks like a low energy day for me…and I didn’t make the coffee strong enough so it is like drinking brown water….not a good way to start the day….I am still sore everywhere, too…and I am sure it is from going into the 25 mph wind yesterday….looks like it is only blowing around 10 this morning so it will be like a walk in the park…and, it is supposed to be 50 today so maybe top down on the way out to pool? That’s about all I have to do today…I should clean but I think I’ll save that for tomorrow and Sunday….I am still one behind for the month and I am going to try to keep from falling further behind…maybe even do a political one…who knows?
Been late all day…
Well…it has been one of those days where I have been running late for everything that I was planning to do…didn’t plan much but I’m even late for this one….and I’m still not sure what the topic is going to be….politics seem like a re run with all of the same issues that have been going on for years it seems….and my personal life is probably one of the most boring there is in the entire US…so that is off the table….music? I did see a documentary on Pink Floyd that was pretty good…and the battery for the walkman didn’t come again today…so, I’m disappointed about that….still have the cold, so I’m disappointed about that, too….it is pretty depressing that it gets dark around 5:30….see…I can’t even think straight or write straight? It has just been one of those days and I really can’t wait for the day to be over and the night to start…at least then I can shut the brain off for a while…
November 14th
Well…running late like a weekend day today for some reason…okay, the reason is that I did the grocery shopping for t-day this morning and that took a lot of time..did get a 12 pound turkey for about 8 bucks so that was cool…slept okay but started up witht he sleeping pills again since I am sore from tossing and turning…at least I think that may be it but it is possibly riding the bike yesterday into a wind that was over 20…didn’t get much else done and I hope to rectify that today…not sure what I am trying to get done but there must be something…I am still waiting for the battery to come for the walkman and it is starting to get irritating…and the site even sent me an e-mail asking for a review of the battery before I even got it…it’s been a week now and I hope it’s not much longer since the thing is basically useless now…oh, well….I do need to get the workout in and ride the bike so I’ll get going on that now…more later…
Sister Sarah in town…
Well…when I woke up this morning, I felt like the Grand Rapids area had suddenly gotten much, much, dumber but I couldn’t really figure out why….then, I read the paper and found out…ole sister Sarah was in town…and, any town that Palin walks into immediately has it’s IQ drop by many, many points. I know this is a quite conservative area, in spots, but I didn’t know until now that those same areas are stupid…well…yeah, I did, I talk to these people and marvel at how willfully ignorant they are of science, the constitution…oh, hell…about everything. But they will queue up to see, listen to, and buy her stupid book on “the war on christmas”….that’s about all I have to say….I even feel stupider for just being in the same state as the supreme grifter…geez…
Who would ever do “snapshot by Progressive”?
Well…this thought just came to me while I was doing the last post and this damn Progressive commercial came on…who would ever do that? Who would be the people who would give an insurance company the ammunition they need to cancel your insurance? Or, to not pay a claim if they determine that you were going one mile an hour over the speed limit when you were run into? I know that some people will make the specious argument they use for allowing police to search anyone for no reason…”if you’re not doing anything wrong, you shouldn’t mind being searched”….so, if you’re not speeding, you shouldn’t worry about Progressive searching your data….what a load of crap. why would anyone give up their data for a few bucks off your car insurance? I am a professional speeder who has not had a ticket since 1974…shouldn’t that be more important than being one mile an hour over the limit? I am just glad that my car is so old it doesn’t have one of the new “black boxes” that records everything that you do in the car…even GPS location if your car has that feature…we need to stop giving up our privacy to these corporations who are just waiting for a new reason to screw us over…geez…
November 13th
Well…running late again today but it is just a lack of motivation today, I think….slept okay but on my left arm so the tendonitis has flared to the point that I can barely move it…tried to pick up a glass of water and the pain is worse than it has been all year…I am getting really, really, tired of it and I’m not sure what to do about it…oh, well….I am going to get on the bike this aft since I feel so guilty after having taken the last two days off…one good thing is I woke up without the normal pain in my legs but I’d rather have the pain and not the guilt….I did get a few things done yesterday but there is much more to do…have to get the leaning tower of papers out to recycling and should clean the bathroom…the operative word there is should…not much to do today….should do some maint on the car since it is not raining or snowing…just need to check the coolant and oil before winter….I do need to do a few of these today since I am two down for the month already and that is nagging at me…more later…
Female republican grifters…
Well…it had to happen some time but I wonder why it took so long…there is a new consulting firm run by republican women, that’s sole purpose is to tell republican men how to sell their “message” so women will vote for them. I just can’s say how wrong this is on so many levels but it is indicative of the delusion on the right that it is not the policies of taking away women’s rights, keeping them from voting, and keeping them from marrying who they want…nope, it just that they are just not selling transvaginal ultrasounds and the rest of the intrusions into womens’ bodies right…if they just come up with a magical marketing plan, women will gladly vote for repubs who hate them. Now, this sounds like a colossal grift to me..that these women who are founding this company just want to get their turn at the billionaire trough that the rest of the grifters of the right feed from. The essential flaw, as always with the repubs, is that they truly do think that their ideas are popular across the country, after all, it’s all they hear in the right wing bubble, that they are the “real America” and they outnumber the rest of us and it is just by cheating that they continue to lose elections. What a bunch of maroons as Bugs Bunny used to say….a delusional bunch of maroons that will buy this new effort like they did Karl Rove’s in the 2012 election…and what did that 300 million dollars get them? Nothing….just recycling the dollars back through the media that is owned by the rich anyway…so they couldn’t lose…geez…
November 12th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but with the rain, I didn’t get to ride the bike…and when the rain changed over to snow in the aft, I just died a little…it is too early for that crap…I’m still in shorts after all…and, this morning, I had to use the hot water method to get the car doors open since the thing had frozen into a solid block of ice….just not ready for this…there is one weird thing about today….it is 11/12/13…just a little fact….slept like crap but still feel better than with the sleeping pills so I guess I’ll just have to live with it and go forward…there were some weird dreams with a kid I went to grade school in them…couldn’t remember his last name until right now….that is weird, too….not much to do today…I may take a second day off the bike since there will be ice on the trail and I’m not sure if I want to deal with that yet….I do have a few things to do around here so maybe that will keep me busy…
Oh, one last thing…happy birthday to Neil Young who turns 68 today….
Another reason for single payer…
Well…looking outside and seeing it snowing has made me depressed so I thought I might just as well get into something else that depresses me….the shenanigans that the insurance companies are starting in response to the ACA….while before they could use pre-existing conditions to screw over people…now they have to get more creative to screw people over…just like when it was exposed that every major insurer had whole departments whose sole purpose was to deny claims. Now, they are trying some new stuff…like sending letters to people whose policies are granfathered under the law saying they have to cancel and choose a new policy…and then only offering them plans that are many times more than what they were paying while making sure they never mention the exchanges where they have to compete on price….or the short sighted ploy of leaving a state completely so they don’t have to compete on price and the collusion that comes with it…where more than one company leaves a market to ensure there is only one or two companies left to compete so they can raise the prices and feed at the government trough with the subsidies that are available to the individual purchaser. I do feel good that the conversation has started to come back to single payer, Medicare for all to cut these damn crooks out of the gravy train…maybe we should root for the law to fail so we can take the house back and then get single payer…geez…
November 11th
Well…not sure where my head is at this morning..almost forgot to come here and do this after being over at Kos…it was an okay day yesterday but the bug is still here and I am getting really tired of it…I think I said that yesterday, too….didn’t get anything done at all but some laundry and that is contributing to the general malaise I’m feeling…just don’t want to do anything right now…maybe a workout will help? The Lions even won and that didn’t help….I did sleep okay last night so I feel somewhat okay today but, with it raining, I may not get on the bike today…and, since it is Veteran’s day, the battery for the walkman won’t be coming in the mail today…just another little disappointment in a sea of them…not much to do today…I do have to cook and I am going to try a new method for cooking pork loin….500 degrees preheat and then shut the oven off for an hour…weird…more later…