Well…you know I’ve been complaining about getting old and all of the aches and pains that comes with it when I work hard around here…I still have the energy to do it but there is a much larger price to pay in pain as I get older…okay, that was the preface to what I really wanted to talk about and it has to do with what I got in the mail yesterday…my only mail yesterday consisted of two pieces…one a solicitation for “final expenses” insurance that you see all over the tv these days..at least during the day when every damn commercial seems to be about it….and the second piece was advertising for bargain cremations from a local mortuary…now, if this is the only kind of mail I’m going to get from now on, I’m going to be pretty pissed…what happened to the new car adverts or the ones for travel or sporting goods? I wonder if they think I have one foot in the grave because I’m getting old? Now it would be nice to get some for bargain kayaks or used Miatas or motorcycles, but I really don’t want to start thinking more about how short of a time I have left so they can just stop with this crap….so it went straight into the trash as the rest of them will if they keep sending them to me….grrr….
Monthly Archives: February 2022
Greasy doors….
Well…I know you’ve heard me go on about how filthy the kitchen was before I got started tearing it down to clean and paint…but today, I found that it was even worse than I thought…when I was working on the doors for the cabinets above the stove, I had to scrape what looked like a quarter inch of grease off the tops of the doors that had collected there over the years…and that grease had penetrated the paint to make it gooey and damn near impossible to sand off…it was gooey and hard at the same time and I can’t figure that out but I know I’m sitting here in pain from using the sander so much today…can barely move my thumb and I still have the fronts of the last 4 doors to fill after the backs dry in another hour or so….and I need to get ready to eat dust all day tomorrow sanding the filler smooth…I am so sore from being on my feet the past few days that it may be a huge chore to do all 11 of them…and I need to seal myself into my dust room downstairs and open the window to try to get the fan to push some of the dust outside…but, it should be my last day of huge dust since the rest of the windows and the baseboards/door frames don’t need that much repair…at least I hope they don’t since I am really hurting myself with all of this work…at least I’ll be able to paint Friday…I hope…then I’ll need to spend a few days just cleaning up the dust downstairs…owww…
I’m beginning to hate the NYT…
Well…damn, I’m not sure who is running the New York times but there has been so much bullshit bothsiderism that it is squandering the hundred plus years of great journalism that made it the “paper of record”….throughout the Hillary Clinton e-mail non scandal, they had breathless coverage of the nothing that it was every damn day and they were responsible for getting the idiot trump elected with all of that crap…and today, they had a huge article about how badly we are doing controlling the covid virus with more cases and deaths than any other country….and, because they are kissing the right wings ass constantly, they tried to cover up the reason for our poor performance…every damn report from the CDC, the NIH, and every other study highlights one thing, the vaccination plateau we have reached where almost every dem is vaccinated and boosted by only 52% OF repubs are…and they act like the reason for that just can’t be figured out and they leave it at that…and that is the problem..it CAN be figured out and yet they just don’t want to say it…it is fox news and the daily loads of misinformation that come from it and the whole right wing ecosystem that are actively trying to keep the pandemic going to hurt Joe Biden…it’s as simple as that…the repubs are willing to kill for political gain and that is the cynical calculation they are making every day…to sacrifice their own voters for the next election…why can’t the NYT write that? Because the owners are also making a cynical calculation to keep in the good graces of right wing billionaires who infest this country…and let’s put it bluntly, the NYT has been sliding to the right for decades now and no one left there has any journalistic integrity anymore..the truth is the truth and it doesn’t need to be analyzed or put in context or anything else…just frickin print the truth…that trump tried to overthrow the government or that fox news is responsible for the anti vaccine bullshit that is pushed on every one of it’s shows…geez….
February 2nd
Well…that was a little crappy…tossed and turned all night and feel it this morning…the worst thing is the lack of consistency in sleep when I do exactly the same thing every night…there should be some way to build a routine that will let me sleep better every night…especially after a full month of no cocktails…so, needless to say, I feel a little run down this morning and that will make it a little bit of a pain to do the bike ride, the grocery run, and do the doors I need to do today….but I still feel better than when I was having cocktails every night so I guess I can suck it up and get things done…and I have to do the grocery run a little late today since I need to get more allergy meds and the pharmacy doesn’t open til 9…so I guess I can take a little time to have some coffee and read the news…still don’t know how I hurt the toes on my right foot but they seem to be a little better this morning and it’s still a pain to walk…it feels like I walked barefoot on concrete and abraded them but it’s winter and I always have socks on…probably should have put shoes on when I did the filling on the front of the doors yesterday and will do that today….still going to be on them for hours today and that is going to hurt…not much to do today…just the grocery run and then I’ll be in until Sunday when I go out for the paper and I hope I get the doors done by then…the blinds for the last window in the kitchen have shipped so I need to clean the dust off that window so I can mount them when they get here…the kitchen is slowly coming together…more later…
Lots of work today…
Well…man, you know I usually complain a bit when I have busy days and not a lot of time to just live…but, after how lousy I felt yesterday, a busy day that I could get through with energy left over is welcome…although the small toes on my right foot are hurt somehow and it may just be from standing on my feet for 4 hours today…and that didn’t help my back either with nasty pain in the lower part and stiffness that I am going to aggravate tomorrow with doing the last 4 doors….but, I did get the bike ride in, washed the car, got 4 doors done, and did my laundry….so, it looks like Thursday is going to be dust day with sanding the filler I had to use on the doors to repair them…and some of them were so bad that I had to skim coat almost the whole face to fill all of the dents and gouges in them…and there were a few of them that had food grease that had run down the back of them that I had to take the putty knife to and scrape it off…who the hell lives that way? It’s a little after 4 and I am done for the day after getting after it since 7 or so this morning….going to have leftover beef stir fry for dinner so I don’t have to work too hard for the rest of the day…my hands hurt and they aren’t going to get any rest until I’m done painting this weekend…ow…
208 miles in January..
Well…I do feel a lot better today and got a ride in and got 4 doors half done…need to go down and fill the fronts of the 4 of them here in a few minutes…but I really wanted to talk about the miles I did indoors in January…got to 208 miles as of yesterday and that means if I keep up that pace, I could have over 600 miles indoors before I get back out on the trails…and, when you do the math, you can see that the total is a multiple of 8 since that is how many miles I have been doing per day…down from the 10 miles per day I started doing since the 10 mile rides left my legs in pain for the rest of the day and took too much energy out of them….the 8 mile rides seem to be perfect for what I’m trying to do…I still come off the bike sweating through everything and I have energy left to do the rest of the things I have planned every day…and the 8 miles keep me from becoming totally bored and hating the rides…they are still tough some days but I can now get them done in about 45 minutes and I think it raises my energy level for the day so I am going to keep it up for as long as I can…oh, and I am still being good and may just keep it up for another month….
Trump is certifiably nuts…
Well…man, I am shaking my head at how nuts the idiot boy’s latest rant is..it’s not enough that he confessed to plotting and carrying out the coup on multiple occasions over the past week…and now new documents that were part of the trove of them that idiot boy was trying to hide from the public with lawsuit after lawsuit that culminated in the SC voting 8-1 to release them to the January 6th committee, show that at least three times trump tried to get various parts of the government to seize all the voting machines, ballots, and any other information that said he lost the election. But the most twisted part of what is called logic from the idiot is that now he thinks that Mike Pence should be investigated by the January 6th committee for not trying to overthrow the government…yep, in that shriveled walnut that trump calls his brain he has come to the idea that because Pence didn’t break the law and support his coup, he should be investigated for it…never mind that idiot boy has called the committee various childish names and still feels it is just a “witch hunt” against him, forgetting that he is not president, now he wants to use it against the person he feels is most responsible for him not being president any longer…and you may ask what is Pence’s response to this new slam against him? Nothing…he still is afraid of going up against the diminished, delusional moron and will never say a word against him even though trump’s followers tried to find him and hang him…I still wonder why the DOJ is still sitting on it’s hands after the umpteenth confession by the idiot boy, cripes, I could make the case against him in court and I’m not a lawyer…geez…
February 1st
Well…another month starts and that means we are one month closer to spring and it can’t get here fast enough for me…I did sleep okay last night and had some dreams that were weird as heck that included Ore Ida french fries and an old Monte Carlo with a tach that was stuck at 6,000 rpms and Scarlett Johansson who I knew somehow…..and she was driving my Monte Carlo…yeah, I told you they were weird but nice to have any dreams again…I can’t believe how lousy I felt yesterday and I hope that doesn’t happen again today…I did eat a lot more than normal yesterday and I hope that shows up today but I think I may have a cold but who knows these days? I do feel okay right now but I felt okay yesterday morning, too, so I’m not sure that means much….I do know I have a headache today but I’ve had them off and on for a month or more now so I think it’s from the dust I’m generating around here since my head feels plugged up….I am going to go out and wash the car this morning since it is already 30 out there right now…and I need to hit the atm to get some cash out so I’ll have some in my pocket for stuff like that….not much to do today…need to get my butt in gear and get on the bike right now to keep on schedule for the day and get more work done on the doors….I’m hoping to get 4 done today and 4 tomorrow so I can do the finish sanding Thursday and get started painting Friday…and that will leave me only the drawers to do after I get the doors hung….but right now I’m late and need to get moving…more later…