Well…it was a normal, boring day yesterday but the pork shoulder came out good so that is something…slept okay but still feel like crap today with a good sized headache that has to be caused by allergies…forgot to get allergy medicine yesterday so I’ll have to see if there is any here….I am looking forward to “Breaking Bad” tonight and that will be the focus of the day for me…after football and the races, that is….don’t have lot more to say right now…so, I won’t say it….more later…
Predators on the trail…
Well…almost forgot this one from the trail this morning…when I was on the last uphill to the park where I take my last break every day, there was just the strangest sight…a rabbit, or half a rabbit was laying in the middle of the trail…it looked like it had just been sliced in half with a knife and the front was gone…and the weirder thing is that about 50 yards up the hill, there was another one…just like the first one…the front gone and the back essentially intact. Now, I am really curious about what could do that around here…could be a dog but why just the front gone? Maybe alien dissection? Coyote? It will be a puzzle for a while anyway….
Oh, one last thing…just an observation…why would anyone put custom wheels on a Prius? Saw one in the parking lot of the trail in Kentwood today…just not right…..
September 28th
Well…running kind of late today but I did have to go out for groceries…just couldn’t pass up pork shoulder at 99 cents a pound and needed cocktail materials for “Breaking Bad” tomorrow night….making an 8 pound shoulder right now and can’t wait…it is going to be a little boring today with both Michigan and State on a bye week and no soccer that I can get…there may be a race to watch later, though…I’ll have to take a look…slept okay last night, I think, but I am still tired today so it must not have been that good…oh, well…it does look nice outside and it will be a long ride day with no wind to work against…other than that, not much to do today…I should clean and I might…I did get new wipers for the car and need to put those on since the ones on it just don’t work anymore…more later…
Another bunch of stupidity from Fox…
Well…was just reading a little nugget about the idiots over at Fox on Kos and I just can’t believe how stupid these folks are…on “Fox and friends” this week, the idiot Doocey tried to make the point that Obamacare is a failure because it has only covered 1% of the 15% of people that are uninsured in this country…never mind that the exchanges don’t open until the first of October and the coverage doesn’t start until January 1st…Obamacare is a failure because it hasn’t covered everyone before they sign up. The 1% they are talking about are the kids that get to stay on their parents policies until they are 26 and would not be able to afford insurance under the current plans…so, the way to look at this is that Obamacare is covering an extra 1% before it even starts….I am really getting tired of the right and Fox…they just don’t give a damn if they lie and lie and lie…they’re just not even trying to be “fair and balanced”…as it they ever were….geez….
Looks like the repubs are going to crash the economy…
Well…I have had enough of the political terrorists on the right using the economy as their hostage after they continue to lose elections…and the thing is, only a small fraction of the country want what they are selling…starving people, tax cuts for the rich, and unfettered corporate hegemony over the economy….this is not going to be pretty…and these assholes had no problem raising the debt limit 19 times while ole GW was in office…the only objection they have is that Obama is presidentin’ while black….I wonder when their corporate masters are going to get tired of losing trillions in equity while these idiots play with government…I have no other words…
September 27th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and i was busy all morning and into the afternoon so the boredom was kept somewhat at bay….got the car cleaned and waxed and I can see out of the glass again…slept okay but feel kind of crappy this morning with going out to have a couple with G and then cocktails after I got back here…but, I think it is more the allergies since I have had this low grade headache for a couple of weeks now…and they are going to get worse with the ride this morning…but, still no medication so far and I feel good about that…but, I may pick some up tomorrow to keep from coughing so much…not much to do today..pool, since it is Friday but that is about it…I do have to move the car at some point since they are going to repaint the lines on the lot here but I am hoping that will get done while I’m gone this aft…more later…
Not sure what to write about…
Well…as you can see…I started one wrong yesterday with an okay instead of well…and I still can’t think of anything to write about but that really should happen sometimes since I have done 2,600 of these…I did have an okay morning with getting a lot of things done including waxing the car…but now, I think I will just take it easy for an hour or so and just chill….it looks like the repubs are still searching for ways to end the ACA but all the dems have to do is say no and pin the government shutdown on them….since there is still a majority of the country that likes the law…and as more and more info gets out, they like it more…and the polls are saying that more than 80% of the country don’t want a shut down…so, I say let them own it…and bring on 2014…the repubs will be gone…geez…
September 26th
Well…it has been an interesting morning and that is why I’m running late today…had to go to the bank to figure out why my debit card had stopped working…one of the places I used it had a data breach that could have emptied my account…but the bank canceled the card so they couldn’t steal…already have a new one and have it activated so things are back to normal…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t do much but send resumes….and today looks the same although I have already done the grocery run and I need to work out, get the bike ride in, and wash the car….so the aft will be busy…might have a couple with G later but I’m not sure about that…have been good most of the week so I can cut loose a little today….and I will be back later for three to get caught up…need to think out of the box a little for topics since I think I’ve beaten the normal ones to death….more later…
ACA pricing doesn’t look good for the repubs…
Well…just a shorty on the data that is coming out of the developing pricing for the insurance exchanges…one estimate for a family of four making around 40K in Texas is that, after subsidies, they will pay around 50 bucks a month for a silver plan that covers more than any personal insurance that is even available in Texas right now. So, to the repubs I say “you guys are in deep, deep trouble” if you continue to try to make sure that no one can afford insurance…your time is just about up when people get the pleasant surprise of the rates under the ACA and it spreads like wildfire across this country…and, you are a bunch of immoral pricks…geez…
Suicide squirrels…again…
Okay…not sure what is going on but today, I had another bout with the suicide squirrels on the trail that was just like the one in the spring…must have had fifty of them run out in front of me with some of them doing the double…going across, then slamming on the brakes and running back again…not sure what the connection would be to spring but it has been weird to say the least….at least the bike worked well and I didn’t have to make any fine adjustments to the shifter after the cable replacement…might have to lube it, though, since it does hang just a bit…I will have to adjust it in a while to allow for the natural stretching that happens after I use it for a while…and, yes, this one was cheating a little but I am so far behind, I am starting to get concerned…