Well…with the explosion of omicron in both Texas and Florida primarily caused by the passing of laws in both states that outlaw vaccine and mask mandates, and the “feedumb” folks that refuse to be vaccinated or take any precautions against spreading the virus who are egged on by the governors in each state, now the tune has changed and Abbott and DeSantis are now begging the feds to come in and help with setting up testing and to supply more monoclonal antibody treatments for people who chose to not get vaccinated…and this just one week after Abbott bitched in public about federal “overreach” in fighting the virus…you know, I’m tired of bailing out these idiots when their actions caused the problems in the first place…if they would have followed the CDC recommendations and if they would have pushed for vaccinations with boosters, they wouldn’t be in the trouble they are in with only 56% of each state fully vaccinated….so basically they are saying stay out of our business until we screw it up with our ideological bullshit, then please, please feds…come in and save us with your science and money….I feel for the dems that live in these states and have their lives ruined by these assholes, but I have not one F to give about the morons who choose to spread the virus and take up all of the hospital beds so there are none for responsible people….geez…
Monthly Archives: January 2022
Damn, that’s loud…
Well…as you know, they are building a anew house across the street and today they came out and started ripping up the street to allow them to connect to the water and sewer lines…when I got back from the grocery run, they had a jackhammer on a backhoe cutting up the street and now they have the backhoe digging 10 feet down in the middle of the street and it is shaking the heck out of my house….not as bad as the jackhammer but damn, it’s still loud and I can feel the vibrations from every bucket they take out….sure hope this doesn’t go on all day…
January 4th
Well…the first night of a month without cocktails went okay but didn’t sleep well at all…but I expected that…feel okay even with all the tossing and turning but I have to remember to take my allergy meds so I can breathe at night…darn, it looks like we have the first big winter storm coming in here tomorrow through thurs with 9 inches plus of snow and 50 mph winds so there will be drifting and lots of shoveling…glad I’m getting out for groceries this morning since it looks like I’ll be in for a week or so until the streets are cleaned…but I haven’t seen a plow up here yet so I don’t know if they even plow the streets out here…I guess we’ll see…I am going to get some powerball tickets today with the jackpot over 500 mil…hmmm…better check that…there was a drawing last night and someone may have hit it….I am going to get on the final kitchen window today and get started prepping it for filling and painting and I need to do laundry and clean, too but I may leave the cleaning til tomorrow….and if the storm blows like they say, I may get my winter gear on and just go walk around in it for a while…it’s nice to be out in the elements if even for a little while…not much to do today…just getting supplies to hunker down here for a few days….and make sure that all of my batteries are charged in case we lose power….and I need to cook since I have no leftovers in the fridge….more later….
Didn’t get much done….
Well…I really tried to get some stuff done today but wasn’t really successful…I did get some bills paid that needed to be done but didn’t work on the windows at all so I’ll need to do that tomorrow after I do the grocery run that I am moving up since it is supposed to snow tomorrow night and into Wed around 5 inches or so….and I have cleaned my freezer out over the past month or so and there is not much in there other than 4 containers of soup….and I ran out of stamps so I need to get a book of them along with some powerball tickets since it is over 500 mil….and that means a trip to the bank since I haven’t carried any cash with me since summer….probably should have some around here just in case….I just laughed a bit when I realized I have eaten 4 meals off one bone in chicken breast….probably should eat more, huh? Maybe tomorrow….
Subpoenas are flying…
Well…sitting here enjoying the Man U match and thought I’d do a short one on some news I just read a few minutes ago…subpoenas are flying in the civil suit that the NY AG brought against trump and his company for cheating on their real estate taxes by manipulating the worth of his buildings. Today it was revealed that the idiot boy and two of his kids were subpoenaed on Dec 1st to sit for questioning about the scheme…and, while trump’s lawyers tried to get them quashed, the judge said no so they are going to have to sit down with prosecutors soon…and with how much the idiot lies, he is going to in real danger of perjury…and that would be a criminal charge…and with how stupid the kids are, I’m sure they won’t be able to keep their story straight….tick tock…jail time is coming…
January 3rd
Well…made it all the way till 6:48 this morning but I feel like it was 4:48….just worn out again today but I hope that changes with the changes I’m going to make starting today…just need to take better care of myself and lose some weight…and save some money that I don’t need to spend every week….I did take the day off the bike yesterday and I’m a little confused why my legs and back hurt this morning…probably slept wrong but it is still annoying…I do need to clean some today but I’m not sure why with the work I need to do on the windows that will spread dust everywhere….I guess it’s like doing the snow when we only got about 3 inches…need to stay on top of it so the place doesn’t get out of hand….I did just veg the whole day off yesterday so I can’t do that again today….need to keep my schedule but I can be a little flexible on when I get started…still pretty geeked that I figured out the play in the swingarms on the bikes…I did pull out the instructions that came with them and there is no mention of the adjustment and I wonder why…taking the play out really made both of them solid again and I can’t wait to ride them outside….not much to do today….going to get on the bike here in a minute but want to read the news first…and I’m feeling the first tinges of the coffee starting to work so I need more of that….more later….
That was easy….
Well…as I mentioned earlier, I have been trying to figure out how to get the play out of the swingarm bushings on the black and grey bikes since they were loose enough to annoy me and made the bikes a little shaky…so, I just went downstairs to look at them and it’s a pretty weird setup where there is only one cap screw that goes into one side of the bushing and I couldn’t figure out how to get the swingarm off…so I put it back together and tightened it more than it was and it took all of the play out of the swingarm on the black bike…so I did the same thing to the grey bike and it worked on that one, too, so that is just so cool…no play at all anymore and I don’t have to think about it again…but I wonder if I should back it off a bit until there is just a little play in it? Not sure but it’s easy enough to do…now I need to think if I want to replace the frozen forks on the black bike for 50 bucks or so and get another computer and handlebar bag so I can use either of them and keep track of the miles I ride without having to switch everything back and forth….hmmm….
Good riddance…
Well…it’s not news that the military has a white nationalist problem in it’s ranks and they are having a hard time identifying these folks and making rules so they can’t spread that poison throughout the ranks…and now it seems these morons have been self-identifying by their refusal of the covid vaccines since there is a straight line from vaccine refusal to being a white nationalist…or at least being a racist/fascist MAGA asshole. So, when I read stories about the few hundred Marines or Army, or any other part of the service being kicked out for refusal to vaccinate…which by the way is just so damn stupid since to get in the military, you have to take on a dozen other vaccines or they reject you, I say good riddance…a few hundred less MAGA assholes for the military to root out and discharge…thanks for putting your hands up morons, good luck getting a job outside the military with a bad conduct discharge….stupid, stupid, people…geez….
Still haven’t done anything…
well…it’s 1:30 in the afternoon and I still haven done anything…okay, that’s not quite true…I did go out and shovel the snow including from the garage door to the alley and all of the walks and the trash bin landing pad along with the front stoop but that only took about 15 minutes and then it was back to watching soccer that just ended…so now what to do? I really do want to get to some stuff downstairs and I have 3 hours til the Lions play so I probably will…but I’m still not too motivated right now….”Bullitt” just started and I could watch that but I’ve seen it probably 20 times and I think it’s going to be relegated to background noise….and I do need to find a political topic for later and I think one just popped into my head…so I think I’ll do one….
January 2nd
Well….5:41 and 7:19…that’s all I have to say about it right now…didn’t sleep well and feel pretty crappy but that will go after I have some coffee….skipped going out for the paper today with the snow we got last night and I’m going through withdrawal since it has been my habit to get the Sunday paper for as long as I can remember…but, I don’t want to take the car out in the snow since they don’t plow any of the roads out here and the summer tires are really crappy in it….didn’t get anything but the bike ride done yesterday and I’m even skipping that today…need to have a repair day for the legs once a week and Sundays seem like a good day to do it….I did get started on putting stuff away downstairs a couple of days ago and I may get back to that today…want to get organized down there and it won’t take a lot of work….I should take the swing arm off the black bike if I can figure out how to do it so I can replace the bushing and then do the same to the grey bike…but I really just want to watch soccer and do nothing so we’ll see….not much to do today….just going to ease into it today since I feel really slow right now….more later….