Well…a long, boring day yesterday that culminated in some cocktails so that was okay…but, I feel like crap this morning and my brain has not started to work yet so this is going to be a short one…I need to conserve what little cash I have so coffee and the papers is out for this week along with going out with G…it looks like a hermit week unless things change….be back later for more…
Okay..it has been another day today with some surprises and I am late getting back here for more but I did come back…did decide to go out and shoot pool with Tom but I am in debt again since I’m too broke to buy booze….I did win at pool so that was a plus but I haven’t been able to come up with a topic for today but maybe Keith will do that in a few minutes….who knows? If I can’t come up with one later…I’ll promise that I’ll try more tomorrow…
Well…it has been a crushingly boring day today so I’m back to just do anything to get my brain working again…I’m just not a basketball fan but that is the only thing that is on…I’ve even read the paper twice already so that is done for the day and it is only 3…and it is 4 1/2 more hours until the Wings come on…there has been no help on the political side, either, so I can’t really report anything there…so, what to do? I’ve got the Post up on another tab so maybe I’ll go over there and look for a minute…okay, I’m back from there and I could write one about the whole contraception controversy…one of the things that I find startling is that all of the repub candidates are against women’s contraception…how can this be in 2012? How can the party of limited government want to take away a basic right from 50% of the population? I guess it’s because they always want to limit the rights of people they don’t agree with….and that, I think, is the problem with the repubs these days…when they get elected, they only govern for those who voted for them…they lack the big vision necessary for such a complex country but also continue with the damn doom and gloom every day…I just don’t want to hear it anymore…geez…
Well…another somewhat boring day yesterday but I survived it with a little creativity…and every horizontal surface in this place has been cleaned so I feel good about that…and State beat that school in Ohio…and Everton knocked off Chelsea which is always a good thing to see….but there is not much to see in sports today other than the Wings playing later that I will have to watch on the computer again..but that’s not a good thing since they have lost every game that I’ve watched on Versus…I did have a repeater of a dream last night but I don’t remember what it was so it wasn’t one of my favorites…not much to do today…I do have a pork loin that I am going to make with some roasted asparagus but then I will have to be creative again to keep the boredom at bay…and, since I’m broke again, I’ll have to make do with things around here…and try to stay up until 11 to see the new episode of Ab Fab…probably won’t make it but I’ll give it a try…more later…
Well…just a short one about some more nonsense from the governor of the Koch brothers in Wisconsin….with the first settlement of wrongdoing in the mortgage mess, which is supposed to be used to help homeowners that were affected by the practices of the large banks, we see in Wisconsin that Scott Walker has other ideas and is using the money to pay for tax cuts for business that were passed last year. Yep, you heard that right…money that is supposed to go to the people of Wisconsin is going straight back to the businesses that bought the election for Walker…is there any other reason needed to remove this idiot from office? I hope the people of Wisconsin send him back to the Koch brothers in the recall election later this year…
Well…it was a fun day yesterday even thought it snowed…didn’t get the bike out and now it looks like it will be next week before I get on it again…I did get out for a couple with G last night and it was a chore coming home with all of the ice and snow…I didn’t get back here for a political one yesterday and I don’t know why..I just didn’t have the outrage necessary, I guess but I will try to do better today…not much to do today…it’s only 6 degrees outside right now so I do need to warm the car up before I go out for the papers…then I’m just going to clean this place up and do laundry…yeah, exciting, I know…
One thing I forgot to mention is the soccer day that is going on this morning..just watched Man U beat Liverpool and Chelsea and Everton are coming on in a few minutes…and I really want Everton to win since they have 2 Americans on the team and it is good to root for Tim Howard and Landon Donovan….oh, and it is only 5 degrees outside but I was out cleaning off the car in shorts..kind of a badge of honor but there was no wind so it didn’t feel that cold…I am going to try to come back and do two later but who knows?
Well…it was a day yesterday but there wasn’t much to report….just the normal crap and more rejections of the resume…so I had cocktails last night and slept pretty well…I guess that’s a good trade off…but it looks like the weekend is going to be somewhat of a bore with K out of town and being broke…but I do have some new recipes to try that will keep me somewhat amused…and there is a Wings game tonight to look forward to…not much to do today…I want to get one last bike ride in before it goes extremely cold for the next few days and I may even have the shifters fixed…at least it shifts when the bike is upside down here but if it doesn’t work out on the trail I’m going to be a little irritated…more later…
Well…if you have been following politics at all over the past couple of weeks, you can see that a change is brewing in the tactics of the repub party….the tired old nonsense of the culture war has risen it’s ugly head again but this time, I think they may have miscalculated and it is not going to work except for with their base. We’ve seen that the republicans look worried with their current crop of candidates and their lack of competitiveness in a head to head matchup with Obama…so what do we see again? The GOP rolling out the gay marriage card…the repubs trotting out the faked battle on contraception, and the continued attacks on Planned Parenthood that are designed to appeal to the ignorant haters in their base…but, what they are failing to see in 2012 is that base is the only place these attacks resound…all of the polls show us that America has become more tolerant and accepting and we are tired of the nonsense the repubs are peddling…but, I hope they continue it since these shenanigans have driven the approval of the repub controlled congress down to historically low levels at 10%…only 10% of the people in the US approve of the obstructionist crap the repubs are using to keep the economy from improving…and I hope they pay for it by losing control of the house this fall…they deserve it….geez…
Well…The Grand Rapids Press has been apart of my life since I learned to read so many years ago and, with that history, I have to comment on the changes that have come to that paper in the past few weeks. I know that the newspaper business has been in decline for the past couple of decades but why do the owners of the Press want to speed that decline? That is exactly what will happen with the de-contenting of the paper…making it just a compiler of articles that you can get in many other places. Don’t these people understand that the reason people read newspapers is to get something unique; that will deal with news from the local community but to also have depth of national and world reporting along with commentary that reflects all of the differing points of view? Over the past few years, the Press has abandoned it’s guise of fairness to pick up the banner of the far right with people like Michelle Malkin and the rest of the Fox News propaganda machine that do nothing but hate Obama and do everything in their power to minimize the initiatives that he has proposed to benefit all Americans…not just those that Fox News gets paid to shill for. One of the last comments I want to make is that with the proliferation of sources for news, the idea is that people will pay for value in those sources…but yesterday, when I picked up the Press to purchase it and noticed that it was about 20 pages worth of nothing for the new price of a dollar, I finally realized that there is no longer value there…so, after more that 50 years of reading the Press, I will have to say goodbye….the million plus people in west Michigan deserve better…geez…
Well…it was an okay day yesterday with getting out to play pool, which I won in a championship game…and the Wings won last night, too so that was great…it was a no cocktail night so I feel okay this morning…I think that dislocated feeling I had yesterday was caused by not eating enough but we’ll see today as the day goes on…I did have a really weird dream about East Grand Rapids and donuts that cost 50 dollars for 4 of them….of course I told them they were nuts and wouldn’t pay that much so there was a police chase that ensued, then I woke up….yep…I am strange…but you knew that….not much to do today…I do need to get a few groceries since I am going to make a homemade chicken penne alfredo this weekend…I will come back for a political one for later since I kind of slacked off yesterday and I do need to keep up….
Well..it was another no cocktail night but still no sleep so I guess I feel okay today….but I’m not thinking clearly yet so this one may be short…it was a nice day yesterday but I still don’t have the shifters fixed on the bike so it is getting a little frustrating but we’ll see when I take it out today….okay…I do have some things to do today…going to go out and shoot pool today…I’ll be back later to finish it…
Okay…have been out to get coffee and read the papers and I still feel really strange…like I’m disconnected from the world and really weak….might be not eating enough or it could be that I only slept about 3 hours last night with all of the tossing and turning…whatever it is, it is really disconcerting….and it’s not getting better….maybe I’ll feel better after I work out…more later…