Well…I finally made some progress on the door frame and have all of the wood cut to start repairing it in the next couple of days…we are still getting more and more snow out here and it’s wearing me down…but we are going to be above freezing for 7 days in a row starting Sunday an three of those are going to be 40 degrees and I look forward to that…but then it goes back down into the 20′s for highs…spring is coming and but I won’t be able to get on the bike outdoors until mid April or so with how much snow we’ve had and how much is piled up still…unless it gets really warm really fast…oh, well…even with not having a lot to do today…I still didn’t get done til after 2pm and I am really tired of working all the time…going to feed the sourdough starter tomorrow so I can make bread in a few days….okay need to do my teeth and read a bit…
The big crash is coming…
Well…economists are starting to figure out that firing 200K federal workers and stopping the funding for projects all across the country is going to plunge this country into a deep recession later in the year and it will all be the morons running the country into the ground’s fault…and this quarter is going to see the biggest job losses since the great recession or 2020…and guess who was in charge then…yeah, it was the stupid repubs and dems had to clean up both of those messes…and with the repubs ongoing attempt to destroy and accomplishment of the Biden administration like the Infrastructure and Chip acts…which had a huge impact onshoring jobs in huge chip plants that are currently being built but which are the next targets of the idiot trump and his minions…and when they are stopped, think of all of the engineering, construction, and ancillary jobs that are going to be lost along with all of the jobs that support them like truck drivers and material suppliers…and these are not thing you can just shut of and on like a switch…the stalling of funding is going to kill a lot of those project…and you maga morons still believe the repubs are “better” on the economy…welcome to the unemployment line idiots…geez…
February 20th
Well…it’s a hell of a lot of work to be old…feel so worn out today but it’s going to be an easy day with no plans other than to do three rides…have leftovers to eat and did the laundry yesterday so my afternoon is going to be nothing but reading and shoveling the damn snow…it is going to warm up a bit over the weekend but I just looked into the first week of March and it looks like more Feb weather with temps in the 20′s….oh, well…I do have to get the sourdough starter fed so I can make another loaf next week or this weekend…and that will have to set on the prep table for a few days for it to be ready to use….it would be nice to melt some of the damn snow out here and that might happen with three days of 40 for a high starting Monday…I should get on the bike right now but I’m taking another half hour before I do…and I need to work on the door frame later today to keep the progress going…it’s another morning of the temp in the teens and I am so damn tired of the cold…and now the next few weeks are going to be grinding out the last of winter…and I can’t wait til I can get outdoors on the bike…that looks like it’s going to be April again…ick…more later….
I hate every damn tump voter…
Well…with the idiot trump and his team of morons taking a meat axe to the government, my son in law lost his job at the USDA Monday…and my daughter found out she has two huge kidney stones that are going to be broken up next Thursday…here’s the thing, the morons making these cut don’t give a shit about the pain they are dealing to families with these cuts…now, my daughter and SIL will be okay but what of the people they are cutting who live paycheck to paycheck? I really hate the people who voted for trump with all of my being…and I never want to talk to one ever again…geez…
More stupid tariff tricks…
Well…here comes the effects of the tariffs on auto parts and the industry is starting to look at ways to stay alive in the face of the mounting costs for all automakers who build cars and trucks here…and the discussions are starting with moving production out of the US, putting any manufacturing plant expansions on hold and warning that any increase in costs due to supply chain disruptions could shut down the entire industry, putting more than a million people out of work and triggering a recession that would decimate the economy….and the idiot still hasn’t said what problem the tariffs are supposed to solve…they are just a tantrum from an ignorant idiot who has a 5th graders understanding of the economy…I’m just going to sit here and watch the economy go into the toilet and will be saying “I told you so” when it does…I really hope the trump voters get hurt by this nonsense…it will serve them right…geez…
February 19th
Well…sitting here drinking 2 day old coffee and I probably should have made new stuff like I did yesterday and I may still grind some pour over…I curse the idiots who randomly call my damn phone at 5:54am and shock me out of bed when I was in that almost sleep zone…it feels good that I don’t have to go anywhere today and I have enough food for the next week…need to make Masala today to go with the large amount of leftover stir fry I made a couple of days ago…it did snow again yesterday afternoon so I will be out shoveling again after the rides and it is cold out there at 13 degrees…this is the kind of February I remember when I was young…cold and snowy but March is coming and the sniff of warm weather is happening this week and we may get up to almost 40…but then it goes back down into the 20′s…oh, well…not sure what I’m going to do today other than ride and cook but I should work on the door frame to keep that project going….but right now I just need more crappy coffee and to stop grinding my teeth….have been doing that for a full day now and that’s not good for my jaw….more later…
I got out…
Well…I did get out this morning for the grocery run, depot and the library and getting out was okay but getting back to the garage when I hadn’t shoveled and with 5 inches of snow I had the car sideways trying to get into the garage…so that is something I learned…always shovel the approach to the garage before I go anywhere in the winter…I did get a bunch of deals today at Meijers including 5 lbs of potatoes for a buck and I even bought some extra butter microwave popcorn for a buck so that was cool…the roads were nasty but I went out in the morning so there was no traffic and I could slide the car around some and I miss that…got the wood I need to work on the door frame but didn’t work on it today since I had other thing to do and I barely got started on the 4 new books but I have til March 11th so it should be easy to finish them…making Masala tomorrow and then I have leftovers for the rest of the week…have some chicken thighs that need to be used so that will probably be the next food to eat…okay…need to read a bit…
Let’s try something different…
Well…look, I think you’re probably getting tired of me talking about the idiot trump all the time and I’m sure tired of writing about tha t asshole…so, let’s try something different for today…as I get older, my interest in doing things that will mitigate my chance of getting Alzheimer’s has moved up in importance and today I read about a new study that was done that showed that vaccines can lower your risk by up to 50%…and those are just your everyday vaccines like flu, pneumonia and tetanus…and that reaction is even better than the best treatments specifically for the disease…along with all of the exercise I get for my body and brain, I do have these three vaccines along with a current covid vaccination so I guess I’m doing everything I can…the one easy thing that has a correlation to prevention is reading…and I’m doing 3-4 books a week and really notice that my brain feels sharper than before I started to read every day…so there, something different and I feel better writing about that…
February 18th
Well…damn…it’s only 8 degrees out here and it snowed another 6 inches overnight and I am damn tired of being trapped here and not being able to get out…made some pour over coffee this morning and I need lots of it to get moving….have 32 minutes before I need to get on the bike and that appears to be a little daunting as I sit here….this may be the elusive two ride day I’ve been searching for a long time now and I may just say the hell with it and try to get the car out and do some errands for something different…not being able to get out of here could be all in my head and today could be the day I banish it…or bury it…who knows which? I did get a little done on the door frame but I’m not sure how much I want to do on that piece of crap before I paint it…as I’ve said before, the heavy lifting will be left for the next owner…okay, the temp just dropped to 7 and if I’m going to try to get out, I’ll have to warm the car up before I do…not much to do today…just the errands and the laundry I have going right now…will do the sanding on the first layer of filler later and I need to get some indoor white paint to start working on the trim in the dining room….more later…
Staying in…
Well…just got a call from my dentist cancelling my appointment for tomorrow with the hygenist out sick…so I really don’t have to go anywhere for a few days and that may be a good idea with the snow still coming down out here…I did go out and shovel the end of the alley this morning to ensure I could get out but since then it’s snowed another 4-5 inches that I will have to shovel before attempting to go out to the library tomorrow…and I need to hit depot to get some trim pieces I need to continue working on the door frame downstairs…and I just used my sander with the new vacuum attached to it and not a bit of dust got out…so I guess I can start on the trim in the dining room since that was the thing keeping me from getting started…just hate dust all over everything…I did pull the door stop molding off the frame today since I’m not going to hang a door on the frame again and I started filling all of the holes and cutouts to try to smooth it some before I paint it white…it only got to 11 degrees today and it will be in single digits tonight and tomorrow…brrr…oh, well…need to read some more but I finished all the books…darn…hope I can get out for more tomorrow…