Well…running one behind for the month so I thought I’d do a short one on some updates…will be getting to 900 miles on the bike since April this weekend…way behind last year but I got to start in January last year with the warm weather so I don’t feel too bad about it…probably won’t get to 3K this year but that’s okay…I did get the oil changed in the car today and i am looking forward to seeing how the Rotella T-6 works…only took about 10 mins and spent 25 bucks all together so that was cool….there were suicide bunnies on the trails again today and they made me laugh like crazy…and I forgot to write about the deer that was trapped in the fences that enclose the trail and I followed it for almost a mile until it disappeared…looks like the group drive with the Miata club might be rained out tomorrow…supposed to be storming all aft and I don’t really want to take the drive unless I can put the top down…that’s it….no more later…
Monthly Archives: June 2013
The supremes get it wrong ….again..
Well…this looks like it is going to be a theme for at least the next couple of days while the term winds down…another bad, bad decision written by the righties on the court that strikes down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act that kept states like Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas from doing everything in their power to keep minorities and everyone else except whites from voting…and one of the reasons is that it has been a long time since 1965 and voter suppression can’t possible still be happening….well, it was more like they objected to a formula that is used to determine voter suppression but the effect is the same thing…that even though it is well documented that repub controlled states are doing their best to limit legal voting by shortening poll hours, requiring voter ID, and making sure that students in their states can’t vote there…the righties on the court dismissed these facts, handing the repubs a blank check to continue to keep legal voters from voting and allowing them to rig elections….I guess since these folks didn’t see a problem with handing an election ole GW, of course they would have no problem allowing their side to lie, cheat, and steal elections…bad, bad, decision….geez…
June 25th
Well….it was just another day yesterday and I really don’t remember if anything happened…I did get out in the sun to try to even out the biker tan but that is about it…slept okay last night and with it being a no cocktail night, I feel okay today…was planning to change the oil in the car today but it is finally storming so I guess that will have to wait until tomorrow….and I may get the day off the bike to let the legs heal so that may be a good thing and I won’t have to feel guilty about it….maybe a leisurely read of the papers today with some fresh coffee…it seems that with even being unemployed, I feel stress constantly to be doing something to find work…it is like a black cloud hanging over me all day…so maybe today I can get past it for a couple of hours and just relax…hope so…
The supreme court of the chamber of commerce…
Well…while everyone has been talking about the affirmative action non-decision that came out of the supreme court today, the real eye opener was the win by the chamber of commerce who got a decision that basically immunizes all employers from charges of sexual harassment. Essentially, what the court has ruled is that harassment by anyone other than a supervisor or manager is just peachy even if the company knows about it…so, in real world terms that means that women in the workplace, or gays or lesbians, or anyone else that is subject to this nonsense just has to sit back and take it…the company has no responsibility or legal liability unless it is done by someone in a supervisory role…I just can’t believe how wrong these guys are on every issue…and I use the term guys here because it is always the conservative “guys” on the court that believe companies should be protected but individuals are on their own…just more of the Ayn Rand nonsense that has filtered into the right these days…whatever happened to the court just ruling on the law, not ideology? Not with these folks…geez…
June 24th
Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for another one yesterday…it may have been the heat…or the boredom…or that I just didn’t have anything to say….or, all three..or more…who knows? It was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t really do much other than meet up with a couple of people and make a little money…so, there will be groceries for another week or two…slept okay but I am tired today for some reason…and the heat really might be part of that…really have been trying to eat enough but it is harder than it looks and that may be a reason for the tiredness…was only able to get to 1400 cals yesterday and part of it is that nothing tastes good and it is almost too much effort to cook…maybe I’ll have to spend some cash and get a pizza…I will come back today for more since the supreme court is supposed to have some big rulings today and I do have to comment on them…
June 23rd
Well… sitting here watching the end of the 24 hours of LeMans and thought I’d get this done so I can get right on the bike after it’s over…it was an okay day yesterday…but, I already updated that so I’ll not bore you with more…did sleep okay but my shoulder hurts so I must have slept wrong…it is bad when you can get injured sleeping…guess I’m getting old…and I am just coated from sweating but don’t want to shower until after the ride….and I don’t really have much to do today….more races and probably a nap…and more cleaning if I want to keep up…more later…
Part two…
Well…haven’t been able to think of a political one to do today so I think I’ll just update and see if I can get in the groove…it has been an okay day so far…LeMans has been nice to have on all day and I have gotten some cleaning done finally…the bathroom is now spotless and I got the mat for the bike cleaned and removed a bunch of stains from the carpet…didn’t get to anything else, though, so I am a little disappointed…did get a nice bike ride in and got the squeak fixed again so that made the morning nice…I am counting down to cocktail time here in about an hour and that will be a light one tonight…I am a little frustrated that the storms have fallen apart again today and it looks like nothing across the lake so I guess I’ll just have to wait….might have to run the air later since it is still 85 and that contributed to the uncomfortable sleep last night….okay….done with this for now…
June 22nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool….but the damn storms that I was waiting for fell apart coming over the lake and it looks like the same thing is going to happen today…slept okay but there were spiders that drove me nuts…looks like I have to do a spider sweep today to get rid of them….I do need to eat more since I have been so tired lately and I know it’s from the 1400 cals a day I have been taking in….but, I did buy food today so I have some here and I am going to try to get over 2000 cals today…I am a little excited that LeMans is starting in a few minutes and there is like 15 hours of coverage throughout the day so I will have background noise as I clean…and I do need to clean today…both the bathroom and the kitchen…hell, the whole place needs it so I have work to do today….more later…
House idiots…
Well…I was going to call this one “snakes on the trail” since I did see 5 of them today….or “snakes in the house” for the nonsense that is going on there, but “House idiots” seem to fit better with the fiasco that was the farm bill that didn’t pass this week. The funniest part was ole Beohner and Cantor trying to blame the dems for it…saying that “the dems don’t know how to govern”….no, that’s not the case…the reason the dems voted against this ugly bill is the 20 billion dollars in cuts to food stamps an other onerous requirement that were put on the people that have the need for assistance. These ugly repub idiots wanted to use this bill to punish people for losing their jobs and needing temporary assistance…going so far as to mandate drug tests before any benefits are offered. I guess the repubs don’t know how to read since the same ALEC fueled nonsense was struck down by the courts in Florida last year and the same thing would have happened if this law was passed. What the hell did they expect when the dems said no? There is still one party that cares about people, not just corporations and the rich and it isn’t the repubs…..
June 21st
Well…another long day yesterday but it had a nice, long trip in the Miata in it so that made it okay…slept okay last night but it looks like I may have to run the air the next couple of days since it will be in the upper 80′s the next four…finally getting some summer here and I like it….I do have to remember sunscreen in the car with it this hot, though….the damn squeak is back in the bike but I’m hoping it’s the shock and wd will take care of it…going to be a really good sweat today with it being almost 80 and not nine yet…and going to take a long one today to get the toxins out from the cocktail night last night….not much to do today…pool day, of course, but that is about it….but, need to get the bike ride in right now so More later…