Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done…again….slept okay last night but I know I have a bug with my lungs being filled with crap and coughing like crazy…I knew there was something wrong yesterday since I felt weird and warm….oh, well….not sore today so that is something….but, I do have a sore throat, too…so today looks like a day to lay low especially with the rain that is coming in about an hour or so…have been wanting to take a day off the bike just for body maintenance so today looks like a good one…yeah…probably not…I’ll just wait for the rain to move through and then go later….not much to do today….should clean a little but feel so worn out that I probably won’t….just need more coffee but only had a cup and a half left in the maker…could make more, I guess…but it seems like too much work….more later….
Monthly Archives: June 2016
Brexit….
Well…not sure if you’ve been following it or not, but England just voted to leave the EU and, in the process, threw a wrench into the global financial system….with the Dow losing over 600 points in reaction. And, it didn’t need to happen…it was just a political miscalculation by their prime minister, Cameron, who has been wrong on almost everything since he took over…especially with his slavish devotion to austerity which has hit the middle class and the poor in England much more than the ruling classes. But, when you dig into the numbers, it was the old, white people who were duped into voting against their own self interest by racist, xenophobic lies…does that sound familiar? It is the template that the repubs have been using in the US for some time now and, up to this point, it has worked…you just have to look at the nomination of Trump who threw the racism into overdrive and shouts it every chance he gets…but, the problem with the low information voters in England that voted with their guts instead of their heads is that they have just resigned their country to almost permanent recession….and have sentenced their children to less than they had…less opportunity for good jobs and less chance for them to advance in the world….just what Trump wants to do here….the stupidity is just hard to fathom….geez…
June 25th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I lost at pool, finally, and that was okay, too….slept okay last night and don’t feel as bad as I should so I guess I’ll take it…no dreams to speak of and I am over the idea that it is disappointing…just normal, I guess….the cut on my finger has healed up some and doesn’t hurt anymore so I am going to let it stay in the air without a bandage and hope it doesn’t get infected….not sure if I like the new knife…my old Henkel is still a better one but I did need another one….not sore at all today so the bike ride will be a long one again…I do have to reset the pins in the rear shifter since they are working out again and the shifts are not right….should put the new one on one of these days but it just seems like too much work right now…not much to do today….I think I’ll just veg out and watch soccer…no motivation right now…more later….
June 24th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got the car cleaned so that was cool…how it go so dirty I don’t know but it is cleaned now…not sure why I’m running so early today but I guess I’ll just go with it…slept okay last night but no dreams and I was kind of getting used to them so it is a little disappointing….I did slice open one of my fingers using a new chef’s knife I bought the other day…it is about an inch longer than my old one and I think I didn’t compensate enough for that…and it is much sharper, too, so I guess I’ll have to be careful….not sore today and I should be with the ride being such torture yesterday…I just can’t figure out why that is with Wed being such a good one…not much to do today…pool, of course, and maybe lunch with T…haven’t seen her in almost a month and I’m not sure why…and I am going to make a little cash today….more later…
Stairway to Heaven…
Well…do I have your attention after that title? Hope so…but this one is a little obscure but I wanted to do something a little different today…one of my favorite bands, Led Zeppelin, and it’s founders and last surviving members Page, Plant, and Jones, have been involved in a plagiarism lawsuit brought by the estate of the lead guitar player of a band called Spirit…who you may or not have heard of…who wrote a song called Taurus back in the early 70′s that had a few chord progressions that sound something like the intro to STH. I listened to it the other day and I did find a couple of notes that kind of sound like one part of STH but the rest of it is nothing like it…and today, the court in LA agreed that the parts that the plaintiffs said were stolen have existed in the public domain for hundreds of years and that Page and Plant didn’t steal them….so two years of a cloud over the guys has been cleared and STH has been shown to be an original work….with the climate of litigation these days, I am really surprised that the case was decided as it was…and I think it was decided correctly….
June 23rd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool…was good again last night and fell pretty good this morning…even slept okay…kinda….so that helps, too….I did scorch myself a little trying to even out the bike tan yesterday…only an hour in the sun and my skin feels it today…but, the bike tan has gotten so bad that I had to do something…will do that again today if there is sun…I am a little irritated that the storms all stayed to the south yesterday but the change in humidity today is welcome….would have been nice to get the car cleaned…so, I’ll have to wash it this morning and do the interior since the dust is getting bad and it is looking old….I did get a new chef’s knife yesterday for only 4 bucks and it is pretty sharp and weird with the blade being powder coated with designs on it…not much to do today…going to wash the and get the bike ride in, then I am going to clean….more later….
No bill no break…
Well…my cynicism has been destroyed today but a simple act that is going on in the US House of Representatives today where the dems have had enough of repub obstructionism of sensible gun legislation and are staging a sit in on the house floor. They are joined by their Senate colleagues who the repubs obstructed earlier in the week when THEY tried to get some sensible gun legislation passed…and the repub response? The chicken speaker of the house, Paul Ryan, ordered the cameras for C-span shut off so no one can see this remarkable act of civil disobedience but he is so stupid that he doesn’t understand that there are many other ways to get pictures out these days…then he forbids cameras of any type on the floor…now, which party is the one of freedom and progress and which one is for suppressing the will of the people? I think you can guess…GO DEMS!
An 8 year olds word salad…
Well…watched a bit of ole Donald’s supposedly “pivot” speech where he was supposed to show that he could be “presidential” and came away just shaking my head…the whole thing sounded like a word salad that some 8 year old would say…no, that’s not being fair to 8 year olds….the entire thing was Hillary bad, Hillary crook, Hillary murder, Hillary liar, Hillary responsible for everything bad that has happened in the world since she was born. I laughed when the fact checkers at MSNBC just threw in the towel since the whole speech was one big conspiracy laden lie fest…no policy, no nothing but 45 minutes of supposed applause lines that weren’t even getting much applause. So, do I need to ever watch one of these again? Not really…unless I want to see what the bizzarro world inside the Donald’s head looks like…it’s not pretty…..geez…oh, and he does have really tiny hands with stubby little fingers…couldn’t stop looking at them….
June 22nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool….slept okay last night with dreams of my Fiat 124 Spyder and the weird thing was that I dreamed exactly like it drove when I had it…weird…there were other things, too, but I don’t remember those too well so I won’t relate them now…..I did get the bike cleaned yesterday but it will be 3 days of trying to get the squeaks out…at least it is not the greasy thing it was anymore….and I haven’t been sore for a few days now so I think I finally got over the pain hump for the summer…..didn’t have any spiders last night and that was cool since they were kind of freaking me out….I do need to de-spider the bedroom today while I wait for the storms to come….and that is why I’m early today…it is supposed to storm later so I am holding off washing the car until tomorrow….not much to do today….need to clean a little and run an errands but that is about it….more later….
The Trump campaign really is a dumpster fire…
Well…have been trying to stay away from writing about the Donald for a while since it really makes me feel slimed like in Ghostbusters….but today, I think I’ll give it a go since there are things to comment on…first, ole Donald brags that he has raised more money than any campaign in history but then a problem comes up…he has to tell the truth to the FEC and we find he has a little over a million dollars on hand for the entire campaign…and it is easy to see why when the RNC gives him a list of twenty donors to call and he gets bored after 3 and says the hell with it…let someone else do it…all the while, Hillary’s campaign has already spent 23 million dollars on advertising in swing states…..kinda funny if you ask me…then, today, we find that the Trump campaign has spent 35,000 dollars on some fake company that may or not exist for “consulting”….now, having lived through Watergate, this appears to be just a slush fund to drain money from the campaign and enrich someone on the campaigns cronies….just like happens all the time with any Trump project….and then we find that 20% of all expenditures from Donald’s campaign has gone to businesses that he owns…and he has spent more on hats than on staff to run his dumpster fire of a campaign….man, I hope he keeps this up through the convention…I have lots of popcorn and will watch it for the first time in many cycles….I really think Donald thinks that running for president is just like his reality show….or he is confused on what reality is…either way it’s going to be fun to watch the implosion….