It’s started…

Well…no matter what Nancy Pelosi says, the impeachment inquiry has started in the Judiciary committee with it’s request to a federal judge to release all of the Mueller report and it’s underlying material including basically everything including the grand jury testimony and evidence…and they specifically name the idiot trump in the filings referencing his or anyone else’s criminal acts including basically everyone in idiot boy’s orbit and specifically Don McGahn who has ignored the subpoenas issued to him by this same committee. Now, never in the history of this country have the courts denied the fact that the House has the power to investigate a president and has denied them the means necessary to do that….it is their right under Article 1 of the constitution and even trumpster judges will get slapped down if they try to involve themselves in this clearly political process that has no place for the judicial branch at all. So, it has started, and the meltdown by the idiot in chief should be coming soon….and there is not a damn thing he can do about it…impeachment…is finally here….

July 27th

Well…man, I feel like crap this morning…just worn completely out and I many even take the day off the bike…or wait until after F1 qualifying to go out…didn’t get up til 6 but I’m still exhausted today…after all the work on the house this week, I may just have to have a rest day but I’m not sure my guilt will allow that…but, I know I’m not 30 anymore but I don’t want to start making allowances for my advanced age…that’s a slippery slope that I don’t want to start down…I really should clean some around here today and I may do some with the cobwebs starting to take over and annoy the hell out of me…other than the house stuff, I didn’t get much done yesterday but cook a little and that will happen again today with getting some chicken thighs for 60 cents a pound at DD…might have to marinate them this morning to cook later but I am not too motivated right now and I hope the coffee helps with that…okay, have 15 minutes to decide whether to go out on the bike but I want to read some news first…more later….

I’ve been thinking…

Well…hmmmm… have been trying to figure out why Nancy Pelosi is slow walking impeachment of the idiot criminal trump…especially after Mueller’s testimony earlier in the week…but, I am willing to give her some leeway, after all, she only has about 90 dems calling for impeachment and she needs 218 to get any articles passed…and she is not going to embarrass herself or ruin the chances by moving too early…trying to herd the cats of the dem caucus is hard enough without starting with less than half the votes she needs to be successful….and there are many court cases going on that would strengthen her hand after they are resolved and the information they are suing for is in her hands…so, for now, I’m willing to let her do her thing at her pace and let things play out…but, just for now…the criminal trump has to go…impeach….

July 26th

Well…not sure how I slept last night but I didn’t get out of bed until after 6…I do know I was up at 3:05 and don’t remember sleeping at all after that so I guess it wasn’t that good…got a lot done at the house yesterday but I’ll put that in a house post later..I did get my eyes filled with paint dust that I am still feeling this morning but that was the last of the big paint removal and I just need to paint today…I am really sore from working over my head with the drill and wire brush but I am a little surprised that it doesn’t hurt more…maybe using my shoulder is the best thing for it….got a nice bike ride in after I got back here and almost have the shifter back to normal after making a huge adjustment to it a couple of days ago…I think the cable must have slipped since the gear indicator was one off from the sprocket but it appears to be better now…we’ll see in a minute when I get out…I am going to take the weekend off the house after painting this morning and get into the interior next week…I did try out my 25 buck shop vac yesterday and it works like a 25 buck shop vac…will do the job but it’s pretty flimsy…I did get the car vacuumed since it was looking like a work truck inside and I spilled cement in the trunk that needed to be cleaned up…not much to do today…going to get on the bike in a few minutes and the over to the house at 10, then back here to cook something for lunch…think I’ll make a chicken stir fry for something different…more later….

I’m tired of cretins speaking for us…

Well…something has been bugging the hell out of me lately and I thought I’d bitch a little about it…it seems that every damn time that they interview a white guy on tv, they invariably talk to an idiot trump supporter who spews the hate, misogyny, racism and lies that are normal for that group of cretins…but, the problem there is that all of us white guys aren’t like that…but we never get interviewed because being a nice guy who is accepting of everyone and who thinks that trump and his cronies are systematically  destroying this country is not news to them and doesn’t fit the narrative that has taken hold in almost every damn news organization in this country. I, for one, don’t want to be lumped in with the haters…but people think with stereotypes… sometimes good, sometimes bad and I’m afraid that with the constant air time that these folks get, it is almost a given that I’ll be tarred with that brush…the same one that says that all Muslims are terrorists, that all Latinos are here illegally, and all Jews are stingy….not sure what to do about it other than continue to think and treat everyone with respect…and try to change people’s minds on person at a time….

July 25th

Well….damn…it’s always something that disturbs my sleep…last night I had a huge bout of acid reflux that woke me up at 3 am and I can still feel it even now…don’t have any clue why that happened but I know the coffee hurts going down and that is just not normal…I did get out to have a couple with G last evening and that was fun…maybe that had something to do with it? All I know is that this is new…maybe I’ll take a zantac before I head over to the house this morning….took the day off of work yesterday but I did do 30 miles on the bike and that was probably a mistake…was dizzy and shaking on the second ride and I know that’s from not eating enough but I didn’t do anything to to help that yesterday…still under 1,000 cals for the day yesterday and I just can’t keep that up….I think I have to figure out a new eating pattern with working on the house but I don’t want to include fast food…so maybe bigger batches of regular cooking to have more leftovers? I still need to work here, too but I don’t know when that will be….I am going to sign the contract for the roof on the house this morning and that should be done next week and that will be a relief to get the big stuff done…then I can get moving on the inside and get the water turned back on…more later…

A couple of things from Mueller….

Well….the idiot trump’s claims that the Mueller report was a “total exoneration” for him was exploded in the first few minutes of Mueller’s testimony in the House when he was asked if trump was “exonerated” by the report and Mueller simply said “no”….removing one of trump’s most used talking point where he shouts “no collusion, no obstruction” every time he opens his mouth….and this was reiterated later in Mueller’s testimony when he was asked if trump could be charged with obstruction after he left office and he said yes…and this was a stupid repub who asked the question, I’m sure since he thought Mueller would give him a different answer….and Mueller basically said that trump lied to him when he answered written questions about wikileaks saying that he had no knowledge of the stolen e-mail dumps that were coordinated with Assange by Roger Stone but which Rick Gates testified that trump told him about the dumps after trump talked to Stone…so lying to federal investigators is also a felony..and I wonder what the count is up to now….it appears to be 14 felonies that trump committed just while in office…is that enough now dems? When are you going to impeach this criminal? Now is the time to save this country…impeach…

 

 

 

 

House 6

Well…finally made some visible progress on the house yesterday and got the garage door painted after spending a couple of hours removing the flaking paint…the color I chose may be a little too yellow but that is the original color of the house and I am taking it back to those colors….I also got the chainsaw work done…after having the chain come off the first one and having no tools to put it back on, I had to run all the way back to the south end to get a replacement to finish the job…I did get the last section of fence removed and most of the stumps cut out but I still need to chop the rest of them out since they grew right next to the retaining wall and were too close to get the saw in to cut them…so, I’ll get a hatchet next week and finish it up…the fence guys won’t be there for 6 weeks or so so I have plenty of time to get that done…I did buy a new string trimmer to use at the house for 39 bucks and with the problems I’m having keeping the gas mowers running, I may buy an electric since they are cheap at 89 bucks…and the lawn is so small that, even with a small electric, it can be cut in less than a half hour…I’m taking the day off today after beating the heck out of myself yesterday but will be back at scraping more paint tomorrow and filling the voids on the ceiling of the front porch so I can paint that Friday…and then I can start on the interior next week while I wait for the roof and windows to be done…which should be completed by the end of August and then I can get the water turned back on….and then take the power washer to everything and clean things up…still on track to have it ready for move in at the end of my lease…or earlier….

July 24th

Well…I just found out what is worse than getting up at 4:14…getting up at 3:10 and not being able to get back to sleep for very long after that…I think I’m at the end of it and am going to take something to help tonight…I feel pretty beat up this morning with doing the chainsaw work at the house yesterday and then getting the first coat of paint on the garage door…and that took lots of prep work before I could paint and I didn’t get back here until after 2…I may take the day off working today since I want to see the Mueller testimony and I’m pretty sore…but, I may go over and just scrape paint on the other part that is peeling badly…and I do need to caulk that, too, before I can paint it…that should only take a couple of hours so maybe this afternoon…I do have to remember to eat more with all of the expenditures of cals working…only had a couple of chicken breasts yesterday and that is not enough…it’s another cold one out there so I’ll need a fleece again on the ride this morning since I’m getting out at 7…at least it’s not raining so I guess that’s something…I think I need a day off today so I won’t be cleaning any around here today…but I do need to….more later….

Don’t get too excited…

Well…man, it’s been a day so far and I am finally home…I’ll talk about that later…with the Mueller testimony coming up tomorrow and Barr doing everything he can to keep him from it, I think we need to tamp down our expectations for any bombshell revelations from that testimony. After all, Mueller is just not that kind of a person…and he has already told everyone that he will only talk about the report without any amplifications and I think we can believe him…the funny thing that just happened is the DOJ sent Mueller a letter last weekend trying to tell him what he could and couldn’t talk about even though Mueller doesn’t work for the DOJ anymore, an as a private citizen, he can really talk about anything he wants…I think it is going to depend on how thorough the dems are with their questioning…wee know the repubs will attack everything and anyone with every damn conspiracy theory they have been spouting for the past two years and I think it will be interesting how long Mueller puts up with it…he seems the sort that doesn’t suffer fools gladly and the House repb delegation is filled with fools…so I will watch some of it until I see how it is going but have a back up plan if it sucks…impeach…