More depressing news…

Well….old houses are sometimes a pain in the butt…and this one showed me this morning when the hot water valve in the tub stopped sealing this morning and I can’t figure out how to get it apart to replace the washers…the stem is just frozen into the housing so I had to call a plumber to have them fix it and I’m pretty sure that is going to cost about 300 bucks that I could have used to buy a new grill and lots of other stuff that I need…so, I sit here with water leaking into the tub until tomorrow morning…crap…one good thing is that I figured out how to take the utility sink valves apart this morning and got the cold water side working and got both of them to stop leaking when they are shut off…the screw that holds the washer on the cold side had come out and left the washer jammed in the seat so no water was getting through but that came out easily and I had parts in my toolbox so that was an easy fix…but it is still depressing news that I have to spend 300 bucks….I’m going to have them look at the drain in the bathroom sink, too since it runs really, really slow and makes all kinds of gurgling noises…now, if I can get that fixed along with the valves, 300 bucks is an okay deal…hope it’s the last thing I have to pay people to do…

October 28th

Well…crap….haven’t had a bout of depression for quite a while now but it came back yesterday and continues today and I’m not sure why…everything is going okay with the house and the fence is going to be done in the next couple of days…well…that’s not true…the faucets in the tub are dripping and I can’t figure out how to get them apart and put new washers in them and that is going to mean paying a plumber a couple of hundred bucks to take them apart…and I really think that heating this place is going to be ridiculously expensive even with keeping it 66 in here….and I can’t find a winter car that I want and can afford….and I am just so damn tired….but, I now realize that the fatigue is part of the depression and it has been going on for a couple of weeks now….and I think part of it is the realization that my new situation is pretty temporary and in a few months I have to start the house search for one of my own and then go through the fixing process all over again…and I’m not sure if I have the capability to do that again….just getting damn old and I don’t like it…and I am just so damn tired….more later….

October 27th

Well…slept all the way in til coffee o’clock this morning and I’m not sure why…didn’t do anything different leading up to going to bed last night but I was pretty darn tired after not sleeping for weeks so maybe that was it…I did get a bike ride in yesterday but it was in almost full thermasuit since it was only 44 degrees when I went out…and I laughed a little when I realized I could have been going out dressed a little warmly for a couple of weeks now and been comfortable instead of freezing my butt off…and it looks like today and tomorrow are going to be the last two days in shorts this year…I think the tradition of wearing shorts til Thanksgiving is going away this year since I am living in cool temps inside and that is taking something out of me…I’ve never liked being cold and still don’t so the jeans are coming out early this year…I do have to work on the car today since the parking brake is hanging up again and I need to oil the cable and linkages but I’m not sure what oil to use but I’ll figure that out later after it gets light…I am finally going to take a couple of days off working on the house over the next week or so…just worn out and need to get some recharge time in…but then I’ll get right back into it…I wonder if I’ll get much of my deposit back from the apartment after turning in the keys yesterday…if I do, I am going to treat it like found money and buy a few things that I want…a new grill, a soundbar, and an electric heater for the living room so I can cope with the winter cold…but, after living there for so long, I don’t think I’ll get a penny back…oh, well….more later….

After this ruling, trump should just resign…

Well….yesterday, judge Beryl Howell essentially gutted any defense of trump and his cronies stonewalling when she ruled that the impeachment inquiry is entirely legitimate and subpoenas issued carry the full authority of any impeachment proceeding and essentially said that they get anything they ask for…and that by the Constitution, the House set the rules for impeachment and no one else…so the senate has no say and the WH has no say in how impeachment is run. So, that means the entire Mueller report and all underlying materials that Barr has blocked is going to be in the hands of the impeachment investigators….and she made two additional points as to why they should get the material…one, that trump lied to Mueller, and two, then, and now…the WH and trump have attempted to obstruct the investigation. She makes it clear in her ruling that the House committees have every legal right to all of the information they request, but also that trump’s written responses to Mueller were “inadequate and incomplete” and showed he “wasn’t being truthful”….and he failed to provide written answers on his obstruction and of events during the transition…all of which are going to be part of the impeachment charges.  She then slaps Barr down on his refusal to provide the Mueller grand jury evidence and his claims that the law bars disclosure to congress of grand jury information with just three words “DOJ is wrong.” Now, Howell made her ruling so strong for the fact that the WH has obstructed previous investigations, by ordering staff into silence and by lying to congress and Mueller. But, the biggest bombshell in the ruling is that, after trumps lawyers basically said to her that trump is immune from any investigation, even if he shot someone on fifth avenue due to the OLC memo from the Watergate era that said a sitting president couldn’t be indicted while in office….but Howell blasted that contention apart  with this  statement  “this OLC legal conclusion has never been adopted, sanctioned, or in any way approved by a court.” So, hanging trump’s entire defense on this memo is a huge stretch for any court…and when it gets to a court, it will be tossed aside as so much legal “theory” that has never been legislated or codified into law. So, hey trump….you are so, so screwed and you should probably resign and try to get your toady Pence to pardon you…oh, wait, Pence is going down with you for his role in the Ukraine extortion…I wonder if president Pelosi will pardon you? Yeah, I wouldn’t hold your breath….

What are they going to do?

Well….you know, I’m getting sick of the pundits trying to tell us in the fair, sane, reality based world what we have to do to make sure that the 40% of Americans who support trump don’t get left behind when we win in 2020….my question is what are THEY going to do to become part of America again…to renounce the hate that they spew every day…to accept that they have been hoodwinked by trump and a republican party that doesn’t give a damn about them and and stop watching fox news and breathe the air of reality for a change? Why do we on the left have any responsibility to them when all they do is hate us and our policies that would benefit them and us and not the rich? I am tired of the media aiding and abetting this un-American bullshit spewed by this 40%….and I am tired of the fact that no one on the right from the top down to the MAGA shits takes any responsibility for their actions…they voted for the idiot trump and lost their jobs due to his stupid trade policies? It must be a conspiracy from the “deep state”…it can’t be that they elected an ignorant moron who really doesn’t know anything. The schools in red states are failing? It can’t be that they voted for repubs who gutted the state budgets to give tax cuts to the rich…it must be that Obama set this up since he hated red states and the people in them. I think that there needs to be some pain involved for these idiots or they will never learn that their actions have consequences…that their hate and racism is what is making people wash their hands of them, not some conspiracy or another…my only concern is the collateral damage that will be done to people who live in red areas who may be conservative but not racist haters….but don’t they have more responsibility for the state of their states and this country than those of us on the left since they voted for idiot boy? I am no longer willing to see any good in any of them or give them the benefit of the doubt until THEY start to show behavior that is worthy of us working with them…until that time, that 40% can just go to hell….

October 26th

Well…it was an interesting day yesterday with getting a lot done outside and the fence guys starting their work but I didn’t get out on the bike with my right hip giving me some problems…and it was cold and I didn’t want to get my thermasuit out yet…but that will be coming this week with the cold and snow that is forecast…had another crappy night’s sleep last night but I’m trying to not focus on it so that’s why I didn’t talk about it until now….after they get the fence done I think I’ll take a week or so off work…yeah, I know, I said that many times before but this time I’m really going to do it…just feel and look worn out and need to do something to try to recharge…but, not today….have to go over and do the last cleaning at the the apartment and turn the keys in…and that will end that phase of my life but I have already moved on with only a week here….I think I’m going to have to start going out and doing things again so I don’t get locked in to just being a hermit here…might go out and have a couple at the local bar tonight just to take a look at it and be around some people for a change….we’ll see…more later…

I’m tired of politics right now…

Well…I think my brain is getting numb with all of the hypocrisy and criminality of the trump and the repubs ao I just can’t muster up the energy to write about that right now…so, I won’t…so it looks like today you’ll get a triple dose of my life…or any other thoughts I may have…I did get more done on the yard this morning and unearthed the block patio that is in the back yard with my spade and then took the power washer to it and, although it is pretty worn and the blocks are a little crumbly, it still looks pretty good…well, at least better than it did and I moved another ton of dirt out to behind the garage that I am going to have to figure out what to do with. Oh, the fence guys are here! It looks like they will have it finished by the end of the day on Monday and that will make a milestone for the house with all of the big projects done…and I am going to pat myself on the back a little for getting all this done in less than 4 months…but, I am feeling it today…after working this morning and not sleeping last night, I am just beat today and I think this is going to force me to take a few days off after I get the apartment cleaned…it looks like that will be Tuesday if the fence guys are going to be working here Monday…and I still need to find a car for winter…yeah, I am exhausted…

Cripes…I’m bored already…

Well…it’s 8am and I’m bored already…this crap of getting up at a little after 5 screws up my whole schedule and I have everything that I normally stretch out til 10 done already and now I sit here bored…even finished my allotment of coffee for the day so now I’ll switch over to water and try to get the necessary gallon started….I think I may go out and get started…or re started on cleaning up the back yard since there is dirt and a pile of burned wood where it looks like the idiot had a campfire that needs to be removed…or moved behind the garage like I did with the dirt from the side of the house yesterday….I couldn’t believe how much dirt there was on the blocks…have a huge pile behind the garage now that I will need to spread over the yard after the moss in it dies and rots….I did get my first 94 gallon load out to the trash this morning and the damn wheelie container must weigh 200 pounds…and it is going to cost me 7.50 to have it dumped but that is okay…put 100 bucks in my account and I will be filling it with leftover crap from the garage for the next few weeks starting with the old microwave that I took out of the kitchen…that will probably almost fill the container but it is still worth it…the trash truck is working the street here right now and I think it’s pretty cool how fast the automated dumper grabs the containers and dumps them…hey, it doesn’t take much to amuse me…more later….

October 25th

Well….damn…up at 3:14 today but I was able to get back to sleep for an hour or so so I guess that’s something…and I don’t feel too bad this morning so I guess there’s no damage that is visible right now…I do have a sore right hip that has been hurting on the bike lately and I hope it’s not something serious…I wonder it it’s just the tendonitus moving around again since I really haven’t had much of that this year other than in my thumb…but that hurts almost all the time with me continually abusing it like yesterday when I cleaned the brick on the side of the house of all of the moss, dirt and debris that had piled up there…had to take my spade to it first to get the big stuff up and then power washed the rest of it and it looks pretty good…still have some small stumps from the brush that need to be removed but I need to rest my shoulders and hands some first since they are always in pain from working around here….I did get the grocery run done yesterday morning and it was not too bad with traffic at 7am…and the Meijer’s over here was not busy at all so I zipped right through…I did break my reading glasses loading stuff into the car since I couldn’t find the hard case I normally keep them in so I had to go back to Meijer’s and get two more pair since they had them on sale and I got two for only 9 bucks…and then I found the hard case with my work glasses in it in the basement here and I can’t figure out how they got there…oh, well…not much to do today…was going to go over for the final cleaning of the apartment and to turn the keys in but the fence guys are coming today so I think that will have to wait until Monday…I have until next Thursday so no big stress….more later…

They’re playing it right…

Well…I’m not sure what the stupid repubs thought they were going to accomplish with their stunt of invading a secure space to try to disrupt impeachment testimony yesterday, but it appears that all it did was make them look ridiculous since the testimony they were trying to disrupt happened later yesterday and by all accounts drove another nail in the idiot trump’s coffin. I just loved the reaction to that crap by Pelosi and Schiff…which was to have a press conference saying that plans are forming on their part for the public impeachment hearings…essentially ignoring the repubs who broke house rules. But, I’m sure that Pelosi is not ignoring their unethical behavior and will drop the hammer on them at some point in the future…and as I suggested, it could include losing committee assignments or even censure. The real problem the repubs have is that they have nothing…trump has already admitted to the extortion and no amount of pretzel logic is going to change that…all it is going to do is make the repbs like Lindsey Graham look more and more ridiculous every day and may even cost a few of them in 2020…we can hope….