Well….you know, for taking a day off to take it a little easy, I’ve had a pretty busy day…got the window plaster sanded and then went out for a bike ride…went to look at the trails to see if they were passable and gave it a shot through the ice and snow at the entrance and it wasn’t too bad…almost 90% of the trail was clear but the bike needs to be replaced soon…it is skipping so annoyingly now that I can barely ride it but I have to wait until after the 7th of March to order the new one to keep the balance on my card under 600 bucks after I buy the new tires for the car….but, I guess they can wait if they have to….but, it was nice to get 10 miles in with only one ride today…when I got back here, I put the first coat of paint on the window and then put the blinds in the tub and washed them…and now I am sitting here listening to vinyl and doing a couple of these while I wait for the first coat to dry enough for the 2nd to go on….I had forgotten about the first record of “Four way street” and I am listening to that now…still damn good after almost 50 years….I need a break….
Monthly Archives: February 2020
Hey trump lovers, how’s your 401K today?
Well…yeah, that’s a recycled title….did one of these a few months back but had to do another one today with the Dow down another 400 points after yesterday’s selloff of 1100 points…so that makes a 5 1/2 percent loss in just two days…if you had 100K in yours you now only have 94,500 dollars…I know I sometimes harp on the stock market here but it’s only because the idiot trump thinks it’s the be all and end all to the economy’s health…so you gloat when it goes up, so now you have to take the crap when it falls…especially when it is trump’s lack of concern that the coronavirus is even serious…saying “everything will be fine when April comes” and somehow the magic of the calendar changing will stop the virus from infecting anyone else while trump decimates funding for the NIH and the CDC. He also cut the US contribution to the WHO, the organization that is at the forefront of the fight against this virus….and, I said yesterday, people are going to die because trump and his cronies are shortsighted assholes and are using cuts in funding to push their anti science bullshit…does that matter to you trumpies? Yeah…probably not…after all, the people dying so far are “foreigners” and who cares about them?
February 25th
Well…that was a strange night of sleep…fell asleep on the couch and didn’t get to bed til 12:30 and then up at 5:30….feel pretty crappy this morning but at least the storm forecast has been cancelled…we were supposed to get 4-7 inches of snow today and tomorrow but it looks like maybe a little dusting now…I can’t believe how sore I was last night…and I’m not sure where it came from…I did get two rides in yesterday and washed the car and bike…along with some repair work on the window in the spare room but I don’t feel that would be enough to cause the pain…but it’s better this morning so I guess I can live with it…with no storm coming, I can do the normal routine for the grocery run tomorrow…Aldi’s has chicken leg quarters on sale for 49 cents a pound but you have to buy a 10 pound bag of them…and that will fill my freezer to the top so I have to get started using the stuff in there…going to use the instant pot Thursday to cook some of the legs since they will be frozen hard as a rock and that normally takes days to thaw…and that means I won’t have to cook again until the weekend….not much to do today…I am going to ease into the day and have lots more coffee before I even think about doing anything…I am going to get the window that I started yesterday finished…maybe…and then get started on the one in the bedroom that I am using….but that needs to be finished in one day to keep the light out at night…hmmm…more later…
The stock market weighs in…
Well…have been busy this morning and just finished up my chores for the day but I needed to come here and weigh in on the orange idiot’s ego stroking tour of India while the deadly new virus explodes around the world. Gee…I wonder if cutting funds for the NHS and the CDC is a good idea right now…yeah, we know the answer to that one…the stupident hates science and facts so he thinks that any government agency that deals in that is not necessary and an easy place to cut money so he can give it to the military…I wonder if the military has virus targeting bombs and missiles? So now, the stock market, that trump trots out to lie and say the economy is doing great, is falling like a rock…down over 1,000 points already today as business weighs in on the incompetence of trump and his minions and the prospect that not one damn person that idiot boy has appointed has any idea how to deal with any real emergency…just the ones that trump fabricates in his moldering brain. And what do we get from trump? Standing in front of the Taj Mahal with the stupid grin on his face for a photo op while his incompetence kills people around the world. It is going to get much, much worse since he is too stupid to understand anything…remember that this fall…it could be your family and friends that trump is killing….
February 24th
Well…stayed in bed til 6:01 this morning after waking up an hour earlier and that wasn’t too bad for a night…still feel a little slow this morning but I guess I earned it with not being good last night…had a pretty busy day yesterday with getting two rides in and doing some cleaning but I don’t really have much to do today…going to get a bike ride in but I may not do two if it starts to rain later…I have decided to buy a new bike in a couple of weeks since the one I’m riding now is starting to irritate the hell out of me with the chain skipping and not having a usable big front sprocket…even if I could repair the drive train, it would be almost 100 bucks for the parts I need to make the repairs and I can get a new one for 350 bucks so it doesn’t make sense to screw with it…I think I’m going to get a dark grey one this time and put the old one downstairs on the trainer for rainy days…but, I want to wait until my Capital One card is paid off the first week of March before ordering it so I can get cash back on the deal…and with the tires I need to order, I am going to have over 500 bucks going out this month so that puts me back a month on getting to 10K in my checking account…that won’t happen until April now and it hurts to have to spend any money….but, I spend so much time on the bike that I need one that works if I’m going to get to 5K on the bike this year….not much to do today…don’t really have anything to do but cooking and cleaning so I am going to ease into the day and have some coffee with the news I need to read….more later…
I understand Bernie’s appeal….
Well…let’s get this straight right up front…Bernie calling himself a “Democratic Socialist” is just a label that I think he should stop using…and the label isn’t descriptive of his policies which are really mainstream dem from only a decade or so ago…and they were normal from a decade or two ago before the dems started their rightward slide under Clinton. With his performance and win in Nevada, he is the front runner right now and I can understand his appeal…after decades of the same old bullshit incremental change that the dems have tried, to be blocked at every turn by unscrupulous repubs, the people on our side are tired of small ideas, are tired of the rich running the show and getting whatever they want, and are tired of us having no voice as business as usual happens to us. What we need now is a big vision and big ideas and that is why young people are flocking to Bernie…they are the ones who are bearing the brunt of inequality and lessened opportunity that the repubs have forced on them…and they want someone who will at least listen and try to make their lives better, something that will never happen with the repubs in charge….and can you imagine a ticket with Bernie and Liz on it? Or Bernie and Amy? Now that would be something to see…Liz taking Pence apart in a debate as Bernie would with the idiot trump….but I am going to harp on this again…vote for the dem no matter who it is…no sulking Bernie Bros or anyone else if you person doesn’t earn the nomination…the stakes are too high for sitting in the corner and not voting because your favorite didn’t get there…and we need the senate back so get the hell out and vote as if your life depends on it…it really does…
February 23rd
Well…it’s another wonderful 5:04 morning today and I wonder if I should just stop mentioning it…I mean, do all old guys talk about how much they don’t sleep? It’s an easy way to get these started without thinking so I guess I can keep doing it if it’s not too annoying…had a pretty good day yesterday with getting two rides in and having one of my sons stop over for a visit…we hung out for a couple of hours and found some old pictures of the family in the attic that he is going to digitize so he can share them with his brothers and sister and I think that is pretty cool…his wife had been asking if there were any pictures of them when they were kids and we found a bunch with grandpa and grandma in them, too, and some really old ones of their grandparents from the 50′s that were pretty cool and I think it’s neat that he is going to do it…as you can see, I didn’t come back here for another one yesterday but I will try to get to a political one later today…but, I have ManU at 9 and then bike rides and races the rest of the day so it may be a little work to fit another one in….unless ManU stinks again then I’ll get on the bike at 9 and get started earlier….but, no work on the house today…worked on the front door mechanism yesterday to try to fix the broken knob that falls out when you touch it…but no luck so I am going to have to try to find a new handle to replace it…and they are not cheap…will start looking when I get the paper this morning….more later…
February 22nd
Well….it was another 5:10 morning today and I’m having a hard time getting started…just poured the first cup of coffee and I hope that works fast or it’s going to be a tough morning…but it looks like it will be warm enough to get out on the bike by 10 so I may be able to get 2 rides in today to make up for having 3 days off this week…and it looks like I may be able to go with light thermasuit tomorrow if the temp gets up to 46 as forecast….I think I’ve decided to buy a new bike instead of screwing around with the worn out parts on the current one…if I’m going to get to 5K miles this year I need it to work right all summer…and I need to start getting doubles in every day after the trails thaw…I had 600 miles in last year by the time I hit the trails in April and it looks like I’ll be behind that unless the trails clear soon…didn’t get anything done yesterday but that was the plan for the day and today looks the same…one of my sons is coming for a visit to take a look at the house and all I have to do is clean up a little around here for that…and there is soccer starting in a little while that will give me something to do until I get motivated to start moving…more later…
It’s been a busy day…
Well…it’s been a pretty busy day today and that is strange for a day that was planned to be a total veg…but, in a good way…got out to have a pool day with Tom…which I lost… and it was good to get out for the second day in a row in the sunshine….and when I got back here, I decided to go out for a ride to take a look at the trails and see if they have melted at all…they haven’t… so I went to my fall back road route and had a nice ride if a little windy…and that was needed, too since I haven’t been on the bike since Monday….was still a little cold but I survived it and now I can feel a little less guilty eating two meals and having a couple of cocktails tonight…but now, it IS time to veg some and watch the rest of a soccer match that is on….
Where the hell are Pelosi and Schiff?
Well….not sure if you heard yet that the idiot trump fired the DNI Joseph McGuire for following the law and reporting to the House intelligence committee that the Russians are it again…they are doing everything they can to help trump…again…and surprise this is just part of a large conspiracy with the repubs to let Putin do it…with McConnell, Nunes, Goetz, and the rest of them all in on working with the Russians to hurt our country for the dictator trump. My question right now is: where the hell are Pelosi and Schiff? The subpoenas should be flying for everyone who is involved in this criminal enterprise, and yet all we hear from Pelosi is just some innocuous tweet and not the all out hair on fire reaction that we should be seeing from both of them. I just can’t write about this anymore…at least today…our country is being attacked and no one is doing a damn thing about it….