Finally…the Jan 6th committee has had enough…

Well…after all of the time and evidence that the Jan 6th committee has provided to the justice department about the crimes of every damn one of trump’s cronies and Merrick Garland not doing a damn thing about, the committee members have had enough and have started to ask the same questions that everyone who cares about this country has been asking for over a year now…but Adam Schiff has put it nicer than I ever would…saying that he needs the justice department to do their job so the committee can do theirs…and that means that everyone who has been referred to the justice department for charges need to be indicted…and right now…how the hell could it take a year to look at the evidence that even the public knows and not do anything about it? If Garland won’t uphold the rule of law then we need someone who will…especially with a judge who has seen the evidence against Eastman and the idiot trump and has publicly stated that trump has committed multiple felonies trying to overthrow the government…what the hell else do you need to indict? Just today it was revealed that for almost 8 hours on January 6th, the call logs for the White House are blank when we know that many, many people talked to trump that day…now, this is obstruction of justice plain and clear and it is another felony that trump has committed…so where are you Garland? You have this evidence and yet you sit doing nothing…either get off your ass or get out of the way and let a real AG do the job of upholding the law…geez…

March 29th

Well…that was okay I guess…got up at 5:37 this morning but with going to bed at 10:30 or so, that gave me around 6 1/2 hours with taking time to get to sleep and the tossing and turning that is normal…looks like my plans are changing this morning and I need to do the grocery run today with the ice and snow that is coming overnight with a winter storm watch on from 8 or so tonight…and I don’t want to take the car out in that mess…don’t have anything to buy that is only available tomorrow so that works out…so I may only get half of one wall stripped today but we’ll see…I need to stop at depot to get some wallpaper adhesive remover to see if I can salvage the walls for paint so I don’t have to put up wallpaper….just doing the plaster repair is going to take a few days but the more I do it, the better I get at it…it was a little funny that lots of the plaster patches they put in were held in by the wallpaper and paint and they fell out as soon as I removed it….my shoulder and right hand are not faring too well with all of the abuse I’m heaping on them and they hurt like crazy….but that’s pretty normal and I look forward to taking the summer off and getting them healed….haven’t had to take an ibuprofen during the day since I started the wallpaper but today may be different…I struggled a bit with working on the room yesterday and had to stop a few times to rest and if that is from getting old, it sucks and I am not looking forward to more of that….I know I’m getting old but I’ve worked pretty hard to keep my capacities and I guess I shouldn’t bitch too much…biting off the second house rehab in the past two years is a lot of work for anyone especially an old guy…but I am not going to let up at all…won’t give any concessions to my age until my body fails completely…and then I’ll have an excuse…more later….

Repubs lie about crime, too…surprised?

Well…gee…if you’ve just discovered that the repubs lie about everything, this next one won’t be a surprise…if you read the news at all you will hear every damn repub out there going on and on and on about how much crime there is in the liberal states and that they are a hell hole of murder, rape and robbery and only by electing repubs can this ever be fixed…but, hey…do you think they may be lying about that? Yeah, I know…stupid question..yes they are…when you look at the stats released last week, crime in general is much higher in states that voted for the idiot boy…but here’s the kicker, in those repub states, the murder rate is over 40% higher than it is in states that voted for Biden…but, with how adverse repubs are to facts, this won’t mean a damn thing to them and it will never show up on fox news or any other of the right wing propaganda outlets…or they will spin it to mean that the 40% more murder is perfectly acceptable since they have more “freedom” than the Biden states and freedom is the most important thing..unless you are one of the people whose “freedom” to live was taken away by someone waving their freedom death sticks….and this crime stat is not the only bad one about red states…on every measurement that shows quality of life, the red states are far, far behind the blue states in every way…and the people in blue states are happier than those in red states, and are paid better, have health insurance, and live longer than those in the hellhole red states….I wonder if I should bitch about that? After all, if they die earlier, they can vote less and this country will be a better place…I know that’s harsh but repubs are ruining this country and the faster they go away, the better…geez…

What do you say, John Roberts?

Well…as the supreme court daily slides deeper and deeper into corruption and illegitimacy, I have two questions for John Roberts: what do you say about you legacy now? What do you say about the corruption you’ve embraced and allowed on your court? It has been widely reported that Roberts has a real concern for his legacy but, like all of the justices put forth by repubs, he lies…or he would be doing something about it…and that should have started when mcconnell stole a seat from Obama and then flooded the court with unqualified right wing assholes…but what did Roberts say about any of it? Nothing, not a damn thing and now we have the most corrupt justice in history, Clarence Thomas, who supported the January 6th attack along with his wife and it is know he has been communicating with Ron DeSantis on what we don’t know…but, in my long life, there has never been another justice who was so involved in politics and who continues to not recuse himself in cases that he has a stake in…like trying to hide the idiot trump’s papers that showed that his wife was up to her neck into trying to overthrow the last election. So, no matter what he says, Roberts is not doing his job as chief justice in reining in the bullshit happening in the court…or, and here is the scary thing, he supports what is happening and is gleefully cheering the insurrectionists on as he plays the concerned justice on tv….they all need to go…geez…

Looks like wallpaper in the big bedroom…

Well…after removing the wallpaper, paint, and plaster of the second wall in the big bedroom today, it has dawned on me that I’ll never get the walls in good enough shape to paint them and have them look okay….so I think the only thing to do is to wallpaper them instead…and that is something I’ve never done before so there will be youtube videos to watch before I start…and there is about 10/12 sq ft of skim coat plaster that needs to be replaced on just this second wall since I removed all of the loose stuff…and I will need to take my angle grinder with a flap disc to smooth down the plaster repairs that were previously done but never sanded…I may spend 10 bucks or so to try some adhesive remover to try to make the walls paintable again but I don’t think it will do enough….there is just too much paper left on the walls after scraping and I can’t get enough of it off…but, we’ll see…still have 9 weeks to finish the room before my summer off so I have time…need to get on the bathroom right now…damn, I’m busy…

March 28th

Well…damn, how the heck can I be running late when I have no schedule? Have been up since 5 or so but stayed in bed until I smelled the coffee maker…even a half hour after that and that is going to make it a sprint to get on the bike by 7:15….one of these days I’m going to just not do it…not get on the bike, not work on the house, not feel guilty about it…when that would ever be I’m not sure…I did take yesterday off and it is getting pretty painful to do that…it’s not really serving it’s purpose anymore to give me  rest day to just veg out without guilt…so maybe that will change this week and I’ll keep working until the big bedroom and bathroom are done…I guess I’m not too good at being retired…I did get the blinds for the bathroom ordered yesterday but found that I will have to order the rest of them from another company since they only have two lengths, 48 and 72 inches and the 72 inch ones are  a foot too long for the rest of the windows…but I think it will be okay since the living room and bedrooms will match and the kitchen and bathroom ones will match…and I can live with that…damn, it’s almost April and it’s 18 degrees out there and that is so depressing that I don’t even want to get moving today…and we get one day of 50′s weather and then back to the 40′s for most of April…I guess we have no spring this year….and that really sucks…I would like to get the window open in the big bedroom to vent the dust so it doesn’t fill the house…have lot’s to do today…need to get on the bike in 11 minutes, then make a run out to depot to get a big wallpaper scraper that has a long, padded handle that I hope will help keep my hands from damage…and get more fill to smooth out the divots that I put in the plaster along with smoothing out the flaws in the bathroom walls…more work and more later….

Going to make the first goal…

Well…after that rant, let’s talk about something a little more pleasant…when I got started riding inside this year, I had a goal in my head of around 600 miles before the first of April and for a while it looked like there was no way to make it when I got the chance to ride outside. But, with the cold weather coming back and staying after just 75 miles outside, I only have 16 more miles to do to make the goal…and that will happen Tuesday with two days to spare before the 1st….and I didn’t have an indoor bike last year and also didn’t get outside for any rides until almost mid April…and I still almost made it to 5K miles even with working on this place for hours every day…and with hoping to have the entire summer off after finishing the big bedroom by the end of May, I am going to try to beat my 6K record that I did a couple of years ago….and that will mean at least 45 miles a day from then on…with doing 30 a day as soon as it gets warm….I am really hoping to get down to 175 pounds by the end of riding season this year since I am close to end of summer weight right now with cutting out the booze and riding indoors….I ran out of holes in my belt a couple of weeks ago so that means I’ve lost a couple of inches off my waist so that is a good sign….but right now I’m just going to watch the rest of the F1 race and then the nascar race later…veg day!

They’re letting them get away with all of it…

Well…I’m pretty damn disgusted today when I think of all of the crimes against this country that the dems are letting the repubs get away with…this whole attempt to overthrow the government is not being taken seriously by anyone as the dems wring their hands and “debate” whether they should subpoena a frickin justice of the supreme court’s wife for her clear role in the conspiracy…and the chief of staff for the idiot boy, Mark Meadows, is allowed to continue to commit voter fraud and ignore subpeonas from the Jan 6th committee and nothing happens…no Merrick Garland, no justice department, no nothing…and the idiot boy bribes the Manhattan DA to drop the case where one of the chief prosecutors resigned and stated that he had trump for multiple felonies…but nothing happens…and trump commits 48 felonies while in office and Garland ignores it and goes about his business tra la la….and our voters sit there whining that they didn’t get everything they wanted in the last election so they are going to not vote this time to show them…and give the country away to the repub assholes because their fee fees are hurt….and all of this could be fixed in just one election if our voters would just suck it up, stand in line, and vote….but they won’t because they think so damn small and have no memories of what the dems and Biden have done for them…ooo…gas prices are up so I’ll vote for the asshole repubs and lose all the gains we’ve worked for the past 40 years….you think it’s bad now? Just wait until you sit on your damn couch in November and let the repubs take over…it will be the last time you’ll even get a vote and the whole damn thing just disgusts me….geez…

Learned something new….

Well…even at my advanced age, there are still opportunities to learn something new every day…and this morning, one of those opportunities presented itself and made me smile a bit….as I have been watching the birds around here, for some reason I thought the black, speckled birds that travel in flocks were grackles but I was curious enough to check the internet to make sure since one of them ended up on my window sill and others have been feeding under my feeder window in huge groups…so, I found out I was wrong…they are not grackles but common starlings that I understand now are a despised invasive species by bird people in Michigan since they attack songbirds nests and drive out the native species with their aggressiveness….and these bird people are adamant that you don’t feed them or assist them in their spread in any way…but, how the heck do you do that? I’m not going to take my feeder down since the Juncoes and other birds come here to feed and I like watching them….hmmm….so, I guess I’ll have to think about that a bit…oh, I did see some sparrows out here when I was able to ride outside last week but they were a couple of miles to the west toward Lake Michigan…still don’t understand why none of them are around here when they are that close….something to think about….

March 27th

Well…damn, 23 degrees and it’s almost April? The lock into my garage was even frozen and I had to hold the key in my palm to heat it up so I could get it in to unlock…I did sleep okay last night and didn’t wake up til 5:21 and stayed in bed til 6:20 so that was okay…and I feel okay this morning with knowing it is my day off of everything…I keep talking about that, don’t I? Oh, well…it is nice to take one day a week off and just enjoy my life…but, I’m not sure it that will last today with needing to get the old wallpaper off the walls in the big bedroom….started on the second one a bit yesterday and I’m still not sure if I’ll ever get the walls paintable again…we’ll see….I am still pretty amazed I have a house that is mine that I can afford and it hit me yesterday how much stress that has taken off me no matter how much work I have to do around here….I read the stories on Kos about people my age who are struggling to keep a place to live and to pay their medical bills and I really feel for them…and that makes my situation even more of a relief as I think about it…but I have noticed a change in my thoughts recently where I am realizing that I’m coming up on the end of my life and have been thinking about what has been and what I think about how my life has gone….and that may make for some uncomfortable posts here in the near future so I’ll warn you when those start to come so you can skip them if you want…not much to do today….I’m still not that good at doing nothing but I am going to try to just fool around some today…I do need to order the blinds for the bathroom some time and will probably do a few of these, too, if I get motivated…hey, that is one thing I just noticed after not drinking any more…I don’t have to work to get motivated to work around here….I don’t think I’ve mentioned that in a while…and that is pretty cool….more later….