Well…I can’t believe that this hair on fire moment in the US where the out of control supreme court is destroying our country in front of our eyes is being met with a shoulder shrug and just frickin words by the do nothing dem leadership. Where is the fighting back against the repeal of Roe? Where is the fighting back against the destruction of the separation between church and state that just happened today? Let’s send the whole house dem delegation over to manchin and sinema’s office and ask them to explain why they are blocking saving women’s rights, voting rights and the wall between church and state. And why they are blocking SC reform that would add 4 justices to blunt the far right capture of the court….and where the hell is Biden in all this? Just sitting on his hands and expressing “regret” that Roe is gone and the court is out of control…do something already…just frickin do something…do you want to lose the mid terms? Keep this inaction up and the youngsters are going to stay home since you talk and talk and do nothing….damn, I may have to move to Canada if they’ll have me…DO SOMETHING!
Monthly Archives: June 2022
Found a doctor…
Well…one task for the week is done…I found a doctor and have scheduled my yearly checkup for Thursday morning…and they are even closer to me than the dentist…right over near depot and that is only about a mile and a half from me…and this guy specializes in old folks medicine and I guess I’m old so that’s cool….and he’s gotten nothing but great reviews so I’ll give him a try….now I just need to talk to Verizon tomorrow and get them to change my plan or sign up with consumer by Friday….making some progress…
June 27th
Well…darn, it is such a pain in the butt to go to bed feeling okay and wake up depressed as hell…that might have had something to do with how worn out I felt yesterday….and it’s only 52 degrees out there so there won’t be any beach trip today with the high only around 70….and it still hasn’t rained out here in almost a month and I think I’m losing the battle to save the lawn….and after all of the work I did to make a lawn, that really sucks….at least I’m keeping my garden alive and the first flowers have started to bloom at the back of the house…but my tomatoes are showing the stress and look pretty odd with the leaves kind of shriveled looking…you know, I’m at the point where I just don’t care about much anymore and if they die it will be met with a shrug….I think I slept okay last night but don’t feel like it and I wonder if I can just take the day off sometime soon? Haven’t done one of those in a long time but I know it will depress me even more if I do….and that’s the problem…it’s a catch 22 that I have to gut my way through and I’m tired of it….oh, well….not much to do today…did laundry yesterday so I don’t have that to do today so I guess I’ll just try to find a doctor this afternoon and then over to verizon tomorrow….but I don’t want to do either of those….don’t want to do anything….more later….
I’m so worn out I’m doing this lying down…
Well…not sure what the heck is going on but I have been worn out all day today….so, I’m lying here on the couch typing this one since it was just too much work to get up and sit up…I did get two bike rides in today and went pretty hard on them so that may be part of it…but, I have been almost dizzy at times, too, so that is weird or it may not be…I’ll have to check on how much I ate yesterday…. a ham sandwich and a handful of chips for one meal, and two sloppy joes and a handful of chips for the other…so that’s about 520 for lunch and around the same for dinner….under 1200 for the day isn’t enough with burning 1200 on the bike every day….and I went out to the beach and got a good swim in playing in the waves and took a long walk over the new beach and couldn’t believe how may zebra mussel shells there were in the new sand….I think they still need to level it since there are holes in it you could fall into….it was a little strange how solid the new beach was with being more than 50% water yesterday….I was the only one on the beach when I got out there and there were only a couple of other people when I left around 11:30….but it was windy and a little cold so I didn’t stay long…it was warmer in the water than out so I didn’t get any color today and that was probably a good thing…..my skin can use the rest…okay, that’s enough….getting tired of doing this and just want to veg….
So the filibuster is worth more than these?
Well…I am tiring of the “institutionalists” in the dem party who will let the repubs walk all over them and allow them to ruin this country just because they don’t want to nuke the filibuster to get something done…so, let me ask these questions: Is the filibuster worth more than voting rights? Is it worth more than women’s rights? Is it worth more than LGBTQ rights? Because if Biden doesn’t change his mind and get off his ass and get the senate dems to kill the filibuster, all of these rights are gone…and no amount of collegiality is going to get this done without killing the racist filibuster and playing hardball like the repubs do….and we can’t wait til the election and hope that we gain in the senate and keep the house…I’m tired of waiting…times have changed and we no longer have a repub party to negotiate with…it is just a cult who has stolen the SC and is taking us back to the 1600′s…the court needs to be expanded and that will take nuking the filibuster, too…so get off your asses and get moving right frickin now….tick tock…
June 26th
Well…running about on time for a Sunday and had a nice surprise when the store I get my paper from that is close to me is back open again….and that makes it only a mile or so I have to travel…and the steering in my car is getting better every time I drive it so that is a load off…must be getting the air out of it and that is cool….slept okay last night and didn’t wake up til around 5 but just rolled over and slept until 6 or so when I got up…so, I feel okay this morning and will be getting on the bike by 7:15 or so so I can get two rides in by around 10…..not sure if I’m going to go out for a swim today…just don’t feel like it so I probably won’t….still didn’t rain at all yesterday and it looks like the rain has set up south of the Michigan border so we won’t be getting any today and that kinda sucks….need to water the lawn today and that may just be all the work I do….but I do need to get back to work on the house soon and that will probably start this week…so much for taking the summer off….not much to do today…need to read some news and have another cup of coffee before I get on the bike and I still can’t understand why I feel the need to get out so early…don’t have anything to do really but I guess that’s just me….one day, I am going to just take a day off and veg out…yeah, right…that’s not going to happen….more later….
Another day with nothing done…
Well…darn, another day with getting nothing done and I am depressed about that…oh, I took care of the normal stuff like riding the bike and taking care of the garden but nothing else….so, tomorrow has to be different…I have a bag of topsoil so I can do some more patching of the yard and I really should get on that even as I lose more lawn every day since it never rains out here and I can’t afford to keep it alive…okay, that’s not true, I can afford it but damn, a hundred bucks a month just to keep the lawn alive? Oh, well…I did get out to the beach for a short swim this morning after doing the bike rides but even that was a bit of a pain with the running event they had going on that used my trails for it…on the way out, I had to ride the roads the whole way with the trail clogged with runners but that worked out okay with the roads that were closed for the run…and it seems that the steering on the car is getting better and it may be that it had some air in it after I forgot to check the power steering for a year and it was really low…and it looks like I don’t have a coolant leak…checked it a few minutes ago and it is still full so that’s good….I think I need to start up on the house again and that will probably happen this week….need to start on the trim in the dining room and do the bathroom door and frame so maybe I’ll get that done this week….once that is done, the painting will go pretty fast….I did pick my first 5 beans from my plants today and I hope I’ll have enough for a meal by the end of the week…probably should have planted a bunch more of them but 16 should be enough….and I think my first flowers at the back of the house are going to bloom soon since they have lots of buds on them and I can’t wait….still hasn’t rained out here in almost a month and the stuff that was supposed to come today is falling apart over the lake…again…crap…oh, well…time for some tv…
We need a general strike….
Well…with the obscene ruling from the SC yesterday overturning Roe, all of us who think that taking control of women’s bodies away from them is repugnant need to get out there and make the dems and repubs know that this will not stand…and to do that, we need a general strike of everyone…every woman, every man, every child need to just stop supporting the economy and stop doing anything period…no more work, no more shopping, no more anything to just crush the economy and make Manchin and Sinema know that if they won’t remove the filibuster to codify roe into law, they are toast in the next election…and we need to pressure the dems into investigating the lies that the trump judges told at their hearings…there is a law against lying to congress and they need to pay for lying they would leave Row alone as “settled law”….and never, ever vote for a repub again….never, ever…..geez…
June 25th
Well…damn, I feel just like I did when the Russians installed the asshole trump and I just can’t read the news….but I will try to get this one done before I get on the bike….slept okay last night but I really stayed out at the beach too long yesterday…had to slather myself in aloe last night to keep my head and face from peeling and I can still feel the tightness in my back from the sun so I think it’s a good idea that I’m not going out there today…my skin needs the rest….I had squirrel boxing in my yard under the tree by the water container yesterday…a young black and a young grey squirrel were playing and then sat on their haunches and had a slap fight that was just so funny…and I had three kittens in the yard that I saw a few days ago but this time the momma wasn’t with them….it’s going to be a loud day up here with all of the activity going on downtown over the weekend…lots of craft sales and concerts so I may have to ride over there and take a look…and there is a 10K going on at the park…and we had the fifth cruise ship moored here yesterday which I still can’t figure out…but at least this time they had shuttles to take people around the city…not much to do today…just going to get the rides in and then take it easy the rest of the day…need to feed the garden and the flowers when I get back from the rides and get started watering the lawn…..the goldenrod flowered along the trail yesterday and I can feel it today…my head is stuffed up and I have a headache already so it is going to be bad out there on the bike….more later…
Just can’t pretend…
well…look, with the overturning of Roe by the corrupt SC today, I am so depressed by the damage this is going to do that I really can’t pretend that life goes on…it doesn’t and me writing anything else today would be too much of a pretense and papering over the gravity of this outlaw ruling…so, I won’t be back today for anything else….I just can’t….