Well…yeah, I know…have been quite lazy about coming here and writing lately and I’m not sure why other than I do a lot of it over on Mastodon but no politics at all so I should really be trying harder here…but I think the cancer and impending doom of surgery along with cleaning and cleaning is wearing me out…and today was the last beach day for me for the year and that was a little bittersweet but fun with some great waves…didn’t stay out there long…just long enough to spend about 45 minutes in the water and then came back here…the periodontist appointment went well and I’m healing like I’m supposed to and they don’t need to see me again until October for the last time…and I did buy food I didn’t need but there is room in the freezer with taking soup out that I’ll have for the next two days…so, I’m going to go look for a topic…idiot boy has not been indicted so far today and that would be an easy one to do…so we’ll see what I can come up with…
July 20th
Well..damn, up at 6:10 this morning and I am worn out again today…still have water in my right ear from swimming yesterday and I am sore from it but it’s a good sore…crap, I have to be at the dentist in less than an hour and a half and I sure don’t want to do that at all….I was really hoping that it would rain out here today but it looks like the storms are staying to the north and that sucks…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done and I may be having lunch with T today so that will make for another wasted day…still need to clean so this place will be presentable when my daughter gets here but I have til Sat afternoon to get that done….going to hit DD this morning to get some lean ham for 3 bucks for a pound and a half and then take a look at the bargain freezer to see what they have…probably shouldn’t with the food my daughter is bringing but I don’t want her to have to cook all the meals for the two weeks she’ll be here…not much to do today….have to be at the dentist in an hour and can’t get moving….going to be a lot of work….more later…crap…I’m going to have to come back here since the appointment is so early and DD doesn’t open til 9…oh, well…
Got my surgery time…
Well…when I was out on the bike coming back after the second ride, I heard the phone ring and while I would normally just ignore it, with all of the calls from the people working on me I took the phone out and it said “healthcare” and that meant it was from the U of M health system…so I pulled over and I’m glad I did since it was the scheduler with the time of my surgery next Tuesday…they need me there at 5:45 in the morning and I couldn’t be happier…I like to get this stuff out of the way as early as possible as my daughter does so she was happy to not have to wait all day…and that means I should be done with the surgery by 10 or so and that will get me out of the hospital early Wednesday morning…so it’s all coming together…now I just need to go to the follow up at my periodontist at 8 am tomorrow morning and I’ll be ready for moving forward….getting there…
Way to go, Michigan voters…
Well…I marvel at what has happened here in Michigan since we elected a dem administration across the board here…just yesterday our AG Dana Nessel announced indictments of all of the people who signed on as fake electors as part of the idiot trump’s scheme…and boy are these folks going to pay…every one of them has been charged with multiple 14 year felonies and a couple of 5 year felonies just for good measure…so what that means is that when they are convicted…and they will be…they have the possibility of never getting out of jail and that is exactly what these traitors deserve….this is what happens to everyone who has anything to do with idiot boy and you would think that at least some of them would have figured that out and bailed instead of doubling down…but no, these are not the brightest people if they thought trump was a worthwhile person to follow…now we just need every other AG in every state they pulled this crap to do the same to make sure everyone in this country knows there is a price to be paid for being a traitor….geez…
July 19th
Well…feel so worn out this morning and I’ve been grinding my teeth so they hurt like crazy today…and I only have 14 minutes before I need to get on the bike to get the first ride in before I do the grocery run…have two years worth of beer cans to take back and that will be the first time since I’ve lived here…got some cleaning done yesterday and need to keep that up today to make sure everything is clean before my daughter comes…I am concerned she is going to be disappointed with me and this house and how I live…and that is not helping with my depression at all….forgot to close up the house last night and it got down to 58 so it’s cold in here right now…only have 5 more days that I can ride the bike and I have no plans on what to do when I can’t ride anymore….need to starve myself for the next two months and get down to around 500 calories a day but I don’t think she will allow that….trying to not think about how hard this is going to be….not much to do today…damn, I’m late for getting on the bike already but I’m so tired….this is going to be a hard day…more later…
More indictments coming…
Well…the normal meltdown from the idiot trump is happening again with his receipt of a “target” letter from Jack Smith pertaining to the January 6th investigation…I wonder how many others have gotten those letters? It has to be Rudi and meadows, but I haven’t seen anything else about it yet today…the next question is going to be who flipped on idiot boy? We know that meadows has gotten a cooperation agreement with Smith and it will be interesting to find out how many more of these criminals are flipping on trump…who in their right mind would be loyal to the person who singlehandedly ruined their lives? Yeah, these are not the brightest people in the world so who knows what they would do? All I know is I can’t wait for the next perp walk of the idiot…they should hold him in jail this time without bond since these charges are going to be that serious…geez…
July 18th
Well…running a bit late this morning with not setting up the coffee last night..I’ve been grinding my teeth as I sleep and that has left me in pain this morning from the pressure on the molars on the right side…I’m going to have to replace this laptop soon since it appears that it is having a problem with overheating and the fan is running all the time…I have way too much money going out this month to be able to afford it…5 grand for the surgery, 1720 for the dental work, 505 for my car insurance, and 400 bucks for my summer taxes….it is going to take me a year or so to recover from this and that doesn’t even include the thousand bucks in copays I’ve paid since the cancer bullshit started….I did get a bit of weird yesterday that I am still thinking about…my brother called and said he had a 50 inch tv that he doesn’t need and he is bringing it over today…that would be an upgrade from the 42 inch I have in the living room and ads to the new stuff my daughter has sent and that’s a lot of change for me….and it’s it’s only a week until the surgery and it’s becoming real with my daughter getting here Sat…so it will be a marathon cleaning session from now til then….not much to do today…need to get on the bike soon to get the two rides in this morning…have too much food thawed that needs to be used so I may be throwing some away and that sucks…more later…
Let’s think about this differently..
Well…with labor finally getting it’s act together and going out on strike for a bigger share of profit that comes from their labor, we need to talk about this differently…the headlines read like “UPS strike will cost the economy billions”…when it should be “the greed of UPS management is causing the economy to lose billions” or “the writers and actors strike is going to shut down Hollywood” when it should be “the greed of the production companies is going to shut down Hollywood” ,,,you get the idea…when the cost of paying the actors and writers what they are asking for and what they deserve, it would only cost around 600 million dollars a year while the production companies made over 30 billion dollars last year on the backs of this labor…and one of the largest sticking points is the fact that the production companies are proposing that they can scan the image of any actor and own it and use it forever for a one time hourly fee…and scale would be about 500 bucks while the production companies could use that image to make unlimited movies and unlimited millions…we need to support these strikers in any way we can…after all, the workers at Amazon who are going to go out on strike have made Jeff Bezos the richest man in the world…shouldn’t the workers get good working conditions and a cut of that hundreds of billions they have made for Bezos? It only seems fair…geez…
Some movement…
Well…after the debacle last Friday and my impassioned e-mail to my city commissioner, I was surprised to hear from the city manager this morning pledging that he will investigate and work with the police to try to shut down all the noise up here…but, I’ll believe it when I see it….after all, I’ve had to make 5 calls since Friday and it’s the same houses all the time…all they need to do is cite them every time they talk to these noisy, selfish assholes and when the cash starts coming out of their pockets, the noise will stop…I guess we’ll see…
July 17th
Well…didn’t get out of bed til 7:14 this morning and that is going to make me latr for everything today and I don’t like it…so I won’t get out on the bike til 8:30…I do need to get the ride in before noon since the nascar race was postponed until today…have so much to do today with needing to cut up the branches I took down and bag them to put out for pickup tonight and cleaning to get this place ready for my daughter’s visit….my teeth still hurt from grinding them but I was able to use the electric toothbrush yesterday and I guess that’s progress…have to go back to the dentist Thursday for the after surgery check up and have to be there by 8 am and that’s pretty darn early…but I prefer getting it out of the way…have been thinking about taking a day off but I’m going to have two months off soon so I guess I can dig deep and keep going for 6 more days….man, I’m so worn out….need to lose 5 more pounds before the surgery but I also have to make room in the freezer for the food my daughter is going to make….so I’ll be eating a lot…took the last of the Italian sausage out of the freezer along with the last container of ham soup so I won’t need to cook much this week….not much to do today…just need to get moving and that is looking harder than it should be…more later….