Okay…just did this one to see if the counts are correct…can’t remember how I got two behind….thought I’d done enough to get caught up the past couple of days…oh, well….just haven’t had anything to say really…and I’m not sure why that is….maybe I should write about the “war” on Christmas? Just can’t figure out why these so-called christians feel so put upon this time of the year just because some people say happy holidays instead of merry christmas…..and the whole damn society celebrates their holiday even atheists…so what are they bitching about? Of course, it just going to be wednesday to me and I may not even cook this year…maybe just some venison tacos…I did get the the half inch of ice off the car…but I don’t have anywhere to go so that’s kind of a moot point…geez…now I’m just rambling…so, I think I’ll stop…more later…
Monthly Archives: December 2013
December 22nd
Well…it was just another day yesterday and I did get a little work done so I feel good about that…but, I didn’t feel good about getting up to a car with 3/8 of an inch of ice on it…need to go out in a minute and try to get the rest of the ice chipped off so I can get the headlights to open…slept okay, I think, but don’t really remember…I was up early again today and that is getting to be a pain…did have a weird thing happen at FF this morning…going through the self checkout, I put a 10 in and got 16 dollars back from buying my 2 dollar paper…now, if it was a real person doing the checkout, I would have noticed and given the extra cash back…but, to have to go through talking to the person at the counter and explaining just wasn’t going to happen…it was hard enough just getting the ice off the car and driving over there…not much to do today….just a veg day it looks like with the Lions coming on later….more later…
Okay…just one filler…
Well…haven’t really been thinking of any topics today but I know I have to do another one today so I guess I’ll just give it a try…probably something I’ll have to do for the next couple of weeks while congress is gone and no one is doing anything stupid for me to comment on…so, here we go…first…the new battery for the walkman is working like new…charged it once Wed and after using it for three days, the indicator still reads full…so that is cool….there is something weird going on with my site that I noticed a couple of days ago…it is underlining some words for a reason I can’t figure out…might have to go into the guts to see what is going on…it has been a lazy day for me but I did get the bathroom done while I wait for State to come on at 4…after that one starts, it will be all sports the rest of the day with Michigan and the Wings playing later…I do hope the storm stays to the south…it has been hard on the Miata with all of the ice…it was so slick going out this morning that it was actually dangerous even with the snowies on….okay, that’s enough for now…
December 21st
Well…it was just another day yesterday and I stayed in since Tom’s back is bad and there was no pool…didn’t mind, though, since I was not really in too social of a mood….so, that meant a day of tv and reading which was okay…slept okay last night but again no dreams to speak of and I was up really early…so, I do feel a little worn out today but I know some of it is from not eating enough…haven’t gotten the no bike calorie intake down yet and it appears it will be a chore….not much to do today…I do need to clean the bathroom and will get on that after I finish my coffee…just not too motivated right now…more later…
Utah falls…
Well…as you can see, I am running behind for the month and I am trying not to do any fillers just to hit the numbers…but, I do have a shorty about something that happened in Utah this afternoon…today, a federal district court judge ruled that the ban on marriage equality is unconstitutional even though it is part of Utah’s constitution…the cool thing was that he based his ruling on the US constitution and the equal protection clause…this, in itself, is new for the court rulings up to this date….all of them until now have been state court rulings like the one in NM earlier in the week…so, this means that the rest of the states, like Michigan, who have enshrined discrimination into their constitutions, are now on notice that this crap will not last since the US constitution supersedes state ones….
Rick Scott shows what a true republican is…
Well…have been reading all morning trying to find topics to get caught up on these and ran across a story that is the true distillation of republicanism playing out in Florida…with the tax cuts for the rich decimating the budget there, the gov, Rick Scott, has indiscriminately slashed the budgets of all departments of the government…with huge cuts to child and family services that Scott said is necessary to “grow jobs” in Florida. But the unintended consequence, or maybe it is intended, is that over the past few months, 40 children have died because there are just no longer enough case workers to go around and highly at risk children were returned to dangerous home situations. I’m not sure what else to say about it…but, it point outs the callousness and disdain that the poor get from republicans since they are “takers” in their eyes…geez…
The right still doesn’t understand the Constitution…
Well…the right is all up in arms today about the reaction to the homophobic, racist comments that one of the stars of “Duck Dynasty” made in an interview with GQ magazine, going on and on about how his first amendment rights have been violated since he has been suspended from A&E for the comments. Man, these folks just don’t understand the document that they wave around their heads, do they? The first amendment protects your freedom of speech…and this idiot is still free to say whatever he wants…there is no one trying to silence him…but, due to the repubs continual deference to corporations and the right of these corporations to do whatever they want to their employees, A&E has every right to suspend him…the first amendment has nothing to say about the fallout from your free speech. This is something the left has been clamoring for for decades, to try to limit the power of corporations over the constitutional rights of employees but the right just thinks that there need to be no laws, that corporations will do what’s right just because they are “nice”…something we all know is not and never has been the case. I still support the right of this homophobic, racist ass to say whatever comes into his tiny mind, but the right has to remember that words have consequences…geez…
December 19th
Well…it was another day yesterday but I did find the new battery for my Walkman buried over at the post office…it had been here for almost a month, came by registered mail so I had to sign for it…and, they were supposed to leave a notice if I wasn’t here but that never happened either…I am also here all the time so there was no reason for them to not knock on my door for the signature…just lazy I guess…but the guy at the battery company was really helpful in finding where it was so that was cool…and now, I have been playing it all day yesterday and today and it hasn’t used any juice…looks like the beat up, old thing will go on for another couple of years…not bad for 14 bucks…I did sleep okay and I may have found the reason for the constant stuffed up head…in cleaning the other day, I found some black mold that was growing on my bedroom window…so, I cleaned that up with a bleach solution and I’ve noticed that I am breathing better in bed…we’ll see…not much to do today…I did buy some ground chuck at the store this morning since I am craving burgers after not having any beef for the past couple of months and that will be lunch for the day…then, I need to clean to at least do something….more later….
Need to pick on Walker again…
Well…I am feeling considerably better now that I have my Walkman working again and I have played 5 songs without the battery going dead..so, I thought I pick on one of my favorite targets again and his dismal record of job creation that has been mirrored in every other state that is run by the repubs…the latest data from the BLS shows that Wisconsin’s job creation rate under Walker is less than half the national average and trails dem run states by as much as 50%…yep, Walker, the poster boy for the repub agenda of right to work for less, less taxes for corporations, and union busting has basically trashed Wisconsin’s economy by that nonsense…just as Snyder has done here in Michigan…where the only job growth has been in the auto industry and whose assistance by the federal government was opposed by every repub here in this state. I can’t stress this enough…the states are laboratories for repub ideas and by the objective numbers in every measure, they fall far short of progressive policies that serve to protect the middle class and reign in the egregious income inequality that the repub policies are designed to make worse while they enrich the 1%. I will be really interested to see how this idiot spins these numbers…oh, that’s right, they go by gut feel, not no stinkin numbers…geez…
December 18th
Well…it was another day yesterday and I only slept about three hours last night so I am tired and grumpy this morning…had some weird dreams that centered on the 4th amendment and police abuses of it that were troubling to say the least..and, I got an e-mail from the battery company that the battery was delivered here on the 23rd of November but it never showed up in my mailbox…so, I have to go up to the office in a few minutes to see if it was left there…and then, over to the post office if it isn’t…the last entry on the tracking said there was a notice left but that never happened so I am a little pissed about that…and the battery is so small that you could put 5 of them in a standard envelope so I’m not sure why they would put it in something that won’t fit in my mailbox…other than that, it was just another boring day in the apt with not a lot to do…I did find some mold that was growing on my bedroom window and cleaned that all up with bleach…wonder if that was why I am so stuffed up all the time? Not much to do today…battery searching and resumes but that is about it…more later…
Okay…here’s an update on the battery situation…finally found it buried in the distribution center over in Kentwood…had to sign for it since it came from Singapore and they think it might be terrorist related….have installed it and it is charging so, so far so good…and it has been charging for a half hour when the old battery showed full charge after 5 minutes…can’t wait to get it back in the car…