Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a bunch of stuff done…can even see the top of my dining table but there is a lot more to do before the maint folks come Thurs…..slept okay and had dreams about my new coffee maker being broken and driving a car I sold 20 years ago….feel okay this morning but it is cold enough to be icy so I have to warm the car up before I go out for papers….have to continue the clean up today but it is something I should have done weeks ago so that is okay….and I like the progress….not much to do today…will have to wait for the temp to come up to get out on the bike so that will mean I have time to get started on more cleaning….the allergies are bad today and I can’t stop sneezing so maybe it’s part of cleaning…I don’t know…more later…
Monthly Archives: October 2014
A sad sight…
Well…as I got to my first water stop on top of the hill next to M-6, I looked out at the e-way and saw a really sad sight…a Laguna Blue Miata on the back of a flat bed wrecker with the front end shortened by about two feet…looked like a nice one, too, with the gold BBS wheels that came on the M series…I guess mine wasn’t the only one here in West Michigan…but, that makes one less…any time I see a Miata wrecked it saddens me a little bit…I’ll bet there are now less than a thousand left on the road in my color….
October 21st
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done… a little but not much…slept okay and feel okay this morning since I was good last night and I am kind of liking that….I did get to 9 hours on the walkman last night before I gave up and plugged it in…good news that I don’t have to buy a new battery since I can live with about 12 hours total time on a charge…could even be more than that but I ran out of patience testing it….I can’t wait until the allergies end for this year…still coughing and stuffed up and I am really tired of it…not much I can do but live with it….not much to do today…have to hit the grocery store for a few things and get my Mega tickets for tonight’s 200 million dollar drawing…need some cash and don’t know where else to get it….more later….
Technology…
Well…if you’ve been here for any length of time, you know that about a year ago I replaced the battery in my Sony mp3 player since the old one wouldn’t hold a charge anymore. So, in the past week or so the battery indicator has been showing me shorter and shorter use times, down to about three hours before getting the battery charge needed symbol on the display and I was starting to get a little irritated that the battery only lasted a year when the original lasted over 6 years….so, today, I thought I’d test it out and just see how long the thing really will run until it shuts off…well…6 1/2 hours and counting after the thing told me the battery was dead…and that is not counting the hour on the bike with the indicator flashing. So, needless to say there is a problem with the sensor, not the battery, but now I’m going to have to either keep it plugged in all the time or keep track of how long I’ve run it since it was charged…that sounds like a lot of work so I guess it’s plug in time….isn’t technology great?
7 hours and counting….8 hours….not sure how long I’m going to do this….
Ebola, schmebola….
Well…I have been shaking my head for the past couple of days on the panic that the media and the repubs are trying to stoke about the “Ebola crisis” of three patients with the disease..one that was the carrier and the other two were nurses who took care of the man while he was dying. The fearmongering seems to be working with the ignorant and fearful….a teacher from the northeast was put on paid leave for 21 days just for traveling to Dallas….no where near the hospital but I guess that doesn’t matter….and parents from a school in Mississippi (of course it’s Mississippi) pulled their children for the reason that the principal made a trip to Zambia a month before…no Ebola in Zambia but these ignorant idiots don’t care about that since their lives are ruled by fear of everything….but now, when the 41 people who were quarantined for contact with the dead man show no symptoms after 21 days, you don’t hear a thing about it in the media….Ebola is an extremely hard disease to catch but the right just needs a new fear to keep their base scared out of their wits so they will go out to vote…maybe we should spread the rumor on right wing websites that you can get Ebola from voting machines….that would be cool…geez….
October 20th
Well…running late today and I’m going to blame it on going out to read C&J on Kos first….I guess that’s as good as any excuse….slept crappy again so I won’t be mentioning that again…today….it is nice that it is already 50 outside so I can get on the bike as soon as I finish working out…I do have some stuff to do around here and want to get that done before lunch so it’s good to not have to wait for the temp to come up….not feeling as crappy as I should so maybe the bug is finally leaving…hope so….after a day or so of rain…it looks like the entire week is going to be sunny so there will be some top down time…have to go out and try to find a new bulb for my reading lamp that I’ve had for 30 years or more….as I get older, I need more light to see the paper in the morning….maybe I’ll ride my bike over to the store to try to find one….more later….
Just noodling…
Well…as you can see from the numbers, I’m behind for the month so I thought I’d just noodle around and see what happens…and the Lions are stinking up the joint so that is just driving me away from the tv…at least until Talladega starts in a few minutes…oh, and the comet flyby of Mars is happening in a few minutes so I think I’ll go out to look at the pictures here in a minute…I do like the battery backup that I got last week for 7 bucks…just have to remember to keep it charged and take it with me….I did get laundry done today so I don’t feel completely useless….on partly useless….there were thousands of wooly bears on the trail today and that was cool but a lot of work to not run them over….okay…need to go out and look at the comet pictures….more later…
October 19th
Well…running late today and the whole thing was caused by ice on the car that I had to melt off with it running for 10 minutes….it was an okay day yesterday and I got out to see K and V over at Logan’s for a few minutes so that was fun…slept crappy again but the Wings won with Hank getting the winner with 10 seconds left in OT…pretty cool….so, I guess I can live with feeling crappy again today but I won’t let that keep me off the bike today…took the day off yesterday since the temp never came up until the aft and after the run to Logan’s, I wasn’t motivated at all…and, it looks like it will be noon or so before I can get out today…but not later than that since I do want to see the Lions and the race….not much to do today…I did get my bathroom de-spidered yesterday and cleaned so it looks like the kitchen today…more later…and I do need to do three more of these today so come back a see….
October 18th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool…plus, I put an 8 ball in on the break so that was even cooler…didn’t win the Mega last night so I don’t have to put instructions in here for my daughter so Tom gets his cut…slept okay but no dreams again so that is a little disappointing…and, there was no Miata drive last night since it was raining…no too disappointed with that since I wanted to see the Wings game anyway…didn’t get much done yesterday but I will today…at least the bathroom…and I have a 7 pound chicken to roast today so there will be food…along with the soccer that is on now…still trying to find where Man U is on the sched….not much to do today…I am going to wait a few minutes before I go out on the bike…it is a little too cold right now and I am not in the mood to be cold…more later…
The head of the FBI just made me laugh…
Well…just read an article that quotes the head of the FBI, James Comey, and it made laugh so hard…the gist of it is that if Google and Apple go ahead with their plans to encrypt their new phones, every murderer, or other criminal is going to get away with every crime since the cops won’t be able to search your phone without a warrant….that may be a little hyperbole on my part but what this idiot is saying is if we can’t spy on the 99% of people don’t commit crimes, then the criminals will get away. My question is “what the heck did they do before smartphones?” Actual police work? Follow the 4th amendment? I think it’s great that they will have to now do their jobs like they used to and that my privacy will be ensured…tough luck FBI…geez…