Well…while I sit here waiting for the time to come to prep the turkey, I thought I’d do the corny thing and talk a little bit about what I’m thankful for on this holiday…and, even though I’m getting old, when I think about it, there are some things that I am thankful for. First, Social Security…with looking for a job for so many years with no luck and burning through every dime that I had saved just to stay alive, SS has given me the lifeline I needed to be able to live…while not a lavish lifestyle, it pays all the bills and will help buy me a house next year…and the weight it lifted off me by not stressing about a job anymore was the best. Second, Medicare…going without health insurance for 16 years and just hoping that nothing would happen to put me into bankruptcy was another reason that my stress levels were so high all the time…and with the tests and checkups that Medicare provides, I know now that I am pretty darn healthy for someone my age and there are no hidden problems that I have to worry about….and, this is the one place that I am going to get political..hey, politicians…I PAID for this my entire working life…it is not an “entitlement” it is a contract between the people of the country and the government…it is not a bargaining chip, it is not something that can be discarded to pay for tax cuts for the rich…okay, that’s enough of that for now…I may be back for another one later since I do have to talk about friends and my kids and the sky and the stars…and Steely Dan, and Robert Heinlein and computers and life…so, check back later…I do have a couple of hours free while the turkey cooks and before the Lions start….more later…
Monthly Archives: November 2018
November 22nd
Well…running about on time today and didn’t get up until almost 6 so I guess that’s a win….but it took a while to get through the paper with all the ads…one thing I don’t understand…and I’m pretty dumb for doing it…is to pay 3 bucks for today’s paper…I mean paying extra for advertising? Especially for ads that I will never use since I would never, ever go out to any store for black Friday…the only holiday that I do anymore is Thanksgiving and the only thing I do for that is cook…after all, how can you pass up all that protein for 37 cents a pound? Oh, well….I am looking for ward to cooking today and having the standard t-day meal…but, I’m not sure when I’ll get out on the bike today….it’s only 21 outside right now and that is too cold for me…I need it to be around 28 if it’s sunny and that won’t come until this aft…so, maybe after I watch the Lions lose? Not going to feel guilty about doing nothing else today…I do need to get the pumpkin pie in the oven right now and then ease into the rest of the cooking…after the news and more coffee that is….more later….
$72 million for 600 feet of barbed wire?
Well…just a shorty before I get to working out and riding the bike…the figures are in and the idiot trump’s political stunt of sending troops to the southern border to intercept a “caravan” of refugees who were heading for the border cost you and me $72 million dollars for them laying 600 feet of barbed wire…yep, you read that right 72 mil for absolutely nothing but a political stunt…to say nothing about the hardship of the soldiers sent there who had to live on MRE’s for weeks and who won’t get home to spend Thanksgiving with their families. How do you tolerate and support this repubs? It just shows that the bleating of support from the repubs in support of the troops has always been a lie…they don’t give a damn about the troops or the costs…imagine what 72 million would do for feeding hungry kids or for college debt relief…or the thousands of other things that money would have been better spent on…I can’t wait for January to get here and for the dems to put an end to trump and his cronies….impeach…
November 21st
Well…running a little late today with moving grocery day to wed this week so I don’t have to be in the store on t-day…didn’t have much to get but still spent 47 bucks and I am shaking my head about that one..I think my intestinal problem is almost gone as is the pain and that is a relief…should be back to normal in a day or so and that’s not a day too soon…have figured out…or remembered that I stay warmer on the bike if I go like crazy but that leads to big soreness that I may have to treat today before I go out…my sides hurt…along with everything else but that’s okay…it’s tolerable and a good indication that I’m doing it right….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and the only thing I have to do today is clean and get the turkey in the brine this morning and then the normal workout stuff….actually feel pretty good today and I hope it lasts for a while at least…more later…
A tradition ends…
Well….as you know, it has been my tradition to wear shorts at least until Thanksgiving every year no matter what the weather…this has been going on for almost 30 years now…of course not while I was working, but the rest of the time…but now that I am old and the reasons for doing it have receded into the fog of memory….I think it is time to end the tradition after tomorrow…so, no more shorts when it is too damn cold to do it….but, I will still wear them if it gets to 60 in January…after all, I do like to wear them…and I’ve still got the legs for it…
Lock her up…
Well…hypocrites, hypocrites, hypocrites…we know that the trumps and the repub party are all hypocrites…and the latest revelation just adds to the totals of hypocrisy that oozes out of them every day. During the 2016 campaign, it was all Hillary’s e-mails all the time…that she used private e-mails to conduct government business…it was basically the only thing the entire campaign was based on and was aided and abetted by the media who couldn’t see the ridiculousness of it all…and now, guess who also is using private e-mail for government business? Yep, Ivanka frickin trump….and her excuse? That she didn’t know it was wrong to do it…nope, she never stood onstage with her idiot father while he bleated and bleated about Hillary’s e-mails…and she never gave interviews where she was so concerned about the e-mails that maybe, just maybe Hillary should be locked up for doing the same damn thing she is doing right now….yeah, right…we need to be rid of these stains on America and soon…I’ve had enough of them…impeach….
November 20th
Well…running a little early today and I need to be…they are shutting off my internet for maintenance this morning so I will be going dark for a while today…got up at 5:30 again today and that is a little annoying…as always…but I guess I’ll live through it…still having problems with my intestines again today but they are not as bad as yesterday…yet…and I hope they continue to improve today and I am right about the peanut butter…went hard on the bike yesterday and that had made me really sore today but it is a good sore and reminds me that I have been slacking a little on the bike and need to pick up the pace….I think I’ll do a full sprint today…I think I ate enough to support that but we’ll see when I get out this morning…have had flat legs for weeks now and I may have to take a couple of days off to help that…didn’t get much done yesterday other than washing the car but I will clean to prep for t day the next couple of days…it is pretty relaxing to be having dinner alone again this year and I can’t wait to see how the turkey comes out…more later…
We all knew it was a stunt…
Well…with all of the bleating by the bleater in chief about the caravan of “thousands of criminals and middle eastern terrorists” that was moving toward the US from central America, trump and his cronies freaked out and sent over 5,000 troops to the Texas border to stop them from entering the US…never mind that they weren’t even heading to the Texas border and the “caravan” was mostly comprised of women and children. People who could think knew that this whole thing was a stunt to affect the elections and that was confirmed today when the Army announced that they have started to withdraw the troops after setting up a few rolls of barbed wire at the border…now when Obama used the military for political purposes…oh, that’s right…no president has ever used the army on US soil for political purposes…not once…ever! So, idiot boy just spent 100 million dollars for using the military as a prop…with his constant disdain for the military and it’s sacrifices, how long will it take before the repubs will stop supporting this crap? I wonder how many schools could have been repaired for 100 million dollars? Geez I hate trump…and the repubs…impeach…
I think I may have figured it out…
Well…as you know, I have been fighting some intestinal discomfort the past couple of days and I may have figured it out…about a year or so ago, I developed a sensitivity to peanuts where, whenever I ate them, they tied my intestines into knots with lots of pain…and this bout feels just the same…while I was on the bike today it hit me that in trying to get some more calories in me, I have been eating some peanut butter with toast in the morning and with crackers as snacks in the afternoon….it was one of those DUH moments that I get sometimes…so now the experiment comes where I cut out the PB and see what happens…but, I still need to get more calories in me so I’m not sure how to do that…we’ll see…..
Some thoughts…
Well…after most of the votes from 11/6 have been counted, it appears that we will have picked up around 40 seats in the House…giving us the majority we need to at least hold trump and his minions accountable for all of their crimes. But, it can’t stop there…the repubs have been rigging the systems across the US for years now and that is what we need to also focus on…as we have done here in Michigan, gerrymandering needs to be killed everywhere so every vote counts and the unpopular programs and ideas of the repubs die the fast death they deserve…and people like Kemp in Georgia, the secretary of state who was running for governor, can’t use their positions to suppress the votes of people who would overwhelmingly vote for our side. I mean, what the hell is wrong with everyone who is eligible to vote getting to vote? So, while going after trump may have some instant gratification, and needs to be done, let’s not lose focus on everything else that is wrong…and get started fixing it in January….