Well…have been up for a while and still feel exhausted but I think that may be my fault…and not sleeping well has something to do with it…oh, and getting a late start on the coffee doesn’t help, either…so, I’m going to ease into it this morning…there really is no reason to rush anything today with the rain moving that will keep me off the bike today…so that leaves only inside work to do so I think I’ll continue to prep to get ready to paint the rest of the interior…I did get some grass seed laid down and fed the lawn for the last time this year and had to repair the gate stop since the exterior adhesive I used turned to powder so I will have to fix that in the spring…just used a tube of caulk for a temp fix and I think that should work…it is kind of fun to have a place to just fool around outside and in the garage….not much to do today…I may have to make a run back out to the south end to pick up some venison today if I hear from B…oh, I did get the t-day grocery shopping done and got a 14 pound turkey from Meijers for only about 4 bucks so that was cool…..and I am looking forward to making my first big meal here….more later…
Monthly Archives: November 2019
I think I saw an elk yesterday…
Well…I almost forgot to talk about something I saw on the trail yesterday…after doing the river part of the trail and getting ready to make the turn into the swamp, I saw what I first thought was a deer crossing the trail about 30 yards in front of me…but it was not the color of the normal white tail deer that I see every day…it was almost a dark brown and had a set of antlers that looked like an elks…but it was only a little bigger than a deer so then I started to wonder what that would be….and the only thing I thought of was a reindeer but there are no reindeer here in West Michigan…at least they are not indigenous to this area…but, I did remember that there were some reindeer that escaped from a game farm in the area a few years back and I wonder if they are still at large? Pretty weird…
In any normal time, it would be all over after today…
Well….I wonder if they make a bus big enough for all the people Gordon Sondland threw under one today? If you didn’t see it, trump’s ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, testified in the impeachment investigation in the House today and boy, he laid out that every damn one of the department heads that work for trump was in on the extortion of Ukraine and took an active part in it on the orders of the idiot trump….let that sink in for a minute…almost every damn cabinet secretary has committed a felony in support of trump trying to get a foreign power to help install him just like Putin did in 2016…Mulvaney, Pence, Pompeo, Perry and many more people were in on the scam according to Sondland who was there and pushing most of it with those other criminals….and in any normal time, there would be a delegation of repub senators heading to the WH right now to tell the idiot boy that it’s all over and he needs to resign…but, these aren’t normal times since every damn repub has lost his mind and still supports the criminal in chief…and I can’t figure out why. After all, trump can’t even get repubs elected in deep red states and his influence is waning every day…so I wonder why all of the repubs still kiss his ass and protect him regularly…and here’s the kicker….we haven’t even heard the worst stuff yet since the courts haven’t forced any of the criminals from trump’s inner circle to testify yet…what are we going to hear when that happens? It sure as hell isn’t going to get better and more and more of trumps cronies are going to end up disgraced or in jail or both….and resigning like Perry did or that Pompeo is contemplating is no protection or a get out of jail free card…there are consequences for extorting a foreign government for personal gain and every damn one of them that don’t resign should be impeached…
November 20th
Well….another night of semi good sleep and I don’t feel too bad this morning other than I’m a little tired still…but not tired enough to make coffee with the extra caffeine…used new muscles again yesterday with raking the leaves in the front yard and the soreness is not too bad…I actually enjoyed getting out and doing some yard work and I still have the back yard to do but the leaves are not all down and I only want to do it once…I decided to stop favoring my right thumb yesterday and it may be better from using it…at least it hurts less right now and I’ll take that…even used it on the bike to work the brakes on the back wheel and that hurt like crazy but I think that’s just breaking the scarring in it…we’ll see today…I may have to change out the rear shifter since it just doesn’t shift right anymore and that is a little disappointing after only 8,000 miles…but, not getting the gear you need when you need it is annoying as hell…I did get out to run some errands yesterday and need to do the grocery run this morning…I’m glad I decided to put gas in the car the day before yesterday at 2.13 a gallon before the price shot up 40 cents…I know that 40 cents a gallon for 6 gallons is not a lot of savings but it is something…not much to do today….need to get the stuff for t-day and Meijers has turkeys for 33 cents a pound so I need one of those…I mean a 15 pound turkey for under 5 bucks? Can’t pass that up….more later….
I don’t want to hear it…
Well…the next time any damn repub goes on about how they are the only party that supports our troops, I don’t want to hear it…after how the assorted group of draft dodgers and pedophile protectors went after Col. Vindman today, trying to impugn his service and love of this country with innuendo and outright lies to protect the 5 time draft dodger who squats in the WH, they can never say they support the troops ever again…and, we all know that the repubs support of the troops has been a lie for decades as they stage photo ops with them but then cut the VA and any programs that benefits them…like the bone spur in chief who stole funds earmarked to rehab schools and hospitals that the troops need for their families to build his stupid wall…and now they are trying to tear down a decorated veteran who is doing his duty to protect the constitution while the criminal in chief just keeps committing more and more crimes. When Col. Vindman was at the end of his opening statement, he did what any good son would do for his father when he stated “do not worry, I will be fine for telling the truth”….this is a true American talking, not the repub assholes who are attacking him for his “divided loyalties” because he wasn’t born here….they can all go to hell….
November 19th
Well….staying in bed didn’t work this morning and that is a little disappointing…so, I’ve been up since 3:30…how about you? Feel pretty damn exhausted this morning but have a lot of work to do so maybe I’ll get a nap later in the day…yeah, I laughed at that one, too….got a few things done yesterday…ran errands in the morning and got gas for the car at 2.13 a gallon so that was cool…and got some cheap boots to do the snow in along with another set of work out pants to wear around in here to stay warm…and I talked to one of the guys from the old apartment complex who got three deer so far and it looks like I’m getting some fresh venison Thursday which is really cool….I do need to get out to get a leaf rake this morning and rake the leaves here while it is going to be semi warm and dry and I need to compost them behind the garage since the city doesn’t pick them up anymore…and I am not going to fill the Miata up with them and take them to the dump…I could burn them in the incinerator that is in the basement but that seems like too much work and I can use the compost in the garden next summer…so, I do have things to do today along with getting out on the bike again….but, right now I need more coffee and to just sit here for a while….more later….
More crimin’….
Well….I am still smiling that Roger Stone is going to jail for a long, long time but there is a little detail that not many people have picked up on and the danger it poses to the idiot trump….as the trial went on, it was made clear that Stone lied to investigators about his contacts with Wikileaks, saying that he didn’t have any at all when all of the evidence showed that he was the conduit between Wikileaks and the trump campaign…coordinating the campaign’s response to reinforce the effect of the release of the stolen dem e-mails…that were stolen by the Russians. When asked what he knew about Wikileaks by Mueller, the idiot in chief said he had no knowledge of anything about the stolen e-mails and put that in writing since he wouldn’t sit for an interview with Mueller…but, during Stone’s trial, many witnesses testified that Stone had talked directly to trump abut Wikileaks and the e-mails, showing that trump lied to Mueller and that is now being investigated by the House…and I really think that perjury will be added to the articles of impeachment that are piling up on a daily basis. I think the stress of all of this is getting to idiot boy since he ended up at Walter Reed Hospital over the weekend for what the liars in the WH said was “getting a head start on his annual physical” but was reported that it was some sort of a panic attack…or a reaction to all of the Adderall he snorts…at least that was the major speculation that was going around this weekend….or it was just the start of the latest lie that he is going to use as an excuse to resign since even someone as stupid as trump must realize that things are only going to get worse for him…
November 18th
Well…stayed in bed until 6 again today even with waking up a couple of hours earlier and I wonder if it’s worth it…I think I fell back to sleep for a little bit of that time so I guess I’ll keep trying that and see if I can feel a difference…I was a little confuse why my back, legs, and shoulder hurt like crazy the past couple of days and it completely slipped my mind that I had a flat the other day and had to walk a couple of miles back here pushing the bike and that used a bunch of different muscles than riding does…but, the pain is better today so I guess I’m healing up okay…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but the bike ride and some cleaning but today I have a couple of errands to run…need some new winter boots and Dunham’s has them on sale for only about 20 bucks so I think I’ll check them out this morning…would like a set of pull on duck boots for shoveling the snow that I know is going to come in a few weeks…and I need to get some allergy meds at Target…have had splitting headaches the past week or so and don’t have anything to take for it so I need to get something…and I want to look at some lightweight workout pants so then I’ll have 4 sets of long pants for sitting around here…it appears that that the new battery switch in the car is crapping out already since the presets were still in the radio yesterday morning and the car barely started so I m going to remove it this morning and go back to just taking the positive cable off so I’ll know it’s disconnected….and then look for a better switch that I can install…more later….
I made it!
Well…as you know, I have been trying to beat a 10 year old record of mine of 4237 miles in a year on the bike and today I made it! The weather cooperated and I got out to do 10 miles today and it wasn’t bad…I know I was much younger when I originally set the record, so I think this one is even more special to me…especially when I know I did it while working on the house here since July….I am really happy that I was able to do it before winter set in and I had to put the bike on the trainer and ride indoors…so, I guess the new goal is to see how much farther I can go this year and maybe set another goal for next year of 5,000 miles….not sure how long I can keep this up with getting older but I’ll keep doing it as long as I can….
Just got the first gas bill…
Well….just got my first gas bill for here at the house and I think they made a mistake…it is only 68 bucks and I expected it to be more like 250 bucks with how much the furnace runs and how cold it’s been…but, I’m not going to allow myself to have any relief yet with the horror stories I’ve heard that they estimate the bills and then you get an 800 dollar one when they actually read the meter…I think I’ll start saving for that right now so it won’t be so bad when it happens…but, I am going to let myself have one day where I delude myself into thinking that keeping the heat at 65 and getting the door air leaks fixed is responsible for the low bill…and, if it is, I am used to the cooler temps in here so maybe the winter won’t be so bad after all….