Well…crap…another morning of being late to come here and I sure don’t like it…I mean, it’s 7:21 and I just poured my first cup of coffee and I should be out on the bike already…but, I don’t have much to do today and just need to get the two rides in by 12:30 when the first race of the day starts…feel really slow this morning and probably need to stop taking the otc sleeping pills again…but I do sleep with them and that wasn’t happening before….three to four hours a night was killing me and I think I may need a plan to attack that other than the pills…what that would be I don’t know…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but that was the plan with way too much ladder work this week and with the pain that came from it…was so damn stiff yesterday that I could barely walk but that seems to be better today….but, I am going to do two rides again today since I’m pretty damn dumb….I did go over 3900 miles yesterday and need to keep up the pace….I have way too much food waiting to go into the freezer and need to get that done today…pork loin and chicken thighs that I probably shouldn’t have bought this week….but I did take a pizza out so there may be room for it downstairs….and I need to eat a couple of tomatoes today so they don’t spoil but there aren’t any calories in them so I can not feel too guilty about that…not much to do today…need to get moving and get on the bike and I do need to clean some today but I’m not really motivated right now…maybe later….
Monthly Archives: August 2020
They are going to get his tax returns…
Well…after the supreme court ruled that no person here in the US is above the law, they tossed the suit that trump filed back to the lower courts to give trump another try to come up with reasons that his tax returns shouldn’t be given up in a criminal investigation…so idiot boy’s lawyers went back to court with exactly the same reasons that the supreme court rejected on a 7-2 vote….so, just yesterday, that court said quit the bullshit and ruled that these were the same reasons the SC rejected and trump had to produce everything that Cy Vance has subpoenaed…of course, trump’s lawyers appealed that ruling but this is the final time he will be able to do that…the appeals court has to abide by the same SC ruling that the district court had to so the result will not be any different…so, in just a few weeks, Cy Vance will have the tax returns and other financial documents from the criminal trump to go along with all of the records Vance got from Deutsche bank and he then can start to compare the records and see the huge amounts of bank and real estate fraud that trump has been doing his entire life….I wonder if an indictment can be handed down in time for the election? Probably not but this will be waiting for trump when he loses…and remember, these are state charges that trump can’t pardon himself for…he is going to be the first ex-president to go to jail and I can’t wait….
August 21st
Well…I think this is the latest I’ve made it here, other than Sundays, in a long time…had really fitfull sleep all night and didn’t get back to sleep until almost 5 and then didn’t get up til 6:46…so I’m running late today…how do you hurt the bottom of your feet? I know how…I guess that was a rhetorical question…up and down the ladder and standing on rungs for three hours for three days in a row will do it…but I think I’m taking the day off today to try to let them heal up some…they burn like crazy so they do need a rest…and I only have two more awnings to do so they can wait til Monday…or tomorrow depending on how my feet feel….made my first batch of salsa yesterday and it came out great…don’t think I put a big enough jalapeno in it, though…it has a little bite but doesn’t make me sweat so the next batch will have more…had something knock a ripe tomato off the plant yesterday and eat half of it and I’m betting it was the damn squirrel I have been throwing rocks at…he attacked another one but only broke the skin so I kept that one and ate it…it is sure nice having tomatoes that taste like tomatoes…oh, got the news from my youngest son that I am going to be a grandpa next Tuesday…they are going to induce labor for his wife since she is past her normal due date…it still sucks that I can’t be there in the hospital with them…god I hate trump and his toadies…not much to do today….with being so sore, I need to take the day off and just do easy stuff today…my hands even hurt and my back and my legs…okay let’s just say everything hurts and leave it at that….more later…
Is everything the right does a scam?
Well…how the hell did it get to be 3 o’clock already? Man this day has flown by and it even has some good news in it. Just read that Steve Bannon was arrested yesterday for stealing money from the rubes that thought they were giving to have a private wall built but the cash went to houses, cars, boats, and to pay off hundreds of thousands of dollars of Steve Bannon’s debt. He’s just the latest in a long line of grifters starting with idiot boy who look at their followers as only a money stream and spend their days thinking of ways to separate them from their cash…how about the NRA? You remember suit was filed a couple of weeks ago to dissolve that scam organization when Wayne LaPierre and his cronies were found to be using donations as their own personal piggy bank to the tune of 60 million dollars? It seems that every damn thing that these people on the right is always just a scam…remember the trump foundation? Or trump university? Or any of the mega church pastors who just have to have that third private jet or god will be sad? I wonder if the rubes on the right will ever get their heads out of their asses and stop supporting these con men? Nah…they aren’t bright enough and fox news will keep them scared and looking at the shiny new object that will keep them opening their wallets…serves them right…
August 20th
Well…running late again today and it’s another morning I just can’t get started…slept okay but feel pretty crappy this morning and can’t wait for the coffee to start to work…I even just laid in bed for a half hour after I woke up and that is just not like me…I usually just pop up out of bed when I wake up and get started…but not today…hmmmm….I am getting pretty tied of adhering to a schedule every day even though I don’t need to…I have all the time in the world so I wonder why I can’t take it easy…oh, well….I do have enough tomatoes to make my first batch of salsa today and I am pretty geeked about that…I think that is one of the biggest reasons why I wanted to plant tomatoes…there is nothing like fresh salsa to snack on and put on some tacos….but I forgot to get tomato sauce at the grocery store yesterday so I’ll have to stop after I hit depot for another gallon of paint to finish the awnings this weekend…not sure if I’m going to paint one today but I probably will…and maybe do two tomorrow so all of them will be done before the weekend and then I can take the weekend off and just plan the next work…but going up and down the ladder yesterday has made me sore today so there will be some ibuprofen in my future….I can’t remember a summer with this little rain and I am struggling to keep the lawn from dying….I mean the last rain was two weeks ago and it is not supposed to rain for another 10 days…I wonder if there is an official drought going on? More later….
Gee, there was collusion…
Well…with the release of the senate intelligence committee’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, what a surprise, there was collusion and coordination between the idiot trump’s campaign and Russian intelligence to help get idiot boy elected. Just as Mueller said, just as everyone has said, trump and his cronies cheated to get him elected and were directly communicating with the people who hacked the DNC e-mails and Roger Stone was coordinating with wikileaks to use them for their advantage to damage Hillary…and the kicker is that the committee has even made criminal referrals of don jr., bannon, and others to the justice department but hey, guess who has ignored those referrals? Yep, Bill Barr has buried them as deep as he can but the dupe just doesn’t get that when trump loses, the information will still be available and the prosecutions will go forward…and Barr’s role in obstruction of justice will be revealed and I sure hope he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The problem we have here is that the scandal fatigue has infected our news media and there is no interest to re-report something that everyone already knows…so trump gets away with it…again…and the rule of law disappears…and that sucks…
August 19th
Well…damn, it’s 51 degrees outside and that is the bottom limit of riding in shorts…and in August? Slept okay last night but I think I’m done with the sleep aids…just feel so run down until noon or so and I can’t have that…have to do the first ride and then the grocery run before I get to another awning today..I should have enough paint since the next one is a small one but I will have to go out tomorrow and get another gallon but that should be enough for the last three…I was pretty sore all day after being on the ladder for too long yesterday but I don’t feel too bad right now…still hobbling around but that seems to be normal if I keep up abusing myself…I’m starting to get too much stuff from my gardens and I don’t have any way to give it away…need to look for recipes for cukes but I know what to do with extra tomatoes…going to make some homemade salsa but not yet…still haven’t gotten my fill of tomatoes with just salt and pepper and some tortilla chips…and have some fresh mozz that I am going to slice up for some today too, since that is just a great flavor…maybe some cuke slices too? Not much to do today…just riding and work…again…just like always….more later…
Watched part of the convention last night…
Well…I usually don’t watch much of political conventions since they are a little too rah, rah for me…but I was a little interested how a virtual convention was going to work so it sucked me in a little bit…and what struck me is how damn big the “big tent” that the dems speak about is…basically all the good about America was on display last night..all the people who are still trying hard to make this country a better place and who have been damaged by trump and his cronies…one of the most poignant was a woman from Arizona who lost her father to the virus and who described her father as “healthy, with only one pre-existing condition…he trusted trump when he said that the virus was under control”…after going out when Arizona reopened prematurely, he contracted the virus and died alone with a nurse holding his hand….I listened to a few of the speeches and Bernie did a good job of bringing his followers into the fold and cutting off the “Bernie or no one” crap and made sure everyone knew how important this election is. At the end, Michelle Obama did an 18 minute speech that just showed the contrast of us versus them…thoughtful and hopeful…but of course, then trump had to go off on a rage filled twitter rampage that didn’t make a bit of sense but really showed that she drew blood from the thin skinned moron..oh, then to close they had Stephen Stills and Billy Porter (still don’t know who that is but he can sing) do “For what it’s worth” and that made me smile…now, I think they could get Neil if they asked….that would be cool…
August 18th
Well…running a little late this morning and just can’t get started but I need to pretty quick since I have lots to do today…slept okay last night and I am happy that the nights have gotten a little more comfortable…and now we are into weeks of no smoke in my house from the idiot’s smoker and that is comfortable too…even with doing two rides yesterday, I’m not too sore today but will be tomorrow with painting another awning after the bike ride this morning…and I have to ride over to the post office on the way out to the trails to get my bills in the mail early since trump screwed up the post office so much it will take a week or better to get the bills where they have to go…I don’t think I’ll take a second ride today after working on the awning but I’m not sure of that yet….it is going to depend on how I feel after it and I need to prep the next awning for paint tomorrow too so I may be hurting too much…damn, this getting up late is screwing up my schedule…it’s already 7 and I’m not even started on my first cup of coffee…need to get moving…and I may be going out to meet up with G for a couple later so I do need to get everything done pretty early…I’m glad this awning is about half as wide as the big one out front so that will save some time but I still need to put two coats on and I need it to dry an hour between them…but the sun will be beating on this one so it should dry pretty fast…I will have to get another gallon of paint later in the week but that should be the last one I need…I hope…more later….
Another busy day…
Well…man, it has been another busy day and I can’t really figure out how it got away from me…it started with getting out on the bike for the first ride then coming back here to head out for a couple of errands…I just had to get out to Meijer’s since they have half pork loins on sale for 99 cents a pound and that is good, cheap protein that I haven’t had for a while so I got a 6 pounder for 6 bucks that I can cut up into chops and maybe even turn into some pulled pork…and I didn’t want to wait til wed when I knew they would be out of them and I didn’t have anything else thawed for meals…then back here to mow the lawn and back on the bike for the second ride…then lunch and back out to prep the next awning for painting tomorrow…while I was doing that, I noticed that there was loads of junk in the gutters on that side of the house so I cleaned them all out and then had to sweep the entire driveway since there were so many nails in the junk….and that meant up and down the ladder and moving it a bunch too and I am already pretty sore from it…then I had to take care of the gardens and patch and reseed the big bare spot in the front lawn..oh, and do laundry that should be done in a minute and I’ll have to put that stuff away…and do two of these…so, yeah…it has been a busy day but I am done right now….I think I’ve earned a little time off after 8 hours of work today….