Well…yeah, I’m here for a political one pretty early as I wait for the kitchen floor to dry so I can continue cleaning in there…so, here goes…with the release of an internal memo from the idiot trump’s campaign as part of the defamation suit the dominion voting systems company filed against almost all of the deplorables in and out of the idiot’s administration, we finally know with evidence that they knew that the whole “voter fraud” lies were really that, lies that were all a part of the repubs trying to overthrow the certified result of the 2020 election. The really sick part is that all of the “leaders” of the repub party knew of and discussed the memo but then, to a one, all of them trotted out and keep bleating the lie and still are to this day…and they are conveniently using this lie as the primary reason to pass new voting restrictions that will prevent may dems from voting…another attack on our democracy that is all part of the plan they have been working that includes the Jan 6 attacks and that we are now starting to see that these assholes don’t care about democracy since if we have fair elections, they will lose. This rot goes all the way to the top of the repub party and now we know why they have fought so hard to keep the truth from coming out…they were all involved in the plot. There needs to be consequences for this treason…Garland needs to bring charges against all of them once the House committee gets the evidence compiled…that will keep these assholes from trying it again…as they are still doing right now….geez…
Monthly Archives: September 2021
September 23rd
Well….running late this morning with not getting out of bed til 7 or so but I still feel pretty tired and sore from something…damn, I wonder if it’s from just digging out the dirt for the landing pad yesterday? If I get sore from that little bit of work I wonder what it will be like when I actually do some heavy work? Cripes, it sucks getting old…it looks like the forecasters got it right for once and it is raining and looks like for most of the day…hey, my heat just came on for the first time since April…I did check the filter and hit the combustion blower with wd yesterday just in case and it seems pretty quiet…but I am going to get a new filter this week since this place is so dusty….it is a little bit of a relief that the furnace started…the first time of the year always has me a little concerned that it is not going to start but, with having enough money in the bank to cover any emergency, there is a lot less stress….it looks like it may be a day off the bike and I think I could use it with how much my thighs hurt riding yesterday in the high wind….and with the rain it means I can just ease into the day and have more coffee and read the news before I get after cleaning the kitchen….may even do the windows, too, to get them ready for winter….I want to do that for all the windows before it gets cold but I think I have at least a couple of weeks to get that done….not much to do today….just going to sit here for a while and sip on some coffee and probably look for a topic for later….I had to cut out one meal yesterday with only getting on the bike once and will have to do the same today so I won’t have to cook with having leftover lasagna that will last the next three days…not eating enough may be a reason why I feel worn out this morning but I won’t be able to tell that til later….I should clean the fridge today, too, but I’m not too motivated right now…and may not be all day….more later….
A brutal ride…
Well….with how hard the wind is blowing out here, I almost skipped riding this morning after getting out only a couple of hundred yards…but, I pushed on and got one ride in but it was brutal with a steady wind of over 15 out of the NE and gusting to 25 or so…I never go out when it’s like that so I wonder why I did it today? All I know is that my thighs were burning the entire way and there were times that I was all the way down to low gear on the big front sprocket just to keep moving forward and I was down to around 4 mph at times in places where I’m normally going 16…so it was a lot of work and I skipped the second ride….but, I did get the landing pad for the garbage bin cut into the yard and the blocks installed…looks pretty cool and the 3 x3 pad is just the right size for the bin…and the pattern looks cool, too…with red and grey blocks..and the dirt I took out filled the depression in the yard that has been bugging me for a while now so that worked out pretty cool…and all for about 13 bucks…but I am really sore right now and need to take a break…so the kitchen will get done tomorrow…and the painting will get done Friday….need to do the weed walk tomorrow, too, but I can hold off mowing until Sat….going to load the lawn up with the rest of the feed I have in the garage and then I’ll be done with the lawn for the year until the leaves start to fall….yeah, I could have said another busy day but I guess those are normal for me now…
Call Mitch what he is…
Well…with the asshole Mitch McConnell threatening to crash the whole world’s economy by making the US default on it’s debt, we need to start calling ole Mitch what he is…an economic terrorist. Just yesterday, the stock market tanked almost 800 points costing investors over a trillion dollars and the consensus is that it was Mitch’s posturing on letting the default happen that was the trigger…and the sick thing is that he doesn’t care at all…during idiot boy’s administration, Mitch voted to raise the debt ceiling 3 times…adding over 8 trillion to the national debt but as always when there is a dem president, Mitch takes the world hostage just because he can…now, if this same thing was done by some hacker somewhere or some private citizen, the FBI would be all over the case and they would spend many years in jail for economic terrorism…but Mitch gets away with all of the criminality because he’s a senator…and I’m tired of it…he has ruined the supreme court by stealing three seats and filling them with right wing ideologues and now he is ruined the full faith and credit of the US just to score political points and extend his power…and it is sick that one man is allowed to do it…geez…
September 22nd
Well…just spent the last 20 minutes getting the laptop re-configured after it updated last night…what a pain….didn’t get up until almost 7 this morning but I don’t feel like I slept much…and my right forearm still hurts like crazy and I would really like to know how I hurt it so I don’t do it again…it finally did rain yesterday and it looks like it’s going to off and on for the next day or so and that will be good for the lawn but not good for getting things done…but, I’ve bitched so much about how it doesn’t rain out here that I should just stop about it raining…shouldn’t have to mow the lawn until after the rain stops and the only other thing I have to do is put in the blocks for the trash bin landing pad that I am going to pick up this morning but I need to decide exactly where I want to put it and then set them into the dirt so I can run the mower over them….I do know I’m getting two colors so I can make a design that will look like an X….and that will basically finish the yard for the year although I’m thinking of planting a hedge along the back fence but I think that will wait til spring…I do need to get a window bird feeder so I can watch the birds this winter but I haven’t picked one out yet…still have time for that…not much to do today…have the grocery run to do and then I need to clean the kitchen and scrub the floor…. and get at least one ride in but I’m going to try for two…I think Man U plays this aft so I need to get moving this morning….more later….
Why am I so busy?
Well…when I got up this morning, the plan was to take the day off the bike with the rain and just putter around here and take it easy but, as always, that never works out….once I had some coffee in me, I got at putting some area rugs in the washing machine since they were looking pretty ratty…and then got to cleaning up my bike room downstairs and putting my tools away…finally…then, the rain ended so I decided to get at least one ride in and got absolutely muddy on the ride so then I had to clean the bike to get all of the grit off it…then I had to let it dry so I could re-lube it and put it away…I had run out of clean clothes so I had to do a load of laundry and while that was running, I decided to mop the floor of the bike room to get the dirt and grease off it from working on the bikes but I had to get the shop vac out first to get the dirt and other crud off it..so then I mopped it with dish soap that works well on grease and let it dry for an hour or so and then put all of the bike stuff back along with getting rid of all of the punctured tubes and boxes from moving in…and I just finished getting the clothes out of the dryer and putting them away and it is after 3:30…so, another 7 and 1/2 hours of working around here…I’m supposed to be retired…I need a day off…maybe in the winter?
Ignoring the virus isn’t working for the repubs…
Well…gee, who would think that ignoring the virus and doing nothing to fight it wouldn’t work for the repubs? In Florida, Ron DeSantis’ approval rating has plunged to the lower 40′s from the high 50′s in just a couple of months once the milestone of him killing more people than his margin of victory was passed…and, with 99% of those dying being unvaccinated and 99% of those being repubs, the damage is going to get worse….how the hell do you run on killing 50K people and doing nothing for anyone but your rich buddies? The ads write themselves for the 22 election and if Charlie Crist can’t win in this environment, he just needs to go away. Oh, and here’s a funny bit…with the trampling of women’s rights and voting rights in Texas, a new poll shows that Abbott would lose to…wait for it…Matthew McConaughey by almost 10 points if the election was held today…and Abbott’s approval ratings are flirting with the 30′s as many, many tech companies are re-evaluating their moves to Texas as women are turned into second class citizens with less rights than men….I really hope these morons lose and lose big next year…how can you live in Texas or Florida with these assholes in charge? Geez…
September 21st
Well…”6:05, outside the stadium” anyone who is a dan fan recognizes that line from “Glamour Profession”….sounds like we got a little rain out here around 5:30 or so when I could hear it hitting my siding even through I was wearing earplugs…and it may rain again but the forecast has been scaled back to where I will be able to get on the bike a little after noon…and the gale warning is still in effect but I sure don’t see any wind…..it was so cool last night when I went out to just sit on my front steps for a while and listen to the wind in the trees…it was so nice and quiet…no thumping music and it was neat that you could hear gusts of wind coming from the noise the leaves on the trees made….and the big dipper was in the sky right in front of me…I think I sat out there for an hour and I can say I have almost fixed this neighborhood…something that I didn’t think I could for a long time….not sure what I did but my right forearm is howling in pain this morning…it can’t be from just scrubbing my bathroom yesterday? All I have to do is rotate it to trigger the pain and stiffness….going to hurt on the bike today….but, I do like how the shower and the rest of the bathroom looks so it’s worth the pain….not much to do today…I was really ready to have a day off the bike and just clean around here but the rain won’t last all day…it is going to be pretty cool today and from now on with the temp struggling to get to 70 for highs….and the next few days in the low 60′s…but that is okay…I love the fall except for cleaning up the leaves…I wonder what the color is going to look like out here? Should be pretty cool…I do get to take it easy this morning with the last rain getting here in the next half hour or so…and it looks like I’ll be on the bike by 10 or so….so maybe two rides again today…and cleaning…have to clean up the bike room and put my tools away, then mop the floor since it is greasy from the bikes….and I do want to clean the kitchen since it really needs it…more later…
I raced a freighter today…
Well….after the big rain clouds fell apart before they got here, I thought I’d get a second ride in just in case it does rain tomorrow…so I jumped back on the bike and, when I got to the bottom of the hill, I noticed a huge gravel freighter just off Heritage landing heading out to Lake Michigan…so I thought “what the hell” and decided to race it out to the lake….went harder than I ever do on the second ride and beat it by a mile…I was averaging over 17 on the way out and got to my bench on the boardwalk and sat there to wait for it to come out of the channel…and waited, and waited…after my 5 minute water stop was over, it still hadn’t appeared so I got back on the bike and headed home…and I beat the small rain shower that happened by about 5 minutes…it only lasted a few minutes and that was disappointing since it was supposed to rain most of the day and into tomorrow but the big storms are to the east and noting is going on here anymore…darn…I did get the bathroom cleaned and the lasagna made since I thought it was going to rain and I was going to have the afternoon off…no such luck but I’m still hoping for a day off tomorrow….and might get it with the gale warning that is in effect for tonight and tomorrow morning…we’ll see…
Career rehab continues…
Well…I guess with Woodward’s new book “Peril” coming out, it’s time for the repub career rehab to continue starting with Lindsey Graham where it states that he vehemently disagreed with the trump voter fraud bleating and found that the evidence was suitable for “third grade”…if that’s the case then why didn’t ole Lindsey say anything to the public and continued to play along with the lies to the point of calling the Georgia Secretary of State and ask him to throw out mail in votes that had “irregularities” with the signatures? And why to this day does ole Lindsey continue to support trump if he does nothing but lie? Look, this is just like ole GW giving a speech last week comparing the capital attackers to the Taliban…where the hell has he been for the past 4 years? Does he think this one speech wilI erase the memory of his failures? I know he loves sitting in his tub and painting but damn, couldn’t he muster just a little concern for the country? After all, he and his administration started the whole lying about everything that the idiot trump grabbed and ran with…so no amount of rehab is ever going to get rid of the stench of failure these traitors will carry the rest of their lives…geez…