Well…darn, this book reading is taking up all my time and I’m not sure if it’s a good use of it…just finished up the latest 500 pager that I started yesterday afternoon and I think I may have to take a break from it to let my eyes have a rest…I did get the snow shoveled and the walks salted today but that only took about 20 minutes…and I filled the bird feeder and have had the most different birds I can remember…but still no sparrows…had chickadees, bluejays, cardinals, juncos, nuthatches, and a titmouse…so I’ll have to remember to keep it filled….and I have about a half dozen on the sill and feeder right now…it’s pretty cool that the bird tv is working so well…
This will be fun to read…
Well…have been having a hell of a time coming up with a topic today but one just popped up over on Kos that I think I’ll talk a little about….a group of former prosecutors including Andrew Weissman, Joyce Vance, and Norm Eisen, among others is putting together a model prosecution memorandum dealing with the crimes the idiot trump committed when he stole the thousands of government documents that were found at his tacky golf course in Florida…and it will state the case for indicting trump for 6 felonies and that is based only on public information and these lawyers think they have a case even without the grand jury information that is being kept secret by the DOJ…l really do hope they get this done pretty soon since it is going to be fun to read and I’ll bet it drives idiot boy crazy…it will also put pressure Merrick Garland to bring charges against the idiot since he knows all of the evidence and it has to be much, much more incriminating that what is in public….so, get at it guys, I can’t wait….geez…
November 18th
Well…damn, up at 4:07 this morning and then out of bed a little after 6 and I feel pretty worn out…had to stop the allergy spray yesterday since it suppresses my immune system and that may be a reason why the infection in my teeth is not healing…and I am miserable from my allergies but that’s something I guess I’ll just have to live with…I may have to go out and clear my sidewalks today but the snow is stopping soon and the temps are going to be above freezing for the next week so maybe it will just melt…I did talk to my daughter for over an hour yesterday since she texted me but didn’t get the text I sent back and she joked that I may not be alive…that made me laugh…I was successful in keeping the calories down yesterday and I need to keep that up today or suffer the pangs of guilt that have been plaguing me lately….I finally got notice that my heating pad is going to be delivered tomorrow and I hope it will help with my back pain but it has been getting a little better without it.;..I may be able to get on the outdoor bike next week with highs forecast to be in the 40’s all week and that will get me close to my 6K goal…won’t get there but it will be close and I guess that’s all I can hope for…not much to do today….and that’s true for the first time in a while…the only thing I really need to do is ride the indoor bike a little later and maybe clean a bit but I’ll probably waste the day reading again…but is it a waste? Not sure but I like it and am going to finish the 9th book today….more later…
I got my turkey…
Well…as the snow stopped for a couple of hours, I decided to go out and get the second turkey that I’m going to cook next week and get it thawing in the fridge before the snow starts up again…we’re supposed to get 4-5 inches over the next couple of days and I really didn’t want to have to go out in it….this time the turkey cost 8 bucks and it’s 14.5 pounds….and that was the smallest one I could find…just read an article of dire warning for upstate NY near Buffalo where they are expecting the most snow ever over a two day period once the lake effect starts rolling in off Lake Erie…that will be something to watch along with the far southwest corner of Michigan where they are forecasting over a foot of snow through Saturday….yow!
Changing of the guard…
Well…the news was just announced that both Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, the speaker and majority leader of the house dems are not going to run for leadership positions in the new repub majority house….so we will see a complete changing of the guard for the first time in over 20 years and I am curious about who will be stepping up to lead the dems…I think it’s about time for the younger generation of more progressive dems to take over but I still think Nancy especially was just what the dems needed and was responsible for lots of good bills being passed including the ACA…and she has another month to go and it will be interesting to see if she can get one last thing done like abortion rights…she has already gotten protection of same sex marriages through and Biden will sign that in the next week or so, and I think she should try to go out with a bang…but, for now, all I have to say is thank you, Nancy…one of the best speakers in history….
Not ready for winter…
Well…as I sit here watching the lake effect snow fall, sometimes really hard, I realize that I am not ready for winter yet…I know I’ve lived in Michigan my entire life and I should be used to it by now…but I still get this feeling of dread every year during the first snow…and I haven’t even thought about getting my wool winter coat out and I probably should do that today….but it’s going to get warmer Sunday and stay in the 40’s all next week so that it’s warm enough for a fleece or a light jacket so maybe I’ll wait til the week after to get the heavy stuff out…I really should order a pair of light leather gloves since I wore out my only nice pair….haven’t heard from T yet so it looks like they picked her for a jury so lunch is out and I need to figure something out…probably just have a ham sandwich to settle my stomach….okay, going to read a bit before I figure out lunch…more later…
November 17th
Well…another wasted day yesterday and I’m not sure how I feel about that….I should be working around here but all of my motivation has disappeared…feel like crap this morning and I did that to myself and will probably do that again tonight…have been saving up some shows to watch so I won’t be bored…I hope…I did get my back to crack last night and this morning so maybe I’ll get some relief from the back pain I’ve had for weeks…used to be able to crack it any time I needed it but that went away at some point….I did get a ride in on the indoor bike yesterday and will do that again today with the snow overnight….I do need to get out to get a turkey today so I can thaw it over the next few days and then brine it Wed of next week…I am going to use some cranberry/raspberry juice to brine it and I am looking forward to seeing how it comes out…I may be meeting up with T for lunch in GH if she gets out of jury duty and that would be fun….not much to do today….going to get on the bike soon and abuse my body but I am almost to 900 miles downstairs…going to get close to 6,000 miles this year but won’t break the record of 6,043…..I did notice that I have over 70 hours on the indoor bike and that is a long time to be just sitting still and pedaling….man, I’m tired….and I feel old…oh, well….more later…
Can’t we get rid of the idiot?
Well..when the idiot trump announced he’s running for president again, the immediate thought came to me “can’t we get rid of the idiot?” I had enough of him the first time I heard him talk…and all he did in his speech was re-hash all of the bullshit he has been spewing for years…and a funny little fact was that as people tried to leave in the middle of that boring piece of bullshit, idiot boy’s staff wouldn’t let them…they barricaded the doors to make sure the idiot’s fee fees wouldn’t be hurt by people who had enough of his bloviating….the one thing we all have to remember is that this is still all a grift…he got a billion dollars from the rubes for his last campaign that he just kept…no helping other candidates like he lied he would and the flood of fundraising e-mails started up again and the rubes are still giving him money…what the hell is wrong with those people? They must really like being lied to and taken advantage of…after all, he didn’t keep one promise that he made to them and just stole all their money…or are they all just plain stupid? I vote for the last one after hearing these morons speak on tv…don’t have 2 brain cells to rub together between them….geez…
November 16th
Well…hmmm…it looks like I need to do a complete re-think of my daily routine with the weather change and snow….not doing enough work to burn the calories I’ve been taking in so how do I do it? Cut the calories down to under 1K a day or get on the inside bike twice a day? Or both? I do know I sure as hell don’t feel like doing either but I do need to do something with my weight loss stalling and feeling like I’m getting fat again…but that means I need to get on the bike in 6 minutes and that is not an appealing thought….oh, well….my back pain is not as bad as it was but I’m not going to declare success yet…and I am a little irritated that I haven’t gotten notice from amazon that my heating pad has been shipped….it was supposed to be here by the end of the week but that won’t happen now….at least it didn’t snow as much as they were forecasting and I can take the car out today to do the grocery run….for the first time in a long time I don’t need to hit aldis today…still have what I bought last week in the cupboard so there is nothing I need from there….not sure what I’m going to do today but I don’t want to do anything right now…not going to buy another turkey today since it would thaw too soon so I’ll wait til Friday to pick one up….going to try a new brine with cranberry juice for the next one and I am looking forward to something new…have tried apple and orange juice along with veggie broth and they all came out good…I think I may have enough room in the freezer for another carcass but they will need to be made into soup soon….not much to do today….can I take a day off? Yeah, that’s not going to happen but I’m not going to get on the bike before the grocery run….the conundrum is that cutting calories takes all the energy out of me but I need to burn more of them by doing two rides a day….damn, I feel worn out…more later…
Reading…
Well…I don’t know what happened….after the trip the library out here and purchasing 25 used books, I have been on a reading binge over the past week with reading almost a book a day over the past 7 days….and I just finished up number 8 and I’m looking to start number 9….I used to be such a reader with always having a book going for almost my entire life but got out of that habit with all of the work I’ve done over the past few years on my house and the house on Valley…I think it may be driven by my lack of motivation I’ve been having about working on this place and helps me justify not doing anything…or maybe it’s just a new phase and something different to do…who knows? After I get through all of my books, I going to use my shiny new library card and check out some new ones…will probably have to do that next week….darn…