Well…I did get out to the beach for the last time today and this time I mean it…I need to get going on this place again so I’ll have it finished before I die….the beach was nearly empty and the water was still warm enough to get a swim in but it was a short one since the wind was really making the water a mixmaster with a big rip running across the beach that almost knocked me down a few times and it has scoured out some foot deep holes that I kept stepping in which didn’t help…so I made it a short day since I had planned to take a nap this afternoon to make up for the lack of sleep over the past few days but that didn’t happen since I can’t even sleep when I’m exhausted…oh, well…so tomorrow the work starts on the bathroom door and frame and I need to put the hinges in the stripper for a couple of days so I can clean them up and paint them black like the ones I did for my bedroom…will get all my gear up here and into the second bedroom since that is going to be my work room for a while until I start in there….but not now…just going to veg it out and take it easy the rest of the night….
Going to the beach….
Well…I think I’m going to the beach here in a minute so I won’t have a political one until around 2:30…still not sure what it will be about since I have had a topic dry spell lately…maybe Ukraine? There have been some developments over the past two days that are just stunning and Russia is getting it’s butt kicked all over the country…so I better not talk any more about that right now or I’ll use up what I know…crap, might just as well do it now…over the past two days, Ukraine has been just running over the Russians there and have gained almost 2,000 square kilometers of it’s land back from the invaders and it appears that they are still going today….capturing loads of Russian equipment and soldiers and putting almost 50 villages back into Ukraine’s hands….and it appears that some Russians are making a run for it, abandoning it’s fortified positions…all this after the war has really been in a stalemate for months with very little happening…I wonder if this could be the beginning of the end for Russia there? I guess you’re not so scary of an army when you have to buy equipment from frickin North Korea? Yep, artillery shells and rockets from NK since Russia can’t make them anymore with the sanctions cutting them off from the technology they need….so, I have my fingers crossed that Ukraine can keep this up and decimate the war criminals…good job there Putin…geez…
September 9th
Well…crap, up at 5:07 this morning and that makes about 7 hours of sleep total for the past two days and I know that’s not enough…but I really don’t know what to do about it….part of it might be I had to make a noise call last night since the idiot with the gold truck was sitting two houses down thumping his bullshit music for two hours and I just wasn’t going to tolerate it anymore….but it was the first call I’ve had to make in the past month so it’s been better up here….and they finally showed up while he was doing it and I think he got the fine he deserved….about time….I did get the 10 pounds of pork broken down and into the freezer yesterday and that fills it for a month or so…and it was all meat and no rib bones so I think it was worth the buck ten a pound I paid for it…not sure if I’m going to marinate it or not but I probably should and then slather it with Bullseye after it’s cooked…and I can use it for a pork stir fry next week….it is a pain waking up before the coffee starts and then having to wait for it to brew….not much to do today…might go to the beach for the last time today but what I really want to do is take a nap….but that won’t happen….so I’m going to be pretty worn out all day….it does look like I’m going to have some time off Sunday with the rain that is coming in and I think I can use it….didn’t eat enough yesterday and that is going to make the bike ride a chore this morning….but I still feel like I’m gaining weight again so that has to happen….more later….
Weird how eating works…
Well…it’s been quite a busy day for me today and I feel pretty good…it’s weird how eating enough works for that…but, I’m going right back to just having one meal today…or a normal meal of a pork chop and some onion rings and one of just tomatoes and a few tortilla chips…the day started out with two good bike rides and then I just couldn’t resist running an errand to pick up a 10 pound box of Smithfield ribs for 12 bucks…or rib pieces that were just placed in a plastic bag and frozen into a block of pork that is going to take a couple of days to thaw just to break them down for the freezer…they do look like they are pretty lean so I can’t wait to give them a try over the weekend….after I did lunch, I did have to go out to the beach for an hour and a half and got some sun and a swim in…then back here to make another batch of pasta salad since I had celery that was going bad that had to be used and I like having a container to make my meals easier….so, it has been a bit of a busy day and now I am going to relax and watch a little of the Man U match in the Europa league….
Steve Bannon is going to jail…
Well….I sit here with a smile on my face since Steve Bannon just surrendered to the cops in NYC facing a slew of felony charges from stealing money from his fake build the wall pac…and this greasy little grifter faces 15 years in a NY state prison after he was pardoned for the same crimes by the mega grifter trump that were brought by the feds…but he is not going to get away with it this time…and this punk who is responsible for most of what trump has done to this country is now going to find himself in an orange jumpsuit for 15 years and I truly do hope he dies in prison so we don’t have to listen to his toxic bullshit anymore…now any DA out there, do his boss next…and the news just came out that they are investigating trump for exactly the same crimes from grifting a 100 million bucks from his stupid followers and lying about what the money was going to be used for and then just taking it…so maybe there will be some good news on that front in the next weeks…geez…
Queen Elizabeth has died…
Well…not sure if this has anything to do with anything but Queen Elizabeth died today at the age of 96…now you know I’m a huge anglophile and love the British people and culture and the queen was a huge part of that…and she has been the only sovereign that I have known since she was crowned the year I was born and has always been there…and her line went all the way back to William the Conqueror and 1066….so an era ends and a new one of King Charles begins….RIP…
September 8th
Well…darn, another 4:57 morning and I tried to get back to sleep for a bit but with no luck so I know I’m going to be worn out later…but I feel lot better than I did yesterday so I’ll take that…man, it’s staying dark longer so fast that it’s 7 and it’s barely light out there…so if I can get out by 8 I’ll be happy….but it got pretty cold last night so I may be out in a fleece today….need to decide if I’m going to hit save a lot this morning to get either chicken or ribs since I didn’t get much protein this week but I still don’t have a lot of room in the freezer for any of that….and I probably shouldn’t be eating that much meat….my allergies have been really terrible over the past week or so and that is just so damn exhausting…and it feels like none of the meds are working anymore….and I’m almost out of the generic flonase so I probably should order some more…didn’t get a lot done yesterday as I was feeling pretty crappy all day so I’ll need to do better today…it’s been pretty hard to get back into working on the house but I did start getting the tools ready and will probably start on the trim today….once I get started, it will be easier….not much to do today…just going to ease into it and do the first ride and then figure out if I want to run an errand or not….they are building a city down at the landing for the Irish music festival that is going on this weekend and almost the whole lawn is covered with huge tents but I won’t be going since it costs close to a hundred bucks for the weekend and I really don’t know any of the bands/people who are going to be there….it will be busy down there and will probably get pretty loud…oh, well…more later…
Almost went to the beach…
Well…after the second ride this morning, I was sorely tempted to go out to the beach today but I have other things to do so I didn’t and I didn’t have any beer cold anyway…finally starting to feel better than I did this morning but I am still pretty damn worn out and that had something to do with me not going to the beach…just didn’t want to make the effort so I probably won’t get much done, either, but that’s okay….don’t think I ate enough yesterday with just a small bean burrito and three tacos but I will try to do better today…have already had 6 onion rings and a small pork chop and will have a couple of tomatoes in a bit and then three tacos again…and that should be enough….more later…
It was for blackmail…
Well…damn, why the hell isn’t the idiot trump in jail? With the revelations yesterday that he stole detailed nuclear capabilities of foreign powers as part of his crime spree, he should be arrested today an held without bail…these are secrets that are so closely held that maybe 5 people in the whole country has seen them and yet DOJ allows him to walk around freely with how many damn copies is anyone’s guess…but we don’t have to guess what he took them for…it was to blackmail foreign powers to monetize his thievery…how much would a foreign power pay to keep this stuff secret? Billions? We can see how much this info is worth by the 2 billion dollars that was given to Jared Kushner as an “investment” after trump lost the election and they were looting everything they could get their hands on. If they don’t move against idiot boy soon, you can say goodbye to the rule of law in this country…as evidenced by the idiot judge that gave him a get out of jail free card the other day…this crap has to stop….geez…
September 7th
Well…the change of seasons is getting pretty real since it’s almost 7 and it’s still too dark to get on the bike…I am looking forward to the fall…it used to be my favorite season with the cooler temps and the trees changing color and I wonder how that changed? It could be that I got older and started to run out of years so each passing one reminds me of my mortality…but I am going to enjoy this one and take some color tours with the top down on the car…I remember doing one in my Fiat when there were Northern lights happening and it was so cool to just look up and see it with the cool, crisp air in the car…..going to try to not hurry today since I don’t have to and I need to decide if I want to hit save a lot and buy 10 pounds of ribs for 11 bucks….or 10 pounds of leg quarters for 7.90…..leaning toward the ribs but they are bad for me and shouldn’t eat them….hmmmm…I did give away some of the tomatoes yesterday when my neighbor yelled to me “you have any of those tomatoes left?” and I filled a bag to give to him and stood around listening to his stories for a hour or so…glad I could do that since it’s why I grow them….not much to do today…it’s 7:06 and I need to get out on the bike by 7:30 to get the day started….but I don’t really have anything else to do other than the grocery run….still haven’t started on the dining room and should get on that but still have no motivation so I probably won’t…who knows? More later….