Well…went into verizon this morning fully expecting to leave them and move to a new carrier but I was surprised when the tech I worked with was able to get me a new phone and unlimited data for only 7 bucks more than the phone and 8gigs of data at consumer…and he is setting me up to be able to get a flagship phone down the road if I want one since the free phone is worth 500 bucks against any new phone….and it was covered by the insurance I didn’t even remember I had…the new phone should be here tomorrow and the tech told me to come in when I get it and he will take care of me…I am a little surprised at the service but I can live with 20 bucks less than I was paying and getting unlimited data…so very cool…and now only the doctor appointment Thurs morning is left to accomplish this week…lots of progress….
Update: damn, things are happening very fast…just got a call from my dentist and they have an opening to finish my teeth scaling tomorrow morning and that will lead to them being able to start the repairs sooner…so, even more progress and I may be able to take the week off and go to the beach next week…wow…and take pictures with my phone again…and the older re-conditioned phone I’m getting is the top of the line samsung from 2020…and I can live with that…just saw a review of it on youtube and the guy doing it said he bought his in 2020 and will keep it for a few more years it was so good…so, going from depressed to progress in two days….I guess I just need to get off my butt at times, huh? Oh, and I get to keep my old phone that will still work on wifi here…not sure what I’ll use it for but I’ll still have my photos…and that is cool…
Well…that was okay…it took me forever to get to sleep but then only up once at 3:24 and then out of bed a little before 6 so I’ll call that about 5 hours or so and for me, that is about normal…and I feel okay this morning so I’ll take that, too….I did make some progress on getting my life back in order after finding a dentist a month ago and then a doctor yesterday, and I’m going out to see what verizon can do to give me a better plan or I’ll be changing carriers by the end of the week to get my bill down to about 50 bucks a month and that includes paying for a new phone…they don’t give those away anymore and that sucks….I could get a much cheaper phone but I can afford a better one and I am going to splurge on a mid range android…unless verizon will give me a new Iphone for free…we’ll see that this morning…had tons of damn flies in my back windows yesterday and I spent the day killing them and need to clean them up today and clean the poison off the windows…not sure how the hell they are getting in but it is annoying….had the same problem downstairs last year but fixed that so I’ll need to work on that today….it’s still pretty cold out there at 51 degrees right now so I am going to wait a bit to get on the bike today…will only get one ride in before I head over to verizon and I’ll try to get back on the bike this afternoon but the wind is supposed to be blowing up to 20 and that is getting up to being too much….after a year, my right thumbnail is almost healed from the damage I did catching it on the top of my chain link fence while working out front…only have about 3/8ths of an inch of split left and it will probably grow out in a month or so…I’m pretty happy the split isn’t permanent and I can stop gluing it together with superglue…not much to do today…just the normal stuff other than the run out to verizon…can’t wait to do the grocery run tomorrow so I can make my first batch of potato salad for the summer….I’m not sure why I don’t make that more often since I like it a lot and it’s not expensive to make…hmmmm….more later…
Well…I can’t believe that this hair on fire moment in the US where the out of control supreme court is destroying our country in front of our eyes is being met with a shoulder shrug and just frickin words by the do nothing dem leadership. Where is the fighting back against the repeal of Roe? Where is the fighting back against the destruction of the separation between church and state that just happened today? Let’s send the whole house dem delegation over to manchin and sinema’s office and ask them to explain why they are blocking saving women’s rights, voting rights and the wall between church and state. And why they are blocking SC reform that would add 4 justices to blunt the far right capture of the court….and where the hell is Biden in all this? Just sitting on his hands and expressing “regret” that Roe is gone and the court is out of control…do something already…just frickin do something…do you want to lose the mid terms? Keep this inaction up and the youngsters are going to stay home since you talk and talk and do nothing….damn, I may have to move to Canada if they’ll have me…DO SOMETHING!
Well…one task for the week is done…I found a doctor and have scheduled my yearly checkup for Thursday morning…and they are even closer to me than the dentist…right over near depot and that is only about a mile and a half from me…and this guy specializes in old folks medicine and I guess I’m old so that’s cool….and he’s gotten nothing but great reviews so I’ll give him a try….now I just need to talk to Verizon tomorrow and get them to change my plan or sign up with consumer by Friday….making some progress…
Well…darn, it is such a pain in the butt to go to bed feeling okay and wake up depressed as hell…that might have had something to do with how worn out I felt yesterday….and it’s only 52 degrees out there so there won’t be any beach trip today with the high only around 70….and it still hasn’t rained out here in almost a month and I think I’m losing the battle to save the lawn….and after all of the work I did to make a lawn, that really sucks….at least I’m keeping my garden alive and the first flowers have started to bloom at the back of the house…but my tomatoes are showing the stress and look pretty odd with the leaves kind of shriveled looking…you know, I’m at the point where I just don’t care about much anymore and if they die it will be met with a shrug….I think I slept okay last night but don’t feel like it and I wonder if I can just take the day off sometime soon? Haven’t done one of those in a long time but I know it will depress me even more if I do….and that’s the problem…it’s a catch 22 that I have to gut my way through and I’m tired of it….oh, well….not much to do today…did laundry yesterday so I don’t have that to do today so I guess I’ll just try to find a doctor this afternoon and then over to verizon tomorrow….but I don’t want to do either of those….don’t want to do anything….more later….
Well…not sure what the heck is going on but I have been worn out all day today….so, I’m lying here on the couch typing this one since it was just too much work to get up and sit up…I did get two bike rides in today and went pretty hard on them so that may be part of it…but, I have been almost dizzy at times, too, so that is weird or it may not be…I’ll have to check on how much I ate yesterday…. a ham sandwich and a handful of chips for one meal, and two sloppy joes and a handful of chips for the other…so that’s about 520 for lunch and around the same for dinner….under 1200 for the day isn’t enough with burning 1200 on the bike every day….and I went out to the beach and got a good swim in playing in the waves and took a long walk over the new beach and couldn’t believe how may zebra mussel shells there were in the new sand….I think they still need to level it since there are holes in it you could fall into….it was a little strange how solid the new beach was with being more than 50% water yesterday….I was the only one on the beach when I got out there and there were only a couple of other people when I left around 11:30….but it was windy and a little cold so I didn’t stay long…it was warmer in the water than out so I didn’t get any color today and that was probably a good thing…..my skin can use the rest…okay, that’s enough….getting tired of doing this and just want to veg….
Well…I am tiring of the “institutionalists” in the dem party who will let the repubs walk all over them and allow them to ruin this country just because they don’t want to nuke the filibuster to get something done…so, let me ask these questions: Is the filibuster worth more than voting rights? Is it worth more than women’s rights? Is it worth more than LGBTQ rights? Because if Biden doesn’t change his mind and get off his ass and get the senate dems to kill the filibuster, all of these rights are gone…and no amount of collegiality is going to get this done without killing the racist filibuster and playing hardball like the repubs do….and we can’t wait til the election and hope that we gain in the senate and keep the house…I’m tired of waiting…times have changed and we no longer have a repub party to negotiate with…it is just a cult who has stolen the SC and is taking us back to the 1600’s…the court needs to be expanded and that will take nuking the filibuster, too…so get off your asses and get moving right frickin now….tick tock…
Well…running about on time for a Sunday and had a nice surprise when the store I get my paper from that is close to me is back open again….and that makes it only a mile or so I have to travel…and the steering in my car is getting better every time I drive it so that is a load off…must be getting the air out of it and that is cool….slept okay last night and didn’t wake up til around 5 but just rolled over and slept until 6 or so when I got up…so, I feel okay this morning and will be getting on the bike by 7:15 or so so I can get two rides in by around 10…..not sure if I’m going to go out for a swim today…just don’t feel like it so I probably won’t….still didn’t rain at all yesterday and it looks like the rain has set up south of the Michigan border so we won’t be getting any today and that kinda sucks….need to water the lawn today and that may just be all the work I do….but I do need to get back to work on the house soon and that will probably start this week…so much for taking the summer off….not much to do today…need to read some news and have another cup of coffee before I get on the bike and I still can’t understand why I feel the need to get out so early…don’t have anything to do really but I guess that’s just me….one day, I am going to just take a day off and veg out…yeah, right…that’s not going to happen….more later….
Well…darn, another day with getting nothing done and I am depressed about that…oh, I took care of the normal stuff like riding the bike and taking care of the garden but nothing else….so, tomorrow has to be different…I have a bag of topsoil so I can do some more patching of the yard and I really should get on that even as I lose more lawn every day since it never rains out here and I can’t afford to keep it alive…okay, that’s not true, I can afford it but damn, a hundred bucks a month just to keep the lawn alive? Oh, well…I did get out to the beach for a short swim this morning after doing the bike rides but even that was a bit of a pain with the running event they had going on that used my trails for it…on the way out, I had to ride the roads the whole way with the trail clogged with runners but that worked out okay with the roads that were closed for the run…and it seems that the steering on the car is getting better and it may be that it had some air in it after I forgot to check the power steering for a year and it was really low…and it looks like I don’t have a coolant leak…checked it a few minutes ago and it is still full so that’s good….I think I need to start up on the house again and that will probably happen this week….need to start on the trim in the dining room and do the bathroom door and frame so maybe I’ll get that done this week….once that is done, the painting will go pretty fast….I did pick my first 5 beans from my plants today and I hope I’ll have enough for a meal by the end of the week…probably should have planted a bunch more of them but 16 should be enough….and I think my first flowers at the back of the house are going to bloom soon since they have lots of buds on them and I can’t wait….still hasn’t rained out here in almost a month and the stuff that was supposed to come today is falling apart over the lake…again…crap…oh, well…time for some tv…
Well…with the obscene ruling from the SC yesterday overturning Roe, all of us who think that taking control of women’s bodies away from them is repugnant need to get out there and make the dems and repubs know that this will not stand…and to do that, we need a general strike of everyone…every woman, every man, every child need to just stop supporting the economy and stop doing anything period…no more work, no more shopping, no more anything to just crush the economy and make Manchin and Sinema know that if they won’t remove the filibuster to codify roe into law, they are toast in the next election…and we need to pressure the dems into investigating the lies that the trump judges told at their hearings…there is a law against lying to congress and they need to pay for lying they would leave Row alone as “settled law”….and never, ever vote for a repub again….never, ever…..geez…