Well…had a nice lunch with T today and am still full so no more food for today….but, that’s not what this is about…..when I had the freakout about the rental houses going up across the street and talked to my brother about the effect they would have on the worth of my house…he estimated that if we put it on the market today, I could get 140K for it all day long….if that’s true, that makes 90K that I have in equity and I have gotten to my goal of having six figures in assets if you include the cash I have in the bank…in fact, it is well over six figures and that is amazing to me with where I was 4 years ago…broke and borrowing money to live….and the idea that I have enough assets to deal with anything that might happen does take a lot of stress off me…but, I still need to have more in the bank…could I get to 200K? Not sure if I need to really….the kids don’t need an inheritance but it would be nice to be able to spend 10 grand on the next Miata and not blink….so, I think I’ll just take the night off after taking the day off…and get back at it tomorrow…
Rand Paul is a Russian stooge…
Well…just a short one on how stupid and how bad of a Russian Stooge he is…in a hearing in the senate today, Paul tried to justify Russia’s invasion of Georgia and the Ukraine by saying that they once were part of the soviet union so Russia has every right to invade and try to take them over…word by word talking points that Putin and his cronies have used to justify the invasion…so, under that logic, Russia has every right to attack and try to take back Alaska since it was once part of Russia…and England has every right to attack and try to take over the US or any one of their previous colonies like India or even China…or any country that once ruled another has the right to attack that country again…how about Germany and France? Or Italy and southern France? You see how ridiculous this moron is….and the big question is why the hell would a sitting senator try to justify the attack and genocide that Russia is doing in Ukraine? Rand Paul needs to go…he doesn’t have the brains or honor to be a senator…and he needs to go…geez…
The financials don’t work…
Well…I promise you this will be the last one about twitter and ole Elon today but it deals with just another one of the confusing details about why he is buying twitter in the first place….and this one will be short so no TLDR….when you look at the details of the deal, it looks like Elon will be borrowing around 25 billion dollars to make the deal and at 4-5% interest on the loan, that is about 1.5 billion dollars in interest alone…and the funny thing is that even in it’s best year, twitter has never made that much money…maybe a billion dollars or so and that means that Elon is going to have to squeeze a half a billion dollars of cost out of the organization to make it work…and isn’t that always the way? Venture capital or billionaires swoop in and the first thing they do is fire everyone who is making any money so they can pump the stock and then dump it…with twitter going private, that won’t be the case here with the stock but there still needs to be a half billion dollars in costs taken out since analysts agree that there is not enough potential revenue growth to support the half billion in extra profit. So why? Could it be as simple as a thin skinned billionaire getting pissed that people on twitter don’t kiss his ass as much as he thinks they should? That would be a laugh and right now it is as good an explanation as any other…geez…
Let’s remember this about Elon….
Well…before anyone else feeds the world the bullshit that Elon Musk is a “self made” man, let’s remember this about him…he was born rich in South Africa where his father owned an emerald mine and made his money on the backs of black laborers in the apartheid era when they were treated as little better than slaves and who lived in shanty towns with no running water or any other services like electricity while Elon and his family lived in a palatial estate and that he inherited along with the mine…so it’s bullshit that he “built” everything that he has…like most other billionaires, he started out with a few hundred million from daddy or grandpa and then used the power of that money to get where he is…and when you see the union busting tactics at his tesla plants and the widespread racism that permeates them, and the fact that he was a regular visitor at the idiot boy’s WH tells you all you need to know about him….he is not someone to hold up as any sort of a role model, after all, he can come up with 44 billion to buy twitter but whines, whines, and whines about having to pay any taxes at all…just another billionaire moocher whose companies wouldn’t exist without the largess of the US people and government….geez….
April 26th
Well…that was a little better…pretty much slept through the night with just a bit of tossing and turning so I’ll take that…and my laptop updated windows overnight and it started just like normal this morning and that never happens…so, a good start to the day and I feel pretty good so I’ll take that, too….this is a little weird…microsoft has a little weather app that shows the current condition on the lower banner on my front page and it is telling me that it is humid right now…why anyone needs to know that, I don’t know…what would your reaction be? How do you dress for humid? Would you say “I’m not going out today, it’s too humid”? Sometimes too much information is of no use at all….all I have to do is open my freezer and I know it’s humid in here….weird. It was nice to get some outdoor work done yesterday and get that off my mind…still have the sidewalk edging to do but starting a 2 stroke when it’s cold is a pain so I think I’ll wait until it’s a little warmer…..I did start on the second bedroom yesterday by removing some quarter round molding that was between the floor and baseboards that looked like hell and I’ll probably do a little every day but I won’t make it a major project…yet…I am curious to see if the wallpaper remover will work if I score the walls and spray it on and I’ll probably do a test section just to see how much work removing the wallpaper and paint is going to be…but my hands and shoulders haven’t healed yet and I don’t want to do anything until they do….the skin on my hands is finally showing some progress and has stopped peeling and feeling like sandpaper and I am even getting some feeling back into them….not much to do today….have a lunch with T tentatively scheduled for noon but I will have to leave early since 31 south to GH is under construction and I don’t know how long it will take to get there from here…or even if I can….but, I have time so I can figure it out…and I need to ride indoors today with the high only about 43 and need to get on it here in 15 mins or so….more later….
No lunch but got some work done…
Well…T just couldn’t work out getting someone to sit with her mom so lunch has been put off til tomorrow or later in the week, and that gave me the chance to get on the work that needed to be done on the lawn today…got the first mowing of the year done and it only took about 7 pulls to get the mower to start and one little adjustment of the drive to get it to work right and that lasted through the mowing so I have my fingers crossed for the rest of the summer…and the weeds are really overgrowing the lawn so I ran out to menards to get some weed and feed that was on sale and put that on the lawn….and I filled up one of the big lawn bags that needs to go out later today for pick up tomorrow but I don’t think I have enough to put the trash bin out this week…I do need to put some more seed on the front of the lawn in the spots they killed with all of the crap they piled on my lawn when they were digging for the water and sewer…and the spot where they dug up the sod plowing the driveway next door…and I need to do that tomorrow with the rain that is coming wed…okay, nope, no rain til Sunday so that will give me the rest of the week to fix the bare spots and do a repair on the car’s top that needs it….but right now I’m done for the day…I did get an indoor ride in this morning so I can veg the rest of the day…not sure if I can do that or not but I am going to give it a try….
Quitting twitter after today….
Well…I really hate frickin billionaires….with the pandemic windfall the all of these parasites made over the past two years, they now have trillions of dollars to take over the country and it’s communications…and today, Elon Musk is going to buy twitter with some of that free money and I, for one, am not going to help him make even more money so I will be leaving twitter after today. Look, the country just does not need another trump humper in charge of another huge part of the news/communication infrastructure like they have taken over most radio and television stations in this country…and the only reason he’s doing it is to help the far right spread their hate and propaganda since twitter now has rules in place to stop the spread of disinformation and lies but when he is owner, those rules go away and it turns into just another parler or gab where lies will be the currency of the day and support for the killing of our democracy is one of it’s prime purposes. This is the reason we need a billionaires tax that keeps this much power from the hands of a few right wing assholes who don’t give a damn about anything but themselves…bye,bye twitter…
April 25th…
Well…running late this morning with not sleeping well at all and staying in bed until after 6….feel pretty crappy and worn out again and I’m not sure why that would be…maybe taking Sundays off is not such a good idea? Didn’t do much yesterday which was the plan but I did make a pizza that came out good when I remembered to add some garlic powder and Italian seasoning to the crust so it had some flavor….oh, I think I know why I feel worn out…only had one piece of pizza and a small burger to eat all day but I didn’t ride so that should have been enough…and I need to get on the bike here in a few minutes since it is cold outside and I don’t want to go out in thermasuit anymore…I may have lunch with T today but it’s one of those on again, off again things that we’ll see if it happens….I do need to start planning my next project since not having something to do is a bit much to take right now….I know I have to work on the yard all week but won’t get to that til Thurs since it is only going to be in the low 40’s for highs for two days….ick….I am going to have to mow the lawn for the first time this week and will probably get the edging and trimming done, too….and I need to get some weed and feed to treat the lawn since the weeds are growing faster than the grass…not much to do today…just going to clean this place up a bit in case T visits and get on the bike to shake off the cobwebs and then just play it by ear….my damn allergies have exploded and I’ve been coughing like crazy since last night so I need to take something for it right now….more later….
Got sunburned yesterday…
Well…okay, this is a little strange…just noticed that after being out in the sun for over 3 hours yesterday, I got some sunburn and it is starting to hurt a bit…and I even got some on my face where I used 50 sunscreen and that shouldn’t happen…but I now realized that I only used sunscreen for the first ride and forgot it for the other two…so I’ll have some color to make me look less like a damn ghost….as I’ve said before, I’m one of the whitest people you’ll ever see…almost to the point of being transparent so I don’t really mind getting a little burned…but I won’t have to worry about that for another two weeks at least with how damn cold it is going to be…I mean May is coming fast and it is still in the 40’s? That kind of sucks but it keeps the noise down around here…I guess that’s something…
Corporations are no longer people, my friends, in Florida…
Well…the fascism is starting to be all too clear in Florida after the governor pushed his toadies in the legislature to pass a law that revoked Disney’s special status that allowed them to run their parks as independent governmental units there…and they wrote it so narrowly that it can only apply to Disney as retaliation for their opposition of the Florida “don’t say gay” law that was pushed by DeSantis as a blatant attack on the LGBTQ community. So, I guess that corporations are no longer people, to quote Mitt Romney, in Florida and no longer have free speech rights without fear of retaliation by the government…and that is the description of fascism that the repubs all across this country are embracing not only for corporations but for individuals, too…starting with teachers, librarians and parents…or anyone who opposes fascism and the repubs attacks on our democracy. the one thing I can’t understand is why Disney hasn’t filed a multi billion dollar lawsuit against DeSantis and Florida for this blatantly unconstitutional attack on their rights? The only way to stop this crap is to punch the bastards in the face when they try this crap…and the fact that this attack on Disney that is going to cost Florida taxpayers billions won’t make a damn bit of difference is the problem that we are going to face in the next election….the red states just don’t care if what their leaders do hurt them…I think they like to be hurt since it reinforces their adherence to the cult and their hatred of anyone who is not white and straight and repub….geez…