Well…you know I’m pretty pissed off about how my body seems to be gradually failing me as I work on this place so I’m going to whine about that a bit…I ran out of energy again this afternoon but not as badly as yesterday so that’s not something to whine about…or maybe it is…still not sure why it’s happening but it’s probably food again and I did it again today with just having as square of lasagna to eat all day today…and again, it’s because I decided to work until the baseboards were completely filled today and didn’t even get started on putting the lasagna together until almost 1…and after eating a little after two, there is just no way I can eat again today…just not hungry with the big slab of carbs still sitting in my stomach….and after I did eat, I got back to work taking the door off the bedroom so I can do the two frames tomorrow….I did buy some new hinges and don’t like them at all…I mean needing to remove a plug in the bottom with vicegrips and then take a special punch to punch the pin out…what a pain…and that drove me to using the old hinges so I am soaking two of them in strip overnight and it looks like they will come out okay so I can paint them black…which is the original color from 82 years ago and it will go with the heat register that I’m also doing in black….one thing I will whine about is my damn thumb…didn’t run the sander at all today…just a putty knife for filling and it hurts so bad I can’t use it again…and I will be using the sander tomorrow so it’s not going to get better…maybe the ibuprofen is just wearing off from this morning…who knows? I’m done for the day….
Feeling better and don’t know why…
Well…man, when I got up this morning, I hadn’t felt that lousy in quite a while…probably since I quit drinking the first week of Jan…but I feel better now and can’t figure out why…did everything as I always do every day and just now ate for the first time today…I did take some of the flonase and an ibuprofen since I hurt so badly and my head was stuffed up like nuts and that might be part of it…but I still have the off and on headache that I’ve had for months now and the sinus pressure has given me some eye pain, too, that hit like I’m being stabbed in the eye but only lasts a minute or so and then subsides….I would really like to know what the heck I did to feel better so I could keep doing it….even filled all of the baseboards in the bedroom and should feel really sore but don’t…weird….I may do a little more in there in a while and remove the hardware from the closet door frame but that will be it….should still have the bedroom done by the second week of May but I do need to start on the yard soon, too….too damn much work to do….
The party of Putin…
Well…you know, I’m pretty confused about how the heck the repub party turned into the party of Putin over the past few years…from the idiot trump’s kissing his ass and aiding him in trying to bring down the Ukraine, to the 68 repubs in the house who just his week voted against supporting NATO and the collecting of evidence of war crimes that Russian soldiers are committing there, what the heck is going on? It can’t be that it is just the hatred of anything dem that is motivating these traitors, so what is it? I did read an article the other day that said that the repub support of Putin is just another facet of the party’s hard swing to the right we’ve seen since the idiot trump made it okay to be a traitor, a racist, and a genuine asshole to anyone…and modeled the Putin ass kissing that the entire party seems to do now. When I was younger, the repubs had one thing they were known for and that was to be against the Soviet Union and it’s meddling in the world but now they seem to like it since it “owns the libs” and pisses us that are in the right off…is that their only reason for treason? Yeah, that one was a little cute but does describe what these idiots are doing…and still, no one holds them accountable because mcconnell and mccarthy are just drooling for power and don’t care how they get it…geez…
April 7th
Well…this is bad, had to take some allergy meds already today since I am so miserable and can’t breathe…crap…and even my left hand hurts today after using it to sand the window yesterday and I am running out of body parts to switch to….but I need to get that room done and that won’t happen unless I just keep going and working through the pain…so my friend ibuprofen will be necessary here in a minute….I did get up in the attic yesterday to get an idea of how big the job is going to be to even out the insulation and it may only be a couple of days….and I think I’ll just keep using the ladder that is there instead of putting in a pull down in to use the space…I do need to put hinges on the door so I don’t have to push it aside when I want to get up there…and I discovered that the wall between the kitchen and dining room is open to the cold up there since there is no insulation blocking it off from the attic and I’ll have to cut some to fit in the spaces….just another project to do and the amount of work is getting pretty overwhelming….still need to sand and paint the bathroom, too, and I wonder if taking the summer off is going to happen with all of the work waiting for me…do I ever get to be retired? Oh, and that is a topic for later on today that has been rattling around in my head for a couple of days now….not much to do today….I do need to make a lasagna for lunch so the work in the bedroom has to be done by 11 or so…but I think that will be enough with how sore I am…more later….
Other reasons to like Jackson…
Well…with the certain elevation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the supreme court, it is right to tout here as the first African American woman to become a supreme court justice, and I am pretty excited for just that fact…but, to me, one of the major other reasons to like here and look forward to seeing her on the court is that she is not an inexperienced, ideological hack like the last three justice installed by the repubs who only brought ideology and nothing more…she is a real judge who was not pushed by the federalist society and the millions in dark money that got Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch installed there with the corrupt help of mcconnell. She is someone who takes the job seriously and is not there to just get unpopular right wing wish lists imposed on the people of the US that they can’t get through legislation….I, for one, look forward to reading some of her opinions since they will be from a serious person who reveres the law and will rule accordingly…can’t wait…
Looking for a topic….
Well…you would think that after doing almost 10,000 of these, the process of finding a topic for the day would be pretty easy…but, you’d be wrong…at least for me…I will say that I haven’t had time to read the news today with the long grocery run and the straight into doing the bedroom window…so, I’m trying to do that now…and I’ll be back in a minute after I take a look…okay, so here’s one…the illegitimate supreme court today ruled for red states suing the government that the clean water act is unconstitutional since the regulations were not made by law but by the EPA who was given the regulatory power by the Clean water act…a law….so now I guess unless every damn possible thing that could happen is in a law, it’s unconstitutional? Hmmmm…I guess this means that in any red states because Joe’s industrial waste company is not specified in a law, he is free to pollute and dump his waste anywhere….and anyone who pumps septic tanks is free to spread that waste anywhere…even in front of the SC justices houses…hint, hint? Is that right? And the corrupt right wing judges who made all this possible did it with a loophole in the process so they don’t even have to write down their reasoning…just say “unconstitutional” and magically the duly passed laws of congress go poof and are no longer laws….and you ask if the court is corrupt…it sure is…geez….
April 6th
Well…hmmm…slept okay last night so I wonder why I feel like I didn’t sleep at all? I know I worked pretty hard yesterday but 6 hours of sleep is normally enough for me and that’s about what I had last night….oh, well…I really do think I may have to start alternating hard work days with easy ones since I’m just damn old and I feel beat today after the long day yesterday….I guess we’ll see…I wonder if I’ll lose my capacity to work hard if I start taking it easy even every other day? I feel that way about missing bike rides and time off always seems to set my fitness level back a ways….have to think about that one….I do know my hands and right arm are feeling it from the abuse….okay, I’ll stop bitching about getting old….I did pull 24 tacks out of the window frame in the bedroom yesterday and I wonder if they were there for plastic covering the old windows in the winter? I do know they were painted over instead of removed and I’m still shaking my head about that…I do need to do one of these about working on houses and the fact that I don’t remember painting or doing any other work on the house I grew up in…so I wonder why I’ve worked so hard on every house I’ve owned since then? Not much to do today…well, that’s not true…have 5 places to stop at during the grocery run/errands this morning and then back here to finish the window and get started on the two door frames in the bedroom….and I do need to make lasagna later today to use up the cheese that I bought last week…won’t be able to ride outside today with rain forecast all day but maybe it may break this afternoon….more later….
A crazy busy day…
Well…after doing the 5 hours on the bedroom yesterday, my plan was to take it a little easier today but, you know me, that was just not going to happen…but I didn’t plan on a really busy day like today…started out with getting on the bike downstairs and then right to the baseboards and spent 3 hours on that before I just called it a day…I did get them pretty much done so I was okay with that…so I made lunch and it was warm enough to get outside for a ride…finally…so I got 13 miles in and got back here in time to see part of the champions league matches and write checks for a bunch of bills I needed to pay along with getting my absentee ballot request filled out…but it was bugging me that I didn’t clean up enough so I suited back up in the work clothes and put in a couple more hours in the bedroom cleaning and then starting work on the window in there…the beige paint they had slathered all over my nice vinyl window was irritating the heck out of me so I worked on figuring out how to remove that without hurting the window and came up with a brainstorm to use rubbing alcohol and paper towel and lots of elbow grease and the paint mostly came off….so I know I can restore it to normal with just a little more work…I gave up for the day around 7 and that made for a long, busy day…going to try to take it a little easier tomorrow…yeah, right….my hand really hurts…owwww….
This is kind of funny…
Well…started on the trim in the bedroom this morning with getting at the baseboards with the sander and that didn’t work very well….so I got my angle grinder out with the 60 grit flap disc on it and started to try that…after about a foot, all of the upstairs smoke detectors started to freak out and scream every alert they have at me…with the one in the living room cycling through both the fire and carbon monoxide alerts….so I just removed the one in the bedroom that is just like the one downstairs that freaked out when I was using the grinder on wood and had to remove that one, too…and, like an idiot, I forgot to open the window and put the fan in it to take the dust outside since I didn’t think there would be a lot of it…but, there was and I was coated before I finished…but the grinder worked great in taking off the carpet infused paint and after three hours, I almost have the baseboards ready to be filled and sanded…but, the work really screwed up my shoulder and thumb again so I may have to be a little more careful for the next week and try to let them heal a bit….break time….
What are you waiting for dems?
Well…with the failure of the racist repubs in the senate to block Judge Jackson’s elevation to the supreme court that will happen later in the week, these same assholes have started to say the quiet thing out loud, that they will never allow another dem president to put another justice on the supreme court. This is not how it is supposed to work as these same hypocrites say that Jackson is qualified but her “ideology” is what they are voting against….and with that the repubs abandon the idea that has been one guiding principle in elevating judges to the supreme court, that they are there to rule on the law using precedent and sound legal reasoning without an agenda or ideology…but with the all of the repub appointed justices, it is clear that the repubs are okay with ideology influencing the court’s decisions if it is right wing ideology…and the blunt fact is that their use of ideology is just a substitute for race since the repub party is filled with racists and they just hate the idea of having a black woman judge telling them what to do. So now, with the admission that the repubs will not do their job and approve dem justices to the SC when they are nominated, the dems need to get on expanding the court right now to take the incentive away for this obstruction…after all, if there is no reward for being the assholes they are, maybe they will be less of one…yeah, I know, have you seen these guys? They just love being assholes and don’t need any incentive…geez…