Well…darn…up at 5:14 and out of bed by 5:40 but I don’t feel too tired so I guess I’ll live through it…and getting up this early will put me on the bike by 6:30 so I can watch F1 practice at 7:25…and will be painting the window by 9…should be done with two coats by noon or before and then I’m taking the afternoon off….nope, can’t do that…there is so much going on in politics that I’ll have to do a couple of those this afternoon….I did cook some of the chicken legs I got from Aldis yesterday and went back to some barbecue sauce I used a long time ago that I just saw won a taste test on “Cook’s Country” and it was so good I wonder why I even went to Sweet Baby Ray’s…and it is only 1.69 a bottle…making more of those today…oh, the sauce is Bullseye and I used it long ago when they sponsored a car in nascar for a driver I liked…weird, huh? Damn, it snowed like crazy out here yesterday and it covered all the grass with a couple of inches and that was quite depressing…it appears that spring is never going to come when I look out a couple of weeks and the highs are going to be in the 20’s to 40’s and that is about 10 degrees below normal…..but that gives me time to really get moving on the spare bedroom so I can get that done before the end of May….not much to do today…just the bike ride and the window but I should order the new blinds for the bathroom window so I can put them up next week…not too much of a rush since the window in there is frosted…and my new allergy meds are coming today and I really need them after all of the dust from yesterday….more later….
Got my check!
Well…just checked my mail and the 400 buck check from my car insurance company came today! At least there is one good thing to living in Michigan…now I guess the only question is what do I do with it? I have been thinking about buying a kayak since I live near so much water now and it would be cool to get some upper body exercise as I enjoy it…but, with it almost impossible for me to spend money except for necessities, it will probably end up in the bank as I save it to pay for my car insurance that is due in August…at least now I can afford all of the blocks I need to buy to finish off the border around the garden and fill in the space on the east side of the house for a landing pad for my garden hose…maybe I’ll buy a hose reel to set on the pad…I really would love to just blow it and buy a couple of porterhouse steaks and a grill to cook them on….but, I don’t need the calories or cholesterol…and I know I’d feel guilty if I did…oh, well….
The effect of Russian bots…
Well…damn, listening to the right wing assholes in this country, you would think that there is a conspiracy to keep people from liking their bullshit on twitter and the other social media platforms…just yesterday Tulsi Gabbard whined on fox news that she normally gets 250 to 300K views on the right wing sludge she posts but in the past week that has dropped to only 15K views and she just knows it is from being censored for her views…but, hmmm….I wonder what event coincides with this drop in likes? Could it be the banning of Russian access to the internet and that includes the bots from the propaganda farms that Russia uses to amplify the craziest of the right wingers here and make them look more popular than they really are? Ole Tulsi is just not bright enough to understand that she is just not that popular and 90% of her base is made up of these Russian bots who pretend to be real “Muricans” to continue to do Putin’s work in helping the right wing assholes do more damage to the US…so poor Tulsi…her delusions have gotten the best of her…I wonder if her Russian funding is stopping, too? Too bad…geez…
Ready to paint…
Well…you know me….again, when I have work to do and it is just sitting there staring at me, I can’t let it sit when it’s only 1:00 even though I sanded and filled the widow in the bathroom this morning…so, the filler turned from pink to white meaning that it is dry and ready for sanding so I did…and now the window is ready for painting tomorrow morning and that will give me a weekend off since I don’t want to start on prepping the walls in there until Monday and that will probably only take a couple of days…but I can’t paint for three more weeks so that will mean starting on the big bedroom…and I just noticed that they wallpapered across the corners and, as the paper shrank, it pulled away from them so I’ll have to chop that out and fill the corners so it doesn’t look so ugly when I paint it….as I said earlier, it will be nice working in a room where I don’t have to contort myself to get to the things I have to work on…and unlike the bathroom, I don’t really need the big bedroom right now so I can leave my tools out when I’m working on it….so maybe I’ll have that done by May or so and that will give me the entire summer off….yeah, going to take the whole summer off…as I get older, I don’t want to work full time on this place…and the yard will give me enough work all summer with all I want to do out there…I’m tired…again…
Something rotten in New York…
Well…if you remember a couple of weeks ago, two of NY’s star prosecutors who were working on the case against the criminal trump abruptly resigned after the new Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, decided to not pursue an indictment against trump…and there was tons of speculation why no indictments and why the prosecutors would resign after putting in years of work on the case…well…now we know. After the NYT obtained the resignation letter of one of the prosecutors, Mark Pomerantz, it is crystal clear why he couldn’t go on in the corrupt office that Bragg has built…in the letter, Pomerantz gets bluntly to the point and says that with the evidence and case that was developed against trump, he believed that idiot boy was “guilty of numerous felony violations” and that it is a “grave failure of justice” not to hold him accountable…and the other prosecutor, a Mr. Dunne, concurred and were planning on charging trump with falsifying business records which is a felony in NY state. Now the question is “why did Bragg kill the investigation and does he have any connection to the trump crime family?” You have to remember that when Cy Vance was DA, he had both Jared and Ivanka on felony changes for the same kind of crap and, after he got a mysterious 50K campaign donation, he dropped the investigation in that case, too….so, Justice department, and Merrick Garland, what are you going to do about this corrupt bullshit that is allowing another trump to walk from felonies that anyone else would be sitting in jail for? I think this has been a repub plan from the start, to corrupt the justice system from local prosecutors to the supreme court so they can do whatever the hell they like, break any laws they like and never have to worry about being held accountable…now I hope the justice department will prove me wrong…but I don’t have any hope that will happen…geez…
March 24th
Well…that was better…slept okay and only got up once at 4:14 and then out of bed at 6:13 and had some dreams that were quite realistic about driving up highway 1 in California in the dense fog and ended up in Big Sur where the sun burned it off and it was a beautiful day…and I still had the idea that I was at Lake Michigan and it was too cold to swim but then took a dive into the ocean in my clothes when I saw everyone else swimming and surfing….weird but cool…once the coffee gets working, I think I’ll feel okay this morning but right now I’m moving a little slow and feeling my age but I can’t let that get to me….have a lot to get done and only have about 12 minutes to get started on the bike….not sure why I have to be on the bike by 7…I guess I’m back to abusing myself since it feels so good when I’m done….should still be able to get to the window by 9 and will probably be done by noon or so….and I did buy some chicken legs yesterday that I need to cook for lunch…damn, no…I thawed some split breasts that need to be cooked first…so I’ll do the legs later…going to slather them in barbecue sauce for something different along with some roasted potatoes but I’m not sure if I’ll do those for lunch or dinner…decisions, decisions….not much to do today…looks like I’m going to hunker down here for a couple of weeks as the weather goes to hell and gets really cold, I mean 20’s for the high on Sunday? Oh,well…that will help me do the final push to finish the bathroom and get started on the bedroom I need to finish before summer…it will be nice to get to work on a room that is big enough to move around in and that I can seal off to contain the dust….more later….
Bad, bad window…
Well…after thinking about taking the day off to heal, like a moron I decided to get to work on the bathroom window so I pulled the shade down and got to work removing all of the other brackets that were on it…and the weird thing was that there were nails pounded into the frame all over it….and no reason whatever for them to be there…so it took me a good 45 minutes to get them all out…if I did…and then got started scraping the extra paint off that looked like it had been poured on the frame and finally got that done after another hour and a half…will have to spend the day tomorrow with the sander and I’m not sure if my hand will take it…I hope it does so I can get the filling done and get ready to do the final sanding Friday and maybe even paint Saturday….still have some touch up to do on the quarter round moulding but that will have to wait til I’m done with spreading dust all over….and then I can get on the prep for the walls but won’t be able to paint them for a couple of weeks as I let the white paint cure this time before putting painter’s tape on them to make a nice edge…more work…and more work….
Paul Manafort isn’t going anywhere…
Well…I’ll admit I had a pretty big smile on my face when I read the news that Paul Manafort was yanked off a plane this morning in Miami and his passport revoked as he was trying to make a run for it to Dubai….and it seems a little funny that this would happen to the fully pardoned trump flunky unless there are other things going on at the Justice department that are going to break soon…like more crimes in Ukraine to go with the the ones he already committed there that helped lead to Putin’s invasion….or even maybe that this could be part of a criminal complaint against the idiot boy (we can hope) that could land them both in jail and the JD is making sure he is going to be here to face the charges…and this time he will stay in jail since he doesn’t have the idiot to give him a pardon and that fact may even get him to cooperate this time. This will be an interesting one to watch over the next couple of weeks…and it couldn’t happen to a bigger crook…oh, okay…trump is a bigger crook and I hope they get him in this one, too…geez…
March 23rd
Well…all I have to say is that sucked…slept the worst than I have in a long time and feel like crap this morning…and it is so damn confusing when you do the same thing every night and get different results…maybe I’m just getting old….I did get some work done yesterday and I am happy how the trim came out in the bathroom…and I’ll say it again…I really like the paint I chose…the eggshell finish looks quite rich and it does hide a lot of flaws….I think I need to take a day off to let my right side rest and do some cleaning around here…and I do have some dust in the bathroom that needs to be cleaned up after sanding the filler I used for the trim….I guess I can wait to work on the window til Thursday….and I want to take some of the gravel they left in the street and put it on the raw dirt in my driveway so it won’t get muddy when it rains….and then I won’t have to buy bags of it….I do need to do the grocery run this morning after the bike ride but I don’t have a lot to get so the spend won’t be much either…will probably get out with less than 30 bucks since I don’t need any protein this week…have a freezer full from last week and probably should use that up….not much to do today…I have been pretty consistent with riding the bike downstairs…no, really consistent and I am heading toward 600 miles down there so I may just take an extra day off soon to let my legs heal….won’t be outside on the bike again until April so that will have to be in the next week or so…I do need a little rest….more later….
Who knew Kid Rock was secretary of state?
Well…damn, who knew that Kid Rock was the secretary of state for the idiot trump? It was revealed yesterday that, when he was golfing with hid great buddy trump, idiot boy asked this crappy musician his opinion what he should do with North Korea, even bringing out maps (that were probably highly classified) to point out to him what he was talking about…and no one on idiot boy’s staff said a word to him that maybe it was a little inappropriate (or even illegal) to show classified information to a civilian…again, I’ll do the imagining exercise…imagine what the repubs would have done if even Hillary had been invited to give advice to Biden? In public at a golf club in front of other civilians? You would still be hearing about it today even in the confirmation hearings for Judge Jackson and it would be in every add for the 2022 elections…but with idiot boy? Not a peep as the hypocrites in the repub party continue to ignore the 48 times that it is clear trump broke the law…typical repub bullshit…geez…