Well…I finally got the F1 channel to work this morning and with that, I got to see the new F1 cars on the track for the first time…and I like what I see…these new cars are much cleaner looking than last year’s cars with no barge boards or all of the damn little add ons that made them look so strange….they look like race cars again and it hit me watching practice that they look like cars from the early two thousands like the Brawn that was a pretty good looking car…the team that I root for, Mercedes, doesn’t look like they have the speed yet but they normally sandbag during testing so we’ll see when the races start in a couple of weeks…I really can’t wait to see how they race in big packs and whether the huge changes they made to make the racing better actually worked…one thing I don’t like is that once these practices are over, the engines are frozen and no changes can take place for a couple of years…now, F1 is supposed to be the pinnacle of innovation in racing and to tell the best engineers in the world they can’t do anything to make their car better seems to go against that innovation…the same thing happened in NASCAR when they implemented so many rules that your car can be disqualified for a 32nd of an inch in body measurements and everything else is now standard so creativity is gone and the racing is no better for it…in fact, I liked it a lot better when someone could come up with something world beating new that would allow them to dominate until the other teams caught up….I mean do the few people who run nascar have more creativity than a hundred engineers from the teams? No, and the purpose of the team engineers have been ruined by the “parity” that is the goal of nascar….I for one don’t want parity that makes for boring racing…I want people thinking and innovating in both nascar and F1 that gives us something new occasionally that keeps me interested and looking forward to something new…not cookie cutter cars that by rule can’t change over the course of the season…
March 12th
Well…it’s new coffee day! One of those days where I have fresh coffee and it is from a container that I opened yesterday to make the first pot….the bad thing is that this is the best pot of coffee I’ll get from this 32 oz container and it’s downhill for the next 6 weeks until I open the next one….oh, well…I’ll enjoy this one while it lasts…it’s the damn middle of March and it is 16 degrees out here and it snowed last night….where the hell is spring? Okay, that will be my last bitch…for now….I was up and down all night last night starting at 3:02, then 5:09, then 5:39, then I gave up…but I feel okay so who cares? The big pork shoulder I made the other day was not done as well as it needed to be since it was not fall off the bone tender and I probably should have put it back in the instant pot for another hour…but I didn’t…I did come up with an idea that I am doing right now and that is to put the pork into my slow cooker that I haven’t used since I got the instant pot and I am going to run it on high for 6 hours or so to see how that works…and I added some veggie broth to it for liquid to change the taste…do you think I have too much time on my hands? I am in the last two days of my healing week off and my hands are better but still hurt so I guess I’ll just have to deal with it as I get back to work….I am a little excited to get after the bathroom but I haven’t figured out what I’m going to do with the built in cabinet that is in there…I really like all the storage but it needs to be stripped or sanded and re-finished with a urethane that will hold up to the humidity in there….and there is not a lot of room to move around in there so I think I’ll take the cabinet apart and do the work downstairs like I did for the kitchen….and I may have to wait to work on it until I can open the window and let the fumes out…I think it will be a stand alone project that will take a week or so since it needs to be re-stained before the finish….not much to do today….it’s kind of nice that I have gotten to the point that my living space is pretty organized so cleaning it doesn’t take a lot of time..and that is what I’m going to do today after the bike ride that starts in 18 minutes….more later…
The new strip doesn’t work…
Well…yeah, not a lot of politics today but I did get to taking the hinge back off the bathroom door and soaking it in the new strip that I got the other day….but, it looks like 10 bucks down the drain since I coated the hinge in the strip and let it sit for an hour and it still didn’t strip the hinge clean at all…so, it looks like new hinges are in order and I can get the 3 sets I need for about 16 bucks so that’s not a bad deal…but now I need to figure out how to strip the heat registers since they have the same paint that wouldn’t come off the hinges…I may have to have them sand blasted or commercially stripped and that won’t be cheap but I do want to save them…I guess I’ll need to wait to work on them until it’s warm enough to do it outside since the strip is flammable and you shouldn’t use it inside….I do have a whole can that needs to be used and a can and a half of the 40 year old stuff so I may be able to at least get some of the paint off before I try to figure out how to get them to the point I can paint them black…oh, well….
Seems to be working okay now…
Well…I don’t know if my son has done anything to my site but it seems to be working better now so I will say thank you…when I fired it up this morning…the start pages looked like text and not html and nothing worked…so I opened a new tab and tried the bookmark I have for adding a new post and, after a long wait, it started to work a little…but it still was taking about a minute or more to go from one page to another and at times it wouldn’t go between them at all…especially when trying to add a new post but it just worked fine for the last one and for this one so I am keeping my fingers crossed that whatever was wrong is fixed. Man, I don’t know what to do when this thing isn’t working…it has been such a major part of my life since 2010 and almost 10K posts that it just doesn’t feel right when I can’t do it first thing in the morning and then whenever I get an idea for one of these…so, it looks like at least a five post day today or even more…haven’t even got to much of the news yet and there has to be another topic that will grab me….more later….
Back to masking up…
Well…after going without a mask out to the grocery store the past two weeks, it looks like that is over again for the time being…it appears that there is a new Omicron variant that is spreading fast across the world and I am going to go back to taking the precautions that have worked for the past two years no matter the dirty looks I get from the right wing assholes who think they get to make health decisions for me. We have set up this country for another surge by ending all of the mask mandates and any other mitigation efforts that have been working for the past two years but I am still going to protect myself since they have discovered brain damage in some people who just had mild cases of the disease and I really don’t have a lot of brain left to give at my age….I did read an interesting article about the pandemic fatigue that happened with the 1920 Spanish flu epidemic where they just got tired of doing anything about it after two years and gave up and did nothing to stop it’s spread….just like today, people are tired of the pandemic and just want it to be over and are going to act like it is over no matter how many people are still getting sick and dying….but not me…back to the masking….
Missouri wants to kill women…
Well…damn..I really don’t know what is in the water in Missouri but it is revealing the crazy that is rampant down there…and the latest two laws that the repubs there are going to pass are just stunning in the dripping hate towards women that comes from their Taliban like repub party…the first one that was reported on a few days back would prohibit women living in Missouri to go across state lines to get an abortion no matter if it would save the life of the pregnant woman…and they are using the same damn bullshit that the supreme court allowed in Texas…that private citizens will be allowed to sue any woman that goes out of state for an abortion…how this is not unconstitutional, I really don’t know but with the right wing capture of the judicial branch in the US, the theocracy loving judges appointed by repubs will think it just fine to treat women as second class citizens…after all, that’s what the bible says they are and that is good enough for them…the next law that will be passed early next week outlaws abortions for ectopic pregnancies, where the fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tube instead of the uterus and will result in the death of the woman if it is allowed to grow and destroy the tube…resulting in the woman bleeding out if nothing is done…but that is okay with these assholes in Missouri…and the sick thing is this one is introduced by a woman rep who is so ignorant that she doesn’t know or care that this law will sentence every woman that has this happen to death…but I guess that is just fine with these “religious” assholes…if a few hundred women die so they can push their theocracy on the people of Missouri that’s just the price that has to be paid….these people are murderers plain and simple and the courts are letting them get away with it…and it’s just the start unless we all get out and vote these assholes out…geez…
Still screwed up…
Well…it looks like I will be having problems with the site today and may not be back to add much today if this keeps up….will be back later to give it another try after I get on the bike….more later…I hope…still no progress…I can make it work if I want to wait for it to respond so I guess I can live with that for a while…darn…
March 11th
Well…having some problems with my website this morning and I’m not sure what is going on….the original tab I had open just sat there and did nothing as I tried to get to adding a new post…I opened a new tab and it appears to be working but we’ll see…got up before 6 again today and I kind of like having the extra time before I get on the bike in the morning so I don’t feel rushed…but screwing around with the site this morning is putting me back to being a little late today…I did get the huge pork shoulder cooked yesterday and it came out pretty good and I did get to making a soft taco later in the day and that was yummy….and I now have leftovers that will last until next week and won’t have to cook at all….I did try some beef broth to cook the pork in and I’m not sure it’s a favorite…like veggie broth better and will probably use that next time….damn, still having problems with my site and I’m not sure what is going on….think I’m going to have to talk to my son who is not talking to me to see if he can figure out the problems….didn’t get anything done yesterday but cook and today looks like another easy one unless I decide to start stripping the hinges for the bathroom door with the new strip to see how it is going to work…it should work better than the 40 year old stuff I have been using….not much to do today…just the bike ride and then laundry after I’m done and then trying to figure out what is going on with this site…more later…
My allergies are nuts….
Well…who knew that stopping the antihistamines that helped me sleep would allow my allergies to go completely nuts and make me miserable with lots of sneezing and a nasty headache to go with it? But, I think it’s a good thing to know how bad my allergies are and then try to selectively target the symptoms instead of the shotgun effect the overnight medicine had. That doesn’t make me any less miserable, though, and I am dreading when the tree pollen hits…I may have to try some of the stuff I have in the drawer in the bathroom since I can’t get the stuff that works the best…or they won’t let me buy enough of it to be able to even use the dosage that is on the box…and I never understood that…why do they say two tablets is the recommended dosage when, if you follow it, you run out about two weeks before they let you buy more? Oh, well…may have to go back to the generic flonase that I bought on Amazon but that is 25 bucks for 5 bottles of it and I am almost out…and it depresses your immune system and that’s still not a good idea with covid still floating around…oh, well….I guess I’ll just deal with it and keep on sneezing….
Watch out Gym Jordan…George is coming for you…
Well…I know you’ve heard of the trump toady, Jim Jordan, the rep from Ohio who is probably one of the nastiest people in all of the congress and who continues to push the lies about the 2020 election and all the other lies about the dems on a daily basis…but he is most well known, in some circles, for his ignoring the sexual abuse of athletes at Ohio State when he was a wrestling coach there and allowing it to continue for years….and then claiming he never saw anything even though multiple athletes testified that they told him when the abuse was going on and he did nothing to stop it. So far, he has avoided any consequences for his lack of action and the coverup that came after the abuse…but, that just may change in the near future with the announcement that George Clooney is going to produce a documentary about the scandal…and will pierce the bubble of coverup that has allowed Jordan to get elected to congress and avoid any responsibility for his complicity in this abuse…I really do hope that Jordan and everyone like him whether they are repubs or dems will finally pay for ignoring the abuse of people who they are supposed to be protecting…but, I don’t know if I have any hope that this will happen…after all, the head of the repub party has abused and sexually assaulted many, many women and has never been held responsible for it….and the repubs like it that way….geez…