Well…okay folks, this one is about soccer so you may want to skip it unless you’ve found new interest in the English football game by watching Ted Lasso…so, it looks like Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch is going to sell the Chelsea football club and to hear him say it, it is all about his love for the club and English football…I guess the trial balloons about putting the club in trust crashed as the probability of sanctions against him grow by the day and that would mean that he would lose the club and any other assets he has in England….and that includes a couple of huge estates and the normal huge yacht that all of the oligarchs have….now, I will say that he has said the proceeds from the club will be donated to the victims of the Ukraine invasion but who is going to trust him when he has not come out against Putin since most of his cash is from being in the inner circle of Russian business and you don’t get to be a Russian billionaire without Putin approving it and and having a continuing relationship with him….so, let’s take all of this supposed concern for the Ukrainians with a supertanker sized grain of salt…I think he is just trying to avoid the sanctions that are coming and is scrambling to keep some cash when they hit….geez….
Got the kitchen painted…
Well…damn, this was a long time coming..I finally have the walls painted in the kitchen…2 coats and they look pretty good..I like the color and how it looks but there is not a straight line in any corner and that kind of looks like hell but there is nothing I can do about that without chopping out every corner and replastering it and that just isn’t going to happen….and the painter’s tape pulled off a lot of the white on the trim so I’ll need to touch that stuff up but that is going to wait a while until the pain is out of my hands and it really isn’t a big job so I can do that as time goes on…the rest of the house isn’t going to have that problem with much less masking that has to be done…so, I’m done for the day…5 hours is enough for one day….and I haven’t had lunch yet so I guess I’ll go with one meal today since I want to read the news first and that will take an hour or so…the kitchen does look completely different and I have to stop being my own harshest critic…I think I did the best that could be done without tearing out walls and starting from scratch….and over time I’ll stop noticing the flaws and just enjoy my kitchen again…might take a while….more later….
March 2nd
Well…that was okay…slept okay but most of the night it was on my right shoulder and it hurts a bit and is pretty stiff and that won’t help with the painting today…but I can play through that to get the kitchen finished by the end of the week…and that is even with repainting the trim that I’ll be pulling the paint off when I remove the painters tape…and the range hood is going to be here today so I can put that up either tomorrow or Friday and I think it the holes for the screws holding the old one up will fit the new one since it is the same size from the same company…and I finally got the old vent blocked off since this one is unvented and doesn’t need it….and that stops the cold air from flooding into the kitchen like it was…and I really don’t cook enough on the stovetop to need a vented one….and in the year I’ve been here, I only used the old one once or twice and that was just to use the light….I am going to have to get out to shovel the concrete and dirt the city left on the front of my lawn when they dug up the street for water to the new houses across the street…don’t want it to kill my lawn that I worked so hard on last summer….and that is going to be a pain in the butt but it will be warm enough to do that this weekend…it is going to be over 50 sat but then right back to highs in the 30’s for the rest of the week…where the hell is March and the warmer weather? Not much to do today…need to do the grocery run this morning after the bike ride and then the rest of the day will be painting and cleaning up…I really can’t wait to see what it looks like after all of the work to get to this point…and I am looking forward to taking another week off to let my body heal up again after it’s done…more later….
Russian bots are dead….
Well…I haven’t seen much of this reported other than in small comments about the facets of the Russian attack on the Ukraine but it does bleed over into what they are still doing to attack the US and sow discord while trying to exploit the natural divisions in our society. Once the attack on Ukraine started, one of the things that happened was the shut down of access to twitter and other social media sites in the US, and…surprise surprise…once that happened, the comments, likes, and retweets that were supposed to be coming from the US criticizing Biden and stirring up hate plummeted…to the point of disappearing completely…so gee, I wonder where those comments were coming from? Could it be….Russia? This is all of Russia’s plan to use Facebook, Twitter, and every other social media to attack the US and the owners of this media sit on their hands and do nothing about it…especially when they get rich from the ads that come with it…so now, we know that the dems want to do something about it by holding these folks accountable…but not a damn word from the repubs since we all know they benefit from the chaos and hate these bots foster by the dupes giving them money and the repubs amplifying the Russian propaganda that these bots swamp our society with. So, when you see comments supporting this right wing crap, just understand it’s not real people supporting them…it’s the Russian bots amplifying these unpopular ideas….I wonder what the repubs will do now with them being silenced? They sure won’t get any more bot “likes” to their bullshit….geez….
It’s official…
Well…it’s finally official…I am damn tired of working on this house….spent the whole afternoon masking off the trim in the kitchen to get ready to paint the grey tomorrow and some of the white paint is already being pulled off the trim just re-positioning the tape as I was putting it on….and I had cleaned everything with tsp and scrubbed everywhere there was grease from cooking but I guess that wasn’t enough…so there will be lots of touch up on the trim Thursday and Friday…I never really expected to have a new looking house interior when I started on it…if I wanted that, I would have stripped the trim and re-finished the oak but that was way more work than I was ever going to do….I am just tired of working, working, working….and I think I’ve gotten to the point that I just need a rest and however the kitchen turns out it’s good enough for me….okay, that’s enough whining…there is not one straight line in all of the seams that I taped off today….have to keep reminding myself that this is an old house and the next people will make it look new….I need some time off….
It’s all connected….
Well…when you look at the economy and how well it is doing, you would never know it by Biden’s approval rating which is hovering at 37%….and no matter what he does, record job growth, huge wage gains, repairing out standing in the world, no one knows it with how the media is focusing on bullshit and never even reports on any good things going….and, it hit me this morning that this hiding of Biden’s good achievements, most of the inflation, and focusing on the “failures” of the Biden administration is all connected….since most of the media in this country is run by repubs for repubs, it is just one facet of the attack that is going on against him right now…and inflation is the second…it is well known that prices are not rising for any reason other than business is taking excess profits and the whole inflation story is just a cover for that…look, when Starbucks could give each and every one if it’s employees a five thousand dollar bonus and still have 2.6 billion in profit left over…why the heck are they raising prices? And why are they fighting unionization so hard when they could easily afford everything that the workers are asking for and still be rolling in profit…it’s all about trying to take advantage of the inflation story that the repub editors have decided, in consultation with business owners, is going to be pushed all day every day both to give them cover for stealing more from their customers and to hurt any dem administration so they can get another repub in office who will let them steal everything and never pay any taxes at all. It really doesn’t matter how much they hurt the US while pulling this crap since they have no allegiance other than to themselves and their money…and all of this is connected into the web of deceit that they will use to continue to take more and more…people need to wake up to these connections and try to seek out the truth instead of just listening to the talking heads that go on and on about the price of gas when it’s all just gouging the people…and of course it’s Biden’s fault…geez…
Got back on schedule…
Well…after getting a late start this morning, I did get on the bike and got started by 7:15 and finished before 8 and I got me out the door by 8:20 or so and that put me back on schedule for the day…I did get the car washed and then over to depot to get some small things I needed…and outlet to replace the one they plastered over, a small glue gun to fasten the shield for the power feed to the range hood back to the wall after I paint, and a small roller to get into spaces that my big one won’t fit..along with a couple of cover plates for the outlets…got back here a little after 9 and have already installed the new outlet and have lunch cooking and have paid all the bills that are due in the next week or so…and now I’m finishing up the coffee and relaxing a bit…I was going to buy my new range hood at depot this morning but they only had white ones so I had to order it on line from them and it is supposed to be here Thursday but I’ll believe that when I see it…planning on not getting it until next week and that will be okay…I’ll have everything else done by then and it should only take about 5 minutes to install…so, a productive morning even with not doing much…I will be back for a political one later but I need to read some news first…more later….
March 1st
Well…damn, running really late today with not getting out of bed until 6:44 and that will make me late for the whole day and I only have 9 minutes to get on the bike and get it started….had an okay day yesterday and got a lot done but today is going to be a little easier….not going to work on the kitchen today since I need to get out and wash the car and hit depot for materials and I need to let the paint harden up some before I mask off the white so I can paint the grey…and I am going to get a small roller since I have a lot of places that the big one won’t fit and I don’t want to use a brush on a large part of the walls…and I have to get an electrical socket and cover plates to finish up the detail work….I may even get the range hood so I can finish up the kitchen by the end of the week…not sure yet…not much to do today…just need to get going and get on the bike so I can get out and get the errands done and I won’t get that started just sitting here…more later….
The media needs to give Joe credit…
Well…if you were to listen to the media in this country, you would think that every move from every country against the Russian invasion of Ukraine just happened out of thin air with no work at all by anybody. I think there is such a thing as a lie by omission where they are purposely not reporting on all of the work the Joe Biden and his administration have done to herd these cats into the solid wall of opposition to Putin that we see reported every day…do you think that anyone else could have gotten everyone on the same page as Joe has done? Nope, it has been a masterful exercise in listening to and respecting our allies enough so they feel they have a real say in what is happening…could you imagine what would have happened if trump was still running the show? Not one of our allies would event take his phone calls let alone put the full force of their countries into getting weapons into Ukrainian hands and then signing on to the coordinated sanctions regime that is cratering the Russian economy and causing the ruble to be worth basically nothing…could you imagine idiot boy getting the Swiss to abandon their neutrality and levy their own sanctions against Russia? Or getting Sweden and Finland close to joining NATO? Never would have happened…and the idiot would have used this opportunity to bad mouth and try to destroy NATO not strengthen it as Joe has done. Joe’s work has been the most masterful job of diplomacy in my lifetime and will result in Putin losing everything…and not a damn day too soon…geez…
Got the trim done…
Well…damn, another 4 hours of work but I have the trim and the ceiling done in the kitchen with two coats of paint and have the clean up done, too….wasn’t a lot of work but just time consuming and that sets me up to paint the grey on Thursday and then get the range hood Friday and finish it up….and then it’s off for the weekend to take it easy and just enjoy the results for a while…I do have some stains that are bleeding through the paint and I can’t figure that out since I took it down to raw wood and cleaned it with everything I could think of…oh, well…I’ll think about it and maybe use some white enamel for a primer and then go over it with the eggshell…and I still have enough white paint to do at least one more window before I have to get another gallon so that can wait til next week for both the white and grey…I am going to get some better rollers to do the walls…the cheapos from the dollar store are okay for the ceiling where you can’t see the uneven paint but that would show up on the walls…so now it’s break time for a little while to have lunch before I get back on cleaning the glass shade for the kitchen light and putting that back up…then I’m done for the day….more later…