Well…it was a bust of a day yesterday with the party being so boring I took off after a couple of hours…got wet coming home when the skies just opened up when I had the top down…had to stop under an overpass to put it up…it was okay until it started to rain as hard as I can remember and the wind was whipping the rain into the car…it was nice to get home here and just hang out the rest of the night and that looks like the plan for today…it is so damn humid that I am damp…I may have to put the air on in a while to just dry things out…not much to do today…going to cook this huge ham that I bought for 99 cents a pound and then just watch races and soccer….I may be back for one later…who knows?
Monthly Archives: June 2012
June 16th
Well…running late again today but today I have an excuse of sorts…I was out on the bike at 6:30 and then over to Meijers to get that done before the start of the LeMans race…I know it’s a 24 hour race but I wanted to see the start and the lead in….it was a tiny bunny alert on the trail today and I counted over 60 of them in 15 miles…they were much less skittish than usual at that time in the morning with some of them just sitting there as I rode by…I was a little surprised that there were so many people out at that time in the morning and everything looked different with the sun in my face…neat, though….I do have things to do today…have a bash out at Wabasis lake to go to this aft and the car is waxed and ready to go….I did try some new wax yesterday that is the the easiest thing I have ever used and will never go back to anything else…just spray on and wipe off…no white crap to take off and it make a really nice shine….so, that means that I won’t be back for another one today…or probably won’t…who knows?
Troglodyte Republicans rule in Michigan…
Well….if you needed a reason to believe that the repubs running this state are troglodytes from another era, you just need to hear what happened yesterday in the House here in Michigan. While there was a debate going on over putting onerous new restrictions on women’s freedom by restricting access to abortion, one of the female house members got up to speak and used the word “vagina” in telling them to keep their hands off her health….well…after this happened, two of the women that opposed these new restrictions and had spoken out against them were not allowed to speak on other bills that were pending in the House….silenced because they opposed the majority and dared to speak out against them…I shouldn’t really be surprised with the way that the repubs here govern…like they don’t have to follow the rules and will use any tactic to make sure the opposition has no voice…from the restrictions put on voting rights to this latest outrage the repubs here show every day that they don’t care about democracy, just the naked exercise of power to ensure their extreme right wing agenda gets jammed down out throats…geez…
June 15th
Well…running late today…and as you probably noticed, I didn’t come back for another one yesterday…plans changed, things happened, and I decided to go out to shoot pool instead…and I won the week so that was cool….but, with that, I feel a little crappy today and don’t have a lot running around in my head so I’m going to keep this one short…I want to wash the car before I go read the papers so I can wax it later….and I have things to get done around here today…I’m not sure if the spray on sunscreen works that well since I feel burned today and it is a 30…we’ll see…more later…
June 14th
Well….it was a day yesterday but I didn’t do much…just some work around here and then some soccer…and then so much boredom last night that I re-read the last three days of papers while I had the Tigers and Cubs game on…slept a little better last night but was up at 3:30 and that is getting old but there were more than 4 hours of sleep so I guess I shouldn’t bitch…there were dreams that I don’t remember and I slept wrong again so my right shoulder/neck hurts like crazy….I was good, too, so I feel pretty good…and that is good since I have a pretty full day starting with the grocery run and then errands and a trip out to Cascade….and the first new episode of “Burn Notice” for summer is on later so there will need to be a cocktail or two to watch it…I will be back for more later and it may even be a good one so come on back…
I’ll grudgingly give it to Snyder…
Well…as you know, I’ve had mixed feelings about our governor here in Michigan, and when I think that he is falling to the right wing nuts in his party he does what he did today…thinking about the people of the state by bypassing the legislature and working on an agreement with Canada and the Federal government to build a new bridge from Detroit to Canada. After the ambassador bridge owner, Matty Maroun, bought enough legislators in his party to stall legislation that would approve the bridge, Snyder proved that he may be the pragmatist that he has claimed to be by using the powers of the governor’s office to move the state ahead…to stop the extortion by the Marouns and to make trade easier between the US and our largest trading partner….and to remove the bottleneck that creates hours of delays for the trucks carrying that trade. So, for today, I’ll say “good job” and keep it up for bucking a big donor and doing what is right for all of the people of Michigan…
June 13th
Well…it was a day yesterday with a nice lunch with T and then out to hang out with G for a while last night…and I got a bunch of work done around here yesterday, too, so at least I’m keeping moving..I did take the day off from working out and riding the bike since I was so busy but I’ll go back to the normal routine today…I still have a bunch of stuff to do around here to get things squared away so the boredom may be kept at bay for a while….I did have some weird dreams that included my old 77 New Yorker and junkyards but when it got out of hand, I just woke up so there was no lasting damage. Not much to do today…see, I’m trying to get back to the basics….I do want to go out and get the papers but I’m not sure if it’s a coffee shop day or not…my neck is still hurting today but we’ll try the ibuprofen again and I hope it helps…more later….
I think I’m in withdrawal…
Well…just a couple of months ago if someone had told me that I would be disinterested in politics, I would have just laughed my head off..after all, politics have been my lifeblood for as long as I can remember and the thought of not spending a large part of my day reading, thinking, and talking about it just is wrong…at least it was…but, now, I can’t get very interested or work up the outrage necessary to write the kind of fiery stuff that I used to do…the stuff that was dripping with sarcasm for idiots and never suffering fools gladly…I’m not sure when the change happened but I may be going through withdrawal from it…even though it doesn’t really feel that way…maybe the crushing boredom of being unemployed is part of it; I know that I have lost interest in the nonsense that comes from the right and the fact that with Citizens United, they can buy any election they want and no fact or bit of honesty can counteract it…I will keep trying, and trying, and trying, though…until it gets to the point that I can’t muster the strength to go on…I would like to get to 2,000….
June 12th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t really accomplish anything except getting the bathroom cleaned…but it really needed it so maybe that was enough…went to bed late and was up really early and I’m not sure how long I can keep up only sleeping 4 to 5 hours a night…I guess we’ll see….there were dreams last night but the took an unusual pattern in that the vivid ones came really early in the night…and I did get shot 4 times but it was only a .22 so I survived it and was just really irritated….I should feel better than I do today since I was really good yesterday but the allergies are now a constant so that could be it…not much to do today…well…I do have some things to do if I decide to do them…but I’m not sure yet….I will come back to try to get caught up today….there has to be something to comment on….the world is still turning, after all….
It’s about time…
Well…while I sit here watching the England France match, I thought I’d try to make some sense of the ideas that have been rattling around in my head today…one of the first is that I think it’s about time for a couple of things that have happened over the past day or so…the first of these is that one of the repubs has come out and said that the party has lost it’s way with all of the hostage taking on the debt and taxes…that came from ole Jeb Bush and he went on to comment that his father and Reagan would not be accepted in today’s party and something needs to be done about it…that they need to actually govern, not just oppose…
The second thing is a commentary done by E.J. Dionne in the Post today where he asserts that those on the left and center need to respond when the anti-government zealots keep screaming their heads off that government can’t do anything right….when all of us know that there are many things that only the government can and will do. Do you think that companies will spend their own money to stimulate the economy in a recession? Not on your life and I think E.J. is right that there are so many successes by government that we need to stop being afraid that the right will attack when we defend the role of government…they’re going to attack anyway so why be afraid of that? Geez…