Well…being a registered voter with a correct address, I get loads and loads of mailers from candidates in this election season…one thing I’ve just noticed in the blood red area of Kent country that I live in…for now…is that very few of the repub candidates even mention their party on any of the materials I’ve been getting…I mean, in this area? I wonder if it because they just assume that everyone here is repub and they don’t have to mention it, or is it that the idiot trump has made being a repub and a supporter of his so toxic they don’t want anyone to know? What could be bad about supporting a rotting ball of hate and lies? Luckily, they have to have their political affiliation on the ballot so there is no hiding there…and with the court ruling that put straight ticket voting back in play, they have to eat their party of trump and their wholehearted support for idiot boy…don’t think there will be much ticket splitting this year…
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Starting to have hope…
Well…you know my interest in politics was crushed when the idiots of the country elected the idiot in chief back in 2016 but gradually, I have edged back into it over the past few years as you can tell from the almost daily posts on that topic….it has been kind of easy to find a topic since the idiot trump and his cronies have trashed the country so much over the past 4 years…so much so that I’ve had very little hope that things would get better since the repubs think it’s their job to make life harder for everyone who is not a millionaire…but, with 2 weeks to go until the election, I have started to have a little glimmer of hope that this nightmare we have been living in is coming to an end. but that doesn’t mean I feel good about the election…far from it…I am going to be uneasy until the election is called…probably by the second week of November….one thing I see as being different this time from 2016 is that Biden’s lead is much larger than Hillary’s was at this same point…and in many of the swing states, Joe is up over 50% in the polling and that means that if it holds and the polling is not wildly incorrect, idiot boy can get all of the remaining undecided votes (who the hell can be undecided after 4 years of the nightmare of trump?) and still can’t get to the 50+1% that you need to win. So, to win, trump will have to run the table just like he did last time and I don’t think that is going to happen…after all Hillary had the baggage of 30 years of the right attacking her and that drove her likeability to the point that was underwater…and that is not the case with Joe. So, I’m going to hold my breath for a couple of weeks and try to not think about it too much…
October 19th
Well…that was a little better…only woke up once at 4 and was able to get back to sleep without taking any more medicine for the cough…still coughing but I think I can handle it for a while just to see how bad my lungs still are…I am breathing a little better so maybe there is progress? This has been so damn tiring that I am worn out…but, I am going to try to get on the bike once it gets warmer…it looks like the rain is going to stay to the south for now but it’s only in the 30′s so the wait to go out is going to be a long one…but, I did get out in long pants the last time out so I can do that once it gets to 45 or so…didn’t even try to get any work done yesterday but I do have some stuff to do downstairs that may just irritate my lungs again but it needs to be done today or tomorrow so I can start wrapping things up down there….and I do need to finish up the painting in here so I can start getting my stuff ready to move…to where, I don’t know but I’m not going to wait til the last minute to do it….not much to do today…need to start getting back into the normal routine so I can eat more…2 chicken thighs and 3 small tomatoes is just not going to cut it for a whole day and that may be one of the reasons I feel so crappy…more later….
A little less depressed..
Well…no, I still feel like crap and my lungs are completely roached still…but, I have been finding a few houses today on zillow and there is one that I would buy today if it was just about 25 miles closer to GR…it sits about 45 miles to the north…about halfway to Mt. P and I think that is a little to far for me right now…but, it is only 119 grand and has 1500 square feet, a huge garage, half acre lot, covered porches on the front and back of the house and it has an easement to a lake that is across the street…and it is on a quiet street in the country…so, I do have a goal of finding a house by the end of the month and getting the buying process started and I may actually be able to meet that…and with having close to 45K to put down, my payment would only be about 400 bucks a month….so I may just be able to pull it off…still have 5 months…and I still feel crappy…ick
trump…stay the hell out of our state…
Well…if you are a Michigander, you should be as pissed as I am to have the asshole trump coming into our state and inciting violence against our governor…at another one of his fascist rallies here, he went into his schtick about how bad she is and led the crowd of deplorables in the tired old “lock her up” chant with no recognition that this bullshit inspired an actual kidnapping and murder plot against her…and you know he just doesn’t care at all…just as long as he gets his jollies from his crowd and works them into a frenzy as he manipulates them in the last bastion of support he has…nothing else matters to him. All I have to say to this asshole is stay the hell out of our state…you’ve done nothing for us in the past 4 years and you are responsible for thousands of deaths here that could have been prevented if you weren’t the incompetent moron that you are…just keep your promise and don’t ever come back…
October 18th
Well…man, I’m getting damn tired of all of this coughing and not sleeping…was up most of the night and got out of bed at 4 to take some more medicine for it and I’m not sure why it has gotten worse again…I felt okay yesterday and could take deep breaths but that is gone this morning so it looks like another day of just taking it easy and hoping for some healing to take place…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done so I am going to try to clean some today but I am going to need a nap at some point with not sleeping last night…just damn exhausted right now….needless to say, I won’t be getting on the bike today…I find myself hoping for rain so that doesn’t trigger my well developed sense of guilt and I do something stupid by getting out when I feel so crappy…okay, just checked the radar and there will be rain here in a few minutes so I don’t feel too bad….I can’t remember feeling so crappy in a long, long time and I’m not sure if knowing that it is my allergies helps any…oh, well….not much to do today….going to just ease into it…again…but I’m not sure if doing that will help how I feel….just damn frustrated that I haven’t made any progress since Tuesday and the last time this happened it took months before I healed up….more later….
Took a ride today…
Well…with all of the lung problems I’ve had since Tuesday, I was staying off the bike since I could barely breathe without coughing my lungs out…but they appeared to be getting better so I got on the bike today for a short 12 miler….and, while it wasn’t a mistake, I am not as healed as I thought I was since I did start to lose my breath after about 8 miles and now I am coughing again and can only take about half breaths before it hurts…it was still a nice ride but the first one in long pants since April with the temp only being 44 when I left here and that is too cold for shorts. It looks like I’ll have tomorrow to continue to heal with the rain that is forecast for the whole day so that might just work out okay…still have 260 miles to go to get to my last goal and I’m not too motivated to make it after hitting 5K for the year….it feel good to be able to walk without pain for the first time in months….but it is still hard to cut out the calories I need with not riding…looks like dinner is going to be apples, tomatoes and a handful of tortilla chips again….
Short takes….
Well….haven’t really seen anything in the news today that I want to do a long one on so I think I’ll just do some short takes and see where that goes…in an interview the other day, former COS John Kelley said that trump was “the worst person he ever met”, and that leads me to a question…”how the hell did he work for him at all, then?” everyone and their brother knew who trump was and yet all of these supposed serious people ruined their reputations to work for this “worst person”…how good is their judgement if they willingly signed on to him? That just made me remember a funnily ironic article that I read the other day about people who work or worked for idiot boy getting concerned if the “trump stink” on their resumes is going to prevent them from ever working in DC again….and one hiring exec made the point that is is not just working for trump but what they did while working for him…like helping with the policies that ended up putting children in cages that reveal who that person really is…that he won’t hire anyone who showed they have no shred of decency….oh, this one just cracked me up…just today at another trump fascist rally in Florida, idiot boy pointed to the stupid governor, Ron DeSantis, and said that if he didn’t deliver Florida to him he was going to “fire” him….and followed that up with “I’ll find a way to fire him”…now, with it being quite certain that trump is going to lose, why is everyone still afraid of him? I never understood that…I mean, who the hell is afraid of getting a mean tweet from the idiot? I guess all of the repubs have become spineless jellyfish in the face of the stupidest person in the country…they do deserve each other…more later…and I mean that…
“Commander in chief”
Well….just a short one on a new Lincoln project ad that is out called “Commander in Chief”….if you can find it out there, you should watch it…it distills the dumpster fire of this administration down into three minutes set to a song by Demi Lovato (yeah, I didn’t know who she was until I heard this song, either) but I stopped hearing new music in the early 90′s….I read an article where she thinks this may end her career but I don’t think that will happen….the song will go down as a great protest song in the vein of “Ohio” or “What’s going on?” and it is really needed…thanks to the Lincoln project for this and the rest of the things they have been doing to rid this country of the cancer that is trump and his minions….
October 17th
Well…that was a little better…still woke up way too early at 4:54 but I slept okay with much less coughing and I think my lungs may be healing up some…still only have about 60% of capacity but it feels like there is progress going on and I’ll take any little improvement I can get…..but I still need to take the cough medicine I have been taking since it does help break up the mucus that it feels like my lungs are filled with….I feel a little guilty that I didn’t do a damn thing yesterday but cook but I think it’s what I needed to heal everything that hurt….my legs feel pretty good this morning but I am going to try to get out this afternoon for a ride just to keep the guilt at the level it is and not let it get any worse….but, I’m going to veg out this morning and watch some soccer with my coffee…I did a good job of limiting the calories yesterday with only have half a big rib and 6 onion rings for lunch and then only 3 small tomatoes for dinner along with a hand full of tortilla chips…I’m thinking I kept it under 1K calories for the day and that my be just a little bit too low but I can adjust that as time goes on…no much to do today….going to just ease into it and have some coffee and my last bagel along with soccer…I should do some work but I probably won’t….still don’t feel up to it…more later….