Well…I still shake my head when I hear stories about Biden’s visit to the storm damaged parts of the south that were hit by the tornadoes last week where his empathy and genuine caring for the people there, no matter what their political leaning are, was on display. Most of the people they interviewed were really surprised how much he just listened and gave out hugs to people who needed them…and how nice he was and it hit me how this bit of cognitive dissonance happened…most of these folks probably only watch fox news where Biden is portrayed as the devil incarnate, a socialist, communist who is trying his best to destroy this country…so when this nice, caring guy shows up to really help them, it doesn’t fit the propaganda they have been fed by fox and they can’t square reality with fox’s lies…so cognitive dissonance….I think we need to get better at getting the truth out but that is pretty difficult when all media is rooting for Joe’s failure…and the failure of the country just to have something they want to write about…how about the truth? Nope, won’t happen…geez…
December 16th
Well…darn, another 5;30 morning and I feel so darn worn out….but, the power stayed on even with the high winds out here…don’t think any branches even came down last night but it’s not light yet so I can’t be sure about that….had another day of only one meal and I’m not sure how much longer I can sustain that….I am going to make chicken and some roasted cauliflower for lunch today and I know that will only be about 400 calories so I think I’ll have to do two today…only had 800 cals yesterday and I know I’ll probably feel it later today….didn’t get much done yesterday but I am going to work on the window in the kitchen today…getting rid of the ugly shades and then sanding and filling all of the holes and cracks…will have to put newspaper up on the windows as temporary shades as I paint…I think the grey shades are going to look good in there and I can’t wait to see them up….not sure what color I’m going to paint the kitchen but I do know that it’s going to take a lot of work to get the plaster ready…think I’ll look at some you tube videos since I’ve never really worked with plaster before….not much to do today…just riding downstairs and then on to cooking and then the window….but I have an hour to read the news first and have some coffee….more later….
Preparing for a power outage…
Well…with the winds that are forecast for out here tonight and tomorrow…35mph steady and gusts up to 65, I am preparing for a power outage…have all of my spare batteries on the charger and will be charging the tablet and phone when they are done so I’ll still have internet when the power goes….may not be able to post here tomorrow if it does go off since I can’t use my phone to post…have even stationed flashlights around here so I only have to get through one room to get to one….really haven’t had any problems with the power out here in the 9 months I’ve been in my house so I’m hoping that it stays on and I don’t have to heat the house with the gas kitchen stove….had to do that at my apartment a few times and at least that will keep me from freezing my butt off….put everything away outside and finally brought my outside chair onto the porch and even put my tomato cages in the garage since the last big wind a couple of days ago rolled them all over the back yard….and it opened the top of my garbage tote which was kind of weird….don’t have any trash in it right now so I won’t have to pick anything up if it blows over…so, I’m ready as I can be….it’s a movie night tonight and I’m going to watch the new Ridley Scott movie called “The last duel” that has an 89% rating on rotten tomatoes…it’s a long one, though, at 2 1/2 hours and I’m not sure I’ll get through it tonight…
Don’t give Liz Cheney so much credit…
Well…boy, with all of the credit Liz Cheney is getting for her work on the Jan 6th committee, people are forgetting who she is and that this work is the only thing to like about her. Through her career, she has been one of the farthest right wing repubs there is…and she has made lots of racist comments and has attacked everything that our side has tried to do…so let’s take this whole act with a ton of salt…I appreciate the she and Kinzinger are the only repubs who think our democracy needs saving and she did just call out “gym” Jordan and McCarthy for being the spineless liars they are….but, it’s a veneer over her awfulness and when the committee work is over, she will go back to being the terrible person she is….I will thank her for this work, but that’s it….geez…
I don’t understand…
Well…just got done with the last hand car wash of the year and was looking at the hole they dug for the foundation of the new house across the street and there is one thing I don’t understand about all of the new houses they are building out here….they are all on slabs with no basements….I find that to be a little weird…I mean it doesn’t cost that much more to put in a full basement and have all that extra room so why don’t they do it? These new houses are all from 150-250K so throwing another 20 grand for twice the room seems like it would be a good idea…but, what do I know….what I do know is that I can’t wait for them to get the house framed in so I don’t have to look at the trashy rental a street over…and it looks like it’s going to be a two story like most of the rest of the new ones being built out here…and that will be the 24th new house within 2 blocks of me and means my house will be worth even more…cripes I may have a 130K house within the next couple of years….and that would be cool….
December 15th
Well…running a little late today but there is no reason for it other than I think I’m stuck in second gear and the coffee hasn’t kicked in yet….cripes, we have 4 weather warnings up out here for the day today and tomorrow…small craft, high wind, storm, and lakeshore flooding warnings are up…gusts of up to 60 later today and waves of up to 15 feet…yow….will probably have some branches down later today….if the wind really comes up, I may even go out to the beach today to watch the waves a bit…15 footers would be cool to see….didn’t get much done yesterday and I don’t have a lot of motivation right now…need to do the grocery run in a few minutes then get the bike ride in….and continue to work on the window in the kitchen….I think I’ll cut the chair on the front stoop loose and put it in the porch instead…it will be rattling around all day if I don’t and I don’t want to hear it….not much to do today….just the grocery run and working on the windows…but I do need to cook today since I have no leftovers in the fridge to use but I don’t know if I’m going to make a pizza or chicken for lunch…decisions, decisions…more later…
Took a little easy today…
Well…I really didn’t plan it but I took it a little easy today…was going to work on the kitchen windows but I remembered to chronicle it this time and couldn’t get photos since the camera on my tablet is pretty crappy and the light coming in washed it out…so I took the photos a few minutes ago and will get on to the work tomorrow…will take a few days to get them sanded, filled and then re-sanded but I may be able to paint them later in the week…and the kitchen windows are by far the worst of the 12 I have to do so it looks like about a day of prep for each of the rest of them…and I need to look at depot to see if they have grey shades in the sizes I need….I still can’t believe how half assed everything is around here…and forty years of half assed is going to take a while to fix….
The public hearings are going to be lit…
Well…as more and more information comes out about the attack on the capital, including the committee reading out texts from the moron Meadows yesterday, I think the public hearings are going to be pretty damn explosive….and I think that McCarthy made a huge mistake by withdrawing repub support since he now has absolutely no control over the questions that will be asked or who is going to be asked to testify…..but, we all know he is not too bright and was just trying to keep the idiot trump’s support by obstructing the committee…and he was doing that because he knew trump was in on the whole thing…and I won’t be surprised if McCarthy was in on the attack, too. Damn, how long ago were the Watergate hearings? okay…1973…I remember at the place I was working we would sit down at lunch and watch for an hour every day…this time, I’ll probably watch the whole thing and do a series on it with at least one post about it every day….but that won’t be til later in 2022….sure wish they’d get their butts in gear….
December 14th
Well…did something this morning that I never do…after I got up at 7, I crawled back into bed for another 45 minutes since I just didn’t want to be up yet….and I had a school dream of missing class that I haven’t had in years during that 45 minutes…weird….man, I’m worn out this morning and just can’t get started…haven’t even read the news at all and it’s almost 8:30….had an okay day yesterday and got a bit done and I am planning on tearing into two of the kitchen windows today but I think that won’t be a one day job….don’t have the paint for the windows yet and should pick that up this week….need to see if I can get grey shades in the size I need for them, too, but I wonder if I should do white shades in there….don’t want to spend money to just throw it away…burned through a hundred bucks yesterday with the new sander and gifts for the grandkids so I need to watch what I’m spending….I did get my new SS statement yesterday and I’m now up to 27K a year and I can live pretty well on that…after all, I’ve put 10K in the bank since I moved in here even with all of the expenses from working on the house….not much to do today….need to get on the bike soon and then it’s window work the rest of the day….will probably need a couple of days of prep to be ready to paint them since there is so much paint on them and they need lots of filler…but I’ve got time so I don’t need to rush….more later…
Made some progress today….
Well….finally, I made some progress today on quite a few things and I’m starting to feel okay about that….got on the bike early and went as hard as I could for 20 miles and it felt pretty good and I’m over 240 miles on that bike so 4800 for the year looks doable….then I got out to HF to buy a new sander and upgraded to a better one than the one I planned to buy since it was only 5 bucks more and that was cool…then I got back here and got the christmas presents ordered for the grandkids and they should arrive Sat….sent them straight to their houses addressed to them…got them some pj’s and socks and kids can always use them…will get on the sanding tomorrow since I have 8 windows to do…will have to put newspaper up on the kitchen windows tomorrow so I can get going on them…I think I’ve decided on grey shades for all of the house but the dining room since I bought those white ones before I had a plan for the rest of the house…I wonder if I should paint that trim grey….hmmm… will have to think about that….