Well…running on time this morning with getting up around 6 or so…I know I could smell the coffee so it must have been a little after 6 so that makes for a good night after crashing out about 10 last night…I did get up a couple of times and the pain in my left ribs didn’t let me sleep in my right side…yeah, that’s weird…I could sleep on it but sleeping on my right was too damn painful….and I was good again last night for the fifth day and I feel good about that…that’s two weeks in a row and I am close to making that a new habit…I did get my new stainless steel pots yesterday and I can’t wait to try them out but need to read the pamphlet that came with them to care for them and make them the last pots I need…after all, I am pretty damn old an they only need to last about 10 years or so…didn’t get on the bike yesterday since I really did need a day off I was so sore…and I may take today off, too, with the cold and showers that are forecast but we’ll see…I can use some exercise but I’m not as anal about it as I used to be…it is going to be cold the next few days but I am ready to go back to my thermasuit if I need to….not much to do today…I should get into planning the painting project for the living room and the bedrooms but I still haven’t taken the two weeks off I said I was going to after I moved in here and I wonder if I will ever do that….there is still a lot to do and it is hard to sit here with it not done…and I do need to not spend any money until next month since I spent close to 2500 bucks this month and that is more than I had come in for the first time in years…and that is not sustainable….more later…
Had a pretty nice day…
Well…with the package that just came with my new Cuisinart cookware that my son and daughter in law bought me, I’ve had a really nice day that started with T coming out to see the house and then going out to lunch and talking for a couple of hours…it was nice to catch up with her since I hadn’t seen here since last year and, with everything that is going on in her life, I think she needed and old friend to just sit and listen a while…and we laughed and smiled and just talked as old friends do…and that made me smile that I could give her a couple of hours where she could live in the moment and not think about the hard decisions she needs to make….I felt useful for the first time in a while and that made me feel good…hope I helped…
Don’t they have anything better to do?
Well…with the latest manufactured controversy that is spreading like a fungus across the right…the thought comes to my mind..”don’t they have anything better to do?” This time…just like the other thousands of times, the right is going off the rails with the fact that Kamala Harris didn’t salute the soldiers who were standing guard at the foot of the stairs of AF2 when she was boarding…and they are going on and on that she doesn’t respect the military and is too aloof to perform that simple courtesy…hey right wing assholes, I’ve got news for you…VP Harris is a civilian and it is not proper for a civilian to salute or to return a salute from a military person…in every damn military code the only people who are supposed to salute are other military members in uniform but that doesn’t matter to the ignorant morons on the right…the Biden admin is so competent and scandal free that they spend their horrible lives trying to invent something, anything that would allow them to fuel the outrage meter that was a daily occurrance when the idiot trump was in office…so sorry assholes…she is right and you are just pathetic losers…try again….
March 25th
Well…darn…was up three times last night with the last time a little before 6 and I could tell that there was no use to try to get back to sleep…so, I didn’t…slept okay, though, and feel okay today…and I am getting to like this feeling good in the morning without cocktails the previous night so now I’m up to 5 days a week and I think that’s where I’ll keep it for a while….getting through the first few weeks of this and getting my habits changed was different…I won’t say tough but it did need some discipline and I am glad I made that choice…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday even with the wind blowing almost 20 but I won’t be going today with gale warnings up for out here of 25-30 mph and gusts of almost 40 all day…it was like that yesterday in the afternoon and one gust sent some of my tools flying when I was working on the sidewalks…but, I had them inside the fence so they caught as they flew…I wonder if it’s going to be this windy all the time out here? That could make the summer heat a little more bearable…and it is usually cooler out here by the lake…T is going to come out here today to take a look at the house and then go to lunch over in GH and it will be good to see her….and I am getting some new pots and pans from my son and his wife for a housewarming present…a nice set of Cuisinart stuff that look pretty cool and will be replacing pots that I’ve had for 20 years and were looking pretty shabby….not much to do today…need to clean this place up some this morning but that is about it….haven’t gotten sore from all of the pounding my body took yesterday but I think I’ll try to get ahead of it with an ibuprofen in a few…my ribs still hurt when I breathe and it’s pretty annoying….more later…
Got the front of the house done…
Well…man, I’m tired…it’s been another busy day and I am now waiting for the pain to start to build for the rest of the day…started out with doing the grocery run and hitting Aldi’s and Meijer’s…forgot to buy milk and I’m not sure how the heck that happened…but, I have a gallon and a half here so I may be able to get through the week without it….then I got out for a hard ride in the wind…it was blowing 18 to 20 mph with gusts of 25 but it was from the south and, with my route mostly west and east, it was tolerable….and that’s something I wouldn’t have said last year….then I got started on edging my front sidewalks with a spade since the grass had grown over the walk by almost a foot so that took a little work…okay, a lot of work and I am surprised my back allowed me to get through it…and I took the sod and dirt that came from it and filled the back entrance to the yard and it looks pretty good…no more 2 foot deep holes and, after it grows in with some rain, I think I’ll be able to easily drive in the back yard to wash the car….so, progress! Still haven’t done much in here but I can live with the interior as long as I get the outside cleaned up…and now I’m making an 8 pound ham with mashed potatoes and corn for dinner since I skipped lunched to get the work done…almost want to have cocktails tonight since I earned them but nope…have to be good again tonight and tomorrow…discipline….
Confiscate all the damn guns…
Well…when is it enough? How many damn people have to die from shootings here in the US before we do something about it? 20 more dead just this week and we don’t even get to absorb what happened in the last one before another one happens….and that is just too much. I think we truly need to start thinking about repealing the 2nd amendment since no one on the right will go along with even the popular, basic first steps to regulate who can buy a gun and what kind…so, let’s just buy back all of them and make guns illegal…okay, I don’t want to go that far but when AR-15′s have been used in almost every damn mass shooting over the past 5 years there is a reason…and that is you can get huge magazines and they are rapid fire…and will empty the mag just as fast as you can pull the trigger….and don’t give me the bullshit that they are necessary for “protection”…from what? The Taliban coming across the East Beltline? I’ve just had enough of the gun fetishists being so damn scared that they need to be armed everywhere and then the rest of us suffer the stress from seeing these idiots carrying guns around and not knowing if this is the time that the idiot goes off and starts shooting. If they won’t compromise, lets just get rid of all guns…no guns, no more mass murders…I’ve had enough…
March 24th
Well…running about on time this morning and had a pretty good night of sleep with getting up at 4:14 and then being able to go back to sleep until after 6 so I’ll take it…I am pretty sore after the yard work yesterday and my shoulder bugged me all night trying to not sleep on it to make the pain worse but it’s nothing I can’t handle…I am going to work on the front of the house again today and edge the sidewalks with my spade and that should take a couple of hours but it will be worth it when I get done and have that finished look it gives it….once I get all of that stuff done, it will be easy to maintain it and it will look good all summer…the fence does need some repairs and I wonder if I should paint it black…that will a project for later once the rest of the lawn work is done….I did take a ride along the beach trail yesterday to take a look at the damage the high water did last year and that entire part of the trail is trashed and will probably take a couple of years to restore…most of is it washed away and the pavement is in the lake…won’t go that way again since I just had to turn around and some of the approaches to the bridges were pretty sketchy…but they are working on it and making progress…not much to do today…I do have the grocery run to do here in a couple of hours and I may be able to put the top down for that run…and I think I’m going to buy a spiral ham at Meijers today…only 87 cents a pound and that will give me protein for almost a week and I can’t wait for ham and swiss sandwiches on rye bread…really don’t have anything else in the fridge so I’ll have to cook it today…I should use some of the chicken thighs I have in the freezer and I’ll probably start thawing some today….more later…
Darn…that was a waste…
Well…yeah, I almost forgot to come back here today and do another one of these and no, it won’t be about politics…it may be about bitching a little but I probably shouldn’t do that since that’s not what I’m about anymore….I did get into GR today and was supposed to meet up with T but she texted me a few minutes before were supposed to meet and said she just got out of bed and wanted to move the meet back a day…and then texted and moved that one back a day so it looks like Thursday now…but, I got these texts after I was already in GR so all I did was pick up some leftover stuff and drive back here…I did get to have the top down both ways so that was cool but a waste of time and mileage on the car….so, when I got back here I got on the bike and did 20 in shorts and a t-shirt and then worked on the front of the house until my back wouldn’t take any more…I did get the fence cleaned up with the string trimmer and chopped out a bunch of bushes that had grown into the fence and raked some of the leaves and trimmings….and it does look a lot better but I have to use my spade to trim the grass that has grown over the sidewalk and that is going to take a full day with how wide the lot is….I sure hope it rains tonight like it’s supposed to and waters my grass seed….I am so damn sore right now that there will be an ibuprofen in my future…I am tired of hurting so much…darn…
March 23rd
Well…that was a normal night for a no cocktail one…up at 3, 5, and then for good at 6:11 so that gets me here about on time this morning…I seem to have slept okay and don’t feel too bad…I am starting to get used to no cocktail mornings and having a little energy…I did get a bunch of stuff done yesterday mostly outside with filling more holes and seeding all of the bare spots in the lawn that I hope will sprout after we get rain for the next few days…I did have the top down on the car yesterday while running errands and that was cool…and I need to run into GR this morning and it looks like I can have the top down out and back but the wind is going to be blowing pretty hard and that will move the car around a bunch….have to remember sunscreen or I’ll be baked red by the time I get back here…have already stated to burn on the bike rides so I need to remember that before I ride…I did get a ride in yesterday with the wind blowing about 18 mph so I am finally getting used to it and it won’t keep me off the bike this spring and summer…now, if it’s gusting to 25 or so that might be a chore but we’ll see…not much to do today….need to go into GR to pick up the rest of my stuff and meet up with T for lunch…haven’t seen her since last year…it could be almost 6 months….yow….more later…
Why shouldn’t DC be a state?
Well…with the hearings that are taking place in the house today on making DC the 51 st state, my question is “why shouldn’t DC be a state?” It has more population than Wyoming and they get a rep and two senators and get the right to vote for them…so why not DC? Since the district was formed in 1790, not one resident of the area has been allowed to vote for a rep or senator…they pay all the same taxes as the rest of the country but get no representation and they are ruled by congress who can overrule any laws passed by the city council…so, basically the residents have no say in how they are governed at all….and we know why repubs are so against statehood…the district is a majority black/brown area and the repubs are doing whatever they can to make sure that minorities can’t vote all across the country….and, with the prospect of the 51st state sending two dem senators to the senate, the repubs chances to take control of the senate in 2022 goes way down….but, this is all about fairness and one of the reasons we fought the revolutionary war…”no taxation without representation”…and that is just what is happening to those American citizens…so, I think this needs to happen…there is no reason why almost a million Americans should be treated differently than the rest of us….let’s get this done, dems…