Well…cripes…it’s raining out there right now and it appears that I won’t be able to get a bike ride in this morning before heading over to paint at the house…I really don’t know what to do with this luxurious amount of time…I mean, 3 hours to just sit here and have coffee and read? This is not going to be easy….didn’t even get up until after 6 and already I’m getting antsy…oh, well….it was an okay day yesterday and I got a bunch of errands run but forgot almost half of the stuff I needed at Aldi’s so I may have to stop there on the way back from painting….I do need some chicken thighs that were on sale but they didn’t have any yesterday so I think I’ll check today….didn’t get any cleaning done around here yesterday and I think I’ll wait til the weekend to do any of the things that need to be done….so, I get the afternoon off after painting to just look at the weather and see if I can get at least one bike ride in….it does appear that T has decided that our friendship is over and that one is going to hurt a little…not as much as it would have a few years back but still, being dumped by her as a boyfriend twice and now as a friend makes me wonder who would do something like that…I mean I’m not an ogre or an asshole…I think, and I can’t think of anything I may have done other than be a friend so this one is confusing…I can only think of what I used to say to my kids when they were growing up…”you’ll live through it” and I know I will but my life is just a little bit emptier with her no longer in it…more later…
What genius thought Jim Hackett was the solution for Ford?
Well…hey, look at that…I’m not going to talk about trump today and I’m sure you are as relieved as I am…but, I am going to talk about something that has been puzzling me all week after Ford’s bonds were downgraded to junk status…what genius thought that Jim Hackett had the talent to be the solution for Ford’s problems? Let’s go back a ways to his tenure at Steelcase, a company that WAS the world’s largest furniture manufacturer until Hackett got done with it and bailed into “retirement”…we had a saying when I worked at Steelcase…that a monkey could cut jobs and outsource production…but that is Hackett’s only claim to fame there…taking over a company with over 11,000 employees and 9 manufacturing plants with good paying jobs…and turning that into a company with less than 3,000 employees and no manufacturing left in the US after outsourcing everything to plants in Mexico. No innovation, no understanding of the talent the company had, and no growth…and now he has done the same thing to Ford…and all they would have had to do is drive 150 miles or so over to this side of the state and they would see what a no talent hack he is…but I guess that doesn’t matter in the insular world of the 1% where the norm is to fail up and pay no consequences for stupidity or the lack of talent. I have been a Ford man my entire life and I feel for them for getting snowed by Hackett and putting the company in danger…maybe this is what it takes to break the cycle of the incestuous relationships that lead to the same few people getting chance after chance even after being an abject failure….geez….
September 12th
Well…finally, we got some good storms last night and the rain I need to get the lawn at the house greened up some…feel a little crappy this morning and part of it is I’m just wearing myself out by riding the bike too much but today may be a break from that…it looks like rain is coming in and will be here after I get the grocery run in so it will be a one ride day today if I get one in at all…it would be a luxury to have a day off the bike and just run errands but you know me, it would be hard to take the day off if it doesn’t rain all day….I did get notice that the windows will be installed at the house next week so it look like it will be un condemned in a couple of weeks which will allow me to get started moving…should be in there by mid October and that will be a relief…I think I need to clean around here today if it rains since my bathroom needs it and the whole place can use a once over so that will be the plan for the day…after more coffee that is….more later….
bye, bye, jobs….
Well…just getting ready to get back on the bike for the second ride of the day but thought I would comment on an article I just read a few minutes ago…the “jobs” president really is if you count jobs lost to his stupid trade war….already, the idiot has cost over 300,000 jobs across the US and the projections are that, by the election in 2020, there will be almost a million jobs lost in damn near every industry that are affected by stupids war…now, I know I harp on this a lot but, what would the repubs have said if it was Obama who did this? If it was Obama who staggered around showing his ignorance every damn day and hurting the country with everything that comes out of his moronic mouth? Here’s the thing, most of these jobs are probably lost by people who voted for the idiot and they still support him even after going broke…this is the very definition of a cult and these people need to be deprogrammed if they are ever going to be able to identify reality and be a part of society again….but, I’m not holding my breath….
September 11th
Well…not sure how to start this one…getting bored talking about sleep and how I feel so I don’t think I’ll do that this morning…had an okay day yesterday and got the living room ceiling painted at the house and got the good news that the windows will be put in next week and that will start the process of getting the water turned on so I can work on the plumbing and have the place ready for me to start moving my stuff over…hope to be in the place by mid October…have been having some problems with the bike that I haven’t been able to figure out…the 5-6 shift is hanging up and cleaning out the shifter hasn’t worked so I think I’ll change lubricants and go back to wd-40 since that seems to work the best…I can’t believe how sensitive it is to what I use…when I used some synthetic motor oil, it stopped shifting completely like the oil was glue…I did find some penetrating oil to use that has worked before so we’ll see on the ride this morning….not much to do today…I have some chicken thighs that I need to figure out a new marinade for so I can cook them tomorrow and I should clean my bathroom but I’m taking the day off the house tomorrow so maybe I’ll wait until then…it’s going to be an errand day tomorrow since I need more paint and groceries….more later….
Voter fraud?
Well…irony is really and truly dead as of last night at the idiot trump’s rally in NC…the idiot was in town to “help” another repub to get elected to the House in a special election that is being held since the last one for this district was voided for…wait for it…voter fraud perpetrated by the repubs there…but that doesn’t matter to the first no truth administration in the history of the country…and trumpy boy went on and on with his schtick about “massive” voter fraud in California when there has never been a documented case of it there…but it happens all the time in repub controlled states. Why doesn’t the media ask trump for proof of his assertions? Why don’t they just call him a liar and then stop listening to him? trump hasn’t earned any respect from anyone and don’t give me that crap that is respect for the “office” that is keeping reporters from challenging him….while he is in office, there can be no respect for the office…trump has debased it too much…impeach…
September 10th
Well….that was weird…just woke up from a dream where the Miata rolled down a hill and into a pond and sank…but the strange thing was that it was red and the house was a composite of my old house and the one I’m working on….just really strange…but, I slept okay last night but feel pretty crappy this morning…just off for some reason and I’m hoping the coffee will help soon…going to try to get out on the bike before it rains but that means I need to go as soon as it’s light enough to see but that won’t be for a half hour or so…I did have to work on the bike yesterday since the 5-6 shift has been hanging up and it needed a cleaning…so, I’m hoping that getting the gunk out of the shifter will help….it will be nice to have a hose with some water pressure to clean with when I move….so, we’ll see when I get out if that worked…it’s nice to have a quiet car again and I even removed the rattling heat shield so that annoyance is gone too….don’t have to cook today…again…with all the leftovers that I have and it looks like they will last another day or so before I have to think about cooking again…and I don’t mind that with how much work I have to do…going to paint the ceiling of the living room today and that will take a lot of time…more later…
Just some stuff…
Well…just got back from running some errands and had a couple of things I wanted to talk about so here goes…I did get the car fixed today and now it is quiet as can be…and it only cost 40 bucks and he replaced a couple of gaskets that appeared bad so I don’t think that’s too bad of a deal…the paint that was on it is burning off and smells pretty bad but that will stop after a couple of days…so that made for a good start to the day…then, I went over the mileage from last year on the bike today and am almost to 3500 miles…only had to beat 3486 and it looks like I should be able to beat my all time yearly record of 4237 miles…it made me feel good that I can accomplish that along with getting the house done, too…so, not too bad of a day but I am done now and am going to veg the rest of the day…back into the normal routine tomorrow…
Getting spies killed…
Well…I know I’ve harped on this quite a bit over the past few years but it bears repeating every damn day…the repub party is filled with hypocrites who hate this country…I know you remember how many investigations there were of Hillary’s e-mails and the reason for them was that there might have kinda maybe been some classified information in them…and the hypocrites on the right blew a gasket every damn day saying she should go to jail for how she handled them…well get ready of some industrial strength hypocrisy today…the Washington Post reported today that the CIA had to smuggle a spy out of Russia in 2017 since they couldn’t trust trump to keep his mouth shut about him…since he runs it all the time like a bad case of diarrhea…and they were concerned that the idiot trump would get him killed. They are still alarmed at how the entire administration handles classified information citing examples of just last week when the idiot in chief tweeted out a classified photo of an Iranian missile site where a rocket had just blown up….letting the world know our capability to monitor this type of activity. Now, let’s compare…maybe kinda sorta classified information on an e-mail server or shooting your mouth of and getting spies killed, while you alert the world what our capabilities to spy are. Which one do you think is worse…oh, and lets remember trump giving away classified information to the Russian ambassador in the WH around the same time that resulted in a spy network being dismantled and leaving us less safe. So, what are you going to do about this senate repubs? Yeah, nothing…just like with everything else idiot boy does…the election is coming…tick tock…
September 9th
Well…running about on time this morning and didn’t get up until almost 6 so I guess that’s progress…but I don’t like the idea of taking sleeping pills every day so I don’t think I will…just needed a couple of days of sleep to recharge so I don’t feel exhausted all the time…but we’ll see how that worked as the day goes on….I do have a nagging left hamstring pain that has been there for a couple of days now and I’m not sure if I’ll take something for it before getting on the bike this morning….don’t want to get back in that habit if I can just work it out by going a little easy for a couple of miles…didn’t get much done yesterday but cook some and watch sports all day after fixing the bike but I do have stuff to get done today….need to go over the shop to have the new muffler hung at 9 and I hope that goes well…I’m a little concerned that the flange on the cat is corroded too much to have it seal and I sure don’t want to buy a new cat until I have the car in the garage over the winter so I’m going to keep my fingers crossed…then I need to get back into the normal routine and head over to the house to fix the storm door on the front of the house that the previous tenant screwed up…but, it looks like just moving it a little on the door frame will do it….hope so…more later….