Well…that was crappy…probably the worst night’s sleep in weeks and I’m feeling it this morning…and that was night two of cocktails so that’s it for the week…maybe I’ll sleep better tonight from it….but I think part of it is my allergies exploded yesterday and I could barely breathe all night…and that continues now and I may just have to take something for it this morning…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday and got a look at the new sculpture they are installing out at the beach…not sure if I like it or not…seems a bit cutesy with the colored glass and moving lights but we’ll see when it’s finished…and I got the whole thing in without a flat but I thought about it the entire ride since I couldn’t figure how the tube failed and worried I may have missed what caused it..but, I was happy that the tire and rim weren’t damaged and the bike still rides smooth so I’ll take it….I did get some work done on the yard yesterday with getting more grass seed down after I got back from riding…was counting on it raining today but that chance looks slim right now with nothing on the radar….my son and his wife are coming out to see the house this morning after taking their dog to a vet appointment in GH so I need to straighten up after I read the news and have some more coffee…and I really want to work on the garage door opener to see if it can be salvaged…it would be really cool if it’s just a fuse and I could get away with just buying an opener for it…but the new belt drive ones with battery backup look pretty cool and they are only 159 bucks….and I can get a stripped down one for about a hundred so I need to think about this a bit….more later…
They’re just not serious…
Well…with all of the talk of “bipartisanship” in trying to get an infrastructure renewal bill through the senate, you just have to look at the repub proposal to see they are not serious…almost 3 times smaller that what the dems have proposed and and with a hard no on any increase in revenue…so that means that any money spent on the serious problems we have in this country will have to be offset by cuts to other programs that are already operating at severely reduced levels….and they go on to whine about the tax increases on the rich and corporations that the dems propose to pay for their bill lying that it will mean a loss of the jobs created by their tax cuts when every damn study has concluded that the only thing the tax cuts did was make the rich richer and allow corporations to buy back their stock…no damn jobs created at all. They all know that and yet they keep lying and lying…another reason why their proposal is just not serious…but the modern repub party doesn’t operate on facts or the truth as evidenced by the hundreds of voter suppression laws based on the big lie of voter fraud that just doesn’t exist….and now an infrastructure proposal that they think is “enough” is based on hypocrisy…they never asked to pay for trump’s huge tax cuts for the rich but now it is their reason for being….I say leave them behind and fix this country without them…after all, 70% of the country support Biden’s proposal and want it passed…even 50% of repubs want it done…so do it…
Got my new ladder….
Well…I wonder why almost everything I do has to be harder than it needs to be? Just today when I was out trying to buy a new ladder to work on stuff around here, you would think you could just pick one up, take it to the checkout, and pay for it…but no…every one of the 8 ft. ladders they had in stock didn’t have a bar code on it so I had to have the cashier look it up on the computer…after about 15 minutes of that, the ladder I wanted didn’t show up anywhere so then she just charged me for a different ladder and I got 5 bucks off…but now, if the damn thing fails on me, I won’t have a correct receipt and I’ll have to explain it to the return people…that is if it fails…I’ve never had one fail so I don’t think that is going to happen…the ladder did fit in the front seat easily and I got it home with no problem….and the hooks I put up yesterday will hold both the ladder and the pole saw that I decided to keep so that is cool….but still, nothing easy…at least my legs only hurt a little after all the work yesterday…yay!
April 23rd
Well…that was a mistake…I gave in to having cocktails last night after the busy day I had and I am feeling it right now…and to keep to my 2 day a week schedule, that means no cocktails for either tonight or tomorrow night and I’m okay with that…after all of the walking and the flat tire ride yesterday, I expected my legs would be really sore today but surprisingly they are just fine…and my right calf is normal after mowing and I think it may have to do with getting out my old mowing shoes and not using my rubber garden shoes…whatever it is, I’ll take it since I’m walking around with no hobbling at all….changing out the tube in the back tire was a mess yesterday since I had a slime tube in it that is supposed to plug off any small hole in the tube but there was no way it could fix a half inch hole and all of that sealer ended up inside the tire and leaking out onto the rim…so, that meant I had to wash all of that crap out of the tire before I could put it back together…and the sealer is a bright green that looked like crap…and I hope that leaving it a little damp won’t hurt it….not much to do today…I have to run an errand to get my Mega tickets since the jackpot is almost 300 mil and then I need to buy the ladder I want and I hope it will fit in the passenger’s seat with the top down…and then I need to take the garage door opener apart and check if it has a fuse…it would be cool if I can just replace a fuse and not the opener but I may wait til tomorrow to do that…it is supposed to rain and I like working in the garage in the rain….more later…
Had a damn flat today…
Well…yeah, I know I haven’t come here this afternoon but I have a good reason….had a damn flat on the bike today in the worst possible place…all the way out to the beach at exactly the halfway point of my daily ride…okay, a little under halfway but I was still 6 miles away when it went and that meant either walking back or riding the damn thing on the flat so, of course, I rode it back…after all 7 mph riding for 6 miles is much better than walking at 3 mph for 6 miles…and no damage to the tire or rim but the tube had a hole in it as big as my little finger so I think it was just a failure with the tube being an old one that I found in my totes that must have been at least three years old….so, no political one today after all the work I’ve done…I need some time to rest after mowing and feeding the lawn and putting the hooks up in the garage for the ladder I’m getting tomorrow, and of course, riding back on the flat that is no fun at all…
April 22nd
Well…that was okay, only got up once at about 4 and didn’t get out of bed til after 6 and I feel okay this morning…and I discovered or re-discovered something overnight…if I sleep on my right side, my nose stays clear and I can breathe quite well all night and I think that has something to do with how I feel this morning…and I was good for the fourth night and tonight will be five in a row and that HAS become my new habit….man, it’s cheap not buying cocktail materials every week….I’m still walking without pain this morning and I am going to test that today with mowing the lawn, putting weedkiller down, and feeding the new grass for the first time so we’ll see how I feel later today….damn, I have so much work to do around here….need to put hooks up in the garage for the new ladder I’m buying tomorrow and put a shelving unit together to store all of the stuff that is spread all over it….and with it warming up over the next few days, I need to get the weeds pulled from around the house so I can put in my flower seeds and keep them watered until it rains….and I still have 6 windows to be cleaned along with buying a couple of new shades for the dining room since the ones there are dirty and don’t work….so I won’t say not much to do today since I do have lots to do….now I just need to get to it….more later…oh, and I ordered my free parking passes for the city parks on Lake Michigan last night just in case I want to take the car out there this summer…a small perk of being a Muskegon city resident…saves about 10 bucks in parking fees every time…pretty cool…
I’m walking again…
Well…cripes, big yards are expensive to restore and maintain….went out to get supplies to do just that this morning and spent 72 bucks on food, weed killer, a new push broom, seed, a hose end sprayer, and a pack of green pepper seeds…but, the good thing was that I was able to walk around Menards with very little pain…no heel pain, no calf pain, no back pain and I almost have my normal gait back after favoring everything with how bad the pain was…it may have helped that I skipped riding yesterday and I’m going to skip again today since it’s snowing here again today and I just refuse to ride in the snow again…so, some good news that I hope will survive after I mow the lawn and feed the new grass and walk all over spraying the weed killer on it tomorrow….and I started the day with over 17K in my checking account which give me some breathing space and it is about 5K more than I had after closing on the house in Feb….but, I’m going to burn a bunch of that this week buying my new ladder Friday and the new garage door opener next week….but that will be the extent of what I’m going to spend until June….I almost got to just living today…so close but no cigar…I think it’s coming soon…
MTG is a liar…
Well…Majorie Taylor Greene has proven that she is the worst of the worst of the qanon believing repubs…so bad that she was relieved of all of her committee assignments by other repubs in the House for her attacks and lies…and now she is back at it trying to foment hatred and racism in the wake of the Derek Chauvin conviction, spewing her lies that DC was deserted and there were soldiers on every block in anticipation of riots that were sure to follow after the announcement of the conviction…the only problem was that people have cameras on their phones showing that people were out in the streets, going to ball games, eating in outdoor restaurants, playing in the parks with no police or National Guard presence to be seen anywhere…and no riots, or buildings being burned down, or any looting that she was sure was going to happen in that racist pea brain of hers….and here’s a big part of the problem…not one repub has come out to rebuke her lies or racism…they just sit there bitching about black congresswomen hurting their fee fees by calling them racists…which they most certainly are. There has to be a price to be paid for this egregious lying behavior by MTG…she should be expelled from congress…today, and sent back to the hole she crawled out of before she can do more damage….geez…
Soccer and greed…
Well…as you know, I’m a big soccer geek with a great affinity for the Premier League in England, so if you don’t care about soccer, you can wait til later when I do a political one…go ahead, I won’t mind…I really can’t say that I’m sure you’ve heard about this…that the richest teams in Europe tried to create a new league called the super league that would allow them to insulate themselves from competition and the thing that makes the Premier League so cool…that, if you have a bad season, you can be relegated to a lower league and have to fight your way back to the Premier League over the next season to get to the financial windfall that being in the Premier League brings. I would be like if the Detroit Tigers had a bad year (don’t they always?) they would be demoted down to AAA ball and play teams like the Toledo Mud Hens or if they were really terrible, they may even go down to AA ball the next year…and this is what the new Super League was designed to do…to guarantee that the money keeps rolling in no matter what the performance of the team is….and this bastardization of soccer would have ruined the entire league set up across Europe where the seasons would mean nothing if there was no way to qualify for this new league. And, guess who this money grab was engineered by? Of course the American owners of three of the Premier League teams along with a few of the big teams in Spain…this announcement was met with outrage across England where soccer is more than just a game but is a way of life for the fans and they saw this as a betrayal of their support over the years that made them the success they are….fortunately, the outcry of the fans and of soccer organizations across Europe killed this stupid idea before it was two days old…and I share the relief of the English fans since I am a huge fan of Man U and to have them as one of the traitors to the tradition of the league irritated the hell out of me and I was prepared to stop watching them in protest…but, thankfully that won’t need to happen and I can continue to enjoy my game….
April 21st
Well…running about on time this morning with getting up a little after 6 and I consider that a win with only getting up once overnight….and I feel pretty good this morning so that’s a win, too, but I’m laughing that yes, I can hurt myself sleeping…my left side ribs hurt today and I know it’s not from doing anything since it was too cold to work outside yesterday and all I did was scrub parts of the kitchen…and that looks pretty cool and makes me want to get to the stripping so I can repaint the cupboards…but, I want to do that outside so I don’t die from the fumes and it won’t be warm enough for that until May at least…I do have to make a run to Menards this morning to get some more outdoor supplies….need a push broom, a hose end sprayer, some weed killer, grass seed, and some more green pepper seeds so I can get them started in cups inside…didn’t get out for a bike ride yesterday but I am going to try to get one in today if it gets above 43 so I don’t have to wear a stocking cap….I am so over having to put my thermasuit on to ride but I know it’s not good for me to skip getting exercise….the weed and feed I put on the lawn doesn’t seem to be doing anything for all of the weeds in the lawn so I am going to get some liquid stuff to treat it again over the next few days and I still have lot of bare spots that need seed and I would like to get that in before it rains on Sat….not much to do today…just the errands and maybe some weeding outside and I need to cut the sod out for my garden so I can prep the soil but nothing has sprouted in the cups so I have a couple of weeks to get that done….more later…