Well…as we all know, the idiot trump inherited a booming economy from Obama and has done nothing but try to screw it up ever since…tax cuts for the rich, tariffs, and trade wars even with our friends have put the economy in a precarious position with all of the signs pointing to a recession later in the year or next year…so what is trump going to run on then? Hate and racism? Yep, probably…when you hear Ken Cuccinelli, trump’s immigration chief say that the immortal words on the plaque at the Statue of Liberty were meant for Europeans only…not those icky black and brown people. The problem with a recession coming with trump and his cronies in charge is that we have lower that fourth rate minds in charge of dealing with it who have all drunk the tax cut kool aid and have no thoughts other than cuts are the only thing that is ever necessary in any situation. Now, who would have thought that having an idiot who bankrupted every business he ever had and has a fourth grade understanding of economics would be a bad thing to have in charge when the economy crashes? I do feel for the people who are going to lose their jobs because of the morons running things…but, most of them voted for trump so I have absolutely no sympathy for them…voting for someone who you watched portray a successful businessman on tv is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard..but that is your trump voter…geez…
August 14th
Well…that was a little weird…didn’t get up until almost 6 today and I wonder if part of it is running out of antihistamine so I couldn’t take any last night…not any more plugged up this morning than normal so maybe I’ll continue without them for a while and see how that works…I even slept okay last night so I may be on to something…I did have a nice day with getting out to hang out with T for a while in the afternoon after getting a bunch done on painting and that made me pretty sore today but that is becoming the new normal that I can live with it if I can take one ibuprofen a day….I even had a good bike ride yesterday with my riding sores getting better but still not healed completely yet…I know it’s only been a week but I normally heal pretty fast and they should be gone by now…going to test out the healing here in a minute but I need more coffee…it was a little funny to come home from meeting T and fining my new exhaust at my door…and now I just need to find someone to install it…I think the guy that did the last one is not in business anymore but I am going to check it out to make sure…I still can’t believe that rock auto wanted to charge me almost 80 bucks just to deliver the exhaust when I got the whole thing delivered from auto geek for 77 bucks…including the cost of the part….and this one should last longer if I don’t drive the car in the salt anymore…more later….
This is just damn wrong…
Well…not sure if you read about this but when I did, it spurred a huge outpouing of outrage in me…just last week…and the week before that, and the week before that, and almost every damn week, we see a story about an elderly couple who died by murder suicide because they could no longer afford to keep themselves alive due to the cost of their healthcare…and most of these people have long term health problems that are hard enough to deal with…but, on top of that, they fall into despair as the bills and copays pile up with no end in sight and no way out of the trap for them. As an older person who is now on Medicare, I can understand that…for just routine things like a colonoscopy and some dermatology problems, it cost me almost 3K out of pocket last year as the fees and copays nickle and dimed me and I’m healthy…I can understand how someone with real health problems could be overwhelmed when the bills never stop coming in for treatments that are keeping them alive…so, many of my cohort are taking the only way out for them by ending their lives and there is something just damn wrong with that in one of the richest countries in the world where people like them and me contributed to society our entire lives…and still are. We need to fix Medicare so that, once you pay your monthly payments, any and all treatment is paid in full with no out of pocket, copays or other bullshit…and, before you say “how do we pay for that?” just look at the two trillion dollars that the repubs gave away to the rich and corporations…just a tenth of that would fully fund Medicare so no senior ever goes broke or kills themselves from despair ever again…
August 13th
Well….damn, I just didn’t realize that it was possible to be sore in every part of your body…but, that’s where I’m at today with a marathon painting session at the house yesterday…I did get most of the entry done yesterday and that is the most difficult part of the house so the rest of it will be relatively easy…slept okay last night but was still up at 5 today and I was really hoping for just one day of sleeping in…oh, well…I was smart and only did one ride yesterday and I don’t have any guilt about that and that is a surprise…normally I would be beating myself up about it but 4 hours on the house makes up for it…I can notice that the days are already getting shorter with having to wait longer to go out in the morning and that little fact is quite disappointing…I really haven’t had much of a summer but I won’t blame that on the house…just haven’t had anything grab me enough so I’d go out and do it…and, I have been trying to save some cash so I can buy a winter car before the salt is on the road…and my daughter wants to go to England, Ireland, and Scotland the year after next so I’ll need to save for that, too….so maybe I’m doing the right thing? Okay, need to have more coffee and get ready to get on the bike…more later…
Everone’s on vacation…
Well…it looks like a slow news day today…haven’t been able to find a topic that I want to talk about…okay, how about Manchester United? I started watching the first match of the year yesterday with some trepidation given the poor quality of the team last year and the almost constant disappointment that I felt watching them…so, I did feel a little better after they beat Chelsea 4-0 yesterday but the one thing I have to tell myself is that it is just the first game and until they put in a string of wins, I need to just try to enjoy the play and hope the youngsters they are playing will grow into the job. I still think a lot of the players are doing just enough to get by and they need to show more and work harder…and the goals that they got yesterday were all on the counter attack and not from the run of play and I’m not sure if that is sustainable over the course of the long EPL season…we’ll see…for now, I’m just going to enjoy the fact that soccer is back and that will give me something to hold back the boredom on the weekends…more later…
August 12th
Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back here for another one yesterday and I know I thought about it….I wonder why? I know I was damn exhausted all afternoon and that may be part of it…not sure what is going on but I know I’m getting pretty annoyed with it…I did sleep okay last night and didn’t get up until 5:45 this morning and I guess that’s the best I can expect…even had some dreams that I don’t remember and that rarely happens…my allergies are getting pretty bad and I am pretty plugged up today so I may have to take something for them before heading over to the house to paint…I may go over early since I have to stop at HF to get some paint brushes and sandpaper on the way…even dragged my big sander out of storage here to try to get some patching smoothed out…I didn’t get anything done around here yesterday with being so tired and I’m meeting up with T later so it looks like no work around here today either…the kitchen will just have to wait…more later…
August 11th
Well…the rain has screwed up my schedule this morning so I’m here doing this while I wait to be able to get out on the bike…looks like about 9 that the rain should move out and I can get a ride in before Man U plays their first match at 11:30…I did sleep okay last night but I had some weird dreams about paint for some reason…okay, I know why, I’m going to paint tomorrow so maybe getting paint in my eye in my dream is a warning? Don’t feel too bad today and I think it’s from eating enough yesterday which I really tried to do…and, only riding once helped to heal my riding sores but I won’t know how they are until I get on the bike later…it is annoying that I’ve had them for 5 days now and no treatment has helped much…going to try to do two rides before 3 and make some chicken that I’ve had marinating overnight for lunch…for some reason, I’ve had a taste for peas lately so I’ll make some of those to go with it and probably some mashed potatoes, too….I did get some cleaning done yesterday…finally…and will work on the kitchen today…have been neglecting this place and need to do better since it makes me feel better when I have a clean place…oh, there was a cool rainbow in the sky this morning that made me smile a little…so, not a bad start to the day….more later…
Okay, no politics in this one…
Well…damn, I’m exhausted today and I can’t figure that out…and my saddle sores started to hurt again on the ride this morning…which has me in a really bad mood since that is keeping me from doing a second ride today…which may not be a bad thing when I think about it…I have been feeling old lately and I’m not sure what to do about it…or if there is anything that I can do about it…I did get some cleaning done, finally, and have a clean bathroom and vacuumed carpet but I am going to let the kitchen go until tomorrow…just don’t have the energy to do more right now and I’m trying to think if I have been eating enough…I had two chicken thighs, some mashed potatoes and corn for lunch yesterday, and then some whole wheat pasta and a small piece of garlic bread for dinner…that’s about 800 calories for lunch and then about 700 for dinner so that should be enough other than burning 1200 with two rides on the bike….hmmmm…and today I had a chicken breast, the rest of the mashed potatoes (about 3/4 of a potato), and some peas for about 600 calories so maybe I am under…but, I’m not losing any weight so I must be eating enough…who the hell knows? Just grumpy today and need to stop here…
No politics today…okay, I guess that’s wrong…
Well…have been reading some today but haven’t been able to come up with anything to write about in the world of politics…okay…no…I did want to comment on the cynical, inhuman bullshit that the idiot trump displayed during his trip to “console” the victims of the shooting in El Paso…after none of the injured would talk to him since he is responsible for the shooting…or for spurring the shooter on with his white supremacist bullshit, he had the gall to tell his enablers to get the baby whose parents were killed protecting him brought back to the hospital for a photo op…now, I don’t know what kind of person would do something like that, other than an asshole like trump who thinks that everything is about him…and then, after the visit, idiot boy went off on his staff since people weren’t praising him enough for just showing up as the doctors were revealing a “shocking” lack of empathy they saw from trump as he was grinning and giving a thumbs up sign when posing with the baby. What a worthless piece of shit and I can’t wait for the day he is gone…so folks, get the hell out and vote to make sure we can see the asshole in chief perp walked after he leaves office….geez…
August 10th
Well…stayed in bed until almost 6 this morning…not sleeping but trying to but I gave up again and just got up…seem to have slept okay, though and don’t feel too bad…just a little tired and stuffed up from allergies…left the window open last night and it is a little cold in here right now and that just reminded me that I am going to have to dress for the cold when I start paying for heat at the house…don’t really own any of that type of clothes so I’ll have to buy some…I did get over to the house yesterday and did more paint prep work…it seems that the more prep I do, the more it needs but I think I’ll have the entry painted Monday…I did get the trim on the front door painted but that will be the last of the exterior for a while…I didn’t do two rides yesterday but I may today…I think I need to start hoarding my energy with getting older so I don’t do any permanent damage and soccer starting will help with that…have been riding so much just out of boredom that cutting back will be easier with something to watch…but, I still like riding so maybe that won’t work…I do have to clean today so that may be an excuse to only do one ride today, too…who knows…more later….