Well…got my second vaccine dose today and that is a major relief and takes a load off my head…but, the side effects seem to be a little worse this time with soreness in my arm and a general feeling of being off and not feeling right…it hasn’t gotten worse over the last hour or so and I think this is perfectly tolerable for the results that have been reported for the Pfizer vaccine that I got…in a new study out of Israel where they compared the vaccinated population to their remaining unvaccinated people that had 600,000 people in it, they showed that a week after the second dose the vaccine was 95% effective and that grew to almost 97% after two weeks…and many in the vaccinated group who did contract the virus didn’t even know it the symptoms were so mild. So, there is hope and light at the end of the tunnel….I just hope that the Moderna and J&J vaccine is as good and people get vaccinated as soon as they can….I still worry about my kids and my friends who are not eligible yet…sure hope they get it figured out soon…
This is scary…
Well…you’ve all read about my real estate saga that played out over the past 7 months or so, but new statistics emphasize just how lucky I was to find and buy a house in this market. Just yesterday as I was doing my normal reading, I was astonished to see that the stock of available housing for sale is down almost 50% from last spring…and that is one factor in how screwed up the market is….when I was talking to my brother the realtor the other day, his new reality is the asking price has nothing to do with how much a house will sell for….in my case, I immediately bid 10K over the asking since I knew it was the best house I had seen and had everything I wanted and I didn’t want to lose it….in the cases my brother talked about, he is selling houses for 30 to 40K over asking and has 20 or more bids in on all of them….and the days of it taking months to sell you house is long gone unless it is a dump like all of the houses I looked at before I found mine. I guess what I have to say is that, as time goes on, I feel more and more lucky to almost have the whole thing behind me and to have a place to live that I’ll be in two weeks from yesterday…phew…
February 14th
Well…running a little late today with not getting out of bed until after 6 and then reading the paper….as I always do on Sunday…I wonder if I can keep that habit up after I move? Haven’t checked if I can get the press delivered out in Muskegon, or any paper for that matter…when I was young it was easy…every city had at least one newspaper and even two or three….but for some reason, the local news is not important anymore or it has gone online and that is just not the same….slept okay last night but wasn’t good so I’m feeling it today and will just ease into the day today…don’t have much to do but go out and get my second vaccine shot at 4:15 and continue to pack…I am going out to get some totes to use instead of boxes since I do need storage at the new house…and I can get 18 gallon ones for 5 bucks each but I wonder if I can fit them in the car? Going to get 6 of them tomorrow and then see if I need more….I did make progress on the kitchen yesterday but I’m not sure how much I’ll do today….Man U plays at 9 and I want to see that and I need more coffee and to read the news…I am going to have to widen out the driveway here to get the truck into it but I’m not motivated to do that right now…still have a couple of weeks until the move so I have plenty of time….more later….
We didn’t cave…
Well…look, I understand all the hand wringing here on the left when the house impeachment managers agreed to not call any witnesses in the senate trial today, but to call it caving is just a knee jerk reaction to wanting to get trump at any costs….we were never going to get 17 repubs to do their duty in the senate to convict the traitor in chief so the lead manager decided to take what he could get for nothing…and he got the statement of a repub congressperson that confirmed that idiot boy could have called off his thugs but didn’t…and that will be important in the following investigations of the roles of the rest of the co-conspirators in the congress and I defer to these brilliant managers on what the best way forward is…and it was even mentioned that the justice department is going to look at what idiot boy knew and when he knew it, so this isn’t over…not by a long shot…so, let’s stop the bitching for a change and just say thank you to Jamie Raskin and his team for putting together an airtight case that would have convicted trump if we didn’t have so many chickenshit repubs….and 57 out of a hundred senators voted to convict…and the 43 repubs will pay for letting trump off…again….
February 13th
Well…that was a little better…didn’t wake until 5:41 and stayed in bed til after 6 but I was not good last night and I wonder why…just feel lousy this morning and don’t like that at all…and I have a new crack on my right heel that hurts like crazy and I hope I can heal it up before the move in two weeks…I did decide to get out Monday to buy some plastic totes to help with packing for the move since I don’t have any boxes here and I will need some storage since the new house doesn’t have a lot….should be able to pack the entire kitchen in two of them and then use lots of garbage bags for the rest of the house…just like I did in the last move….I am a little excited that I get the second vaccine dose tomorrow and will be almost immune by moving day…and the vaccine protects you from dying from the virus even if you do catch it so that takes a load off…I did get out to shovel the driveway and walks yesterday and got some packing done and it looks like snow again today so I’ll be out there again…and it’s going to be the coldest night of the year tonight with it getting down to -1 but I’m sure the car will start with it being garaged….not much to do today…just packing and cleaning and watching some soccer….more later….
Trump’s in trouble in Georgia…
Well….holy crap, not sure if you saw the report on Rachel’s show last night where she had a district attorney from Georgia on talking about idiot boy’s attempts to coerce the SOS there to “finding” 12,000 votes so he would have more than Joe and all of the other actions he took to try to steal the election there…she talked about the criminal charges that were possible and that there are a few ongoing investigations from multiple agencies that could result in felony charges…and while she didn’t mention trump by name since she couldn’t, it was clear that trump is in trouble in Georgia and there is a very real possibility of an indictment…and, if trump is charged, then Lindsey Graham should be, too, since he did exactly the same thing…trying to get votes thrown out and “extra” ones found for trump. I’m not sure if we really need to be concerned that idiot boy will run again in ’24…not sure if felons can run for office…I know they can’t vote so he can’t even vote for himself….go Georgia…
Humanity is back in the WH…
Well….I don’t mean to gush about the Bidens but damn, it’s nice to have humanity and decency back in the WH…just this morning when there was a photo op with Joe and Jill talking about Valentine’s day…one of the reporters shouted out that she would bring donuts if they would come back out to talk next Friday, too…and Joe noticed that the reporter didn’t have any coffee on a cold day in DC…so Joe walked over to her and told her he hadn’t had a sip of his coffee and handed it to her…telling her that next week they would have enough for everyone….that goodness and humanity is just who Joe is and it is such a great thing to see after 4 years of trump being an asshole to the press…Joe understands they have a job to do and if he’s honest with them, they will be fair to him…and to see the press treated as equals is such a return to normalcy that even that little thing of giving the reporter his coffee seems like a really big deal….keep at it Joe….
February 12th
Well…damn, the string is broken and no more precessing….didn’t wake up at 2:14 like I was heading to…I did wake up at 2:20, though…and yeah, that was snark…then got back to sleep til 5:30 and stayed in bed til 6:30 so it wasn’t too bad…and I was good last night and that may be turning into a habit…would like to go a week or so just to see how I’ll feel and that just may be possible…feel pretty good this morning and just looked outside and there is no snow so that is a relief….it’s going to be damn cold the next few days but not a lot of snow in the forecast so that’s a good thing, and we are moving toward March which is supposed to be warmer than normal so maybe we’ll survive another Michigan winter…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but packing and will continue that today have almost all of the downstairs done and now I need to start packing up my tools that I have from working on this house and get them ready to work on the next house….I do feel like I have one more house in me and I am looking forward to transforming the next one into something cool that will be uniquely mine….and working on my own yard….have been thinking about planting some apple trees in the top part of the yard but I know I won’t live long enough to see the apples, but that will be okay…the next people to live in it after I’m gone will have a treat….not much to do today….just going to try to finish up the packing in here and start on the kitchen…have way too many dishes that I don’t have any place for at the new house but that will help me slim down to keep only what is necessary….more later….
He’s a damn criminal…
Well…almost forgot to come here today with all of the packing and cleaning I’ve been doing but I did remember so here goes…no matter how much the house impeachment managers prove that it was trump who ordered the attack on the capitol, the chikenshit, corrupt repub senators are still going to let him off since they have no patriotism or moral fiber. So, now, according to them, it’s just perfectly fine to send a mob of killers to try to kill his own vice president and the speaker of the house and any other legislator that they might have found…and to a person, every damn one of the attackers said they were waiting for the go signal from trump and they got it on January 6th….so where do we go from here? When we have one political party that is so scared of the Qanon people in their party that they won’t even condemn a criminal who tried to have them killed? I think the entire presentation the dems put on over the past three days should be forwarded to the DC prosecutors and let them indict the idiot boy…after all, it is a crime to commit sedition and try to overturn the results of an election…and this HAS to happen to make sure that the idiot trump never can get back into political life….he has almost destroyed this country with the help of the rest of the repub party…and this country will not be safe until they are all gone….damn criminals, all of them…
February 11th
Well…this is a little weird…my wake up times have been precessing for the past three days…two days ago I woke up at 5:14, yesterday, I woke up at 4:14, and today I woke up at 3:14…I damn well better not get up at 2:14 tomorrow morning…what’s next? Not sleeping at all? I was good last night and survived a boring night but have been so damn cold the past couple of days that I ended up shivering in bed last night…and pretty violently, too, but I was able to shake that…ha, ha…shake that….by just breathing into the covers for a few minutes but I am still cold again this morning and I m getting damn tired of how cold it’s been…haven’t been able to get on the bike in over a week and I feel damn sluggish from it…didn’t get much done yesterday but talk to the mortgage folks and I have been pushing them to get the closing scheduled earlier than the 23rd which will only give me a couple of days to prep for the move on the 27th….so I may have to move clothes and stuff afterward since I’ll have two weeks until my son gets here….I am going to get my second covid vaccination on Sunday and I am looking forward to it to finally put an end to worrying about getting sick, but that will take a couple of weeks after the shot which will be before the move so that timing is cool….not much to do today…just packing and more packing and a little soccer….more later..