Well….running really late this morning and decided to read the paper first before coming here…and I laid in bed until almost 7 after waking up at 5:41…just wasn’t ready to get out of bed then so I didn’t….and that made me late, too, so that’s why I’m here at 8:19 and not two hours earlier as normal….I did sleep okay but I think I’m done with cocktails for the week after two days…that seems to be enough and I think I may be moving to cutting them out completely since I don’t enjoy them as I used to…that may change as it gets warmer but we’ll see….my darn ribs still hurt as my forearms and hands do and I think I’m taking something for it before I get on the bike today….I wonder if two ibuprofens a day is too many? Don’t want to kill my kidneys and liver but I think 400 mg a day is not an excessive dose…I’ve read of people taking 2,000mg on a regular basis so I think I’ll be okay….I’ll be glad when the pain moves to another part of my body as it does every year….I did talk to another neighbor yesterday and he told me we have a skunk that cuts through a hole in my fence so I need to repair it…luckily, I have the light wire that I cut out of the back of the house and was going to just dump in the trash but I think I’ll dig it out and keep in the garage for repairs since I do have a couple of places that could use it….not much to do today…going to rake a bit today and cut up the vines and put them in bags to go out in a couple of weeks and then the bike ride but that’s about it…still haven’t taken the couple of weeks off that I was planning after I moved in here and I think I really need it…I hurt everywhere and the only thing that will help that is rest….more later…
Feel pretty lousy…
Well…as you can see, I’m not going to do a political one today since I feel so lousy right now….I feel like I pulled something in my left ribs cutting out the lamp post yesterday and it hurts to just breathe…but I hurt everywhere and have all day today…probably should have taken something for it earlier before I got on the bike since that aggravated it a bunch…and I am just exhausted…not sure why I would feel this way other than I’ve been under with calories for the past few days…but I couldn’t even eat a whole pork chop for dinner since I felt so damn full…and I should be able to eat more than a small burger (1/8th pound) and a handful of chips and a pork chop with asparagus for the day yesterday, especially with doing 15 miles on the bike today…I know that’s under a thousand calories but to feel this lousy is just weird….and it can’t be the cocktails from last night…cripes, I only had three and they were the first ones for the week…..so, I don’t know what is going on….all I know is I don’t like it and don’t know what to do about it….crap….I did want to have cocktails tonight but now I’m not so sure if I will….oh, well…oh, I did get my first gas bill for this house today and it was only 64 bucks for the month…so maybe the 80% efficient furnace is doing it’s job….
March 20th
Well…running late today and I know why…didn’t get out of bed until after 6 and feel a little crappy this morning from having a few cocktails last night…and you know, I am quickly getting to the point that it is just not worth it anymore so maybe I’m heading to the point of not having cocktails at all from now on…hmmm…I did sleep through the night last night so that was one plus and I did like that but the tradeoff of feeling crappy for it is a high price to pay…oh, well…I did get a bunch of stuff done outside yesterday starting with getting rid of that stupid pole that was in the middle of the yard…I was going to just dig it out but the darn thing was sunk a few feet into the ground…so I just dug down a couple of feet and got out my grinder with a cut off wheel and cut it off….only took about 15 minutes from start to finish and the yard sure looks better…and I got some more bags of topsoil to continue to fill the yard entrance but I am going to need a few more before I can seed that and make it part of the yard…and I got a nice bike ride in out to the lake and I think I’ll do that ride again today…had a few minutes to just sit on the boardwalk and look at the lake and that was pretty relaxing….not sure what is going on but I was damn sore yesterday and was hobbling around here all day and I am a little concerned for the first time…I’m really hoping that it is not that I’m just getting old but I’m enough of a realist to know that it is probably what it is…I don’t have to like it, though, and I can figure out how to make it better…I hope…not much to do today…need to rake the leaves and get ready to seed the bare spots in the lawn but right now I’m just going to have more coffee and read some news…oh, I did meet my neighbors who bought one of the new houses across the alley yesterday…and now I’m not the only white person in the neighborhood…and they seem nice and have a nice dog so that is cool…more later…
He’s too boring?
Well…okay, I know I did one on this before and I don’t like to repeat myself since that feels like cheating…but damn, I laughed my butt off with comments from idiots on the right from the past few days that Biden is just “too boring” and not giving them anything to be outraged about like trump did for four years…and one far right moron, Dan Bongino, went so far as to say he thinks being boring is just a plot by Biden to lull people to sleep while he enacts a “radical” agenda…yeah, if he means by radical agenda one that helps most of America and not just the one percent and bringing competence an truth to government. One of the big complaints from all of the right wing media swamp is that Joe is not giving them anything to run like trump did all day and now they have to work for a change and they don’t like….they seem to think that the atrocity that was the government under trump was normal and they just can’t understand that someone really does have empathy and cares about more than taking credit for things he didn’t do and lying all the time…get used to it morons…eight more years….
March 19th
Well…darn, I wish I could figure out this 3:40 waking up every night…I guess it’s not so bad when I did get back to sleep for a couple of hours…and I know I’m having dreams but I don’t remember them much lately…I wonder if it’s from being good all week? Yeah, 4 days in a row of no cocktails and I think I’ve earned a couple tonight…feel a lot better but I’m still pretty tired this morning and that’s without getting out on the bike yesterday…the wind was just howling out here all day, blowing from 20-30 mph and that is just a bit much to go out…but today looks better but it’s still cold so the ride is going to wait until afternoon….I did get some work done on the yard yesterday…went out to depot and got some topsoil to fill the holes that were in the yard but I only bought 3 bags at 40 pounds each since the Miata is not a truck and it was sagging with that weight so there will be a few trips to fill the holes in the entrance to the back yard and get the prep work done for the garden…going to use potting soil and manure to get that done but I have a month or so before I can plant outside…and I still have seeds from last year that I am going to try to use that I will get started in a couple of weeks…going to plant sunflowers again, too, since I like them and I have a perfect spot for them along the back of the house….I really can’t do much more on the yard for a few weeks since they don’t start picking up yard waste until the middle of April and I don’t really want to store it in the garage until then since the paper bags will degrade in the rain that is going to come if I leave them outside…more later….
This is what happens…
Well…damn, another mass murder, this time against Asian women in Georgia…this is what happens when you have the asshole trump going on and on about the “China virus” Kung flu” and the many many other racial slurs his filthy hole spouted over 4 years that were amplified by every damn part of the right wing media cesspool…6 Asian women are dead because some white asshole decided they weren’t paying enough attention to him so he’d get even by killing as many as he could find…and this goes along with the daily attacks on Asian Americans across this country that are up over 150% in the past year…and the worst part of it is the right wing Georgia sherriff who does a press conference and says that the murderer had a “bad day”….yeah nowhere near as bad as the dead you asshole…god, I just hate these goobers that are part of the good old boy networks that will do their best to excuse any action that is done by a white guy…it’s just a “bad day” that made him murder 6 Asian women…and it’s been revealed that this sheriff has been part of this Asian hatred, liking t-shirts that denigrated Asians and making a joke about it. I’ve had damn enough of these assholes who think just because their life hasn’t worked out to the delusions they have it’s an excuse to take it out on other people…if your life isn’t what you wanted, do something about it…get off OANN and Newsmax and do something about it…I guess it’s easier to just play the victim all the time just as all the damn repubs do than it is to make something of yourself…I’m a non-vioIent person but I hope they fry this asshole…and every damn other one who pops his ugly loser head out from under their rock….geez…
March 18th
Well…another 4:21 wake up but I was able to get back to sleep until almost 6:30 so that was okay…and I feel pretty good today even without getting to the coffee yet….and I don’t hurt as much as I should after all of the beating my hands and elbow took chopping out the vines in the back yard…I guess the ibuprofen worked…I did get a nice ride in yesterday but I am still looking for the trail that goes over to Ravenna since it is not marked or mapped…I know it’s there but I just haven’t found it yet….it looks like I won’t get out on the bike today since there is a gale warning out here in Muskegon with steady winds of 30+ mph and gusts up to 40 and that is way too much to ride through…so, I’m going to hit depot this morning and get yard bags and some topsoil to keep working on the yard…going to have to hit HF in the next few days to get another 100 foot extension cord so I can reach the entire yard and run the string trimmer around the house and fence….that will take a lot of string but I have a lot and will have to load the trimmer a few times to finish the job….so, that’s what I have to do today…but first, I’m going to have coffee and read the news before I get going…have to remember that I don’t have to rush…I have time to do the things I want to and can just putter around here…the yard already looks better than it did and it will continue to get better as I work…more later…
Finally got started on the lawn…
Well…finally, it got warm enough to get started on the lawn today after I got the grocery run finished…one of the big trees in the back by the garage was covered in vines that had woven into the fence and looked like hell…so I got my hatchet and axe out and tore into it and when I was done with the chopping and chopping, I had freed up a piece of chicken wire that I think they were using as a gate across the open part of the back by the garage and had removed all of the vine sprouts so they won’t grow anymore….and then I got started on the leaves but gave up after it got to be after 1 and I wanted to get on the bike for a ride before the rain comes in….now I need to get some lawn waste bags so I can put the vines out and then use my side cutters to cut up the chicken wire so I can put that out with the trash next week….my hands and elbow are sore so I am going to take something for it later but getting progress started made me feel good…I do need a shovel to dig out the broken off fence posts so I will have room to put in a gate later this summer…but that is going to wait a while…need to not push it too much since I am just now getting my back to heal from all of the moving….
A scorched Earth threat?
Well…As talk increases on what to do to reform the filibuster in the Senate to keep moscow mitch from killing all the legislation that country needs to move forward, he has started to threaten the dems with a “Scorched earth” policy that he will use to pass all the things the dems don’t want like militarization of the Southern border, outlawing all abortions and taking voting rights away from everyone the repubs don’t think should vote…you notice that there is not one thing in that list that does anything to move the country forward or help anyone? After the threat was made, the majority whip, Dick Durbin, basically replied with “bring it” and then asked mitch why that is any different from what he did with Merrick Garland’s nomination to the supreme court and mitch calling himself the grim reaper; making sure that popular legislation passed in the house died in the senate when he controlled it. I am happy to see that the dems are still showing a backbone and are meeting threats with promises and action that helps most of the country…and that means reforming the filibuster but doing away with it or, at the very least, making the repubs actually hold the floor by being there and speaking instead of phoning in their objections without doing any work. I’m glad to see the even Joe is getting on board to these changes to get the rest of his agenda passed to protect our democracy from the hundreds of bills that the repubs are pushing to make voting harder for dems especially…it’s about time…
March 17th
Well…that was strange…tossed and turned a bit but didn’t get up til 6;23 and feel pretty good right now…I could get used to being good and feeling this way…I did remember to take an ibuprofen last night and that really helps to get moving in the morning…my elbow still hurts like crazy but that is just the damn tendonitus that has settled there and the only way for that to go away is to not use it and that is not going to happen with needing to get started on the lawn and riding the bike every day…and I did get a good, long ride in yesterday and found a new part of the trail out by the lake that was pretty nice where it goes straight through a cool forest and then loops out to the beach…it was still damn cold, though, and my feet were frozen when I got back here…it is nice that I’m getting a bunch of loops of varying lengths that I can stack together to ride as far as I want every day…and I still need to do the Ravenna ride that will be a 37 mile round trip but that will wait for a while…still need to build up to riding that far after having so much time off the bike this winter…and I need to get a new back tire soon since it is wearing out and I don’t want it to fail when I’m 10 miles away….not much to do today…need to do the grocery run and get a ride in and along with doing a little more yard work to get it prepped for feeding and seeding…but it isn’t going to be warm enough for seeding for a month so I guess that can wait a little….more later….oh, Happy St. Patrick’s day!