Well…that was a little better…didn’t get up til 5:22 this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep so 5 hours or so is going to have to do it…and that does leave me a little slow today and I need to ease into it….man, I could take a nap right now…my stress levels are still at 11 and I think they will be until I pull back into my house after returning the truck on the 27th…I did get out to get a ride in yesterday and will today since it is going to be in the 30′s, but next week is going to be cold with highs in the teens so I won’t even be thinking about riding…got so cold yesterday that I was under a blanket the rest of the day after I got back here….I did have to run a bunch of errands yesterday but didn’t accomplish much and have some more to do today but not until later in the day…didn’t get anything done yesterday and I’m only going to pack today so it should be an easy one….man, this is too early, it will be an hour until the news comes out and I need to have more coffee…more later….
Good news on the vaccines…
Well…as the vaccines for covid are rolled out slowly across the world, there is one detail that is being overlooked that I think is a pretty big deal…of the millions of people who have been vaccinated, there has not been one reported death…let that sink in for a minute….once you get the vaccine, you may get sick since it is only 95% effective but you won’t get really sick or die from covid….and that IS a really big deal…that the worst outcomes after vaccination is to get mildly sick but not end up hospitalized or dying….to me, that is worth any side effect such as pain or fatigue after you get the shot…and they appear to have the same effect on the new variants of covid…so far, but there may be a booster shot in the future as the virus continues to mutate…but I’ll take that any day….
Pay for play…exposed……
Well…these damn repubs are so stupid they are saying the quiet parts out loud…after most of the repubs in the House supported the lies that there was election fraud in the 2020 election that led directly to the attack on the capitol…there was huge backlash from their corporate donors who said they will stop giving money to the ones who supported the lie and insurrection…and what is the response of these repubs? To expose they are all doing “pay for play” by saying they won’t meet with any representative from the companies until they give them money again…gee…sounds a bit like blackmail or extortion to me and it does fit the criminal description of it….so now we know…okay, we knew this before…that the modern repubs are only in government to enrich themselves…they have no principles or any guiding system of governance…they are just in it for the money and when the money is shut off there is no reason for them to be there…not to make their voters life better since that never enters into their heads…just money…and money alone….god, I hate these guys…
February 1st
Well…damn, forgot to make the coffee last night for the first time in years so I am sitting here waiting for it to brew and that is not helping my mood one bit…slept crappy and woke up at 4:24 and could barely get back to sleep so I am worn out this morning…and this is the third day in a row that I haven’t slept well and that is getting annoying…just exhausted all day and I know I can’t keep this up…but, my heel is still getting better and I am almost walking normally again so I guess that’s something…didn’t get much done yesterday but shovel the snow but I have an errand to run this morning and need to get packing so I will get some stuff done today…but I still don’t have a lot of motivation right now with not having any coffee yet but I hope it gets better….more later…
That was weird…
Well….not sure if you know this or not, but in many people with migraines, the headaches are preceded by what are called auras in your vision that consist of sparkly zig zag lines that look like you’re looking through broken glass…I haven’t had one of those in many years but they came back this morning while I was reading the paper…and the strange thing is that I don’t get migraine headaches, just the auras…I remember the first time it happened and it completely freaked me out…thought I was having a stroke but now that I understand them and know that they will go away in 30 minutes or so, I can look at them with a little amusement…and they don’t really mean that there is anything wrong with you…they just are and can be caused by stress or extra caffeine or any number of other causes…and I have lots of stress and caffeine today…just a little weird is all….and shoveling snow is really a trip when they are happening…but they were gone before I finished so that was cool…
January 31st
Well…running about on time for a Sunday and I just finished the paper so it’s time for this…I was just thinking about what my Sundays will be like when I move….I wonder if Muskegon has a newspaper or if I can get the GR press out there? Reading the Sunday paper has been a ritual for me since I was 7 or 8 years old and I would like to continue to read a real paper…I guess I’ll have to check on that…tossed and turned a lot last night and got up around 6:30 so I do feel a little slow today and I was lazy and didn’t shovel the snow before I went out for the paper so that will make it a pain when I do go out…oh, well….I wonder how much snow Muskegon gets? Lots of lake effect stuff I bet…so there may be a snowblower in my future…didn’t get much done yesterday and all I have to do is continue packing so that will be the goal for the day…after I shovel that is….my heel is finally getting to the point that I can walk on it again with very little pain and that was a long time coming….the skin is still peeling off it so I think I’ll continue to treat it to make sure the cracks don’t come back….not much to do today…just packing and cleaning that I am going to get to after I have more coffee and watch the first race of the year, the 24 hours of Daytona that is on right now….more later….
The last move….
Well…with almost getting to the end of the purchase project on the new house, I have been reflecting on the fact that this is going to be my last move before I die…and I think I want it to be more than just a move…maybe by including the few friends that I have left and making it a little bit of a party…I know my youngest son and his wife are in, and K and J have offered to help and J has a new pickup that would help…and Tom, maybe you’d like to come and hang out? Part of my thinking here is that I don’t know how much my back will take moving my big speakers and couch…the rest of it, I can handle since nothing is very heavy other than my matreses and box spring…so I think the move is going to happen on the 26th of February…and that will give me two weeks to clean up this house and get it ready for my son…then I settle in to the last house and relax for a bit…that’s going to be a long day and I can use the help….
Rudy is going to die broke….
Well…finally, some of the liars on the right are going to pay for lying about damn near everything…and it took companies to do it since the repub party is infested with liars that will say anything for advantage and are still lying about the election. After Dominion Voting Systems sued ole Rudy for 1.3 billion dollars for all of his lies about them that they cheated in the election and switched trump votes to Biden, he now is being sued by the Lincoln Project for lying that they were behind the attacks on the capitol when it has been clear from the start that it was a right wing plot financed by the trump campaign…and I just read the letter from their law firm on twitter and it is so damn funny that you should go out and read it…it just blasts rudy and asks “what happened to you?” and then goes on with a litany of things that rudy has done after becoming involved with trump….with this defamation suit, ole rudy is going to die penniless and they will take whatever is left over after the Dominion suit is over…how does that feel rudy? I think you probably should shut your mouth right now..and go away….
January 30th
Well…cripes, running really late this morning and I know what the reason is…had a few cocktails last night after taking the week off and I didn’t get out of bed until 7:30….I had almost forgotten how crappy I feel after a cocktail night and how much I need coffee to get over that and I’m sure I don’t like it so I’m glad I took the week off and I think I’m going down to two nights a week….just too hard on me and I don’t want to deal with that anymore….I did get out for a bike ride yesterday and I hope to get out again today since it felt good to finally get some exercise after a few days off….I do need to set the new bike up on the trainer when I move so I can ride every day and get my miles in…and I’m going to buy a weight machine so I can get back to getting toned every day, too, and that will be part of my fitness room that I am going to set up in the basement…didn’t get anything else done but run around and continue to work on getting the loan papers together so I can close in a couple of weeks….and today is going to be the same except for working on getting some packing done…lots of garbage bags for clothes and everything else….more later…
Jewish lasers in space….
Well…holy crap, the repub party is electing the worst of the worst to congress…a bunch of delusional, conspiracy spreader morons that is led by Marjorie Green of Georgia are so far down the rabbit hole you have to wonder how they even dress themselves in the morning…while she has advocated murdering Nancy Pelosi and supports the Qanon conspiracy theory, one of the craziest damn thing I have ever heard came out of this moron’s mouth last year during the Camp fires in California. When commenting on how the fires started and that California shouldn’t get any federal aid since it was California that didn’t keep their forest floors “clean”, parroting trump’s idiocy of why the fires were so bad…but then she added her own brand of crazy, saying that the fires were started by “Jewish lasers from space” and then went off on George Soros and bleated every anti-semitic trope that the right uses to attack them. And guess what? After it was revealed in Facebook posts that she advocated murder of her political opponents, guess what the repub leadership did? Nothing, not a damn thing, so I guess now it’s okay to foment revolution and call for murder of dems and there is no price to pay for trying to destroy our government or country…in fact it is now an operating principle of the repub party here in the US. This crap has got to end and Nancy Pelosi has to strip this gargoyle of all committee assignments and make sure she can do no more damage to this country until she can be expelled from the house…geez…