Well….wow, big news today that has to have the idiot trump shaking in his boots…the supreme court just ruled that prosecutors in New York can have the 8 years of tax returns that they subpoenaed related to a tax fraud case they are building against him….and in addition to the bank records they already have, trump is almost sure to lose everything and probably end up in jail since he has spent his entire life cheating on his taxes. Now, we won’t be able to see any of them until the trials start since they are being released under grand jury rules but they will come out…and then the entire world will know how much of a loser trump is….and I’m sure this is going to snare his criminal kids, too…couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch…
February 22nd
Well….ick…up at 4:18 this morning and couldn’t shut my brain off to get back to sleep so this is going to be a long day…not too sore this morning even with moving a lot of stuff into the living room yesterday and getting it ready to move….and, for the first time in my life I feel like I’m losing my capacity to do the physical labor of moving…I guess I just feel old and the stress from getting all of this stuff done is wearing on me a lot…and this next week is going to be a sprint until I get moved Sat….I need to get out to get the down payment check from the bank this morning but I need to shovel the driveway first since it snowed last night…and then I need to pack the car since I am going straight out to the house after I close at 9 tomorrow morning….then lots of cleaning and moving for the rest of the week…and I need to shovel out the area in front of the garage at the new house so I can get my car in it if the door will work with the broken cable…..don’t want to leave it on the street and the bumps are too bad to get it in the back yard…..but right now I need more coffee and to wait for it to get light so I can shovel….and this time it’s warm enough that this is going to be pretty heavy snow so it may take quite a while so I don’t hurt myself and I can’t move….more later…
Nope, nope, and nope…
Well….don’t repubs ever get tired of stealing from the American taxpayer? Just this morning, a rep from Texas was on one of the morning shows, when Dana Bash asked him about the egregious price gouging that was going on with both the electricity and gas markets in his home state that have left hundreds of thousands of people with 10,000 dollar electric bills for one week…due to the unregulated power markets that are a feature of Texas….and this idiot had the gall to say that they don’t have to worry about these astronomical bills since FEMA is going to have money to pay them…and my response is nope, nope, and nope! These bills are all fake and don’t reflect any increased costs for any of the power companies but is the result of power companies buying laws that gift them the power to outright steal in the time of increased demand and there is no damn way that FEMA or taxpayers should be paying for what is just an accounting entry…and giving billions to the power company owners…hey, I have a better idea, why not just re-calculate the bills at the normal rate? These thieves should not be rewarded for rigging the system in their favor…now we all understand why Texas wanted to keep it’s power system separate from the national grid….so cheap power from the rest of the country couldn’t be sent to meet increased demand…and to keep the system rigged so a few get rich while the rest of the state pays…not one damn cent of FEMA money should go to these assholes….
This is kind of funny…
Well…if you read the first post of the day, you know I was bitching about how cold it feels in here over the past few days….and I just discovered why that is…in the course of staging all of my stuff for the move in the living room, I put the carton with my bike trainer in it right in front of one of the heat registers and by chance it directed the heat right up to the thermostat where it gave it a false reading of 72 degrees when it was only 66 in here, and that confused it and kept the heat from coming on for longer than it should to keep it at least liveable. So, after I moved the carton, everything is back to normal and there is heat in here again…kind of funny….
February 21st
Well…damn, I’m just so tired of being cold…haven’t been able to warm up for weeks and I am also tired of being under a blanket all the time….after living here in Michigan my whole life I’d be used to it…but this seems to be a new development over the past year or so…I know I keep this place pretty cold at 65 degrees, but at 65 degrees in the spring, I’m outside in shorts and a t-shirt and I’m sweating on the bike…I wonder if the cold is cumulative? Got a lot done for the move yesterday and I think I’ll do a little more today that will get me to the point where I’m ready for the big stuff to be moved Sat….I do have to go out and get a cashier’s check for 35K tomorrow for the down payment on the house so I can close Tuesday…finally…and then it’s wide open until Saturday night…it looks like I won’t have internet for a few days since my starter kit from Comcast got lost by UPS and I think they are going to lose the second one that is supposed to be delivered tomorrow at the new house…so I’ll be on the phone Tuesday afternoon and then out to the local Comcast office to see what I can do…that is the only problem I see in the move…just hope it doesn’t snow much this week so I can get the truck in the back yard…still need to shovel out the garage door this week….not much to do today…just packing later but right now I need coffee and to read the news…don’t feel too hot with not taking any allergy meds and breathing in all the dust…ans till not sleeping at all….more later…
Packing, packing…
Well…damn this has been almost all day of packing and I am getting tired of it…especially with no sleep last night…I am just worn out but I did get my bedroom torn apart and the tv and headboard out here…the living room looks like a junk shop with all of the totes and tables, lamps and stereo equipment….and this is what it’s going to look like until we load this stuff up next Sat….sure hope I can get the internet working when I get out to the new house so I can take the night off next sat and have some cocktails and just relax for a while….going to put almost 400 miles on the car next week with all of the trips out to the house and back but it needs cleaning and I need to get the bikes out there….but, I think I’m done for the day and need to eat something more even without riding…I could have gone out today but I have the bikes clean and don’t want to get them dirty before I move….want to be able to set one up on the trainer in the basement so I can start getting back into shape as I wait for spring…
February 20th
Well…damn, another 5:21 morning and it is starting to sound like a broken record…and I feel pretty slow today and think I’m going to have to depend on the coffee to jump start me…at least I’m not sore…or not too sore since I didn’t have to shovel snow here or at the new place yesterday and that really helped my right elbow…it has been hurting like crazy with all of the pounding it has been taking while shoveling….I did get the word that Tuesday is the set closing day at 9am and then I’m running out to the house to get my keys and take a load of clothes and a bike out there and start cleaning….and I still have packing to do here over the weekend but were getting close to being ready to move…have two more totes to fill and then I’ll have to empty a couple out at the house to get the rest of the stuff…but I have two weeks after next Sat to clean this place up and move the rest of my clothes….but, right now, I am going to have coffee and watch some soccer before I get started packing…..more later…
Ghouls…every damn one of them…
Well…god, just reading about this made me sick…as you know, there has been a humanitarian emergency from storms and cold in Texas where people haven’t had electricity or heat for almost a week now….and I wrote about the woman who had a 2,800 dollar electric bill for just two days with how the utility companies are allowed to charge in an emergency….just this morning the ghoul Jerry Jones, who is the ceo of a gas company that services Texas was heard on a company call just frickin giddy at how much they are able to charge with the gas shortage that was caused by his company by not winterizing their pipelines…”This week is like hitting the jackpot with some of these incredible prices. We were able to sell at super premium prices for a material amount of production.” Nothing about how his screw ups caused people to die from the cold but just giddily rubbing his hands that he is going to be able to bankrupt people with gas that is 100 times the normal cost…and this is the same Jerry Jones that got 500 million of the cost of the Cowboy’s stadium paid for by the taxpayers of Texas…1% welfare while the little people pay for it. I just hate these guys and the systems they have paid for that allows them to steal even more from the middle class and poor in an emergency…they are all damn ghouls for gleefully hurting people as they line their pockets….and they are all repubs….that’s all there is to say….geez…
February 19th
Well…damn, I’m tired this morning…didn’t sleep at all last night and feel like crap right now and I’m just getting to the first cup of coffee so that is going to take a while to help…at least I’m not too sore today but I am going to aggravate that later with a run out to the house and starting on the snow removal…not closing until Tuesday but I don’t think they’ll mind if I get the walks cleared so I can start moving Tuesday….instead of waiting to do the snow until then…but, I’m not in any hurry to get going since I have all day and that’s the only thing I have to do all day…other than pack that is…I already have 9 totes filled and three more to go but I’ll have those done this weekend….and then it will be two trips a day starting Tuesday….got the bathroom and my tools packed yesterday and I need to organize the garage here to make sure I get my stuff out of there…did I mention I’m tired? Not much to do today….just the snow removal and then back here to watch some soccer and pack the living room….more later…
Perseverance has landed!
Well…yeah, I’m a space geek and had to watch the landing of the new Perseverance lander on Mars just a few minutes ago…and the lander is in good shape and sending photos already….I just love seeing the reactions of the people running the show when they get the announcement and data saying the landing went off without a hitch and they have a healthy rover…man, to have a job you love that much and to be successful looks like a great thing…can’t wait to see photos from the helicopter…