Well…just got a response from my e-mail to our new rep, Peter Meijer and the gist of the letter they sent is that if I haven’t gotten my 600 dollar covid relief check yet, I’m shit out of luck…or I’ll have to file a tax return to get a credit to offset the taxes I owe…hey shitheads, being on SS I don’t owe any taxes so how is that going to work? As I’ve said before, the SS admin has everything necessary to direct deposit the money into my checking account since they do it every damn month but the IRS can’t talk to them? Just another instance of doing everything right your whole life and then getting screwed since no one can do their damn jobs right…they can all go to hell…
February 3rd
Well…made it all the way to coffee maker start this morning but I wonder why I still feel so damn worn out….it could be all of the stress that came from trying to get the mortgage stuff done and the fact that I have to organize another move soon….or it could be from not eating enough but how the heck can I be gaining weight only eating 1,000 calories a day? But, I’m not too sore today so I guess that’s something….I do have some back pain from working on the garage door yesterday but that will go away soon so I won’t take anything for it….I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday but I think I need to up the miles again to get to 10 a day and need to do it now since I’ll be off the bike next week…I am going to set the new bike up on the trainer when I move since it has the computer hooked up to the back wheel and that will register the miles I do on it….and that will take away the guilt of not getting my miles in….then I need to save for a new weight machine to start to get toned up again….not much to do today…have to do the grocery run this morning and then I’m going to take the rest of the day off…or just start packing again…not sure yet how I’m going to feel later….more later….
What a day…
Well…finally, have all of the paperwork done for the mortgage broker so all I have left to do is wait for the closing date…but it wasn’t easy and I have been working on it for the past two days…running all over town and that took up my entire morning….then, after I got back here, I had to ride the last paperwork over to the broker but when I tried to open the garage door, one of the springs had pulled loose and the door would only open about 18 inches…so I had to crawl under the door and help it open from the inside and then reposition the bracket about an inch into some better wood since I had already repaired this once when it came loose before and this time it just pulled all of the wood out and there was nothing left to bolt the bracket to. So, it’s been a damn long day and I haven’t even gotten to reading much news to get a topic…so that will have to come later since Man U is playing right now and I have been waiting all day to watch that….more later…
February 2nd
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….