Well…running late today and I’m not sure why that would be…got out to get the groceries before 7:30 and just had one cup of coffee before I started this…slept okay last night and even had some dreams which was cool and I feel somewhat refreshed this morning…and that is a good thing since I have a lot to do today and need to get started on it….got a few things done yesterday too, so there has been progress this week….had the top down to go get groceries this morning and that was fun….I do like the looks the Miata gets when I do that…but, I did notice that there are more and more people that are actually using their convertibles instead of running the air…which is cool…nothing like a convert in the cool air in the morning…not much to do today…okay, that’s not true…have so much to do that I have to push the bike ride back until this aft if I go at all….more later…
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Sam Brownback v. the Constitution
Well…with so much crap coming out of Kansas and it’s failed tea party experiment of cut taxes at all costs…the governor there has sunk to a new low…after some rulings against him saying that the state government had a constitutional responsibility to fund the schools there, Ole Sam did just what the bullies in the repub party do…he got the repub legislature to pass a law saying that if they ruled against him again, that the entire judiciary there will be defunded…just the kind of extortion that the repubs are good at…well.. the only thing they are good at is threatening people that won’t do what they want…never mind that the judicial branch is supposed to be the check on the legislative and executive branch…where is that pocket Constitution that all of you tea partiers carry around, Sam? This stuff is obviously uncostitutional but that doesn’t mean anything to the repubs…they only read the Constitution when they can use it as a club to get their own way…man…we need to get out to vote to get rid of these asses…geez…
Who elected Grover Norquist?
Well…read an article this morning that just distilled what is wrong with the repub party these days…with the tax cut fever that has spread through repub controlled states like Wisconsin, Kansas, Louisiana, and our own state of Michigan that has busted all of the budgets…some of the conservatives in Louisiana have figured out that gee, maybe cutting all those taxes was not such a good idea since they are now looking at a 1.6 billion dollar deficit. Some of them have even uttered the unthinkable, that they may have to raise taxes to fix the shortfall. But, here comes the sickening part…instead of doing their jobs and taking care of the people of Louisiana, they first had to make the pilgrimage to the shrine of tax cutting, Grover Norquists office…and you know the result. Under no circumstances will he allow them to raise taxes…but, my question is “who elected Grover Norquist?” No resident of Louisiana voted for him so why do they have to suffer the destruction of their state to please him? It’s about time for the US to throw this idiot and his nonsense to the curb…this crap has never worked to do anything but to make the rich richer and allow them to freeload on our tax dollars….I hope this makes you as sick as it makes me….no one person has done more damage to the country than ole Grover…geez…
June 10th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash and that was cool…I even got the bathroom cleaned so I am spider free for the next few days and I have a shiny bathroom that makes me smile….even started on the kitchen an did the microwave and today will be the rest of it…might even clean the fridge but that may be too ambitious a thought for me before I get the coffee down….slept better but not great last night and I still feel a little worn out…but the soreness from the 5 mile walk back a few days ago is starting to abate and I don’t look like I’m a hundred anymore….I did get through a whole bike ride without a flat yesterday and I hope the same for today…but, it looks like I may get wet today with the pop up storms that have been happening all morning…not much to do today…going to clean…yay….but that is about it…I do have errands to run and I wanted to wash the car but that won’t happen…I guess I’ll just wait for the rain to clean it….more later…I will be back for a political one later…just read an article that really irritated the hell out of me….
Robins are pretty stupid…
Well….there are things happening that I should comment on…and I may later but right now I just wanted to relay something I have been seeing on the trail for the past couple of weeks…with the huge number of Robins that land on the trail, I’ve seen a few of them take off and fly down the trail and land again repeatedly as I come on to them….but today, I had this really stupid Robin that did this procedure for almost 200 yards as I rode up to it…it must have been 20 times this bird just kept moving, then landing, then moving, then landing until it got tired, I guess…just a really stupid thing since there is no food on the trail or any other reason for it to need to land there…the world is a peculiar place at times….
June 9th
Well…it was an interesting day yesterday and I fought bike problems all morning just trying to get the ride in….and another tube fail in the rear tire…no puncture but the seam just failed…again….so to make sure, I took the back wheel apart and cleaned everything…washed out the tire, the rim, and even washed the tube protectors…the tire is still up this morning so maybe it’s finally fixed…it was a long walk back and my legs hurt like crazy today but I’m hoping the ibuprofen will help…slept crappy last night and am feeling it right now but there is soccer on later in the day that I can nap to….I do need to clean the kitchen today and will get to that..or the bathroom…not sure which yet….other than that, not much to do today…might have to run out for a couple of errands but that is about it…..more later…
I laughed…
Well….have had a weird day so far with lots of problems on the bike but that’s not what this is about…read a little article this morning that ole GW got $100,000 to do a speech at a fundraiser for a homeless shelter in Texas…I question why anyone would pay to listen to this idiot who has been wrong on everything he ever did, bailed out by his daddies buddies when he went bankrupt, and is a war criminal, but I also question his understanding of a fundraiser for homeless people and the good that that $100,000 speaking fee would do for the homeless….that said the comments to the article were predictable….the Clintons go all over the world and make more money than that…and it is a good thing that GW stays in the states to do his speeches…yeah, ole GW stays in the states to do his “good work” for the American people…he stays in the states since if he travels almost anywhere, he will be arrested and sent to the Hague for a war crimes trial…and that is the only reason he doesn’t travel…not for any love of country…what a bunch of maroons…geez…
June 8th
Well….it was a long day yesterday and this lung bug I have took a lot out of me…even went to bed dearly last night…but I woke up with cramps in my right foot that are still there…it’s like I had my toes clenched all night and it hurts to walk…slept okay, though, so I feel okay this morning and maybe that will translate into getting something done today….didn’t get much done yesterday but today I do need to do the spiders in the bathroom….there is on large one that I think is eyeing me when I go in there….I do have some errands to run today but I may wait until tomorrow….or wed, not sure…I do need to put the golf clubs in the car and hit a few just to see if the back will hold up…and try to play at least 9 holes the next couple of weeks…..not much to do today….and that is the truth other than work out and get the bike ride in…..more later…
Just some stuff…
Well…can’t get any farther behind so I thought I’d just talk about some stuff and see where it leads….I did get out on the bike this morning before what little rain we got here and it was a pretty good ride…I’m sore as heck again so I’m not sure what is going on with that…probably the only reason I went out today was to prevent the guilt that usually follows skipping a day on the bike…Not sure if I relayed that I shaved my beard off last Monday…just needed a change and I think I look quite a bit younger without it…have even gotten some good comments out on the trail from the regulars there so I may leave it off for a while…the skin under it is pretty tender, though, and I have to remember that or there are nicks and blood all over the place from shaving…oh, I did have a funny experience at Meijers yesterday morning…after getting the weekend supplies…I was walking by one of the freezers and noticed they had chicken on sale…10 lb bags of leg quarters (that’s a leg and a thigh joined together) for $2.90…yep, 29 cents a pound for chicken…so, of course, I had to buy 2 bags and now I have 20 lbs of chicken in the freezer and not much else…just couldn’t pass it up….okay…that should just about do it for today…there are some new shows on the server that I want to check out….
June 7th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but, with all of the sports on, I didn’t get much done….slept okay but I am really sore today and that is disappointing since I thought I was past that…oh, well….today looks like another sports day with F1, a nascar race, and more soccer on so I may not too much done today either….but, I may take the day off the bike since it is going to rain in a little while and I’m not sure I want to go out and get wet….and the wind is blowing pretty hard in front of the front coming through and that always make it work….I do need to clean the kitchen and vacuum today and it I get that done it will be a good day….do have to cook some more chicken I have marinating in the fridge but I think that will be the end of my work for the day…oh, and one more of these…more later…