Well…it’s another 5:37 morning and I guess I should just resign myself to not sleeping much…or well for that matter and I’m not sure how sustainable 5 hours of sleep a night is…I guess we’ll see…it seems my shoulder is getting worse again and it feels like something is still damaged in there with all of the popping and crunching that is going on and it may take a visit to the doctor but I don’t want to spend the money right now….I did get my weight machine fixed yesterday and will take it for a test run this morning to see how it works…it only cost me 4 bucks to fix it so however it works I guess that is no big deal….I didn’t get my nap in yesterday for national nap day and I really could have used it….maybe I can make up for it today when soccer is on later…other than working on the weight machine, I didn’t get much done yesterday but I will clean some today and continue throwing stuff away that has accumulated over the years…need to strip things down to just what I need in case I ever find a house…oh, and I do need to cook today since all of the leftovers are gone so there will be chicken for lunch….more later….
Monthly Archives: March 2019
Erik Prince is going down…
Well…the wheels of justice are turning a little too slowly for me when it comes to Erik Prince since he has been involved with shady stuff since the Blackwater days…but, in just the past few days, it appears that the wheels have shifted into at least 2nd gear when it was revealed that hie lied to congress about meeting with Russians…and guess where that meeting took place? Yep, trump tower and during the campaign…and there were others there, George Nader, little donnie, and the head of an Israeli company that specialized in social media manipulation…hmmm…does that sound familiar? Prince also lied about the reason for the meeting, saying it was about “Iran policy” and not the continuing conspiracy with foreign companies to sway the election and told the congress he didn’t have any contact with the campaign other than about some “yard signs” for trump…and you remember what Michael Cohen is going to jail for…lying to congress…so, finally, it looks like another gator is going to be removed from the swamp….and not a minute too soon…impeach…
March 11th
Well…as always, the time change is screwing me up and I was up really early this morning…and I’m still doing the time conversion in my head which would make it 4:38 when I got up this morning and that is way too damn early…slept for crap, too so today is going to be a lot of work just doing the normal stuff…and I do need to get out and get the new cable for my weight machine and fix that….I still think I have a cold or something since I do feel pretty crappy and worn out and I hope it doesn’t get worse…this has been going on for a week now and I am getting tired of it….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I do need to get back to the fitness routine with taking yesterday off the bike…I needed it with my legs just going flat and sore but that locks me into taking 600 calories out of my intake for the day and that is part of why I feel so worn out today…but I think I’ve lost my appetite and getting to 1500 cals is going to be tough….oh, well…more later…
Pallin’ around with pimps and spies…
Well…is this enough, repubs? Is having pimps and spies hanging out with trump at his Florida golf course enough? How classless can you allow trump to be before you frickin do something about it? The latest, if you haven’t heard already, is that a Chinese woman who owns a string of massage parlors widely know to be hotbeds of sex trafficking has been a regular invitee to Mar a Lago and there are photos to prove it…and trump and his swamp buddies know exactly what she and her husband do for a living and are perfectly fine with it. To make things even worse (how the hell can it be?), these same two Chinese nationals have also been selling access to trump and his cronies to Chinese “businessmen” (or spies since the term is really the same) through the Florida golf course whenever trump is there. Now, I’m not really being alarmist to say that there is spying going on here, in fact, trump and his cronies are so compromised by these activities that they are vulnerable to blackmail, and we can see how that works with trump and Putin….and the Chinese are no less aggressive in using this information to get what they want…making it look like they are just being “friends” with trump and his cronies. So, what is it going to take repubs? trump only thinks about himself and ways to make money off his “presidency” and I’ll bet he is getting kickbacks from these two Chinese nationals for these “meetings”…how can you continue to support this criminal? Impeach…
March 10th
Well…another damn time change and it’s going to take me all day to get used to it…I think the spring change is easier for me but we’ll see as the day goes on…slept normally for me and that means I am a little worn out right now before I get at the coffee and I hope that will go away in a while…I am going to take a rest day from the bike today with riding twice a day every day last week and my legs do need a rest to stop the low grade pain I’ve had all week….and I hurt everywhere again this morning so resting should help that, too…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done but watch soccer and races and today is going to be the same with Moto GP and soccer that starts at 8 and then two more soccer matches ending with Man U at 12:30, then into the indy car race and Napcar later…so, I’ll have background noise for the whole day…I really should clean some, too but I’m not sure how motivated I’m going to be…more later…
500 miles on the bike…
Well…don’t really feel like doing one on politics today…just feel exhausted and have just been able to get up off the couch and move around for the first time today…well…not the first time…I have been on the bike twice today and that was a lot of work…but, I did get to a kind of a milestone on the bike today when I got to 500 miles for the year…with the majority of of that being indoors on the trainer after getting in a hundred miles or so before the weather got bad and closed the trails. I do like the idea of just walking across my place and getting on the bike but I am getting antsy to get back outside…I don’t miss being cold at all, though, and I may just wait to go out until after it gets warm enough to go with light gloves and no stocking hat. So, it looks like I’ll already have 600 miles on the bike before I hit the trails and that just may get me to 4,000 miles this year…
March 9th
Well…running a little late today with getting sucked into a tv show this morning and not really having any motivation to get moving…and I got up a little later than normal staying in bed until 6:41 after getting up for the first time at 5:18…and I didn’t sleep too badly with my shoulder no longer keeping me up at all…and the damage from yesterday is not too painful so it appears it was just a little muscle strain but we’ll see as I get moving around here today….I am going to try to make instant pot refried beans this weekend since, looking at the label on a can of them, they are just saturated with salt with each serving of half a cup having over 600mg of salt added and I can’t tolerate that much salt in my diet…and it will give me something to do later today or tomorrow…didn’t get a lot done yesterday since I am just idling waiting for them to come next week and fix the water pipe in my storage closet and I’ll probably not do much today…need to watch some soccer and ease into the day with coffee and a little news…more later…
It finally broke…
Well…my fitness program was interrupted today when my weight machine finally broke…or a cable on the machine broke as I was doing pull downs with 150 pounds on it…when it broke, it released all the pressure I had on my back and legs and I ended up hyper extending my left leg, hurting my hamstring and the ligaments in the back of my knee along with my calf…I could barely walk on it when it happened but I was able to get on the bike and keep it warm so it didn’t freeze up on me…but, it still hurts and I am a little irritated that the damn machine only lasted 15 years of almost daily use…yep, that was a little joke…I have a plan to fix it by splicing in a new piece of cable Monday…have been thinking about how to fix it ever since the cable started to fray quite a few years ago and it shouldn’t cost more than 10 bucks so that will be cool….
A blameless life?
Well…not sure if you’ve read about the sentencing of Paul Manafort that took place yesterday and the shock that almost everyone feels for the rogue judge when he ignored sentencing guidelines that would have put Manafort in jail for a minimum of 19 years and sentenced him to only 47 months in jail. The most jawdropping comment that the judge made before pronouncing sentence was that, until these crimes, Manafort had led a ‘blameless life”…a blameless life? What the hell world is this idiot living in? Manafort has been the “murderers lobbyist” for the past 30 years, working for some of the worst of the worst dictators in the world, helping to get people murdered and governments overthrown along with even helping a Ukrainian dictator attack American soldiers during unrest there. So, no judge, Manafort did not live a blameless life and you have just driven another stake into the integrity of the US legal system…and you have shown that if you are a friend of trump, you can get away with anything with just a slap on the wrist. For a little context here…a woman in Texas voted mistakenly…she thought she was eligible to vote but wasn’t…and she was sentenced to 12 years in prison…and a guy who bought legal marijuana in Oregon and took it back to Mississippi is now spending 15 years in prison. Manafort did not deserve any lenience since he continued to commit crimes almost up to his sentencing but this trump loving judge took it up himself to do what he could to de-legitimize and attack the Mueller investigation by this terrible travesty of a sentence. Impeach…
March 8th
Well…another morning of single frickin digit temperatures and that is pretty damn depressing for March…I am so tired of the cold and snow and winter and we are even to the daylight savings time change this weekend and it is still 8 degrees out there…oh, well…slept okay last night and feel just a little slow today and I can deal with that…just had the first sip of coffee and need it to work right now so I can get on with the morning…not sure why I still feel the need to adhere to a schedule every day but I do need to keep my days organized and that helps some…don’t want to have everything unstructured since that would mean I would have to think more and I don’t want to do that…didn’t get anything done yesterday and I think I’ll try to clean some today but who knows? I do need to get out and run some errands this morning with the powerball getting up to almost 400 million for tomorrow and I do need something upbeat to think about…but, I’m going to get more coffee and read some news first….more later…