Well…okay…feel like crap this morning after having cocktails last night and I think that may be the last night for that…had such bad heartburn trying to sleep that I hardly slept at all…it’s just not worth it so I think I’m done with it…oh, well…had an okay day yesterday and got out to have a couple with K and that was fun but the damn traffic coming back here turned a 15 minute trip into a half hour and that was no fun…and I realized that where I used to live is just one big strip mall with it’s own traffic problems…I mean sitting at a left turn light through three cycles? I guess I’m just grumpy this morning with the effects of the cocktails and I can’t wait for it to be over…and the coffee isn’t working yet…didn’t get much done yesterday and today looks the same with how I feel…I did get the bike and the car washed and a nice ride in and getting a ride in today will be my only goal for the day….but, right now I’m just going to sit here and feel lousy for a few hours….more later…
Monthly Archives: December 2019
Now the jurors are coordinating with the defendent?
Well…if you had any doubt that the trial of the idiot trump in the senate is going to be a sham, all you have to do is look at the statement that “Moscow” Mitch McConnell made yesterday that he will be “coordinating” trump’s defense in the senate with WH lawyers…okay, we all know Mitch is the worst damn person in this country, but to abrogate all responsibility to do his duty to the constitution should disqualify him from even being anywhere near this trial…after all, have you ever heard of a judge or jury in any trial anywhere announce that they would “coordinate” with the defendant in any way? This is how far the repub party has sunk in the past twenty years….that they will protect a criminal in the WH from any consequence of his shredding the constitution by more shredding…and every damn repub in the government is in on the fix…I am so depressed about where the repubs have taken this country that I am going to tune out the news for a few days and try to regain some hope that we can use the only mechanism that is left to us, the next election, to purge these traitors and then try to repair the damage they have done…it won’t happen in my lifetime and that is the most depressing part…that I am going to have to live in this world where the law doesn’t mean anything anymore and that thugs and liars are going to control this country…I need a drink….
December 13th
Well…that’s 5 days with no cocktails and I’m a little concerned that how I feel in the morning now is from being old and not anything else…I do feel better than I do after a cocktail night so that’s something but I’m not going to spend the rest of my life not enjoying myself…and that was one of the things I was trying to figure out, how I would feel normally without anything skewing it…and now I know and I think moderation is going to return as my mantra…but, not tonight…the latest season of “the Expanse” dropped last night and I have been looking forward to that for months so I will have a cocktail or two when I watch it tonight…but, I need to figure out how to watch it since it’s move to Amazon has all of the episodes available and I want to spread it out to make my Friday night more normal and have something to look forward to….had another night of pretty good sleep last night and feel pretty good this morning and part of it is getting a ride in yesterday…and it looks like I’ll get another one in today but it may be the last one outside for the year with the cold and snow coming back….so, I need to wash the bike later and get it downstairs and set up on the trainer so I can get to 4500 for the year…only a little over 50 miles to go so I think I can make it….I am going to make the first of two hams over the holidays today…picked up a small one at Meijers this week but need a second one so I can make my ham soup in January…or maybe I’ll use the turkey carcass first…not sure yet… I do know that I have a freezer full of food that I need to start using so I have room….more later…oh, I will get to a political one later today….the impeachment vote is this morning so I DO need to talk about that….
It’s time to pull the plug, Stevie…
Well….haven’t really talked a lot about sports lately but with the debacle that is my Red Wings, it’s time to wade in with my two cents. Stevie Y, it’s time to pull the plug on Jeff Blashill and go a different direction…after all, we are nearing a club and league record of losses and the Wings are in last place so what could it hurt? You have a Cup winning assistant on the bench in Dan Bylsma and even if he isn’t your long term solution, this situation shouts that there is change needed…I know that firing Blashill won’t magically give the team more talent, but with the young players on the team, there is a real danger that some of them could be permanently damaged by losing, losing and losing….and the prospects of luring top level coaching talent for next year is going to decrease with every loss so why not now? I wince every time I see the box score from a Wings game now when I used to look forward to every game and I don’t think I’m alone in that….Stevie, think of the fans who have supported you and the Wings for their entire lives…it’s time to try to give them some hope by doing something, anything that starts us on the road back to respectability…it’s too damn hard to watch my Wings the way things are….
December 12th
Well…running a little late this morning with staying in bed until almost 6:30…I wonder if there is something to this no cocktail thing? Still tossed and turned but was able to sleep okay and feel okay this morning…was pretty depressed for some reason last night and part of it was boredom and part of it was the bills that are piling up….it does look like I need to not spend on anything but food until Feb but that is okay…have everything I need until then and it may just revive my discipline some…just as having no cocktails is doing…didn’t get much done yesterday but clean some and the grocery runs and I have enough food here now for a month or so with a fully stocked freezer so I think I treat it as a challenge to see how little I can spend over the next few months….if I can get down to about 40 bucks a week, that should allow me to build my reserves back up pretty quickly…didn’t get on the bike yesterday with how darn cold it was all day but I am going to try to get out today and tomorrow but will have to be really careful with the ice that won’t melt until later in the afternoon….just don’t want to have another 8 months of not being able to use my shoulder from another crash…I am going to get the kitchen prep finished today and might even start to paint but I’m not sure about that yet…want to ease into the day with coffee and some news so I’ll end here….more later…
Why is this not treason?
Well…let’s start this one with the definition of treason and then maybe someone can explain to me why what trump and his repub cronies are doing is not treason. “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason…” Now, yesterday’s spectacle where trump invited the foreign minister of Russia into the WH where he spouted Putin’s lies that Russia was not involved with attacking the 2016 election, and which all of the repub party is pushing seems to me to be the definition of giving aid and comfort to our enemies…and as such is damn treason against this country….and every repub who is involved is committing treason…from Lindsey Graham to William Barr, they are all helping Russia to attack this country and are ensuring that Russia will have a free hand in trying to cheat to elect trump in 2020. I am so damn pissed that the only option we have left to hold these traitors accountable is winning the election in 2020 and then it will be left to the dems, as always, to come in and repair the damage that repubs gleefully do to our country just for power or money…never thought I’d see this in my lifetime…
December 11th
Well…running a little late today with forcing myself to stay in bed until almost 6:30 after getting up at 5 or so…and I feel okay this morning after three nights of being good…and I think I’ll continue that for a couple more days until Friday when the Expanse new season comes out…that I’ll need a cocktail for…but, maybe not…a week would be a good goal for being good and that would mean until Sunday…didn’t get much done around here but fill some more in the kitchen that needs to be sanded today so I can paint…but I am going to do that by hand to try to keep the dust down and use a drop cloth to catch it since the repaired parts are high up on the wall and ceiling…and I don’t want another mess like the other day that took me hours to clean up…after I get that done, I think I’m going to try to take a couple of guilt free weeks and just live for a while instead of thinking about working all the time…then get back to working after the first of the year….yeah, that will work…I’ll probably get a day or so and then get antsy to get things done and get back to it…we’ll see…not much to do today…it’s grocery run day and then I really need to clean the living room…might have to buy one of those dusters if they are not too expensive…this place is pretty dusty and I need an easy way to keep it up…more later…
No Olympics for you….
Well…hey, I am finally going to get at a topic that is not politics…or, on the surface it’s not about politics but the idiot trump is going to make it about politics. Just Sunday, the world anti doping agency announced that Russia and it’s athletes will be banned from all international competitions including the Wold Cup and the Olympics due to widespread institutional cheating led by the Russian government. The ban is going to be for 4 years pending the obligatory appeal the that the Russians will request, or if the idiot trump gets involved and tries to strong arm WADA into looking the other way…after all it is Russia involved and we all know that trump lives to please Putin. The bottom line is that Russia and it’s supposedly impartial athlete testing lab spent the past few years hiding positive results and were even involved with helping Russian athletes cheat at every competition they were in….just like the East Germans did in the 60′s through the 90′s when that tiny little country won every medal in sight. Look, this crap has been going on forever and Russia needs to pay some price for their blatant cheating…I do feel for the clean Russian athletes…if there are any, but the solution from Rio and Korea where individual Russians were allowed to compete but not under the Russian flag is not acceptable…we know that Russian athletes are under the thumb of Putin and can’t be assured they are not dirty…so while I feel for these athletes, it is time for their entire system to be penalized for their government’s cheating….that continues to this day…
Impeachment articles are coming today…
Well….House dems have announced that the articles of impeachment against the criminal trump are going to be released today and I’m not sure how I feel about that…I know he has earned them many, many times over but if they are only going to have three articles as the reporting says, I don’t think that describes the depth of the criminality of this asshole and the damage he and his cronies have done to our country. And, what’s the hurry? I know that the dems want to play this straight and work the process as transparently as possible but there is more and more information coming out every day that should be added to these articles and to have them only include three counts gives the repubs a talking point that he only did three things wrong and everyone makes mistakes….so it’s not such a big deal…shredding the constitution is a big frickin deal but I don’t see the pushback that should be happening with something this serious…like hauling everyone who is stonewalling the investigation into the house and compelling them to tesify…so what if it will take into next year for the cases to get through the courts? Time is on our side and we should be playing hardball with every damn one of these criminals…and now we see that not forcing testimony has become a repub talking point over the past couple of days….with them saying if trump’s criminality is so serious, why haven’t the dems forced people to testify? Feeding into the false narrative that the impeachment is all political and trump is a misunderstood angel….so, I guess we’ll see later this morning how the dems are going to roll all the criminality into the articles…and I hope they do their jobs to expose and explain why this can’t stand…or this country is gone….
December 10th
Well…I was a little disappointed this morning when I rolled over in bed and looked at my phone without my glasses and thought it said 6:44…but after I put my glasses on it was only 5:44 and I had already decided to get up…but 5:44 is okay with sleeping okay with just the normal tossing and turning…and that was day two of the no cocktail experiment and I don’t feel too bad this morning so I think I’ll continue it all week…I think I miss the process of making cocktails more than the cocktails themselves and that is a little weird….I did get the sanding done in the kitchen yesterday and it didn’t take that long…the clean up of all the dust took about twice as long as the actual work and I am still fining dust everywhere so that cleanup will go on for a while…I probably should have worn a mask when I was sanding since my head was plugged up the rest of the day but I’m not too bad right now so maybe there is no permanent damage….I did get a bike ride in yesterday but It looks like I’ll have the next two days off with the highs being about 20 and that is just too cold for me…and with all of the water on the trail, there is going to be too much ice to deal with so I’ll wait til it thaws Thursday or Friday….only have about 65 miles to do to get to 4500 for the year so I can still try to get that done outside and will probably wait til January to put the bike on the trainer….not much to do today….I’ll probably wait til Wed to start painting the kitchen since I need a drop cloth to cover everything and don’t feel like going out just for that….will take care of that during the grocery run tomorrow…so, I’ll get started on the spare bedroom and taking apart the huge headboard/bookcase that was left behind….more later….