Well…we all saw this coming…that the idiot trump would start pardoning the dregs of society and those who helped him collude with the Russians to win in the 2016 election…of course he started with Flynn and now Flynn is driving the bus of getting idiot boy to declare martial law and destroy the constitution….pretty bad dreg, huh? The latest pardons include three disgraced repub congressmen, and the worst one possible where he granted clemency to one of the Blackwater thugs who murdered 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians and was serving life without parole…but I guess that’s okay to the modern repub party…after all, killing 300,000 plus Americans is okay to them so what is 14 Iraqis? This bullshit has to be tied around every repub neck for the rest of time since they had to chance to remove him and didn’t just to protect their power…and now they own it forever….and, it’s going to get worse…
December 23rd
Well…it would be nice if I had at least a little consistency in how I sleep…and not be surprised when a brand new pattern happens…woke up at 5:14 and then tried and tried to go back to sleep and that didn’t happen….so I got out of bed around 6 and only got as far as reaching for the light switch on the floor lamp before deciding that it just wasn’t time to be up yet…so I went back and laid in bed for another hour…don’t know if that did any good but by around 7 I was ready to get up….and I don’t feel too bad this morning other than the fact that there is a winter weather advisory for tomorrow so it looks like a white christmas for us here in GR…I don’t have anywhere to be so I can just hibernate over the next few days…I do have to run an errand this morning and get a bike ride in and I may be able to get out in light thermasuit since it is already 40 out there….didn’t get anything done yesterday but I will get back to the packing and cleaning today before Man U plays at 3….I am quite disappointed with finally realizing I’m going to end up back in an apartment after I leave here unless a miracle happens and I find a house in the next 9 days….but, I’m going to try to not let that depress the hell out of me and make the last days here crappy…it will be a little hard but life throws curve balls at you sometimes…and I’ve always been able to hit them….more later…
Cheapskates…
Well…can it be any more obvious who the repubs in congress care the most about? I certainly isn’t the people of this country who are suffering from unemployment, underemployment, and the virus that is raging across the country…and you can see that by the supposed “relief” bill that is being passed in congress right now that is only about a third of the tax cuts they gave to the rich a few years back…and even in this bill, there are more tax cuts for the rich and the one that really shows how cynical they are is one they just had to have…to make the “three martini lunch” tax deductible again where rich folks can take each other out for dining at over priced restaurants and deduct the entire cost from their taxes…something that most working people can’t afford in the first place. So now, along with all of the tax cuts they are given, we are going to be buying the rich assholes lunch every damn day…and how much help is it going to be to someone who is losing their home or getting evicted when they get the paltry 600 dollars that the poor folks get? Every damn sentient economist has said that this is just not enough to help pull the country out of the recession it is in but moscow mitch and his cronies have said this is all they are going to do…they are done helping the lazy assed takers who can’t find a job in the pandemic economy…and that goes for the 1.4 million people who were added to the unemployed last month and the 20+ million who were already out of work…this is why we need to win both senate seats in the Georgia runoff in January…that would give us the majority we need to really help the people of this country and build the economy that would work for everyone…not just mitch’s cronies…
December 22nd
Well…running a little late today with not getting up until late but I still feel like I didn’t get any sleep last night…just damn exhausted and I’m sure part of it is the stress from house hunting without success…and I know part of it is just from getting old and I don’t like that much…I did get a ride in yesterday that went okay and my hands and feet survived it and it looks like I’ll get two more days in before it turns cold thurs…highs are only going to be in the low 20’s and that is just too damn cold to go out…but it is going to be almost 50 tomorrow so there may even be some thunderstorms tomorrow night…weird….I did get some cleaning done downstairs and need to do more of that today to start to pack my stuff back up for the move…still have most of it in bags and never unpacked it so it should be relatively easy…and I am going to do the grocery run today…I am going to look at some sirloin burgers at DD since they have it on sale for 99 cents a pound…you have to buy a 10 pound case but I can use it for tacos, too, so that won’t be too much…not much to do today…just groceries and then cleaning and looking for houses…another boring day in the neighborhood….more later…
This is depressing…
Well…okay…just an observation on the winter solstice that is happening today…it’s 3:31pm and it’s already getting dark…I just had to put the floor lamp on here in the living room just to be able to see to do this one….one good thing about it is that after today, the daylight starts to get longer and longer….and with the lack of snow so far, it’s been okay…still getting on the bike every day and I can remember a few years back that I was off the bike starting around t-day since the trails were covered in ice and snow….and just looking at the weather, there are no big snow storms all the way til the 8th of January…but, that can change…it is going to be cold later in the week with a high of 22 on Friday but then it gets back into the 30’s for a while…but I’ll take two months without snow…and keep my fingers crossed for two more….
Plan B isn’t working, either…
Well…with time running out to be able to buy a house before my son moves back to town, I have moved to plan B and cut my requirements down to just a house with a garage and I have discarded the other things I needed like a basement, not in the city, and some acreage…but, that’s not working in this new real estate environment where houses sell too damn fast and it doesn’t give me any time to think…so, I’m not sure what to do…I have 10 days to make a decision on something or I will end up back in an apartment in March…crap…I sure don’t need this stress….
I still hate Bill Barr…
Well…with all the damage that Bill Barr has done to this country and the rule of law, no matter what he does from now until forever I will still hate him…I wonder if there should be a but here, but that would mean I excuse his crap just because he acted like a real AG one damn time…but I don’t at all…over the past few days, since his resignation, he has stood up to the idiot trump a few times and who cares what the reason is…after the election, while he let trump go on and on about “voter fraud” before he weighed in and said there was no evidence of widespread fraud, he could have said bluntly there wasn’t any, but I guess that’s better than nothing…and just today he came out with a statement that there is no evidence of voter fraud so he will not appoint a special counsel to investigate that…and the second part of that statement is that he will not appoint one to investigate Hunter Biden, either, stating that any investigation is being handled through normal channels so there is no need….so, I wonder if idiot boy is now going to “fire” Barr even after he resigned and install a toady as AG that will do it? It appears that the Barr reputation cleansing tour is on with these statements but there is no way it should be allowed to work…every time this asshole pops his head up after trump is gone, he needs to be asked the questions about all of the crap he has pulled as AG, especially turning the justice department into a trump protection racket and not let him even try to be the “elder statesman” that he has not earned…geez…
December 21st
Well…got up at coffee o’clock but just couldn’t get going so it took me an hour to get here…and I didn’t sleep much so this is going to be a rough day…and I wonder why that is after sleeping okay for a few weeks? Oh, well….I did get out to see my grandson yesterday and he is growing like crazy can’t wait til he can see me without a mask…it was nice to see him smiling and laughing…and I know it was good for the car to get it out on the e-way and get it warmed up all the way for a change….didn’t get anything else done but the bike ride yesterday and today looks the same but I should clean some to get ready to move…not sure if I will but I should…and I can get out on the bike as soon as it gets light since it is already about 35 out there and I’m used to freezing my butt off…well…not used to it but I know I can tolerate it…but it still takes the rest of the day to warm up…not much to do today…I need more coffee before I even think about what I’m going to do today so I think that’s what I’ll do…more later…
Small acts of kindness…
Well….have been a little pensive today and thinking about what can be done to remove the stain and stench of the hate that the idiot trump and his followers have smeared on the world…and a story that I just read on Kos points to a path that I have been following for a few years now…small acts of kindness. In the story, a woman in England was trying to get to the nursing home where her mother was staying after fighting off both cancer and covid…but the directions and the bus number she was given was wrong and she was going the wrong way…and she only had a half hour window for her appointment…once she realized it, she approached the bus driver in tears thinking she wouldn’t be able to see her mother after their months of separation….and when the driver heard her story, he said to her not to worry we’ll see what we can do. Then he stopped the bus and asked the passengers if it would be okay if they took a little detour…and every one of them said yes so he turned the bus around and took a 20 mile detour so the women could get to see her mom. When asked later why he did it, the bus driver just said “because that’s what you’re supposed to do”….and that is what I’m supposed to do…just the little acts of kindness that says to me and the world that people can be okay…they don’t need to be the nasty assholes that infest our country right now…just a smile or laugh when someone isn’t paying attention on the trail or in the store and cuts in front of you or their dog is running crazy and I have to slow down….it’s such a small thing but from the reactions I get, it is making a difference…maybe for just a minute, maybe less, but in that small moment I know that my life and theirs is just a little brighter…and that makes me smile….
December 20th
Well…things sure are back to normal with waking up at 5:24 and then out of bed before 6….and that is a little disappointing…but, I feel okay this morning and not too sore so I guess that’s all I can hope for…and I didn’t take anything for my allergies since I’m running out of medicine and can’t get more for a few more weeks…but that brings my sinus headache back and that is pretty annoying…oh, well…the damn mice are back in the garage and one of them chewed a hole in the bird food bag…that didn’t last long as I got two of them in the traps over the past few days and the trap that is left was empty this morning so maybe I got them all…I really do hate to kill anything but it is annoying to leave a trail of bird food out of the garage when I go out to fill the feeders….didn’t get a lot done yesterday other than look at house listings but I have plans to go out and see my grandson this afternoon and hang out with my son and his wife for a while…he’s growing like crazy and is almost 5 months old and I’ve only seen him once with this damn virus still around…can’t wait for my turn to get vaccinated to help put an end to this crap…I don’t think I’m going to make it to 6K miles on the bike…just can’t bring myself to do any doubles after getting cold on the first one…but I think 5900 miles or so should be enough for the riding to be successful…not much to do today….just going to take it easy until it gets light and then get on the bike and then more work on finding a house….more later….