Well…I figured out how much good taking an ibuprofen every night does after not taking any the night before last…slept on my right shoulder and the tendon swelled up so I could barely move my arm for all the pain….and that was painful enough that I took one before I got on the bike yesterday so I could hold on to the handle bars…but, there is very little pain this morning and I even slept on the right some last night and didn’t get up til 6:30….had weird dreams about a harley that I leased but it never ran right and I was always losing the keys…and it weighed 900 pounds so I couldn’t lift it when it fell over….and there was rain and mud everywhere so I couldn’t ride it…strange…I did get out to run errands yesterday so I am in til next week…didn’t want to be out in the stores today or tomorrow with t-day coming…it was even pretty busy at Meijers yesterday and I couldn’t wait to get out of there with the explosion of the virus…the chance of someone in there infected has gone up by so much that I do need to stop going out but once a week….I have everything I need and with making a turkey thurs, I’ll have plenty of food….even got all the stuff for making soup just in case I want to do that this weekend…not much to do today…it looks like rain is coming in so I won’t get on the bike til the afternoon…and the rain coming might just turn into snow since it is only 28 out there right now…so, I’ll have time to clean with the bathroom and the kitchen needing some work….more later….
The transition begins….
Well…I guess a little pressure from congress was all that the GSA administrator needed to “ascertain” that Joe Biden won the election and that the transition to his administration can begin. In a letter sent this afternoon after a testy exchange with the chairs of a few house committees, GSA administrator Emily Murphy has sent the letter that will start the transition away from the idiot boy and to a real president…I wonder if the chair’s demands that she explain herself had anything to do with it? The entire holdup was that she is looking for another job and didn’t want to get trump mad and have him fire her since it would look bad on her resume…yep, the transition was held up and people died just so this moron could pad her resume a little bit and find a job in the right wing welfare web that is the only place trumpists will ever be able to work again….I wonder how idiot boy will react to people that he hired saying he lost? Man, this is going to be delicious…and twitter will be on fire later tonight and probably overnight…or, he is just going to go into the biggest case of cognitive dissonance and just lock his tiny little brain right up…LOSER!
Trump loses again in Michigan….
Well…the news just came out that the Michigan board of Canvassers has certified the votes here and that makes it another loss for idiot boy. The vote was 3-1 with only the trumpiest of trumpsters refusing to do his job and that certification means that our 16 EV’s will go to Joe and there is not a damn thing idiot boy can do about it…he has lost….and with the supreme court refusing to take trump’s suit against Pennsylvania and their certification going forward after that…he is frickin done and I can’t smile big enough about that…his hand picked judges who he thought would protect him bailed on the case and that ends his bullshit there….I just can’t wait for the full bore meltdown that is going to come tonight…I am gleefully waiting for it…should be fun….hee, hee, hee…
Finally, I only have personal stuff to be depressed about..
Well….that’s a weird thing about depression, there doesn’t have to be a reason for it…it just is…but, sometimes there is a reason for it and that reason is going away soon….my depression about the state of this country and the people the idiot boy chose to help him plunder it is being lifted by the cabinet choices that Joe Biden has made…wow, we are talking about a dream team of people who are at the top of their fields and who will bring expertise, knowledge, and years of experience to the jobs in the cabinet….and there is not one lobbyist, CEO, or fox news talking head in the bunch….and one commentor that I read today summed it up that even the announcement of the picks is professional with no “game show” bullshit that idiot boy always did with his moronic picks…and did you notice one other thing? Not one of the picks praised Joe Biden at all but just thanked him for the opportunity to serve the country…and Joe’s short and sweet response? “Let’s get to work” It is going to be so cool to have a competent government again and not be depressed about every new outrage….and to not see a bunch of incompetent ass kissers running this country….go Joe!
It’s a felony to not certify…
Well…I really don’t like the fact that we here in Michigan are in the spotlight today due to repub shenanigans about the certification of the votes from the election….it seems all of the damn repubs only think elections are legal when they win them and they will break any law to make sure they do “win” them. So, today here, about 25 minutes ago, the state board of canvassers met to just count up the already certified votes from every country and then certify that count is correct….but two of them 4 on the board are repubs so do you think they are going to follow the law? Not a chance and that is why we need to prosecute every damn one of them for breaking the law…there needs to be consequences for screwing with our elections….and one way would be to prosecute the two repub members of the board for not certifying the vote under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 where it specifically says that failure to certify the votes in any state is a felony….and this was put in the law since it was one of the favorite tactics of the racists in the south to certify white votes but to not certify votes that came from predeominately black areas…and that’s just what the Wayne county repub canvassers tried to do…not certify the votes from Detroit while certifying the votes in the surrounding white suburbs. So, it’s not a “constitutional crisis” like the repubs are bleating, it’s a simple case of breaking the law by not doing their jobs that the repubs are doing here…and they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law…and now…
November 23rd
Well…man, I feel crappy this morning and I know it’s from staying up a little late and getting up a little early…4:34 and I barely got back to sleep so today is going to be a trial…and I woke up feeling pretty depressed for some reason and that is not going to help….and that is after feeling almost happy for 10 minutes or so yesterday….oh, well…at least I’m not in too much pain today so that’s something…and the car ran great for 80 miles yesterday…I am starting to like the tires I put on it earlier in the year…no vibration and they ride pretty good compared to the ones that were on it…I am a little curious how they are going to work in the snow since I am leaving them on the car this winter…the snow tires are just too worn out to use again…unless these are just terrible in the snow…didn’t get anything done yesterday and only have a grocery run to do today…want to get the things I need today so I don’t have to be anywhere near the stores before t-day…ran out of bay leaves and I need them for the brine and for turkey soup that I’m going to make later….not much to do today…I am going to get a ride in later and do some cleaning but that is about it….more later….
We’ll see tomorrow…
Well…as everyone with a functiuonal brain and who has not been asleep for the past 30 years knows, the repub party is corrupt from top to bottom and really doesn’t give a damn about our republic other than how it can be used to enrich themselves and hurt people they don’t like. Tomorrow, we’ll see how deep that rot goes here in Michigan as the state board of canvassers meet at 1pm to certify the votes in the 2020 election…look, the only thing these people are supposed to do is do a little math to see what the votes say…and tabulate them…that’s it, they’re not supposed to look for “voter fraud” or even consider anything other than the counts…and for every year since there has been a state of Michigan, this has gone off without a hitch no matter what party affiliation the canvassers had…but with trumpism staining the repub party, the two repub members of the board are making noises that they won’t certify the vote unless there are audits…yadda yadda…and I guess until they are given ice cream and patted on the head so they will stop their tantrum. Every election official in this state has said that there is no fraud, no under count of trump votes, or any other delusion that the repubs have fished out of thin air. Trump lost the state by over 155,000 votes and no amount of “audits” or “recounts” is going to change that…so these repub canvassers need to just do their jobs and stop hurting our democracy by these lies of fraud and uncertainty int he outcome of the election…idiot boy lost and lost big and no amount of Qanon tin foil hat bullshit is going to change that…get the frick over it….
That was a bust…
Well…just got back from driving 78 miles to see the house that came up in my e-mails yesterday and it was such a bust…Muir is the dumpiest little village I have ever seen and I can’t believe anyone would want to live there…let’s start with the “paved” road the house is on…it may have been paved 40 years ago but now it’s just crumbles of asphalt and the “good neighborhood” it’s in consists of the house next door that may have been painted in the 1800’s when it was built but it sure looks like it hasn’t been since then….and the next door neighbor is a rusted out trailer with at least 3 derelict cars in the yard…but I couldn’t tell since the entire lot was overgrown with brush and weeds….if you say the words “white trash”…that is the description of the entire area…I mean trump signs in almost every yard right beside the burned out cars and roofs with blue tarps on them all over the place….it looks like the place was abandoned by time in the 1930’s….so, yeah, a pretty big bust but I guess that’s to be expected….some realtors really do lie…..
November 22nd
Well…running a little late today with looking at houses that came in my e-mail yesterday…slept okay last night but woke up coughing again this morning and that is just damn annoying…but, it’s better now and I am going to get out on the bike here in a few minutes….after feeling cold all day yesterday, I feel warm this morning like I have a bug but I think it’s the same thing I had for the past week just doing it’s yo yo thing like colds do so I’m not really concerned….didn’t get anything done yesterday and I think I’m taking today off, too….might just watch some soccer and football and just veg it out…I am getting closer to finding a house to buy…found one I’d buy in a minute if it wasn’t 40 miles away in Muir….and that is 8 miles to the east of Ionia but it is cheap at 80K and has two garages on the quarter acre lot and a walkout basement…and it’s 1100 sf but the interior would need a full rebuild since it has some really ugly paneling that I just couldn’t live with…but my payments would be 264 bucks a month and even with taxes and utilities total cost would only be about 600 a month and I could easily swing that…driving in to shoot pool would be a pain, though, so I’ll have to consider that…and the lawn is big enough that I’d have to buy a tractor to cut it….I’m going to think about it and talk to my brother tomorrow about putting an offer in….probably should just pull the trigger but I have 4 months to find something closer….not much to do today…I probably should run out to look at that house just to see how bad the drive is out M21 and to get a look at the neighborhood but I think I don’t feel like it today….we’ll see…more later….
An okay day…
Well…just haven’t been able to come up with a topic in politics that has stoked my outrage so I think I’ll just do this one instead…had an okay day today with getting out on the bike early but damn, I got cold on the bike and never warmed up from it…and that was not good since I went out to K’s to hang out with her and her family and we sat out in the driveway to maintain social distancing…I did have a heater so it wasn’t too bad and the sun was shining and it was cool to hang out and finally talk to someone….and I saw my first C-8 Corvette getting on the e-way at the S-curve and I think it looks a lot better in person than it does in pictures…so, it was an okay day today but of course, I didn’t get anything done after I got back here but make dinner…so we’ll let the cleaning go until tomorrow….after all, it’s a cocktail night and I don’t want to think about working right now…