Well…to everyone who didn’t want Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the house after last fall’s election, the only thing I have to say is open your eyes an watch a master at work. Yesterday, Nancy sent a letter to idiot boy saying that trump’s State of the Union address should be postponed until after the shutdown is over due to “security” concerns with many of the people who would be responsible out on furlough due to the shutdown. Now, this is just a masterstroke and uses the speaker’s power in a new and novel way to make the point that trump is not the one in control anymore…and that he is not getting a dime for his damn, racist wall any time soon. One neat little point that was made in the letter was that, historically, there has never been a SOTU address during a shutdown…and she even stressed the fact that most of the SOTU reports were done by letters until the 20th century…basically saying that trump could do the same thing. Now, taking away idiot boy’s chance to be the center of attention is just the best response that could have been given to the narcissistic asshole for the damage his shutdown is having on the country and I applaud Nancy for playing hardball with him….he just doesn’t understand that things have changed and his bullyboy ways just aren’t going to go anymore…get the popcorn….
Engler needs to go…
Well…if you didn’t already know, after the Nassar sex abuse scandal at Michigan State…former governor John Engler was brought in to try to fix the problems that allowed the scandal to happen…at the outset, I was aghast that they would bring that asshole in to try to fix anything…in his 8 years as governor, Engler did nothing but attack his “enemies” and reward his cronies and try to sow division across the state so he could take political advantage of what he created. I was directly involved in some of his bullshit when meeting in his office in my role as a parent lobbyist for the Kentwood school system where he tried to play the urban and suburban school districts against each other. He flat out lied to us face to face about what the effects of Proposal A would be on schools in Michigan and laughed at our concern for our kids. So now, people are surprised that his doing the same thing at State where he has said that the sexual abuse victims were “enjoying the spotlight” that was focused on one of the biggest abuse crimes in the state’s history. I agree with MSU board member Brian Mosallam when he said that “John Engler’s reign of terror is over” and I hope it is…what a useless excuse for a human being Engler is…
January 16th
Well…I am still trying to go back to sleep in the morning after waking up way too early to get up and had a little success today…didn’t get out of bed until 6:18 after waking up for the first time at 5 or so but I’m not sure if that is helping to get enough sleep…shoulder feels a little better today but I’m still staying away from the weight machine for a while yet to help the bone heal…will probably try tomorrow after the grocery run since I do need to keep my muscle tone…will probably drop the weight a bit, too, just to ensure that I won’t re injure it…might even try to take the bike out later today since it is a little warmer this morning but I’m going to take the car out first to get some food from daily deals and to see what the roads look like….really didn’t get much done yesterday other than making alfredo and I have enough leftovers so I don’t have to cook today so it looks like an easy, boring one today….I am going to start thinking about trying some new things to do but I’m not sure what that would be yet…but, I know I can’t just hang out here for the entire winter…more later….
Finally pulled the trigger…
Well….after the crash on the bike and the weather forecast that has highs in the teens until the end of January, I finally pulled the trigger and bought myself an indoor bike stand/trainer so I can ride the bike indoors for the rest of the winter and continue to stay in shape. I have been thinking about doing this for a couple of years now and, with having enough money in my cash back on the Quicksilver card, the stand is not going to cost me anything other than a swipe when the bill comes. I will have to rig up a way to fit the computer trigger to the back wheel so I can keep track of mileage but that can be done with a little duct tape and other materials that I can find around here…now I don’t feel so crappy that I won’t be able to ride and I think it will help to keep the depression at bay not having to think about the weather…updates to come when it gets here….
Some new food…finally…
Well…I’ve kind of been bitching for a while now that I am really bored with the food I’ve been cooking since I stopped eating red meat and I didn’t know what to do to keep chicken from being so boring that I just couldn’t eat it anymore. So, today…I was looking at a jar of alfredo sauce that I picked up a couple of weeks back for a buck at Meijers, and started looking at the label as I have been doing since I have been trying to eat healthier and my only thought was yow! While the calories per serving were okay at 70 ( but that was for a 7th of a small jar), the sodium per serving was off the charts at 400 milligrams along with a huge amount of saturated fat…so, I decided to go out to the internet to find a recipe for alfredo that didn’t have the heavy cream and salt that was in the jar sauce. I found a really good one that just uses milk…but still uses butter to make the roue that thickens it, but to be able to control the bad stuff and make something that tastes great is a win. Of course it still has Parmesan cheese in it so it’s not the most healthy thing to eat but I was surprised at how easy it was to make and how good it tasted…and making it with non-fat milk does take the calories down to an acceptable level…oh, the chicken….I baked, cut up, and added a boneless skinless chicken breast to the sauce and that was just about perfect…and it makes enough for three meals for me over fettucine. There was a suggestion on the website that the sauce would go great over veggies like broccoli and cauliflower and I think I’ll get some to try Thursday…yummy….
Another mistake…
Well….with the ice covering everything outside, it looks like a day off the bike so I thought I’d do a shoulder update just because I’m bored…yesterday, when I got up there was no pain in my shoulder so, like an idiot, I decided to give the weight machine a try since I had been off it for 3 weeks…as the title says, that was another mistake since it started hurting on the machine and still hurts right now. The pain made me realize that I was right in speculating that I cracked a bone up there and must have re-injured it on the machine yesterday…so I guess that puts me back to almost square one and need to rest it to make sure the crack heals before I load it up again…darn….
Getting rid of federal workers is the point…
Well…I think one of the things that people are missing with the misdirection that the government shutdown is all about the wall is that repubs hate the federal government and workers in general…and this is their way of permanently getting rid of these workers to help pay for the tax cuts they lavished on the rich and business. They don’t care if the government works and they don’t care if they hurt the people who make it work…and their base is all on board with it since they are hurting the people they hate…and believe trump’s lies that all of the people who work for the government are dems so making them work or go without pay is perfectly fine and what they deserve. I wonder if this country can survive until 2020 when we can rid ourselves of these assholes? If they think that shutting down the government is just fine and there will be no economic fallout from it, they are just the dumbest people on the face of the Earth…but the political fallout will be much, much worse for the repubs when every ad in the 2020 campaign will hang this shutdown around their necks…and maybe, just maybe, this will be the thing that cuts through the right wing bubble and starts people moving back into the reality based world….for their sake, I hope it is…impeach….
January 15th
Well….just noticed that yesterday’s post got me to 6,800 of these and that seems to be a lot…my shoulder is hurting again and I think I shouldn’t have used the weight machine yesterday….think I’ll wait a couple of days before I do that again…might even have to take something for it this morning…and my stomach has been giving me fits the past few days and I’m not sure what that is about….I wonder if I should just stop eating entirely? Need to get some more zantac at the store Thursday just in case it gets worse…haven’t needed any of that for a long time…I did have nice day yesterday and I won at pool for the first time in a couple of weeks so that was cool…and I got a bike ride in but it was 23 when I went out and that is just a little too cold…paid for that the rest of the day trying to get warm…it’s warmer than that now so I am going to try to get out before the freezing rain hits in a while…we have a winter weather advisory on until Friday morning so it looks like a couple of days of hunkering down here and taking it easy…and, with the wind supposed to blow around 35, that just way to windy to get out no matter what the rest of the weather does….more later…
January 14th
Well…I wonder if I’ll jinx it if I say that my shoulder doesn’t hurt this morning? Haven’t felt anything but stiffness since I got up, other than in my collar bone, and I even slept on it without pain so maybe I can stop talking about it…I was down to about 6 hours in bed last night so that means about 4 1/2 hours of sleep and I’m not sure if that is sustainable but it has been going on for quite a while now…getting up at 5 or 5:30 is starting to get old especially since I have to wait so long to get on the bike with the cold… and it is going to get colder over the next week with the temps in the 20′s for highs so I think there will be quite a few days off…I am going to try the weight machine for the first time in 3 weeks this morning and I hope it doesn’t re-injure the shoulder… I do need to have some exercise without the bike…didn’t get much done yesterday and today will be the same with pool this aft…although, with not riding the bike, I do have time to do something this morning…will have to think about that…more later…
I’m not surprised…
Well…with the revelations from the NYT article Friday night that the idiot trump has been under counter intelligence investigation since there is ample evidence that he is a Russian plant being given orders by Putin, we now have the additional facts that trump has been trying to keep secret what was said in the 5 meetings he has had with Putin since he was installed…going so far as to rip the notes out of his interpreters hands and threatening her not to talk to anyone in his own administration what was said in those meetings. Now, I’m not surprised…trump is so damn corrupt and is clearly being controlled by Putin that he had to do this or Putin wouldn’t have been able to give him his orders…and this is in addition with what was reported just yesterday about the WH meeting with the Russians after trump fired Comey…that Putin TOLD trump to meet with his people in no uncertain terms. I have lost hope that the repubs will do anything about trump even though he is destroying this country since they are all guilty of taking Russian money for their campaigns laundered through the NRA…so it’s up to us to rid this country of all of them in 2020…and to resist every damn one of them until then….impeach…