Well…as predicted, pundits all over the country are flapping their gums and telling our side that we must try to “understand” trump voters and their lives and move on from the hatred of trump…I call bullshit on that whole idea…I refuse to forgive and forget what those people did to our country by voting trump into office in 2016 and then reveling in his hatred and racism and letting their own fly like a flag…making this country a cesspool of misoginy and xenophobia and loving the fact that children…damn it, children were ripped away from their parents and put in cages just because they were fleeing violence in their own countries. These are not “American” values…and this is not political, this IS all about values, how you treat other people and try to do anything to make this country a better place…but, 70 million Americans still think that the idiot trump and his hatred is just what they want….and that will never be my values or that of any of us on the left…the right has no values if they still want trump…and how do you reconcile that with the love for others that we have? It is time for them to understand us…not the caricature that has been built by fox news and right wing radio but who we really are…I have absolutely no hope that any person on the right even has the capability or desire to change…they don’t think they need to…and that is a chasm too big for us to bridge…and I am in no mood to build one….
The world is celebrating, too!
Well…with the news that they don’t have to deal with the orange moron anymore, there has been an outpouring of support and relief from our allies across the world…with the kind of words no one would ever say about idiot boy…like “friends” and “looking forward to working with the president elect” “we have shared values”, “looking forward to stability in our relationship”…there were even fireworks set off by the mayor of London as he congratulated Joe….I hope this keeps up and idiot boy really gets to understand that not one world leader liked or respected him other than the thugs like him…and even they didn’t like or respect him…they just knew he was so damn dumb they could manipulate him easily with just a few words of praise…now the long task starts to repair the damage that idiot boy did…like stopping his stupid trade war, re joining the Paris Climate accords on day on, and reaffirming our support for NATO. I really do think that the world understood that the US was off the rails because of trump and his minions and with Joe and Kamala in charge, our respect around the world will skyrocket since they know we will be a dependable partner again….man, it feels good to feel good about this country again…
Our long national nightmare is over!
Well…I have been waiting for four long, miserable years to write that title…a few minutes ago every news organization (except fox of course) called Pennsylvania for Joe and Kamala and that puts him over the top in the EC and makes him president elect….I can’t really describe the relief I feel that the stain on America, trump, is going to be gone soon and some sort of normalcy is going to come back and we no longer will have a government full of grifters, incompetents, and assholes….I’ll come back a little later and add to this one but right now, all I want to do is read more about it in the news….
Okay, I’m back and I am surprised at how emotional my reaction has been to this good news…I would love to be sitting in a bar right now with like minded people having a few and laughing and smiling but that is one of the blackest of lasting legacies of the idiot in chief…I miss my friends and the surprise text to go out and hang out…but there are so many things I won’t miss…children in cages, ICE agents terrorizing the countryside, having a new law broken every damn day, having that smug orange piece of crap defiling out house, waking up to what new outrage the orange asshole has done, Bill Barr corrupting the justice department, more and more pollution, politicized government, stealing everything for trump’s cronies, incompetence, misogyny, fascism, hate, stupidity, corruption…you get the picture…it has just been so draining to see all of this crap for the past four years that I think I’ve got PTSD….I need to take the rest of this day off and just let all of the stress go….happy days are here again…..
November 7th
Well…damn, I want this coughing to be over…I am exhausted and feel like crap….and my brain isn’t even working very well with not sleeping much last night….I want a nap and I’ve only been up an hour…cripes….I did have a semi productive day yesterday and got the doors back on the linen closet and that finishes up the work I’m going to do here…and I’m down to about 80 miles to go to get to the last goal on the bike and that should happen on Tuesday…the first ride yesterday was a chore but the second one was better with going hard the whole way….but, I’m going to wait to go out today until after ManU plays at 7:30 even though it’s warm enough to go now…but I am going to ease into it today and let the coffee work for a while before I do anything other than this….I should be more sore than I am after all of the riding but the only thing that hurts is my right heel that has started to crack and it is a pain to walk on it…need to continue to use the lotion that is supposed to prevent that but I guess I got after it too late this year….okay, I’m tired of whining, too, so I’m going to end here and watch some Moto3 qualifying and have some more coffee….more later…
Think I’m going to buy something I don’t need….
Well…if you’ve been here a while, you know that I don’t like to spend money for things that I’d like to have versus things that I need…and I even don’t like to spend on things that I need usually making whatever I have work or just doing without…I mean, I drive a 26 year old car and have a 46 year old stereo and I have some clothes that are over 25 years old….but, I think I just may buy something that I don’t need but I want for the first time that I can remember. I have looked at tablet computers with an eye toward buying one for quite a while now and a deal that I don’t think I can pass up just showed up…amazon has their best Fire 10HD tablet on sale for 80 bucks for the next few days when it is normally 150 bucks and at that price, I think I can justify splurging on myself…I can get one with 32 gigs of memory and no ads on the start screen for 95 bucks…the reviews said it was a screaming deal at 150 bucks so I wonder if it is a double screaming deal for 50 bucks less? It would be pretty cool to have a new toy to play with and to be able to read the news on something bigger than the 3.5 inch screen on my Galaxy S-7 phone. I still have to think about it for another night but I am inching up on buying one…after all, how much longer can I wait? I am getting pretty damn old….
Okay…I just bought one….yay!
Still no election call…
Well…it’s pushing 3 pm here and there still is no call of the winner of the election…although, Joe is ahead in all 5 states that are left to call and idiot boy would have to take them all to win the election…so it is looking pretty good right now and no state has more than 6% of the vote to count so the call could come in the next few hours…or it might not…it might be next week, who knows? So, I think I’ll leave that there and do another one to talk about something else….
Biden takes the lead in Pennsylvania…
Well….just getting ready to get on the bike for the first ride of the day and thought I’d relay the news in a short one…just a minute ago, Joe took the lead in Pennsylvania with only votes from the Philly area to be counted that should be heavily democratic…and he took the lead in Georgia overnight although the lead is really small…and with pennsy, that means Joe is ahead in every state that is still counting votes….so, I’m going to go out and ride and I hope that when I get back the election has been called….more later….
November 6th
Well…another night of sleeping better and I don’t quite know how to act…had some dreams about a vacation where everyone knew me but I didn’t know many of them…and it was not a place that I’d ever gone…weird…and I didn’t cough much but it started back up when I got up and I can’t understand that other than I didn’t take any allergy stuff with trying to make it last until I can buy more…so my head is plugged up and I have that damn headache that I’ve had for weeks now…but, aspirin helped that yesterday so I’ll try that again this morning…had two great wide open rides yesterday and it felt good to go hard again so I’m going to try that again today…I do hope the wind is a little calmer, though, it was blowing pretty hard on the second ride going out but that made it fun coming back with the wind…was able to run in 24th all the way back and I was flying at almost 20 from the turn all the way through JBZ…..lots of fun….didn’t get anything else done yesterday but put out some trash but I am going to get on the linen closet doors this morning and then hang them this aft….and then I’ll take the weekend off other than cleaning…I do need to figure out what to eat and get it out of the freezer downstairs…or may I’ll do pasta…or pizza….have a few options but I don’t really want to think right now….need more coffee and to read some news….more later…
I’m exhausted….
Well….as I sit here waiting for the last state that Joe needs to win the election to be called, I can say that I am exhausted from the entire elections season and I want it to be over as soon as possible when the votes are counted. I need to be able to just take it easy for a few days and stop thinking about anything but looking for a house and putting the doors back on the linen closet. I am so damn tired of trump and his idiot henchmen who are running around screeching “election fraud” but when asked, they can’t explain what is being done wrong or unlawfully…the rules have been explained clearly and the states that are still counting are following the rules for each state so where is the fraud? Across the world, new organizations just can’t believe what trump and his minions are doing, and even the UN election watchers are saying they see nothing wrong and no “fraud” in any state that they have been observing…but, I guess the UN is in on it, too? I think the world just wants trump gone, too…they have had enough of him and his bullshit as we have here…at least 55% of us want him gone and the other 45% are just racist assholes anyway and who cares what they think? I am just done with it for today…unless they call it then I’ll be back to do another one….
November 5th
Well…that’s probably as close to a normal night’s sleep that I’m ever going to see again…only woke up once around 3 and the only reason is I was cold with not sleeping under any blankets to start the night…how the heck can you be shivering sleeping in full indoor thermasuit and with it still 66 in here? After working downstairs for an hour or so yesterday, I was expecting to be coughing all night but it really didn’t happen until now and it’s not even that bad…still feel congested but maybe getting two rides in daily this week is helping to clear out my lungs…and it is 55 outside right now so I can get on the bike early today…as soon as it gets light and that will be a good start to the day….still have that damn headache I’ve had for weeks now and I’m not really sure what it could be…I think it started when I had to close up the house with the cold weather but I can’t be sure of that…can’t really take anything for it since I am running out of allergy meds and can’t get more for a couple of weeks…might try some aspirin to see if that will help…I do have to finish up cleaning the yard today and get the last of the gardens bagged up but then I’m done other than trying to fill in the garden I put in the yard but I have to find usable dirt to do it…might have to buy a few bags of topsoil if it’s still available….then I’ll probably seed it with the seed I have left after repairing the front yard….not much to do today…going to just take a normal day with two rides and then fooling around a bit…need to start putting the hardware back on the linen closet doors and get them hung this week…they came out really good and look nice…and that will complete the work I’m doing here other than cleaning….now to get to finding a house for me….more later….