December 6th

Well…going to be out of sequence this morning with not waiting to get the grocery run done before doing this…getting up at 5:34 leaves me a lot of time before I head out so I thought I’d get this done before I go….slept okay last night but feel a little grumpy today after being depressed last night…can’t figure out why that is but I guess I’ll just roll with it until I feel better…part of it may be not getting on the bike yesterday…it was just too slick and there was too much snow on the trail to be comfortable so I took the day off…may have another one off today but I am going to try to get out after the sun comes up…so that means I’ll have to do another workout after I get back here and have coffee….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and all I have to do is cook today…going to make some chicken thighs and veggies in the instant pot today…going to use some pasta sauce as the liquid and just see how that comes out…and I am going to meet up with G later for a couple….haven’t seen here in a couple of months so that should be fun…more later…oh, happy “L” day!  More later….

The Flynn sentencing…

Well…the filing in the Michael Flynn case came out last night and it left quite a few questions…much of it was redacted but there are a few things that can be inferred from it even with the redactions. There were three investigations that Flynn was cooperating with, not just the special counsel….and the SOC investigation was not even listed first in the paperwork but some mysterious criminal investigation that only the title was left unblacked…and the third investigation was completely blacked out so there was no clue to what it was or is….one thing to remember is that all three of these investigations are still ongoing and that is the reason for the redactions. One of the big clues for how serious Flynn’s cooperation is to the idiot trump and his cronies is that Mueller is recommending no jail time for Flynn…making sure that the sentencing judge knows how valuable this information is…and to get Flynn from a potential 5 years in jail down to no jail time means he gave up someone above him…and that leaves Kushner, Pence, or the idiot trump…..that is my speculation of how these things normally work, anyway….so, trump and Giuliani going on and on that the investigation is over is just so much whistling past the graveyard….there is more to come and it is not going to be good for the repubs….let’s hope they have McConnell in there, too…impeach…

December 5th

Well…up early again today but went to bed early so I guess that evens out…had a weird dream to start the night last night and that never happens so I am a little perplexed about that…and, they continued all night, too…can’t remember the last time that happened…slept okay, though, and feel okay today but still have a little cough and that may just be from getting old and still having allergies….I did get a nice, hard ride in yesterday but it snowed again last night so I guess I’ll be back to being careful today…may even have the day off the bike if I decide I don’t want to pay that much attention….I did get some things done yesterday…paid all the bills that covers me until the 24th and did start to clean the kitchen but I am going to have to suck it up and just do the entire thing today…or not, there is soccer on later today and I want to watch Man U lose again…damn, they have become a crappy team…more later….

Still no news…

Well…still waiting for the news on Mueller and the Flynn sentencing so I thought I’d talk about the stock market meltdown going on right now…at last check, the Dow is down over 700 points today and it is all caused by the idiot trump and his lies that he had the “biggest and best” trade deal with China after talking to XI only for as long as it took to have dinner. Who would ever have thought that lying to the world about trade would have that effect on stocks? Certainly not the idiot in chief who basically knows nothing about anything….after all he still spouts that he is a “tariff man” and thinks that foreign countries pay for them and that the US will be richer from them…it just doesn’t work that way…the people of the US pay for the damn tariffs through higher prices and job losses that come from those prices…and we all know that trump doesn’t really care about job losses or anything else unless it directly affects him…geez…how damn dumb does he have to be before anyone on the right does something about him? Yeah, that was rhetorical…we know they won’t life a damn finger…impeach…

The puzzle pieces start to fit…

Well…just a shorty before I go out and read the news and have more coffee…today is the day when the puzzle pieces start to fit together with Mueller filing the sentencing documents for Michael Flynn this afternoon…if this one follows the pattern of the others filed so far, we will start to see the outlines of the case and who did what when….and trump will be freaked out when he sees that his cries of “witch hunt” are silenced by facts…I can’t wait to see how idiot boy reacts today…can he be restrained with the Bush funeral tomorrow? Nope, wouldn’t bet on that….more later…

December 4th

Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for another one yesterday but that happens sometimes on a pool day…which I lost but had lots of fun so that was cool…hmmmm…just noticed I’m not as sore as normal this morning and I wonder what that is about…have gotten used to being sore everywhere almost all the time so this is welcome…hope it continues all day….even my elbows don’t hurt and the tendons in there have been been bad lately….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but wash the car but I am going to clean today…the kitchen needs a scrub down so that will be the project for the day…and I do have to pay a couple of bills but I can do that online so that will be easy….even though it’s going to be cold, it looks like I’ll be able to get out on the bike all week with the trails clean and no snow in the forecast…I think that has been helping me get back to sorts after being off it for a few days last week…I do need to clean the bike this aft, too since it is filthy and the shifter is full of crap and is sticking on the upshifts and that is annoying….maybe I’ll do that before I go out this morning…who knows? More later….

December 3rd

Well…running a little late for the new normal this morning…didn’t get up until almost 6 and even had some dreams last night and that rarely happens anymore…but, I feel pretty lousy this morning and I assume it’s from not eating enough…again…have been back on the bike the past couple of days and didn’t allow for the extra calories that takes…one of these days, I’m just going to go back to bed after I do this….I did get a few things done yesterday but I won’t do much today but wash the car…I need quarters for pool and to get the salt off it so that will need to be after I get the ride in and work out…I think I may need to tighten the belt that runs the alternator since it was squealing a little yesterday when I went out for the paper…but, with all of the rain and moisture out there, that is pretty normal when I don’t run the car much…I do need to work on the bike before I go out, too…with all of the crud in the shifter from riding in the wet, it was hanging up on the ride yesterday and that is pretty annoying….more later…

Finally got something done…

Well…you know that I have been talking about not getting anything done for quite a few days now and I’m not sure why it is…is it the depression coming back? Not sure but I know I’ve had this feeling of dread hanging over me for a couple of weeks now…but it shouldn’t be there…there really is nothing to dread in my life right now…I mean I have enough money coming in to live on…and my health is okay…could be better but I’m working on that…and I just changed my Medicare coverage to make sure that an illness won’t make be go broke…so, I wonder what it is? Yeah, I know…there doesn’t have to be a reason for depression…it just is at times and I’ve been through it enough that I should realize that….hmmmm…well…not going to dwell on that any more today…after all, I did get something done today….the bathroom is now clean and smells like flowers….not sure if I like the smell of the Pine Sol floral but I can get used to it…and, I got a bike ride in while the fog was still here this morning…damn near went down on one of the bridges on the trail…and that was walking the bike since it was way too slick to even attempt to ride across it…but, the rest of the trail was almost clear so that was cool….okay…need to make dinner here in a few so I’ll end here….no more later….

This is how far they’ll go…

Well…we all know that the repubs can only win elections by cheating since their ideas are so unpopular with over 60% of the electorate…and cheat they do, gerrymandering, voter purges, and voter ID are just a few of the methods they regularly use to stay in power…but, in North Carolina they have come up with a new one in a little watched race….it appears that the repub candidate who is ahead by a little over 900 votes, has had people affiliated with his campaign, or maybe it’s the party go door to door collecting absentee ballots and changing the votes in them to repubs or, if they have dem votes and can’t be changed, just throwing them in the trash. This cheating is so bad that the repub controlled election board voted unanimously to not certify the election results…and the kicker is that the majority of the stolen ballots were from elderly black voters who certainly wouldn’t have voted for the repub….so they get a two fer…steal an election and be a racist piece of shit….anyone involved in this scheme, including the candidate who it appears did this same thing to win the primary needs to go to jail..after all, voter fraud is so damn important to the repubs…geez…

December 2nd

Well…running about on time for a Sunday morning and almost forgot to do this again…but, I didn’t so here I am….slept okay last night but up at 4:54 again…this time I did try to sleep more and it worked…sort of…and I didn’t get out of bed until 6 or so…but that really didn’t help my feeling off today…and that has been going on for the past few days and I think it’s a cold…have been coughing and just feeling slow…I was an idiot and skipped a couple of meals thurs and fri and I think that is part of what I’m feeling now…hmmm…didn’t get a damn thing done yesterday but a bike ride and I am not going to promise anything more today…I am going to get on the bike as soon as the sun comes up since it is warm enough to go out right now and there looks like enough time to get a 12 miler in before it rains again…walked around here pretty sore yesterday after the ride and that hasn’t really subsided yet…think I’ll take something before I go out but right now I need coffee and to watch a little soccer…more later…

What you never want to be….