Well…damn…another night of no sleep but it is a little funny to me that I woke up at 3:40 again…yeah, I’m weird but you have to admit that 3:40 is just a funny time to be waking up every day…I couldn’t believe how much I hurt yesterday with brand new pain in my hands that was stabbing and came out of nowhere…I guess one thing I that came out of the garage debacle was that I don’t like the color that I picked out…way too yellow so I need to try to get the cream color that I want before I go any farther…but that isn’t going to happen this week…have a bunch of other stuff to get done with the downstairs project that I have been neglecting but can’t wait any longer….and I need to do the grocery run this morning after I get the first ride in….and I have a cuke that is ready to be picked that I am going to make pickles with so most of the day is going to be just fooling around with stuff…need to mow the lawn too but that could wait a day…you know, one of the things that sucks about this damn pandemic is that I don’t get to go out and have drinks with friends for my birthday…have done that for almost 50 years and just because of the asshole trump and his monumental incompetence I’m stuck here by myself and I need to get out and laugh some….and that is just depressing….more later…..
“find something new”
Well…ivanka trump’s “let them eat cake” moment happened today when the idiot daughter revealed the trump administration’s only help for people who are unemployed and running out of unemployment benefits by the end of the month…and that is “find something new”…if there are 40 million jobs lost from bungling by your stupid father, “find something new” is just not going to work for the majority of the people out of work…are they supposed to eat something new like nothing? Are they supposed to pay their rent or mortgage with something new but not money they don’t have? This is the delusional rich person bullshit distilled down a slogan…”find something new”…hey ivanka, where? 40 frickin million people are out of work, the virus your father screwed up on is raging through the country…shutdowns are coming back and there could be 20 million homeless after the eviction moratoriums end this month….and you think people just need a stupid slogan from a vacant idiot and it will be all better? Just go back to whatever rock you and your slimy father crawled out from…the last thing this country needs right now is a spoiled little rich girl giving anyone advice on how to deal with the biggest crisis in the history of this country…all caused by you and your father…so just shut the hell up and go away…
July 14th
Well…I’m pretty depressed this morning that the paint sprayer didn’t work to do the garage and I have all that painting to do by hand now….and I hurt like crazy everywhere so that is not going to happen today…and with the rain coming tomorrow, I shouldn’t paint anyway…don’t even feel like getting on the bike this morning but I know I will…maybe I’ll just clean some today since this place needs it and I have been ignoring that lately…after the debacle yesterday, I didn’t get much done other than riding…my gardens are turning into a bust this year and I am thinking about just uprooting everything and giving up…have 2 cukes on 6 plants and they die as soon as they bloom and I wonder if they are not getting pollinated…and the beans are done fruiting with only two meals out of the 6 plants I have in…and it looks like I’m going to get about a dozen tomatoes off a dozen plants so that is depressing too….even my sunflowers are dying and that just adds to my depression….and I need to find a house soon and that appears like it’s not going to happen so I’ll be back in an apartment somewhere before the end of the year…and that is weighing on me every damn day and doesn’t let me enjoy anything…do you think I’m depressed? Yep….but I’ll get through it…maybe I’ll go out and buy a new bath towel today since the one I’m using is 15 years old and falling apart….some act of normalcy would be welcome at this point….more later…
Hey, only .02 percent of the kids will die…
Well…the ghoul betsy devos is at it again…trying to kill our children with her rank stupidity and ignorance. Just the other day in her push to open the schools as soon as possible, she was all over the news shows roboticly puking out talking points that basically said that the schools needed to open and she didn’t need to explain, they just do. She also dismissed the danger that going back to school would have for the children attending by saying that only .02 percent of them would die…making it sound like the risk was too small to measure…but if you do the math (which I’m sure she doesn’t know how to do) .02 times the number of kids going back would be almost 15,000 kids dead…which devos feels is perfectly acceptable if it gets trump re-elected. There’s your death panel for you….no plans to protect the kids, no money to help the schools keep the kids safe but just reopening and death and if little Jimmy dies it was for a good cause…how much more ghoulish can you get? Cripes , probably much much worse with these morons…
well…that sucked…
Well…as you know, I had been prepping the garage for painting today with the new sprayer I bought for the job…all I have to say is that it sucked to say the least…couldn’t get it stable and adjusted correctly at all…when I did, it would work for a minute and then puke an un-atomized stream of paint that would then turn into a run that looked like hell…so, after about half of one side of the garage I said enough and quit…I even took my hose and washed the paint off it looked so crappy….so I wasted a half gallon of paint for nothing and I still have to get out the brushes and roller and spend a few days painting it by hand…but it will surely look better than it did…crap…
July 13th
Well…I wonder how long I can go on with only 3 hours of sleep a night? Last night was three in a row and I have started to feel that familiar low level fatigue where I need to shift into low gear and just ride it out…and that is going to be hard to do with the huge project of painting the garage today…well…I don’t know how huge it’s going to be until I get started with the new spray gun after the first ride of the day…the jar only holds about a half quart so that will need filling lots of times…but, it has been so long since I’ve used an electric sprayer I don’t remember how much paint it takes to cover…I’m guessing it’s going to be a three hour project at least but, even at that, I should have it done by noon or so if the sprayer holds up….took my first allergy meds in almost a month last night since they have gotten pretty bad over the past couple of days but I don’t see that they are helping much and I wonder if they need to build up a bit over time to be effective? My toe still doesn’t hurt…oh, wasn’t going to talk about that any more…my foot is almost back to normal but I’ll be on it all day today so I’m expecting it to swell up a bit but I can elevate it while I watch the Man U match at 3 so that should help…not much to do today…yeah, I laughed at that one, too…painting a garage is much to do and I have laundry to do too…and I used up all the leftovers yesterday so I need to cook for lunch…so, it’s going to be a busy one…more later…oh, I’ll do a project update later today along with a political one on Betsy DeVos trying to murder our children…
July 12th
Well…holy crap…I just noticed that I hadn’t come here for one today and I am freaking out…have been so damn busy today even with only doing 1 ride today…had to go out to HF to get another paint sprayer since the first one didn’t work at all and then I put in a couple of hours prepping and masking off the garage to get ready to paint tomorrow…then I was going to do a political one and noticed I hadn’t come here yet…that sometimes happens on Sundays since it is the only day I get a newspaper and that breaks up my normal routine…so, let’s get back to it…slept really crappy last night with only getting about 4 hours of sleep over the 6 hours I was in bed so I do feel a little off today….but I knew I had to do the garage so I just gutted it out but I need some veg time for a while to get some more water in me….I did try the electrolyte pack that my daughter sent me before the bike but I think I’ll need a few more days of drinking them before I’ll notice anything….and with only doing one ride tomorrow, too…it will probably be later in the week before I’ll see any effect….I do need to clean and lube the bike today but I am going to wait a while to get to that…just kind of tired right now and want to watch some of the indycar race…more later….
Just can’t do it…
Well….have been thinking about politics and the criminal who squats his fat ass in the WH all day today and it is making me be less tolerant of people so I am going to take a break from politics for today and let my brain have a rest…so what to talk about? I did get to 2800 miles today and felt good enough on the bike to go hard on the second ride which never happens…I wonder if that had to to with the bagel with cream cheese and second cup of coffee I had before I went out? I did get the lawn mowed today and my damn mowing shoes fell apart again and I just fixed them yesterday..so yes, I am going to have to buy some new ones to work around here in…I do have a pair of van’s that my youngest son outgrew before he wore them out and they are my size so maybe those could be the new work shoes? I’d have to find them in the bags downstairs…maybe I’ll do that after I finish this one….I do have to start getting the garage masked off for painting Monday but I think I’ll do that tomorrow…I only have three windows to do and some brick on the front so that shouldn’t take long…then I’m just going to use a roll of black plastic sheeting I found in the garage to protect the shingles as I paint the gutters and the lower part of the siding…and then the paint will have two days to dry before the next rain wed….probably should get out the instructions for the sprayer and read them in the next day or so and understand what I have to do to get the paint viscosity right so the sprayer can spray it…but right now I’m going to veg out for a bit and watch some races and take a nap…maybe more later….
July 11th
Well…got all the way to coffee o’clock this morning and I think it was the cooler weather that did it…finally didn’t have to have a fan on to sleep last night and that was a relief….but I still feel worn out this morning and the time off the bike I was looking forward to didn’t happen even with the rain so I need to start thinking about taking a day to heal up soon….my toe doesn’t hurt for the 6th day in a row so I’m going to stop talking about it…not sure how I fixed it other than all the damn water I’ve been drinking so I think I’ll keep that up just in case that is the reason….didn’t get much done yesterday but I think I’ll mow the lawn today…had to fix my work shoes with almost half a bottle of adhesive so I think I may need to try to find some clearance ones on sale at Meijers that I can actually just wear instead of fixing them all the time….think I’ll do that this week with the grocery run…and I need to hit target for some new towels since the ones I’m using are 15 years old and falling apart too…I do need to spend some money on essentials over the next couple of weeks…could really use some new pillows to help me sleep better and I think I can afford more than 5 bucks for them….not much to do today….just going to ride and fool around outside and then watch all the racing that is on starting with F1 qualifying in about an hour and that means I need to get moving soon….more later…
Biden needs to restore the separation of church and state…
Well….with all the damage that idiot boy and his cronies have done to this country, it is going to be a huge job for Joe Biden and his team to clean up the mess…and one bit of damage that I haven’t heard mentioned is the restoration of the separation of church and state as the founders of this country intended…and that has been shattered by every damn department of the idiot boy’s government. The latest coming from the trump supreme court last week is that it is perfectly fine for employers to control the women that work for them by denying them contraceptive coverage in their healthcare…and all the employers have to do is shout “religious objection” and they can drop that coverage…and with the bailout in response to the coronavirus pandemic, trump and his conspirators gave 1.4 billion dollars to the Catholic church free and clear even though they have never paid a dime in taxes so why do they need to be bailed out? The attack on the constitution continues with the moron betsy devos giving money hand over fist to private schools that support her brand of religious belief that puts profit above everything else and rewards crony capitalism every damn day as she bleeds public schools of the money they need to educate the large majority of kids that attend them in this country. Cripes, Joe…it looks like you are going to have the biggest restoration project in the history of this country so we really do need to take the senate in November…and tell moscow mitch to sit the hell down…