Well…running late today even with being up and down all night and getting up for good at 5:30…and my foot is howling in pain so I had to take the prescription that I had refilled a couple of weeks ago…looks like another round of treatment is necessary to be able to walk comfortably again…and I have been pouring the water down since I got up and have almost 3/4 of a gallon in me so far and that will have to continue all day to the tune of at least a couple of gallons to get rid of the chronic dehydration that is caused by riding too much….and I bit the bullet and took a generic zyrtec allergy med this morning since my allergies are so bad…going to just take the side effects that make me feel weird so I can stop sneezing and coughing and my eyes will stop itching….would prefer the little red dots but I can’t get any more of them for a month or so and I need to do something I’m so miserable…I did see a hummingbird yesterday but it didn’t stop at my feeder and it may be that the food has gone bad so I am going to clean it and make a new batch this morning…just need one of them to find it and I’ll have a bunch of them on it but it has been more than a week since I put the feeder up and I am getting a little disappointed that I haven’t seen any birds yet….I may have to move it to the back yard since they like it a little quiet and this place is anything but quiet out front….the damn power outage from Wednesday has ruined my enjoyment of storms since now all I think of is that it is going go out with every storm that comes through….and 10 hours without power in the pandemic is the largest kind of boring….but, I survived it so I guess it wasn’t that bad….not much to do today….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and with my foot acting up, I don’t think I’ll be doing much but riding the bike today….and I probably shouldn’t be doing that with how bad my foot is….I did get to 2K miles yesterday and only have 3K more to go to get to the goal….a daunting task for sure with the damage I’m doing to myself to maintain the 30 miles a day that it is going to take…oh, well…already starting to feel strange from the allergy meds and I need more coffee so I’ll end here….more later….
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Another bloodbath…
Well…hey, MAGA folks…how’s your 401K looking today? Or the stocks that you poured all your money into over the past month or so since the know nothing investment “experts” and the idiot trump lied to you about where the market was going? You just lost at least 7% of it today as the stock market cratered to the tune of over 1800 points…and the real experts who have been saying there was no rational reason for the continuing increase in stock prices have been proven right…again…look, here’s how stupid these investors have been…they have bought into many, many bankrupt companies and have pumped their stocks up to the point that they were worth more than when they declared…something that has never happened before…and you know who is dumping this inflated stock? The rich guys who have been bankrolling the so called “experts” on fox business in a classic “pump and dump” scheme and they will walk away with all these moron’s money, leaving these right wing investors with worthless paper…now, I am trying really hard to have some sympathy for these folks but we all have to remember it was people like these investors that gave us trump and still support the criminal in chief…so maybe them getting some of the damage that trump has done to this country dropped in their laps is not a bad thing….
He’s even more nuts today…
Well…cripes…I think I’ve said this many, many times before but the idiot in chief is even more nuts today…reacting to a typically Seattle protest in the center of the city where the police have abandoned a station there…not because of violent protesters but to keep a protest from becoming violent, the thug in chief went nuts and called the peaceful protesters “ugly anarchists” and said they must be “stooped” IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST…yep that exactly what the moron in chief tweeted….I wonder if he means they must be bent over like walking with a cane? As you’ve seen, idiot boy is so threatened when anyone exercises their constitutional rights which is what these peaceful protesters are doing…and they are doing it by showing movies and making cupcakes….monstrous actions that need to be stopped….the mayor of the city, Jenny Durkan had this perfect response to trump’s rage tweeting..”Make us all safe, go back to your bunker” ….and the governor, Jay Inslee, weighed in with….”stay out of Washington State’s business…stoop tweeting”. I guess people are finally pushing back on the moron since they now know he is all talk and bluster and won’t do a damn thing because it’s too much work….the people on the ground in Seattle know their city and the people there and know what the correct response to the protest are….trump really should STFU and get another Big Mac…that’s all he’s good for….
June 11th
Well…that was a wasted day…I think that was the longest power outage that I can remember since at least 20 years ago but, living in town, I still had water so I guess it wasn’t that bad….but I did miss the re-start of the BPL season and that really sucked after waiting for it for months…and with this place all electric, I couldn’t even cook anything so I had to fire up my little brick grill to make some food…but I did find the old portable radio that the grandparents brought on vacations and it still worked even with being 50 years old and that at least made a little noise to keep me sane….stayed up late last night after the power came back and I am feeling it right now with getting up at 5:30 so I think today will be just getting back into the normal routine and taking it easy…not sure what just bloomed but my allergies are terrible right now and I am miserable….I could feel it coming yesterday but man, this is bad enough that I may take the zyrtec that I don’t like too much…can’t stop sneezing and my head is plugged up like concrete…the storm didn’t last too long yesterday but it was pretty violent and took down a bunch of trees on the trail…I had to carry my bike over three big ones that were across the entry and then there were two other places that were blocked on my normal route and it will be interesting to see if they have them cleared today….not much to do today….going to just ease into the day but I do have laundry and gardening to get done later along with cooking but I am going to take an hour or so right now to just have more coffee and try to feel better….more later…
I’m back…
Well…that really sucked…my power went out at noon today and just came back on at 10:20…..all that for a damn storm that lasted about 10 minutes…and the irritating thing was they said it would be fixed by 4:30…then it was 9, then it was 2:15am…I wonder if they were doing the “Scotty” thing from start trek…where you give them a time you know is too long and you know you can beat and beating the deadline will make you look like a miracle worker…all I know is my power is back and I need to watch the race that’s on and I’ll get back to it tomorrow…..
June 10th
Well….that was a mistake…for the first time since I’ve been working on this house, I felt relaxed last night and had cocktails while sitting on the front porch listening to music and watching the rain…put the screen in the front storm door to get some more air in here and that made it all click…not sure if the neighbors were too happy with “Dark side of the moon” playing really loud but I don’t really care, do you?…Okay…yeah if you read the news you get that dig…and with all of the rain overnight, there are no leaks in the front porch ceiling so I must have gotten it fixed and that is pretty cool….cripes, I just realized that I can’t get out on the bike with the rain this morning and I don’t know what to think about that with being on the bike for 30 miles a day for the past two weeks…I could use the rest for my legs since they are in low grade pain all the time now but I wonder if I have to limit my calories to about a thousand with not riding? Didn’t get much done yesterday but work on the garden and the downstairs project and mow the lawn…but I am going to start on the front door today since looking at it open with it ugly and peeling is bugging the hell out of me….not much to do today…feel pretty crappy right now but I need to make a grocery run out to aldi’s and DD to get a couple more pizzas but that is about it for the day…going to just hang out and recover and try to get some work done….more later…
No more hero worship…
Well…if you’ve been here before…okay, quite a bit before, you could have read my earlier posts on the fetishistic worship that this country has been giving police and military since the 9/11 attacks…all of this thank you for your service bullshit and elevating just normal Americans into the superheroes that they now believe they are is part of the cause of the contempt both the military and police show for ordinary citizens who are expressing their rights under the constitution. The death of George Floyd and the subsequent huge protests against police brutality and the daily pictures of the military brought in to attack American citizens has finally started inject some reality into how we all look at these folks and is knocking them off their pedestals…pedestals in the eyes of whites anyway…black and brown people in this country always knew what the reality was…that most of the police forces in this country are infested with white supremacists who live to try to take this country back to Jim Crow and put everyone who is not white in “their place” with violence and racial profiling. All of this hero worship only serves to separate both the police and military from the society they take an oath to protect…and immediately makes the people an enemy that needs to be controlled and not their bosses who deserve respect and protection….maybe these protests will finally throw the pedestals in the ocean and then we can go about reforming how policing is done in this country…starting with confiscating every piece of military hardware police have been given over the past 30 years…and removing the star wars storm trooper outfits that the police seem to just love…no more vests, helmets, and gloves that they use to intimidate everyone and every police wears a name tag and camera that is on at all times and it is a firing offense if it is turned off…and no more immunity from the laws of this country like the Minnesota cops that went on a rampage and slashed the tires of hundreds of cars just to show who is “boss” in Minneapolis…and if the cops strike to again show they are above the law, then we dissolve the departments and start from scratch with modern policing that focuses on helping people instead of killing them…no more hero worship..after all, they are not heroes and they have been showing that since before the protests began…
June 9th
Well…that was a little better….was good last night and I even slept some so I feel okay this morning…probably going to be sore tomorrow with all the ladder work yesterday but my ribs finally seem to be improving and that is a welcome change….and the swelling in my foot seems to be getting better along with the eye infection so I don’t feel so damn decrepit…will get to 2K miles on the bike in the next couple of days but I think I’m so far behind that I can’t get to 5K this year but we’ll see…it looks like I may have a day off the bike tomorrow with the storm and rains that are coming in this evening and that may be a good thing since that will give me time to get the front door ready to paint and get that done finally….I can’t wait to see if my work on the flat roof fixed the leaks…it will be nice to sit on the front porch and watch the storms and stay dry…might even have a beer while I’m doing it even though tonight is another NCN…not much to do today…going to do my Meijers run today since I want to get some veggies to add to the cheap pizzas I got from DD yesterday and I’m going to buy Mega tickets for the first time since the virus started…I sure could use 410 million dollars….more later…
Another busy day…
Well…man, it has been another busy day for me but that made me feel a little better than I have had some motivation and got some stuff done…started out with getting on the bike early and getting a nice ride in, then I had to run some errands to get what I needed to work on the house…but first I stopped at DD to pick up a couple of self rising, 4 cheese pizzas for 1.99 each…they are almost two pounds each and you can’t beat it for 1.99…then I had to go to Menards to get lawn food and roof cement to work on the small flat membrane roof that has been leaking…in the last storm, I was sitting on my little porch with a beer watching the rain and the rain came pouring through the roof of the porch and I got soaked so I knew some repairs were necessary…so, I got the ladder out and got the membrane cleaned up so I could patch it and then spent an hour making sure all of the bad spots were repaired…we’ll see how good of a job I did tomorrow when the storms come later in the day…after I cleaned up after the roof, I got out my little hand spreader and put the food on the lawn, took care of the gardens, made lunch, and then back on the bike for another 15 miles…and just got back here about an hour ago and now I’m taking a few minutes off before I get back to work on the downstairs project…so, it has been another busy day but I feel good that I finally accomplished something…oh, I do like how the car runs after I changed the oil….it now has over 40 psi even at idle and it seems to run more smoothly…I know it’s quieter so I guess it’s worth the 26 bucks the oil and filter cost…
This makes me smile…
Well…damn, it’s been another busy day with running since about 7 but I did want to make a short comment on the happenings going on with the idiot boy and his collapsing in the polls…cripes, I would love to be inside the WH when the moron in chief is fed this new information…or they may not even tell him since his campaign manager made up some fake poll numbers when trump blew up about the real ones last week…okay, buried the lede there, huh? Okay, the new polls put Biden up on trump by 54% to 41% nationally and idiot boy’s approvals at the lowest of his *presidency at 38%….and in every swing state that trump stole, he is behind by at least 8 points and by 12 here in Michigan….and those polls were done before trump’s attack on peaceful protesters and his turning the WH into a armed camp with new fencing that keeps people blocks away….and just the past couple of days we have many, many repubs turning their backs on idiot boy and saying they won’t support or vote for him…gee, being a huge asshole who is shredding the constitution is not a good case for re-election I guess….now, the last thing I want our side to do is get complacent and give the asshole in chief a chance to win…but I think we can take one day to enjoy the fact that we’re not behind and it’s probable now that we can take back the senate, too….but, just one day…then we need to make sure we all vote and get rid of the tumor in the WH….