Well…up and moving early again today and I’m not sure why…I did wake up at 3:40 but was able to get back to sleep and have a couple of dreams that had foxes and crows in them and that was unusual…both for the subject and that I had them at all…had an okay day with getting out to hang with some friends for a while and even had the top down out to the park but not on the way back…a little too cold for that after standing out in 50 degree weather in shorts for a couple of hours…didn’t get anything else done yesterday…didn’t even come here for a 2nd one with working on the new media server with my son…it was hard work watching races and I am exhausted today….I did make a nice lunch with the instant pot yesterday and that will mean leftovers for the next few days so I won’t be cooking much…I do need to work on the surface rust on the car before pool today and do the normal stuff…it looks like I’ll be able to get on the bike as soon as it gets light this morning and there may even be fog to ride in…that would be cool…more later….
October 7th
Well…running really early this morning with getting up early to watch the F1 race but the new streaming site my son set up is not working so that was a waste…back to sleeping crappy again and I am exhausted this morning so this may be a short one…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done but clean up a little but today I’m going to use the instant pot to make some chicken again and I want to make some more brown rice since the last batch came out pretty good….that will be for lunch and it only takes 15 minutes so I guess I won’t need to prep for quite a while yet…I did get a bike ride in yesterday but it was wet and the bike was a mess when I got back here…had to wash it to try to get the rear shifter working better with all of the grit that was in it…it looks like it is going to rain in a little while so maybe today will be that day off of rest I’ve been needing….more later….
Just damn vote…
Well…with the destruction of our democracy that we witnessed over the past couple of weeks and the impending removal of the rights of anyone who is not white and straight and male, I just want to remind everyone here that we can start to repair this damage if we just damn vote…that’s it…it’s very simple, we outnumber the assholes on the right and it we just get off our lazy asses and vote, we will win…and we will see that terrible people like Susan Collins, who betrayed every woman in this country with her vote for Kavanaugh, will be gone in 2020…as will many other repubs who only listen to the money, not to the people who elected them…in Collins case, there has already been over 3 million dollars raised for her dem challenger in the past two days and that will explode into the tens of millions to make this hypocrite Collins go away…and that is just what she deserves for all of the lies she has told and her acceptance of Kavanaugh’s sexual assault just to keep what little personal power she will get from her vote….every damn one of the repubs need to go away and we can make that happen if we just damn vote…cripes…
October 6th
Well…running early this morning and was up way too damn early at 4:45 but just couldn’t sleep so it looks like I’m back to the old patterns and that sucks big time….at least my BP was down to 116/76 when I got up so I guess that’s something….I did get a bike ride in yesterday but it was wet, cold, and windy and it took me almost two hours to warm up after that one…and it looks like I’ll be waiting til this afternoon to get out today with it raining right now and storms all the way back through Illinois…didn’t get much done yesterday other than a little cleaning in the kitchen so I’ll have to do better today…but there is lots of sports on starting at noon with Michigan and Man U playing and then a race on later so I may be able to catch up with a nap later….don’t even have to cook again today with leftovers to be used and a few more bagels and salmon to have for breakfast…I did look up the calories in a bagel with cream cheese and salmon and yow! Almost 500 calories but I’m not going to cut anything else out…just a splurge for a few days and I am not going to feel guilty about it…more later…
Everyone opposes Kavanaugh…
Well…after reading the news over the past couple of days, it appears that everyone in this damn country opposes the attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh being elevated to the supreme court…except for the 51 repubs in the senate. At last count, over 1700 law professors have signed letters saying that Kavanaugh shouldn’t be confirmed…and that is along with two retired supreme court justices and almost 70% of the people polled on the question…and almost two million people who have signed a petition opposing him…making him the candidate with the worst polling and support of any in the history of polling….and yet, the repubs keep pushing forward with this scam that is destroying what little faith the people have in the senate…making the SC illegitimate in the eyes of most of the people and will make Kavanaugh the first sitting justice to be charged with a felony…or multiple felonies of perjury and sexual assault after the dems take back the house and do a real investigation…not the sham that has been perpetrated on the US by McConnell, Hatch, and Grassley. Anyone with any character or honor would have withdrawn with all of the crimes that have been exposed, but in his speech to the senate and yesterday’s op ed in the WSJ, it can clearly be seen that honesty, honor, and duty are foreign concepts to Kavanaugh as they are to every damn repub in this country…and again, it falls to the dems to save this country and clean up the repubs mess as we always do when we get back in control….geez…
October 5th
Well…up again at the new normal time so that puts me here a little early and still shaking off the cobwebs…slept okay last night but feel a little sore everywhere today and I’m not sure why that would be….might take something for it before I get on the bike but that will have to wait until around 10 or so since it is pretty cold and I need it to be at least 47 so I can go out in shorts…I did get a lot of cooking done yesterday with soup, smoked salmon, and chicken stir fry for dinner and I am looking forward to a toasted bagel with cream cheese and salmon with my coffee here in a few minutes…I think I finally ate enough yesterday and I need to continue that today to see if that helps with the flat legs I’ve had lately….this place does still smell a little smoky today since the fan over the stove is not the best and some of the smoke escaped into the kitchen…but it was worth it to figure out how to smoke fish…didn’t get a lot else done yesterday but I do need to clean some and spray some bug spray to keep the spiders out with it getting cold outside…not ready for that yet…more later…
Let’s go Red Wings!
Well….another fall comes and another Red Wings season starts tonight and I am going to admit that I am still excited when a new season starts even though they have missed the playoffs the past two years. That excitement is tempered this year by the retirement of Henrik Zetterberg who has been my guy since he came into the league in 2002 and has made me some money betting on who would score the next goal over the years…but, I am glad that he is going out on his own terms and is thinking about his health and the rest of his life…I am going to miss him but maybe there will be one of the youngsters that will step up and provide the excitement that Hank did over his career…we can hope. The boys have looked good through the preseason but we all know that really doesn’t mean much and the season is a long grind….the one thing I can say right now is that we are undefeated and I will be watching…and will be breaking my no cocktail policy for tonight…Let’s Go Red Wings!
Now trump has ruined the FBI…
Well…in keeping with the fact that the idiot trump ruins everything he touches, he has just done that to the FBI with his interference in the investigation of the sexual assaulter, Brett Kavanaugh. It has been revealed today that the FBI was limited to interviewing only 9 people and the ones they did interview were dictated by the WH and the old white guys who are ramming Kavanaugh through the senate…think of that again…the FBI, which is supposed to be an independent investigating organization was told how to do it’s job by the criminal in the WH to protect the criminal they are installing on the SC….what is going to be next from these criminal conspirators? No more elections? Outlawing dems? At this point, nothing McConnell and his criminal cronies do would surprise me…they are ruining this country and stand there grinning about how clever they are for doing it…but, they will pay at the ballot box in November…
Another great batch of ham soup….
Well…just finished up the first part of the cooking day and now it’s break time for a few minutes…I am going to brag a little about my ham soup…I have this recipe down and it appears that it doesn’t matter what the cooking method is….I normally do it in my big stew pot on the stove top and it takes most of the day…but today, I used my instant pot and it was only a total of an hour or so including the prep work for the veggies…oh, and an extra hour to get the ham to fall off the bones by pressure cooking it…and it didn’t take a lot of work like the old method did…just loaded the pot up and walked away…I thought the 8 quarts was smaller than my stew pot but I ended up with three two quart containers in the freezer and half of another one in the fridge so I guess it’s the same…and that’s cool…oh, I did figure out how to make a smoker for my stove top and smoked two fillets of salmon that Tom gave me…they came out pretty darn good, too, and I can’t wait to have some on a bagel with coffee in the morning…and I still have to make stir fry chicken for dinner later…or I may wait until tomorrow and just have a couple of pieces of pizza instead….I do know I need to eat more since two bowls of soup is just not enough…maybe a couple of apples this afternoon? Who knows?
October 4th
Well…running a little late today with doing the grocery run and then getting the pressure cooker loaded up to make ham soup…it is going to be a cooking day today with the soup and with trying to figure out how to smoke some salmon on the stove top along with making some chicken stir fry…and I need to wedge in a bike ride, too, so it will be pretty busy but fun….slept okay last night but I know I didn’t eat enough so I am going to make up for that today…getting two ham bones out of the freezer sure freed up some space and but I won’t have to buy any protein for a couple of weeks….my coughing seems to be getting better and I didn’t even use any flonase yesterday for my allergies and I think I’ll try that again today to see what happens…had a weird blood pressure day yesterday and couldn’t get it below 130…but, the lower number got down to 65 which is a good thing…and I have been reading about what is optimal for someone my age and it is all over the map so I don’t know what to shoot for…more later….