Well….the latest and last Star Wars movie showed up on Plex yesterday and I just had to watch it last night…finally, a Star Wars that lived up to the first three in the series…it kept me interested all the way through and there was a chemistry between the three leads that has been missing in most of the other movies and that was a fun to see…and there were a couple of pretty cool easter eggs that I laughed at…during a scene where the leads were walking through a bar, there was one to Doctor Who when one of the patrons in the bar was a Sontarun…and near the end of the movie, they fixed one of the big mistakes from the original movie where Chewy was the only one of the leads who didn’t get a medal in the last scene…when Leia dies near the end, one of her aides hands the medal she got to Chewy and I thought that was pretty cool….all in all, a fitting conclusion to the Star Wars saga…and well worth watching if you’re a fan…
March 15th
Well….running really late this morning and it’s not a case of forgetting to come here as it normally is on Sunday morning, but I didn’t get out of bed until 6:37 and have been trying to catch up ever since…yeah, I know catch up to what? Don’t have anyplace to be or much to do so why am I in a hurry? There isn’t even any soccer to watch today so I don’t have to get things done before that…I think I just need to relax, even though I do have some downstairs work to do this morning and I still have that need to get any work done since I hate having things waiting to be done…I did sleep okay and feel pretty good this morning other than the damn allergies are really, really bad and I may have to take something for them during the day today and I don’t like to do that…I need to save them for later in the day so I can breathe at night trying to sleep…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but cook and get a bike ride in and today looks the same….I am going to clean some and start putting my tools and materials away…the next time I’m at HF I may buy one of those cloth tool bags to keep the stuff I use a lot in…that will make it easy to just grab it when I need to do some work inside or outside….I am going to finish up the the paper and have some more coffee before I get to work…and then wait for the temp to come up before I get on the bike…more later…
Happy Pi day!
Well…to all of the nerds out there…happy Pi day…and if you know what that means, you are one of them…really have been looking for a political topic for the day today but have decided it is just too much work for my tired brain so I’m just not going to do it…everyone needs a mental health day once in a while and today is going to be mine…I never knew how much I used sports as background noise as I did other things around here until there are no more sports with everything cancelled for the virus…it has been a boring day for that and with most of the channels in emby gone since yesterday…but I did discover a new free streaming service called Pluto that I put on my roku and that has some old tv shows and movies that appear a lot like broadcast tv since they have commercials but that really doesn’t bother me much…they have a Doctor Who channel along with the Addams Family and a bunch of other stuff and for free you can’t beat it….again, good for background noise when the antenna isn’t working…I did get the corned beef and cabbage made for lunch and it was the best one I’ve made so far…really came out tender using the instant pot and the mustard sauce started to grow on me…but, I’m still so full from lunch that I may not even have another meal today…and that will keep me going for 5 more days or so…but the place still smells like cabbage…I do like it, though….I did get a bike ride in today but I’m not going to do anything else today since it is already 4…I do have some work to do downstairs tomorrow but that shouldn’t take long….oh, and the new Star Wars movie showed up on Plex today so that is going to be the plan for tonight….and cocktails…
yesterday
March 14th
Well….that was an okay night with only getting up once at 3:34 and then making it til coffee o’clock…even had a few scattered dreams that I don’t remember…yeah, I get it…how do I know I dream if I don’t remember them? That’s a question that I think I’ll ponder a while…but not right now…I was going to take some time off yesterday with finishing the last big painting project but then noticed that I still have one more to do…the linen closet doors need to be removed, sanded, and painted but that will wait until next week…I did almost flood the basement doing laundry yesterday when I left some paper towels I used to clean some equipment in the sink where the washer dumps and it clogged the drain…and the wash water filled the sink and the over the sides…but luckily the overflow just went down the floor drain and I only had to mop a little to clean it up….won’t do that again….I did get to cleaning the bathroom, too and that was way overdue….just so much dust and pet hair…still…even after months of vacuuming the crap up…but it looks pretty good now and I am debating if it will be the kitchen or living room next…I did skip the bike ride yesterday with it being so windy…just not going out with 20 mph steady wind and gusts on top of that…it would be different if it was 80 degrees but not 38….I am going out today but will have to wait until after I make lunch…going to do my St. Patrick’s day corned beef and cabbage today in the instant pot and I have found a 5 star mustard sauce that I am making, too…okay, does this sound good? 2 eggs, mustard, brown sugar, vinegar, and more regular sugar along with margarine….and whisk over heat until smooth…I have all the ingredients by chance since Meijers had eggs on sale for 79 cents and I got a dozen…and with the brisket being a point cut and 4 pounds, it needs 90 minutes in the pot under pressure so I’ll need to start it by 10 if I am going to have it for lunch…but first, more coffee, some news, and some downstairs work…damn, this is going to be a boring morning without any soccer since everything is cancelled….more later….
The only words I want to hear from the idiot trump…
Well…it appears that the idiot in chief is going to speak again today about the virus that is on pace to devestate this country…wasn’t one worst day in the history of the stock market enough for him? Every damn time this moron opens his mouth something bad happens…and he continues to lie and lie and lie about the measures that are being taken to at least find out the scope of the problem…and new reporting this morning has trump actively preventing testing from happening because the numbers would make him “look bad” and the only thing he has ever thought about in his entire life was him. Think about that for a minute…this asshole is going to kill thousands of people just because he didn’t want his fee fees or election chances hurt by truthful reporting that there were more than the “12 to 15″ cases of coronavirus that idiot boy has been lying about since the start of this crisis…hey trump voters, what are you going to think when grandma gets sick from this preventable virus just because your cult leader didn’t want to look bad? Yeah, they will think that it’s Obama’s fault because something, something….scary black guy. Look, the only words that I want to hear coming out of the idiot in chief’s mouth today is “I resign, effective immediately”….since he is worse than useless and is actively making things worse for his own personal gain…hey senate repubs…you are all responsible for this for letting his criminal ass off with your votes in the senate…and we are going to make you pay in November…
March 13th
Well…made it all the way to 6 after getting up at around 5 for the first time so I’ll call that a win…couldn’t figure out why I hurt so much last night and was hobbling around here and then it hit me…I did a fast double on the bike yesterday and I’m just not used to that much riding yet…I do remember that it was really a chore to get on the bike for the second ride and I almost turned around after the first mile….but then I just shifted down to lower speed mode until I hit that trails and that did the trick…once I got going it was okay…I did get the last window completed and put back together yesterday and it looks really good compared to what I started with…so, I think I’ve earned a day off working other than I need to clean my bathroom today…and I am going to try the new vinyl cleaner I got to replace the D-3 fluid for my discwasher as I clean…damn, the D-3 bottle only lasted 40 years…I wonder if I should complain? I may even take the day off the bike today since the wind is going to be a steady 20+ and it is only going to be in the 30′s and that is not a combo that I enjoy too much…I did get the car and bike washed yesterday afternoon, too and that may just tip me over to vegging today…but all the sports I watch have been cancelled so I’ll have to find something else to do…I suppose I could start putting my tools and repair materials away downstairs since I won’t need most of them with the interior almost done….I could take the trim off the kitchen and get it ready to paint but I don’t want to paint indoors anymore…I guess that can wait…okay, I need more coffee and to let myself take the day off…and that appears harder than I thought it was going to be…more later…
How terrible are the repubs?
Well…sitting here watching Man U play in Austria in an empty stadium and it is really weird that there is just the noise of the players and coaches…but that’s not what this is about…did you see the debacle of a speech that the idiot trump did last night? I sure didn’t but I read enough about it to know it was the worst speech in presidential history….and the financial markets thought that, too with the dow futures market falling over a thousand points while the speech was going on…and that carnage continued this morning with the dow circuit breakers kicking in and suspending trading about 10 minutes after the market opened and losses hit 8%…it continued to fall until it was down almost 2,500 points and has recovered a bit but it is still down by 1,800 points at 2 pm this afternoon…and you know about that “greatest of all time” stock market that the blowhard in chief has been crowing about? It has lost all of the gains since the idiot boy was installed by Putin…down almost 8,000 points just since Feb 12th…and what did the repubs in the senate do with this carnage and the potential death of hundreds of thousands of American lives? Moscow mitch scheduled a recess that they were supposed to leave on today but the public outcry shamed them into staying in Washington to work on the bills necessary to fund the coronavirus response…and here’s the really terrible part…they are so ideology driven that they just can’t help but try to put abortion restrictions into the bill that they know will be DOA in the House but they don’t care…they are fine with wasting time and killing real people so they can impose more restrictions on women’s lives…these assholes are going to be know as the murderers of millions if they keep playing their games…that is how terrible the repubs are…
March 12th
Well…running late this morning and I just can’t get started for some reason….I think I slept okay and didn’t get up until after 6 but that’s not helping a whole lot…I think I’m going to take the day off today after getting the last window painted yesterday…but, even after two coats, I still have some rust bleeding through even with treating it with clear acrylic so I will have to put one more coat on the bottom of the frame….that one was a pain with having to stand in the kitchen sink and contort myself to get at the little cove with the light in it…had paint everywhere and I think I’m still going to have to get more of it out of my hair today…I did get a bike ride in yesterday and want to try to get two in today but it looks like there is rain coming in from the west…it is supposed to be 60 today and I really did want to get out in a t-shirt since it is going to get cold again starting tomorrow…and then cold for the rest of the month…ick…I do need to start cleaning today since the dust bunnies are turning into dust raptors again and my bathroom is edging up to being ugly….but, I want a day off…damn…at least I am going to be able to watch Man U play in an empty stadium this afternoon if the match is not cancelled…with everything that is going on, who knows what is going to happen? More later…
Not this time…
Well…with Joe Biden’s performance in the primaries held yesterday, his path to the nominations seems assured and all of us who had another candidate as our primary need to mourn a little, but then step back and look at the big picture…and that has to be getting behind our ticket to beat trump and his cronies and fumigate our government of him, moscow mitch, and the rest of these amoral, hypocrite assholes once and for all…and we can’t let the Russian misinformation, lies and bullshit affect our determination to throw trump out on his ass. If you remember 2016…the Russian backed ‘independent” candidate Jill Stein took enough “protest” votes from our side to give trump the election…and we all need to think, not this time. No more purity votes, no protest votes, no holding our nose votes, but votes for our side that will end the trump national nightmare that we have been living through for the past 3 1/2 years…I know I harp on this a lot, but this is the most important thing that any of you are going to do maybe in your lifetime…I mean isn’t saving our country worth voting for the one person who can do it? That person is our candidate…and there are going to be a group of happy people on our side when the VP slot is offered to another one of our great candidates…so, cry a little but then let’s get back to work and frickin vote….
Computer problems…
Well…this really sucks….have had computer problems all morning with it taking almost two minutes to switch between sites and that is just damn annoying…but even more annoying is re-starting it and it taking almost 20 minutes to update so I could use it again…it seems to be better now but it still has lag to it and I’m not sure what that is about…I never save anything to the hard drive so it still has plenty of room for anything I may want to do…I wonder if it’s connected to emby being so unstable lately? I guess I should start getting ready to buy a new laptop…need to get all of my saved passwords out of this one before it dies on me…damn…don’t want to spend any money right now…