Well…running about on time today with another morning of getting up before 6…one drawback of not tossing and turning so much is that I spend too much time sleeping on one shoulder or the other and that leads to inflaming the tendons in my shoulders…have had huge pain in my left for a couple of weeks now and that is going to make painting Monday a little hard…but I’ll try a little ibuprofen and see if that helps…I did get the rest of the sanding done yesterday and most of the clean up but still need to mask off the closet door and wipe down the walls to get the rest of the dust off…but that only leaves me a little work to do over the next two days and I can get that done easily….I do need to plan the next steps after I finish that room and I think the first thing will be cleaning the laundry room since I haven’t touched that yet and it is a little gross with all of the dust and cobwebs….and I do need to figure out the baseboard trim that will work in the areas where the original trim is missing…and I have the rest of the windows that need to be repaired and painted along with cleaning the blinds…so, it’s not like I don’t have enough work to do….and when it warms up I’ll have a full time job on the outside so I think I may have to get my rest time in over the next few weeks…not much to do today…I am going to veg a little and watch some soccer with my coffee before I get to working today…and I am going to try to get out on the bike but that will have to wait til late afternoon with it only 6 degrees out there right now….more later….
Bill Barr is a transparent liar…
Well…one of the drawbacks of getting up so early and getting all of my work done by 8 am is that I need to find something to do to keep from getting bored…and re runs of Leave it to Beaver are just not cutting it…so, I thought I’d come here for number two before I head out to HF…so, did you see that fake outrage that Bill Barr displayed yesterday saying that the idiot trump’s tweeting is “making it impossible to do my job”? The pundits who are almost always wrong or who have and agenda immediately piped up saying it was a huge break with Barr “standing up” to trump…yeah, that sound you hear is me laughing my butt off…if anyone believes this is standing up to trump, I have a nice bridge in NY to sell you…this is nothing more than Barr reacting to the outrage of his turning the justice department into trump central and doing his best to let trump’s criminal cronies off the hook for their crimes…and I’m sure he is coordinating this “outrage” with the WH to give him cover to continue to destroy the justice department, but to do it in secret instead of in the open as trump tweets expose his behavior. I’m sure Barr has already taken his crayons to the WH and drew up some nice charts and pictures that explained to trump that he is still going to do everything he tells him to but it needs to be quiet…we’ll see if trump’s tweets change to other topics now that he has gotten what he wanted from Barr…one good thing is that quite a few commentators have seen through Barr’s lies and it is being widely reported…but that doesn’t matter to the troglodytes that support trump….
February 14th
Well…running a little late today with getting all the way to 5:37 before I got up but I didn’t sleep that hot so I’m feeling it this morning…and I’m sore from sanding the spare room yesterday and will aggravate that this morning with the final work on the repaired areas…and then I need to clean up all the dust that it makes before I can start painting this weekend since I don’t want to track it all over the hallway and the rest of the place…after I get this done, it is going to be a busy morning with some work downstairs and then a run out to HF to get a bunch of stuff that I need…will probably spend 30 bucks there today but there are such good deals I can’t pass it up…I think it’s the first time I’ve had to make a list of things to get there and I have 6 coupons to use for the bargains…going to buy a little 4 1/2 inch angle grinder to remove paint on the front door since the old paint is so hard that my sander won’t cut it even with 100 grit paper…and I’ll probably do the same with the garage door that I did a fast paint job on just to meet code but doesn’t look good enough for me….I just discovered that the gutters on this house are copper under the paint that is peeling off so I’m not sure what I’m going to do with them…I may just try to remove the paint and clean them up but that’s for the spring and I have enough work in here to think about…more later…
We’re not scared anymore…
Well…whether or not you like Mike Bloomberg ( and there is a lot not to like) his actions and the money he is spending shows we are no longer scared of trump tweets…okay, I don’t think anyone on our side ever were but maybe we are modeling how to react to the idiot in chief for the repubs…just this morning, idiot boy was going off on Bloomberg again about his height of 5’4″ and Bloomberg shot this one back on Twitter: …”we know many of the same people in NY. Behind your back they laugh at you and call you a carnival barking clown. They know you inherited a fortune and squandered it with stupid deals and incompetence. I have the record and resources to defeat you, and I will.” Now, that’s how you respond to a con man who even bankrupted casinos he was so bad at business…and I think everyone else on our side should take a cue from Mike that now is the time to attack the bully in chief…and to make sure that Barr and the rest of his cronies know they are going to face the full measure of the law when trump is beaten like a dirty rug…and not the conspiracy theory, fascist use of the justice department that Barr is doing, but the transparent use of the law to uphold it and hold those accountable for breaking it…they should be very concerned but I think most of them are just too stupid to realize it..or have been able to get away with everything for the past twenty years under cover of the entire repub party…that is going to end in November…and not a day too soon…
February 13th
Well…that was a weird night…up at 2:14 and had to come out here and watch tv until 3:30 then back to bed until 5:37 making it about 4 1/2 hours for the night…and that kind of sucks…but I can live with it…and I had a double feature dream that started with trying to survive a nuclear explosion…which didn’t work and then some work stuff that is strange since I’m retired now…I guess that’s one thing about being good, I get dreams but still don’t sleep much…I know I talk about sleep a lot but the main reason is that it’s easy and helps me get started on these things every morning…it looks like I’ll be off the bike for a couple of days with the cold coming in and highs in the 20’s the next two days and that is just too damn cold to be out on the bike…it took me hours to get warmed up after yesterday’s ride and I was even under a blanket watching tv last night…sure hope it’s not a bug but I don’t feel too bad today so I don’t think it is….probably just from lack of sleep and being cold outside…didn’t get much done yesterday but work on the last room a little but today is sanding and prep day in lieu of riding the bike…should be able to get started painting tomorrow and have it finished up by early next week…will probably need one more gallon of paint but that will be the last until I get started outside….and that will be a full time job for a couple of months with having lots of landscaping to and trim to do…more later…
A “weak” field?
Well…holy crap I am tired of the frickin media getting it wrong again in this election season…just like they did in 2016…and the latest meme is that because Bernie or anyone else didn’t get all the votes, the dems have a “weak” field and they can’t beat the idiot trump…playing right into the Russian propaganda they fell for in 2016. But, I have a different take on it than the talking heads who have been wrong so many times…and that is that not one of our candidates got a huge majority of votes because we have such a strong field of candidates and that the voters can see that any one of them would be a great president but the sorting process hasn’t happened yet…I think our side is being judicious and it is much harder picking someone when all of them are good…the ones that weren’t getting traction fell out last night just like they are supposed to, with Yang, and Bennett getting out of the race…this “weak” field is just more nonsense that the media is thinking up to make it a horserace so they have something to write about…we just need to remember that every damn one of our candidates beat the idiot boy by 5-12 points in the latest polling and even our “weak” candidates can win even before we coalesce behind the eventual nominee….one last thing to remember is that this primary in NH set a record for dems as the biggest turnout ever…and the one thing we know is that when we vote, we win…so, hey pundits…I’ll allow you to steal my ideas if you want…they sure are a better take on politics than your nonsense…
A bit of a shock…
Well….I’m in a little bit of shock after getting the statement for my doctor’s appointment and x-rays in the mail yesterday…now, I know that medical care is expensive, but 5,000 bucks for a few x-rays? I’m not sure if this is because I have insurance or if they charge this much to everyone…but damn, how can anyone without insurance even afford to get sick? I am sure happy I survived the 16 years I went without insurance without any health problems…yow…
February 12th
Well…it was another 5:37 morning but not a normal one…slept all the way through from 10:30 with just a little tossing…even had dreams last night where I had a Miata stolen…but it wasn’t my Miata, it was a white one and I’d never own a white one…I’ve never owned any white car in my life…the closest was a cream colored 1962 Falcon wagon…and I was good last night so I feel pretty good this morning but I think I’m going to have the same problem I have every early morning…going to run out of things to do and get bored early too…but I do have the grocery run to do and I have been making progress on the last room to the point where I am going to be able to paint in a few days…and I discovered that the dust and dirt in this place is a huge component to my allergy flare I’ve been having since I moved in…once I started working in there and stirring it up the dust, I have been miserable and taking antihistamines just to be able to breathe…I am hoping that, once I’m finished, the allergies will get better…but that will take a couple of weeks since I am going to have to get the electric sanders out to sand the repairs I’ve made this week…and I can’t close the door since I took it off to repair it and the hinge pin along with the door frame…oh, well…going to do another street ride today but it looks like I’ll have to take Thursday off with the 3-5 inches of snow we are supposed to get and it is going to be too damn cold to go anyway…but it looks like a warm up is coming that is supposed to last until the end of Feb and if that happens, this will have been a pretty good winter…unless March turns into Feb….and that has happened….more later…
Impeach the son of a bitch again…
Well…look, did you expect that the idiot trump would be chastised at all by being only the 3 president impeached in the history of the country as Susan Collins thinks? Nope, I’m sure you didn’t…and today he is back at criming again by calling up Bill Barr and telling him to contest the sentencing recommendations for his crony Roger Stone of 7 to9 years for the 7 felonies he was convicted of, and threatening to pardon him if Barr didn’t do what he wanted. Now, in any other *presidency, this would be enough to get calls from his own party to cease and desist this unacceptable interference in the justice department or for him to resign…but no, we have Barr grinning and saying yup, I’ll help you commit more crimes to get your crony off and not one damn repub senator or rep saying word one…so now what do we do? Adam Schiff, start preparing a new set of impeachment articles and load them up with all of the times idiot boy obstructed justice…starting with the 10 times in the Mueller report, and then adding every other damn time he has done it in the past 3 years…and then send it to the senate and have mitch have to deal with it…one benefit of that is that if moscow mitch has to deal with that, he can’t get any more right wing, unqualified judges approved..since every one that he rams through has been judged unqualified by the ABA. If this is the only tool we have to work with until the election, then we have to use it to make sure the public knows how corrupt and wrong all of this crap is….
February 11th
Well…this is a little weird coming here before the coffee is even done but I’ve been up since 5:08 and I’m already getting bored with Dragnet on tv and reading all the news already…I was good last night and was in bed early so the 5:08 isn’t that bad and I didn’t toss and turn too much so I think I feel pretty good so far…and I hope that continues….had a good day with not coughing too much yesterday but I am doing it a little right now…think the measures I put in place to help the allergies seem to be helping some but my eyes are still itchy and I can feel a little pressure in my head but it is so much better than it was a couple of weeks ago so I’ll take it…I did get a bike ride in yesterday but it was on the streets since the trails are snow covered with slush under the snow and that is just no fun…and I am getting used to road riding here in the city…something I couldn’t do when I lived in the south end with no bike lanes on any street out there…took a new route yesterday and that was fun and I may do that again today after it warms up and I get my hair cut….then I need to make a run out to DD to get some cheap chicken strips…how can you pass them up at 5 bucks for 5 pounds? I need to get something in the freezer for the days when I just don’t want to cook…not much to do today…I did make some progress on the spare room again yesterday with getting the big holes plastered and getting the door frame repaired but now it needs sanding before I can paint but I will get that done today…there is a huge dent in the bottom of the metal frame that needs to be pulled out, too and I think I’ll need to drill it and put a screw in so I can try to pull it out and I want to get that done today, too…might not get to painting this week but I’ll have that done and the door rehung next week and then it’s going to be a week off with just cleaning…more later…