Well…we’ve witnessed the predictable damn result of the repub conspiracy to protect trump at the cost of our democracy…it’s not enough that trump is doing the rounds where the repub senators who ignored all the evidence and acquitted the idiot are giving him standing ovations, but now his cronies in the senate are now going after his enemies starting with Hunter Biden where trump has directed the IRS to release every bit of information they have on him…including his tax returns and anything that may have come up in earlier partisan investigations trying to dig up dirt on his father…and leading the charge is chief toady Lindsey Graham who telegraphed this move weeks ago, trying to curry favor with the fascist in chief. Now, folks…take a look at the modern repub party that has given up any fig leaf of legitimacy and have gone full fascist by using the power of the government to go after private citizens…no matter that three investigations have found no wrongdoing by either of the Bidens, but in the fascist state that the repubs have created that looks just like frickin Russia, it is now okay to do anything they feel like to anyone they want…what’s next? Disappearing political foes? I am so depressed by this crap that I am going to stop reading the news for a while and probably won’t post much about it unless it’s good news…just can’t take seeing my country destroyed for an asshole like trump….
February 6th
Well…damn, coughing like crazy again this morning and I am just damn tired of it…think I may even take something for it if it doesn’t get better soon…I’m even a little sore from it and that is annoying, too…I did sleep okay and stayed in bed til 5:43 but that didn’t help with feeling so damn tired this morning…and part of that may be that I had to go hard on the bike just to stay warm with going out when it was 27 degrees…probably one of the hardest rides yet this year and I am going to go out around 10 this morning if it’s warm enough…we didn’t get the 3-5 inches of snow that was predicted so I am going to try the trails and see how they look with the inch or so we did get…the radar looks like more areas of snow showers are coming in so we’ll see later…didn’t get much done yesterday other than the grocery run….I did find a recipe for lasagna soup in the Free Press yesterday that I want to try so I will need to go out and get some burger to put in it tomorrow and I need some tomato sauce, too but it looks good and easy to make…and I need to expand what I cook since I am getting bored with the same old food…this recipe even has melted mozzerella on top that you need to brown under the broiler…could be yummy…not much to do today…just the normal work around here and some cleaning but I feel so damn worn out today that it is going to be a while until I can get started…more later….
I’ve created a sparrow mosh pit…
Well…it does look like I’m feeding every sparrow here on the west side with the quantity of feed they have been going through…I mean only one day to empty the feeder? When I started feeding them, it took them almost a week to eat all of the food in the feeder, but as the days have gone on there are more and more of them coming in and they are banging into each other in the air and pushing each other off the feeder…I even counted 8 of them on my small feeder at once and there is just not room for that many at a time. It does look like a mosh pit out there at times and some of them are sitting on the windowseal to rest before they go back into the fray….a couple of them have even given up and figured out how to land on the clear feeder to be able to eat in peace….so, I am starting to be entertained…but I think I’ll need another bag of feed next week…
A cool bit of shade…
Well…not sure if you watched the SOTU last night, and I’ll admit I didn’t since I can’t stand trump and how his stench has polluted all of the institutions he touches…I mean, giving the presidential medal of freedom to frickin Rush Limbaugh? The guy who has done more damage to this country than anyone other than trump or mcconnell? Not sure how long it’s going to take to fumigate that stench but I’ll bet the dem who is elected is going to make almost a full time job of it….and I want a damn asterisk by every judge, war criminal, and medal of freedom that idiot boy has presented….but, that’s not what this one is about…at the end of the lying, racist speech last night, Nancy threw a huge bunch of shade at the idiot by theatrically tearing up her copy of idiot boy’s speech on live tv right over trump’s shoulder…and of course, the repubs thought it was the worst, most devisive thing that has ever happened in the history of the country…and that made me laugh…trump has shown nothing but contempt for everything in this country and it’s institutions…so for Nancy to show her utter contempt for trump was a fitting response…and it will be a rallying point for the rest of the year until the election when we throw trump and his cronies out…yay Nancy…
February 5th
Well…damn, I thought I’d escaped the effects of the downstairs work on my allergies yesterday but no such luck…started to get miserable in the afternoon and that extended right into the night and continues this morning…it was such a luxury to not cough for the past few days but I guess that’s over for a while…didn’t sleep too badly though so I guess I can live with it but I slept on my left shoulder all night and now that hurts like crazy and that won’t be fun with the snow that is coming tonight and into tomorrow..damn, I’m getting creaky in my old age…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday and it looks like I’ll get one more in today before the trails are iced over again and then it looks like I’ll be back to the streets for a while since I don’t want to go back to the trainer in the basement…still, it hasn’t been a bad winter so far and it’s only three weeks til March so it looks like we’ve survived another one…and now it will turn ridiculously cold and we’ll get a blizzard that will last til April just from my saying that….not much to do today…I do need to do the grocery run but only to Meijers today…have a lot of food in the freezer that I need to use so I only need a few staples today….more later…
A productive day so far…
Well…damn, I’ve finally had a productive day with very little coughing….got started at 7:30 with lots of work downstairs that took about two hours to complete, then I got out for a long bike ride, and then finished up downstairs when I got back here…and just finished that a few minutes ago at 1:30 or so…but, I got everything done that needed it and now it looks like I have about 6 weeks before I have any big work to do downstairs again so I won’t have any excuse for not getting the last room done….I did have to take an antihistamine with the allergen exposure today and that helped with my itchy eyes and plugged up head but we’ll see how that works as the day goes on…I may even take the rest of the day off and watch some soccer I accomplished so much today…yeah, that sound you heard was me hurting my shoulder patting myself on the back…oh, well…
Good on you, Brian Wilson…
Well…this one is going to be a little different…not about politics or anything else that I normally talk about but it’s about the slaughter of endangered animals by supposed “big game hunters” for profit….this one came to my attention by a tweet by Brian Wilson, the founder of the Beach Boys, castigating Mike Love, one of the other members of the band, for booking a concert at the yearly convention of these animal murderers, and a place where most of these “safaris” are sold….now, don’t give me the BS that if I eat meat, I can’t object to rich assholes shooting animals for “fun”…I have no objection with people hunting for food…and I love the fact that I have friends that hunt and give me venison every winter…after all, I try to not be a hypocrite…but to kill some beautiful, endangered animal just so you can take a grinning picture with the corpse is morally wrong…look, all you have to know is that the evil trump spawn are always in the news for doing just that, and one of them is the “keynote” speaker at this convention of murder where animal parts will be sold to other jackasses who think that killing a defenseless animal makes them a “man”…haven’t we gotten past killing just for killings sake? It’s just like the rich assholes who run this world to continually take, take, and take from the rest of us just so they can get their jollies…now, if they are such “he-men”, send them out against a leopard with just a knife and without the 13 rifles protecting them….you don’t have to wonder if any of them would do that…never in a million years….I guess all I have left to say is good on you Brian Wilson for calling out these assholes…
February 4th
Well…didn’t make it til coffee o’clock this morning with getting up at 5:40 and with getting to bed late, that made it about 5 hours of sleep last night…ick….but, that’s pretty normal and I wonder why I expect any different? The change back to riding outdoors left me hurting last night and I was hobbling around here all afternoon but I don’t mind it at all…just getting back on the trails yesterday made me smile and I’m hoping we don’t get much snow since the trails are all clear right now and I can take it being cold if they are clear…I did put the computer back on the front wheel yesterday so I guess I’m committed to riding outside for the time being and I am going to try to be less hard on myself when the weather keeps me off the bike…just couldn’t do the inside riding this year and part of that is that I couldn’t get tv signal downstairs and that left me looking at the walls and that made it just so boring…didn’t get much done yesterday but a run out to HF and then I fixed the latest stitching failure on the top of the car…bought a couple of little spring clamps at HF for 99 cents each that worked like a champ and that should come in handy around here when I need to glue anything….not much to do today…I have some work to do downstairs and then need to continue working on the spare room…need to get shades for the new window in there and paint and I hope to get that done this week…but, if it’s done by the end of the month, I’ll be okay with that….more later….
Why even do it?
Well….with the fix being in since the start of the idiot trump’s trial in the senate and closing arguments going on today, I guess the question I have for the House managers is “why even do it?” Why just go through the motions of presenting the case when an airtight one has already been presented in the Senate? Why go along with the charade that moscow mitch has perpetrated on the US? Why not just go to the media and make the point to every damn outlet that you are protesting this sham by not participating anymore…I know that’s what the repubs want but only one side playing by the rules set us up from the beginning to fail…Now we need to seize the power that we still do have to make sure all of the evidence gets out, that Lev Parnas and John Bolton are subpoenaed to testify in front of the house…cripes the repubs ran a 2 year investigation into Benghazi when there was nothing there so why can’t we still use what little power we have to get to the truth? There has to be a strategy to counter moscow mitch and keep digging until the truth comes out or this country is lost…get after it Schiff…
February 3rd
Well…hmmm…that was a night of weird dreams last night…not sure what it means when you have one that you can’t find a clean shirt but it went on for a while…oh, and I couldn’t find a mirror to shave with…now these could be work related but I don’t work anymore so that would be even more weird…slept okay last night but was up at 5:34 but I guess that’s pretty normal by now…it sure would be nice to sleep in just once in a year…I did get a nice bike ride in on the streets yesterday and rode into GR to just take a look around but I hope the trails will be melted enough to get out on them today…the river still looks pretty high so they may still be flooded and it’s nice to know that I have the streets for backup…took Lake Michigan drive to where it turns into Pearl street and then up and over to Rosa Parks circle and then Monroe over to Michigan to Bridge and back to Stocking and back here…not sure how viable those routes will be when there is traffic but I’ll give it try sometime and see…didn’t get anything else done yesterday but go out to have a couple with K and watch the SB but I do have errands to run today…need to go to HF an get some small zip ties so I can put the computer back on the front wheel of the bike for a while and I’m almost out of vinyl gloves for working around here…and I can get 50 pair for 5 bucks on sale so that’s a pretty good deal…not sure how much I’ll get done today after that but I do need to finish up the prep on the last room so I can paint this week….more later…