Well…the streak ends at 4 with waking up at 4:34 this morning and not being able to get back to sleep…but, it was a good run to get 4 in a row and maybe a new streak will start tonight….I seem to have slept okay but am having a hard time getting started in the morning lately and I think I know what the reason is but I’m not sure I want to change it…I am getting tired of eating turkey and that will end today with the last two meals so I need to plan something and get it out of the freezer…or just wait til tomorrow and get some fresh chicken from the grocery run…I do have a couple of pork chops in the freezer that I could take out so I’ll think about that later….I did get some prep work done in the kitchen yesterday and will continue to do more in there today…Have been getting some stuff done around here the past 4 days in a row….hmmmm…I wonder it that has something to do with my sleeping? It may but we’ll see…the work I’m doing is just light stuff for now but I did get to straightening up the basement, too and that needs to continue….it is nice to have music to work by again with getting the receiver working again…oh, and in the quiet garage I can hear something start to buzz when I reconnect the battery in the car so I may be able to find the voltage drain by just listening…a project that I will fool with over the next couple of weeks….more later….
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Karma bites trump and rudy on the ass….
Well…just a short one on a funny bit of karma doing it’s thing against rudy and the big orange idiot…as you know, or at least I hope you know, that idiot boy trump is being impeached for extorting Ukraine into ginning up some “evidence” of wrongdoing by the Bidens there…and ole rudy has been all over trying to get officials there to help with the conspiracy under the guise of “fighting corruption”…okay, here’s where it gets funny, to me at least, just the past few days every damn one of the people in the government that rudy has been conspiring with have been fired by the new president of the country…and guess what for? Corruption! Now, when they say that Karma is a bitch I guess it’s one bitch that trump can’t move on…okay, that one even made me laugh a little….
Whiny baby says what?
Well….god, I wonder if the idiot trump ever gets tired of being a big, whiny baby? With the impeachment hearings moving over to the Judiciary Committee this week and the perfectly reasonable invitation of chair Jerry Nadler for trump and his lawyers to come and participate to defend trump, all we got from the whiny baby and his lawyers was a letter Sunday saying that they wouldn’t come…I guess they realize that Devin Nunes or Jim Jordan aren’t going to be in charge and trump would really have to answer to the facts that he committed multiple crimes and not just get fluffed by his moronic minions. But, what this invitation does is put to rest the talking point that the “process” is unfair to trump and he doesn’t get to defend himself…hey, idiots…you had your chance to come and refute the evidence and you chose talking points instead…and that just isn’t going to cut it when more and more of the facts come out….and I think it’s funny that not one repub has come out to refute the facts that trump is a criminal committing daily crimes by obstructing the investigation…because they can’t…facts are facts and trump’s cronies can only whine about the fact that they don’t think crimes are crimes, and anyway, a repub president can do whatever he wants and it is just peachy keen with them….so, keep piling up the felonies just as long as the sweet, sweet Russian cash keeps rolling in to their campaigns….they are going to have to pay at some point….
December 2nd
Well….that’s four days in a row of sleeping all night and not getting up til 6…this is just too damn weird….but this morning I don’t feel too hot…just exhausted and am having a hard time getting started….the coffee is not helping yet either…oh, well…just getting old I guess…at least I don’t hurt as badly as I did yesterday but the low level pain is till there everywhere…okay, going to stop bitching about that….the vestibule does look good after finishing it yesterday and that is motivating me some to complete the painting…just have the cabinets in the hallway and the spare bedroom to do and the majority will be done…still have the dining area of the kitchen to do but that is going to take some prep work that I may work on today have some big cracks to be repaired and then some window work….have to strip the paint off the frames and that is slow going…didn’t get a bike ride in yesterday but I may try to get out today to see if they plow the trails…don’t think they do but it would be cool if they did…not much to do today…just going to ease into it right now and let the coffee do it’s work…today would be a good day for the extra caffeine coffee…I may add one scoop of it to the next batch just to try it…more later…
Ow…
Well…with all of the damn snow this morning and how heavy it was, I had a hell of a time just getting out to get the newspaper today…almost got the car stuck on flat ground at the gas station where I buy the paper…but, that’s not what this is about…it is about how much I hurt now from pushing that heavy crap to clear my driveway and sidewalks. My thumb, right hip, and right shoulder are just screaming at me and I even had to take something for it a little while ago to make it tolerable…hmmmm…I guess part of it could be that I put the second coat on the vestibule, too, but most of the pain was already there to the point that I had to use the roller with my left hand….and that was a trip since I never use my left for detail work…or much at all really….and my shoulder is back to the popping and creaking it was doing just after I crashed the bike a year ago…so, yeah, I feel old tonight and may have to take the day off working on the house tomorrow to heal up some…and that adds a pain in the ass to the pain list…oh, well…back to politics tomorrow…
December 1st
Well…this sucks…got up this morning to 6 inches of that wet, heavy snow that kills lots of old guys when they go out to shovel it…and barely made it out to get the paper…almost got stuck at the end of my driveway and on flat ground over at the gas station where I get my Sunday paper…but, I didn’t and not having to clean the car off before going out is still pretty cool…I did sleep through the night for the third day in a row and I am really confused why that would be…I’m not doing anything different than I have for years but I guess I shouldn’t analyze it too much….I did get the vestibule painted yesterday and am hoping I have enough paint left to put the second coat on today but it’s going to be close…and I am not going out to get more paint today so it may end up being a two day job…and that’s okay….it’s such a small space with lots of detail on the door and around the lights that it took quite a bit of time…I did get my last piece of basement equipment yesterday and got it up and running and that is pretty cool….now I’m just waiting for my sound bar to arrive and then no more spending until January…not much to do today…it’s pretty obvious that there will be no bike ride today and I can use the day off…so that leaves sports with the F1 race on at 8 and then Man U plays at 11:30 so that will take care of the morning but it looks like a boring afternoon….more later….
If the repubs won’t convict in the senate…
Well…as we watch the impeachment proceedings that have already revealed that the idiot trump has committed multiple felonies while in office and before…and as Mitch McConnell has made it clear that he will not allow trump to be convicted in the senate no matter what the evidence is or how much he has betrayed the country, the dems need to come up with a new strategy that will guarantee that trump pays the price for his crimes after the repubs can no longer protect him. Now, I have never seen such a corrupt party as the repubs now are in my long life…so it left up to us to make sure that whoever comes next sees that, while it may take a long time, they will not be allowed to commit crimes with impunity. I propose that we use the impeachment inquiry as a grand jury that will gather evidence that will then be given to prosecutors across the country to bring charges against trump and his minions after they are out of office…and we need to make the country aware that, if it wasn’t for the cult of trump that the repubs are willing members of, idiot boy would be convicted in the senate and removed from office. One component of of this action would be a letter from Jerry Nadler to trump telling him that this is what is going to happen and that there is not a damn thing trump can do about it since it is within the power of the House committees to release whatever evidence they want to whomever they want. One last thing that need to be shouted to the heavens is that ALL repubs who have decided to not uphold their oaths of office are part of this conspiracy and just as guilty as trump…we need to play hardball to make sure trump knows he isn’t going to get away with all of his crimes…
November 30th
Well…that was a little weird…didn’t get up til 6 and slept through the night, mostly, and don’t feel too bad this morning so I’ll take it…I did get some work done yesterday for the first time in a few days and will finally get the vestibule painted today…after F1 qualifying and while soccer is on…need to find my painting clothes and get a little more sanding done first but that will wait until after I have some coffee…had an okay day yesterday and got a nice bike ride in but it looks like the next few days are going to be rainy with some snow/ice mixed in so it looks like some hibernation time is going to happen and that means I’ll have time to get started on the cabinets at the end of the hallway and then move on to the spare bedroom…that one is going to take a lot of prep work before paint but I have the time so no big deal….not much to do today…after painting I need to clean some and start getting the tools put away so the place doesn’t look too messy…I still don’t need to cook for another couple of days but I do need to think and plan what is going to be next….more later….
The Irishman…
Well…with all of the hype about how wonderful the new Scorsese movie “The Irishman” is, I decided to take a look at it and invest 3 1/2 hours into it last night….hmmmm…while I think it was a serviceable movie, I really don’t think it lives up to reviews that called it “a masterpiece”…especially after watching “The Godfather” earlier in the day which truly is a masterpiece. One of the most jarring parts of the movie was the attempts to de-age the main characters to show their earlier lives but DeNiro and Pesci still looked like they were in their sixties and the scene where they met over a broken down truck where Pesci called DeNiro “young man” was just weird…and during the rest of the movie, to see DeNiro doing entry level mob jobs when he still looks to be in his 60′s was jarring to say the least and destroyed the believability to me….so, would I recommend this movie? With a few cocktails, maybe…but I didn’t walk away saying wow! And that is what a masterpiece is to me…like watching “Casablanca” or “the Big Sleep”….and I sure wouldn’t rate it an 8.9 like it is on IMDB….
Just bought the last thing until January….
Well…yeah, I know…I said I wasn’t going to to spend any money until the first of the year but amazon had a deal on a soundbar that I have been looking at so I decided to buy it for 10 bucks off at 55 bucks….and it comes with the optical cable I need to connect it to the tv that is about a 12 buck option for other low priced ones and it comes with free shipping…I guess it has free shipping all the time if it’s over 25 bucks so that’s no selling point…but it does have 70 watts and a remote control for volume and an equalizer with three presets…and I may be able to take the audio out and play it through the big speakers if I want so that will be cool….so, NOW I can’t spend any more cash until January…but I’m set up with everything I need until then so no big deal….