Well…cripes, can a day go by that the idiot trump doesn’t commit more crimes? Just today, while Marie Yovanovitch was testifying in his impeachment investigation, idiot boy tweeted at least two tweets that were aimed at the ambassador but even more than that, it was aimed at anyone else that is scheduled to testify that trump tried to extort Ukraine for fake dirt on the Bidens…and I smiled a little when Adam Schiff broke into the testimony to tell her what trump had done and to make sure that everyone knew that he takes witness intimidation very seriously…I can guess where this is going, that today’s tweets from the mob boss in chief are going to be the basis for another article of impeachment against the moron…and I think he just can’t help himself…but, where the hell are his lawyers in all of this? They should be wrenching his phone out of his tiny little hands because this is a crime that can be prosecuted after he’s thrown out of office…to add to the hundreds he’s already committed..doesn’t he understand that he is going to spend the rest of his life in jail after prosecutor after prosecutor gets done with him? I just think he’s to dumb to understand that things have changed…he was able to get away with this crap while he was a two bit developer in NY but now it’s bigger than that and moron boy is going down…counting the frickin days….
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November 15th
Well…cripes…didn’t get up til 6:04 this morning…for the second time, that is but it’s an improvement and I’ll take it…but, I’m sore again today and there is no reason for it…all I did was fool around yesterday and do a little prep work on the vestibule getting it ready to paint so for my back to hurt is weird…I did carry the speakers upstairs but if that is enough to make me hurt then I am getting damn old and that is no fun….I really hope we get some warmer weather so I can get out on the bike and take a look at the trails…I only have 23 miles left to do to get to the record and it would be a shame if I have to do it indoors…and I can sure use the exercise…just feel sluggish when I can’t ride…this is the second day of the supercharged coffee and I think it will be saved for times when I need a good wake up…it may be a little too much for daily use, especially after I get some sleep the night before…it was only 1.49 so no big investment….not much to do today…I do have a couple of errands to run…need to go out to office depot to get a cheap audio cable so I can plug my mp-3 player into my fixed receiver and then to kohl’s to see if I can get some more long lounge pants to try to stay warm….I have a sinking feeling that it is going to cost 400 bucks a month to heat this place so I need to budget for that…and that will really cut into the money I was going to save by moving in here….oh, well…more later…
This is pretty cool…
Well….as you know from this morning, I got my old antique receiver working and have been playing vinyl all day but it didn’t sound as I remembered it…I guess it’s getting old or my ears are…I guess both…but, I remembered that I saw another pair of speakers sitting in the basement and thought what the hell, I’d hook them up and give them a try….and they worked! So now I have the living room filled with sound and they made all the difference! Now this is how I remember my stereo sounding and it is pretty cool listening to some Joe pretty damn loud…I’ll bet my neighbors are freaking out a little…good….
Impeachment is boring?
Well…you know the media is almost too far gone to save when they call the most important hearings in our lifetimes “boring” and try to dismiss them just for that opinion. What the hell are they supposed to be? Full of dancing bears and fireworks? These are damn serious times and if the hearings are “boring” to you, then you are either a trumpbot or just plain stupid…after all what was revealed yesterday by just the first two witnesses was that trump personally ordered his cronies to extort and bribe Ukraine into fabricating dirt on the Bidens and to try to say that the Russian hacking of the 2016 elections was actually done by the Ukrainians…and, guess what? Bribery is specifically mentioned as one of the actions that should get a president impeached and removed…and it doesn’t fall under the “high crimes and misdemeanors” catch all….so there is no interpretation necessary…it’s right there in black and white that trump should be removed because he tried to bribe Ukraine with military assistance that was appropriated by congress and should have not have been subject to any conditions but those in the legislation that appropriated it…look, every damn thing that trump has done since he was installed by Putin was for his own personal gain or that of Putin and Russia and it was made clear yesterday how foreign policy has been subverted for that purpose by trump….and he should be removed…now….
I fixed the JVC!
Well….I guess this new coffee does work…after a couple of cups I looked down at my forlorn JVC receiver that I’ve had since 1974 and just had to take it apart to see if I could fix it…since I moved in here it didn’t work and not having music was starting to get to me to the point that I was looking for new receivers to buy online this morning…but, I just couldn’t pull the trigger without taking a closer look at the JVC…and I found it was just one of the 5 fuses in it had blown…so, I replaced it and now I’m sitting here driving the neighbors nuts at 7:15 blasting Aja by SD on vinyl and it is just so damn cool to have something work out…so now, there is a Yamaha one sitting downstairs with the same problem…no power output so I am going to take that apart this afternoon to see if that one is a fuse, too…that would be cool since it is a 5.1 surround sound with 500 watts of power…I just laughed out loud that I could fix this old thing…going to have a smile on my face all day….and it is so cool to have a house to play it in so I can play it LOUD….
November 14th
Well….have been up for an hour already and it’s 5:54 but I did sleep through the night so that’s okay….and I just feel a little worn out but I think that will pass as I have my coffee…tried a new style that I got a DD yesterday that has 50% more caffeine in it just for the heck of it and I am wondering how that will work…and, it was only 1.49 for a can of it that normally costs me 3 bucks at Meijers so I may just keep this in reserve for days when I need a boost in the morning…but, we’ll see…ha, ha…on days when I need a boost in the morning…that’s only on days that end in y….it tastes okay if a little bland but that’s not much different than the coffee I make every day so I can live with it…it’s a little strange that my car is running a lot better just by putting the new battery switch in so I wonder if it was limiting the voltage that the car had to use…all I know is that it starts great in the morning now and idles better but I am still going to get a new set of plug wires after I get my deposit next wed since the old ones are held together with blue silicone….I am going to try the car wash that is just around the corner this morning before I run a couple of errands since I need to get the salt off the car and can’t do it here in the driveway when it’s this cold…then I need to go out to depot in the south end since the one out here doesn’t have the patching plaster that I like and I need to get the last gallon of paint so I can get started on the second bedroom next week….and start work on the last of the pink in the kitchen….need to get off my butt and get this place finished….more later….
Weird stuff…
Well…it has been a day today that started out weird with the garage door not opening again this morning but I figured out it is the cold, making the door stiff and tripping the safety…and the strange thing is this opener doesn’t have an adjustment for the safety like my old one did…you could just turn a screw and it would work even if the door was stiff…so I lubed everything and it appears that it worked the one time I tried it but I don’t think it’s along term fix…I may have to take the cover off and see if there is an adjustment in there…but it is too damn cold today so I’m going to wait until it warms up later in the week and then take a look at it…but, if you want really weird, I was cleaning my shower today and decided to do my shower curtain with some shower cleaner that I have used many times before….but today, the stuff started to melt the bamboo patterns that were painted on so now most of the pattern is gone after using the curtain and cleaning it for more than 10 years…just too damn strange for me…I am curious as to why it would happen now…so, next time, no patterns unless they are embossed in…
Just can’t watch…
Well….started watching the impeachment hearings but when the idiot repubs got their chance to question, it was so much bullshit and conspiracy theories that have been thoroughly debunked that the only explanation is that they are doing it for an audience of one…the idiot in the WH…or for the mouth breathers on fox news…not trying to get to the truth or protect the constitution but just to protect the criminal in chief who is even lying about watching today…he says that he is not watching but then tweets with comments in real time…I guess the idiot just can’t do anything but lie…so, I am going to wait for the print analysis that will come out later today and read it instead….I am really impressed with the patience of the witnesses dealing with the repubs today…having to sit there and listen to the screeds from the questioners that really don’t have a point to them…they just want the talking point to be read into the record so they can claim that it’s the truth if it’s in the House records…what a bunch of crap….
November 13th
Well…I had really hoped that getting up at 5 was not going to be a habit but just a passing thing, but that doesn’t seem to be the case with the months that have gone by….oh, well…even with only getting 5 hours of sleep, I feel okay so I think I’m one of those people who are genetically disposed to not needing as much sleep as normal people….I did get some work done around here yesterday and now I have an almost normally opening front door but the lockset needs to be replaced since the inside knob is loose and I don’t think it can be fixed….but, I really can’t spend the money on that right now…I’m in no spend mode for the next month or so…need to build up my cash supplies for a while….the garage door jammed yesterday for some reason and I had to crawl under it to get a look at why…but, I didn’t see any problem and it is working again so that will be a project for a warmer day….no much to do today…have grocery and depot runs planned for this morning and then I want to get back here for the impeachment hearings that start today….but I can’t start on those until 9 or so with DD not opening until then….need more coffee and to read the news until then…..more later….
Damaged my thumb again…damn…
Well….I’m getting really, really tired of my damn thumb getting hurt every time I use it to do some work around here…just finished up moving the storm door latch on the front door and changing the screen with the storm glass, to try to keep more of the cold outside and when I was fitting the glass, I did what everyone does with these things, I just whacked the glass to make it go in with the heel of my thumb and immediately knew I was an idiot for doing it….that’s the problem with not resting my hands completely…how I use them is such a habit I don’t think about it and I keep re-injuring them…and now my thumb is throbbing and I’ll have to take some ibuprofen for it again…damn…