Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get a little stuff done…slept okay but this damn bug is still killing me with all the coughing….I thought it was breaking the other day but last night was bad so I guess I was wrong…I am sore everywhere again with both elbows just killing me so I guess some ibuprofen is in order before the bike ride…have been trying to get the damn squeak out of it for a couple of days now and I can’t figure it out…the shifter is still working great so that makes the squeak a little less annoying…need to wd the shock mounts before I go out and see if that’s it….it is pretty cold right now but I need to get out in the next half hour or so so I can see Man U play at 10….and I need to get the ham in and the potatoes peeled before that….not much to do today….just racing, football, and one errand to run so I will miss the first half of the Michigan game….have most of the cleaning done but the bathroom will wait until they finish the ceiling Monday….more later….
Monthly Archives: November 2015
One more on ole Ben…
Well…if you have listened to Ben Carson with some sort of critical ear…you know he is just a delusional liar, but today another huge lie was exposed that has me shaking my head…one of the stories he told and continues to tell is one where he says he was offered a full ride scholarship to West Point after having a long talk with General Westmorland when he was 17…the problem with that is that it never happened…he may have met the general while they were at the same dinner at that time, but there is no record that he ever applied to West Point…there is no congressperson that put forth his application…which is necessary…there is no record whatsoever that this even happened…so what does that make him….let me think…a liar? The sad thing is that him being such a bald faced liar will not hurt him with the idiots on the right…..they will blame it on the “lamestream” media as ole Ben has already started to do….this guy should never be in any office…anywhere….he shouldn’t even be in this race…geez…
November 6th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done with the guys here repairing the bathroom…and today looks much the same with them coming to finish it up…I hope….slept okay last night but that had to happen with how little sleep I got the night before…must have only gotten about 2 hours Wed night and I felt it all day….I did finally get a bike ride in after he left yesterday but I’m not sure about today…it is really windy and I don’t like going out when it is blowing 20 or better…..not too sore today but I better take some ibuprofen anyway just in case I do go out…..it is going to be a pain cleaning up after they are done today but it will be nice to be able to put my stuff back out on the counter….not much to do today….will probably clean the kitchen a little but that is about it….more later….
Ben Carson is just weird…and crazy…
Well…the more I read about ole Ben, the more I think he really is insane…not only is he a “young earth” evangelical, but, as I said here before, he doesn’t “believe” in science or astronomy. The latest addition to this full vat of crazy comes from a speech that he gave in the late 90′s where he said that he doesn’t believe the archeologists that say that the pyramids were built as tombs for the pharaohs…he thinks that they were built by the biblical Joseph for grain storage since the bible said that Joseph talked to the pharaohs about grains….I am shaking my head about the crazy in that one…but it goes to ole Ben’s ignorance and his substituting his beliefs for settled science. Not one archeologist supports this idiotic notion and all you have to do is look at the timing…the pyramids were built thousands of years before Joseph was even on the scene and there has never been any grain found there other than the offerings left for the pharaoh’s afterlife needs. Man, this guys is so willfully ignorant, how could he possibly lead a technological nation when science doesn’t mean anything to him? I know the modern repubs have taken know nothingness to an artform but, c’mon…this is just too much….I can’t wait to hear the comments from the rest of the world who are already laughing at us….geez…
November 5th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but the idiots who are supposed to fix my ceiling never came and I am irritated about that…slept as crappy as I can remember last night and I am tired this morning…all the damn wheezing and coughing all night is getting really old really fast…I did get a bike ride in and the shifter is still working great so I guess that should make it a little better…but, not enough….I have been sore in new places the past few days and I’m not sure what that is about….but, it’s not much worse than normal so I’m not going to bitch….I did have the top down on the run over to the grocery store this morning and I am marveling at it being 61 at 7:30 on November 5th…but, that is all going away over the next few days and I’ll need to start dressing for it…I will get to t-day in shorts as always and this year that hasn’t really been that hard….not much to do today….going to get my hair cut in a few minutes and then back here for the bike ride….and the leaning tower of papers need to be taken care of so that will be on the agenda for the day….more later…oh, and one more on Ben Carson’s just absolute weirdness….you’ll love that one….
Are the people in Kentucky just stupid?
Well…with the elections yesterday…and I voted…the people of Kentucky have shown behavior that could only be described as stupid with their electing a far right wing tea party idiot as governor. Guess what this cretin ran on…taking health insurance away from 440,000 people in Kentucky that benefited from the Medicaid expansion that the previous dem governor accepted from the feds. I wonder what it is that people are now constantly voting against their own self interest? Most of these people on Medicaid there are poor whites who overwhelmingly wanted the tea party to run their state…or ruin their state…they have a functioning state exchange called Kynect that people love but they just don’t understand that it is Obamacare…same damn thing…people there hate Obamacare by a 2-1 margin but when they just say Kynect, a majority likes it…just another example that these people are just not right…I am at a loss to understand this nonsense…..oh, well…it’s almost as bad here so I guess I shouldn’t talk too much…geez…
November 4th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…and, 76 degrees in the first part of November? I’ll take that all winter…had the top down out and back and it was a nice drive…slept okay last night and feel okay today except for the lungs still being a pain with way too much coughing…I am ready for this bug to be gone…actually I was ready for it to be gone last weekend but no such luck….I did get the shifter on the bike fixed and it is working as good as it has since the bike was new…it was working so good that I did 30 miles on the bike yesterday…but, I think that was a mistake since I am sore today but a good sore so I guess I can live with that. They are coming to fix my bathroom ceiling today and getting ready for that is a huge pain…just want this mess to be finished…not much to do today…going to just clean around here while the guys work and then get the bike ride in after they leave…more later…
November 3rd
Well…it was an okay but busy day yesterday with going out to have a couple with K and K and then out with G…but it was nice to put the top down on the car and leave it down until I got home…I even washed and waxed it yesterday…slept pretty crappy last night since I forgot to take an antihistamine and that left me plugged up and wheezing all night…and I feel that this morning…just tired as hell and coughing…but, I think the bug is breaking up, finally, at least I hope it is…I would like to be able to breathe again….finally had to tear the bike apart yesterday since it stopped shifting…the lubricant that I had been using on the cables turned hard and basically welded the cable to the sheath…took two hours and lots of simple green to break it up…put a new cable in it since the old one came apart taking it out and it shifts pretty good now…the shifter is still bad and needs to be replaced and the new one came yesterday but I don’t feel like working on it today…later in the week….not much to do today…pool, of course, and some cleaning but that is about it….more later…
Shouldn’t you have to believe in science to be president?
Well…I know the know-nothingness is a badge of honor for many of those on the right but shouldn’t you have to believe in science to be president? I guess not for the ignorant masses on the right and for their leading candidate Ben Carson. In an interview this weekend, ole Ben came out and said that the theory of evolution, which does explain how everything got here, was a plot by the devil to lead people away from religion and that it can be dismissed as false since progressives believe that it does explain how life got to where it is now. He has also said that the science of astronomy is “false” and doesn’t believe in that either. I have never heard more ignorant statements from any supposed “leader” but the right eats this crap up…where did their intelligence go? Or, have they always been this stupid but just hid it better? I cannot believe that in the 21st century anyone can still think that everything they need to know was written by a bunch of ignorant goat herders over 2,000 years ago…geez…
November 2nd
Well…running late today with having to run an errand already…and I’m having a hard time getting going without the normal two cups of coffee…slept okay last night and had some dreams that were uninteresting so I won’t relate them here….my lungs are still bad today with more of the coughing that is so annoying and I think part of it is allergies but I can’t be sure there’s not a bug in there, too…don’t feel bad, though, so maybe I’ll get lucky this time…I did have to order a new shifter for the bike but there are other problems with it, too…for some reason the cable is binding up in one of the sleeves and it may be a build up of gunk in there…I’ll take care of that when I put the shifter and new cable in later in the week…it is so damn annoying on the bike that I almost don’t want to ride it…not much to do today…have to run out in a minute and get a card for T’s birthday tomorrow and then the normal stuff but that’s about it…more later….