Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool….but getting started that early in the day takes a lot out of me so I am a little worn out today….didn’t get anything done other than pool and today looks much the same…I do want to get out on the bike but it looks like the trails aren’t clear yet…will probably have to wait until tomorrow since it is going to be in the 50′s today and they should melt off enough…I may try to go out this aft, though, just to test out the repairs that I did to the bike last week….and, with being behind here, I’ll have to do two more of these today…and there should be topics after I read about the debates last night….not much to do today…I do have to take Tom to his pain clinic appointment this morning but then I am going to just take it easy the rest of the day…it should be warm enough to put the top down on the way back home later….more later…
Monthly Archives: March 2016
March 6th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done…I did get out to have a couple with G but that started the night off too early and I am feeling it today….just kind of sluggish and just want to go back to the couch…..even went to bed early and slept okay last night…must have been really early since I got a text from T at 10:17 that I didn’t even see or respond to…oh, well…my back is still holding up with no pain and that is a really good thing…but it is weird to be able to walk without a limp….but I’ll take it….not much to to today….going to just lick the wounds a little and watch some soccer until I can get moving and then some kitchen cleaning…don’t have to cook today since I have lots of leftovers so it is going to be really low key…more later….
A little mind cleansing…
Well…I just noticed that I have had a pretty good head of outrage going lately and it has been reflected in the posts I have been doing…but, not today….going to do a little mind cleansing today and just write about nice things for a change….I did get the bike put back together and it appears to be solid again…and, it should be with 5 more layers of fiberglass holding the broken part on…can’t wait to get out on it but the darn weather is just not cooperating….maybe Tuesday when it’s supposed to be 64….it’s been kind of calm around here with some cash in my pocket but I am a little bored with Tom’s back still bad and everyone else out of town….I could just go out by myself but I have been so good at not spending money that it has gotten to be a habit….and there really are plenty of things I could do around here but I just don’t care to do them right now…I think I’ll watch the movie “Spotlight” tonight since there is nothing on tv that I want to see…and it’s the Oscar winner so I need to see it to see if they screwed up the choice again….hmmm….not much else to talk about right now…just didn’t want to do another screed today…but, tomorrow is another story…I am going to have time on my hands since I will not watch NASCAR anymore after their endorsement of Trump….
March 5th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was cool….slept pretty well last night and I feel okay this morning even after not being good last night…I’m on about the 6th day of my back not hurting and it is weird to walk without any pain…even my neck is better…but my hands are a little worse for wear after fixing the bike yesterday…had to re-fiberglass the seat post tube and the acid in the hardener took a bunch of skin off my hands since the resin is so sticky that you can’t use gloves to apply it…they are just a little dry today so I guess they survived the abuse….and the bike is fixed for the next time the trails are clear…probably won’t be able to get out until Tuesday since there is still quite a bit of snow on the trails….didn’t get anything else done yesterday but the bike was enough….didn’t even have to buy a new glass kit….just needed hardener and Menard’s carries it for 2 bucks so that was cool to save 15 bucks….not much to do today….going to clean a little but that is about it….and watch some soccer…more later….
Late again today….
Well…have been getting a few things done today so I am late coming back here for another one…did anyone watch the repub debate last night? I hope not since the sight of it would need so much brain bleach that it would probably kill you….I have never seen a group of “adults” carry on with the insults and middle school taunts that made them look as presidential as Pee Wee Herman….but nowhere near as funny….and it does look like ole Drumpf is going to be the winner no matter what he says, no matter how many lies he spouts, and no matter how much he threatens to commit war crimes…my question is if he was elected, and he ordered the military to commit war crimes, how many generals would tell him to go to hell….it is illegal, after all, to order someone to commit a war crime and that is just another reason whey Bush and Cheney should be in jail….but, I blame Obama for that…for his willingness to put the whole mess behind him so the repubs would work with him…how did that work out Obama? I am at a loss to comment more….geez…
March 4th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get some cleaning done so that was cool….slept better than normal last night and I don’t know why so I’m not going to think about it…I did get the new readers yesterday and now I can see the papers and this screen better and that is kind of weird….no back pain today and the neck is better, too, so I guess I don’t have anything to bitch about today…will that make this too boring? Not sure about that…..it was pretty cool going out to get the papers today with the heavy fog out there…the sun looked just so cool through it but I am not sure how fog happens when it is 10 degrees out there….I am really, really tired of it being cold and I need it to warm up so I can get back into shorts…not sure if I will stay in them but normally I do once I change…not much to do today….I do have an errand to run this morning and I am going to make some cash so that will be cool…and I am going to cook a pork loin that I have been dry aging in the fridge since yesterday…just needed to try something different…more later….
The brilliance of Marco Rubio….
Well…was just reading a few articles on the intertubes and came upon this comment from ole Marco that had me laughing out loud at his brilliance…(snark)….after the super Tuesday primaries and caucases, he was asked why he didn’t do better than he did…and ole Marco answered with this brilliance…”if there weren’t so many people running, I would have won most of the states”….let that one sink in for a minute…he uses the excuse that there are just too darn many people running so people can’t see that he is the most qualified and would make the bestest president of all…this is what you get when you have a repub empty suit running…who has never accomplished anything in his life other than making friends with billionaires and trying to memorize a bunch of talking points…I kind of wish he would get the nomination so that either Hillary or Bernie would just destroy him in the debates…but, that is not going to happen…and that doesn’t make me sad at all….
March 3rd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I had a nice lunch with T and made some cash so that is cool….slept pretty crappy again and was up and down all night but that’s normal these days….my neck still hurts today and I guess I’ll break down and take something for it…I’m sure it’s from sleeping wrong but I’m not sleeping so I’m not sure how that works….I did do the grocery run today and that is the reason I’m running late….I did buy some new readers today and moved up to 1.75 magnification from the 1.50 that I have used for the past 5 years….can really see better reading the paper and doing this and they were pretty cheap…got two pair for 6 bucks at Meijer’s this morning so I can throw them away when I scratch them and not feel too bad…the last two pair cost me almost 30 bucks so I can live with a little less quality…one funny thing, the tags on them had electronic chips in them and they set of the door alarms when I was going out…kind of funny….not much to do today…I am going to clean some and make some pork roast for lunch but that is about it…more later….
This is what running government like a business does…
Well…you would think that the idiots in charge of Lansing would learn from their abject failures…but no, they are repubs who never learn anything. One of the mantras we hear all the time from these folks that it will be better if we run government like a business…it will save money…greedy unions have to go, etc…but the results are clear to see…from the Flint water crisis caused so that the emergency manager could save 100 dollars a day and look good to his cronies in the Snyder administration, to the privatization of food services for the state’s prisons that rewarded big donors to the repubs with profit while they fed prisoners food that was spoiled and had workers that smuggled drugs into the prisons….to the latest outrage of the veterans home in GR where the union aides and nurses were canned so they could give the contract for patient care to a private company that repeatedly failed to take care of the patients there…patients who are military people..yeah, the ones that the repubs supposedly revere but not if they cost anything. The system worked perfectly fine with some of the best care in the country until the repubs again privatized services there…but the real goal was to do whatever they could to gut public sector unions…and patient care be damned if they could save a couple of million dollars. This is the problem with running government like a business…it just isn’t one! And the bottom line mentality does not work unless you don’t give a damn about any outcome except cutting costs…and cutting costs doesn’t work all the time in business…we had a saying in my business days: you can’t cut your way to growth and profitability….but to the idiots running this state, it’s the only thing they know…geez….
March 2nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…and today looks like the same…slept okay last night…well…not really…and I woke up with a sore neck that is going to need some pain killers here in a minute…I am so tired of winter and can’t wait for next Monday when it is going to be in the 50′s with maybe 60′s tues and wed….I do want to get the summer tires back on the car but I guess I can wait a little while….my back did hurt a little yesterday but it seems okay now…just a little tight….I do need to clean around here today but I probably won’t with having lunch plans with T….and there is soccer on this aft that I want to see…maybe between halves? Not much to do today….I do have to get my hair cut in an hour or so and then I have some things to do around here before lunch….more later….