Well…that was another crappy night of sleep and it shouldn’t have been…but, I just figured out part of the reason…forgot to use flonase last night and I am miserable this morning with my nose completely plugged up…and I have a low grade headache to go with it…so, I won’t forget that again…and I may even use some this morning before I get on the bike since the goldenrod is blooming along the my entire route…I am a little happy that I am going to have an enforced weekend off the house and everything else with the car being down…I have made enough progress that the house will be un condemned as soon as the windows are in and I got the feeling yesterday that it is finally a house again and not just a project with finishing the bathroom and getting the furnace running…along with testing the downstairs fridge which started right up so I could move into it any time and live there so, with almost two months until my lease is up, that takes a load off and makes this a no stress weekend…I do have to cook some after today since I still have leftovers to use but I need to think what I want to make…and I do have to finally clean some around here…or not…might just take the day off completely…more later…
Monthly Archives: September 2019
Not the best of days…
Well…yeah, I’ll get to a bunch of political ones tomorrow and over the weekend since the car is down for the count until Monday…had a hanger connected to the pipe just behind the cat rot out on the way home and the car is now too loud to drive so I will be carless until Monday morning when I am having the new pipe hung by the same guy that did the last one…but the hanger that rusted out isn’t even on the new one so I hope the rest of it fits…it still has 4 hangers on it and I’ll keep the one from the old pipe and weld it on if I need it…so, Tom…I may have to use your welder but I think it will be okay without it but we’ll see…so, I have an enforced 3 day weekend off the house and that’s a bit of a pain just when I was making some good progress…let the furnace do a cycle and it turned on and shut down just like it’s supposed to and I got the belt on the blower adjusted so it doesn’t make any noise anymore and I oiled the bearings in the oil caps…yep, it’s that old, and it is pretty damn quiet so maybe it was an okay day…it’s just hard for me to have to wait to have the car fixed but I’ll take some deep breaths and just ride the bike and amuse myself some other way…okay…I’m going to try to repair it…just found a clamp that is big enough to fit around the pipe but I don’t have any beer cans so I’m using six layers of folded aluminum foil that should deform into the hole and make it usable in an emergency…..and the hole is only about a half inch across…okay, closer to an inch but I’m going to try it anyway…
September 5th
Well…got all the way to 5:45 this morning and that is just damn unusual…but, I’m not sure that helped much since I am just worn out right now…and I forgot to make coffee last night with putting the coffeemaker parts in the dishwasher so I am running late today…I’m not sure what my schedule is going to look like today with it only being 49 degrees out there right now and I am not going to get on the bike with it that cold…so maybe after it warms up some but that will mean no house until after lunch today…I do need to hit HF to get some more supplies since I ran out of painter’s tape yesterday and I still have the front door to paint…I did get the furnace running yesterday…after a fashion but it seems to be out of time and I think I’ll have to have someone come and look at it…I did get two rides in yesterday but my right hip is killing me for some reason and I don’t remember hurting it…must have done it at the house or maybe I’m just getting old…who knows? More later….
The incridble shrinking “president”…
Well…how much more childish and small can a 70+ year old man get? Just yesterday, after the idiot trump lied (or was confused) about the hurricane forecast for Dorian, saying that Alabama was in danger even though no forecast from any weather organization even mentioned that it hitting Alabama was even a remote possibility…I can’t even believe I’m typing this…trump took a sharpie and marked up one of the NOAA maps to make it look like he was right…yep, just a black sharpie balloon added to the possible storm track to make trump look like he was right…and since the rest of the track was not in black, it was really quite clear that it was the drawing of a 4 year old toddler that was pouting when he was called out for being wrong. Now, did he think no one would notice a hand drawn appendage to a computer generated map? Is he so damn insecure and delusional that he thought that altering the map would prove him right? To use the words of Kamala Harris…”dude gotta go”…and right now…
September 4th
Well…not going to talk about waking times today…just going to say it sucked and leave it at that….but, I don’t feel too bad this morning so I guess that’s something…I just noticed that my shoulder hasn’t made any grinding sounds in a month or so even with using it a lot on the house so I guess it’s fully healed and it only took 9 months…and I haven’t felt any pain in it lately, either so yay…after the swim and the traveling yesterday, I just vegged it out here for the rest of the day and didn’t get anything done…even skipped working on the house but I will be back at that today…need to complete painting the entry door frame and start trying to figure out if the furnace still works or not and that is going to be a pain…I have replaced the blower motor a couple of times but the furnace is 60 years old and I just hope I can cripple it through one more winter…I am a little depressed with the prospect of losing a long term friend since she has stopped talking to me for some reason…I guess a 20 year run is a good one and this time I can just shrug it off with the thought that things change…and will keep changing…more later…
Got the swim in…
Well…as I told you this morning, today was going to be the day that I kept the streak of 61 years of at least one swim in LM going….and I did! Even though it looked like rain, and was raining when I left, I trooped over to GH to at least splash in the water…when I got there, the wind was blowing about 25 from the southwest and there were huge waves coming in…but the problem was that the wind was coming from the southwest…it set up a really, really strong rip current that was running parallel to the beach and made it hard to even get to water that was deep enough to swim in…but, I made it and the water was really quite nice but I didn’t stay in long with the dangerous conditions…and getting back through the rip to the beach just about wore me out with the shallows being almost 50 yards wide. I did find something out today, too…wet sand is even a bigger pain to deal with as dry…it got all over the interior, my clothes, and me and wouldn’t brush off with a towel…so, the car is going to need to be vacuumed tomorrow…on to 62 years!
The same infection in England…
Well…it appears that The UK has the same infection we have here with the rise of English nationalism and populism…along with the same kind of lies that gave us trump and his cronies. Over the past week, the PM, Boris Johnson, has basically said to parliament that they are no longer needed and he will make all the decisions on whether to leave the EU on 10/31, and got the Queen to approve of his suspension op parliament until 10/15, ensuring that the no-deal brexit will be the only option left on the table. Now, I know you’re saying who cares? It’s the UK, what does that have to do with us? The point I’m trying to make here is that all of these right wing assholes starting with trump lie their asses off to trick people into voting for them and then destroy every damn thing they touch…look what’s happening here with the idiotic tariffs…the latest numbers show that manufacturing output has contracted for the first time in 10 years over the last quarter and we are speedily heading toward a recession and it was all done on purpose from ignorance and ideology…and the same lying, ignorance, and wishful thinking got the majority of the UK to vote for Brexit even though it is going to cripple their economy if if goes forward…and now the ideologically rigid conservatives led by Johnson are doing just what trump did here…what conservatives do everywhere since they think ideology and wishful thinking trumps facts. Everywhere in the damn world these know nothings are ruining people’s lives and destroying economies…and people keep voting for them…stupid, stupid people.
August 3rd
Well…as you could see if you came here earlier, my site was down from when I got up this morning until just now when my son got it fixed…so, I’m running late today through no fault of my own…geez…that’s weird to say…I did sleep in until 5:50 this morning and don’t feel to bad right now since I’ve already gotten the bike ride in…did get a little wet riding today but it wasn’t bad…I think I missed the heavy rain…so far…but I am going to go out to GH here in a while to get my yearly swim in even if it’s raining…just as long as there isn’t lightning I’m fine with rain…just won’t be able to sit on the beach today but I’m going take my chair anyway just in case…this will be 61 years in a row that I’ve had a swim in LM and I wonder how long I can keep that up? I did get the bathroom done at the house yesterday but I won’t go over today…hmmm…maybe this afternoon…I do have some prep work to do before I can paint the living room and still need to do clean up from all the sanding on the cupboard doors from the bathroom…and I do need to put the bathroom door back on so maybe I will go over….more later…
It’s not looking good for idiot boy…
Well….I’m not sure why the media is focusing on the idiot trump’s approval rating that has never moved out of the high 30′s to low 40′s since he was installed by Putin, instead of all of the other negatives that has started to appear in polling. The big takeaway from these latest polls is that 56% of the people responded they would not vote for the idiot under any circumstances…with a number like that, trump should start getting measured for his orange jumpsuit that he will be wearing in prison after he is gone…but that’s not the only number he should be worried about…the polling on his “handling” of the economy is sagging to where he is two points underwater with the only thing that he could point to as an accomplishment…but, we all know he hasn’t done a damn thing for the economy but sabotage it after he inherited a strong one from Obama. One last thing that the moron in chief should be really, really worried about is polling that says that any one of the top 5 dem candidates would trounce him in a landslide…with Biden leading by almost 12 points head to head. So, some good news for our side and some bad for the bad guys…the election can’t come soon enough for me…can’t wait to rid this country of these assholes…
September 2nd
Well…made it all the way to 6 this morning but that is not unusual given that I didn’t get to bed until almost midnight…actually, I got up at 5:03 the first time but was able to go back to bed for another hour and sleep which is unusual….I think doing only one ride yesterday is the key why I don’t hurt too much this morning but I’m not sure if I’ll do one or two today…it looks like I can get out here in a few minutes since it is almost 60 out there but I will have to put a fleece on since I am not adapting well to the cooler weather yet…don’t even want to think about the cold that is coming and having to put the full thermasuit on to ride….didn’t really get anything done around here yesterday with going over to the house and then watching races most of the day and today looks the same with putting the bathroom back together and then back here for live drag races at 1…I suppose I could clean when the races are on and I might just do that since the kitchen and bathroom both need some work….more later…