Well…is there any more worthless of a senator than Susan Collins of Maine? After all, her vote gave us Kavanaugh on the supreme court and let trump get away with all of his crimes which she justified by saying “trump has learned his lesson” after the totally rigged senate trial…what do you say today Susie? Just two days after your vote acquitted him, trump has started on his payback rampage against the law abiding citizens who testified under subpoena in the House by firing Sondland and Vindman, and for good measure he fired Vindman’s brother, too…and has turned his crowd of zombies on Mitt Romney after Mitt was the only repub to vote to convict trump in the senate…so, what lesson has he learned Susie? Not the one you were thinking of, that’s for sure…what trump learned is that he can do anything and get away with it because of people like you who tut tut and make noises that maybe, just maybe trump might have possibly kind of sort of done something wrong but then vote to allow him to continue to commit crimes and attack this country. This is going to be your legacy when you are voted out of office in the fall…of a flip flopping sycophant who talks a good game but then enables the worst of this country to destroy it…all the while trying to project the facade of a “moderate” who votes with trump 100% of the time…your time is up…
Monthly Archives: February 2020
February 8th
Well…yep, didn’t come back for a second one yesterday with getting a call from Tom for a surprise pool day and it was fun to get out of here for a while….it was a long day with getting up at 4:30 and not getting a nap in the afternoon and the strange thing is that it didn’t make any difference on how much I slept last night…back up at 4:30 this morning so that makes it two 5 hour days in a row and something has got to give…and one bad thing about getting up so early is that I have all of my news sites read by 6 or so and that left me edging toward boredom way too early…so, I got started on the kitchen blinds and the small curtain that is on the window over the sink…cripes, I thought the blinds and curtain were tan colored before I got them washed but they are both white now and they look pretty good…so, with it still being early, I got after the last remaining blind on the front dining room window but the blinds are so old that the fabric that the slats sit on ripped in a few spots so I had to repair them but now I have clean, functioning blinds and the only thing I have left to do in the kitchen is repair and paint the windows and it will be done…I did get a bike ride in, too but I’m not sure about today with the snow that was on the trails yesterday and the additional dusting from last night….we’ll see after it starts to warm up later this morning…not much to do today…going to just sit here for a while and watch some soccer and have coffee to try to get enough energy to get moving….more later…
February 7th
Well…it’s another 4:37 morning this morning….and that makes it only about 5 hours total in bed last night…I know I bitch about not sleeping a lot here but, damn…I remember what it was like to get a whole night’s sleep…but, the weird thing is that I don’t feel tired at all…even got started washing the small curtain from the kitchen window already and have it hanging to dry in the bathroom and will get the metal shade down to wash in a little while…I still can’t believe that some of this stuff hasn’t been cleaned since the early 2000′s…how do you live that way? I did skip the bike ride yesterday and that has really helped with the overall soreness I felt from getting back outside to ride…but, I will get out today if just to look and see what the trails look like after the snow yesterday…I do need to get the recycling bin out this morning since I have filled it and today is pick up day…I think it’s pretty cool that it’s free to recycle all the papers, bottles, etc that would normally end up in the trash…but no trash to put out today and I think that makes it over a month since the last time I put it out…and I may not have the bin filled for a couple of weeks yet….I do feel a little good about progress on the last room yesterday but I am still trying to figure out how to patch the big hole in the wall…may have to cut a filler pattern for it since it is almost 2 inches deep and I’m not sure that the plaster I use will fill something that size…I just noticed that I didn’t cough much last night and haven’t much this morning, either…and even after working in the dust and dirt of the last room…still feel like my head is plugged up but I’ll take that over coughing anytime…not much to do today….going to clean that shade in a minute so I can let it dry before putting it back up…if I keep the old ones, they are going to have to be painted this spring since they have chips and rust on them that looks like crap…but that’s not today…need more coffee and a little news first….more later….
Kind of productive…
Well…after skipping the bike ride for a rest day, I decided that I needed to get my butt in gear and get some stuff accomplished around here…and I did which really surprised me with how unmotivated I have been lately…got all of the extra furniture out of the last bedroom and moved it upstairs to clear it out for painting and then I took the broken door off since how the idiot repaired it was just annoying the hell out of me and I wanted to do it right…so, after removing it, I found all of the pieces that were broken out around the hinge and glued that back in so I don’t have to have the stupid looking braces that the idiot used instead of just glueing it back together with wood glue…and the welded upper hinge pin was loose, too but I took the easy way out on that one and just tried to use some JB weld on that since the frame that it mounts to is metal and there is no access to replace it…if that doesn’t work I’ll cut a hole in the door frame big enough to work through and replace the pin with another bolt and a nut to hold it in place….after all that, I got the trash and recycling out and got what little snow we got shoveled…so, all in all, not a bad day of work so I don’t feel bad about taking a break and vegging a little now…oh, and I got out to get the stuff I need to make the lasagna soup and will do that tomorrow or Saturday….it does feel good to get some work done…
The fascism is supercharged now…
Well…we’ve witnessed the predictable damn result of the repub conspiracy to protect trump at the cost of our democracy…it’s not enough that trump is doing the rounds where the repub senators who ignored all the evidence and acquitted the idiot are giving him standing ovations, but now his cronies in the senate are now going after his enemies starting with Hunter Biden where trump has directed the IRS to release every bit of information they have on him…including his tax returns and anything that may have come up in earlier partisan investigations trying to dig up dirt on his father…and leading the charge is chief toady Lindsey Graham who telegraphed this move weeks ago, trying to curry favor with the fascist in chief. Now, folks…take a look at the modern repub party that has given up any fig leaf of legitimacy and have gone full fascist by using the power of the government to go after private citizens…no matter that three investigations have found no wrongdoing by either of the Bidens, but in the fascist state that the repubs have created that looks just like frickin Russia, it is now okay to do anything they feel like to anyone they want…what’s next? Disappearing political foes? I am so depressed by this crap that I am going to stop reading the news for a while and probably won’t post much about it unless it’s good news…just can’t take seeing my country destroyed for an asshole like trump….
February 6th
Well…damn, coughing like crazy again this morning and I am just damn tired of it…think I may even take something for it if it doesn’t get better soon…I’m even a little sore from it and that is annoying, too…I did sleep okay and stayed in bed til 5:43 but that didn’t help with feeling so damn tired this morning…and part of that may be that I had to go hard on the bike just to stay warm with going out when it was 27 degrees…probably one of the hardest rides yet this year and I am going to go out around 10 this morning if it’s warm enough…we didn’t get the 3-5 inches of snow that was predicted so I am going to try the trails and see how they look with the inch or so we did get…the radar looks like more areas of snow showers are coming in so we’ll see later…didn’t get much done yesterday other than the grocery run….I did find a recipe for lasagna soup in the Free Press yesterday that I want to try so I will need to go out and get some burger to put in it tomorrow and I need some tomato sauce, too but it looks good and easy to make…and I need to expand what I cook since I am getting bored with the same old food…this recipe even has melted mozzerella on top that you need to brown under the broiler…could be yummy…not much to do today…just the normal work around here and some cleaning but I feel so damn worn out today that it is going to be a while until I can get started…more later….
I’ve created a sparrow mosh pit…
Well…it does look like I’m feeding every sparrow here on the west side with the quantity of feed they have been going through…I mean only one day to empty the feeder? When I started feeding them, it took them almost a week to eat all of the food in the feeder, but as the days have gone on there are more and more of them coming in and they are banging into each other in the air and pushing each other off the feeder…I even counted 8 of them on my small feeder at once and there is just not room for that many at a time. It does look like a mosh pit out there at times and some of them are sitting on the windowseal to rest before they go back into the fray….a couple of them have even given up and figured out how to land on the clear feeder to be able to eat in peace….so, I am starting to be entertained…but I think I’ll need another bag of feed next week…
A cool bit of shade…
Well…not sure if you watched the SOTU last night, and I’ll admit I didn’t since I can’t stand trump and how his stench has polluted all of the institutions he touches…I mean, giving the presidential medal of freedom to frickin Rush Limbaugh? The guy who has done more damage to this country than anyone other than trump or mcconnell? Not sure how long it’s going to take to fumigate that stench but I’ll bet the dem who is elected is going to make almost a full time job of it….and I want a damn asterisk by every judge, war criminal, and medal of freedom that idiot boy has presented….but, that’s not what this one is about…at the end of the lying, racist speech last night, Nancy threw a huge bunch of shade at the idiot by theatrically tearing up her copy of idiot boy’s speech on live tv right over trump’s shoulder…and of course, the repubs thought it was the worst, most devisive thing that has ever happened in the history of the country…and that made me laugh…trump has shown nothing but contempt for everything in this country and it’s institutions…so for Nancy to show her utter contempt for trump was a fitting response…and it will be a rallying point for the rest of the year until the election when we throw trump and his cronies out…yay Nancy…
February 5th
Well…damn, I thought I’d escaped the effects of the downstairs work on my allergies yesterday but no such luck…started to get miserable in the afternoon and that extended right into the night and continues this morning…it was such a luxury to not cough for the past few days but I guess that’s over for a while…didn’t sleep too badly though so I guess I can live with it but I slept on my left shoulder all night and now that hurts like crazy and that won’t be fun with the snow that is coming tonight and into tomorrow..damn, I’m getting creaky in my old age…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday and it looks like I’ll get one more in today before the trails are iced over again and then it looks like I’ll be back to the streets for a while since I don’t want to go back to the trainer in the basement…still, it hasn’t been a bad winter so far and it’s only three weeks til March so it looks like we’ve survived another one…and now it will turn ridiculously cold and we’ll get a blizzard that will last til April just from my saying that….not much to do today…I do need to do the grocery run but only to Meijers today…have a lot of food in the freezer that I need to use so I only need a few staples today….more later…
A productive day so far…
Well…damn, I’ve finally had a productive day with very little coughing….got started at 7:30 with lots of work downstairs that took about two hours to complete, then I got out for a long bike ride, and then finished up downstairs when I got back here…and just finished that a few minutes ago at 1:30 or so…but, I got everything done that needed it and now it looks like I have about 6 weeks before I have any big work to do downstairs again so I won’t have any excuse for not getting the last room done….I did have to take an antihistamine with the allergen exposure today and that helped with my itchy eyes and plugged up head but we’ll see how that works as the day goes on…I may even take the rest of the day off and watch some soccer I accomplished so much today…yeah, that sound you heard was me hurting my shoulder patting myself on the back…oh, well…