Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for a second one yesterday and there really is no reason for it other than I just didn’t have the motivation to do anything…no masking in the kitchen or anything else other than watching tv…I did get my speakers treated so they look better but that was it…will have to do better today…slept okay last night and didn’t get up until after 6:30 but still feel quite tired today that I hope goes away soon…I have a new chicken thigh recipe that I am going to try today and it looks good with a brown sugar glaze that I am changing from honey since I don’t have any honey here…and I have leftover mashed potatoes to go with it so it should be an easy lunch to make….didn’t get on the bike yesterday and it looks like the next time won’t be until Friday with the cold coming in tomorrow…I mean 15 for a high Wed? Then a warmup comes for about 5 days so I will be able to reach my goal for the year….I do need to get my hair cut tomorrow since the last time I had it cut was before I moved in here and that is two months today…not much to do today…I am going to ease into the day this morning with more coffee and then try to get motivated to get the prep done in the kitchen…need to paint this week so I can get started on the cabinet doors at the end of the hallway….more later….
December 15th
Well…running a little late today but that’s normal for a Sunday with the Sunday paper to get through before I come here….last night was a little boring with watching the Brad Pitt movie “Ad Astra” that got good reviews but I don’t understand why…it was an okay movie but so slow and I really didn’t get the point of it…at times it was like “Heart of Darkness” and other times it was just Pitt brooding all over the place…not a waste of the night but close….slept okay last night and don’t feel too bad right now with the first cup of coffee starting to work and I hope that continues…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday but it looks like I’ll be off the bike for a few days with the cold coming in but I only have 36 miles left to do to get to 4500 for the year…so I may be able to make it outside….I do need to get the dining area masked off today so I can get to painting this week and continue to clean…and I need to treat the wood on my old speakers since they are really dry looking and need maintenance to keep them going for another 50 years…cripes…my speakers are 50 years old! Just realized that and it is pretty cool…they still work fine and will be passed on to someone else when I’m gone….moe later….
This is depressing…
Well…sitting here at 3:30 in the afternoon and just had to put a light on to be able to see my keyboard….and that is really, really depressing since it is going to be dark by 5 or so…I know that’s just the way it is in winter in Michigan but damn, it was barely light at all today….and it is going to get worse until the winter solstice a week from today when we’ll have the least amount of daylight for the entire year…but, I guess one good thing is that after next week, we are starting toward spring and the daylight every day will get longer….slowly, but longer every day and that will give me something to look forward to….but, I know that winter has barely started and there will be blizzards and snow shoveling and more depression coming…and I still haven’t gotten my first full gas bill yet that I fear is going to be 300 bucks plus and that is depressing, too…are you depressed yet? Yeah, I guess this one didn’t help much….tomorrow should be better….not sure why but I can still have hope…and I need to remember that so many people have it worse than I do and I probably should stop bitching….so, I will….
They have to take an oath…
Well…to show just how corrupt Mitch McConnell is, you just have to look at the oath that all senators have to take before the impeachment trial starts that requires them to be “impartial” during the proceedings. Does ole Mitch think that if he announces to one and all that he will coordinate with trump and the WH during the trial that that is okay since he announced it before the trial? How can it even appear that he is impartial if he has already made up his mind and has promised trump he has nothing to worry about with a trial? I wonder what John Roberts, the SC chief justice, is going to do when one of the dems files a complaint about ole Mitch’s “impartiality” and demands that Mitch recuse himself because there is no damn way that he is going to be impartial and is going to violate his oath as soon as he opens his mouth? Will Roberts risk what little respect he has left and his legacy just to help Mitch keep trump in office? Sadly, I think the court has been so corrupted by Mitch’s blocking of Merrick Garland from the court and it’s packing with ideologues by Mitch that Roberts is just going to give up and go along…and that is one thing I don’t understand…how supposedly respectable judges and legislators have trashed themselves for trump when they have to know he is the worst of the worst and they could actually burnish their reputations by standing up to the orange menace and protecting the constitution…but, they don’t and a more craven bunch of fools I have never seen…geez….
December 14th
Well…okay…feel like crap this morning after having cocktails last night and I think that may be the last night for that…had such bad heartburn trying to sleep that I hardly slept at all…it’s just not worth it so I think I’m done with it…oh, well…had an okay day yesterday and got out to have a couple with K and that was fun but the damn traffic coming back here turned a 15 minute trip into a half hour and that was no fun…and I realized that where I used to live is just one big strip mall with it’s own traffic problems…I mean sitting at a left turn light through three cycles? I guess I’m just grumpy this morning with the effects of the cocktails and I can’t wait for it to be over…and the coffee isn’t working yet…didn’t get much done yesterday and today looks the same with how I feel…I did get the bike and the car washed and a nice ride in and getting a ride in today will be my only goal for the day….but, right now I’m just going to sit here and feel lousy for a few hours….more later…
Now the jurors are coordinating with the defendent?
Well…if you had any doubt that the trial of the idiot trump in the senate is going to be a sham, all you have to do is look at the statement that “Moscow” Mitch McConnell made yesterday that he will be “coordinating” trump’s defense in the senate with WH lawyers…okay, we all know Mitch is the worst damn person in this country, but to abrogate all responsibility to do his duty to the constitution should disqualify him from even being anywhere near this trial…after all, have you ever heard of a judge or jury in any trial anywhere announce that they would “coordinate” with the defendant in any way? This is how far the repub party has sunk in the past twenty years….that they will protect a criminal in the WH from any consequence of his shredding the constitution by more shredding…and every damn repub in the government is in on the fix…I am so depressed about where the repubs have taken this country that I am going to tune out the news for a few days and try to regain some hope that we can use the only mechanism that is left to us, the next election, to purge these traitors and then try to repair the damage they have done…it won’t happen in my lifetime and that is the most depressing part…that I am going to have to live in this world where the law doesn’t mean anything anymore and that thugs and liars are going to control this country…I need a drink….
December 13th
Well…that’s 5 days with no cocktails and I’m a little concerned that how I feel in the morning now is from being old and not anything else…I do feel better than I do after a cocktail night so that’s something but I’m not going to spend the rest of my life not enjoying myself…and that was one of the things I was trying to figure out, how I would feel normally without anything skewing it…and now I know and I think moderation is going to return as my mantra…but, not tonight…the latest season of “the Expanse” dropped last night and I have been looking forward to that for months so I will have a cocktail or two when I watch it tonight…but, I need to figure out how to watch it since it’s move to Amazon has all of the episodes available and I want to spread it out to make my Friday night more normal and have something to look forward to….had another night of pretty good sleep last night and feel pretty good this morning and part of it is getting a ride in yesterday…and it looks like I’ll get another one in today but it may be the last one outside for the year with the cold and snow coming back….so, I need to wash the bike later and get it downstairs and set up on the trainer so I can get to 4500 for the year…only a little over 50 miles to go so I think I can make it….I am going to make the first of two hams over the holidays today…picked up a small one at Meijers this week but need a second one so I can make my ham soup in January…or maybe I’ll use the turkey carcass first…not sure yet… I do know that I have a freezer full of food that I need to start using so I have room….more later…oh, I will get to a political one later today….the impeachment vote is this morning so I DO need to talk about that….
It’s time to pull the plug, Stevie…
Well….haven’t really talked a lot about sports lately but with the debacle that is my Red Wings, it’s time to wade in with my two cents. Stevie Y, it’s time to pull the plug on Jeff Blashill and go a different direction…after all, we are nearing a club and league record of losses and the Wings are in last place so what could it hurt? You have a Cup winning assistant on the bench in Dan Bylsma and even if he isn’t your long term solution, this situation shouts that there is change needed…I know that firing Blashill won’t magically give the team more talent, but with the young players on the team, there is a real danger that some of them could be permanently damaged by losing, losing and losing….and the prospects of luring top level coaching talent for next year is going to decrease with every loss so why not now? I wince every time I see the box score from a Wings game now when I used to look forward to every game and I don’t think I’m alone in that….Stevie, think of the fans who have supported you and the Wings for their entire lives…it’s time to try to give them some hope by doing something, anything that starts us on the road back to respectability…it’s too damn hard to watch my Wings the way things are….
December 12th
Well…running a little late this morning with staying in bed until almost 6:30…I wonder if there is something to this no cocktail thing? Still tossed and turned but was able to sleep okay and feel okay this morning…was pretty depressed for some reason last night and part of it was boredom and part of it was the bills that are piling up….it does look like I need to not spend on anything but food until Feb but that is okay…have everything I need until then and it may just revive my discipline some…just as having no cocktails is doing…didn’t get much done yesterday but clean some and the grocery runs and I have enough food here now for a month or so with a fully stocked freezer so I think I treat it as a challenge to see how little I can spend over the next few months….if I can get down to about 40 bucks a week, that should allow me to build my reserves back up pretty quickly…didn’t get on the bike yesterday with how darn cold it was all day but I am going to try to get out today and tomorrow but will have to be really careful with the ice that won’t melt until later in the afternoon….just don’t want to have another 8 months of not being able to use my shoulder from another crash…I am going to get the kitchen prep finished today and might even start to paint but I’m not sure about that yet…want to ease into the day with coffee and some news so I’ll end here….more later…
Why is this not treason?
Well…let’s start this one with the definition of treason and then maybe someone can explain to me why what trump and his repub cronies are doing is not treason. “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason…” Now, yesterday’s spectacle where trump invited the foreign minister of Russia into the WH where he spouted Putin’s lies that Russia was not involved with attacking the 2016 election, and which all of the repub party is pushing seems to me to be the definition of giving aid and comfort to our enemies…and as such is damn treason against this country….and every repub who is involved is committing treason…from Lindsey Graham to William Barr, they are all helping Russia to attack this country and are ensuring that Russia will have a free hand in trying to cheat to elect trump in 2020. I am so damn pissed that the only option we have left to hold these traitors accountable is winning the election in 2020 and then it will be left to the dems, as always, to come in and repair the damage that repubs gleefully do to our country just for power or money…never thought I’d see this in my lifetime…