All posts by James DeVol

A weird deer….

Well….got out early on the bike today…was out by 8:15 to beat the rain but had to do a half thermasuit with a stocking hat…but, that’s not what this is about….when I was just getting past the retention ponds by M-6, I noticed that there was a deer in the greenspace between the trail fence and M-6 that took off running along the fence when I got to it…after running about 20 yards down the trail, the deer stopped and watched me riding toward it until I got about 5 yards from it…the it took off and ran another 20 yards and did the same thing…this happened three more times until it decided it had seen enough, levitated over the fence onto the trail, then over the other fence and it was gone….something cool to see along with the half dozen deer I saw in the same area yesterday….

November 4th

Well…running early for a weekend and I’m not sure why I’m up so early on a Saturday…but I am so I guess I’ll do this…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done….I did get a bike ride in and it was a little cold but with the sun I survived it…I had no back pain at all yesterday and that was welcome….it was a little funny how much it cracked yesterday and today is starting out the same….just walking around here it has been very noisy…to me anyway…not sure if anyone else could hear it…..might have to put a half thermasuit on to get out on the bike today….need to get the ride done before 11:30 when Man U plays Chelsea…don’t want to put a stocking hat on yet but I’ll have to…damn…not much to do today…going to clean a little but that’s about it….more later….

No trump today…

Well….have been feeling too good mentally the past few days to pollute it with thinking about the orange baboon in the WH….so I’m not going to write about him today….but, what does that leave for me? Not really sure….there hasn’t been a lot going on in science that I’ve seen..okay…going to go do a search with the phone and see if a topic may be there…not much out there right now…some scientists have figured out how to 3-d print stainless steel that is stronger than regular stainless….which could mean that just about anything could be 3-d printed….bugs are disappearing….Germany’s insect biomass has dropped over 75% in the past 30 years…not sure what that means since the rest of the article is behind a paywall…okay…not feeling this right now so I’ll stop here….more later….

November 3rd

Well…it was a pretty nice day yesterday with getting a good bike ride in and having a nice HH with T….slept okay lat night, too, but wasn’t good so I am feeling it today but that’s okay…my back didn’t even have a twinge of pain yesterday and that was so weird after having pain for more than a month…and my car started again yesterday morning so I am edging to thinking that it may be fixed…and that takes a load off….even had the top down on the run over to see T so I have my top down day in for November already….I used my new credit card for the first time to pay for HH with T and the credit rebuild begins…not much to do today….just going to wing it for the day…I do want to do a bleach load of laundry today to get some whites white again but that is about it…more later….

It is to laugh…

Well….borrowed that title from Bugs Bunny but it fits the Papa John’s/ NFL bullshit to a T….to catch you up, the owner of Papa John’s, John Schnatter, is blaming flagging sales of his pizza on the players who are taking a knee to focus attention of the fact of minorities being abused by police across this country. This idiot has pulled his advertising from NFL games as support of the idea that NFL leadership needs to “do something” about the players, just like all of his racist buddies. Now, I have  different take on why sales are down for this idiot’s stores, could it be his unwavering support of the idiot trump? Or his big mouth going on and on about the ACA requiring him to provide insurance for his employees and his rants that he would cut everyone’s hours to avoid having to do that…all the while building a 30 million dollar house while he cries that he can’t afford to provide insurance? What this moron doesn’t understand is that more than 60% of this country hates trump and trumpism and many of us are trying to do something about it…and it may just be the small thing of not supporting any company whose owner supports trump by not buying his lousy pizza. So, it is to laugh that the cause of his falling sales are the NFL players…take a look in the mirror…you are the cause…and I hope it just gets worse…

November 2nd

Well…running normally for a Thursday and that means a little later…had a pleasant surprise this morning when the car fired right up and it looks like there is no problem with voltage drain…it was just that the battery had not been charged enough….and the trip out and back to pool took care of that…and that takes a load off for sure…slept okay last night but slept on my right side that left a weird line in my face that I hope will go away as the day goes on…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…I did get a bike ride in and it was too darn cold….didn’t get warm the rest of the day…looks like I’ll have to get the winter clothes out next week…but it is already warmer now at 8am than it was all day yesterday so, if the rain holds off, I’ll get a ride in as soon as the sun comes up….I do have some things to do today…already got the grocery run done…and got some of the biggest chicken breasts I have ever seen…I mean 3 of them weigh almost 5 pounds? I may have HH with T this aft and it will be good to see her if it happens….haven’t seen her since a week before SD and that is too long…more later….

The math doesn’t add up….

Well…another day, another repub tax cutting plan being exposed for the fraud that it is….their grand plan was supposed to be released today but they are still working on it..and now it will be released tomorrow…never mind that they have been “working” on their tax plan since at least 2010…and they have nothing to show for it but tax cuts for the rich and raising taxes on everyone else. And magically, deficits no longer matter…all of the scores say that this “plan” (what little is known of it) would explode the deficit by 1.5 trillion dollars a year…whatever happened to the “grave concern” that the repubs were expressing about the national debt just a few months ago? Now, we on the left knew that Paul Ryan was a fraud and his “wonkishness” and expertise on budget matters was nonsense…after all, how much expertise is needed to give more and more money to the rich and corporations? It’s just like the CEO’s that are brought in to make companies profitable again and all they do is cut jobs…not grow the company or innovate…but just cut, cut, cut while they cash their 8 figure paychecks. Ryan and his tax plan are both frauds….and we are all going to pay for it….geez…

November 1st

Well..another month starts and I am not ready for it to snow….slept okay last night even with being good and that is unusual…even had some dreams where I had hair and I don’t know what that is about….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but some laundry and running the dishwasher so I’ll have to do more today….I do have to get out to get some milk this morning and I think I’ll buy a paper, too…sure hope the car starts….almost bought a coffee maker the other day and I think I will in the near future….they are only 20 bucks but Tom had the idea of getting a french press like my son uses but they are almost what a coffee maker costs…and I like the idea of setting it up the night before and having the coffee ready in the morning….not much to do today….going to have to wait to get out on the bike until later since it won’t warm up enough until around noon….more later….

Last one for the month….

Well….it was one of those weird days today when I had expectations an they didn’t pan out…no turkey at Target, no wipers at Menards, and no HH with T…so it ended up being pretty boring today that I think I needed…was just damn exhausted all day and I’m not sure why….took the day off the bike, too, since I just couldn’t take the snow….and rain…and cold…but, tomorrow will be different…at least the car started in the morning but I’m still not sure about it and that uncertainty is a little stressful….okay…this one is done as the month is….not bad…but it all starts again tomorrow….and I am out of milk….

Politics as promised….

Well…did anyone else see the desperation  on the right with the indictment of 3 of trump’s cronies? Fox “news” went into overdrive trying to change the subject back to the thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory of “giving away” American uranium…and here’s the thing,  the sale of a Canadian uranium company to a Russian one was done completely above board and following all of the rules, approved by 9 different agencies, none of which were controlled by Hillary…so now Hillary has “given away” 20% of our uranium….just like every other lie from Fox “news” and the right, the only purpose is to protect trump until they get the giveaway to the rich done and raise taxes on the rest of us….I, for one, am going to get the popcorn ready to watch the next set of indictments come down…it is going to get to trump and Pence, and the rest of them who have lied to the FBI…..please, please…Jared next…and then little donnie…and then Ivanka…just remember this one thing…both Jared and Ivanka had a felony case bribed away for one of their real estate scams…and that one can be revived…I wonder if there will have to be a trump wing at one of the federal prisons? Hope so…impeach…