Well…yeah, I know…some of you are getting pretty tired of me going on and on about the idiot trump so today, no trump. Okay, one little thing…the idiot boy was not chosen to be Time’s person of the year…he is such a loser he can’t even win that….and that makes me laugh….have been watching some new tv lately over on netflix…finished off “Godless” and started “Dark” yesterday and, while I liked “Godless”, after two episodes of “Dark”, I’m not sure what I think about it…there are times that the English dubbing is distracting…but the story is just weird enough to keep me interested…we’ll see after a few more episodes….there is a new show on syfy tonight called “Happy!” that looks just about weird enough to give a try….about an ex-cop hitman who has a blue, flying horse that he talks to…and it is supposed to be full of blood and gore…and it’s partially a comedy so it may be interesting to see…ordered that up on the server along with “Godless” today….since all of the DC shows on the CW ended this week….tv is going to be a little bare for the next month or so…will probably have to go back to some of the shows I have kept in reserve like “Stranger Things” or “Sense8″ to fill the time….but I don’t really want to end “Sense8″ since it has been cancelled and there won’t be any more of them….but, I guess they all have to end sometime….
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December 6th
Well….running a little early today and there is no reason for it other than I got up early today….and I was good last night so I feel okay today…finally figured out that the constant pain I am usually in is from riding the bike…took the day off with the crazy wind yesterday and woke up pain free today…that is kind of cool since I was thinking that it was just getting old….slept quite well last night and feel like I think normal people feel when they get up in the morning….have a lot of energy and that is before coffee even….not sure how I’ll use that today but I do want to get out on the bike later if the wind cooperates but so far it looks like another day off…..not much to do today….there is more soccer on…and Man U won yesterday so they are into the knockout stage of the champion’s league….and I am going to cook and clean today….more later…
Russia banned from the Olympics…
Well….we all know that Russia is a decaying oligarchy that meddles in other countries with impunity across the world including the last US election…well…every election that has been held since the internet, but finally, someone has held them accountable for their cheating. Just announced today, the entire Russian Olympic team has been banned from the 2018 winter Olympics due to overwhelming state-sanctioned doping that happened in 2012 and 2016. This plan was actually run by state scientists paid by Russia to figure out new ways to cheat and it rivaled the other great cheating scandal that was East Germany in the 60′s, 70′s, and 80′s that allowed them to steal more medals that any other country earned in that same time. In this world of cheats, from lying politicians here in the US now to the Russians being the only country ever to be banned for cheating in sports…it is about time the cheats were held accountable….and the capper here is that no government official from Russia will be allowed to even attend…poor baby Putin….geez…
Mueller has trump’s bank records…
Well….another bit of good news surfaced this morning when I read that Mueller has subpoenaed the idiot trump’s bank records from Deutsche bank dealing with any money that came out of
Russia….and this is really significant since this bank has been in the center of Russian money laundering investigations for years now and has paid fines of over a billion dollars for facilitating money laundering around the world. Now, this is the “red line” that trump said could not be crossed or he would fire Mueller…but why is this the “red line”? It’s pretty obvious that the idiot boy knows that he is guilty of money laundering and this bank is in the center of his connection to Russia and Putin and Putin’s cronies who have kept trumps house of cards from falling in on him….and is one of the reasons that trump favors everything Russia…oh, and the good thing here is not just the subpoena, but it is the fact that the records have already been turned over to Mueller and he and his team are already tearing through them as we speak…and I’m pretty sure it won’t take too long for the obvious lawbreaking to be uncovered…the tweetsorm from the idiot in chief is going to be furious over the next few days…pop the popcorn…impeach…
December 5th
Well….running kind of on time today and feel really tired this morning…slept really crappy last night…it took hours to get to sleep and then I was up and down all night…so that will mean a nap later today….and it looks like no bike ride today with the wind steady over 25-30 mph with gusts of up to 50….and that makes it way too brutal to go out…so, I’ll just have to settle for working out today…oh, and I won at pool and had the top down out and back for the last time in December since the temps are going to be in the 20′s for the rest of the month….didn’t get much done yesterday so I’ll have to make up for it today with no ride…and Man U plays later today so that will help fill the day….I think I’ll get at the dust in the living room today and maybe do the kitchen floor, too….more later…..
The repubs truly are evil….
Well…the true evil of the repubs has been revealed with their new tax scam that they are trying to foist on the American people….I mean gutting everything that normal, working Americans need to make their lives livable just to give $1.4 trillion in tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires is just plain evil…and blowing up the deficit just to justify destroying Social Security and Medicare is just plain evil….and to do it without letting anyone even read the legislation that was written by 6,000 lobbyists is just plain evil. The contempt that the repubs have for the American people were distilled in two comments made by repub senators over the past few days…Orrin Hatch on the children’s health insurance program that he doesn’t think is necessary: “I have a hard time wanting to spend billions and billions of dollars to help people who won’t lift a finger to help themselves and expect the federal government to do everything”….yep, he actually said that low income children that benefit from the program aren’t lifting a finger to help themselves…I wonder if they should get jobs? Then we had Chuck Grassley today trying to justify repealing the estate tax by saying: “I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people who are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have whether it’s on booze or women, or movies” Yep he actually said that people that work are losers and those who inherit wealth are the ones that need to be taken care of by cutting their taxes….so, working people, why do you still vote for these idiots? Impeach….
December 4th
Well…it’s been a normal morning so far today but I need to get the coffee working…feel a little slow and it might take a while to get going…slept okay last night but the damn cough has come back today and I’m not sure what the heck is going on….this week will be a month and that is way too long for a cold…so it must be allergies and that could go on all winter….and winter is going to start in the next couple of days with the temps in the high 20′s starting wed….but, today I will be able to get out in shorts for the last time since it is already 45 outside…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but repair the bag on the bike and watch sports…and I won’t get a lot done today with pool this aft…..but, that’s okay…really don’t have that much to do….more later….
Another 3,000 mile year….
Well…when stopped for the light at Kalamazoo this morning, I looked down at my bike computer and noticed I had hit 3,000 miles for the year today…along with doing a 100 mile ride, this was my only other goal for the bike this year….and I’ve put 650 miles on the old bike since I got back on it with only 350 more to do to get to buying a new one….it will be nice to get back to the trigger shifters again and the disc brakes….I like riding the old one but the new ones are just so convenient to ride I can’t wait until I can afford one….more later….
December 3rd
Well….running a little late again today and I think I’m in a lower gear this morning….really don’t have to get going until around 10 when it will be warm enough to get out on the bike….just can’t go out when it is 25 degrees yet…but, it did hit me yesterday that I am starting to get used to the cold and I hope my feet get the message…even with double socks on yesterday they were cold….slept okay last night and don’t feel that bad today…the cold is finally in it’s end stage…I hope….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but making soup that came out good and watching some sports…might clean a little today after the bike ride but maybe not….the Lions play at 1 so I’ll have to have things done by then….not much to do today….just a little cleaning and a lot of vegging and that’s okay with me….more later….
How does this happen?
Well….I see a lot of things out on the bike that I forget to come back here and talk about…but today, it was not possible to forget this….you remember the other day that I talked a little about the underground work being done at 60th and Hanna Lake where they have one of the lanes on 60th closed off…and, until this morning, they had one of those flashing arrow signs to tell people to merge into the open lane…but, they don’t anymore…sometime last night, someone ran over the sign (not an easy thing to do) and left it in a mangled heap in the blocked off lane. I wonder, how does this happen? I mean a huge, flashing sign…how the heck do you not see that? Just one more reason I’m happy to not be on the road too much anymore….geez…