Well…I know it’s the first day of the month but you know how I really hate getting behind here so I thought I’d just do one about nothing really…don’t want to do politics today…at least not right now…I did head over to the house today just to get the 200 pounds of dirt and stuff out of the trunk…I felt bad about how the rear of the car was sagging right down to the bump stops and didn’t want to do any permanent damage that I can’t afford to fix right now…so, I filled the holes in the front yard and put some seed down along with putting some weed and feed on the yard to see if I can start to bring it back this fall…and I pulled some more tape off the bathroom and the back door that I painted Friday…that came out pretty good and getting the sill plate painted made all the difference to how the entry looks…I do need to clean the translucent dropped ceiling panels for the bathroom tomorrow since they look like they haven’t been cleaned in 20 years….going to be a pain without the water being on but it needs to be done…need to take a bucket and a scrub brush and use the tub to do that job…still lots of cleanup and detail work to do on the bathroom since you always get bleed through even with the blue painters tape…then I can start on the living room and the bedroom I’m going to use but need to do more prep work first…lots of holes need to be filled and sanded…but not Tuesday…doing my swim then so I’ll take that day off…
September 1st
Well…5:04 this morning and I am getting tired of getting up so damn early…and I feel pretty crappy to go along with it so today is already shaping up to be one I’m going to want to forget…not sure what bloomed over the past few days but the goldenrod but whatever it is, I feel miserable and stuffed up today along with every other damn allergy symptom so I think I’ll have to take something here in a little while…I did get two bike rides in yesterday and that may be why I’m so exhausted today…the second ride was pure torture and I never really got comfortable at all…so I think I’ll think about riding at all today later…it’s raining right now so that gives me an excuse to just ease into the day…I was going to take the weekend off the house but I needed to get supplies to work on the lawn and now the Miata is sagging with 200 pounds of dirt, feed, and seed in the trunk…will take that over tomorrow and work on the lawn after I get the bathroom put back together…not much to do today…if I don’t ride today, I will clean some around here but I can’t get stuff ready to take to the house since I don’t have room for it other than in the passenger’s seat…so maybe I’ll take something small….more later….
Ha, ha…you silly farmers…
Well…geez…who could have predicted this…who could have predicted that an ignorant, pussy grabbing, serial bankrupter would not have any idea how trade works and think that “trade wars are easy to win”? Yeah, just about everybody but the troglodytes who voted for the idiot….and now the stories of farmers who are losing the markets they have worked to build for decades are starting to be told and I am incredulous that they are confused how this could happen…when they chose to believe the reality show version of the successful trump when it was clear that he has never been a great businessman and they would of known that if they could have put away their racism, hate, and misogyny and stopped watching fox news for just one damn minute. “But, her e-mails!” Hey, farmers, I wonder if you would still have your global markets if Hillary had been elected…yeah, you know the answer to that…they would have been better than ever and China would have been a fair trading partner since the Chinese know they couldn’t bullshit her like they can trump….you know the next story I want to see the media report? How about you talk to a realist farmer who voted for Hillary and tried to tell his friends what trump would do to them with his stupidity and ignorance…and when their friends whine and bitch about losing money, those people need to understand that they are the ones that did this to the country by voting for a fraud and they are responsible for their own fate…think next time…if you can….geez….
August 31st
Well….damn, it’s cold out there right now…only 50 degrees and that is going to force me to wait for a while to go out since I just don’t want to be that cold right now…so that may set me up for only one ride today with F1 qualifying on at 9…and it’s Spa today and I don’t want to miss that…didn’t sleep too badly last night and got up late for me at almost 6 but that didn’t help…still pretty exhausted right now and I hope the coffee helps soon…I worked at the house every day this week and that may have something to do with it…and I have to get some topsoil, lawn food, and grass seed today to take over there Monday and do some of the repairs to the lawn I have been thinking of…after I put the bathroom back together, that is….and pull some more tape off the walls and finish that up…I am going to take Tuesday off for my yearly swim in Lake Michigan since it is going to be 87 and that looks like the last warm day of the year…and I do need to be able to keep my swim streak going at 61 years….I wonder how much beach is left in GH with the high water levels? Not much to do today…just the normal weekend day with some cleaning and prepping stuff to take over to the house Monday…more later…oh, and Michigan starts their season tonight and I am looking forward to that…Go Blue!
Trump’s losing fox news…
Well…you know I never, ever like to give fox news credit for anything since they are a cesspool of hate, lies, and trump fluffing…but, something happened the other day that just stunned me and I had to share it. After the past couple of weeks of trump attacking fox news for having dems on sometimes and not kissing trump’s ass enough…Neil Cavuto had had enough and went on the most righteous rant that basically laid bare the fact that trump lies all the time and that trump’s idea of fake news is just facts that he doesn’t like…cripes, this thing could have been written by any one of the anchors on MSNBC and I wonder why now? Has fox finally come to the realization that trump is toast in 2020 and is starting to distance the network from him? Yeah, I know, it’s like Dr. Frankenstein trying to distance himself from the monster he created…I wonder why trump hasn’t responded? Has he finally realized that fox news is all he has left and isn’t going to get fawning from anywhere else? Whatever the reason, I’ll bet the idiot in chief is stewing about Cavuto right now and I can’t wait for the tweetstorm…should be a beaut…
August 30th
Well…I think all the work at the house is taking it’s toll on me after being there every day this week…I am sore and tired but am going back over there today to get one of the entry doors painted since it is so ugly, dirty, and beat up…and the door sill has no paint on it at all…so, it will be a short day over there so I can start to not hurt so much over the weekend…and I haven’t gotten anything done around here all week and I do need to clean some and prep more stuff to take over…I even slept okay last night and didn’t get up until after 5:30 but didn’t have any dreams and that was disappointing since I have had a few lately…damn, I hope the coffee starts to work soon or I’m going to have a terrible ride this morning…the computer on the bike started to work after a few miles out yesterday but I am still glad I bought a new one since the old one has been so unreliable over the past month or so…I did get over 3300 miles over the past couple of days and that gets me to about 900 miles or so to do to break the all time record and tha just might be doable…more later…
late again…
Well…I can’t understand why I can’t get here earlier to do the second on of these after getting back here from the house at about 1:30…it seems that I really need to just decompress for a little while but 2 1/2 hours? I’ll try to do better in the future since I know a lot of you want to read more after you get back from lunch…but I am not going to talk about the idiot trump today…I’ve had it with that moron so I need to find something else to talk about….I am pretty happy with how the dem candidates are performing both in the debates and out on the stump…Liz Warren drew about 20,000 people to a rally in the midwest last week and the enthusiasm level seems to be increasing daily…one thing that I am excited about is the fact that every dem candidate has lots of really great policy ideas that will make this country better for everyone, not just the 1%, and that the competition between the candidates is making them better and tougher…while all the repubs have is trump’s racism and hatred…have you heard any detailed policy from them that wasn’t tax cuts for the rich? Okay, taking away women’s rights is another one, and making sure that lgbtq Americans don’t have the same rights as everyone else is another…have you heard any that would make your lives better? Yeah, didn’t think so…just remember that when it’s time to vote in 2020…can you stomach even one more minute of trump and his criminals? I know I can’t….
August 29th
Well…made it all the way to 5:23 this morning and that seems like a small win with how it has been going….but I am still pretty damn tired today and pretty sore, too, even with taking the day off the bike…had a flat when I got ready to ride yesterday and then my bike computer finally died after acting really weird over the past couple of weeks…I couldn’t get one locally since no one carries the inexpensive ones anymore so I had to order one from Amazon for 18 bucks but that won’t be here for a week or so so I guess I’ll just have to write down how many rides I do so I can keep an accurate record of the miles I do…it’s good that I ride the same route every day so that will be easy….normally, I take Thursdays off working on the house to get supplies I need but I did that earlier in the week so I am going to put the second coat on the bathroom today and maybe prep for painting the entry doors and frames since the side door frame has no paint on it at all and it will make all the difference to get that done…so, another busy day with a late lunch since I have to cook some thighs I have had in the fridge for a week…more later…
Used the mower…
Well…as you know, I had to buy a new lawnmower for the house and decided to get a cheap little electric for only 88 bucks on Amazon since the yard is so small…so today, I put it in the car in the carton to take it over and had to put the top down to make it fit even with how small it is…it took about a minute to assemble it since the handle just snapped in as did the handle for the bag and those were the only two things I had to do to use it…I was really surprised how well it coped with grass that was about 5 inches tall and the bag worked good even though it was small and I had to empty it a lot…but, it’s also a mulcher so if I mow once a week, I won’t have to bag at all…I do need to get my extension cord handling skills back but it wasn’t too big of a pain so I can live with it…and just pushing a button to start it is pretty cool….and getting the lawn mowed allowed me to put up some barriers that I hope will keep the idiots next door from parking on my damn lawn…when I got over there yesterday there were two cars at least 3 feet on the parkway in front of the house and they have left tire tracks and killed a bunch of the lawn that I want to restore…need to get some dirt and grass seed to fill that damage and some next to the driveway entry that is about 8 inches deep…I was going to paint today but I needed to take advantage of no cars on the lawn, and you know how I am with a new toy…just had to try it…
More lawbreaking…
Well…if it wasn’t bad enough that trump is stealing money from military families to build his stupid wall…now, we have reporting that he has told the people building it that they can break any law they want to get it built fast and he will pardon them if they do get arrested…now, over 95% of the wall will have to be built on private land that will have to be stolen to do it…starting with a national park that he is going to split in half and permanently make the southern half no longer accessible to the US people whose taxes have paid for it…and this includes pristine environmentally sensitive areas that will have to have roads built through them for construction equipment to get to the wall site…I wonder how these private citizens in Texas will feel about their land being taken for a racist vanity project from the most unpopular president in the history of the country The idiot trump has already said he will ignore the courts if he is sued to stop the land stealing so is that a high crime? It is in my book and the repubs have shown they have never been the law and order party if they allow this to happen…