Well…no politics today with the excitement building for the SD concert tonight….even after seeing them 5 other times, I think I feel the same as I did the first time back in 2002….it will be different without Walter but life goes on….my only concern is that they haven’t been playing two of my favorites, FM and Pretzel Logic….but they have gone into the solo catalogs of both of them with a couple and that may be cool…it would be neat to hear Slinky Thing done live….whatever happens, it will be a nice, relaxing night…think I may take my earplugs just in case….
October 16th
Well….it’s darn cold in here this morning…forgot to put the heat on last night and it is down to 65 right now….and now my cobbled together coffee maker just quit working so I’ll have to drag out the 9 dollar target one that I have in reserve….will go look for a new one this week…didn’t ride the bike for the second day yesterday but I will get out today…I am wondering if staying off the bike has helped my back…it didn’t hurt at all yesterday and it doesn’t hurt today either so maybe there’s something to that….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today looks the same with the concert later today…think I may just hang around today and get some rest…..okay…going to look at the ads to see if anyone has a coffee maker on sale…more later….
October 15th
Well…running a little early today with getting up early…and my back doesn’t hurt at all and that is odd….I did feel it crack like crazy when I was making the bed yesterday so maybe that did it…slept okay last night but still no dreams to speak of…that’s disappointing but I feel okay so I’ll take that….got some stuff done yesterday and I’m not sure why….started to just clean the shower and that turned into cleaning the whole bathroom…then I did bedding and started on the kitchen….I think it was guilt from not riding the bike yesterday and it looks like no bike today, either…the wind is already blowing almost 20 and it is still spitting with the temps falling all day so I’ll have to suck it up and stay in and watch football and races….have been adjusting how many calories I take in but I’m not sure if I’ve gotten down low enough yet….not much to do today….going to clean a little and watch some sports but that is about it…more later…
Not Steely Dan without Walter?
Well…just ran across a thread on facebook where people are commenting that since Walter died, it’s not Steely Dan anymore and they want their money back for the concert here in GR…now, these must be people who have never seen SD before…while I loved the way Walter played, there were many concerts this year where he was sick and wasn’t there and they had a fill in do his parts…to be honest, most of the time you really didn’t know he was there or not…and I’ve seen them 6 times….it was the same for me when John Entwhistle of the Who died a week before I was to see them here and it never occurred to me to want my money back…and Ox was more a part of the Who’s sound than Walter was to SD’s…and I’m a bass player fan that was looking so forward to seeing his unique style of playing. I wonder where this all comes from? Would you want your money back for Eagles tickets because Glen Frey died? Or not go to see them because he’s not there? All I know is I’m going to go see them and enjoy the night….I’m sure that Donald will be firing on all cylinders to make up for it…I know that it won’t be the same without Walter….but, we’ll still get to hear what Walter has left behind….and we can revel in the fact that he was here at all….
The dumbest goddamn student I ever had…
Well…as I sit here waiting for the second half of the Man U/ Liverpool match to start, I thought I’d do a quick comment on a little article I just read over on Kos….one of the idiot trump’s professors at the Wharton Business school (which trump got into by a favor, not qualifications) was talking to one of his friends and the subject of trump’s intelligence came up…and here’s the money quote: “he was the dumbest damn student I ever had”….yep, in an over 30 year career as an educator, trump distinguished himself by being the dumbest student this professor ever had….and his arrogant stupidity is the one thing that people remember most about him…seems that trump doesn’t change…still the same damn moron that he has always been….impeach…
October 14th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get a whole lot done…and T’s day got away from her so I didn’t get the chance to get out of here and meet up….slept okay last night but no dreams at all…my back was back to hurting again, too and that is getting really irritating…even hurt when I got up this morning and that rarely happens….it looks like an annoying day since it hurts right now and that is not a good sign….I did get out on the bike yesterday but it looks like an off day today with the possibility of 2-4 inches of rain…it has started already so it looks like I can just take it easy and watch the Man U match in a few minutes…not much to do today…..going to just clean a little and watch sports…I do have to cook today and I think I’ll have a pork chop and roasted potatoes for lunch….more later….
The maniac strikes again….
Well…trump has just got to be the most stupid son of a bitch in the world….an the most rotten asshole that has ever walked the Earth. Just today, he decided on his own to destroy Obamacare and throw millions of people off their insurance…then, for good measure, he decided that he was no longer going to honor the nuclear deal with Iran…basically putting Iran back on the path to nuclear weapons and showing that, with his butt in the WH, the US can no longer be a trusted partner in the world. There has never been anything so damn dumb in my long lifetime…Iran was following the agreement and that has been verified many times, but to the idiot’s fevered brain, he can get a “better deal”….my question to this idiot is: what is a better deal? What could be better than keeping another country from getting nuclear weapons? As we see from his entire life, trump is a fraud, and that fraud is going to get millions of people killed if you don’t stop him, repubs. Get off your asses and do something…impeach…
October 13th
Well…up early again today and my back is killing me….thought it had fixed itself yesterday but I guess I was wrong….slept okay last night and had some dreams that I don’t remember….and the coffee is not hot and that is annoying….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and I may meet up with T later for lunch or HH so today will be much the same….I do need to get a bike ride in today since it will be raining all day tomorrow and I’ll skip riding…have been resisting putting the heat on but it is only 70 in here and it is going to be colder starting tomorrow night and I hate being cold…so the heat goes on…it is the middle of October after all….more later….
I wonder what music they’ll play….
Well…just watching a show that I like and they were packing up a house after one of the main characters died…and they put “so far away from you” by Dire Straits on…and that got me thinking…I wonder what music my kids will play when they pack up the house after I’m gone?
This is a president?
Well…if you didn’t already know the the idiot trump is a racist asshole, you just need to look at his behavior toward the US citizens in Puerto Rico and his tweet from yesterday threatening to pull FEMA and all of the military personnel out with more than 50% of the island still without water and over 90% still without power. This is not how presidents act…to abandon US citizens after the greatest natural disaster ever to hit the island…and to compound that racism, he proposed that no more money will be spent to rebuild the island unless it is in the form of loans…not grants, not federal money, but loans that his cronies will profit from…but that is all the the idiot is about…sucking this country dry and enriching himself and his buddies while wildfires burn hundreds of thousands of acres across the west, and hurricanes destoy PR and the USVI….is this enough yet, repubs? Is this finally the last straw? Nope, not for these amoral assholes….impeach….