Well…another 4:34 morning but I don’t feel to bad so I guess I can live with it…I did lie back down for a little while and that was a nice transition to getting up instead of just climbing out immediately…and I slept okay that that’s a plus…I just wish the damn crack in my thumb would heal so it doesn’t hurt when I shift the bike…that has been annoying for the past few days and I need to continue to treat it and hope for the best…and I’m getting out on the bike here in a few minutes but decided to have a cup of coffee and do this before I get out today…and I need to get out and back here before 9 to see F1 qualifying but I’ll be out by 7 so that won’t be a problem…I am going to make chicken tacos for the first time for lunch today and have had the chicken in a marinade overnight to get the flavor into it….and I made my best pizza ever yesterday…didn’t over bake this one and the crust came out soft and chewy so I think I have my pizza figured out…it will be interesting to see if I can repeat it but that won’t be a for a few weeks…and that put a question in my head…why do they put so much salt in frozen pizzas? Mine has about a half teaspoon in a 14″ and it tastes great…and it has very little fat with using turkey pepperoni…hmmmm…okay…need to watch F1 practice and finish my coffee so I can get out on the bike…more later…
Saw Barnstorm on tv…
Well….was flicking through the tv channels the other day and came across the 2017 Colorado Music Hall of fame celebration concert and to my surprise, one of the groups being honored was Barnstorm, Joe Walsh’s second group after the Jame Gang. Over the years since the early 70’s, I had never seen them play and they are one of my favorite groups from that era…I still listen to their music almost every day on the bike ride and it was so cool to see the three original members up on stage…with Joe, Joe Vitale, and Kenny Passerelli…and they did three songs off the first album that I have never seen played live before even with seeing Joe Walsh play almost a dozen times…I was a little curious what the music press thought of them at the time since I still think Barnstorm was a niche band that only my friends and I knew about but there were reviews in Rolling Stone and other magazines that called the album a “masterpiece”…who knew? All I know is the music still makes me smile after more than 40 years…
I don’t believe a word of it…
Well…it appears that idiot boy trump ordered an attack on Iran last night but, with planes in the air, called it off at the last minute citing that he didn’t know that 100 to 150 people could be killed and trying to convince people that it would be too much just for Iran shooting down an unmanned drone. Now, where the hell do we start with this one? As you know, I feel that military action should be the last resort in any conflict but that view is certainly not shared by Pompeo or Bolton, who feel that war is always a good thing and that fear is the best negotiating tool…but, that might not be right…they think the US should NEVER negotiate with anyone…that everyone should just do what we want them to under the threat of attack…their idea of negotiating is to bully people to their viewpoint and that no other nation’s interests are of any consequence. But, there may be something additional operating here…since Iran is a friend of Russia, I’ll bet there was a last minute phone call from Putin telling trump to stop the attack…trump had already gotten what he wanted from the aborted attack…it was just a distraction from the tightening noose here in the US where Jerry Nadler has said bluntly that Hope Hicks WILL come back to the House and she will answer their questions…and that includes Don McGahn who refused to testify earlier…and today, Felix Sater is in front of the House for testimony on the trump Moscow project…and just yesterday it was revealed that there is a major new investigation into Deutsche bank’s refusal to report don jr. and trump’s transactions with the bank for money laundering after the people at the bank in charge of that reported it to the higher ups and they declined to turn the information over to the authorities. So, there are many reasons why the attack was called off last night…and one of the ones on Twitter that made me laugh is trump called it off because it would have meant that he would actually have to do some work and that would cut into his golf and “executive time”…that one is probably the right one…impeach…
June 21st
Well…have been rushing around here this morning trying to get going to get out on the bike in the fog but I just looked out and it has mostly cleared so I thought I’d come here and do this before I get out…and that gives me the chance to have a cup of coffee and it is strange how much that helps the legs…it is much more of a chore to ride without it…slept okay last night but I think I need a new pair of earplugs…have lost one each of the past few nights and that is annoying even with the place upstairs being empty…no dreams to speak of either and I was getting used to having them after a few days…oh, well….I have a split in my right thumb that has been hurting like crazy the past few days since I use it to shift and that is keeping it from healing…got some vinegar in it yesterday when I was making some pickled red onions and that was just too much…kept it hurting all afternoon no matter what I did even with washing it…cripes…didn’t get much done yesterday but one bike ride since it was raining most of the day but today looks like I can get two in…and I am going to make a pizza for lunch along with getting some chicken in a marinade for tacos for tomorrow and that is going to be a new one for me…more later…
It’s time to pull the trigger and go to the courts…
Well…as days go by, trump and his cronies are now creating legal defenses out of thin air to try to justify not answering any of congress’s questions. Just yesterday, the WH counsel prevented Hope Hicks from answering any questions from the House Judiciary Committee…even including where the hell her office even was…making up a new legal term called “total immunity” from answering the questions that the House is legally allowed to get the answers to. So, now it’s time to pull the trigger and go to the courts to have these criminals compelled to answer or suffer the consequences of either jail time or huge fines until they comply…and the supreme court has already confirmed that these types of inquiries are a legal, constitutional duty of the House and they have the power to investigate anything they want and call any witness they want and any bogus new legal claim is not going to prevail in court…we know why trump and his cronies are doing this…so they have more time to pack the courts with hacks who don’t care about protecting the constitution, as their oaths require, just protecting trump…and this just can’t stand…Jerry Nadler, it is time to drop the hammer on all of these criminals and use every damn tool to force them to comply with the rule of law…impeach…
Well….that was easy…
Well…as I said a little while ago, I had a nasty rattle coming from the exhaust that started yesterday and it was just so damn annoying…so, you know that I have to get at it when something is wrong with the car and even the rain wasn’t going to stop me…so, I just went out to take a look at it and the heat shield just fell off in my hand when I pulled on it…and when I started the car up to test it and see if the one on top of the pipe had to come off, too…it was quiet with no problem so that was probably one of the easiest fixes I’ve ever had on the car…and it will make my day to not have to think about it anymore…yay!
June 20th
Well…it appears to be a normal Thursday with doing the grocery run and then reading the paper before coming here…and now I have a new problem with the car…the leak appears to be fixed but I have a heat shield in the exhaust rattling that is annoying as hell…so, I’ll have to climb under the car today or tomorrow to see which one it is…it’s in the front of the car so I think it’s the one that is on the pipe just coming off the header…we’ll see…should be an easy fix or I’ll just remove it if there is clearance and it won’t start the car on fire…slept okay last night and feel so much better this morning than I did yesterday…and it looks like the bike ride will have to wait until later with the rain out there right now so I am going to revel in that and plan on only one ride today…I did get some cleaning done yesterday and I need to do the oven today since it is getting pretty dirty….and the rest of the kitchen needs work, too, so that will be on the agenda today….but first, I am going to have more coffee and read some news and ease into it….more later…
Did anyone tell trump that Hillary is not running?
Well…of course I didn’t listen to any of idiot boy’s Klan rally last night but I have read about it and the delusion runs strong in that one…I do have a question: Did anyone tell trump that Hillary isn’t running? For almost a third of the speech, trump just kept going on and on about Hillary, e-mails, and that the only people who committed any crimes were on the other side….and the crowd, who has about three brain cells between all of them, kept chanting “lock her up” as idiot boy led the cheer…and that makes me wonder if anyone told THEM that Hillary is not running. There was nothing new in this rant and that makes it even more clear that the moron in chief can’t learn anything new…if you looked at any speech he has given in the past two years, they are all exactly the same unless he is reading from the prompter….oh, and one little detail that kind of went under the radar made me laugh…they couldn’t get enough people from the Orlando area to come to his hate rally so they bused them in from all over Florida…and I’ll bet that they paid the ones that were standing in line to stand there and make it look like idiot boy is more popular than he is…after all, only 25% of the people polled in Orlando approve of trump…and every dem challenger is beating him in the latest Florida poll…and that’s too damn funny…impeach…
June 19th
Well…so much for the new schedule working…got up at 6 but just couldn’t get to the point where I wanted to do one of these…so, I got on the bike first and still don’t feel that hot…part of that may be that I didn’t have coffee yet so we’ll test that right now with the first cup…slept okay last night but getting on the bike was a chore…much more work than I like and it feels good to be back here on the couch…I did get out to get my hair cut and run some errands yesterday and I need to get out and run a couple more today…need to get out to DD to get some chicken for 99 cents a pound so I’ll have protein for the rest of the week…the marinade I made the other day came out really good so I am going to modify it a little to make some chicken tacos…just going to add some chili powder and maybe a little cayenne…need to make something new since I am getting bored with the normal stuff…not much to do today…I should clean but probably won’t…just have no motivation right now so we’ll see…more later…
Another one gone…
Well….I wonder if trump and his cronies should just install revolving doors for the heads of all of the cabinet positions in this administration…just today the acting Sec of Defense resigned after a few months on the job to “spend more time with his family”….not that he couldn’t pass the background checks….not that this is disqualifying by any means where trump is concerned….after all, everyone in his circle is ethically challenged and can’t get through the senate confirmation process…and I think this guy still has more that he is hiding that he wants to keep hidden so he just bailed instead of having that come out and losing any chance of that sweet, sweet lobbying money. Never in our history have so many “acting” people that can’t get confirmed been running this country…just the best people, believe me…impeach…okay, this one was short…so maybe I’ll do two tomorrow to make up for it…who knows?