Well…it appears like I have an entire day on my hands and I am already trying to find something to do…so, of course, I come here to try to get some thoughts down before the coffee wears off and I lose my motivation…with everything going on in politics these days, it is pretty easy to be overwhelmed and to long for the days of “no drama Obama” when there was not a new scandal every damn day…and it can get wearing just living in this toxic swamp even without paying a lot of attention to the news…and I used to be a news junkie who had tv news on all the time and read 3-5 newspapers a day…but, as the costs of newspapers kept rising, I had to look at the cost and realized I was spending close to 100 dollars a month just for the papers that I read so I cut that out and now limit myself to one per week…what does that have to do with anything? Not much…just a thought…I am little excited to see the Falcon heavy launch this evening…it was supposed to happen last night but high level winds were too strong for safety so tonight looks like the night…and they are going to try to land all three boosters, two back at the launch pad, and one on a drone ship off the Florida coast…the first launch of heavy they landed two of three and it was synchronized and so cool to see…oh, okay….I was going to talk about trump’s sister but I think I’ll do another one for that…
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April 11th
Well…damn…I’m sore this morning and I’m really not sure why that would be…didn’t do a lot but work out and ride the bike yesterday and that would not be the reason I hurt everywhere…but, I do…and my allergies hit like a hammer last night…so bad that I had to take a red dot for it…I was just damn miserable all night and I may have to take another one this morning since the symptoms are still here and I feel like crap from them…man, I feel worn out today and I am glad I did the grocery run yesterday and have nothing to do today…not even going to ride the bike since the wind is already blowing over 20 and it is only going to get worse as the day goes on…I’m hoping that will help with the pain, too, but I may take something for that just to get the swelling down in my shoulder….everything is covered in snow this morning with the storm that came through last night but it should melt off later this morning and then we have thunderstorms possible for later this aft…sound like a good day to hibernate here and just veg all day…not much to do today…if I can get motivated, I may clean some but I can’t promise anything with how I feel right now…need the coffee to work first and to read some news….more later….
It’s official…Barr’s a criminal, too…
Well…welcome to the latest repub coverup of trump’s criminality…did you expect anything different from Bill Barr? He is editing the Mueller report to make sure it doesn’t say anything bad about trump and trying to keep that information from the congress who has the right to see it…this is as much obstruction of justice as anything trump has done and the congress needs to hold him accountable…and just this morning it got so, so much worse with Barr announcing that he is going to “investigate” the people in the intel community who found that the Russians were helping trump…calling these folks doing their jobs protecting the US “spies” for investigating the clear contacts between trump and Russian spies. So, this is where we’re at…we have a lawless administration using the tactics of every would be dictator in the world being aided and abetted by the entire repub party and they will destroy this country before the next election when we can throw them out…there may be too much damage to repair and I will blame the repubs for helping it happen…impeach….
Why so much damn salt?
Well…now that I’ve started to really pay attention to the quantity of salt in food that I buy, that generated a question to me…why so much damn salt? Went out yesterday to my daily deals store to get some turkey breast they had on sale for 77 cents a pound and made the point to look at the label…in every 2 oz serving, it had almost 400 milligrams of salt in it…or 25% of the amount of salt limit you can have every day…and even to make a sandwich, you would probably have 4-5 ozs and that would put you at the limit for the day…I mean almost 2 grams of salt just in one sandwich? Needless to say, I didn’t buy it and instead bought a whole turkey this morning at 49 cents a pound that has no added salt…but the smallest one I could find was 16 pounds and I think it was a deal for under 8 bucks…and it is the biggest turkey I have ever bought…hope it fits in my roaster….
April 10th
Well…hmmm…I wonder if the bug is finally leaving me? Slept okay last night and don’t feel too bad right now…even have some energy and that is not too normal for me…at least for the past couple of weeks…and, there is still progress with my shoulder that I am going to test on the weight machine this morning…had hardly any pain overnight and even slept on it…didn’t even think about it for the first time since I hurt it…so, yay….didn’t get a damn thing done yesterday but run an errand to get some bacon for 2.44 a pound…I know I shouldn’t eat it but that was too cheap to pass up and I am really craving a BLT….the exact same bacon is 5.99 at Meijers so that’s a pretty good deal….I did remember that GOT is starting it’s last season Sunday night so I started catching up on season 7 last night and need to get through it before then….don’t remember much of it so it’s almost like seeing it for the first time…not much to do today…Man U plays Barcelona in the champions league this aft but I don’t have much hope they can beat them…at least I’ll start watching it…and Space X is going to launch the second Falcon Heavy at 6:35 this evening and try to recover all three first stage boosters so that will be cool to watch…shouldn’t be too boring of a day…more later….
Abuse of power?
Well…c’mon folks, does trump really have to shoot someone on 5th avenue to have the congress do anything about him? The latest from the criminal in chief is as clear of an abuse of power as has ever been seen…a couple of days ago, as the idiot boy was touring his fake border wall in the southwest of the country, he told the assembled CBP officers there to ignore the judge’s ruling that said closing the border to asylum seekers was against the law….and to tell them that the “country was full” and could not take any more immigrants. Now, I’m old enough to remember Nixon and Watergate and the fact that one of the articles of impeachment was the abuse of power by Nixon by telling people who worked for him to lie to the FBI and break the law…now, how is what the idiot trump done any different? He has ordered people who work for him to break the law and to ignore a judges order to follow the law…I am getting damn tired of no one doing anything about this criminal *president who is destroying the rule of law in this country…and now, I pointing my fingers at you dems…you have plenty of evidence to impeach this asshole and you should just frickin do it…I don’t think the country will survive until the 2020 election….impeach….
April 9th
Well…I guess I slept as well as I can expect with getting up for the first time at 5:14 but going back to bed until almost 6:30….had some weird dreams about heavy earth moving equipment and the brakes not working on the Miata but there was no real story going on so it was a little less than satisfying…still think I have that damn bug with my lungs involved that I will try to burn out…again…on the bike this morning…I seem to have much less lung capacity right now and it shows by the time I’m out a couple of miles and continues for the entire ride…I do have a day off the bike day in my pocket with not taking Sunday off so I can use that this week if need be but that will trigger the guilts and I don’t want that…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I may clean some around here today…just haven’t felt motivated lately and that continues this morning…still pretty exhausted for some reason and the coffee isn’t working all that well yet…I do need to start planning meals for the rest of the week and getting stuff out of the freezer so I’ll do that this morning….didn’t eat enough yesterday so I’ll have to make up for it today with at least two meals but I don’t feel like eating anything right now….more later….
I guess locking kids in cages wasn’t enough for trump…
Well…I’m kind of happy to see Kirstjen Nielsen get fired from her post as head of DHS but, with trump, you just know that whomever he finds to replace her is going to be much worse. I guess locking kids in cages, lying every damn day about it, and letting over 3,000 Puerto Ricans (Americans) die just for trump’s racist hatred just wasn’t enough to keep her job. The damage that the family separation policy (yeah, she lied to congress about that, too) has done to both parents and children is not something that can ever be fixed and should be hung around Nielsen’s neck every damn day she is out in public, and every damn time she is out on the wingnut welfare circuit cashing in on being the monster she is….to see these children and see the reporting on the damage that ripping them away from their parents does to them is just heartbreaking and every damn American should be incensed that this racist bullshit is being done in our names…or in the name of Stephen Miller, the racist in chief who is the one behind the policies of hatred that has now infested this country. The only hope we have to stop this damage is in the next election since the rest of the repubs are just fine with all this bullshit…and we need to get a pledge from every damn dem running that this crap will be reversed first thing as soon as we take back the WH….impeach this son of a bitch now….
April 8th
Well…at least my pain is symmetrical today…both my shoulders hurt, both my Achilles tendons hurt, and both of my calves have cramps in them…at least I didn’t take anything for them yesterday so I can today…maybe before the bike ride? Slept okay last night and I wonder if it’s the newly bleached sheets with the bed being made before I crashed last night? Who knows? I do know that I’m still tired but not as bad as Saturday so that’s progress I guess…still wondering if it’s a bug or not…and I think it is but don’t want to take it easy and let it win so back on the bike for a long hard one this morning to try to burn it out…I probably should schedule a non sprint day since I was supposed to do that over the weekend to let the legs heal and didn’t…will probably wait until it gets cold again tomorrow for that….didn’t get much done yesterday but laundry and a little cleaning and I am going to try to do more today before soccer is on this aft….it is a little frustrating that my daily deals store has everything I like on sale this week but I can’t eat any of it…bacon, ham, smoked turkey, summer sausage…too much salt and fat in all of it…and my freezer is full anyway so I guess I’ll just save some cash and use what’s in there…more later…
Some musings…
Well…just opened the windows here for the first time this year and it smells good that spring is on the way…for today anyway, cold weather comes back this week with highs in the 40′s and that is depressing…oh, well…not going to do any politics today since I just can’t get motivated to do the research necessary to be cogent and not repeat myself…so, I’m just going to muse a little about a few things and see where it goes…still not feeling 100% but feel better than I did yesterday but that’s not too hard…got a nice long bike ride in this morning and I am thinking about going out again since it is 72 right now and that would be perfect for shorts and a t-shirt…but, right now, I’m watching the Bristol race and I can’t believe how few people there are at the track…20 years ago they had a waiting list for tickets but today the track is half empty and they have closed off entire sections that would hold 50K people…Nascar has to figure that out or there won’t be a Nascar after a few years…I did wash my bike today to get the mud and dirt off it and I hope that cleans the shifter and makes it more normal…it has been all over the place the past few days and I just want the shifts to be consistent so I can adjust if need be….I also got a bleach laundry load done this morning to try to get my white stuff white again and I’m not really sure if it worked…have to check out the dryer to see…okay…that’s enough for now…going to watch the rest of the race and then the Indy car race at 4….and veg out completely….