Well…it’s one of my favorite days of the year with the English Premier League starting up this morning…well..it actually started Friday but it’s not really a start until Man U plays…and they just finished up demolishing West Ham 4-0 and looked like the Man U of old….Lukaku is going to be a great addition at forward getting 2 today and the addition of Matic in the midfield will also be something to see. So, I am pretty geeked about the season…especially after how terrible they started last year….
August 13th
Well…running a little late today…almost forgot to do this before getting on the bike…slept okay last night but I know I didn’t eat enough so I’ll probably be out of energy by the time I get back…just haven’t felt like eating lately….didn’t get much done yesterday but I will have to do better today…the bathroom needs to be cleaned so I think I’ll try to do that today…I do need to get most things done before 11 when Man U plays…but the race doesn’t start til 3 so I’ll have some time after the match is over…I do have to adjust the fine shifting before I ride today but that shouldn’t take too much time…I hope anyway…..more later….
Some stuff….
Well…ave been having a nice day other than breaking a shift cable on the bike and having to ride it home with it in top gear….but, I have a new one on it already and it just needs fine adjustment…that needs to wait until the adhesive on the new shims dries….I did get my new case for the new phone and I really like it for 8 bucks…built really well and feels good in my hand…and now I don’t worry so much with dropping it…still don’t think it will protect like an otterbox but it is not as bulky, either….I did get some info from my life insurance company and found that my policy is much smaller than I thought…but, it does have 45 grand in cash value and I think I may cash it in and put a down payment on a house if I can find one for about 100K….that would make the payments only about 350 bucks a month…less than half what I’m paying in rent…maybe I’ll get my brother on finding me one….need to be out of here by November…that would be really cool……
August 12th
Well…running a little early today and I don’t care why…feel a little crappy today since I was not good last night….and I don’t care about that either….had a fun day yesterday with shooting pool and having the top down out and back….I think I won…but that will probably be the last one for a while….I should check the mega to see if anyone won…yep, someone in Illinois…darn….oh, well….I need coffee….one cool thing is the premier league starts again this morning and it’s nice to have something to run in the background as I do these…I am still geeked about getting a SD ticket yesterday for 39 bucks….should be a ton of fun….not much to do today….have to get a bike ride in but that is about it…..and cook….should clean the bathroom and I just might…but I might not…more later…
Steely Dan update…
Well…just on a whim, I decided to go out and look at ticketmaster again since people on Facebook were talking about cheap tickets….and there were! Got one for 39 bucks…it’s way in the back but in the front row of the section so no one will be in front of me…and it’s still closer than the lawn at Pine Knob….I am getting excited to go by myself and to not have to think about anyone else for the first time!
99 bucks for Steely Dan?
Well…I was really excited when it was announced that Steely Dan was coming to the VanAndel in October….I even went out to check ticket prices and saw that they were offering a 59 dollar ticket and thought that would be cool since there really are no bad seats there. But, this morning, I went out to check Ticketmaster and get signed on to get ready to buy a couple and the lowest price is now 99 bucks…now, if this was going to be the first time seeing them I’d pay it…and that would make it the most expensive concert ticket ever for me…but for the seventh time? Nope…the last time I saw them at Freedom Hill, the tickets were only 24 bucks for lawn seats and we were allowed to move into the 150 buck seats when a storm came through….I’m not going to rail against them for the tickets being so expensive…it’s just priced me out of the market is all….
August 11th
Well….got a pretty big surprise yesterday when I got an e-mail saying that Steely Dan is coming to the VanAndel here in GR…tickets go on sale today and I am going to try to get a pair…not sure why since I don’t have anyone to go with but I guess I could sell the second one…can’t really afford it but it would be cool to see SD here in town…had a pretty good day yesterday but didn’t get much done…and today looks the same….just don’t feel like doing much right now….don’t hurt too much today…no back pain or any other pain other than the normal stuff….I did make potato salad yesterday and got it pretty close to what I remember as a kid….I remember fishing with it on the hook…the bluegills loved it…I do have pool today and I am looking forward to it…haven’t driven the car at all in the past two weeks…more later….
Why not just give the country to the Russians?
Well…my outrage meter is back at the top again today with two more fricking idiocies and more treason from the idiot trump. I can’t believe this crap and I can’t believe that the congress is letting trump get away with it…it was announced today that the the Pentagon is in talks with the Russians to use their satellites to provide internet access to our soldiers on the battlefield…the stupidity of this move is just breathtaking…allowing Russia to read all the correspondence of our soldiers? There is more more than just personal correspondence that happens over the internet with our military….the entire military and it’s coordination happens over satellite communication…how many of you think that this connection wouldn’t be used to hack into the supposedly secure part that coordinates troop movements and communicates with our aircraft on the battlefield? Jesus, this is the stupidist thing I have ever frickin heard…we don’t have our own satellites? This is treason pure and simple and the simpleton in the White House should be frog marched out of his golf club and straight to a federal prison…how long, repubs? How long is treason going to be tolerated before you act to impeach and convict this idiot? The clock is ticking….impeach…
Infants in charge of foreign policy….
Well…have you ever seen the spectacle of the idiot trump and his minions threatening a little, backward country with nuclear holocaust in the history of the US? Could you imagine Roosevelt, or Lincoln saying they will reign down “fire and fury” on the Bahamas? That is about what the idiot did this week when he lowered the US to the level of the psychotic dictator of North Korea….I guess the entire world now knows how to push the idiots buttons…they know he is such an infant when it comes to foreign policy that they can manipulate him into anything they want him to do…just look what Putin has been able to do….and the idiot boy doesn’t even realize they are doing it…he just reacts, and reacts, and reacts…with no coherent idea of how the world works or how to get what the US wants. What we should be doing is just treating them like the flea they are…annoying, yes, but a threat to the US? Only to the repubs who are frickin scared of everything and run around with their hair on fire about every real or imagined threat. Repubs, is this dangerous enough for you? When are you going to stop this decline in American power? It’s all up to you, repubs…do your damn job….impeach….
August 10th
Well…running late today with the grocery run done this morning and I have lots more to do so it is going to be a busy morning…need to get my hair cut still and then over to ups to send the old phone off…so this one is going to be short since I still have to pack the old phone up….had the top down over to Meijers and left it down for the rest of the errands….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I will get a lot done today after errands since it is going to rain….hope I can get the bike ride in dry since I don’t have a bag ready to fit the new phone in…I do need to cook today but that will late til later….okay, need to get started packing the phone…more later….