Well…I really don’t know how I can be running late with getting up before 5 but I am…oh, well…I wonder if I can say that I slept okay when I got about 4 1/2 hours of sleep last night? That follows two days of 5 hours each and I should be exhausted from it but I don’t feel too bad this morning…and there was not even a nap to compensate yesterday so maybe today…when I was heading out to do the grocery run, I noticed there is nothing leaking under the car and cars are not supposed to fix themselves…so that means it was probably not my car that was leaking, I just parked on someone elses leak….and that is pretty cool since I don’t have to climb under it…other than to lube up the parking brakes that have started to hang up…forgot to do it while I was putting the summer wheels on so that will be a project for next week…I did get a bike ride in yesterday between the rain but a big part of the trail was flooded and I had to ride through foot deep water for a quarter of a mile to get to high ground…my shoes are still soaked from it and that is going to be unpleasant when I go out later….not much to do today…no errands to run but I do have cleaning to do…the kitchen needs work and that will be the focus of my day…if I can focus later…
Dead man walking…
Well…one of the things that happen when I get up too damn early is that I have time to fill before I can get on the weight machine and not wake up the neighbors…and I just needed to comment on the fact that William Barr was shown to be a huge liar last night on every news show…last night, it was revealed that Mueller sent Barr a scathing letter on March 27th saying that he misrepresented the findings that Mueller put in the report and in no way shape or form did he say what Barr said he did in his “summaries” or in his lie filled press conference. Mueller then followed the letter up with a 20 minute phone call to Barr to discuss what was in the letter…and that is a huge problem for Barr since he went in front of congress on April 10th and lied his ass off that he didn’t know what Mueller thought about Barr’s shenanigans with the releasing of the report and his misrepresentations of what Mueller’s conclusions were. This is a clear case of obstruction of justice and perjury by Barr and the calls for his resignation are coming more and more as time goes on…I guess my question is: don’t any of these morons know that they would be found to be lying? That there is tape of them testifying and it can’t be explained away by bullshit and bluster? This makes Barr a dead man walking and impeachment proceedings should be started if he doesn’t resign today…impeach…
May 1st
Well….that didn’t work…up at 5:03 this morning and I just knew that I wasn’t going back to sleep so I just gave up…and that makes me a little early here today…didn’t go to bed until late, too so that makes the night about a 5 hour one that is just not enough…oh, well…I’ll live through it and might just take a nap later to make up for it…okay, that made me laugh…that’s not going to happen but it’s a good thought…I did get a bike ride in yesterday but it was only 45 when I went out and the wind was blowing 20 out of the East and that made for a brutal ride that I didn’t warm up from all afternoon…it looks like I won’t get out until late afternoon today since it is raining now and it is supposed to rain all day with almost an inch forecast….I am getting really tired of all the damn rain and it is late enough in the spring that I can’t dismiss it by saying “at least it’s not snow” anymore…just want a couple of days that I can put the top down on the car and enjoy some sun…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but some errands and today looks the same…I did get two dozen eggs yesterday at 79 cents each and I think I need to make some omelets since I do have all of the stuff to make them that I bought last week for pizza…and I do need to make another pizza before it all spoils…but not today…I need coffee, coffee, coffee and to read some news before I do anything else…more later…
Now we’ll see how corrupt the Justice Department has become…
Well…with the blatant, open corruption that is being led by William Barr at the Justice Department on a daily basis, we now are going to have the chance to see just how corrupt it has become…just this morning, Adam Schiff, the chair of the House Intelligence committee, said he plans to make a criminal referral to the DOJ about Erik Prince’s testimony to the committee since the evidence shows that Prince lied to the committee about his meeting with the Russians in the Seychelle Islands…saying that the meeting with a Russian banker was just a “chance encounter” but Mueller evidence shows that there was preparation for the meeting with a set agenda that dealt with “improving” US and Russian relations. So, just another idiot in the trump orbit trying to work with the Russians and then lying about it to congress but with the new twist that trump now has his personal “fixer” in Barr who will find many, many bogus reasons to not bring these clear charges of perjury…and by this action, the Justice department loses a little more credibility that the dems will have to step in and fix when trump and his minions are gone…impeach…
April 30th
Well…not sure how I want to start this one today…it’s the end of the month and another month that I made the goal of two a day but I have been doing that for years now so that’s not really any accomplishment…hmmm…I did sleep pretty crappy last night if that’s a way to start…but, I don’t feel too bad so I guess I can live with that…and taking the day off the bike really helped my legs and feet…not too sore today but I do have an overall stiffness that is probably that I’m just getting old and will have to live with that…I did work on the bike yesterday trying to get the oil and crud out of the shifter and sprockets and did get some of it out but without some high pressure water, there is just so much I can do…I did re lube the shifter and chain after I finished since I noticed that the chain is showing some wear and will probably have to be replaced soon….I am hoping to get out on the bike later today but may have lunch with T so that will make it quite late and maybe warm enough…I just hate the cold lately and I refuse to go back to long pants and gloves…it is almost May after all…I haven’t even gotten into shorts yet this year and it looks like that is going to wait a while yet…not much to do today…just going to ease into the day and have more coffee…I am going to buy some eggs for the first time this year since my daily deals store has extra large ones for 79 cents a dozen…I know I shouldn’t eat them since they will probably kill me but I do miss making omelets and having them sunny side up with toast….more later….
Is there no integrity anymore?
Well…I sure hope you’re laughing at that title because you know, when we talk about anyone in trump’s orbit, there never was any integrity about anything…and you just have to look at Rod Rosenstein and William Barr to emphasize that. We all know what a shill for the idiot trump Barr is…but, just this past weekend, in a speech he gave and in some reporting, Rosenstein was revealed to be just as much in the tank for trump…regularly giving him updates on the investigation into him in direct contravention of DOJ rules and, more than that, against any bit of personal integrity that Rosenstein should have shown given the supposed independence of the DOJ. Ole rod was shown to be the worm that he is when he did all of this in fear of losing his job…yep, he helped destroy the DOJ and the US just so he could protect his pension and fawned all over trump just for that purpose, telling him he was on trump’s “team” and could “land the plane” of the Mueller report so it would not hurt trump. I know I’ve used this analogy before, but it is still pertinent to these behaviors by Barr and Rosenstein…now, when John Gotti was under investigation, would it have been proper for the FBI or the DOJ to give him “updates” on how the investigation of him was going? Yeah, we all know the answer to that one…no, no NO! Rosenstein has now cemented his place in American history as the worst deputy AG that has ever been in the DOJ and I really hope that the media will keep pounding this until he ends up an ambulance chaser in Podunk…that’s all he deserves…impeach…
April 29th
Well…I think I’m about on time today with getting up at about 5:45 and not even trying to go back to sleep…I mean, what’s the point? I even went to bed late last night and that may be why I’m feeling a little worn out today…well…not a little…a lot worn out and I’m not sure why today should be any different from any other day…at least my toe doesn’t hurt anymore so I guess that’s progress….it looks like I won’t be getting on the bike today with the rain starting in a few minutes and forecast to continue all day…and, it’s going to be cold, too and that’s a combo that I just don’t want to endure anymore…so, I think I’ll do a complete clean up on the bike since it was so greasy and dirty when I worked on it the other day…going to use some dish soap and let it soak for an hour or so to get the shifter and sprockets clean…didn’t get a damn thing done yesterday but I will clean some and cook this afternoon…have some chicken that needs to be used and have the rest of the fixings for another pizza that I’ll use tomorrow….won’t put garlic on the next one…used a small clove chopped for the last one and the garlic taste was just overwhelming…not right for a pizza…more later…
Yow, Kansas!
Well…not sure if you noticed, but the supreme court of Kansas just stunned me and almost everybody else when they ruled that their state constitution protects bodily autonomy..and that means the absolute right of a woman to control her body and terminate her pregnancy. The cool thing about this ruling is that the determined that there are “inalienable rights” that are immune from government intrusion and that self determination and control of ones body is one of those rights…but the ruling didn’t stop there…it determined that all individuals are free to excise personal autonomy and are free to make choices about how to conduct their own lives. One of the parts of this ruling that I find most heartening is that it is not reviewable by the US supreme court and the right wing ideologues who have been installed there by McConnell…so this ruling affirming personal rights can’t be reversed by the legislature, either…so the repub assholes who live for taking away women’s rights to control their own bodies made a huge miscalculation by trying to make them second class citizens in Kansas and the court slapped them down….now, let’s hope that this ruling will be a challenge to the rest of us to do what we can to protect the rights of our sisters, daughters and friends…and of all women by voting the repubs out in 2020…
April 28th
Well…I can walk this morning! My right big toe hurt so bad when I got up yesterday that I could barely walk and I know it was from how contorted I sleep at times…tried not to do that last night and the pain is almost gone this morning so that is cool…I still have the low level pain in my legs from all the riding last week but that’s manageable and is not going to keep me off the bike today…but, I am going to have to wait to go out since it is still in the low 30’s right now…even had to scrape the windshield on the car this morning since it had snow on it…ick…sure hope it’s the last time I have to do that…didn’t get much done yesterday but cook and today is a leftover day so no cooking…but that leaves me with way too much time on my hands so I guess I’ll clean some later after I have my coffee and read the news some…there is lots of sports on starting with soccer in a couple of minutes and then F1 and the napcar race this afternoon…oh, and Man U plays but I am not excited about that with how crappy they have been playing….more later…
Taking the day off…
Well…still just damn exhausted still today and I thought I’d figured that out…but then this afternoon came and it’s hard to get up off the couch again…I’m sure part of it is the double miles I did this week and I know that I didn’t eat enough to support it…but, I wonder why I still feel so full even with eating only two little boneless skinless chicken thighs and a half a roasted potato…I’m even uncomfortable and that is wrong somehow…oh, well…oh, taking the day off…I decided this morning I was going to take the day off of everything today…I’m way more beat up than I recognized when I got up and I’ve even had to take some ibuprofen to be able to tolerate it…and my brain is just not into thinking today and I don’t want to hear anything about politics so that means I don’t want to write about it, either…so, this is all you get today…I have done almost 10 extra ones for the month already so I don’t feel too bad giving up today…okay, I do but not bad enough to do anything about it….no more later…