Well…don’t really feel like doing one on politics today…just feel exhausted and have just been able to get up off the couch and move around for the first time today…well…not the first time…I have been on the bike twice today and that was a lot of work…but, I did get to a kind of a milestone on the bike today when I got to 500 miles for the year…with the majority of of that being indoors on the trainer after getting in a hundred miles or so before the weather got bad and closed the trails. I do like the idea of just walking across my place and getting on the bike but I am getting antsy to get back outside…I don’t miss being cold at all, though, and I may just wait to go out until after it gets warm enough to go with light gloves and no stocking hat. So, it looks like I’ll already have 600 miles on the bike before I hit the trails and that just may get me to 4,000 miles this year…
March 9th
Well…running a little late today with getting sucked into a tv show this morning and not really having any motivation to get moving…and I got up a little later than normal staying in bed until 6:41 after getting up for the first time at 5:18…and I didn’t sleep too badly with my shoulder no longer keeping me up at all…and the damage from yesterday is not too painful so it appears it was just a little muscle strain but we’ll see as I get moving around here today….I am going to try to make instant pot refried beans this weekend since, looking at the label on a can of them, they are just saturated with salt with each serving of half a cup having over 600mg of salt added and I can’t tolerate that much salt in my diet…and it will give me something to do later today or tomorrow…didn’t get a lot done yesterday since I am just idling waiting for them to come next week and fix the water pipe in my storage closet and I’ll probably not do much today…need to watch some soccer and ease into the day with coffee and a little news…more later…
It finally broke…
Well…my fitness program was interrupted today when my weight machine finally broke…or a cable on the machine broke as I was doing pull downs with 150 pounds on it…when it broke, it released all the pressure I had on my back and legs and I ended up hyper extending my left leg, hurting my hamstring and the ligaments in the back of my knee along with my calf…I could barely walk on it when it happened but I was able to get on the bike and keep it warm so it didn’t freeze up on me…but, it still hurts and I am a little irritated that the damn machine only lasted 15 years of almost daily use…yep, that was a little joke…I have a plan to fix it by splicing in a new piece of cable Monday…have been thinking about how to fix it ever since the cable started to fray quite a few years ago and it shouldn’t cost more than 10 bucks so that will be cool….
A blameless life?
Well…not sure if you’ve read about the sentencing of Paul Manafort that took place yesterday and the shock that almost everyone feels for the rogue judge when he ignored sentencing guidelines that would have put Manafort in jail for a minimum of 19 years and sentenced him to only 47 months in jail. The most jawdropping comment that the judge made before pronouncing sentence was that, until these crimes, Manafort had led a ‘blameless life”…a blameless life? What the hell world is this idiot living in? Manafort has been the “murderers lobbyist” for the past 30 years, working for some of the worst of the worst dictators in the world, helping to get people murdered and governments overthrown along with even helping a Ukrainian dictator attack American soldiers during unrest there. So, no judge, Manafort did not live a blameless life and you have just driven another stake into the integrity of the US legal system…and you have shown that if you are a friend of trump, you can get away with anything with just a slap on the wrist. For a little context here…a woman in Texas voted mistakenly…she thought she was eligible to vote but wasn’t…and she was sentenced to 12 years in prison…and a guy who bought legal marijuana in Oregon and took it back to Mississippi is now spending 15 years in prison. Manafort did not deserve any lenience since he continued to commit crimes almost up to his sentencing but this trump loving judge took it up himself to do what he could to de-legitimize and attack the Mueller investigation by this terrible travesty of a sentence. Impeach…
March 8th
Well…another morning of single frickin digit temperatures and that is pretty damn depressing for March…I am so tired of the cold and snow and winter and we are even to the daylight savings time change this weekend and it is still 8 degrees out there…oh, well…slept okay last night and feel just a little slow today and I can deal with that…just had the first sip of coffee and need it to work right now so I can get on with the morning…not sure why I still feel the need to adhere to a schedule every day but I do need to keep my days organized and that helps some…don’t want to have everything unstructured since that would mean I would have to think more and I don’t want to do that…didn’t get anything done yesterday and I think I’ll try to clean some today but who knows? I do need to get out and run some errands this morning with the powerball getting up to almost 400 million for tomorrow and I do need something upbeat to think about…but, I’m going to get more coffee and read some news first….more later…
A little nervous?
Well…I guess we now know what the response is going to be to all of the requests for documents from the trump criminal organization….bullshit and bluster that started with the idiot trump tweeting desperate “witch hunt” in all caps and then we had the spectacle of little idiot eric going on fox this morning and trying to laugh at the requests, calling them ridiculous and lying that they asked him for his correspondence with Putin when everyone knows that is not true…and that performance got to members of the committees who are investigating who calmly replied that it appears that eric is scared of something and that they are just doing the job congress should have been doing the past two years…and that’s the point here, if the repubs had been doing their jobs instead of protecting the criminal in chief, there wouldn’t be a need for congress to play catch up by asking for all of this information….it is going to be just delicious to see the trump idiots squirm when the subpoenas start to fly and it is no longer just the niceties of requests that they are getting…hey little boy eric….manafort tried the same bluster and bullshit and guess where he’s going for the rest of his life? Better get your tailor started on that orange jumpsuit…it’s what you’ll be wearing for the next 20 years…impeach…
March 7th
Well…running a little late today with doing the grocery run before this and not getting out of bed until almost 6…I did sleep okay last night and my shoulder continues to improve…slowly…and I have very little pain today so that is a welcome change even with working out yesterday…I did have to take some antihistamine last night since my head was stuffy and I had a headache that had gone on for a few days…I had forgotten how well the little red ones worked and I am still clear this morning…hadn’t taken any of those since last September since they raise your BP too much…I did take an ibuprofen to go with it and that may have something to do with my shoulder being better…need to get the swelling down in the tendons since I can feel them clicking when I move my shoulder…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I feel okay today so I think I’ll start sorting out stuff that I don’t need anymore and get rid of it…need to simplify and streamline so I’ll have less to move when I do…it’s another leftover day today so I won’t be cooking but I do need to plan for the next stuff I need to cook and get it out of the freezer…I think I have enough in there to eat for a month so…more later….
This is kind of overwhelming…
Well…I think there is a problem with me having some time on my hands lately…I have been sliding back to watching more news than is healthy for me…or for anyone for that matter…but it seems to be important with all that is going on in this country right now…but, that doesn’t make it any less overwhelming when new scandals explode every day….I think I need to try to pace myself and limit the amount of news that I watch or read daily…but, that is me…I’ve always been a news junkie and wanted to know what the heck is going on…not sure why…on a daily basis, not much of the news has any impact on my life and really never has so I can’t explain it…but, I can remember waiting for the newspaper to come when I was about 7 or so and watching the nightly national news shows with Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley from even earlier than that…so I wonder if it’s something in my DNA that makes me want to understand what is going on? All I know is that this is an interesting time and I am being sucked back into the news that I have been avoiding since idiot boy got elected….and I’m not sure how I feel about that…we’ll see…
We all know what he’s hiding…
Well…just stopped laughing my butt off at the latest story of the idiot trump trying to hide his grades in school…the college stuff was bad enough when he had Michael Cohen send threatening letters to the schools saying they would be sued if they released them…but the latest one….man, what a frickin baby the idiot is…it came out today that the administration of idiot boy’s HIGH SCHOOL had been threatened by some of trump’s rich friends to not release his grades there or their donations to the private school would end and it would be bankrupted…and they even went so far as trying to get the actual transcripts from their records so there would be no copies left. Now, I wonder, wonder, wonder why the idiot wants to keep all of his transcripts secret…is it because he was just too smart and doesn’t want to be embarrassed by being called a genius? Nope…that’s not it…it’s because the narcissist in chief just can’t stand that he’s not the smartest one in the room…and to have actual records confirming that would be too big a blow to his well constructed fantasy world. Remember that one of idiot boy’s college professors called him the “dumbest damn student” he had ever had…but, we all know that by just watching the moron in chief every day….and hiding his records isn’t going to change that…impeach…
March 6th
Well…okay, this one breaks the pattern with not getting up until 6:17 and I wonder how I did that…I seem to have slept okay but feel a little slow today so I think I’ll just go with it and work into the day…it’s a fresh coffee day so I can have a little extra and that will help with getting going….it’s another cold one outside this morning and I am getting really, really tired of that…but there may be a break by Friday and the weather folks are saying that this could be the last gasp of winter…I hope it is since it is just depressing to have it be 11 degrees in March…I did have a water leak in the ceiling over my dryer yesterday and that disrupted my day since they had to cut out most of the ceiling and I had to move all of the stuff I had stored on the shelves there…ick…and they have to come back next week to replace the water lines and the ceiling so I have stuff spread out all over the place…so, I didn’t get anything done yesterday and today will be the same with Man U playing this afternoon and with me not feeling like doing anything….just want the coffee to start working so my brain function will start….or maybe it won’t, who knows? More later….