Well…with the latest reporting that trump and his cronies have been trying to prevent Robert Mueller from investigating trump’s money laundering through Deutsche Bank, one thought popped into my head…we don’t have to worry about Mueller anymore. Look…with the dems in charge of the house and it’s investigative powers, having the idiot in chief continuing to focus on stopping Mueller is just fine…let him do whatever he wants there because there is not one damn thing he can do about Adam Schiff and the House Intelligence Committee, who has made it clear over the weekend that he is concerned that Mueller is not looking into the Deutsche Bank loans and it’s relationship to trump and his cronies. So, let’s all take a breath and understand that no matter what trump does, he is in for a world of hurt when the truth comes out of the house committees…and there are at least four of them that have taken up their constitutional duty of oversight of the most corrupt, criminal administration in the history of this country…and there are no “red lines”, no anything that is off limits to them…and trump can only watch as they peel back the years of criminality of the thug in chief…impeach….
February 11th
Well…not sure if I should celebrate not getting out of bed until 6 today or not…I did sleep okay last night and my shoulder doesn’t hurt much so that is celebration worthy and I’ll take it…didn’t have any dreams that I can remember but that’s pretty normal for me…I did try to eat enough yesterday but, as you know, that is pretty hard for me…going to try again today…you would think it would be pretty easy to do but it isn’t for me…I guess it’s ingrained habit from years of trying to control my weight…and not too successfully…didn’t get a lot done yesterday with all of the sports on and today will probably be the same…I do need to get out and get my hair cut this morning and put gas in the car for the mess that is coming tomorrow…another round of show/rain/sleet/freezing rain and the rest of the crap that I am getting really tired of…but, I guess it’s February in Michigan so I need to just roll with it and hibernate for another couple of days…I think I may try to do a bike ride that mirrors the normal ride on the trail…I’ve done it so many time that I can remember what gears and how many shifts it takes…I do wonder how to simulate the coasting downhill since the trainer just stops when I stop pedaling…maybe use my imagination? More later….
No politics today…
Well….have been trying to think of a topic to do in politics today and have just decided to give up for now and just noodle around a bit…I did watch “Bohemian Rhapsody” last night and it was an okay movie but, since I’ve seen a few documentaries on Freddie Mercury before, their were no surprises in it and I think the portrayal by Rami Malek was kind of like sleepwalking through the film….I think the only reason I watched the whole thing was that I decided to have cocktails last night after taking the whole week off…I’m still fighting the frozen locks on the car and I can’t figure that out since it has been above freezing since the big rain and freeze last week…I could barely get them open to go out to have a couple with K yesterday, and going out to get the paper this morning, even with flooding them with WD-40…well…kinda flooding them…I found that my normal WD can still has material in the bottom but it was out of propellant when I went out this morning so I had to use the water resistant can that still worked…need to get more this week with the new ice storm that is coming Tuesday…this weather is wearing me down and I need it to be over…I think today is the first day we haven’t had a watch or warning out in a couple of weeks but that ends tomorrow night and then it gets COLD again later in the week….I can live with it if I can get in the car….
February 10th
Well…running a little late today and just can’t get started…wasn’t good last night and feel pretty crappy this morning…don’t want to do that anymore so I think I’ll go back to no cocktails tonight and keep that up for the week…slept okay last night but my shoulder was hurting again and I can’t figure that out….it happened after I went out to have a couple with K and the pain was back to after I just hurt it….so I did have to take something for it…it’s not too bad this morning so maybe that is all it takes…it was nice to get out of here for a while and get caught up with K and I think I need to do that more…just need to find things to do…I think I may take today off the bike…just can’t get motivated to do much right now and I am looking forward to just vegging out here today and watching some soccer and races….but right now, I need more coffee and to read some news…man, I can’t believe how slow I feel this morning…should just go back to bed….more later….
February 9th
Well…okay…maybe there is a good thing to being good and having no cocktails…for the first time in a long time, I had dreams all night long…three different threads that ranged from storms, to murder, to two Audi TT’s racing and crashing into the Grand River…and yep, they were just as weird as they sound…probably the best sleep I’ve had in quite a while and didn’t get up until 6 or so even after going to bed early from boredom last night….I wonder if that sleep will help with the exhaustion I’ve been feeling lately? I think I need to re-adjust my calorie intake without the calories from the cocktails…I know they are empty calories but they are still calories and without them I’m down to around 1,200 a day and that is not enough with riding the bike twice a day and getting back on the weight machine….so I need to figure out how to add calories that are not red meat…I did buy lots of fruit and veggies this week so maybe I can make up the difference with those…I hurt pretty much everywhere this morning but my shoulder is not too bad…the pain from sleeping on it went away as soon as I got off it so that is progress that I welcome….not much to do today…I may get out to have a couple with K either today or tomorrow but that is about it…still didn’t clean much but I will cook today with doing some chicken in the Instant Pot…I do have 10 lbs of chicken that I need to cook or freeze in the next couple of days so that will be in the plan for the day…more later…
The swamp gets deeper….
Well…there was so much that happened late in the day yesterday concerning the National Inquirer and it’s attempts to blackmail Jeff Bezos that I don’t know where to start with this one. The facts as known now: late last year the NI somehow got hold of some compromising phone pictures of Bezos and his affair that ended his 25 year marriage….and they tried to blackmail Bezos into dropping a story that his newspaper, the Washington Post, was doing on the connections between the Saudis, the NI, and the trump administration or they would publish the embarrassing photos of Bezos; something they have done many, many times to suppress stories that made their friends look bad…just like they did for trump and his payoffs to the pornstars who were going to come forward to expose trump during the election. But, there is a twist in this one…Bezos wasn’t playing along and exposed the blackmail yesterday which just freaked the publisher of the NI, David Pecker, completely out since it would mean their business model of blackmail and collusion was exposed in the worst possible way for them…and that involves the no-prosecution agreement with the SDNY from the payoffs to the pornstars that Michael Cohen is going to jail for…the pertinent clause being that if they were caught breaking the law within 3 years of the agreement being signed, then all of the charges that were stayed were back on the table along with the new charges of extortion and blackmail from the Bezos affair. So now, AMI, the parent company of the NI is in for a world of hurt…but the one little detail that is not getting too much airplay is that a reporter lat last night revealed that the hacking of Bezos phone may have been done by a “government agency” and then the photos given to Pecker for blackmail…and that couldn’t have happened without the approval of the idiot trump…okay, that’s a lot to take in and this is a long one…but the one takeaway is that it looks like trump conspired with Pecker to use the government to attack one of his biggest enemies…and idiot boy is on record tweeting how much he hates Bezos because he is digging into the criminality that is rife in this administration..stay tuned, folks…this is going to be good….impeach…
February 8th
Well…about on time this morning with getting up at 5:44 and was only up one other time all night so that makes it a good night…slept okay and there were some dreams that had my old Fiat in them and lots of blankets for some reason…so that was cool…haven’t had them in quite a while and I wonder if it’s the no cocktails finally changing my sleep patterns? All I know is I’m going to continue being good until next Thursday when racing starts and we’ll see if maybe I’ll even go past that if the improvement in how I feel continues…I am going to hurt my shoulder again this morning by getting back on the weight machine but the pain wasn’t so bad last time so I may be improving enough so it won’t hurt too much…I did get two rides in on the bike yesterday and even extended each to 25 minutes and I think that will be the goal for today, too….I do need to thaw the car out today so I can go out and get my powerball tickets but the wind is howling out there and it will take time to get the doors open after the rain yesterday and the freeze overnight…didn’t get much done but cook yesterday but I will get some stuff done around here today…not sure what but something…more later….
I think idiot boy is confused…
Well…I am just laughing my butt off this morning with idiot boy’s latest tweetstorm going off on the fact that Adam Schiff is going back to the start with the Russia investigation of trump and how the Russians affected the election in 2016. I think one of the problems is that trump is confused on how the government works but even more than that, he is confused that the bluster and bullshit that has always worked to intimidate people and protect him from consequences of his criminal behavior is no longer working….and he is just not bright enough to think of what else to do…one of the funny things that the bloated moron whined about this morning was that “they never investigated Obama like this”…hey trumpy…Benghazi for 5 years, your damn birther conspiracy that went on for 8 years, e-mails, etc, etc. so no, they did investigate every damn thing that Obama did but his wearing of a tan suit…but the key here moron? Obama followed the rules and they found no wrongdoing….no bribes in the guise of renting hotel rooms, okay…I don’t need to list all of the lawbreaking and scandals…let’s just leave it at every damn thing you have ever been involved in is rife with criminal wrongdoing and that is why your “life” is being investigated…not some “deep state”, not some grudge, but elected officials who see their duty to the constitution, not to some tin pot dictator like you…so, buckle up buttercup…you’re in for a bumpy ride…oh, and prison…impeach…
February 7th
Well…running a little late today with doing the grocery run before the big rain and freeze comes in…it started to rain pretty hard on the way back from Meijers and that didn’t help the skating rink that is the parking lot here…glad I’ve got everything done and can just veg out here today…slept okay last night but was up at 4:44 to start but was able to get back to sleep until almost 6 so that was a bonus…and, with being good, I feel okay today so it looks like the skipping cocktails is going to turn into a thing that I am going to want to continue for a couple of weeks at least….and it saves me a bunch of money so that is cool…I did work out yesterday and it appears that the damage that I do to my shoulder is getting less every time…and I think the skipping days helps with the healing…so I’ll keep that up for a while and see where it goes…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but errands but I think I’ll try to clean some today…the kitchen counters need some work and I still need to vacuum so that will be the plan for this aft….more later….
just had a laugh…
Well…as you know, I braved the ice this morning to go out and get some groceries at Aldi’s…okay, I didn’t brave the ice…the only place there was ice left by the time I went out at 10 was in the parking lot here…the roads were just wet with a few slick spots so no big deal…oh, I did find out that I pulled the overflow hose off the radiator tank sometime when I was screwing around with the car…or it just came off with the hose being pretty old and stretched out so it didn’t fit too tightly anymore…so I lost a bunch of coolant and had to re-fill it today, and I found a small clamp to put on it to make sure it doesn’t come off again….but, that’s not what this is about….I just checked the packages of chicken thighs I got this morning…didn’t even check how much they weighed when I bought them…the two of them together weighed over 10 pounds…now, I’m not sure if anyone needs 10 pounds of chicken thighs but, damn, how can you pass up 69 cents a pound? Just knowing I have 10 pounds of chicken, again, made me laugh….