Well…damn…up at 5:09 this morning and had another really bad night of sleep so I’m here pretty early, too…not sure what’s going on but I know I am going to have a nap later and the prospect of that is not a bad thing…the ibuprofen worked for the bike ride yesterday and it was a good day out…but, today looks like it may be a day off with the rain showers coming in later and the temp supposed to be dropping all day down to around 40 for a high…but, tomorrow looks better so it will be a clean the car day to get it ready for the winter with waxing it and treating the windows with rain x….I do have some errands to run this morning and that will make it easier to wait to try to get on the bike….I need batteries and a bunch of other stuff from HF and then have to get some chicken from Aldi’s…need to freeze the second pack of ham I bought from my cheap store to get my salt level down…way too much in it even though I like it…not much to do today…going to clean some more after I get back here since I feel good about the progress from yesterday…it looks like I’m going to have to warm the car up tomorrow for the grocery run…will be frost on the car and I refuse to get the scraper out this early…more later….
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It’s been a day…
Well… Had to sign a new lease today and I’m not sure how I feel about that…it means I’ve failed at finding a house on my timetable but it has also reduced the stress I was feeling of not getting that done…and, I could do it online so it was quite easy….at least I still have a place to live for now…oh, and I found out that this place is now reporting rent payments to credit reporting companies so I’ll finally get credit for paying my rent on time for a change…and that should raise my credit score and lower my interest rate when I find a house….I did get some other stuff done today and that made me feel a little better….mostly just some cleaning but that is something…and I found a catalog from Harbor Freight that had some coupons in it for stuff I need so I’m going there tomorrow and just look around…that’s always a trip….okay, it’s time to wind it down for the day and watch a little tv….oh, and it appears that I have fixed the top on the car…no leaks after the rain yesterday so I guess that’s another something….
The Saudis are now murdering for trump?
Well…I just can’t fathom how breathtakingly stupid and naive the idiot trump is…and he showed how far out of his depth he is over the weekend as the Saudis tortured and murdered the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in their consulate in Turkey…the idiot boy made the whole thing possible while Khashoggi was still alive but being held by saying that the most important thing to him were the “jobs” at defense contractors that would go away if the US were to impose sanctions for the kidnapping…essentially giving the Saudis the green light to do what they wanted to Khashoggi since there would be no penalty for it….and, since Khashoggi was anti trump and trump has, over and over, said that journalists who oppose him should be “weeded out”…the Saudis took it as doing trump a favor by killing Khashoggi…now, idiot boy has sent SoS Mike Pompeo to talk to the Saudis about the killing and the photo ops are just as bad as you can imagine…Pompeo sitting next to the Saudi king laughing and grinning like and idiot while a resident of America was murdered…can you imagine if Hillary had done that? Impeachment for both Hillary and Obama would have happened before they got back to the US…and yet, the repubs in congress keep going along with this farce…and they all have Khasoggi’s blood on their hands, too…impeach…
October 16th
Well…it’s almost 7 so that means I’m about on time today…have been up since before 6 and that is too damn early…oh, well…and I am sore from the ride yesterday…have been creaking around here this morning and if this is what it’s like feeling old, I don’t like it…it was pretty brutal out there yesterday with it being cold, wet, and windy and I just about froze my hands…they hurt like crazy as they were thawing and they still feel like there was some damage done…will get out the heavy gloves for the ride today even though it will look weird…didn’t get out for pool yesterday so I didn’t win or lose but I did get out to my daily deals store for some cheap food….I mean who can pass up honey ham for 1.49 a pound and two pounds of coffee for 3.99? Need to get out to Harbor Freight this morning for some batteries and some gloves that I should have bought long ago to clean the oven…my hands appear to have healed after peeling a couple of layers of skin off from the oven cleaner…they are still really shiny, though so maybe they need a little more time….not much to do today…need to clean some and the normal stuff…and there is some soccer on this aft…finally…so I won’t be too bored…more later….
trump really is a toddler…
Well…not sure if you saw the debacle of an interview that the idiot trump did on “60 Minutes” last night but if you didn’t, wow…just wow. It is now clearer than ever that trump has the mentality and emotional maturity of a toddler…and showed for all to see that he has no grasp of the world or reality….and that should scare the hell out of everybody and drive those of us in the sanity based world to get out to vote in three weeks to make sure there is a check on his insanity….the thing that shocked me the most was his toddler like assertions that…na na na na na…I won the election so whatever I do is okay…I can mock Dr. Ford, I can call people names, and I can ignore all of the norms of this country as I have my whole life because I won…and did I say that I won? Look, when my kids were growing up, they knew more about the world than trump does at about age 5 and they were much more articulate, too…so, we need to get into damage control mode for the next three weeks and still try to take the senate, too…I know it’s not looking good but it can if we just get off our asses and vote, good things can still happen…impeach…
October 15th
Well…slept all the way in til 6 this morning and don’t feel any better for it…I am still sleeping better than I have in a while so I guess that’s something and I shouldn’t bitch too much…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get anything done but watch races and today will be the same with pool this aft…I did get the top on the car repaired and I can’t wait to see if I guessed right with the rain last night and this morning…as I think back, it dawned on me that it’s been leaking all summer since there was always water on the drivers side every time I put the top up after a top down run…so we’ll see today if I can put the top down on the way out to pool…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday but I’m not sure about today…there is a lot of rain out there right now but it appears to be moving off pretty fast so I may be able to go out around ten or so….not much to do today….other than pool that is…I could clean some while I wait out the rain but I’m not too motivated so we’ll see…more later..
October 14th
Well…I think I’m running a little late today since I finally didn’t get up at 5:30 and I’m not sure why that is…but, I’ll take it…slept okay last night but still feel a little slow today so I am going to wait for the coffee to work before I do much…other than this…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done but cook so today will have to be better…but I don’t want to think about that right now…still need to wake up more before I even think about it…I hope the bike ride will be better today after the debacle yesterday…just couldn’t get comfortable and the whole thing was a chore and that’s not normal…but, it’s still too cold to go out in shorts so I am going to wait a while for that and read some news and have some more coffee….looking at the weather, I probably will still need a light thermasuit to go out but that’s okay…it looks like that will be the case all week…more later….
I learned three things today…
Well…it’s been a pretty lazy day today but I did learn three things that may be important but probably aren’t…first, the instant pot is not the best way to cook everything…the turkey breast that I made this morning was not even close to being as good as using the brining/roasting methods I’ve developed over the years…it came out dry and tough when my roasted ones are always moist and tender…second, it’s not a good idea to go out for a bike ride right after having a big lunch….it was such a struggle and I felt lousy through the whole thing and I won’t do that again…and, part of that might have been that the coffee had worn off, too…third, cleaning the oven without using gloves is a really bad idea…the skin on my right hand started flaking off earlier today and it continues now…it may be that I bought heavy duty oven cleaner instead of the normal stuff…whatever it is, I am getting gloves this week…
October 13th
Well…running early again today and I wonder if 5:37 is the new permanent wake up time..I sure hope not but it’s been edging that way for quite a while now…I did sleep okay last night but I am noticing a slide back to the tossing and turning that used to frustrate the hell out of me…and I’m not sure what to do about it…I did get a bike ride in yesterday and froze my fingers so I need to re think the gloves that I am wearing…and I’m not sure when I’ll get out today…going to wait for it to warm up some so that will probably mean after noon…I did figure out how to get the water out of the top yesterday and it was just a matter of putting it down…that after I worked for a day trying to dry it….now I just need to get the thing sealed so it won’t leak anymore…but, it needs to finish drying first…I do have a turkey breast brining to cook in the instant pot today and I think I’ll do that for lunch…going to cook it in the pot and then slather it in butter and roast it in a hot oven to get the skin crispy…I think this will be a test run for t-day but I want a whole turkey for that and I know that won’t fit in the pot…the 7 pound breast I have barely fits….I may just take the day off and just cook and clean around here…and watch races and football…more later….
Murder, and it’s trump’s fault…
Well…if you were ever wondering what the ultimate result would be of trump’s demonizing of the media and calling for them to be beaten or murdered if they wrote things he didn’t like, we saw that in the past day when a reporter that worked for the Washington Post was kidnapped and murdered by the Saudi Arabian government…and trump’s only reaction is that we have an arms deal with them that is more important than a reporter…imagine just for a moment what would have happened if any other president had reacted that way…there would have been congressional hearings and every damn senator from both parties would be sponsoring legislation that would prevent any more arms sales to the murderers…but what did trump say? This: “what about the people who have jobs making these weapons?” Yep, the only thing he cares about is the businesses who make weapons and his cronies that run them…and don’t believe for one minute he gives a damn about any worker…just look at the 40,000 people that are losing their jobs at Ford from the idiot boy’s tariffs. This murder is direct result of trump’s rhetoric about reporters and news organizations and the constant hate that he spews at his “rallies”…and the fact that he talks this way gives all of the autocrats in the world a green light to murder anyone they choose since they know trump is going to give them a pass on it if they can bribe him or his kids with business deals….but, he is still responsible…and the repubs will again do nothing…impeach…