Well…just noticed that I didn’t come back for a second one yesterday and I’m not sure why that is…didn’t have anything to do but watch sports so there was plenty of time…hmmm…not sure how I slept last night but I feel like it was crappy so I’ll go with that…my neck has been killing me the past few days and that’s another one I can’t figure out…must be that I’m sleeping wrong but it should work out if that’s what it is but it continues all day….another puzzler…didn’t get a lot done yesterday other than clean the stove top and the controls for it…I do have to stop wearing my glasses around here since I see how dirty things are when I wear them…and that makes me need to clean when I don’t want to….probably won’t get to much today with pool this aft…but, I do have to work on some surface rust on the car again this morning but that will have to wait til the temp comes up some….more later….
October 21st
Well…after that bad news, I still do need to do this one before I get on the bike this morning…yeah, running really late today and just can’t get started even though I slept in til almost 7…and even with that, I still feel a little worn out today and I shouldn’t be since I didn’t do much yesterday…I did get out to have a couple with K in the afternoon but that made sure I wouldn’t get anything done…and, I’m not sure what I’ll do this aft with two races on and the Lions playing so I guess I’ll play it by ear….I really don’t like having to wait for the temp to come up to get on the bike but I guess I’ll have to get used to it as we get deeper into fall…I do need to do a top down color tour at some point in the next week or so before the leaves are all down but I’m just not in the mood to go today….not much to do today…I should clean the kitchen some but that’s not a morning thing to me so I guess I’ll just have to finish the coffee and watch some bad sci fi movies for now…more later…
Some bad news…
Well…heard some bad news yesterday when G called and said her father had died Friday…it wasn’t too big of a shock since he had a massive stroke two weeks ago and had been on a ventilator ever since…so, with that news, the rest of what I have to say is kind of put into perspective and really is of no importance right now…so, I’ll come back later with another one….more later….
October 20th
Well…things seem to be back to normal with my wake up time…I think so, anyway…got up at 6 today and I’m trying to get moving but really don’t need to just yet…Man U plays at 8 so that will keep me from getting out on the bike until they start to stink the place up….they are playing Chelsea today and that is normally a pretty good game but there is a lot of turmoil at Man U right now so who knows how they’ll play….I did check my BP just a few minutes ago and that confused me….it is 117/71 and that is lower than it has been in a week or so and I really didn’t do anything different to change it…hmmmm….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today looks to be the same with all of the sports on….Michigan plays State at noon and then there is a race on later so I’ll be couch bound most of the day…I do have to cook lunch but that will be simple with just making some chicken and steaming some cauliflower and carrots….bought one of those collapsing veggie steamers that seems to work quite well but I am still learning how to use it….oh, and I do need to clean the kitchen but that will be in between the sports…more later….
Health update…
Well…just got back from the doctors appointment where they were going to try to fix the snafu that got my initial Medicare appointment payment rejected…and there was some good news that I am going to celebrate today…in the month since the last appointment, I’ve lost 5 pounds and the EKG they took today was completely normal, so at least no heart problems are evident right now…and I passed all of the tests they use to look for dementia…along with the cursory vision tests they did…so, I feel pretty good about that…I am still trying to figure out my blood pressure not dropping to where it should be with me being good and cutting out all of the salt in my diet…but, I’m not going to worry about that right now, I DO get to celebrate a little or what the hell is life for?
Do they all have to lie all the time?
Well…we all knows that the idiot trump lies all the time, but, do they all have to lie all the time? The latest in the liar contest is the SoS Mike Pompeo who grinnind and laughed his way through a meeting with the rulers of Saudi Arabia that was supposed to be about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a reporter for the Washington Post, but from the behavior of Pompeo and his assistants, you would think they were on vacation…given the photos of them mugging for the camera. But, the worst thing was the lies that Pompeo told after the meeting where he stated that he knew that Khashoggi had “disappeared” but he didn’t know if he was alive or not…now, this is the biggest lie of them all when it was reported this morning that Pompeo heard the tape of the murder while he was in Saudi Arabia and before he lied to the world…and with yesterday’s revelation that trump and his minions knew about the planning for the abduction and murder, they are accomplices in that murder since they did and said nothing to stop it. Is this what the US has come to now? Letting a thug regime murder journalists just to protect trump’s financial involvement in the country? As every revelation of the moral rot inside this administration comes, I find myself more and more disgusted at both trump and the repubs that enable this behavior…they are all culpable in murder….impeach…
October 19th
Well….slept in a little today with not getting up until 6:16 but I don’t feel any different for it…or better for that matter so I’m not sure of the value of additional sleep…had an okay day yesterday and got a few things done so that was a bonus…got the car cleaned but I think I may have to re-do the windows since there is still some fog on them and that annoys the hell out of me…didn’t get a lot else done but the bike ride and groceries and really didn’t have too much energy with trying to get my weight down and skipping everything that has even a hint of salt in it…my BP has not been good and I’m having trouble getting it below 120 so no salt or anything that tastes good…and that means I may need to cut coffee out, too, but just don’t want to give up everything that I enjoy….I do have another doctors appointment this morning at 10 and I think it’s just for an ekg to get Medicare to pay for my check up….what a pain in the butt…not sure when I’m going to get the bike ride in today…I may do it as soon as it gets light but if I wait, I may be able to go out in shorts again….more later…
Now the murderers start to die…
Well…just a shorty on something that just came across the news…as expected, the first of the murderers who was identified as one of the Saudis that tortured and murdered Jamal Khashoggi has died in a “car accident” back in Saudi Arabia….let’s make sure that we understand the connection to the leadership of Saudi Arabia that Mashal al-Bostani had…he was a member of the Saudi Royal Air Force and was one of the 15 suspects that Turkey identified who landed in Istanbul the day that Khashoggi disappeared…and the Saudi, Istanbul consul was recorded telling the 15 men “do it somewhere else or I will be in trouble”…and one of the men replied “shut up if you want to live when you are back in Saudi Arabia”….if you understand the structure of the Saudi government, you will clearly see that nothing happens on this scale without the blessing of the very top of the government…and that is Mohammed bin Salman…the crown prince of Saudi Arabia and the “reformer” who Kushner gave classified intelligence to so he could arrest and kill his enemies….trump has made this country complicit in murder just to protect his personal financial interests and keep the flow of Saudi money coming in….impeach…
Is THIS high crimes and misdemeanors?
Well…how much damn evidence does this congress need that the idiot trump should be impeached and removed from office? Is helping Saudi Arabia cover up a murder of a journalist enough? That is exactly what has happened over the past week with the Saudis torturing and murdering Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Turkey while the Saudi ambassador looked on…and then we had trump spouting the Saudi line that “rogue elements” were responsible for the murder when he knew ahead of time that the Saudis were going to kill him and probably even cheered them on since he has pronounced his hatred for reporters and the media in general. Now, is this frickin enough for you, repubs? We know from all of the evidence that trump is a criminal and runs criminal enterprises that the repubs are ignoring daily….but, to condone him covering up murder? With everything else the repubs have done to destroy our democracy, this is just the damn worst…the “law and order” party is now the party of murder when it fits their goals….and their base will just shrug and say there is nothing that can be done about it…there will come a time of reckoning…and it’s only three weeks away…impeach….
October 18th
Well…back to running at the normal time for a Thursday but I guess I could have come here earlier with getting up at 5:45….but, I didn’t feel like it so normal will have to do….slept a little better last night and feel okay this morning but I had to warm the car up to get the frost off of the windows for the first time since March and that is a little depressing…but, I know that the seasons change here in Michigan and that is part of why I still live here when I could move anywhere I want….I did get a bike ride in yesterday and finally was smart enough to use the heavy gloves and that made all the difference….not cold at all….but, I think I’ll wait to go out until later today and maybe be able to go out int shorts for the last time…and I need to wash the car today to get it ready for winter with a full cleaning and doing the interior and windows….need to get them treated with rain x…for some reason, I got motivated to clean the bathroom yesterday when I had it planned for today but I’ll take it…that means I can clean the kitchen today after the car…have been freaking out about salt lately since I can’t get my BP down far enough and thought I was doing okay with my intake but I was really, really wrong….I mean, 686 milligrams for 50 calories of sliced ham? That is almost 1/2 of what is allowed if you want to not affect your BP…and I thought I was doing so good with processed foods…just another thing that I can’t eat anymore…more later…