Well…out for a while last night and I feel a little crappy today…no, a lot crappy..I do need to get groceries and take care of G’s house today so I’ll have to get going soon…would like to just hit the couch and veg but can’t but I guess that’s my own fault..can take a nap later when soccer is on so that is something to look forward to…I’ll have to come back later and complete this…more later…
Hmmm…I’m back after doing everything that I mentioned earlier including re-ducttaping the car at G’s…even got back to see Brazil get beaten in the World Cup…congrats Netherlands…feeling quite a bit better now and I’m going to take the rest of the day off…just like I do every day it seems…if there is anything that gets me going later, I’ll come back and do another one…
Well…I know I’m a little late with this one but I had some stuff to get done…don’t feel as bad as I should today…had a fun night out with Tom and won at pool again…started to watch Avatar last night when I got home and had to finish it this morning..one of the reasons I’m late. Don’t know what all the excitement was about the movie…certainly not an oscar nominee to my mind but neither was the Hurt Locker, the movie that won best picture…I can’t remember a recent winner that really made you say “that was a movie!”
Don’t have a lot to do today but there is outrage coming about a columnist for the Detroit News who says that Obama should lay off business and go back to the policies of the Bushies….yep, you heard it right…I’ll be back after working out and running some errands to take that one on…more later….
Well…another early morning and my brain is still pretty foggy so I think his one will be short…not a lot to do today but since it is Wednesday, it’s out for pool in Ada later and maybe a haircut this morning. We’ll see…
As I said, not a lot to say this morning….I’ll be back after coffee with a clearer head and something to say…will probably post the rest of the novel if you’ve been waiting for it and I think I’m going to write a new one in real time starting this weekend so check back for that one…or not, if there is anything going on and I have something else to do. I don’t want you to think that this is all I have to do…well, it almost is, but I still have my delusions and I’m going to keep them for a while…I like them. More later…
Okay…that was almost an outrage overload but I had to get that stuff out…you know how that feels. But I also feel conflicted that I am adding to the anger in everyday discourse but, at least in the examples I’ve cited, I think the anger is justified. There’s a difference in being angry about things that exist and just inventing things to be angry about…
Let’s move on to more fun stuff…did go fishing with Tom in the Grand River this aft…I caught two suckers, one of them almost 15 inches long, and Tom caught a smallmouth…drowned a dozen nightcrawlers to do it but it was kind of relaxing to be doing things we did from the same bank of the river 35 years ago. And, this time, there were no bubbles in the river from the runoff from Amway or the smell of soap that used to permeate the air in Ada. Yay!
I think I’ve used up all of my outrage for a couple of days…but don’t let that stop you from coming back..I’m still working on that change thing that I have been promising…maybe just a chronicling of what changes have happened? But change only exists as to it’s effect on people so I think that needs to be part of it. It’s gonna hurt but not talking about it is even worse….more later.
Well…not so long a night last night but was up watching tv at 4…oh, promised I would talk about that any more…so I won’t. It was kind of a busy day yesterday but that means that today will be kind of slow. Found out some things last night that I was expecting to hear but that didn’t make it any easier. I may share it at some point but let’s just say that it involves more and more change that has left me kind of numb to the effects over the past year or so…or not really numb but resigned I guess…
I am going to go fishing today with Tom so that will be fun and relaxing even when we don’t catch fish…what can be better than sitting in a park, watching the water, and getting some sun? I’ll let you know how it goes later in the day and I also will have another somewhat lucid comment I hope…the environment is getting target-rich again. More later…
Oh, the comment will probably be about Rick Barber and Sharron Angle and the absolute craziness coming out of their campaigns…it makes me smile….
Well…I’m kind of reluctant to share yesterday with you since it was really quite a boring day…no calls or texts from anyone, which I’m starting to get used to but don’t want to. There was the Germany England match in the world cup but it was so lopsided that I didn’t watch the whole thing. I did watch “Crazy Heart” with Jeff Bridges that I got from Netflix and I think that his Oscar was not earned for this one…kind of pedestrian writing, but was more a career thing.
What’s happening today? Hmmmm…not too much…need to work out and get a ride in and then do a bunch of stuff around here…still haven’t recycled the newspapers or worked on the wreck yet so that has to be done but I’m still not too motivated right now. Maybe after coffee…and I’ll try to get outraged about something and put together a post that will be of some interest…more later…
Well…I was right…I knew I was going to feel like crap this morning…but I should..getting started with beer and tequila with K at 2 in the aft is not that good of an idea…but it is fun. Going to skip the bike today since there are storms that have already come through and more on the way…and I need a rest anyway.
Not much to do today except watch the Netflix movie that has been in my mailbox for two days…oh, and it’s spider patrol day, too…have spiders in every corner of my bathroom so I guess it’s time to get out the vacuum. More later…
Well…another early morning…up at 5:30 again…yeah, I know, you’re getting tired of hearing about that so I’ll try not to comment on that anymore…but no promises….It’s the big day today! USA/Ghana and I think that is going to be the focus of my efforts…didn’t drink a lot last night so I feel pretty good today and will be having beer at the Mex place during the game…maybe food, too but I have some chicken and pork loin chops marinating in a Jamaican jerk mixture that was so good the other day that I had to make it again. So, I might just grill some stuff instead…who knows?
Other than that, it looks like a normal, kind of boring weekend but I just need to start finding more things to do by myself….there is free HBO on the dish this weekend so I’ll take some advantage of that after the game…so I’ll warn you right now….going to feel like crap tomorrow and will probably be much less lucid than normal…if I am lucid at all…there are times that I feel I am but not every day…although it’s getting better as I get farther into this thing…I guess practice helps…more later…
Well…did it to myself again last night and feel like crap again today…I hope this is just a spasm and not something more serious..we’ll see. Was thinking about the World Cup a bit and despite the diving, bad calls, and horns…I have really enjoyed the run that the US has put together. It’s a funny thing about soccer here in the US, there’s probably only one person in my group of friends that even care about the sport, but when I was out watching the last match surrounded by the guys from the Mexican restaurant, I could see really what the sport means to the rest of the world. I think I must look like an alien to those guys…an American that knows and cares about soccer…but it was their cheering for their adopted country and the chants of USA, USA…with a Mexican accent that made me grin.
I am going out for the next one…back to the Mex place for beer and food….go USA!
Oh…forgot to fill you in on the doings for today…having lunch with T at the Beltline but have to go grocery shopping this morning and maybe a haircut…I know a breathtakingly dull morning but that’s what my life looks like most of the time…
Well…the shower and coffee did work pretty well this morning…I felt pretty good after the bike ride; this was a pretty easy hangover and I think it has something to do with the fact that I’m sleeping better with the sleeping pills…but I’m going to stop them after this weekend just to see if my brain has been reset yet…hope so.
Where the heck can you find one of those cheap plastic webbed lounge chairs? I have been looking for a couple of weeks now and have looked at every store around here but Walmart…you know how I feel about them. It would seem like a relatively simple task to find one of those, they used to be everywhere you looked a few years back…maybe I’m out of touch? Just trying to get the old vitamin D up some by sitting in the sun…oh, well…
Nothing more right now…looking forward to just hanging out here tonight, watching Burn Notice and the new episodes of Futurama…yeah, I know, a cartoon, for an old guy like me? I appreciate comedy in any form (well, not Jackass)…and the writers do a great job…