Well…it was a pretty good day yesterday, getting the car fixed and making a little cash…and the car is quieter than it has ever been…and that presents it’s own problems…now I can hear every other noise it makes and I’ll have to get used to them again…still…pretty stealth….slept okay last night but the dreams were not cool enough to remember…I do remember there were Russian prisons involved but I’m not sure why….not much pain this morning but my shoulder has been giving me some previews of tightness that I hope doesn’t turn into pain…didn’t get out on the bike yesterday with all the rain but I will today…but, I need to wash the car first so I can wax it later today…going to do a complete cleaning, too, so the glass will be acceptable to me….and the interior is dusty so that will have to be done, too…but it is different when you choose to do something to the car instead of having to so something to it….not much to do today…need to work out then take the car to wash…want to hear what it sounds like with the top down….I do need to clean and do some work around here but that can wait until the weekend….more later….
Bye, bye Teddy….
Well…I am reacting to the news that ole Ted Cruz has dropped out of the repub primary with just a little too much glee today…nope, there is not enough glee in the world to react properly to this much hated asshole dropping out of the race….I had gotten so tired of his theocracy based ideas on governance and his hatred of the LGBT community…hatred that led to his downfall in Indiana and put the final nail in this vampire’s coffin. All I have to say to this is good riddance…what kind of a person is proud that no one likes him, that his colleagues called him Lucifer and the most miserable son of a bitch in Congress? Bye, bye, Teddy…don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out…..or do…I just don’t give a damn….
The Stealth Miata Returns…
Well…just got home from running some errands and thought I’d just do a little update on the car….took it in this morning to have a stock exhaust installed and couldn’t be happier with it…the stealth Miata returns….I don’t think it has ever been quieter and it feels good to be able to wind it out a little without the sound being so loud I couldn’t hear inside the car….and the guy I took it to for the replacement I found out grew up in the Ada/Cascade area that I did and we had some laughs while he was working on the car….and, I got to hang out in the shop while he was working on the car…something I miss with all the rules that shops have to live by. The kicker was that he asked me what it was worth to me and I said 30 bucks…he said that was too much for 15 minutes of work so he settled on 25 bucks….it’s nice to have something good happen for a change….and to have my car back….
May 4th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool….slept really crappy again and feel pretty worn out this morning but I am running early since I have the stock exhaust that is going on the car at 8 and have to prep for that….the Walker that I got looks good and I hope it is a quiet as it says…Quiet Flow SS….that makes me laugh every time I see it…it will look pretty weird with 4 feet of pipe hanging out the back of the trunk taking it there…..but, that will put this whole saga to rest and I will be able to drive the car normally again….it does not like the short shifting that I have been doing to keep it reasonable….not much to do today…just get the car done and then back here to clean since it is going to rain all day…should be able to get caught up on the bathroom and kitchen today….oh, one last thing…Happy Star Wars Day…more later….
Food fight on the right….
Well…I have been grinning all day today with the food fight that has broken out between the Donald and ole Ted Cruz over the past few days…or maybe just today…the whole thing started when the Donald quoted a less than believable story from the National Enquirer that placed Ted’s father with Oswald just before the JFK assassination…and then Donald just had to extrapolate that to mean the ole Ted’s father was partially responsible for the assassination….of course, that just was too much for ole Ted and he just blew and started talking about Donald’s venereal diseases and calling him a pathological liar, utterly amoral and the biggest narcissist ever…..adding that the country will be destroyed if Donald or Hillary get elected…now this is just another facet of what I wrote about the other day…how ole Ted just won’t be able to deal with losing…especially to the Donald and this is the manifestation of that….he is melting before our eyes and I am reveling in it…he is, after all, the worst person in the world…geez…
Red Dragon on Mars….
Well…sitting here waiting for the Fedex guy to come and thought I’d do a little comment on an article I read this morning by Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomy. There was a little noticed announcement last week by Elon Musk and Space X that they are going to try to land one of their Dragon V2 capsules on Mars by 2018…yep…when everyone else says they can’t get there until 2025 at the earliest, Space X is going to try it in two years…unmanned, of course, since the Falcon Heavy that they are going to use to launch it has not been tested yet and the Dragon V2 has not been flown either…but, I find it just so cool that private industry is going to do what NASA can’t…and beat them to Mars by 7 years. I know there have been many successful Mars probes sent by NASA and I applaud their work…work that continues to amaze me…but, to fly the hardware that is going to be used to send people to Mars in that short a time frame goes up the scale to really cool. Oh, and one more thing with the Falcon Heavy, which is essentially three Falcon 9′s strapped together….when they test launch the Heavy later in the year, Space X is going to try to land all three boosters; two on land and one on the autonomous barge where they landed the last Falcon 9….that is going to be so cool and I had hoped they would try something like that…Space X is putting excitement back into space and even this old guy is pretty geeked….
May 3rd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a bunch of stuff done so that was cool….worked from 8 til 3 and I am a little sore from it…but I even got the bike ride in in the aft and don’t feel bad about skipping working out…will do that this morning….have been having some cramps in my calves and big toes out on the bike and I’m not sure what that is about….the toes still hurt now and I hope the traveling tendonitus is not settling there this year….for the second night in a row, I’ve had some dreams but again, I don’t remember them and that is frustrating since that would give me more to write about here…and lately, I’ve needed the help….not much to do today…have to hang around here to wait for the new exhaust to come that I am having installed tomorrow morning…will be nice to get my car back and be able to drive it like it likes….I do have to clean here but the trash bin is full so I will have to wait til they come to empty it before I can get started…more later…
Poor Teddy…
Well…I wonder what must it be like to be inside ole ted Cruz’s head today…when it is looking more and more like he will lose the nomination to the Donald tomorrow…and ole Ted was just sure that he was going to be president and that he was by far the best person for it….this is going to be a massive case of cognitive dissonance and it is going to be fun to watch him try to accept that no one wanted him other than the other religious nuts out there. Now poor Teddy is going to have to go back to the senate that is going to be controlled by the dems and try to stuff his huge ego back inside that small, small building….I, for one, am going to revel in seeing his certainty shattered and see him walk off the national stage…good riddance, Teddy….
May 2nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done….didn’t even get a bike ride in since I had the front tire fail on the way out and didn’t want to chance it splitting and dumping me on the trail…slept okay and had some dreams that I don’t remember so they couldn’t have been very good…not sure why but I feel pretty crappy this morning and am having a hard time getting going…and I have stuff to do today so that is a problem….so I guess I’ll just sit here for a while and hope it gets better…I did eat enough yesterday…I think…so that is not it….hmmmm…not much to do today…need to get some work done around here and then run some errands but that is about it….more later…
May 1st
Well….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done….slept okay but wasn’t good so I feel it today….almost didn’t make the goal for the month since I forgot that April only has 30 days in it…I was a little surprised to see 5/1 come up on the phone this morning…forgot to eat dinner last night so that is part of not feeling so great today and I need to do something about that….I wonder when we are going to get to spring? It is cold and rainy again this morning and I’m not sure if I want to brave it for a bike ride today…just can’t get motivated and the coffee is not helping…not much to do today….I should clean but I’m not sure if I will and I need to finish off all of the leftovers so I can cook again tomorrow…more later…