Monthly Archives: November 2020

Politics

Our long national nightmare is over!

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Well…I have been waiting for four long, miserable years to write that title…a few minutes ago every news organization (except fox of course) called Pennsylvania for Joe and Kamala and that puts him over the top in the EC and makes him president elect….I can’t really describe the relief I feel that the stain on America, trump, is going to be gone soon and some sort of normalcy is going to come back  and we no longer will have a government full of grifters, incompetents, and assholes….I’ll come back a little later and add to this one but right now, all I want to do is read more about it in the news….

Okay, I’m back and I am surprised at how emotional my reaction has been to this good news…I would love to be sitting in a bar right now with like minded people having a few and laughing and smiling but that is one of the blackest of lasting legacies of the idiot in chief…I miss my friends and the surprise text to go out and hang out…but there are so many things I won’t miss…children in cages, ICE agents terrorizing the countryside, having a new law broken every damn day, having that smug orange piece of crap defiling out house, waking up to what new outrage the orange asshole has done, Bill Barr corrupting the justice department, more and more pollution, politicized government, stealing everything for trump’s cronies, incompetence, misogyny, fascism, hate, stupidity, corruption…you get the picture…it has just been so draining to see all of this crap for the past four years that I think I’ve got PTSD….I need to take the rest of this day off and just let all of the stress go….happy days are here again…..

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November 7th

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Well…damn, I want this coughing to be over…I am exhausted and feel like crap….and my brain isn’t even working very well with not sleeping much last night….I want a nap and I’ve only been up an hour…cripes….I did have a semi productive day yesterday and got the doors back on the linen closet and that finishes up the work I’m going to do here…and I’m down to about 80 miles to go to get to the last goal on the bike and that should happen on Tuesday…the first ride yesterday was a chore but the second one was better with going hard the whole way….but, I’m going to wait to go out today until after ManU plays at 7:30 even though it’s warm enough to go now…but I am going to ease into it today and let the coffee work for a while before I do anything other than this….I should be more sore than I am after all of the riding but the only thing that hurts is my right heel that has started to crack and it is a pain to walk on it…need to continue to use the lotion that is supposed to prevent that but I guess I got after it too late this year….okay, I’m tired of whining, too, so I’m going to end here and watch some Moto3 qualifying and have some more coffee….more later…

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Think I’m going to buy something I don’t need….

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Well…if you’ve been here a while, you know that I don’t like to spend money for things that I’d like to have versus things that I need…and I even don’t like to spend on things that I need usually making whatever I have work or just doing without…I mean, I drive a 26 year old car and have a 46 year old stereo and I have some clothes that are over 25 years old….but, I think I just may buy something that I don’t need but I want for the first time that I can remember. I have looked at tablet computers with an eye toward buying one for quite a while now and a deal that I don’t think I can pass up just showed up…amazon has their best Fire 10HD tablet on sale for 80 bucks for the next few days when it is normally 150 bucks and at that price, I think I can justify splurging on myself…I can get one with 32 gigs of memory and no ads on the start screen for 95 bucks…the reviews said it was a screaming deal at 150 bucks so I wonder if it is a double screaming deal for 50 bucks less? It would be pretty cool to have a new toy to play with and to be able to read the news on something bigger than the 3.5 inch screen on my Galaxy S-7 phone. I still have to think about it for another night but I am inching up on buying one…after all, how much longer can I wait? I am getting pretty damn old….

Okay…I just bought one….yay!

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Still no election call…

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Well…it’s pushing 3 pm here and there still is no call of the winner of the election…although, Joe is ahead in all 5 states that are left to call and idiot boy would have to take them all to win the election…so it is looking pretty good right now and no state has more than 6% of the vote to count so the call could come in the next few hours…or it might not…it might be next week, who knows? So, I think I’ll leave that there and do another one to talk about something else….

Politics

Biden takes the lead in Pennsylvania…

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Well….just getting ready to get on the bike for the first ride of the day and thought I’d relay the news in a short one…just a minute ago, Joe took the lead in Pennsylvania with only votes from the Philly area to be counted that should be heavily democratic…and he took the lead in Georgia overnight although the lead is really small…and with pennsy, that means Joe is ahead in every state that is still counting votes….so, I’m going to go out and ride and I hope that when I get back the election has been called….more later….

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November 6th

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Well…another night of sleeping better and I don’t quite know how to act…had some dreams about a vacation where everyone knew me but I didn’t know many of them…and it was not a place that I’d ever gone…weird…and I didn’t cough much but it started back up when I got up and I can’t understand that other than I didn’t take any allergy stuff with trying to make it last until I can buy more…so my head is plugged up and I have that damn headache that I’ve had for weeks now…but, aspirin helped that yesterday so I’ll try that again this morning…had two great wide open rides yesterday and it felt good to go hard again so I’m going to try that again today…I do hope the wind is a little calmer, though, it was blowing pretty hard on the second ride going out but that made it fun coming back with the wind…was able to run in 24th all the way back and I was flying at almost 20 from the turn all the way through JBZ…..lots of fun….didn’t get anything else done yesterday but put out some trash but I am going to get on the linen closet doors this morning and then hang them this aft….and then I’ll take the weekend off other than cleaning…I do need to figure out what to eat and get it out of the freezer downstairs…or may I’ll do pasta…or pizza….have a few options but I don’t really want to think right now….need more coffee and to read some news….more later…

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I’m exhausted….

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Well….as I sit here waiting for the last state that Joe needs to win the election to be  called, I can say that I am exhausted from the entire elections season and I want it to be over as soon as possible when the votes are counted. I need to be able to just take it easy for a few days and stop thinking about anything but looking for a house and putting the doors back on the linen closet. I am so damn tired of trump and his idiot henchmen who are running around screeching “election fraud” but when asked, they can’t explain what is being done wrong or unlawfully…the rules have been explained clearly and the states that are still counting are following the rules for each state so where is the fraud? Across the world, new organizations just can’t believe what trump and his minions are doing, and even the UN election watchers are saying they see nothing wrong and no “fraud” in any state that they have been observing…but, I guess the UN is in on it, too? I think the world just wants trump gone, too…they have had enough of him and his bullshit as we have here…at least 55% of us want him gone and the other 45% are just racist assholes anyway and who cares what they think? I am just done with it for today…unless they call it then I’ll be back to do another one….

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November 5th

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Well…that’s probably as close to a normal night’s sleep that I’m ever going to see again…only woke up once around 3 and the only reason is I was cold with not sleeping under any blankets to start the night…how the heck can you be shivering sleeping in full indoor thermasuit and with it still 66 in here? After working downstairs for an hour or so yesterday, I was expecting to be coughing all night but it really didn’t happen until now and it’s not even that bad…still feel congested but maybe getting two rides in daily this week is helping to clear out my lungs…and it is 55 outside right now so I can get on the bike early today…as soon as it gets light and that will be a good start to the day….still have that damn headache I’ve had for weeks now and I’m not really sure what it could be…I think it started when I had to close up the house with the cold weather but I can’t be sure of that…can’t really take anything for it since I am running out of allergy meds and can’t get more for a couple of weeks…might try some aspirin to see if that will help…I do have to finish up cleaning the yard today and get the last of the gardens bagged up but then I’m done other than trying to fill in the garden I put in the yard but I have to find usable dirt to do it…might have to buy a few bags of topsoil if it’s still available….then I’ll probably seed it with the seed I have left after repairing the front yard….not much to do today…going to just take a normal day with two rides and then fooling around a bit…need to start putting the hardware back on the linen closet doors and get them hung this week…they came out really good and look nice…and that will complete the work I’m doing here other than cleaning….now to get to finding a house for me….more later….

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Thank you, Detroit….

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Well…all of the news outlets just called Michigan for Joe and we have Detroit to thank for that….as the ballots from this side of the state and the rural areas came in first, the idiot trump was ahead…but, that started to change early this afternoon when Detroit’s ballots were being counted and Joe went into the lead…and to show you how stupid trump and his cronies are, they sent their brownshirt fascist disrupters into the ballot counting rooms in Detroit to stop the count but they didn’t do it until Joe was in the lead…so if they had been successful in stopping it, which they weren’t, Joe still would have won the state….so that puts Joe’s EV count at 253 as the counts go on in a few states and he leads in PA NV, and AZ…so, we should know tomorrow since they have stopped counting for the day in PA but will start up again at 10 tomorrow morning …so far it looks good for Joe and Kamala…I’m still keeping my fingers crossed…

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It’s warmer outside than it is in here…

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Well…okay, this is a little weird…was just out getting rid of the dead flowers out front in shorts and a t-shirt…and when I got back in here I looked at the temp and it is warmer outside than it is in here….so, it’s November, 70 degrees, and I have the windows open….that’s pretty cool…haven’t felt a real Indian summer in a long time but this week is it…I was even out on the bike in a t-shirt and shorts for the second ride today and that was pretty neat…supposed to stay like this until next week and I just realized that all of the time I spent outside has my cough better…still coughing but not nearly as much as earlier….I needed that break since my abs and chest have been hurting…oh, and I only have about 125 miles to do to make it to my  last goal of 5416 for the year…looks like I’ll make it if I can keep up riding doubles every day….one last thing…I got the first of the listings for houses from my brother today and found one house in Ionia that looks interesting…it’s in the village but it has a nice lot and a two stall detached garage with a big front porch…and, it’s only 96 K so if I were to put 45K down…my payments would be around 500 bucks a month including taxes…and I could swing that pretty easily….and they have a Meijers in Ionia….supposed to be a nice little town…I wonder if there are bike trails there? Guess I’ll have to search and see….