Well…it’s kind of a bittersweet morning as my daughter packs up to go home and I will miss having her here…it’s been a good two weeks and I am still healing pretty well…feel good but my intestines are giving me fits so I’m back on the mirilax until they get back to being regular again…had an okay day yesterday but only got a little done and the car is now ready for driving for the grocery run Wed…it started right up when I washed it the other day but the parking brake was frozen up a bit and I think I’ll have to climb under it and lube the linkages soon…I do need to hit Menards this week and get oil so I can change it…need to get through the winter with this car but I’m not sure when I’ll be able to afford another one if I buy a new house….going to be a huge juggling act to make the sale of this place happen and buy another one at the same time…but, I’m not going to worry about that for a week or so…my daughter is going to change the new mattress for the one in my room before she goes and I am going to help her move it whether she likes it or not….and I am going to get back into the normal routine but this new one has been fun for the past two weeks…not much to do today…just going to help her load up her car and move the mattress and then I’ll be done…then I’m just going to watch races and veg…have way too much food to eat but I need to eat more sine I’m still losing weight even without riding the bike….more later….
Monthly Archives: August 2023
Took a tour…
Well…we finally got out for a tour around Muskegon with my daughter today and she really like this town…not my neighborhood, but this town and I really do need to find another place to live out here…this is the worst neighborhood in Muskegon and I’m finally ready to admit that…going to look a few miles farther west to see if there is something there for me but I need to take some time off to continue to recover from the surgery…it was a good day today with little pain but I am waiting for a call back from the surgeon to talk about my pathologist report and how I’m recovering…he called at 9:30 and I called him back at 10 so that was 6 hours ago…oh, well…we did have a small storm come through last night and it is going to rain again Sunday and Monday so I may have some peace from the drunks across the street…
It’s trump’s fault…
Well…I am getting so tired of the bullshit coming out of the right that blames everything else but trump for the trouble he is in…but let’s cut to the core of this thing…if he didn’t manipulate the value of his buildings in NY to avoid taxes or get loans, he wouldn’t have a 37 count charge against him…If he hadn’t stolen government documents and tried all he could to keep them, he wouldn’t be have charges against him in Florida…and if he hadn’t tried to overthrow the legal results of an election, he wouldn’t have the 4 felony counts against him in DC…sounds pretty simple, huh? It is…just don’t break the law and it’s all the idiot’s fault that he has all of these charges against him…he could have chosen to do what the vast majority of this country does every day…follow the rules and don’t break laws but he didn’t…with no respect for anything including the constitution, he thought he could get away with ruining this country for his benefit with the help of many, many others who have the same disrespect and lack of a moral compass as idiot boy…and now he has to pay…and I hope the rest of them do too….geez…
August 4th
Well…running about on time for waking up at 5:04 and not being able to get back to sleep…another day night and I am still shaking my head about the progress that I’ve made since the cath came out Tuesday…still have to think about it at times but it’s not the deluge I was expecting and that most people experience….got some stuff done with finally getting the car and the bike washed and today I need to get out there and lube the bike so it won’t get rusty while it just sits…we did get a nice little storm last night that will help with killing the weeds and I just may mow the front when my daughter leaves tomorrow…will take it really gently and not overdo it to make sure I have no setbacks in my recovery…I did start on my upper body work yesterday with doing 100 curls with the 5 pound weights and 100 with the 8 pound weights and I hope I can build some muscle mass to fill up the crepey skin on my arms….overall, I feel pretty good but I did have a little pain this morning …it’s down to about a 2 on the 10 scale so I think just two ibuprofens will take care of it…all of this sitting has done a number on my tailbone so I’m going to have to do some walking today and look forward to it…I am going to have prepped food for the next week in the freezer and some chicken/apple sausages that I am dying to try…had goat cheese as a topping on the chili my daughter made yesterday and she is done cooking since she is going home tomorrow…I am going to miss her…it’s been nothing but a joy to have her here to get me through the hard part of the surgery and recovery….not much to do today…we are going to take a tour of the city and my trails out to the beach so she can see why I like living out here…and I have bills to drop off at the post office so she can see the downtown, too…more later…
43% more covid deaths…
Well…gee who’d have thought that minimizing the effectiveness of the covid vaccines, demonizing them, and getting rid of mask mandates would have an effect? Yeah, that was sarcasm…the latest study shows that the rate of covid deaths in Florida and Texas are 43% higher than any blue state…that means that for 100 people who die in a blue state, 43 more die in a red state…and it can be traced back to the assholes running Florida and Texas who were at the forefront of covid denialism and relentlessly pushed conspiracy theories about the virus that it is just “the flu” and you’d get over it quickly…tell that to the 20 million people in this country who suffer from long covid and will never be the same…yeah, the flu doesn’t do that….these ghouls really don’t care about anything but retaining power and in their red states they have a willing populace who buys into that bullshit…and they are dying because of it…geez…
Another nothingburger from House repubs…
Well…damn, I wonder if house repubs are just incompetent or blinded by their hatred of all things dem? Their latest attempt to smear Joe Biden and “prove” that he took bribes from Burisma for something, something fell apart when their “star witness” that was going to blow the roof of the Biden’s corruption…well..that didn’t work out like Jim Jordan and James Comer thought it was going to…and it is exactly the pattern that has happened in every damn “investigation” these morons have wasted our money on…the witness, who they thought was going to give them what they wanted, the smoking gun where Joe Biden discussed bribes on the phone with his son…after all, why would a father call his son every day if he wasn’t talking about bribes and corruption? Projection much? The witness blew that out of the water when he told these morons that the Bidens never talked about business at at…it was just a concerned father checking in on a troubled son after he just lost another son…but that didn’t stop comer from going on fox news and lying his ass off and saying the witness actually said that there was corruption and bribes…now that sound like a libel suit to me…damn, these assholes will never stop wasting our money…geez…
August 3rd
Well…two in a row…two nights dry and I still can’t believe where I’m at after only two days from cath removal….I do have a little pain this morning from the work I did yesterday so I did have to take some ibuprofen this morning…man, the moon was bright again overnight and into this morning and since my bedroom window faces west, I was bathed in the cool, blue light that I just reveled in and stayed in bed until after 6 just looking at it….feel pretty good today but I think I’ll ease into it since I don’t have a lot to do today other than the car, bike, and garage…and won’t get started on that until 9 or so since I have all day…I am pretty surprised about how fast I’m healing up and how good I feel right now even with staying up a little late last night…hope it continues….have been eating quite well the past two weeks but that will end Sat when my daughter goes home…it has been nice to have her here and I’ll miss her…need to get started looking for a house soon but I think I may just take a week off and continue to heal….not much to do today…just going to fire up the car and wash it and then maintain the bike so it will be ready when I’m ready…and the garage really needs a sweep so that will be the last thing that I’ll do today…and then will probably watch old movies this afternoon….more later…
It’s hard doing nothing…
Well…you know, it’s going to be a hard day tomorrow since I really don’t have much to do…did all the work today that I’m allowed to do with doing the weed walk and sweeping the front walk but there is nothing else that falls within the restrictions I have on me…maybe I could service and wash the car? The wash mitt is only about 4 ounces or so and I can keep the bucket under 8 pounds but I’ll be bending a lot…didn’t hurt from the work today and most of the pain is gone even with walking a mile in the yard…I could sweep the garage out, too and it really needs it so that could be something…and I guess I could wash the bike and lube that up so it won’t rust in the two months it’s going to sit….okay, now were getting there…that will give me at least two hours of work and if I go at it at half speed like today, I could stretch it out to three hours….still not leaking after the cath coming out so I’m happy about that but we’ll have to see how that goes…I could have a setback but I just have to think about it for a while until it becomes automatic again…hmmm…sounds like a plan…
More indictments…
Well…the day that I have been waiting for since January 6, 2021 happened yesterday when Jack Smith announced 4 more indictments against the idiot trump…and these are for his role in the attempt to overturn the election and stay in power…and there are 6 unindicted co-conspirators that are also listed that the pundits believe 3 of them are rudy, John Eastman, and sydney powell…all liars who tried to lie their way to keeping idiot boy in office…and all of the lawyers on tv read the indictments and can’t believe how detailed they are and really can’t figure out how the idiot will defend against them….and Jack Smith wants the trial to be held this year starting in December…and it is front of a judge that has sentenced many other January 6th convicts, usually to more than the sentence that the prosecution recommended…that doesn’t sound good since one of them got 19 years for his role in the attack…and that could mean that trump could get 60 years and he is not going to live that long…and that is before the possible 100 years from the stolen documents case and before Fani Willis drops her RICO charges in Georgia….that should be coming up this month or next, or the tax fraud felonies in NYC…if this doesn’t get this asshole locked up for life, our justice system is broken beyond all repair…and I don’t think it is…yet…geez…
Good news…
Well…you know, I really like these patient portals that all of the health systems have now…I just got the pathologist/surgeon’s report on the cancer and it was nothing but good news…no spread to the lymph nodes and clean margins from what is left behind so that means I’m cured…no more cancer…and I am positively giddy about that…and with the incontinence under control…so far…it has been nothing but good news and I’m sure to be ready to go like crazy on the UK trip…I am so damn happy my surgeon made the decision to move the surgery up and get it out of there…the outcome could not have been better…I guess all the work I did getting into shape made a difference….I am enough of a realist to know that there could still be setbacks but I am prepared for them…I guess I’m in that 5% of men who go back to normal right after the cath comes out…yee ha!