Well…running normally for a Thursday and I feel pretty good today…have slept pretty well and have had dreams for 3 days in a row now and that is really unusual….and my back is still just twinging but no real pain and that is a welcome relief….it has been an annoyance for the past month or so and it is good to have it gone…I know it will come back, probably later today, but I’ll take what I can get….didn’t get a lot else done yesterday but didn’t need to so I guess that works out…did get out in the sun for the second day in a row to try to even out the tan and I am still surprised how much damage 40 minutes will do…..no peeling but I can feel the tightness from it….I do need to get out on the bike here in a minute since there is fog out there and I love riding in it….more later….
Noodling again…
Well…had a few things I wanted to comment on that really won’t support an entire post so I’m going to just noodle around a bit and and see if I can get them out of my head….the fighter planes were at it again today but they were right down in the weeds and many of them were in pairs that looked like a real dogfight…I think I watched them for 20 minutes today….that was a lot of fun….I did have to clean out my storage shed yesterday to make some room and ran across the manuscript for my first novel…written in cursive in ink on yellow legal pads…I think there are 12 of them and I may just transfer them to the computer so I’ll have a digital version of it…don’t have much else to do and the only computer copy was on 5 1/2 inch floppy disks that have long since disappeared…I thought it was lost to me and it was a really pleasant surprise to find them buried in a box with a bunch of cassette tapes….
The White House is a dump?
Well…I don’t think I can be surprised anymore by the shallowness and crassness exhibited every day by the idiot trump. The latest lowest point (and it won’t be the last) has the idiot bitching to his friends that he spends so much time at his golf clubs since the White House is such a dump….now, let’s let that sink in for a minute…our house, the house that is the symbol of the US is a dump? If you’ve been paying attention over the past 6 months, you know that the idiot has no respect for the traditions or laws of our country, and now this…okay, trump, the only reason the WH is a dump is the fact that you live there…that you pollute the idea of the country’s house, living there illegitimatly, after you stole the election by colluding with the Russians…if you hate it so much, just leave, resign and leave…you are not going to be living there much longer, anyway…I wonder what you are going to think about the federal prison that is going to be your home for the rest of your life? What a colossal asshole….impeach….
August 2nd
Well…running a little early today with getting up a little early…slept okay last night and feel okay with being good again last night…my back was good most of the day yesterday after doing some heavy work that fixed it…but, the twinges are coming back this morning and it appears the pain will be back in a little while….oh, well….I did get a bunch of stuff done around here yesterday and I got a good bike ride in…I did adjust the position of the seat and that helped me get comfortable on it again and I did another small adjustment after I got back here so it will be interesting to see if that also helps….I did get out in the sun yesterday and got a little scorched…and only after 20 minutes or so on each side…but, it is helping get rid of the biker tan so I guess I can take it….not much to do today…need to clean more and get some resumes out but that is about it…more later….
Keystone XL dies…
Well….an interesting thing happened over the past week that went mostly unnoticed by everyone…but, I read a little article that didn’t really surprise me given the rapidly changing energy market. You know how the idiot trump has been pushing for more and more fossil fuel use…lying to the people in coal country that he will bring coal jobs back and approving the building of the Keystone XL pipeline that would move tar sands oil through the US to be exported for use in the rest of the world. Just the other day, though, the proposed builders of the pipeline, Trans Canada, said that due to the changes happening to the energy market around the world, where the sharply lowering price of solar, wind and natural gas has made the tar sands oil uneconomical, will probably prevent them from building the pipeline. This is the problem with confusing economics with ideology, trump and his minions are mired in the past…well…maybe not mired in the past but mired in the kleptocracy where the oil and coal companies pushed the cost of their pollution off on the taxpayers while they screwed everyone…and they are setting the US up to be a second class energy country by ceding leadership of new energy technologies to China and the rest of the world while we continue to burn and pollute. But, with this decision by Trans Canada, we can see that economics can trump the idiot and his minions…they can’t stop solar or wind…no company is going to pay more for their electricity just to keep trump and the oil companies happy…and there is not a damn thing the idiot can do about it…Impeach….
August 1st
Well…it was a day yesterday but that’s all I’ll say about it….my back was hurting all day and it is starting again today….thought I’d had it figured out but I guess not….slept okay last night but tossed and turned as always…would just like one night of the sleep that I remember…with that, I’m feeling a little slow today….but I’m hoping the coffee will help in a while….didn’t get much done yesterday but today I’ll have to do better….have to find some storage….and get some cleaning done….think I need to work on the bike, too, but will wait until thurs for that when I take a day off the bike for the rain…at least I’m hoping it rains…I do need a rest day to let the pain get out of my legs…oh, I do need to adjust the seat on the bike, too…I think it’s moved some and that may be making me uncomfortable on it…more later….
Domestic terrorists….
Well…have been sitting here thinking today…and no it doesn’t hurt…about the domestic terrorists that now control our government. Yeah, that’s how I feel about the repubs these days…with the latest attempt to rip health insurance from almost 30 million of their fellow Americans, what else can you call them? I have spent some time reading the stories of people whose lives were immeasurably changed by Obamacare….no longer wondering where the money is going to come from to keep them alive in some cases….I just read about a woman whose 12 year old daughter has type 1 diabetes and is cared for by Medicaid….a program that is the primary target of the blank eyed granny starver Paul Ryan…and without it, this 12 year old’s life will be one of poor health and no future. Now, there are almost 20 million people who get their insurance through the Obamacare exchanges and whose lives are disrupted by stress and fear every time the repubs try to kill the ACA….isn’t this the definition of terrorism? It’s the repubs doing it folks….and that makes it domestic terrorism…impeach…
Time flies….
Well…sitting here feeling a little old and there is good reason for it….my youngest one turns 30 today….cripes, I can still remember turning 30 even though it was a long, long time ago. Not sure what any of this means other than time flies…and my oldest one is going to turn 40 next month….and that is another yow….oh, well….
July 31st
Well…not really running at all today so far…woke up during the night last night with knee pain that I just can’t figure out…must have slept with them positioned wrong…they don’t hurt now so maybe it’s a one time thing…..feel a little iffy right now so I am going to just try to ease into the day….didn’t do a whole lot yesterday and today looks the same…I did get some of the kitchen cleaned and the microwave doesn’t look like someone died in it….and I should do the floor today and I just might….but, I’m not motivated right now so that will have to wait til later….and I do need much more coffee….more later….
Tiny fighter planes….
Well…it was a better day on the bike today and the torture level dropped quite a bit…enough that I did do an entire run that ended up in the park. While there, I was just vegging a little looking out across the field that is right in front of the bench I always sit on and I noticed almost 50 tiny little fighter planes…or scissor tail swallows feeding over that field…if you’ve ever watched them, you will get the tiny fighter plane reference….they look just like that the way they wheel and dive…I was really surprised there were no collisions there were so many of them out there…just fun to watch…