Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool…slept okay but had to get up early to start the car…barely…but it did start so that was another good thing…but, tonight, I will be up starting the thing all night so tomorrow will be a low energy day…shooting pool today, though, so I will be able to just laze through the day and recover…had a nice lunch with T yesterday and it was good to see her such good conversations and found out that she was a Star Trek fan when she was a kid…something I didn’t know even though I’ve known her for 17 years…I am starting to feel better but still have the tobacco taste with the toothpaste…I may have to get some gel to try that and see if it is the toothpaste….not much to do today…pool, and then back here for the races later tonight…and keeping the car running…just one more day….more later…
I hate the cold…
Well….I am getting really, really tired of the cold weather around here and the worst is yet to come over the next two days…I may as well just leave the car running for the next two days since I will have to go out all night and start it if it is going to start Friday morning at 11 below….it just wears me out having to go out all night and start the thing but it’s better than taking the battery out and bringing it inside….just want this crap to be over….
Arkansas goes off the rails…
Well…if you hadn’t seen the stupidity of the repubs on education lately, you just need to take a look at Arkansas and their fight to change the AP (advance placement) history courses there. Most AP courses across the country are built by experts in history that know what colleges and universities across the country want their applicants to know and are filled with something the the repubs just can’t understand…truth…and the fact the the US has not been and never will be perfect but the only way to get better and understand where we come from is to study this truth. That doesn’t matter to the repubs, though…they propose to destroy the truth of history and replace it with the study of the ten commandments, three Reagan speeches…and other nonsense that will automatically preclude every Arkansas student from meeting the requirement to even get in to college….but, they don’t give a damn…ignorant voters are the only thing keeping them in office and they just want more of them…I pity the poor kids of Arkansas…geez…
February 18th
Well….it was a strange, long day yesterday without coffee and getting out of my normal routine….but, there were things that needed to be done so I did them…I did get out to see K and C for a couple and that was fun but too short….slept okay last night, too, but now I’m getting greedy that I want to sleep through an entire night just one more time…I did get a bunch of other stuff done yesterday, too, so there has been progress…I hesitate to mention that my tooth has been good for a week now since that will trigger more pain…and I am getting over the flu that I’ve had for over a week now and feel okay today…not much to do today…going to meet T for lunch and that will help the fact that nothing still tastes good…it has been good for my weight over the winter but not for how I feel….going to go big on flavor over the weekend to try to make it easier to eat…more later….
Republicans are still stupid…
Well…just a couple of thoughts that I wanted to get down here this aft and not get further behind….you know, repubs are still really stupid….first, you have this fight over immigration with them trying to tie reversing Obama’s immigration policies by tying them to funding for the DHS and acting like a bunch of pouting little brats when the dems don’t roll over and allow it….those immigration policies are nothing different than Saint Ronnie of Reagan did when he was in office and the repubs thought they were great back then…wonder what the difference is? Yeah, we all know the just hate the black guy in the White House…..what was the second stupid thing? Oh, I guess it’s just that they keep doing the same thing and expecting different results…did they really think that even if they passed this crap that Obama was just going to say…”oh, okay, if you say so, I’ll sign it”? Oh, the second thing is ole Boehner’s invite of Bibi…and now 63% of the country said it was a stupid thing to do…so, John, don’t take my word for it, listen to the damn country for a change…geez..
February 17th
Well….running really, really late this morning since the pressure switch on the well failed at C’s so I had to be the good person I’m trying to be and go over to fix it…only three trips out and it is fixed so that is a good thing…slept okay last night, too, even with being good but my stomach has been giving me fits for the past few days and I don’t really want to eat anything…it all tastes crappy…threw away half a chicken sandwich since I couldn’t force it down….not much to do today…..C is coming into town so I have to meet up with him later and have a couple and then I have a bunch of stuff to do around here…more later….
Some developments…
Well…just haven’t had the desire to do many of these lately with the bug and it being so damn cold that all I can do is worry whether or not the car is going to start. But, today, there have been some developments that I wanted to share and I hope that the act of writing will make it easier for me to continue….first, the best thing that happened is that my toothpaste no longer tastes like tobacco and I am starting to get the rest of my taste straightened out….the burning on my tongue seems to be subsiding, too, so maybe there is a light at the end of the tunnel? I did get a bunch of stuff done today all the while waiting for the energy level to fall off so far that it would put an end to it but it didn’t happen so I think that’s another sign I’m getting better, too….so, I am going to hope this translates into getting my brain working better, too, so I can get back to at least trying to do more of these and get caught up….more later…
February 16th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I felt like crap all day and today is starting out the same…just want this bug to be over and for me to get back to what passes for normal for me…I need to be able to taste, too, which is keeping me from eating enough and that is compounding my feeling like crap…and, I need to get a bunch more of these out in the next day or so since I’m way behind here and everywhere….not much to do today…I do have stuff to do but I’m not sure how far I’ll get feeling like this…going to have to be good for the entire week just to see where I’m at and I am looking forward to that….more later…
February 15th
Well…it was a crappy day yesterday and it looks like today will be the same…feel so rotten this morning that it is a huge amount of effort to just do this…I should be on the couch and that is where I am going in just a minute…the car did start this morning but that is because I let it run for an hour last night before bed…and I am getting really tired of that, too…..okay…that’s it….need to go back to the couch and rest…flu is not over yet….
February 14th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was cool…started to feel better but that has not continued today….I have to remember that recovery will be fitful at best…it’s not the linear thing that I would hope it would be….I do feel a little better and the coughing has subsided some so that is a good thing…but I just want this crap to be done….I would love to have my taste back, too, but that will take a while…so, it looks like this weekend will be another one to just take it easy and work on recovery….it is going to be cold tonight so I need to go out about 11 an let the car run for an hour or so so it will start in the morning….and then maybe get up at 3 or so and do it again….I do have stuff to do around here today, too but I’m not sure how much I’ll get done…more later….