Well…running a little late today and there is really no reason for it other than I’m just taking it slow today…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a care package of venison so that was cool…even had some steaks for lunch that were so tender I couldn’t believe it…slept okay last night but no dreams to speak of again but that is okay, too…I did get the tooth to not hurt overnight for the first time in months and that made for better sleep than it has been….I am a little irritated with T since we were supposed to meet up for HH yesterday but I never heard from her…not even an “I can’t make it” text and I think that shows a lack of respect for me that I am getting tired of….especially since it is the second time that happened this week….not much to do today…have to watch Man U play at 10 and I am making a ham dinner for lunch so that will be good…then a run out to Tom’s in the aft but that is about it…need to get on the bike if it gets warm enough before I need to go…more later….
One last thing about Cuba…
Well…in all of the stuff I’ve read about Cuba over the past few days, one thing I thought of has not been mentioned…that is the fact that with this stroke, Obama has taken the reason away that the Castros’ have used to explain away the poverty and lack of growth that Cuba has seen over the past 50 years..it has always been the US’s fault…everything that has ever gone wrong has been blamed on us but now that is going to go away and the people running the place are going to have to put up or shut up…just my thought….
Topics, topics, topics…
Well…there are still a dearth of topics, at least in my head and in things that interest me right now…so we’re going to go free form again and see what happens…man, what a bunch of cowards at Sony Pictures that have folded on the release of their new movie ‘the Interview” just because of some puny threats from North Korea…so now they are going to let other countries censor what is shown in the US? I wonder what is in the e-mails that NK is threatening to release…if they are anything like the business e-mails I’ve written in my lifetime, they might be a danger to bore someone to death but that is about it. I am a little disappointed that Space X has postponed their latest launch until sometime in January…I was really looking forward to seeing them try to land the booster on that floating platform they have…oh, well….it was a pretty cool last show of “the Colbert Report” with all of the guests coming on and singing “We’ll Meet Again”…..but, it did flash me back to the end of “Dr. Strangelove” when the same song is overlayed over the nuke explosions….anything else? Nope, not right now….going to see if there is some soccer on and just veg awhile….
December 19th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I lost at pool…and that was not even a bad thing since it came to a championship game….but, I am still screwed up since I woke up this morning thinking it was Saturday…and my tooth is throwing fits of pain this morning that I can’t understand…slept okay but no dreams to speak of…oh, and I’m running late today since Brian dropped off a care package of venison and that always turns into a half hour of just shooting the bs….I now have about 5 lbs of burger and steaks that I will need to find room for in the freezer….I am enjoying the no snow weather we’re having….didn’t even have to warm the car up to get the frost off and it was only 21 degrees when I went out for the papers…not much to do today….might have HH with T later but that is about it…I may get out on the bike later, too but with meeting the goal for the year, I am a lot less motivated to freeze my butt off…more later….
Police whining….
Well…I had a good laugh this morning when I read about the response of many police departments to the protests against police killings and brutality towards minorities when they whine that they are all being tarred with a broad brush and their little feelings are hurt that people think they are the problem when they abuse everyone they come into contact with…other than old white guys. My response to that is “stop killing and abusing minorities” maybe then you will have a better image in your communities. I know, not all cops are bad ones but they all lie to protect other officers, they all use too much force and use force as a first resort instead of a last….and way too many of them ARE racists who never think their job is to protect and to serve but that they are in a war zone and that any force they decide to use is justified….I also don’t think that it is the citizens job to know how to interact with police to ensure they don’t get killed…not getting killed should be the default setting in these interactions…it has gotten so bad that a great majority of the population will not call 911 for help since they fear that when the police arrive it won’t be to help…but will cause even more damage….so, yes police…you do have a problem…and it is your problem not the citizens of this country…you need to reform your practices and how you view your jobs and you need to stop killing unarmed people…that would be a good start…geez…
December 18th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get a few things done so that was cool…slept okay last night but had to get up to take some ibuprofen for the tooth again…should have just taken it before bed to ensure no pain overnight but I needed to know how bad or if the pain would come back…had some dreams about another Miata being stolen and wrecked…not mine since it was red but I still owned it…yeah, that’s confusing I know but I think it has to do with the fact that I wanted to buy a red one when I bought mine….slept okay, too, after I got up at 3 and went back to bed…I am a little tired today but feel okay after being good for so long…but that will probably end tonight since we are moving pool day up to today…not much to do today…I do need to do the grocery run this morning and get a workout in but probably won’t get on the bike again….just won’t be warm enough until after noon and then I’d feel rushed….and I hit the goal in miles for the year a couple of days ago…more later….
Cuba…finally…
Well…just short one on the news that the US is going to start normalizing diplomatic relations with Cuba…my only question is “what took so long?” Since the demise of the Soviet Union, Cuba has been no threat to the US and many other countries that we were enemies with have long since had relations repaired and are now trading and diplomatic partners…I wonder what it was with
Cuba that made them different? Probably just the right wingers who profited by the continuation of hostilities…which is a normal function of the right these days…to gin up hostilities/controversies that they can take advantage of to grift their way to riches. Fifty years of this nonsense is long enough…can’t wait to hear the heads exploding like ole Rubio’s already did….fun…
December 17th
Well…running early today since it is 7:16 and I am bored already…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…again….but I don’t feel bad about it…slept okay last night and had dreams that had to do with a wedding at a run down resort that was at a mall…can’t remember who was getting married but Randy Quaid was in it…yep, pretty damn random and it ended with me walking over a newly tarred roof and ruining my shoes…..it was nice for one last day to get out in half thermasuit yesterday but today will be cold so I may not even go out…looks like the car is a solid block of ice after the rain and the freeze so I may have to use some hot water to get it open again…not much to do today…going to try to clean again and I finally get to cook after having leftovers for days and days….haven’t been eating enough and need to correct that to get more energy…more later….
Vaccines work…
Well…with the huge outbreak of whooping cough in Traverse City over the past couple of weeks, we are seeing the results of the misguided efforts on the right to cater to the anti-vax crowd and their wrongheaded idea that vaccines cause autism. A few years back, the repubs here in Michigan effectively gutted the herd protections that vaccines bring by allowing parents to opt out by just filing a paper with the state saying they object to vaccinating their kids for any reason whatever…and this is what we got from that law…hundreds of cases of whooping cough, measles, mumps, and other preventable diseases that were on the verge of eradication before people started to believe that vaccines were a plot or a danger to their kids…driven mostly by fox news and fear mongers there. I just want every parent that wants to not vaccinate their kids to be shown the pictures of the polio epidemic before the Salk vaccine was invented and see the death and destruction that occurred before this breakthrough. I have vaccinated all of my kids with no reservations whatsoever…I still remember how sick I was with mumps and measles when I was a kid before the advent of vaccines for those diseases and surely didn’t want my kids to go through it…for the sickness or even the deaths that came from these diseases…I hope people come to their senses and vaccinate their kids…if they don’t, they put everyone at risk and I don’t think it’s their decision to make…geez….
December 16th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool…and got out to have a couple with G and it was nice to get out of here for a change….slept pretty crappy last night and woke up too many times to count with dreams that I don’t remember…and the tooth hurt like crazy which is not normal and I had to take something for it at 3:30….so, I’m running a little slow today and I’m not sure what kind of day that is going to make it…probably just more coffee and then on the bike before it starts to get colder today…it has been a nice run of weather for December and it looks good but cold until next wed when it starts to snow…but, it is Michigan so we should expect some snow…not much to do today….the bathroom is crying out for a good cleaning and the kitchen could use it, too, so that will be on the agenda for today…and I have a topic for later so there will be another one of these for later today…maybe even two if the brain will allow it…more later….