Well….there is good news here in Michigan in the senate race with Gary Peters pulling out to a 10% plus lead in the latest polls and that I can understand…Land is the most stupid, incompetent candidate I have ever seen with no ability to think past the talking points that she tries to regurgitate and even gets those wrong…but, what I don’t understand is how ole Snyder is up on Schauer in the governor’s race…after all, Snyder gave the middle class a kick in the gut with right to work, taxed retirees and gave the money to CEO’s, and has lied through his teeth about the crony capitalism he has been practicing since he lied his way into office…now, I may be unusual in that I follow politics and pride myself in knowing what is going on, but people, how can you vote against yourself and keep giving this country to the rich? I just shake my head every day…geez…
October 23rd
Well…running early today since I am getting the place ready for the maint guys to come and work on the furnace today…slept okay and was good again last night so I feel okay today…..the place looks good and feels good with all of the cleaning done and all I have to do today is do a grocery run this morning…going to smoke some fish today, too, but that is about it…the cursor has disappeared from this site today so I am going to shut the computer down and come back in a few minutes to pick this one up….okay…I’m back but I don’t have a whole lot more to say right now so I think I’ll end here for now…I am going to watch the eclipse today if I can see it from here…might have to get on the bike and head to a clearing in the trees to get a better view…more later…
Comets, eclipses, and wind….
Well…let’s start with the last one and go from there…I am always amazed with how the wind acts when I am out on the bike…and today was no exception…it seemed like…no it was…the wind was coming from every direction today…usually, when you head out to the East and you have a brisk wind in your face, you can look forward to having it end when you go north, or south, or west…but today, it was a struggle every direction…still can’t figure out how that works but it sure takes a lot out of you…as you probably know…a comet passed pretty close to Mars on Sunday and I really expected to see some cool photos since the Hubble ones from a week ago were quite neat….but, following it live Sunday, the pictures were grainy at best…still kind of cool to see the ones from the surface taken by one of the rovers but I’d hoped for more….not sure if you saw the lunar eclipse a couple of weeks ago but it was pretty neat…had to get up early to see it but seeing the moon with a huge bite out of it always makes me smile…and now, we have a half solar eclipse for thurs aft around 5:30 here that could be fun….that’s tomorrow for the date challenged…I am looking forward to that one, too, heck…I look forward to anything like that…still a science and space geek after all these years and I look forward to the gloom that comes with the eclipse…kind of near sunset but I’ll be looking anyway….oh, and I added a new category that I will put all the science stuff in as I write about sciency stuff…
October 22nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a bunch of stuff done…can even see the top of my dining table but there is a lot more to do before the maint folks come Thurs…..slept okay and had dreams about my new coffee maker being broken and driving a car I sold 20 years ago….feel okay this morning but it is cold enough to be icy so I have to warm the car up before I go out for papers….have to continue the clean up today but it is something I should have done weeks ago so that is okay….and I like the progress….not much to do today…will have to wait for the temp to come up to get out on the bike so that will mean I have time to get started on more cleaning….the allergies are bad today and I can’t stop sneezing so maybe it’s part of cleaning…I don’t know…more later…
A sad sight…
Well…as I got to my first water stop on top of the hill next to M-6, I looked out at the e-way and saw a really sad sight…a Laguna Blue Miata on the back of a flat bed wrecker with the front end shortened by about two feet…looked like a nice one, too, with the gold BBS wheels that came on the M series…I guess mine wasn’t the only one here in West Michigan…but, that makes one less…any time I see a Miata wrecked it saddens me a little bit…I’ll bet there are now less than a thousand left on the road in my color….
October 21st
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done… a little but not much…slept okay and feel okay this morning since I was good last night and I am kind of liking that….I did get to 9 hours on the walkman last night before I gave up and plugged it in…good news that I don’t have to buy a new battery since I can live with about 12 hours total time on a charge…could even be more than that but I ran out of patience testing it….I can’t wait until the allergies end for this year…still coughing and stuffed up and I am really tired of it…not much I can do but live with it….not much to do today…have to hit the grocery store for a few things and get my Mega tickets for tonight’s 200 million dollar drawing…need some cash and don’t know where else to get it….more later….
Technology…
Well…if you’ve been here for any length of time, you know that about a year ago I replaced the battery in my Sony mp3 player since the old one wouldn’t hold a charge anymore. So, in the past week or so the battery indicator has been showing me shorter and shorter use times, down to about three hours before getting the battery charge needed symbol on the display and I was starting to get a little irritated that the battery only lasted a year when the original lasted over 6 years….so, today, I thought I’d test it out and just see how long the thing really will run until it shuts off…well…6 1/2 hours and counting after the thing told me the battery was dead…and that is not counting the hour on the bike with the indicator flashing. So, needless to say there is a problem with the sensor, not the battery, but now I’m going to have to either keep it plugged in all the time or keep track of how long I’ve run it since it was charged…that sounds like a lot of work so I guess it’s plug in time….isn’t technology great?
7 hours and counting….8 hours….not sure how long I’m going to do this….
Ebola, schmebola….
Well…I have been shaking my head for the past couple of days on the panic that the media and the repubs are trying to stoke about the “Ebola crisis” of three patients with the disease..one that was the carrier and the other two were nurses who took care of the man while he was dying. The fearmongering seems to be working with the ignorant and fearful….a teacher from the northeast was put on paid leave for 21 days just for traveling to Dallas….no where near the hospital but I guess that doesn’t matter….and parents from a school in Mississippi (of course it’s Mississippi) pulled their children for the reason that the principal made a trip to Zambia a month before…no Ebola in Zambia but these ignorant idiots don’t care about that since their lives are ruled by fear of everything….but now, when the 41 people who were quarantined for contact with the dead man show no symptoms after 21 days, you don’t hear a thing about it in the media….Ebola is an extremely hard disease to catch but the right just needs a new fear to keep their base scared out of their wits so they will go out to vote…maybe we should spread the rumor on right wing websites that you can get Ebola from voting machines….that would be cool…geez….
October 20th
Well…running late today and I’m going to blame it on going out to read C&J on Kos first….I guess that’s as good as any excuse….slept crappy again so I won’t be mentioning that again…today….it is nice that it is already 50 outside so I can get on the bike as soon as I finish working out…I do have some stuff to do around here and want to get that done before lunch so it’s good to not have to wait for the temp to come up….not feeling as crappy as I should so maybe the bug is finally leaving…hope so….after a day or so of rain…it looks like the entire week is going to be sunny so there will be some top down time…have to go out and try to find a new bulb for my reading lamp that I’ve had for 30 years or more….as I get older, I need more light to see the paper in the morning….maybe I’ll ride my bike over to the store to try to find one….more later….
Just noodling…
Well…as you can see from the numbers, I’m behind for the month so I thought I’d just noodle around and see what happens…and the Lions are stinking up the joint so that is just driving me away from the tv…at least until Talladega starts in a few minutes…oh, and the comet flyby of Mars is happening in a few minutes so I think I’ll go out to look at the pictures here in a minute…I do like the battery backup that I got last week for 7 bucks…just have to remember to keep it charged and take it with me….I did get laundry done today so I don’t feel completely useless….on partly useless….there were thousands of wooly bears on the trail today and that was cool but a lot of work to not run them over….okay…need to go out and look at the comet pictures….more later…