Well…as you can see, politics haven’t really been too interesting to me lately…after all, how do you comment on the absurdism that is the repub race…so, I think I’ll do one on some music I heard on the bike this morning. On the ride today, “Sunshine of my Love” by Cream came on and, since I was at my last water stop in the park, I could really listen to it without wind noise or any other distractions…well..it is the strangest engineering I have ever heard in a song….whoever did the recording put the drums in the right ear, the guitar in the left, and Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton singing in the middle….really a departure from the normal way that songs sound….I was going to do a similar one on how the drums sound on “Nantucket Sleighride” by Mountain…where they use the entire sonic range from ear to ear for the drums and then lay the rest of the music on top of it so it sounds like you are really at a live concert…and that contrasts to “White Room” by Cream where the drums sound like you are sitting a couple of feet in front of the kit….weird…or not weird but interesting how sound can be changed so your brain interprets it differently…yeah, okay….probably only interesting to me….
May 9th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool….didn’t get to the kitchen but don’t feel bad about it…slept okay last night but feel a little slow this morning…the coffee is just not working so I guess I should get busy having more….was thinking that there hasn’t been any trail weirdness lately or tiny bunnies or anything to report…man, my life is really, really boring right now….not sure why that would be but I feel it….my right elbow is teasing the pain that is to come and it is just annoying…at least it’s not a surprise anymore which joint is going to hurt this summer…I am going to take some ibuprofen before the bike ride today and see if that helps…not much to do today….I should say that I am going to try to get to to the kitchen today but I probably won’t…might just make this a lost day and veg all day….more later…
May 8th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool…slept okay last night, too, but I feel a little slow today since it was a cocktail night….had a nice long bike ride yesterday and may do the same today if it warms up some….but, I am taking it easy right now and trying to work into the day slowly…coffee is helping but the bike ride may have to wait for an hour or so….I am a little confused by the pain that is there but the progression is not the same as before…it is still just a shadow that is reminding me it’s there but has not gotten worse yet…and I stress the yet since I know it’s coming at some point…not much to do today….got the bathroom done yesterday and today should be the kitchen and I am going to try to get to it…but, who knows? More later….
Congratulations Leicester City…
Well…haven’t done much on the premier league this year since Man U has been kind of stinky…but, I had to say a couple of things about Leicester City who won the league this year in what could be called a shock…even the bookies in London thought it would never happen giving odds of 5,000 to 1 that they would go all the way. This time last year, they were bottom of the league having to win 7 of their last 9 games just to stay up in the premier league and this year champions…a feel good story for a small team that has been playing for over a hundred years with success only in the lower tiers. So, congratulations Leicester…good job….
May 7th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…slept okay last night but feel pretty worn out after the long day yesterday…was on the go from 10 until I got back here at 6:30 and I’m not used to that….I did get to see T for a couple of minutes and that was fun….and I had the top down the entire day so I may have gotten a little sunburned even with sunscreen on….didn’t get anything done yesterday so today will have to be better….I do have cleaning that needs to be done and I will get to some of it today…even if that is just the bathroom….not much to do today…it is already almost 60 so I can get out on the bike any time but I’m watching Man U right now and will probably wait until the match is over to go out…and the Kentucky Derby is on today so that will be a given too….more later…
March 6th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I was busy until the afternoon…and that is a good thing…got the car cleaned, finally, and a few things done around here…slept okay last night but woke up again with pain in my neck from sleeping wrong and can’t really move it too well…it’s actually between my shoulder and neck and it’s happened before so I’m not concerned…the shoulder pain is still just an echo so I am going to just treat it like an echo and not worry about it right now….I did take some ibuprofen yesterday and it helped some so I just tried that again and hope it helps….it looks like a nice day today and it is going to be a top down day…going to put the top down when I run errands around 10 and leave it down all day until I get back here tonight…it is so cool that the car is quiet again that I like driving it again….not much to do today…that’s not really true…have an errand to run after the bike ride then out to make some cash…then out for pool and, after that, out to HH with T…going to be a long but fun day…more later…
Trump doesn’t represent the repub party?
Well…now that old Donald has just about locked up the repub nomination…the spooked establishment repubs and many, many of the repubs up for election this fall are running away from him like crazy…even going so far as to not mention his name…just saying ‘the nominee” instead of Trump’s name. The meme of the whole thing is that “Trump and what he said in the primaries doesn’t represent the repub party” and that you should still vote for the rest of the repubs that are running….yeah…doesn’t represent the repub party when he won the nomination? And, the majority of the rank and file repubs voted for him? The repub party is exactly the misogynist, homophobic, “other” hating party that they appear…and they have been using this hate to win elections for the past 40 years…but now that the elites of the party can’t control the hate they have spawned and that’s how they got Trump…who threw away the dog whistles and shouted that hatred from every podium starting with his announcement speech. So now, we have the repub party laid bare to expose what they have been about all along…and the base has been released by Trump to openly spew the hatred that has always been just under the surface…you reap what you sow idiots….geez…
May 5th
Well…it was a pretty good day yesterday, getting the car fixed and making a little cash…and the car is quieter than it has ever been…and that presents it’s own problems…now I can hear every other noise it makes and I’ll have to get used to them again…still…pretty stealth….slept okay last night but the dreams were not cool enough to remember…I do remember there were Russian prisons involved but I’m not sure why….not much pain this morning but my shoulder has been giving me some previews of tightness that I hope doesn’t turn into pain…didn’t get out on the bike yesterday with all the rain but I will today…but, I need to wash the car first so I can wax it later today…going to do a complete cleaning, too, so the glass will be acceptable to me….and the interior is dusty so that will have to be done, too…but it is different when you choose to do something to the car instead of having to so something to it….not much to do today…need to work out then take the car to wash…want to hear what it sounds like with the top down….I do need to clean and do some work around here but that can wait until the weekend….more later….
Bye, bye Teddy….
Well…I am reacting to the news that ole Ted Cruz has dropped out of the repub primary with just a little too much glee today…nope, there is not enough glee in the world to react properly to this much hated asshole dropping out of the race….I had gotten so tired of his theocracy based ideas on governance and his hatred of the LGBT community…hatred that led to his downfall in Indiana and put the final nail in this vampire’s coffin. All I have to say to this is good riddance…what kind of a person is proud that no one likes him, that his colleagues called him Lucifer and the most miserable son of a bitch in Congress? Bye, bye, Teddy…don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out…..or do…I just don’t give a damn….
The Stealth Miata Returns…
Well…just got home from running some errands and thought I’d just do a little update on the car….took it in this morning to have a stock exhaust installed and couldn’t be happier with it…the stealth Miata returns….I don’t think it has ever been quieter and it feels good to be able to wind it out a little without the sound being so loud I couldn’t hear inside the car….and the guy I took it to for the replacement I found out grew up in the Ada/Cascade area that I did and we had some laughs while he was working on the car….and, I got to hang out in the shop while he was working on the car…something I miss with all the rules that shops have to live by. The kicker was that he asked me what it was worth to me and I said 30 bucks…he said that was too much for 15 minutes of work so he settled on 25 bucks….it’s nice to have something good happen for a change….and to have my car back….