Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for another one since my day has been taken up working on the car…on the way to shoot pool out in Ada, I blew a heater hose and dumped all of the coolant out on the ground 10 miles outside of Muskegon…luckily, I had put a gallon of premix in the trunk so I was able to get it back here with just one stop at a car dealership to get some water…then I spent the afternoon trying to find a special hose and found the only one in Muskegon that cost me 23 bucks and lots of work to put the new one in and replace the temporary fix that I needed to do to be able to drive to get the new hose…and the one that split had a two inch long one in it and dumped all of the coolant on the exhaust, causing huge clouds of white smoke that I can still smell….it’s been that kind of day…but I think it’s fixed…after putting the new hose in, I took it out for a drive where I ran it over 70 for a couple of miles…and just went out to check it to make sure it’s not leaking and it appears I have it installed right…but I did burn my right thumb working on the car when it was still hot…okay, I’ll stop complaining now…it appears the car survived the overheating and I may have been quick enough to shut it off when it got hot…this is the second time I’ve replaced this hose…the last time it just started to seep so I could change it before it failed…
Monthly Archives: April 2023
April 4th
Well…damn, I feel worn out today and it’s a lot of work just to do this right now…the good news I got yesterday led to a bit of celebrating last night and I’m feeling it….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but the bike ride but I don’t think I’m riding today with the pain that came with it…might try to ride downstairs but I can still feel the damage from yesterday and that makes me a little hesitant….I was really hoping that it would rain this morning and it would clean the salt out of the car but it looks like it is moving out and dry…not quite warm enough to put the top down for the run out to Ada today but I’ll get it down next week with the warm up that is coming…going out to shoot pool today and I’m looking forward to that…not sure when the last time was and I have to remember to take the quarters I have in the bowl in my bedroom…it’s a 100 mile round trip and the car can use some mileage on it…I’m not dying! That was the the takeaway from talking to the urologist yesterday and I don’t think I thought I ever was…just had a feeling that things were going to be okay and it’s nice to be right…not much to do today…just the run out to shoot pool and then back here to just veg out the day….it’s mug shot day for the idiot boy but I’ll be on the road while that happen…darn…more later…
Good news….
Well…the results are in from my biopsy I had Friday…the urologist called me this afternoon and told me that while they did find some cancer cells in one sample, it’s as low an amount that you can have and still consider it cancer…so no aggressive stuff and I have the lowest Gleason score you can get…that’s how they measure cancer of the prostate…but she does want to see what the hard spot is so she is scheduling an MRI in a couple of months to take a look at it and then we’ll see if it needs treatment or if I’m at the watch and wait stage….I think that rates a cocktail for tonight….
What the hell was 60 Minutes thinking?
Well…I am shocked that 60 Minutes would put MTG on it’s show for a softball interview that legitimized her frickin craziness and never pushed back on her lies and bullshit…I mean Leslie Stahl just let her continue to lie about dems calling all dems “groomers” and “pedophiles” and not once calling her out on her statements that dems should be killed just for being dems and that “Jewish space lasers” were the cause of the wildfires in California…this is so damn dangerous to mainstream the far right…and now, all of the independents who watch the show are going to think that she’s not too bad when she really is that bad, the worst sort of politician who only fuels the outrage on the right and doesn’t do anything for her constituents…but not one question about that like: “what legislation have you written to help the people who elected you?” See, that’s not too hard and I thought of that one off the top of my head…Stahl has been useless for years now and 60 Minutes should just go off the air if they are going to normalize these far right insurrectionists who tried to overthrow the government…not one question about that by the way, when Marge was in the middle of January 6th….what a worthless piece of trash…geez…
April 3rd
Well…damn, woke up freezing and saw that my comforter was halfway into the living room so I must have tossed and turned like crazy last night….up at 6:03 and then out of bed at 6:23 and I feel like I slept lousy and I still can’t get warm and I am so tired of being cold all the time….and I am going to get colder as soon as it gets light since I am going to do an outside ride today…yeah, I know I’m supposed to wait two more days but the pain has gotten a lot better and I just can’t take more time off…going to try to get two rides in today and I need to go out and get some cash since I don’t have any in my pockets….not sure what is going on but my right elbow is throbbing today…just like yesterday….I do need to expand the garden with all of the veggies and herbs I have to plant so that means I’ll have to go out and get some garden soil to mix in with with the clay and sand….might even do that this morning but I’m not sure…I do need to put gas in the car today, too, since I’m driving 100 miles tomorrow…not much to do today…going to let it warm up a bit and get light before I try to get on the bike outside…it looks like it’s going to get warm enough to put the top down on the car when I run errands this afternoon and I can’t wait…but I am still having trouble getting going so I’ll get another cup of coffee and sit here for a bit…more later…
The judge needs to gag idiot boy…
Well…Tuesday after idiot boy gets arrested and arraigned, he is planning on doing a “press conference” at his tacky Florida golf club and I am surprised that none of his lawyers have told him to shut the hell up…after all, quite a few ex prosecutors have already said that his attacks on Alvin Bragg are right on the line of obstruction of justice and I hope Bragg is watching and will load up another charge to go with the 34 that are in the indictment…but the thing that has to happen is the judge putting a gag order on everyone who is involved in the case…and that would include idiot boy who needs a gag more than anyone in this country…and if I were the judge I would tell the idiot that if he keeps up his bullshit, he can sit in jail until the trial…that would be delicious…but he probably won’t…and that is a little disappointing….oh, well…I really do think that no one should cover the idiot’s blather Tuesday…what would be newsworthy in it…nothing…geez…
Second day off the bike…
Well…just can’t get my head into political mode today but I will keep trying as the day goes on…made the mistake of leaving my glasses on when I walked into the bathroom today, and that resulted in me cleaning the whole thing including the shower…and today is the second day off the bike and I don’t mind…I will be back on it to do an outside ride tomorrow or two since it’s supposed to be in the mid 50′s so I’ll be out in shorts, too, but not til later in the day…I did switch back to the electric toothbrush today with no pain from it and I really like how clean my teeth are…I was pretty apprehensive when I started it but now it’s okay…going to stay with only one meal a day from now on and that might get me to my goal of 160 pounds by the end of summer….and I really don’t miss the extra food…more later….
April 2nd
Well…what a waste of a night…watched, or tried to watch the new “Avatar” movie and just got bored with it before the end…no movie should be three hours long…had an okay day yesterday but took it easy and didn’t do much but plant some tomato seeds that had sprouted in the wet paper towels and need to plant the few green pepper seeds that are ready…put a bunch of new Jalapeno and green pepper seeds in since I didn’t have any survive last year….looks like I’m going to have enough beans this year with already having 4 up and planting a bunch that have sprouted a few days ago…I may put some of the yellow ones in paper towel today to ensure I have a few of those, too…I really do need to clean the bathroom today but I’m not feeling it right now…woke up this morning at around 6:15 but I couldn’t get out of bed til a little after 7 and I’m feeling pretty worn out…and my right elbow is hurting for some reason…damn I’m old…I sure wish I could get on the bike today since it’s going to be warm enough to ride outdoors today and the sun is shining…damn, I may try to go out since I don’t hurt from the biopsy…my daughter sent me a 76 page document on prostate cancer and I’m more concerned now that I’ve read it…there doesn’t appear to be any good outcomes from treatment and my life is going to suck after it….oh, well…not much to do today…still on the one meal strategy that I think will be permanent until I get down to 160 pounds and I think I’ll need to lose 10 more to get there…and that will be 40 pounds down from a year ago and I guess that should be something to celebrate but I don’t feel like that right now…more later…
April fool…
Well…no, I’m not going to do a groan inducing April fool’s joke but I didn’t just want to do another one with “got some work done” title…it’s been an okay day today and haven’t had any pain from the biopsy yesterday so I’ll take that…I may try to get on the bike Monday since it’s going to be 54 and I need to get outside…we’ll see…it’s a weird coincidence that I was running out of shavers and got three coupons in the little paper for 3 bucks off the ones I use so that will be half price and I’ll fill my stock back up that will last me a year or so…and I have a 3 buck coupon for Bounty that Meijers has on sale so I can get 6 mega rolls for 8 bucks and that’s not a bad deal…I did have a bunch of tomato seeds sprout in the wet paper towel I had them in so I may have enough if they all come up..already have a couple that came up in the dirt so I should have a dozen or so to plant…had to open a new pack of green pepper seeds since the old ones weren’t sprouting and I want to have at least 6 plants this year…it looks like I’ll have enough beans this year since I have 6 plants up and have a few more that I planted yesterday…I could use a dozen plants since I love fresh green beans…and I have a new type of beans that I planted 8 of…might have to extend the garden to take all the new stuff I am just going to plant and not start them ahead of time…another 4 feet should do it…okay, I’m done for the day…going to watch the three and a half hour “Avatar” movie and that should cover the whole night…
Our people are the problem…
Well…look, I’ll admit I’m an old white guy and most people would see me as a prime supporter of the repubs by how I look…and it astonishes me how people like me can see the repubs wanting to cut the programs that keep us old white people alive and say “I need me some of that” when voting…and the only reason that any repub gets elected is that old white people vote for them…is it a mass delusion that most of my peers do that? I don’t think so…I really think it’s the propaganda that washes over our group from fox and the other right wing “news” sources that pollute the environment…and I think it started with right wing talk radio that, if compared to the news now, was just a little right wing…and then, gradually over time, began to slide rightward and rightward dragging the listeners/viewers with it with it’s miasma of hate and faux patriotism…after all, if Rush says it, it must be the truth, right? I even listened to Rush when he first came on the air and that was before fox or even the internet…but as he slid into all hate all the time, I realized what he was and it probably made me even more progressive…back to the premise…it’s white people who have done all the damage to this country that has been inflicted by repubs…so I think we should use the same tactics the right uses to win over the voters…after all, when people are polled on dem policies but they are not told they are dem policies, they love them and support them…and we need to connect the policies to dems running for office and make sure that people know the damage the repubs do…I know, pretty simple but hard to do with billions of dollars being spent on repub gaslighting and lies…geez…