Well…it was another wasted Olympic day yesterday but I did get this thing re-vamped so maybe that is something…not much, but something…I do have a new bug that is making me cough like crazy so maybe I have an excuse to watch the games now? Slept okay last night but it was still another one of those 5 hour nights that may start to catch up with me later in the day…watching curling gives me the chance to get here early and then I won’t have to agonize over not doing this until later….not much to do today….going to get a few things done but no pressure….more later….
As you can see, there have been some changes..
Well…as you can see, I have been noodling around today trying to update the look of this place and I thought I’d give this a try…not sure if I’ll keep it or not but it does look a little more modern…and, it is the only thing I’ve gotten done today…got sucked into the Olympics again and just vegged the day out…I really do have to try to get better tomorrow and at least get some resumes out….but the Olympics start again when I get up…I am torn….
Oh, just went out and looked at the mobile site and it looks much better than it did so I may have to keep the changes for a while…
Olympics update…
Well…it’s happened again….I’ve been getting sucked into the Olympics again and it is really getting me off stride…don’t want to work out, don’t want to eat, or sleep when there are events on…not sure if the competition is as good as Canada 4 years ago, but it is still fun to have something to watch and take my mind off the rest of the world…and there have been some performances in ice dancing, slope style snowboarding, and many other events that have been pretty cool…and, I am getting geeked about how good the USA womens hockey team has been playing….but, the USA women lost in curling this morning and I am waiting for the USA mens to start….I finally have gotten past the part that the US has to win for me to enjoy it, too….so…there will be more updates as the games go on and I will even be lucid…I hope…
Walmart still sucks..
Well…one of the things that has been galling about watching the Olympics this time is the commercial that Walmart has been running about how wonderful they are for planning…remember, only planning to spend 250 billion dollars to ‘revive” American manufacturing….and every time I see it, I gag at the audacity of the ad…the audacity of a company who has spent the past 40 years destroying American manufacturing by their relentless push to cut costs by selling billions and billions of dollars of cheap Chinese crap…all the while paying their employees so little that most of them qualify for food stamps and other aid that has we taxpayers giving Walmart almost a million dollars a store in subsidies. It reminds me of the old, old joke that has a murderer killing his parents and then throwing himself on the mercy of the court by saying he has an excuse, he is an orphan….that is just what this whole campaign smells like…hollow out the economy with your strategic plans, then make a big deal that you might go back and fix some of the damage that you caused…what a sorry excuse for a company, and a sorry excuse for Americans these Waltons are…geez…
February 10th
Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for anther one yesterday so that puts me at least two behind for the month…but, I just realized I have ready made topics in the olympics so I will be doing a few of those in the next couple of days….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t do much…again, and I’m not sure today will be any better…I did get some cooking done but didn’t eat enough again but that is getting to be a broken record…and to know I won’t be able to get on the bike before May is starting to depress me more and more as the days go by…oh, well…slept okay last night but only got about 5 hours but I’m not sure that is a bad thing…I am getting drawn into the speed skating that is on live right now so I am going to go watch that right now….will have to work out here in a while but want to see the races first…more later…oh, and I so have a short comment on Walmart later…I am just pissed about a new commercial they have been running during the olympics…and that they have Mike Rowe narrating it makes it even worse…
February 9th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t do much and I am not going to feel guilty about it…I did make some ham soup and it came out really good…this time, I skimmed the fat off the top throughout it’s cooking so the broth is really clear and I hope more healthy…slept okay last night but that was from a cocktail night…back on the wagon today and no more cocktails until Friday…still need to be serious about not gaining more weight since I won’t be back on the bike until May….I do need to get the bathroom cleaned today and I have a pork loin to cook so that will be something…and, the olympics are on again, of course, so that will help keep the boredom at bay…more later….
What the hell is it with Michigan Republicans?
Well…you would think after ole Dave Agema went off on gays, Muslims, and everyone else who is not a repub here in Michigan saying that gays use up all of the insurance for everyone since they all have aids, that the repubs would understand that this is batshit crazy and would tone it down some…but nope, now we have another Michigan repub who is running to represent Michigan in the national repub party saying pretty much the same thing about gays, saying that “Satan uses homosexuality to attack the living space of the holy spirit” and that all gays should be purged from the party…don’t really know what to say about that but it does show a pattern from the repubs that they have tried and tried to hide to appeal to people who aren’t haters…I find it telling that there are still such backward, idiotic people and that they are all from the repub party…I just don’t understand what has happened to the repubs here in Michigan…a party that gave us Bill Milliken and Jerry Ford…but, I will say “keep it up” define yourselves so we don’t have to….geez…
February 8th
Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for a second one yesterday but I have a good excuse…was out for lunch with T and then out to shoot pool with Tom and that took a lot out of me…the lunch was so much fun and it was nice to see T for the first time in a month and catch up…but, I lost at pool for the third week in a row so maybe I’ll need to practice…naw…slept okay last night since it was a cocktail night and had a pleasant surprise this morning when I found that NBCSN, that I normally don’t get, is on with olympic coverage that I can have on all day as background noise….I was going to make soup today but I have leftovers that I need to use first so I will have containers to freeze the extra in…but, that’s okay…not that motivated today…not much to do today…it is going to be a sports day with Michigan playing this aft and the olympics and Wings later so it looks like a total veg day…should clean the bathroom and I just might..or not, who knows? More later…
February 7th
Well…running early today since I got up early and am already bored…and it looks like more and more cold and snow for the weekend…how can you not be depressed? Slept okay last night but I am still tired again today but that is the new normal…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get a few things done so that is something but not much…but today looks like it will be a little less boring with lunch with T and then out for pool…and the olympics have started but I am already tired of the personal interest stories that they feel compelled to interject all night…I don’t really need to know the personal stories of the participants, especially when it breaks up the flow of the events…after all, it is the performances that define the games, not the childhood of these people….not much to do today…need to do the grocery run and then get ready for the rest of the day…more later…
Another ass of a CEO blames the ACA…
Well…I am starting to get pissed with all of the incompetent CEO’s slashing benefits and then blaming it on the ACA…even though the entire act has not even taken effect…just like John Schnatter of Papa John’s who went on a bitch screed last year saying he would make sure no one in his company would work more than 30 hours so he wouldn’t have to make health insurance part of the benefit package offered…and this, even though giving all of his employees full boat health insurance would only cost the company 4 cents extra per pizza and no one would even notice…just another asshole on the right trying to make a political point by screwing his workers. Today, we have another one of these assholes that makes over 10 million dollars a year, Tim Armstrong of AOL, saying that he HAS to cut the companies 401K match since two women there had babies that needed “a million dollars in care” and claims that Obamacare has cost the company 7.1 million dollars. One thing this prick doesn’t mention is that his bad decisions in acquisitions has cost the company over 200 million dollars in the past year…so, what he is really saying is that I’m so damn dumb that I can’t even do my job, so all of you employees have to pay for it while I take my 10 million dollars and laugh all the way to the bank. This one has the analysts laughing out loud…all of them have said that there is no possible way that Obamacare has cost AOL 7.1 million dollars…this prick is just lying like every one of these CEO’s whose pay is based on screwing workers…I, for one, am really, really tired of these assholes using their employees as scapegoats for their incompetence…when do they have to take some personal responsibility? Geez….