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….
New stuff or old stuff?
Well…have been sitting here trying to figure out some new stuff to say but have only come up with snippets that wouldn’t make a whole one of these so this one is going to be a little disjointed…okay, most of these are a little disjointed but that’s my “style” and I’m sticking by that….forgot to mention this morning that the snow totals for this year here in GR are 4 feet more than last year…yep, 4 feet more than the 37 inches of last year and we still have more than a month of winter left to go…might be a record year if we get 15 more inches…I still can’t believe we’ve gotten 85 inches of snow this year…no wonder I’m so depressed…is this old or new stuff? Not sure…but I have been following the debt ceiling fight…another one of those? Yep, here we go again but this time the repubs have figured out that they are not going to be able to hold it hostage and crash the economy to try to jerk the country even farther to the right…and have given up before the fight began…but, ole Boehner has tried to save face by saying he won’t give Obama immigration reform this year to spite him….yeah, spite away, John…are you guys so stupid that you don’t recognize that every time you pull this crap of trying to hurt people it comes back to bite you in the ass? Yeah, they really, really, are…oh, and one last thing…the deficit is down to 1/3 of what it was when Obama took office….yep, this big spending, communist has reduced the deficit more than any repub president in the last 30 years…and he is still a socialist…I say, give me more socialism is that’s what it looks like…geez…
February 6th
Well…it was just another long, boring day yesterday with nothing to comment on…but, I will anyway just to keep the string alive…didn’t do much but I did take some venison out of the freezer and marinated it in the dressing that I have been using for chicken, too…and it came out pretty good…and I really needed the protein with all of the carbs I’ve been having lately…and, I have another one for today so that will be good to see how the marinade works overnight…slept okay last night but I am beginning to think that the twitching in my right eye is caused by using earplugs to sleep at night…might have to test that theory tonight….my heel is finally healing and doesn’t hurt as much as yesterday so I have hope that I will be able to walk normally soon….I am getting a little excited that the olympics are starting soon but hockey is going to be on a channel that I don’t get and I hate NBC for that….oh, well…not much to do today…I do have to run some errands this morning and then get some work done around here but that is it….more later….
More republican lies about the ACA…
Well…I am laughing about the typical repub spin on the new CBO report that came out in the past couple of days that says, as a result of the law, there will eventually be 2 million less full time workers…and of course the repubs say it is the result of the law, that employers will be eliminating jobs because the ACA forces them to provide healthcare to their employees…but, of course, the repubs take the headline and try to turn it to political advantage when it says no such thing…what the report really says is that with independent health insurance available that is not tied to any employer, more people will say “go to hell” to bad employers that they have been tolerating just to get health insurance…and many of those people will be able to finally retire with insurance they can afford before Medicare. So, what to do the repubs have against freedom? Oh, they are okay with freedom if is the freedom of employers to screw with their employees who couldn’t get health insurance before the ACA, but they just hate the fact that the ACA has taken away some leverage from employers to do whatever they want…to keep wages low since they had their employees over the healthcare barrel…and now, that the needle has swung just a little back to normal, ordinary people, the repubs are going crazy…under the orders of their corporate masters, of course….geez…
February 5th
Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for another one yesterday…went out to meet up with G for a couple at lunch and the day just got away from me….felt pretty crappy the rest of the day so I just hung out and vegged…I did have a weird dream in two stages last night…dreamed that I saw a plane crash and then helped the pilot get out of the wreckage…but, later in the dream a couple of days had passed and then I was talking about it to a different group of people…don’t remember having time passing in a dream in quite a while so that was fun…slept okay last night, too, so that was a pleasant surprise…nothing much happened the rest of the day…I did make up a crock pot meal out of leftovers that I had in the fridge that came out okay…and will give me something to eat the next couple of days…not much to do today…going to try to clean again today but haven’t has any success lately so maybe that won’t work this time either….more later…