Well…it was a busy day for the first part of it yesterday…I did get the insides of the winter wheels painted, made soup…which came out the best of any that I’ve made so far…and started to clean..but, just started…that is something I need to continue today….slept okay but the damn cold is still with me and I woke up sneezing which continues right now and I am getting really, really, tired of it…I’m getting really tired of the dead battery in my walkman, too, but I hope the new one will be here in a couple of days…it is just no where near as much fun riding without it….not much to do today….I do have to get the bike ride in and then do some laundry but that is about it…it’s leftover day so I don’t even need to cook….more later…
Music Musings….
Well….have just been watching a special on the Who’s “Quadrophenia” that was talking to the remaining band members about making the album…and one thing struck me..or a thought struck me when they were showing “Love, reign oe’r me”, one of my favorite Who songs when it was being done live back in ’73… I’ve started to not want to share the emotionally wrenching songs with a crowd…I am starting to prefer to listen to those alone since the reactions of others pollute what I’m feeling…or, maybe it’s that you have to be guarded in public settings and keep the mask on that you show to the world? I guess I just don’t want to share the moment with anyone…maybe that is a product of being alone most of the time? Who knows? Now that would have been a title for a Who album….
November 9th
Well…it was a long day yesterday and I still feel like crap today…but, it is the same pattern I seem to have for every cold…start feeling better and then relapse…feeling worse than I did before…but, don’t have much to do today so I can take it easy…after I ride the bike and make soup and paint the insides of the winter wheels….then I’ll take it easy…I did win at pool yesterday and made some good shots so that is something….slept okay for a third night without the sleeping pills so I feel good about that, too….but, no dreams to speak of and that is kind of bad…but, I’ll live through it….I do have to come back and do three more of these today to get caught up so that will be something…I do have the soup on already but that takes all day to get the chicken carcasses to melt down…more later…
November 8th…
Well…I am sitting here doing this while I wait for the car to thaw out…it is coated with ice and I just don’t want that to happen yet…it was just another lay low day yesterday while I wait for the bug to leave…and it hasn’t yet so the lungs are still crappy…so, didn’t get much done yesterday…and that looks like it will be the pattern for today, too….can’t continue to skip the bike so I will have to do that but that will be it…other than pool, that is….slept okay with the second day without a sleeping pill so it looks like that pattern is broken…..okay, I need to get out to get the papers and have my coffee so I’ll end here…more later…
I find this so damn funny…
Well…as Christie won the governorship of NJ again on Tuesday, I find it funny that the knives have come out from the other potential ’16 candidates from the repubs already…both Rubio and Paul have attacked starting with the contention that Christie’s lopsided win has nothing to do with any future elections…basically saying that NJ is just NJ and the rest of the country just doesn’t care for Christie….and the second one I heard of today was that ole Paul, at a senate hearing the other day, laid into Christie’s use of some of the Sandy aid for commercials to get people to come back to the NJ shore to try to jumpstart tourism there because most of them had Christie in them; calling them a blatant waste of government money for personal political gain…this is where I really start to laugh since ole Paul was one of the drivers behind the gov’t shutdown that cost the country over 24 billion dollars…and, for what I can see, it was for Paul’s and Cruz’s personal political gain and fundraising, since there was never any chance of them getting Obamacare repealed. The more I listen to ole Paul, the more I think he is just another of the privileged repubs that were born on third base and think they hit a triple, and just can’t take it when his bad behavior is called out…like in the plagarism scandal…what a sorry piece of work who can’t even be bothered to do his own work…anywhere….geez…
November 7th
Well….running early again today and part of it is that I was up really early with some weird dreams that included giants, wild pigs, and other strange stuff…and it was a no cocktail, no sleeping pill night that was not as bad as I expected it to be….so, I may do it again tonight to see how bad it is going to be…it was an okay day yesterday but I felt like crap again with the same damn bug I’ve had for a week now and I was coughing again, and again….it will be interesting to see how I feel today…hope it will be better…I do need to accomplish some stuff today…just don’t want another no energy day…the guilts will envelop me if I do…not much to do today…I did get an e-mail that said my battery for the walkman has been shipped…should be here in a week or so so that will be cool…I do have the grocery run today so I will finally have some food here and then have to get back on the bike today….more later…
Elections and other stuff…
Well….it’s another day of being so damn tired I can barely stand it and I’m not sure what is going on….okay…it’s from not eating enough but could be from not sleeping…aargh…I do want to say a few words about the elections yesterday but the only one that really meant anything was the gov of Virgina that we won…and got rid of the crazy that was running on their side…but, he will get a cushy, million dollar lobbying job in Washington or will work for the Heritage foundation or some other right wing scam operation that does nothing but grift from the idiots on the right….oh, the other stuff….not sure what that is….it just seemed like a good title…more later….maybe…
November 6th
Well…running early today…when was the last time you heard that? Just knew I wasn’t going to sleep anymore so I decided to get up and ease into the day…had some weird dreams that included me fighting…and, I’ve never been in a fight in my life….weird…I did bring the winter wheels in too soon yesterday so the place smells like paint…and I do need to do the insides of them, too…and it looks like Sat will be the day for that….I am still sore all over with the bad right lower back pain that I haven’t had in a while…but, today looks like a day off since it is going to rain all day but I do need to get my hair cut this morning since I made a little cash yesterday…going to be able to buy food for another week, too, so that made yesterday okay…not much to do today…it’s a resume day after I work out and get the hair cut…and there will be venison today…so that will probably be lunch…more later…
Election day…
Well…had a nice ride and got my winter wheels painted, so now it’s time for a few thoughts about today’s election…nothing going on out here in Gaines township so I really don’t have to vote…but, there are some interesting things going on across the country especially in Virginia where it looks like we will pick up the governorship and most of the upper offices there…saying goodbye to the idiot Cuccinelli who is the worst of the tea party idiots…well…that’s not true, he’s pretty close but the gop’s lieut gov is even worse…so good riddance to these women hating, gay bashing idiots….one bad thing today is that ole Christie will likely keep his job in New Jersey…even after having a screaming fight with a teacher where he said she basically didn’t deserve to be on the earth…we progressives have to get rid of people like Christie…a very, very good liar who has taken in the people of NJ…he is no different that the rest of the righties…even going so far as to sue to keep gays from having equal rights…it should be interesting later today when the polls close…
November 5th
Well…it was a long, boring day yesterday and I am still kind of laying low from the bug I’ve had since last week…feel a little better today but now the lower back hurts like crazy and I’m not sure how I hurt it…it’s not an achy, flu-like thing but the dull pain that I had for years…and I thought it would go away permanently after I lost some weight but, no such luck….slept like normal last night and had another dream about disappearing Miatas again and boats…which was kind of weird…I do have some things to do today after I get the ride in again and I may even be able to go out in shorts…it’s over 50 right now so that may be doable…and, I did order the new battery for the walkman yesterday since I only get about three songs now before it goes dead….should be here by the weekend but I can’t understand how they can sell it for 14 bucks including shipping…it must cost more than 14 bucks to ship from Hong Kong…more later….