Well…running a little late today but not too late…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get the bike repaired but I’m not sure how good of a job I did…that will show in a minute when I take it out for a ride….doesn’t look too good but I I’m more into function so that’s okay…slept okay last night but with it being a cocktail night, I feel a little crappy today…but I think I ate enough yesterday so that won’t be compounding it and I should have good legs for the ride…if the bike holds up, it will be a long one today….not much to do today…I was going to wash the car but I think I’ll wait until tomorrow…or maybe today, who knows….more later…
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Just an update…
Well…it has been kind of a busy day today and I finally got to doing the fiberglass on the bike frame to keep the seat post tube from cracking….laid up three layers of glass and resin and it looks like it might work okay but I won’t know until I take it out tomorrow and put some stress on it…I hope it works or I may have to start looking for a new bike…but I don’t want to spend 400 bucks right now….maybe I’ll start saving where I can and see if it can be done…didn’t get to washing the car today but that’s okay…it will give me something to do tomorrow….I am looking forward to the premiere of “Breaking Bad” tomorrow…may have to go out to Netflix and see if last season’s finale is out there….
Tea Party stupidity…
Well….If this wasn’t so sad, I’d just laugh and shake my head….the other day, one of the tea party idiots was at a town hall meeting and went on and on trying to justify his votes to cut over 40 billion dollars out of the food stamp program…since he thinks almost all of the people that use them are committing fraud…and his reason for thinking this way? He was in line at the grocery store (which I just don’t believe) and saw two people using food stamps that weren’t fat..in fact he went on and on about how fit they looked and they couldn’t be poor enough if they were fit since everyone knows that poor people are fat….never mind that the occurrence of fraud in the program is down below 1%….but the one thing you can count on with the tea partiers is that they never let facts get in the way of their prejudices….I am still amazed how such stupid people can get elected…geez…
August 10th
Well…it was a long and interesting day yesterday and I even won at pool for the first time in over a month…and put the 8 ball in on the break to win the week…something that I never do…so that was fun and then out with K for a couple after I got home…and I made a little cash so I have groceries for another week….slept okay last night, too, so, all in all, it was a pretty good day….I am feeling a little crappy today, though, and I think it’s the allergies that are kicking in since my head is plugged up and hurting…oh, well…not much to do today…I do need to clean the car since there is a film on the inside of the windows again and the really bugs me…and I do need to clean this place up, too, so there will be things to do today…and I do need to do a couple more of these to get caught up….
More birther crap…
Well…just a short one on the stupidity that seems to be a badge of honor amongst repubs these days…and it didn’t used to be that way…I wonder why these ignorant bastards keep getting elected? Just yesterday, a repub rep from Oklahoma commented during a town meeting that he felt that there still should be a congressional investigation into Obama’s birth, birth certificate, etc. but thinks it may be too late now. I can’t keep saying this enough…there has never been a question that Obama’s mother is a US citizen and that makes Obama a “natural born citizen” of the US and makes him eligible to be president…no birth certificate needed…and just the other day, ole Ted Cruz said that he was eligible to be president even though he was born in Canada…and his reasoning? That his mother was a US citizen so that makes him one, too….I really want to go to one of these town hall meetings and have these idiots that so revere the constitution actually read it…geez…
August 9th
Well…running late today since I just didn’t feel like doing this until now…and I’m not sure if I feel like doing it now…but, I will…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a bunch of stuff done…had to clean up the hornets nest mess and get rid of a bunch of stuff from my storage area and I also re-bled the clutch with the tool that I bought to do it…much, much better actuation now and I think I may finally be able to stop thinking about it…and the trans shifts much better, too, so that is a big plus….I still have the pain from working on the car, though, and it has gotten so bad that I am taking ibuprofen all day…but, I think some of it is just the tendonitus that I have been chasing all summer…it’s gotten so bad that I can feel the tendons working in my left elbow when I make a fist…oh, well….not much to do today…I am going to take a long bike ride since there is no wind and it looks just gorgeous out there and then pool this aft….and the Lions play a preseason game tonight so I may watch some of that…more later…
Stupidity=Republicans…
Well…a couple of thing have come up over the past few days that just made me laugh about how stupid the republicans have become…or still are? First, we have the idiot congressman from Florida name Yoho that came out the other day to proudly say he has told ole Boehner that he thinks the 10% tax on tanning beds that is included in the law is racist against whites since “no dark-skinned people” use them…yeah, not making this up, again…and then he goes on and on about how terrible the rest of the ACA is and how he will vote to repeal it…yada, yada…statements that are just dripping with stupidity since repeal is never going to happen. Then, we have a rep from NC at a town meeting the other day boasting about how many times he has voted to repeal the ACA when his constituents asked him why he wanted to make sure that they will never be able to afford insurance and never be covered for pre-existing conditions…and then asked what he would replace the ACA with…and, of course, the idiot couldn’t answer since they really don’t care if people like me can afford insurance or not…they have theirs and anyone else can go to hell….geez…
August 8th
Well…it was a long day yesterday and I feel really, really sore from the work on the car…finding new spots that hurt and I can’t figure out how I hurt some of them…don’t remember hitting my head but I have a bruise on it that couldn’t have come from anything else…slept okay last night but I am still quite worn out and today looks like another low key one…I do have to clean up the patio from the hornet mess and continue cleaning out the storage unit….but, I don’t really feel that motivated…I am a little curious to see if I did get the clutch bled right…that should show on the way out to get the papers this morning….not much to do today…I am going to slow clean all day and just try to get a few things done….more later…
No politics but lots of hornets…
Well…there are a few things happening in politics, but I wanted to share this first…maybe a political one in a few minutes…sitting here at my computer this morning, I noticed a bunch of hornets flying around on my patio and going into a small crack behind the door of my storage unit….well…there were more than a few and when I opened the door and took out some stuff, I found a nest of hornets…I think they are bald-faced hornets…I sprayed them with my bug killer and have been fighting the returnees ever since…I think I’ve saturated the nest and the eggs enough to where the rest of the ones coming back will land in the poison and then slowly die….and I can get my patio back from the damn things…then I’ll need to clen out my storage unit so I can put the blizzaks in and get them out of my living room….more later…
August 7th
Well….it was an interesting day yesterday with finally getting the car fixed and it appears it IS fixed…took it out to Meijer this morning and it is finally linear like it is supposed to be….was supposed to be really hard to bleed but I think it was quite easy…but, there was much damage to muscles I don’t use in that way…and climbing under a car at my age is starting to get to be a pain, too…almost quit in the middle of the job when I couldn’t get the bolts out…the rest of the day was just licking the wounds and cooking some….and it looks like the rain has stopped so I will be able to get on the bike….but, I need to take some pain killers to make it palatable….not much to do today….need to kind of lay low for a while since I am running out of cash…but I did spend a couple of bucks on Powerball tickets for tonight…over 400 million bucks…a win would be nice…more later…