Well…after I tried to repair my 25 year old Toro mower, I came to to the realization that it was beyond repair this time so I went out and bought a new mower today… a DeWalt with rear wheel drive, aluminum deck 21 inches, and a Briggs and Stratton engine…and it only cost me 388 bucks which I think is a deal…I was going to buy an electric one but none of them had enough run time to do the entire yard and everyone bitched about going through long grass…so, they are supposed to deliver it today since the carton wouldn’t fit in my car..I am looking forward to having only the 3rd new mower in my life and not having to worry about the drive breaking all the time… this one has a huge bag, too so I’ll be able to do more than 15 feet of leaves before it needs to be emptied…and it is pretty cool to just be able to buy something I need without worrying about if I could afford it or not…
Vance threatens the Pope…
Well…after vance’s attempt at election interference failed in Hungary and Orban was defeated in a landslide, the little idiot vance has tried to pile on with the big idiot trump’s war with Pope Leo and, as everything else he has tried, it is an utter failure…I mean how does a recently converted Catholic think he knows more than a pontiff who has spent his entire life living and learning Catholicism? It just the stunning hubris of the stupid who think they know more than anyone else about everything…and part of that is just vance kissing trump’s ass to get back in his good graces after failing to get an agreement to end the Iran war and failing to prop up their favorite dictator orban…and orban’s loss is even a greater blow to vance’s plans to ride the dictator wave into the WH…but that ended after the new president of Hungary cut off funding for CPAC and all of the right wing groups that have been trying to impose dictatorships around the world…I’m glad this support of dictators came back to bite vance in the ass…he deserves it…geez…
April 17th
Well…it’s a little weird that I woke up at 5:17 this morning and my brain cheered “alright” that it wasn’t 4:33 so maybe that’s progress and heading to getting out of bed at 6am? It’s going to be a busy day and I’ll be running all day with needing to get the indoor stuff done, then a run out to the bank to get cash for Monday, and then yard work including the first mowing of the lawn since the front is getting pretty long…I’m holding my breath to see if the 50 bucks of seed will actually sprout and if I’ve fixed the mower…I guess we’ll see…going to hope that my riding shoes have dried up after riding through 9 inches of flood on the trail yesterday…may not be able to get an outdoor ride in today since it’s only going to be 52 and windy and I’m already sore without doing any work yet…so there will be ibuprofen in my future…have no leftovers after finishing them up yesterday so I will have to cook something but don’t want to tackle the masala after all the stuff I need to do today…but I may make it for dinner if I can muster the energy…I would say not much to do today but that’s not the case…going to get running here in 45 minutes and won’t stop until the yard is done…more later…
“The Great Gig in the sky”
Well…stumbled upon a documentary about the making of “The Dark side of the Moon” yesterday that I’ve never seen and it focused on one of my favorite songs from that album, “the Great Gig in the Sky”…that song never fails to trigger emotions in me especially now that I’m getting closer to that time when it will happen to me…I especially liked the extended interview with Clare Torry and what it was like to come in out of nowhere and do one of the most moving singing that I have ever heard…and you know that this song is about how someone deals with death and even though it’s wordless, she captures the rage and then acceptance that comes with someone close dying…and when she describes the first take and then the second which was used on the record…and then her stopping in the middle of the 3rd saying “I think you’ve got enough” and walking away, she knew she’d done what they needed…but it was funny that she didn’t even know they had used her singing until she walked into a record store and heard the song playing…still my favorite Pink Floyd song of all time written by Rick Wright…
They’re finally realizing it’s not 11th dimension chess..
Well…finally, it’s starting to look like the media that has a vested interest in making the idiot trump look competent is starting to rethink that malpractice…he is not competent, he is not playing 11th dimension chess, he’s just a deluded asshole ping ponging from decision to decision…sometimes making three or 4 conflicting ones in the same day…and picking fights with the pope? What kind of delusional asshole does that? I idiot boy really thinks he know more about religion than someone who has spent his life learning and serving his flock…now you know I really don’t think religion is a good thing…being responsible for many of the ills in this world and splitting this country down the middle by the self righteous assholes who want to shove their warped view of christianity down everyone’s throat…but when the pope speaks about peace and that jesus would never support the war mongering assholes in charge, at leas the is not beating around the bush…the call for idiot boy’s removal by the 25th amendment is getting stronger every day…and the repubs really should pay attention when over 60% of the country want the idiot trump gone…geez…
April 16th
Well…that didn’t work…really tried to stay in bed til after 5am but 4:50 came and I just couldn’t lie there anymore…decided to take my BP this morning after skipping it for a while but I was curious to see if the no cocktails was helping and it appears it is…117/74 is not bad and that was before any BP meds…I may even skip the meds for a few days and see what it’s like without them…it raining again and it’s going to be doing that off and on until this aft so there will be an indoor ride to get me started and then I’ll try to get an outdoor one in after lunch…I did get the front of the yard seeded yesterday and tomorrow is going to be work on the yard day with raking the fencelines and doing the first mowing since the front is getting pretty long…and with 4 books left, I won’t have to hit the library til Monday and that will go with the 4/20 errand…so I need to get some cash out of the bank…and that means going inside the bank since the damn atm is too high to reach in my car…going to have to insulate the outdoor faucet Sat night sine it’s going to get down to 31 and I don’t want the new valve to freeze…it is just wrong to have 31 degrees this far into April…what’s next, snow in May? At least it’s not the 56 day drought like 2 years ago…not much to do today…the leftovers will finally be over so I’ll need to figure out meals and clean some…more later…
vance is getting a taste of the grown up world…
Well…with failure after failure, it appears the vance is finally getting a taste of the grown up world where he is not protected by peter thiel who bought him his senate seat and installed him as VP…I wonder why he thought he could actually be effective on the world stage when the only thing he’s ever done in his life is co wrote some stupid book…no legislative accomplishments as a senator and no original thoughts at all…getting fed everything he is supposed to say like some frickin ventriloquist’s dummy…the world is finally seeing that he is just an empty suit…a child trying to play a big boy’s game and failing miserably at it…and people are starting to see that and are starting to ignore him…like the one’s who skipped his rally this weekend that they planned to draw thousands and only a couple of hundred showed up…and even the sponsor of rally skipped it showing that he is just a useless waste of time and space…geez…
I miss DailyKos…
Well…with the migration of Daily Kos over to the platform that I have my website on, Word Press…it looks like it may take all day before they are up and running again and it has been a part of my morning routine for so long that I do miss being able to get caught up on what happened overnight…yeah, I know, it’s only been a day but it has been the way I eased onto my day since I discovered the site 20 years ago and I need my dose of good, progressive news and opinion…and the cool thing about the site is that it is powered by the people who contribute their ideas to go along with the staff writers…and there is a lot of heartfelt sharing of what is going on in people’s lives…I guess it’s a community that supports each other and that is sorely lacking in this coarse, hateful world that the idiot trump has built…can’t wait til it’s up and running again…
April 15th
Well…damn, out of bed at 4:33 today and have poured the first cup of coffee before 5am and there just seems to be something wrong with that…I don’t think I’ll ever get back to sleeping to 6am or later and I know that 6 hours total with tossing and turning all night is not enough…oh, well…it looks like it will be raining all day today so the possibility of getting outdoors on the bike is pretty small and I can use an easy day after working my butt off yesterday…I probably should clean the bathroom today or the kitchen, not sure which but I know my microwave is going to be cleaned….need to take the chicken out for masala today to be ready to cook Friday or Saturday and then plan what the second meal will be…haven’ had pasta in forever so that may be the choice…need to see if I’m able to taste garlic bread and if not, that sucks…going to have to mow the lawn soon and get the fencelines raked…the yard waste pickup has started so I can fill a big bag and have a place for the clippings and sticks to go…it’s going to freeze again Sunday so I’ll have to figure out how to insulate the outdoor faucet so I don’t lose the new valve I put on when I opened the tap…god, I hate the frickin cold…the high is only going to be 40 and the low is 30 and that could freeze everything…crap…at least it won’t kill any new grass that comes up…not much to do today…just an indoor ride and then cleaning so I will have the chance to read today….more later…
Busy, busy, busy…
Well…have been running since 6:30am but it’s now 1pm and I am done for the day…it started with an indoor ride since it was raining and then straight out to run errands and I was able to put the top down on the car and that was fun…I had a guy stop at Menards and told me the car looked like fun and I had to agree with him…bought some really expensive bluegrass seed that has a coating that absorbs moisture and keeps it in the seed as it germinates so I’m hoping that will work with the dry times out here…but it’s going to rain off and on for the next week so maybe the patches I seeded this morning will grow…I also put weed killer on since the weeds were perilously close to taking over the yard…I’m still finishing off the coffee at 1:15 pm so you know it’s been too busy to drink it earlier…even got an outdoor ride in with just a t-shirt and shorts on and that was fun…but I’m used up and need to rest a bit and read some to recharge…it’s warm enough to open the windows a bit and air this place out…yay!