Well…finally…the public has come around to my stand on the stupid data centers that have sprouted like poison mushrooms all over the world…and now 75% of Americans have come around to that idea that they are basically useless and use so many resources that there is not going to be any leftover for you and me to live with…even in Texas the rural areas are starting to revolt against the plague that their governor is foisting on them and it could cost him the election in November…look, even with the limited reporting so far it is clear that these centers do all kind of damage to the communities they are forced on with reports of noise and heat pollution and aquifers dropping dangerously as they tap the groundwater to cool the thousands of servers each one of these have…and now the repubs want them to be able to use unregulated power plants to provide power to them…how would you like a pollution spewing coal fired power plant in your neighborhood? That’s the next thing that is coming as the repubs give the assholes that own these centers a return on their investment in getting them elected…so now is the time to fight against the billionaires who have already laid waste to this country by buying tax cuts so they don’t pay a dime in supporting the country…it’s time to say enough and try to keep some of this country and world for us…geez…
August 21st
Well…up and out of bed at 5:10 this morning so I guess I’m back to the normal stuff and I just don’t have the energy to bitch about it…I did sleep okay if that’s any consolation and it is…a little…but not much…didn’t do crap yesterday but order some stuff from amazon…I needed new shorts for the Italy trip since it’s supposed to be in the upper 70’s to 80 while we’re there and that’s too warm for jeans…and we’ll be walking outdoors a lot…wonder it I should take a coat at all since the lows will be in the 50’s but I hate being cold so I guess a few fleeces should work…I did order the adapter I need to plug my electronics in and it was only 9 bucks and has two regular outlets along with two lightning and a USB port so I can charge everything I have at once…and of course more coffee beans so I’ll have enough for the rest of the year…I did buy some 2% milk Wed and have tried some with a meal and I’m surprised it actually tastes like milk that non fat just doesn’t….so I may have to just take the calories…I do like it in coffee and I wonder what it will be like thickened to put in my potato soup…it will probably spoil quicker with more milkfat in it but I guess we’ll see…not much to do today…just need to have my bagel and more coffee and get my butt out for the rides and then clean the kitchen…might go out and start clearing the finished perennials since I want to put them out for pick up Tuesday…oh, and hit that damn trash tree with brush killer…more later…
Lots of rain…
Well…I knew it rained a lot here Tuesday when I noticed that the animal water container was full to overflowing when I only filled to half full…and I just read in the news that we got 3.35 inches of rain in that storm…that’s a hell of a lot of rain for a few hours and it even flooded US 31 under the overpass near my house and they had to close it with 4 feet of water there…yow! But that still won’t help my yard at all since it’s built on sand and all of the water just drains through when it rains…but I’ll take whatever we can get…I did order some stuff for the Italy trip today… another pair of shorts, a power converter that gives me American outlets when I plug it in to European electricity…and I also added another kilo of espresso beans since I could still get them for 14 bucks…I needed the shorts since it’s supposed to be near 80 for a high in September in Italy and there is no way I’m walking around in jeans…and that stuff will be here between 4 and 8am tomorrow…now I just need to do an early check in with Southwest for my trip to Richmond to hang with my daughter for a couple of days before we fly to Italy…might look for a couple more shirts to take with me since I only have 5 and I’ll be gone 2 weeks…maybe we’ll have a hotel with a laundry again like we did in Scotland…that would be cool…
Now we’re paying for a babysitter for trump?
Well…a necessary firestorm has resulted from a comment in a speech by Jon Ossoff where he pointed out that we are paying a woman called Natalie Harp to babysit idiot boy and fawn over him to keep him from melting down…and the notes she has left for the idiot are sickening where she pledges her undying devotion to him and has even hidden in the trunk of a car so she could be next to him…okay, are you as ready to puke as I am? And she carries a huge bag with everything she needs to see to trump’s “needs” including, it appears, adult diapers since it is well know that he craps his pants all the time…the question is “does she change his diapers and clean him up, too?” So now we know that idiot boy can’t function without an adult human being there all the time who we are paying well into 6 figures…never in history has such a decrepit, doddering fool been squatting in the WH and it’s time for him to go…geez…
So now he’s a warship designer?
Well…the stupidity from the idiot knows no bounds and his latest would embarrass a 4 year old…because idiot boy doesn’t like the way aircraft carriers look and thinks they should be like the obsolete WWII ships, he has ordered any new carriers to have their islands (the part where the ship is run from) moved to the center of the ship…no matter that the islands were designed on new carriers to be out of the way so they could launch and recover aircraft twice as fast as the old carriers and have the capability to have larger, faster aircraft on the ships…but to the “stable genius” who thinks that looks are performance, it doesn’t matter…he just wants them to “look the part” of some obsession of his about WWII…and that extends to the catapults used to launch the aircraft where he wants to have the new electric catapults that were designed with the ships to be replaced by obsolete steam ones that won’t fit in the spaces that were built into the ships…basically idiot boy is saying gut these ship and spend billions and billions of dollars to go backwards in capability just because they “don’t look right” to him…when are the repubs going to stop the stupidity that idiot boy shows every day and the gutting of our military that he has done? Geez…
August 20th
Well…damn, I don’t know how I’m doing it but I didn’t get up til almost 6am this morning but I don’t feel better from it..it’s only 56 degrees out there so I’ll have to wear a modified thermasuit this morning…okay, a long sleeved shirt…that’s not as dramatic sounding…I think I did get the hornet thing sorted since there aren’t any downstairs but I’ll have to take a look outside when it gets light…got every little crack and crevice cemented over yesterday so there is no way for them to get back in…or out for that matter…so, I’m not getting on the bike til almost 7am since I do need more coffee and to toast a bagel to have some fuel for the rides…not sure what else I have to do today…made another jar of pickles and one of pickled red onions y3esterday and I added a bit to that recipe to give it some bite…a little cayenne pepper just like I add to the pickles…need to be able to taste something…added the 2% milk that I bought yesterday to my coffee but I can’t taste any difference…maybe I will when I drink it for lunch…who knows? not much to do today…need to clean the kitchen and probably will with nothing else on the agenda but putting brush killer on the crappy shrub so I don’t have to keep trimming it…and I do need to cut the perennials down and clean up the side and back of the house that I can now get to without the damn hornets swarming….more later…
Busy…again…
Well…up at 5:10 this morning to be able to get out to get the rides in before the grocery run…and I had to hit menards for brush killer and bug spray before I went to aldis and Meijers and then to the library…where two of the 4 books I got are repeaters and that sucks…so I wonder if I’ll go to the library again or just not read for a bit…haven’t read much of anything today since I had to continue to work on getting rid of the hornets…plugged up the inside holes with cement before I did the same with the entrance holes outside and I hope that will finally get rid of them…at least the ones that are out in the wild can’t get back in now but I’ll keep an eye on it anyway…it did rain like crazy last night for almost 3 hours and the trail was flooded and I soaked my shoes which won’t dry for days…oh, well…and I made another batch of pickled red onions and pickles and now I’m about done for the day…I do have to cook for dinner and I’m making a small ham with mashed potatoes and corn and I really should get on peeling the potatoes right now and then grind the beans for tomorrow’s coffee…man, it has been busy but one thing I learned is that I can amuse myself without a book going…oh, I tried my new shoes for Italy on the grocery run and they are pretty comfy and they even look stylish which is not me at all…still need to breaking in but not as much as leather ones do…okay, peeling potatoes…
Weak….
Well…after the idiot trump’s endorsement failed again on three primary races last night, bringing the total to 13 losses…I really think that people are getting tired of the orange asshole screwing up this country…and even some corporations he bullied into giving him bribes for no reason are starting to say enough…the latest being Disney who sued idiot boy and his minions for trying to revoke the broadcast licenses they hold for tv stations since they broadcast things that the idiot didn’t like…and the suits are based on the first amendment and idiot boys posts that said he was doing this because they made fun of him…and when these suits get to discovery, he is going to have to provide documentation of the deliberations and the actual law that he is using to attack Disney’s first amendment rights…and it’s not going to be pretty since Disney has very deep pockets and competent lawyers not like the bottom feeding scum who will work for the idiot…so, it looks like the idiot’s hold on the country is failing and it can’t fail completely too soon…geez…
August 19th
Well…up early today but this is the plan for the day…want to get the rides in before the grocery run so I need to get on the bike at 6am and that give me a half hour until then…it’s going to be a busy morning with hitting 4 stores…or maybe 3 not sure yet since DD hasn’t updated it’s ad yet and I’m not going there until I know what’s on sale…going to wear the new shoes out for the run to start breaking them in before Italy….and I confirmed that my Capital One card can be used in Italy with no fees or any of that bullshit just like the UK trip…lucky I chose that card that gives me cash back, too…worked on getting the damn hornets taken care of and will keep working on that today to get to the point that I can cement up the holes they’re using….I must have killed a couple of hundred of them yesterday….not sure what I’m going to do after the grocery run and hitting the library today but I should clean the kitchen…and I need to heat up the little ham I got last week along with making some mashed potatoes to go with it and that will be enough food to last through the weekend with the leftover chicken in the fridge…and I’m going to get more so I’ll have protein to eat…it did rain pretty hard here last night and it lasted for at least three hours which we really needed..puddles on the trail this morning…okay, need to pour more coffee and start prepping to get on the bike….more later…
A strange day…
Well…damn, I started the day out late with not getting out of bed til 6:04 and that really stressed me out even though I still got everything I wanted to do done…so how strange is that? I mean cripes, I have no damn schedule anymore and yet there I am struggling to “catch up” as the day started…shaking my head about that one…but I did get the rides in and saw the turkey family again…twice…and the little ones are getting pretty big…and fast…but they have to stop trying to cross the busy street up to the beach…they almost got whacked by some idiot in a Lincoln going 50 in a 25 zone…I did get the trim on the garage door painted so I don’t have to look at the peeling but next summer I’m going to do it all again with better paint so it will last a couple of years…had the hornets back again today but I think I killed most of them..going to keep up spraying until they are gone and then cement up the holes they are using so they won’t come back…still not exhausted again today so that’s a good thing…and it may rain tonight…ha,ha…I don’t know why I keep saying that with the last 5 times it was forecast we got nothing so I think I’m on solid ground to laugh…no book to read but I think I’ll go out and read some news…