Well…I guess this is to be expected as we age but it is still never easy to hear…my youngest sister messaged me today to say that one of my brothers in law died this week…he was in a nursing home with dementia and died from a massive stroke Wednesday…he was a good guy and they were married for 60 years…no obit or funeral so I guess I’ll just send good thoughts my sister’s way…
A little rant…
Well…okay, going to go on a little rant right now and it might not be pretty…got everything done early today so I could hit the library for more books but the place was closed for good Friday and I am so tired of religion followed by less than half the people in this country dictating to the rest of us…as you know, I don’t celebrate any religious holidays since I’m a big ole atheist and don’t suffer the delusions of the religious…and let’s be blunt…the easter story that they are celebrating this weekend was cribbed from a story from India that was told 1,500 years before jesus as was much of the supposedly “divinely written” bible…and that’s the thing about religion, they expect you to take their holy book as truth when much of it was written by ignorant goat herders who took things that now can be explained by science and made them into their religions…I really do hate the purposely ignorant people who think their “faith” should have the same weight as facts and then tries to force their beliefs down everyone’s throats…and don’t get me started about the second class status they want to impose on women who are seen as things to be used by men with no thought that they should have equal rights…religion is evil and the sooner it is gone the better…geez…
Firing top military staff during a war…
Well…we all know that the drunk hegseth has no business being the secretary of defense since his only qualification for the job was kissing idiot boy’s butt when he was a tv host on fox…and he proved it last night with firing a dozen top military staff in the middle of a war they already don’t know how to get out of…this is a perfect example of stupid people thinking they are smarter and better qualified than the experts who have served their entire lives in the military…and that basically describes every stupid person that idiot boy has appointed during his America wrecking term…so now these guys will be replaced with more white nationalist “christian” morons who see attacking Iran as a “holy war” making them no better than any muslim country doing the same thing…man, it’s going to take years to repair the damage these assholes are doing…geez…
March 3rd
Well…slept all the way in til 5:40 this morning…and yes, that is sarcasm…I really don’t sleep much anymore and it is tiring running on coffee all the time…but that is life so I guess I’ll live with it…I do have a couple of things to do this morning and that means I’ll have to drag myself out to run an errand to get more books from the library and hit DD to see if there is anything I need since their ad has not reset like it’s supposed to on Tuesdays…it rained here the entire day yesterday and it’s supposed to rain again tomorrow with another inch or so and I’m just glad it’s not snow…have to start thinking about putting the summer wheels back on the car but hey need to be cleaned first and I can’t open up the outside water spigot until it’s not going to freeze but that won’t happen for another week or so…it’s going to be in the 30’s for a high next week and that sucks…it’s April and we should be seeing spring but 50’s is not spring to me…not much to do today…just the errand and the normal stuff and putting another coat of paint on the repairs…more later…
First coat of paint done…
Well…as I was siting here on my butt just reading, it hit me that it’s been a week since I did the cement repairs and that it should be cured enough to paint…so I went down and got the first coat of Zinsser’s peel stop paint on it and I’ll let that dry for a couple of days before put the second coat on it…only used about a third of the quart that I bought so I’ll easily get one more and maybe two more coats from it…I have a few more places that need to be repaired and painted so I’ll probably buy another quart soon and get started on that…I do want to paint the bike room and continue the grey with white trim as I’ve done up here…I guess we’ll see if it works or not…didn’t get much else done today other than the normal stuff and some reading…man, it’s been raining hard out here since I gut up at 5am this morning and we are supposed to get 2 inches of rain today and another inch a day Friday and Saturday…it’s pounding against the siding and we even had some thunder roll though and I can figure that out with it only 35 degrees out here…at least it’s not snow…more reading…
Trying to bully the SC…
Well…the idiot trump went to the SC yesterday to try to bully them into saying that the 14th amendment that grants citizenship to anyone born here doesn’t say that…and in the entire history of this country, not one president did this stupid thing…and when the justices telegraphed that they were not going to rule for him, idiot boy stomped out of the courtroom before the defense even got it’s chance to speak…just as always this idiot thought that all he had to do to tear up the constitution is put his signature on a piece of paper and it would be the law of the land…but that’s not how this works…and now idiot boy is threatening to pull out of NATO since none of the countries in it support his stupid war in Iran…the only way we can leave NATO is with a 2/3rd’s vote in the senate since it is a treaty and those are the rules for treaties…so, again, this ignorant asshole is still just blundering around like a blind baby as his approval polls show that 65% of the country do not approve of anything and that is the highest of any president in history…keep talking idiot…there is nowhere to go but down…geez…
April 2nd
Well…up and moving a little after 5…again…but today is going to be an easy one with the rain keeping me off the outdoor bike so all I have to do is the weight work and one indoor ride and that means I’ll be done before 8:30 or so…didn’t eat much yesterday but 2 pieces of pizza but I’m having a bagel to get the day started today…but not for a while…need to drown myself in coffee first or I just won’t get started…going to have to get off my butt and get the lawnmower fixed so I can start on the yard work soon but I think I can put that off for a few days…and just live for a while…not sure what I’m going to cook today but it will probably be just heating up some leftover pizza…don’t really feel like making mashed potatoes to go with the ham so that will wait til tomorrow…not much to do today…just going to get the normal stuff done and then clean a bit…it’s raining and almost cold enough for it to be snow and that sucks on April 2nd…more later…
Moon launch at 6:24 today…
Well…I almost forgot about the Artemis II moon launch today where they are sending 4 astronauts for a loop around the back of the moon and then back here…the flight is supposed to last until the 9th and it will be so cool to see a rocket launch that has nothing to do with ole elon…didn’t get much done today but the exercise but no outdoor ride since it’s still just a bit above 40 here and I’m not going to be that cold anymore…supposed to start raining later tonight and rain all day tomorrow and tomorrow night with some storms thrown in…so it will be indoor rides for the next few days…I did get another BAH at Meijers this morning and I picked up a 10 pound bag of potatoes at aldis for only 2.79 so I’m good on them for a while…used my next to last frozen pizza today so that means it will be a one meal day for me…didn’t even have a bagel for lunch so I can make a snack later…okay, back to reading…
Idiot boy keeps on losing…
Well…in a ruling yesterday a Bush appointed judge just called a halt to idiot boy’s tacky ballroom saying that it is permanently stopped unless congress approves it…and the judge went on to tell the moron in chief that he doesn’t own the WH or the property he is trying to build on…it belongs to the people of the US and he is enjoined from making any other changes to the complex unless he follows the law…and that goes along with another ruling from a judge yesterday that said he can’t end funding for PBS or NPR as he did with an executive order…so now they have to be funded to the level that they were before he was elected…this goes with another loss when he tried to end mail in voting the same way and a judge told him the executive branch has no role in elections since they are run by the states and that makes this EO worth the toilet paper it written on…so much losing and so many grounds for impeachment next January…geez…
April 1st
Well… up and out of bed by 5:27 this morning and that followed waking up at 3 or so…and that’s wearing me out. ..the weather is going to suck for spring and we’re not going to get to 60 until late April and that’s just not right…so I won’t be out on the bike in shorts again until May…ick…didn’t get a thing done yesterday but I need to get moving now since I’m doing the grocery run this morning and need to get the weight work done and a ride in downstairs before that…and then I need to plan on some cleaning…still have 2 books to read out of this set so it looks like I won’t be hitting the library til Friday or maybe I’ll wait til Monday to give me time to do other stuff…got the laundry done yesterday so maybe I’ll paint the patches downstairs today and see if the paint really works…not much to do today…just need to get off my butt and get moving right now and I’m tired of that every day…more later….