Well…damn, didn’t get out of bed til 6:01 and I am trying mightily to not think I’m behind for the day…I’ll still be out on the bike before 7am and done by 9:30 so why the stress? I do need to pay the water bill today so I’ll take it on the bike for the first ride and stop to the city offices on the way back…it’s 54 out there and I wonder if I can get away with shorts again today? It says it’s raining out there but I don’t see it…again…so I’ll be out as soon as I pour coffee down me and eat a bagel…I thought my toaster was broken but I did some toast in it yesterday and even though the elements are not red, it did brown the bread…weird…I do need to make Masala today and will do that for lunch and then take the rest of the day off…feeling pretty worn out today and it’s probably from not eating enough with just half a chicken breast with potatoes and rice for lunch and then two eggs and toast for dinner…so I’m going to try to do better today…how, I don’t know but I’ll figure something out…more later…
The Eiffel tower is blue…
Well…the world was watching our elections closely and you can see that when a poster at Kos showed the Eiffel tower bathed in great blue light overnight and many other countries are breathing a sigh of relief that we Americans have pulled back from the precipice of fascism and kicked the maga assholes to the curb…most of them anyway…and what I’m hearing from those elected on our side is just what I wanted to hear…that ICE is going to be torn apart so they can no longer terrorize this country…that people in trump’s circle better “lawyer up” with the investigations that are coming and that impeachment of everyone who has helped the idiot trump break the law is on the table…and I’m reading about reform of the SC that has been moved to the mainstream of the party and will start to happen to stop the lawlessness and corruption that stinks up the court and gives idiot boy whatever he wants…that is going to end…so things are looking up but there is still so much work to do and that includes electing a progressive fighter for house speaker…not Hakeem Jeffries who is part of the dem establishment who does not have the sping to do what needs to be done…there is no compromising with evil and they need to be held responsible…geez…
A pretty good day…
Well…with the election news and being able to ride in shorts, it was a pretty good day today…didn’t go out until it was light since the radar said it was raining but it wasn’t so I got my 30 in just before the rain started…now the big question is do I have a cocktail tonight to celebrate? Not sure yet but maybe…started Arthur C. Clarke’s last novel today in the Space Odyssey trilogy called “3001, The Final Odyssey” and I’m enjoying getting back to some science fiction for a change and it’s one of the 35 books I got at the sale…I opened some weird mustard I got at aldis called dill pickle and I used it on some dogs today…not sure if I like it or not but I do like that aldis is being creative like with heat and sweet stuff I really like so I bought 2 more bottles of it…and at 1.49 a bottle, I can try it and toss it if I don’t like it…going to make the masala tomorrow and I’m glad I bought 5 pounds of jasmine rice with the coupon Tuesday…I guess the weather changes the world is going through has devastated rice production this year…and it’s so bad that Kelloggs is not using whole rice in their rice krispies anymore but a blend of wheat, rice and corn gluten…ick…so I wonder if I should stock up on it? Five pounds should last me a year or so and maybe something will change…who knows? Time to read…
Poor elon…
Well…is the influence of money in politics over? At least for this election it appears to be…after all, every damn candidate that ole elon bankrolled lost and he spent almost half a billion dollars trying to elect the scum of the Earth…oh, and how does that move to Texas look now asshole? You now have a dem governor and senator to deal with and all of your cushy no bid contracts that got you billions are now in the crosshairs of the new dem majority in the house and senate…hey, elon…going to threaten the senators again? Going to tell them now that you are going after the people pulling their strings when those people are us? Please move to another country and leave your sick bullshit to Orban or Putin because that’s where you belong…the US gave you everything you have and all you can do is shit all over us…we are coming for the billionaires and there won’t be anywhere to hide as we tax you out of existence and if you take your ball and go home you can count on all of your cushy money from the government being gone…oh, and spacex and tesla are both down by over 5% in trading today…karma’s a bitch, huh?
It’s a sweep…
Well…here in Michigan, it was a dem sweep of all of the higher offices and control of the state house and senate were returned to the dems…yay! The proposal to hold a constitutional convention failed which I hoped it would to deprive the repubs of the chance to screw with women’s rights here even after we amended the constitution to protect them by popular vote…these damn repubs never give up trying to hurt people and I hope our state has had enough of their bullshit…the other proposal was to ban public utilities from being able to bribe state officials with campaign money and require clear reporting on where the money in elections is coming from…and that passed with over 60% of the vote…one of the clear victories across the US was the election of dem governors that will put a stop to the repubs plans to call a national constitutional convention to put their hate of women and minorities into it…it was a good night for the good guys and a bad one for the idiot trump and his thugs with calls from multiple newly elected senate dems to “rip ICE to shreds” as the senator elect from Minnesota said in her acceptance speech…Peggy Flannagan is the first native American woman ever elected to the senate and appears to be a solid progressive with Medicare for all as one of her priorities…good for her…okay, want to go out and find Abdul’s acceptance speech….
November 4th
Well…I wonder if you can hold your breath for an entire day? I sure feel like I was with the election yesterday…but I’ll talk about that in another one later…it’s still over 60 here but rain is coming in so I may have to do an indoor ride but I’m going to have coffee first and see what it looks like…radar says it’s going to rain for a few hours so maybe I’ll take that easy day I’ve been needing since I got back from Italy and not ride in the dark today…going to start getting cold in the mornings but I have my thermasuits figured out and the heating pad ready to warm me up when I get back…I am so happy the the new door seals are working better than I ever expected and now I know I can replace them again at any time for 20 bucks when…and I do mean when I damage them not if…I really may need to make some extra coffee this morning to get jump started but we’ll see…have almost 8 cups in the coffee maker and probably shouldn’t have more than that….tried my toaster oven to make toast and toasted bagels yesterday and it works pretty good so I guess I can hold off on the new toaster for a while…it does take longer that a toaster but that’s okay…I’ve got all the time in the world….more later…
We did it!!
Well…just a short one for now but we did it! We won the senate and the house last night in what is being called a “blue tsunami” and I cheered out loud when I read that Abdul won here in Michigan…and Tallarico crushed paxton in Texas and the even elected a dem governor pushing the idiot abbot onto the trash heap…and it appears we won every contested senate race including Maine where the concerned susan collins, who was the deciding vote who gave us a supreme court that destroyed Roe…I’ll be back later to go over the detail but right now I’m going to bask in this crushing defeat of the idiot trump and his minions…thank you, Americans…
Wind is good for something…
Well…from the time I went out for the rides this morning, the wind has been blowing about 25mph out of the south and I figured out that it is good for something…I went to the back door to see if the new seals were leaking and they weren’t…no air at all coming through and if this is how they perform in a 25 mph wind, I think they’ll be fine for the winter…and that’s one less thing I have to think about getting ready for winter…I still do need to buy some new furnace filters and I’ll get them this week when I go out to look for a new snow shovel…I wonder if the roads by Menards are finished yet? The last time I had to wind through a mall to get there and that was a pain and don’t want to do that again…it was 60 degrees when I went out this morning before 6am so I was in shorts and I may have one more day before the bottom falls out of the low temps…I am already used to dressing warmly for the rides since we’ve had some 30’s already but I’m not used to the cold yet…that will take a couple of weeks and judicious use of the heating pad when I get back from the rides…okay…have been avoiding any and all reporting ont he election and I’ll keep that up all day…so back to reading…
Springsteen for Abdul…
Well…I’m really not sure if and endorsement has any effect in elections but it is nice to see one of the good guys weigh in on an essential race…and Bruce Springsteen just did that over the weekend when he wholeheartedly endorsed Abdul El-Sayed to be the next senator from Michigan…now let’s compare that to the traitor stevens who endorsed rogers for the same seat…and really, who cares about stevens and her sour grapes bullshit? I think Bruce has seen what I’ve seen from Abdul, a smart, accomplished doctor who is really a Michigan born and bred candidate, not like the carpetbagger rogers who parachuted in to try to steal that seat for the idiot trump…and from listening to Abdul he is the kind of person that Michigan needs to send to the senate…to protect Medicaid and people who depend on it to stay alive…Medicare for all to get the US to where the rest of the world is and has been for 50+ years…and to block any more trump judges including the supreme court…now that’s something I can get behind and I think we need more progressive ideas and to leave the centrists behind…their go along to get along bullshit has gotten us to where we are now and we need the big ideas the the dems used to support…they need to do that again…geez…
November 3rd
Well…I think it’s going to be a full pot of coffee day today so I just ground some beans to make another one…don’t want to run short…it’s still 60 out there so the rides will be in shorts again this morning and that’s pretty cool in the dark…need to pick the right music but I’m not sure what that would be yet…maybe The Who’s greatest hits…going to do the grocery run this morning since I don’t have to wait for the ads to come out tomorrow since there is nothing in them I really need…I am running out of rice and Meijers sent me a coupon for 2.25 off but I’m not sure what strain I’ll get…have been buying Jasmine but maybe some Bismatti? Going to try to toast my bagel in the toaster oven since the toaster is dying and I’m not sure what to buy next…got the leaves done yesterday so I just to clean a bit and do some meal planning…making Masala Thursday but I’ll need 2nd meals and have lots of pasta and sauce that I got last week so that may be it…oh, and some omelets since I have green pepper to use up along with the dozen eggs in the fridge…I did get the back door working right so I have nothing else to do before winter but put the hose in the garage when it gets close to freezing…but I want to wash the car one more time before that…not mush to do today…just need to get moving so I can be on the bike before 6am…more later…