Well…since it just a little after 5am, I thought I’d do a makeup one for the one I missed yesterday…can you tell I’m already bored? And I may need to make some pour over coffee since I only had 6 cups left in the coffee maker and I’m not sure if that will be enough for the day…it’s grocery run day today and I have a long list for Meijers since they have lots of stuff on sale for a dollar…I mean 5 pounds of potatoes for a buck? Apples and oranges, too so I’ll get my quota of fruit for the first time in a while…and frozen corn and bacon wrapped pork fillets for a buck and that’s a good deal with how high prices are…got a nice outdoor ride in yesterday and Muskegon Lake has filled up to the point that the sandbars are back under water and the shoreline is back to normal and that is good to see…why, I don’t know but it just seems right that the lake looks normal again…I did see 6 deer in the tunnel of trees yesterday and they just stood right next to the edge of the trail as I rode by…not spooked at all and that was fun to see…it’s going to be cold when I take off to do the grocery run but I’m putting the top down anyway…it will be sunny so that will help…I didn’t rotate the tires on the car yesterday since I found a few lugnuts that were not tight and I’m going to see it that was why I had some vibration…Miatas are just so sensitive to anything having to do with the tires…okay…does that make up for missing one yesterday? Seems like it to me…more later…
April 22nd
Well…damn, I just noticed that I forgot to come here for a 3rd one yesterday and I’m not sure how that happened…I mean I’ve got all the time in the world so I must have been distracted by reading…oh, well…up at the ridiculous time of 4:30 this morning and I heed to figure out how to put a stop to that…I did go to bed a little early so maybe that had something to do with it…I did check my BP for the first time in a week this morning and not drinking has had an effect…118/68 with a 58 HR is just where it needs to be and that’s before any BP meds…this has been the coldest spring on record here in Muskegon and the highs are going to be in the low 50’s next week with lows in the 40’s and that is just wrong for the end of April…the little house behind me is up for sale again and I know part it is from the idiots in the rental being out there partying all the time…and they’ll probably turn it into another rental that will attract more lowlifes and I’ll be calling the cops all summer…again…I did go out and get another pork shoulder yesterday and I’ll be cooking that in the instant pot Friday…and it will be a perfect day for that with rain forecast for the entire day…and that will be feeding me for a week or so before I have to think about meals again…more later…
A handout to business…
Well…as the supreme court ruled that the idiot trump’s tariffs are illegal, a mechanism had to be found to rebate those tariffs…and, of course, only businesses are eligible to even apply for the refunds…so business gets to keep all of the higher prices they’ve been charging with no thought or requirement that business refund the money to us who actually paid for the tariffs through higher prices…so now business gets a 168 billion dollar windfall that came out of our pockets…and I think that’s a reward for them not bitching too much about the tariffs…I think they knew that tariff refunds were coming since they knew that idiot boy and his cronies were telegraphing that from the start so all they had to do was wait it out and get rewarded as they picked our pockets…this is always the same kind of bullshit you get with the repubs…to hell with the consumers but let’s reward business for keeping quite and filling the idiot’s coffers with grift money…and this is bullshit…geez…
April 21st
Well…this is a new normal that I really don’t like very much…getting out of bed before 5am has happened every day since I stopped drinking and it’s pretty frustrating to think you’re sleeping okay and the clock says otherwise…going to be a busy one today with the normal stuff, running out to Meijers to see if I can get another pork shoulder, and the rotating the tires on the car to see if I can get rid of the vibration from the tires…and I am going to get an outdoor ride in this afternoon so reading is going to have to wait til this afternoon…it sucks that the heat has been on all day every day since last Friday and it’s the end of April…this really is the coldest spring we’ve had since I moved out here and I am really ready for it to break…even had the heating pad on me last night since I couldn’t get warm and I sure hope it isn’t from getting old…the grocery run tomorrow will be late since I need to pick up a prescription and the pharmacy doesn’t open til 9am…oh, well…okay, I have a lot to do today so I won’t say I don’t…more later…
Thomas should be impeached…
Well…let’s put it bluntly…clarence thomas should be impeached right now…just last week, he gave a speech at a Texas university where he called progressives every name in the book and said that they are the cause of all evil in the world…going back to Woodrow Wilson’s 1887 praise of the German bureaucratic state and it’s efficient delivery of help for the people…but thomas turned that into a screed saying that all progressive ideas are directly against the declaration of independence and are designed to destroy America…yeah, ideas like the social safety net, the 40 hour work week, protection against false arrest and trying to make the country more fair and equal for the workers…he was having none of that and continued his lie filled bullshit, showing how un American the hard right is in this country…and this speech and his ides of hatred against more than half or the country should disqualify him from ever ruling on anything…after all, he gave us Citizens United that brought billionaire money into elections and they have bee buying them ever since…impeach this prick right now…geez…
Got a lot of stuff…
Well…on my errand this morning, I got a lot of stuff that I’m looking forward to trying…some cool freebies and replenishment of some stuff I was running out of…so I really won’t have to make another run until the end of summer…so that will give things to look forward to for tonight…it was damn cold this morning but my outdoor valve survived it without cracking so I hope that is over for the year…it did get down to 26 out here last night and that is too damn cold for the end of April…but it looks like it’s going to warm up starting tomorrow so I may do two outdoor rides…not sure what I’m going to do for the rest of the day…I should clean but I really don’t want to but I guess we’ll see…picked up 7 more books from the library so I’m good for reading material for now…so now I guess I need to think about lunch and try to find a political topic…
April 20th
Well…this getting up at 4:45 is starting to get really old and I think I’m going to have to take something for it tonight…had the 15th day of not drinking yesterday and it has gotten to be the new normal and has saved me a lot of money…I mean my grocery bill last week was only about 20 bucks but I will have to replenish the protein supplies this week but I don’t know what that is going to be yet…nothing is on sale so I may be digging through the freezer for something…I know there is some chicken in there and I have a few pork loin fillets and some bacon so I won’t starve…I did get the kitchen counters and sinks cleaned yesterday but I’m not sure what I’ll do today…I do have to run an errand this morning and hit the library for more books but I need to finish the last one after the bike ride and before the errand…it’s only damn 30 degrees out there right now and it’s only getting to 44 today so no outdoor ride…again…but it’s going to warm up a bit and I’ll be out riding tomorrow…it appears the insulation job I did on the outdoor faucet worked since I don’t hear water leaking from a frozen valve and I’ll take that…more later…
Had to take an easy day…
Well…with the stress from finding and buying a new mower and then mowing the lawn and doing lots of other yard work yesterday, I was just worn out today so I decided to take a really easy day today…all I did was do the early normal stuff and then just hung out and read all day with the races on in the background…and now one more race from Indycar that starts in a few minutes and then I think I’ll finish off “Hail Mary” that I started Friday night and only got about a half hour in when my lawnmower came and I went out to put it together and just didn’t feel like a movie after that…I did go out yesterday and insulated my outside faucet since it’s getting down to 27 tonight and that would freeze and crack the new valve..I’m hoping that the heat from the inside of the house will keep it warm enough to not freeze…it never got over 42 here today and that was just too damn cold to go out…don’t want to have to wear long johns and heavy gloves anymore until winter…I do need to go out and run an errand tomorrow morning and I hope I can get some deals like last year…
State crimes…
Well…if they aren’t already, there should be a coordinated effort to get ready to charge all of the grifters and criminals in the idiot trump’s orbit with state crimes that would put them out of the reach of the corrupt pardons that idiot boy has been handing out like candy…like in Minnesota where the killers of Alex Pretti and Renee Good are still running free when both of their killings have been ruled homicides but then were covered up by the idiot trump and his conspirators…or the many instances of kidnapping of American citizens by ICE…or breaking of insider trading laws that are constantly being broken as idiot boy tips off his cronies to decisions he is going to make that will effect financial markets…and since the NYSE is located in NYC, all of these folks can be charged in NY state courts…these people are so stupid that they don’t even realize they are at risk as they stumble around committing crimes daily when the SC has only given idiot boy immunity…and this could be a way to get them to stop when we keep hammering that they will be prosecuted when idiot boy is gone…geez…
April 19th
Well…it’s just wrong that we have a freeze warning just issued on the 19th of April…and tonight is going to be even colder at 27…I can’t remember having the heat come on so much in any April since I’ve lived out here…oh, well…at least I don’t have a garden to worry about this year…I think today is going to be an easy day and I’m just going to do the weight work and an indoor ride since it’s never getting above 42 today and I really don’t want to be that cold…so reading and races today with not having to cook since I did Masala and pasta yesterday and have lots of leftovers that will last 4 or 5 more days…I really don’t understand why I’ve been avoiding pasta lately when it tastes good and it’s easy…and I have a loaf of garlic bread that’s been in the freezer for months that needs to be used…getting the new mower and getting the lawn mowed yesterday relieved a lot of stress and now I can just relax about it and have a nice day…not much to do today…should probably clean but I want to finish up the last book so I can get more tomorrow so that will be the plan for the day…more later…