Well…I’ve said this many times before that the repubs don’t give a crap about the military unless it’s for photo ops or sending them to war…and that is just what’s happening on the USS Abraham Lincoln as reports come out about the appalling conditions on that ship that the repubs don’t care about…how about the lack of food or water and the endless deployment? This ship has been part of the idiot trump’s war in the middle east starting with just sending them to be on station as a “show of force” and then into combat operations that has keep them at sea for 250 days when the normal deployment is 45-50 days and then the sailors are normally given some time in port to decompress since working 12-14 hours a day in a combat environment for so long has trashed morale on the ship to the point that two of the sailors have tried to jump overboard…and where the hell is the defense secretary? Still crowing and drinking as the drunk he is…he doesn’t give a damn about these sailors other than as tools for him to use to bluster and brag…none of the repubs care that these are people in one of the most high stress environments there is and to allow the ship to deteriorate to the point that it can’t support the needs of the sailors is a dereliction of duty by hegseth and trump to the point that hegseth should be fired and then brought up on military charges and put in jail…being a sailor is hard enough without the chain of command not giving a damn…geez…
August 13th
Well…running late this morning for some reason so this one is going to be short…didn’t sleep much again and I’m having a hell of a time getting moving…should be on the bike right now but I just poured the first cup of coffee and I need to have at least one in me before I head out…going to work on the siding again today since it’s going to be cloudy out there so the beach is out…I did get the new shoes I ordered for the Italy trip and I like them…very light and with memory foam insoles so I guess we’ll see how they are as I use them to break them in before we go…and they are a little stylish…black with brown leather trim…just couldn’t see spending 60-70 bucks for skechers…pretty damn stiff and sore after the third day in a row of working on the siding and I may just as well keep the pain going today…okay, it’s 6 am and I need to get on the bike right now…more later…
Another day, more work…
Well…another day and more work done..got the east side of the house cleaned and found some hornets trying to make a nest in my siding…filled it with bug spray and plugged the hole and it looks like that was taken care of…there were lots of the hornets around while I was cleaning the siding but none of them got near me so no stings which I’m happy about…it was a really busy morning with the rides, grocery run, and hitting the bank to order some checks and put the order in for the euros I need for the Italy trip…told my daughter I’d supply the cash for the things we need cash for and I’m still going to offer her a check for my end of the trip but we’ll see what she says…so now I only have the back and west side of the house to wash and I’m thinking I could do all that in one day but I really don’t need to push myself…the east side really does look pretty good washed as the front did the other day…I’m glad I decided to do it instead of waiting another year and letting the crud build up…so now it’s 6pm and I am done for the day…even finished the book I started yesterday and made a pork chop, mashed potatoes, and corn for dinner since I know I haven’t been eating enough with my legs going flat on the bike this morning…was out before 6am and man, was it dark…had to ride through town to the post office which was okay with the street lights but once on the trail I couldn’t see anything until the sun started to come up about 45 minutes later…I’m done…
It’s even worse…
Well…there is new reporting on the chickenshit trump and his cowardly sneaking out of Turkey a few weeks back and it’s even worse than the initial stories…and the whole thing is full of lies and putting his staff and the media in danger with no thought of their safety, only his own…this is the right’s big he-man? So, the latest reporting details the coward in chief hiding in a food container and switching planes and to fake that he was always on AF1…going so far as to have the secret service hide him and then play acting that he did ride on AF1…and the sick part of this whole sordid affair is that he used his staff and the traveling media as decoys when he knew that there was a threat to him and sent them away on AF1 while he cowered and hid on another plane…is there any bottom to the craven cowardice that this asshole shows every day? It doesn’t appear so…when you use 100 human beings as protection for your decrepit carcass without a care about them it just shows that idiot boy is truly a psychopath that has no business squatting in the WH…I sure hope this gets investigated when we take the house this fall so the whole world knows what a craven coward idiot boy is and has been his entire life…what a poor excuse for a human being…geez…
August 12th
Well…good sleep, bad sleep…that’s the alternating crap that’s going on right now and it’s such a pain…oh, well…man, it’s humid here right now and it looks like it’s going to stay that way all day…didn’t get below 72 last night and we’re heading into a couple of days of heat with Friday getting to almost 90 so that may be a beach day…the damn rain that looked like it was here yesterday didn’t happen and there is nothing in the forecast for the next 10 days…ick…going to be a busy one today with riding over to the post office to drop off my car insurance payment…yow…it’s not much more than last year but it still hurts having full coverage…and I’m doing that in the dark this morning…then the grocery run and over to the bank to order checks and euros for the trip then back here to decide if I continue to wash the house or try the beach…running out of time to swim and I’d like to get at least one more in before summer is over…and I really do need to find a couple of pair of new shorts since it’s going to be hot in Italy when we’re there…more later…
Got more work done…
Well…could this be a trend? Got more work done today after I did the bike rides, picked up a prescription, hit aldis for some cukes to make more pickles, and then over to depot to pick up an extension pole for my scrub brush and I found a really cool expanding one that goes from 4 feet to 8 feet and makes it so damn easy to have exactly the length of pole I need…didn’t even know things like that existed and it will work great when I start back to painting here…and it made cleaning the siding so much easier since I didn’t have to move the ladder nearly as much as before…so two days in a row I got work done and even had enough time to read a bit…but tomorrow I may just do the grocery run and go to the beach to try to get one more swim in this summer…if the weather is crappy, though, I’ll be back out there doing the east side of the house after doing the front porch today…it does feel good to accomplish things and the house just looks so much better clean…so now back to reading for a bit…
Chickenshit trump…
Well…it was revealed yesterday that there was a threat against the idiot trump when he was in Turkey guess what the big, tough guy did…the most protected person in the world hid in a food service container until they could sneak him out of the country, leaving both AF1’s behind…now, we know idiot boy is a chickenshit after fraudulently getting 5 deferments to stay out of Vietnam, but could you imagine Obama hiding in a food service container? No, I can’t either…or Joe Biden for that matter…those two would have said bring it on and got on with their normal trip…but not idiot boy…he plays a tough guy on tv but when it comes to real life he is just a chickenshit chickenhawk who is scared of his own shadow and only talks a good game…damn, how terrible must it be to be scared of everything? Now he is blaming it on the secret service but they work for him and he could have told them he wanted to just get on with it…but he didn’t…he cowered in the container with lunch and embarrassed the US yet again…geez…
August 11th
Well…that was damn unusual…slept all the way through the night last night and it may have been exhaustion from working on the garage yesterday…hit the sack at 10pm and didn’t get up til 5:20 with very little tossing and turning and I’ll take that any day..going to continue working on the siding today and I need to sand and paint the trim on the door into the garage and then my outdoor painting will be done for the year…I do need to eat something today before I get on the bike since I can feel that I’m under on calories and don’t want to run out of energy before I get the bike rides in…I do like the t-shirts I bought and can’t wait to see how they stand up to the washer and dryer…if good, I am going to buy 5 more for Italy…it’s going to be hot there so I really do need to buy a couple more pairs of shorts to take…and I’ll take a couple of the new hats so I can sweat in them and not ruin my good hats…going to run errands this morning and hit the library to take the books back and maybe get a couple more of them…along with a depot run to get another extension pole for the scrub brush…not much to do today…just need to get going on the bike with it already almost 6am….more later….
Got the garage done…
Well…the day went pretty much as I planned today with getting the bike rides in and then washing the garage siding that only took me about an hour and a half since it was nowhere near as bad as the first time I cleaned it when it took me over 3 hours…it looks good so I am happy with it…going to start on the house tomorrow after I go to depot to get another extension pole to allow me to reach most of the siding from the ground…and I still had time to read today since I don’t think I need to work all day just part of it…I need to pick up a prescription tomorrow so I’ll probably hit aldis for more cukes since I’m halfway through the last jar of pickles I made…the espresso coffee beans work really well just grinding them and putting in the coffee maker and they have a good taste that I can even taste a little…so I’ll probably buy another kilo…I did get the t-shirts I ordered and they are pretty nice for 4 bucks a piece…100% cotton and the larges fit me perfectly so I’ll probably buy 5 more so I’ll have new ones to take to Italy…I do need to hit the bank to order my Euros I need for the trip so I may do that Wed when I do the grocery run…and I should order some more checks that I get for free since I have more than 25K in my checking account…okay, time to write a couple of checks to pay my car insurance and property taxes….oh, well…
The biggest loser loses again…
Well…if you hear the idiot trump talking about “negotiations” with Iran again, you know he’ll be lying since Iran just announced that there will be no talks again until idiot boy is gone after his term…they qualified that a bit saying that if the idiot paid them 300 billion dollars and pulled out of the middle east completely, they may talk to him…how’s that for losing? Iran is now in the strongest place they have ever been and it’s all because of the biggest loser trump and his administration of incompetent losers who have no clue what they’re doing…the only thing they know how to do is bluster and attack but, according to many reports, idiot boy has used up our stocks of missiles he has been throwing at Iran and now it will be years before these stockpiles can be refilled leaving the US vulnerable to attacks across the middle east…this has never happened to any other “president” before…can you imagine the howl from the right if Biden had blundered around like the idiot is doing? Now, Iran controls the straits of Hormuz that they didn’t before the idiot launched his stupid war and they now are being treated as a global power when they weren’t even a regional power before…and their military and nuclear programs have not been “obliterated” as trump lied they were…this is the worst result ever from military action by the US…and shows you that competent leadership is not anywhere to been seen with these morons…geez…