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…
The mower is okay…
Well…I did get the new mower set up today and mowed the lawn for the first time with it and I can say it’s okay…my big concern was that it wouldn’t be fast enough for my walking speed but the thing will run away from me when I have the belt pulled tight so that’s cool…and the bag was easy to put together and it is huge…I only had to empty it 4 times to do the whole lawn…the height adjustments are cool, too with just one for the front and one for the back that are easy to adjust…it started after three pulls and then just one easy one to restart it…and I used the clamp that came with the toro to hold the on/off bar down so I don’t have to think about that…I do need to adjust the tension on the drive belt to take tension off it and make it smoother but I’ve already made it much better as I used it…so now I have another last…the last lawnmower I’ll ever buy…and that’s okay…
The easy way to troll the idiot…
Well…as we all know, the idiot trump likes to feed his ego by building stupid, gaudy buildings that no one wants to live in…and the ballroom that the courts have stopped is just one of them…now he wants to build a tacky arch in DC called trump something, something…but there is a great way to troll the orange idiot that the dems should be doing every day…and that is promising to tear these monstrosities down as soon as he’s out of office…I wonder if his billionaire buddies will fund more of this crap if they know that when he’s gone, they’re gone…and I think we should make the promise to restore the east wing of the WH to it’s traditional look…this would get some ketchup flowing from idiot boy…geez…
The idiot trump has made the US toxic…
Well…as I’ve talked about before, the idiot trump has gone out of his way to make the US toxic on the world stage with his cozying up to dictators and declaring a stupid war with Iran along with trying to bully our allies into getting involved in his war…and this toxicity was on full display with the election in Hungary as he sent vance to try to rescue Orban but it actually hurt him…and polls done after Orban’s landslide loss cited that vance and the idiot trump’s involvement motivated a wide swath of voters to vote against Orban…so, as I’ve said many, many times that this was going to happen…that the US was going to end up as a pariah state as the moron in chief used the same tactics of bulling and bluster that worked for a while in the US and the world…but now the truth is showing through that bluster and people are no longer scared of idiot boy…and the Pope said exactly that bluntly last week in the midst of little idiot vance and big idiot trump attacking him…and these attacks and his bluster have made idiot boy look like the small person he is and is not working anymore…and it’s about time…geez…
April 18th
Well…backslid on sleeping time last night and was out of bed before 5…again…and that sucks…and we have already hit out high temp for the day and it is going to slide into the mid 40’s by the afternoon and then it gets worse from there with a low of frickin 27 Sunday night…27 in the end of April? That is the definition of sucking…I just hate the cold…going to have to insulate the outdoor faucet so it doesn’t freeze up the new valve I bought for it…I did get the new mower put together after it came about 7:30 last night and all I have to do is add oil and gas and it will be ready to go…I do have to assemble the grass catcher but that should take 5 minutes or so…it looks like it’s going to be too cold to ride outdoors today and that works with doing Masala for lunch but I still need to figure out a 2nd meal for the next few days and I’m thinking maybe pasta since I haven’t made that in months…not much to do today…just want to get the lawn mowed at some point but that may wait til late morning until it dries up out there with all the rain we’ve had…more later…
Had to buy a new mower…
Well…after I tried to repair my 25 year old Toro mower, I came to to the realization that it was beyond repair this time so I went out and bought a new mower today… a DeWalt with rear wheel drive, aluminum deck 21 inches, and a Briggs and Stratton engine…and it only cost me 388 bucks which I think is a deal…I was going to buy an electric one but none of them had enough run time to do the entire yard and everyone bitched about going through long grass…so, they are supposed to deliver it today since the carton wouldn’t fit in my car..I am looking forward to having only the 3rd new mower in my life and not having to worry about the drive breaking all the time… this one has a huge bag, too so I’ll be able to do more than 15 feet of leaves before it needs to be emptied…and it is pretty cool to just be able to buy something I need without worrying about if I could afford it or not…
Vance threatens the Pope…
Well…after vance’s attempt at election interference failed in Hungary and Orban was defeated in a landslide, the little idiot vance has tried to pile on with the big idiot trump’s war with Pope Leo and, as everything else he has tried, it is an utter failure…I mean how does a recently converted Catholic think he knows more than a pontiff who has spent his entire life living and learning Catholicism? It just the stunning hubris of the stupid who think they know more than anyone else about everything…and part of that is just vance kissing trump’s ass to get back in his good graces after failing to get an agreement to end the Iran war and failing to prop up their favorite dictator orban…and orban’s loss is even a greater blow to vance’s plans to ride the dictator wave into the WH…but that ended after the new president of Hungary cut off funding for CPAC and all of the right wing groups that have been trying to impose dictatorships around the world…I’m glad this support of dictators came back to bite vance in the ass…he deserves it…geez…
April 17th
Well…it’s a little weird that I woke up at 5:17 this morning and my brain cheered “alright” that it wasn’t 4:33 so maybe that’s progress and heading to getting out of bed at 6am? It’s going to be a busy day and I’ll be running all day with needing to get the indoor stuff done, then a run out to the bank to get cash for Monday, and then yard work including the first mowing of the lawn since the front is getting pretty long…I’m holding my breath to see if the 50 bucks of seed will actually sprout and if I’ve fixed the mower…I guess we’ll see…going to hope that my riding shoes have dried up after riding through 9 inches of flood on the trail yesterday…may not be able to get an outdoor ride in today since it’s only going to be 52 and windy and I’m already sore without doing any work yet…so there will be ibuprofen in my future…have no leftovers after finishing them up yesterday so I will have to cook something but don’t want to tackle the masala after all the stuff I need to do today…but I may make it for dinner if I can muster the energy…I would say not much to do today but that’s not the case…going to get running here in 45 minutes and won’t stop until the yard is done…more later…