Well…my brain is a little jumbled this morning but I do have a couple of things I want to talk about…first is the fact that if we get out there and vote, even ole elon’s 474 million dollars can’t beat us…and that sends a message to the rest of the techbros that their money won’t work either when we stick together…and another little thing that made me smile was the drop in tesla and spacex stock prices after the election cost elon over 70 billion dollars…poor elon…the bubble in AI is about to burst as the entire country is tired of the big tech companies dropping data centers wherever they please with the blessing of the idiot trump and his minions but that is about to change as the ponzi scheme of AI is being revealed…there is nowhere near enough revenue or profit to support the trillion dollars that has been poured into it…and most of the money is borrowed that companies like meta are going to lose…and the new idea of local AI on pc’s that don’t need data centers is going to kill them before they’re done building…and I hope our new congress will investigate the scam of AI and all of the companies, including google, will have to explain how no profit supports all those loans that the techbros will walk away from when they can’t scam any more money out of them…geez…
November 6th
Well…damn, it’s going to be a cold one on the bike this morning since it’s only 40 degrees out there and it’s supposed to be raining but I don’t see it…will have to do full thermasuit with rain gear but it is November so I guess it’s supposed to be cold…slept okay last night but must have done it wrong with the right side of my neck hurting like crazy…have tried stretching that muscle but I think I’ll have to treat it with something before I go out in a half hour…at least my right hip doesn’t hurt this morning after making it painful to walk yesterday…I have enough pain everywhere to justify an ibuprofen before the rides so I’ll take one before I toast a bagel…after cooking yesterday, I won’t have to make any food for a few days and I’ll look in the freezer to see what I have…I know I have 2 pork chops and a little more chicken but I’ll have to buy more next week at aldis…don’t really have a lot to do after the rides and that will be welcome…just going to clean up a bit but the house still looks okay…maybe the dining room? We’ll see…need to get moving to be on the bike by 6:30….more later…
Not too busy today…
Well…it was a not too busy day today but I did get the rides in, paid the water bill and made Masala…when I suited up for the first ride and got out about 100 yards, it started to rain and I really didn’t want to get cold and wet since it was only 53 degrees…which it has been all day…so I came back and waited a half hour to go out after the rain stopped and by then the city offices were open so I could stop and pay the bill… the wind was nuts, though and I was going into the wind all the way out to the beach…and when I got over the hill on the way to the beach, I had to pedal like crazy to go downhill the wind was so high…still feeling pretty beat today and still have the weight work to do so I need to get to it…it will be nice to not have to cook the rest of the week but I do still need to figure out what comes after the Masala…probably some pasta since I have 5 jars of sauce after going crazy on the Prego last week…oh, I did see the turkeys today and one of them was perched on top of the 6 foot fence around the paper plant site…made me laugh but she flew down before I could get a photo,,,
No, Hakeem Jeffries…
Well…as I said the other day, we don’t want Hakeem Jeffries as speaker of the house…he was on Morning Joe today misreading the dem electorate saying that we didn’t want to “get even” with the repubs but just to have the new congress focus on affordability…well…Hakeem, you are wrong…we want accountability for all of the criminals that infest the WH…there needs to be a rebirth of the rule of law here in this country so that means hearings on what the criminals have been doing…it why we have the idiot trump and his lawlessness, because he never had any consequences for what he did and is doing…he’s gotten away with it because of people like you who just wants to go along to get along and I really can’t understand why you want to squander this opportunity to root out all of the criminals…it’s not getting even when you uphold the rule of law…it’s necessary to start to repair our country and if you are not up to doing what’s right go back to secret meetings with the criminal kushner and leave fixing the country to the new blood that has been elected or even to anyone else who understands that this is a necessity not a nice to have…get out of the way if you can’t do it…geez…
November 5th
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…