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…
“The Great Gig in the sky”
Well…stumbled upon a documentary about the making of “The Dark side of the Moon” yesterday that I’ve never seen and it focused on one of my favorite songs from that album, “the Great Gig in the Sky”…that song never fails to trigger emotions in me especially now that I’m getting closer to that time when it will happen to me…I especially liked the extended interview with Clare Torry and what it was like to come in out of nowhere and do one of the most moving singing that I have ever heard…and you know that this song is about how someone deals with death and even though it’s wordless, she captures the rage and then acceptance that comes with someone close dying…and when she describes the first take and then the second which was used on the record…and then her stopping in the middle of the 3rd saying “I think you’ve got enough” and walking away, she knew she’d done what they needed…but it was funny that she didn’t even know they had used her singing until she walked into a record store and heard the song playing…still my favorite Pink Floyd song of all time written by Rick Wright…
They’re finally realizing it’s not 11th dimension chess..
Well…finally, it’s starting to look like the media that has a vested interest in making the idiot trump look competent is starting to rethink that malpractice…he is not competent, he is not playing 11th dimension chess, he’s just a deluded asshole ping ponging from decision to decision…sometimes making three or 4 conflicting ones in the same day…and picking fights with the pope? What kind of delusional asshole does that? I idiot boy really thinks he know more about religion than someone who has spent his life learning and serving his flock…now you know I really don’t think religion is a good thing…being responsible for many of the ills in this world and splitting this country down the middle by the self righteous assholes who want to shove their warped view of christianity down everyone’s throat…but when the pope speaks about peace and that jesus would never support the war mongering assholes in charge, at leas the is not beating around the bush…the call for idiot boy’s removal by the 25th amendment is getting stronger every day…and the repubs really should pay attention when over 60% of the country want the idiot trump gone…geez…
April 16th
Well…that didn’t work…really tried to stay in bed til after 5am but 4:50 came and I just couldn’t lie there anymore…decided to take my BP this morning after skipping it for a while but I was curious to see if the no cocktails was helping and it appears it is…117/74 is not bad and that was before any BP meds…I may even skip the meds for a few days and see what it’s like without them…it raining again and it’s going to be doing that off and on until this aft so there will be an indoor ride to get me started and then I’ll try to get an outdoor one in after lunch…I did get the front of the yard seeded yesterday and tomorrow is going to be work on the yard day with raking the fencelines and doing the first mowing since the front is getting pretty long…and with 4 books left, I won’t have to hit the library til Monday and that will go with the 4/20 errand…so I need to get some cash out of the bank…and that means going inside the bank since the damn atm is too high to reach in my car…going to have to insulate the outdoor faucet Sat night sine it’s going to get down to 31 and I don’t want the new valve to freeze…it is just wrong to have 31 degrees this far into April…what’s next, snow in May? At least it’s not the 56 day drought like 2 years ago…not much to do today…the leftovers will finally be over so I’ll need to figure out meals and clean some…more later…