Well…I think I’ve figured out the vibration with the car…two wheels don’t have any balancing weights on them…there is the remains of the adhesive from the stick on weights but no weights…and I’ve never seen a tire that didn’t needs weights to balance it… so, I’ll make an appointment some time to have them done…another hundred bucks going out but if it will stop the vibration, it will be worth it…and there is still more than half tread on these tires so I’ll be using them for a while…and I found the rattling from under the car and it was the cat heat shield that had corroded…so I tore it off just like I did with the 94 and there will be no problem with that…after all it’s just the one that protects grass from starting on fire if I park on it and I can’t think of any time I’d be doing that…so, so far, a productive day and I’m going to get out on the outdoor bike before the wind comes up at 11am…more later…
May 4th
Well…happy Star Wars day to those who celebrate…up and out of bed before 4:30am today and that is just way too damn early…and I’m going to continue to bitch about that as long as it continues…I mean, give me a frickin break…I knew it was going to be ugly when I went to bed at 10 and tossed and turned as soon as I hit the pillow and don’t think I fell asleep until 11:30 or so…ick…so now I’m going to depend on the coffee to make me human and get the day started…I do have stuff to do today and may even get an outdoor ride in today…but that will be after I do the weight work and get the indoor ride in…then I need to rotate the tires on the car to see if I can get rid of the vibration at 80 or so…I only have to go front to back as the tread is directional and only goes one side of the car…and I think I’ve got a heat shield rattling so I need to look for that, too…I think working on the car and getting an outdoor ride in will be enough for the day…I still have 6 books to read by the end of the week but I don’t think I’ll get there with other stuff to do around here…going to have to argue with menards since the expensive grass seed I bought did not come up…not one blade after putting pounds of it in…so I’m expecting a fight there…oh, well…think I need to eat more since the lounge pants I have been wearing are falling off me and I may have to tie them for the first time…a good problem to have…I think…more later…
Nothing done at all…
Well…today was an easy day with not doing anything but the weight work and the indoor ride…not sure if I needed it but just wasn’t feeling it today so I did what retired people do and took the day off to watch races and read…I finally have emby kinda fixed so I could watch the races…my eyes have been better today and I could see the tv clearly all day and read the data panels during the races and it’s been months since I’ve been able to do that…I wonder if it’s the ointment I’ve had to put on to relieve the itchyness in them? Whatever it is, it’s welcome and I’ll take it…didn’t have to cook today and won’t have to for 3-4 more days but I do need to figure out what to take out of the freezer…or just make pasta and pasta salad but that is more like a side dish than a meal…I still have a lot of the breaded chicken patties in there along with 4 burgers or so and that is enough for me to get by for a couple of weeks…and that might get me down enough to clean out the freezer…I guess I’ll have to check…back to reading…
The dems are getting ready…
Well…with so many crimes and so much corruption to choose from, house dems have started to get ready for the investigations that are to come, telegraphing what it’s going to look like after the election this fall…and it’s started with the corrupt deal that the idiot trump made with Totalenergies to give them a billion dollars after idiot boy cancelled two offshore wind projects…and the money was to build pipelines and other facilities for oil and gas projects that the US does not need…and that money was stolen from a fund used to defend the US from lawsuits which Totalenergies had none..so this was a clearly a bribe to Total to get them to go along with idiot boy’s pet project to destroy renewable projects and build more dirty energy to pay back the oil companies that have bribed him for years…so all I have to say is good on them for no longer waiting and using what power they have to put the corrupt companies like Fidelity Investments, who just folded to trump and stopped taking donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center due to a trumped up indictment of misuse of funds that will get thrown out of court…maybe this will stop some of these stupid ceo’s from folding to the idiot trump…geez…
Affordability is bullshit?
Well…the senile old asshole in the WH gave up the game yesterday in a speech to his right wing enclave of the villages in Florida when he called the affordability crisis “bullshit” and said that it was just a dem scam…man, I can see the ads being written with this clip right now and if every dem running for anything doesn’t use it, it will be political malpractice…I mean 4.50 gas is bullshit? Not being able to afford beef is bullshit? And skyrocketing costs of everything is bullshit? This out of touch asshole has caused all of it with his stupid war and tariffs and the hits will keep on coming as the price of fertilizer soars by 50% since it is made from oil…and that is going to mean that all food prices are going to soar soon and there is going to be widespread choices to be made…do we eat or do we pay our other bills? That is going to hit more than 50% of America since that many people here are living paycheck to paycheck and have less than 400 dollars in the bank…so yeah, for the rich it may be bullshit but for the rest of us is certainly isn’t…and we’re going to pay for this asshole’s stupidity…geez…
May 3rd
Well…you know how I love my routines and how they feel so comfortable when I know what’s going to happen in my day…that went out the window this morning when emby did a reset and none of my channels were there anymore…and that means hours and hours of resetting them to get back to the channels I watch…ick…slept okay last night but I still feel exhausted and I hope that goes away at some point…all of this channel resetting has made me late for getting my day started as you can see…cripes, it’s 7:23 and I haven’t gotten anything done…still have the weight work and bike ride to do and won’t be done with that til almost 9am and that sucks…oh, well…I did get the bathroom cleaned yesterday and should work on the kitchen today but I may not with being so late getting started…it’s going to be too cold to get outdoors on the bike today and I am trying to not be depressed that we’re not going to see 60’s at all this month…have never seen a May so cold in my lifetime and I’m not sure how to deal with it…don’t have to cook today and I really need to use the potato soup so I may just do two bowls of that today and let the chicken go a day…so, I need to get moving or the guilts are going to overwhelm me…more later…
Man, I’m exhausted…
Well…not sure what the heck is going on but I have been exhausted all afternoon…it can’t be that I made chicken stir fry and cleaned the bathroom…if I’m at the point that those small exertions take everything out of me, then just kill me and get it over with…there is no way that I can live with not being able to do anything without feeling like this…okay, on to something else…I do love my new pan…not having to pick the shedded black coating out of my food is a good thing…and the teriyaki stir fry sauce is really good…what I could taste of it anyway…and it’s so easy to just pour it out of the bottle into the pan…and it thickened up nicely as it heated… so I’ll use that again since I have another half bottle to use…but no more chicken so I’ll have to get some of that this week along with another bag of stir fry veggies…will have to look to see if I have veggies in the back of the freezer…but I won’t need to cook anything for 4-5 days so I don’t have to think of that now…I did buy 4 boxes of pasta for a buck each last week so I can do that with sauce and garlic bread…and I can do a pasta salad that I have been thinking about for a while…okay, back to reading…
This is what they’re running on now…
Well…if you didn’t know that the repubs are just awful, all you have to do is listen to their latest talking point that extends on forcing people on Medicaid to work to get their benefits…the only thing that you have to remember is that most of the people getting Medicaid are either disabled or already working…and now, some asshole repub has said that all people getting Medicare should have to work to get the benefits that we have paid for our entire lives…don’t they understand what the word retired means? How many times do we have to listen to this crap before we never vote for another repub? I paid for my Medicare benefits and to have some entitled rich asshole repub say that now we have another hoop to jump through to get our earned Medicare just pisses me off and should do the same for anyone who is 65 and has worked their whole lives…this is what SS and Medicare are for…so that seniors do have the chance to relax and enjoy what they’ve earned after paying in hundreds of thousands of dollars to the SS/Medicare pool…if anyone votes for this bullshit, they should be made to pay by never sitting on their fat asses sucking up money that belongs to us…geez…
Everybody likes dem policies…
Well…with the defeat of Janet Mills in Maine, maybe we are seeing a return to true dem policies that she did her best to destroy…and she was the hand picked candidate of the repub lite dems like schumer who think the way to electoral success is to appeal to repub voters and be like them…but there is a new wave of dems out there who are not shy about being dems and proposing policies that will help regular people who are struggling in this billionaire dominated economy…and these policies start with taxing the rich to have the money to help people have better lives with affordable child care, affordable housing, and getting billionaire money out of elections…when these ideas are polled, ever 60% of repubs like them along with 80% of dems…so with popularity like that, why is the dem leadership still hanging on to ideas no one likes? This is one reason why people really don’t like dems…and it is for the fact that they never fight for the little guy, they never take the repubs on head on and call them out for their bullshit…so now a new generation of dems are making their voices heard and they are not scared of laying out a new vision for this country where one job will support a family, where higher education is affordable to all with no crushing debt to go along with it, with a social safety net that will relieve the threat of being one crisis away from bankruptcy, and that healthcare is a right not a profit center for the rich to get richer…this is not radical stuff…it’s how things used to be until the repubs stole the country and gave it to the rich…and it can be again just as long as the new dems get a voice and schumer and company get relegated to the dustbin of history where they belong…geez…
May 2nd
Well…up a little before 5am this morning…again…but I’m not going to bitch about that…I am going to bitch about the weather since it’s only 33 out there and we have a freeze warning on…I wonder if this is going to be the first year in history that the high never gets to 60 in May? That’s in the forecast for the next two weeks and it is so damn depressing for someone who loves it hot…looks like I’ll have plenty of time to get the bathroom cleaned today since the F1 sprint race doesn’t come on til 11…this may be a day that I’ll take off from the weights since you’re supposed to give yourself at least one rest day every week to allow your muscles to recover…okay, that’s some weird third person phrasing that I shouldn’t do…I am going to use my new semi wok to make some stir fry teriaki chicken for lunch today and that will keep me fed til next week…going to make rice with it so it should be pretty filling…still eating lots of fruit but I’m going to toast a bagel for breakfast this morning instead of an apple but I will have both an apple and an orange at some point today since I have lots of them…tomorrow will be 30 days with no cocktails and I feel pretty good so that will continue…maybe permanently…we’ll see…not much to do today…just going to drink coffee and get my body jump started right now and then on the indoor bike for a ride and that will still give me time to clean…more later…