Well…after AIPAC spent 40 million dollars trying to push stevens to the senate from Michigan and ole elon saying he’ll spend 100 million dollars to try to keep collins in the senate from Maine, their opponents have started to attack this outside money by saying that these outside groups are trying to buy the senate seats…and you know if they are spending that kind of cash electing these folks, they are not doing it out of the kindness of their hearts…it’s a quid pro quo where they want the money to buy them legislation that will benefit them…like elon did to get tax cuts so he doesn’t pay a penny in taxes…how do you feel about that maga? You’re still paying taxes on wages but the guys and corps you worship don’t pay one thin dime to support this country…oh, this doesn’t have anything to do with buying elections but shows you how deep the cult of trump is…there has been a guy living in his rusted out blazer at the boat launch for weeks now and the back of it is plastered with trump stickers, one saying that he voted for the idiot 3 times…how’s that working out for you moron? Geez…
August 4th
Well…damn, I’m going to have to hustle to get moving this morning with not dragging my butt out of bed til 5:30 and that leaves me about 15 minutes to do this and drink coffee before I need to get on the bike…probably not before 6:30 but that will still have me done with the rides before 9am and that’s early enough…slept okay last night with a little help and I feel bad about that…really need to go commando about that stuff and just not sleep unless I can do it on my own…tonight…one of the traps I have when I make soup is overestimating the calorie content in it…I assume that it’s like a normal meal but a bowl doesn’t have more than 400 calories and paired up with a pork loin fillet and fries for dinner, that’s just not enough…and I’m skipping the bagel today since it’s already after 6 and I need to get moving…oh, well…I’ll be curious to see if my legs go flat on the 2nd ride from the restricted calories…not much to do today…might just clean or I may go out to the beach with the storms coming in tonight and making the water cold again…more later….
Got something done today…
Well…finally…got some of the cleaning that needed to be done done today after the bike rides…started out with getting the laundry going and then tore into the couch and vacuumed it and rotated the cushions then cleaned the rest of the living room…right after that, I took the fridge apart and cleaned it since it really needed a scrub job that I had been putting off for too long…so now all I have to do is my room, the bathroom, and the kitchen but that will wait til tomorrow…or later in the week…still want to get out to the beach a couple of times before summer is over…didn’t have to cook much today with lots of soup left but I did bake a couple of chicken breasts to make sandwiches tomorrow…or wraps I think…made a new batch of pickles yesterday and need to make one more before the cuke spoils…I do need to look at getting more lids and rings since I have some that are rusted and tossed them…I did look at getting a laptop stand that has twin 4 inch fans in it that are run from a usb port and is adjustable so I can keep the thing from overheating…and it’s only 14 bucks so that’s pretty good…will probably order it tomorrow….okay, reading time…
Water shortages are coming…
Well…let’s talk about something a little different today…I’m tired of the idiot trump and his bullshit so the topic of the day is the looming water shortages, not only in the drought stricken west but all across this country…you’ve heard me go on about what water hogs data centers are…using more water than many cities and driving water rates to levels that not many can afford anymore…but the real eye opener is the results from the sustained drought across the west and southwest where the Colorado river used to flow to make gardens out of the desert…and no, I never thought that was a good idea where cities like Phoenix have used up the local aquifers to water lawns and golf courses and have resulted in subsidence that has seen land drop by 30-50 feet as the water is pumped out…so now, with the extended drought and the heat from climate change, major dams on the Colorado are mere feet from not having enough water to generate electricity anymore and there are going to be shortages that effect over 25 million people when the river runs dry as it’s expected to in the next 10 years…here in Muskegon, we are lucky to have our water supply coming from Lake Michigan so there should be enough water to last until I’m gone unless the billionaires are given free reign to suck up all the resources that people need and use it to make themselves even richer…right now, these billionaires are eying the great lakes as are the states in the southwest who have proposed pipelines to steal our water until there is nothing left…I’m really not sure what to do about any of it but just let people know what the hell is going on as the idiot trump and his cronies pump more co2 into the air every day…geez…
August 3rd
Well…not going to talk about sleeping this morning since it was okay for me but I was still out of bed by 5am…a night with no sleep aids at all and that’s okay…feel good today…again, for me and I’ll get ready for the bike rides here in about a half hour…sunrise doesn’t come until after 6:30 now and it sucks that it will get later and later and push my schedule back…but that’s life….didn’t get much done yesterday but I will have to do laundry today and clean a bit and cook some chicken breasts for sandwiches so I will have a little to do today… and I’ll dig through the freezer to plan some meals for later in the week…thinking about buying a new pair of shoes for the Italy trip but I’ll have to do that soon to break them in before the trip…and I still need clothes so that is on the to do list, too and I need to get off my butt and order some stuff…the wind has been pretty calm lately with just about a 15mph one out of the east yesterday and I hope it is easy again today…makes the rides much more enjoyable when I don’t have to work so hard…so I need to get going and do the weight work before I head out…should eat a bagel but not sure if I’ll have time…yeah, I know, I don’t really have a schedule anymore but it sure feels like it….more later…
Okay, I’m boring…
Well…okay, I came to the realization today that I’m boring most days and I’m not going to apologize for it…look, if you’ve lived as many years as I have you just run out of novel things to do or have happen…like today, yes I got the 2 bike rides in but after that I just screwed around and read…and what’s interesting about that? Not much to be honest…I did see two herds of deer on the rides this morning…one with 8 deer in it and one with 7…do those numbers make a herd? Who knows and who decides? If I call it a herd does that make it a herd? To me it does so herd it is….I had a flock of starlings hit my yard this afternoon to use the water container I put out for the animals and it was funny to watch them take turns splashing in it…I’ll have to remember to fill it tomorrow…you know how boring my day was? I think trimming my beard was an accomplishment…what did I have to eat today? Hmmm…it wasn’t memorable but I do remember a bowl of potato soup and two eggs and two slices of toast for dinner…okay, that doesn’t sound like much but I forgot the bagel with cream cheese I had before I got on the bike…so that makes it a little over 1K calories for the day…and yes, I know that’s not enough but I really can’t eat more than that…no popcorn tonight since last night’s didn’t taste as good as earlier in the weekend…okay, need to figure out what the heck to watch tonight…no more reading…crap, I still need to do the weight work…
The BBB strikes again…
Well…if you didn’t know that the big beautiful tax bill that was rammed through by repubs had nothing to do with tax cuts for the little guy but it was just a giveaway to the rich, you just have to look at the results…taxes were cut massively for the 1%, and now the other shoe has dropped and the other big giveaway to the rich has been exposed…any superyacht, private jet, or private luxury travel can now be written of as a “business expense” with 100% of the cost being used to write off any taxes they may owe (which isn’t much)…so now, the 1% can buy as many luxury yachts they want and the taxpayers of this country are paying for it…and medicaid recipients are paying for it as medicaid has been cut to give these tax cuts to the rich…and everyone’s medical care is now more expensive to “afford” these tax cuts, and the latest one is Medicare drug subsidies that are being destroyed to pay for tax cuts for the rich…get the picture? The repubs are stealing money from you and me just to give the rich another super yacht or private jet…and I think there is something wrong with that we can fix if we get off our butts and vote this fall…geez…
August 2nd
Well…don’t really want to talk about my crappy sleep anymore so I won’t…okay, I did have a frustrating dream last night where I lost something and the entire dream was trying to find it…yeah, that sucks and it leaves me with discomfort right now…oh, well…we did get a bunch of rain yesterday and it was about time…the whole system set up and came at us from every direction as the day went on and the low moved through…it was our turn to get rain and it looks like there is more coming Wed and Thurs…glad I got the lawn mowed the other day…going to get out on the bike as soon as it gets light this morning which gives me 20 minutes or so to pour the coffee down and hope it works with how worn out I feel…need to toast a bagel this morning, too since I am in danger of not eating enough again even though I made popcorn again last night…feels like depression is coming again and I hope the bike rides will help that but I’m due for a bout since I’ve been good for such a long time…so today I’ll hunker down and sleep walk through the day until I know what’s going on….more later…
Accomplished something today…
Well…while I didn’t accomplish much today, I get a couple of things done and that was enough…both bike rides were in the rain this morning and with the wind blowing 25 out of the east, I darn near gave up after one ride but I gutted it out and got both in…some asshole ran over a couple of geese at the boat launch downtown and I can’t figure out why…I mean geese are annoying but to just run over a couple sure looks like a sociopath is on the loose here…someone who would kill harmless animals just for the hell of it is the worst kind of asshole…I did get out to get the new weatherstripping for the doors today and when I got back here I installed them and it was pretty easy but I did have trouble getting the old ones out of the back door…my kitchen shears cut them easily and I even saved a couple of the old ones to use on the garage door…I did finally make a batch of potato soup today and I may have made too much so I’ll be eating 2 bowls a day to use it before it spoils…I did make popcorn with real butter that I could really taste last night and I can’t figure that out…but I may try it again tonight since I don’t think a bowl of soup and a chicken sandwich is enough…don’t want to fall back into the calorie trap again but I’m on the verge of it with being exhausted this afternoon…oh, well…I think I’ve gained 5 pounds since I started trying to eat enough…and that sucks…
Another reason to hate data centers…
Well…with the resistance to data centers across this country rising and being codified into trying to capture the true cost of them including raising electricity rates and using all the water in communities across the US, the idiot trump and his corrupt EPA are now readying a new set of rules that would exempt captured power plants whose sole purpose is to power data centers from all rules on pollution coming from them…yep, you heard that right…these assholes are going to give their cronies a pass on them polluting the communities they build these stupid centers cin…and that means anything goes…coal fired plants that spew arsenic, mercury, and hundreds of other dangerous pollutants? Yep…any way they want to power these stupid centers will be fair game under the rules…and 60 years of making the air healthier for out communities? Bye, bye…just so billionaires can pass the cost of building these white elephants on to the public…just like idiot boy’s tax cuts for the rich, these rules will pass the costs on to everyone who lives near one of these travesties while the billionaires rake in the profits…we really shouldn’t be surprised since the only people who exist to idiot boy are his billionaire cronies and his trying to give them as much money as he can…geez…