Well…it’s totally idiot boy’s economy now with the atrocious job numbers that came out today…for all of 2025 there were only 181,000 jobs added in total…yep, you read that right…from an economy given to him from Biden that was adding 2-300,000 jobs every month, the idiot trump and his stupid tariffs have essentially stopped the economy from growing…I am so glad I’m retired and don’t have to look for work in this wreck of an economy that the repubs have let trump foist on the country…but the apologists on the right are out in force today trying to spin the bad jobs numbers by saying it’s from forcibly deporting so many illegal criminals…how the hell that connects to anything is just in their addled brains…geez…
I knew this would happen…
Well…with gambling sites exploding in number every day and every damn commercial on the Olympics for one of them, my fear was there would be a cost with the proliferation as it makes it easier to strip the rubes of their money…I’m not a gambler so these ads are just annoying to me and as I have no desire to gamble away my money…but that’s not true for a lot of folks…and the numbers show how damaging this easy gambling is to some people…a Dutch study was just released that shows that in states that allow this online gambling have seen a rise in personal bankruptcies of 34% since the sites came online…and this goes with the rise in house foreclosures of about the same percent…and the owners of these sites have figured out a neat little transfer of wealth scheme that makes the rich richer and everyone else poorer….so don’t gamble on these damn sites…it is rigged so you can never win…geez…
Done already…
Well…got started early today and finished up before 9:30am and that’s pretty good with doing two rides…it is just perfect temps for riding downstairs after finding the window open yesterday and closing it…in shorts again today and it looks like that will be the plan for the rest of the winter…it hasn’t snowed in 5 days here and it feels good to not have to shovel…and it looks like no snow until next week and that gets us one week closer to March…still has been a brutal winter here this year and I can’t wait for it to be over…so the rest of the day is going to be an easy one with just reading and cooking the chicken that I marinaded overnight…and that will be the only meal I’ll have today…okay, time to read…
February 11th
Well…up and moving a little after 5 today and that really is the new normal that I don’t like a lot…5:40 right now and I really need to get going and get at the weight work by 6 if I’m going to stay on schedule…did the grocery run yesterday so I really don’t have anything to do today but the normal stuff and that will be a welcome thing…it’s still over 30 out there and I need to look at the weather to see what it’s going to be this week…okay, it’s going to be in the 40’s for highs for the next 5 days and I really hope it melts some of the damn snow and we don’t get more…and that’s how it looks until next Wed when It’s going to be 46 for a high…haven’t heard from my brother so it looks like we’re not moving stuff today and that’s just fine with me…marinated some chicken yesterday and I’m going to bake that today with a baked potato and some veggies for one meal but I’m not sure what the second one will be…maybe just one meal with a bagel? I guess we’ll see…more later…
People are getting it…
Well…with new surveys out saying that Americans don’t feel like things will get better for them in the future, the lowest that survey has ever been…I think people are finally getting it that the idiot trump has done irreversible damage to this country and they don’t like it…and this spreads across everything with optimism hitting a 20 year low…almost the lowest it’s ever been…and throw in the lawless thugs of ICE killing American citizens and arresting people who are here legally, job losses that are accelerating, inflation that is howling from the idiot’s tariffs, and you can see that people are seeing through idiot boy’s lies when he says the country is doing great and all these things are just “fake news” that the dems are pushing…we all see this crap with our own eyes and no amount to lies is going to change that…geez…
Stupid, stupid..
Well…have been trying to figure out why it’s been so damn cold down in the bike room and the rest of the basement all winter…it was so cold down there that I was having to wear long pants and t-shirts just to keep from shivering and this is the first year that has happened…and today I figured it out…I left one of the small glass block windows open and it must have been that way all winter…once I closed it and had a heat cycle go, I was able to put shorts and a t-shirt on and was perfectly comfortable…and it was so nice to ride in shorts that the 2nd ride just flew by…and I was even going to skip that ride until my guilt fully kicked in and I just had to go down and not be lazy…probably cost me an extra hundred bucks this winter…oh, well…
February 10th
Well…up and moving before 5 again and that is taking a lot out of me…and I really need to get moving to get two rides in before I head out for the grocery run…didn’t sleep well at all and I’ll be feeling it later…and it would be really cool to be able to take a nap later but I know that’s not going to happen…it’s pretty warm out there so I am going to wash the car between Meijers and Aldis…don’t have a whole lot to get but I am going to buy a tray of chicken breasts and then figure out what I’m going to do with them…maybe I’ll marinate them and then just bake them with some mashed potatoes…who knows? Still have leftovers to use today so I won’t be cooking them til Thurs or Friday…I need to clean some around here since the bathroom needs work and I just might if I can drag myself away from the Olympics…not much to do today…just need to get moving and have more coffee…more later…
The Olympics are making me lazy
Well…ever since I’ve been watching the Olympics, they have made me lazy and are keeping me from getting anything done…but I did get the weight work and two rides in before that so I guess that’s something…going to wash the car tomorrow and do the grocery run so my Wed is open in case we are moving appliances…sure don’t want to but I guess that’s what family does…I really should go to the library, too since I’m down to my last two books and have all of the repeaters to take back…so I really only read 4 books this cycle…but that’s okay, too…up at 5 or so this morning and now I’m sure it’s the new normal since it’s been happening for over a month now…okay, the US women’s team is playing hockey so I’m going to watch that…
Is this what you voted for?
Well…as the repubs cut all kind of programs the benefit the poor and middle class, we see what the repubs really are about just by looking at jd vances entourage and the waste the whole thing is…let’s start with how many aircraft he used to just go to the Olympics…I mean he took 14 planes…yep, 14 planes and one of them was just to take American food…to Italy…if that is not the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard it’s very close…Italy, that has some of the best food in the world and this moron had to take American food…I wonder what it costs to fly 14 planes across the Atlantic? The fuel alone has to cost 10 million bucks and then all of the personnel has to be another 10-15 million dollars…and lets add the 40 car motorcade that he has been plugging the narrow Italian streets with…no wonder he gets booed every time he shows his face…the ultimate ugly American…geez…
February 9th
Well…damn, up a little after 5 today and I’m just worn out…but I will drag my ass down and get two rides in this morning…this week is going to be compressed a bit with moving appliances Wed so that means I need to do the grocery run tomorrow or I could wait til Thurs…not sure yet…I do know that I need to wash the car tomorrow since it’s going to be warm enough so it won’t freeze it into a block of ice…it’s only 9 degrees right now but the low is going to be in the 20’s tonight and into the 30’s for highs this week…don’t think it snowed overnight so I won’t have to shovel today and I really need to have an off day to heal some…I really should clean the bathroom today and I just might but I want to rest a bit first…this getting old is a lot of work and it needs to be coffee fueled so I’m going to pour the 2nd cup…I did get the letters for my keyboard yesterday and I may get them installed today….not sure about that…more later…