Well…pundits have been having a problem figuring out why lil marco has been attacking the ICC (international criminal court) so much lately but I’ll make it simple for you…it’s because they are war criminals and the ICC is where war criminals are held responsible…and it’s nice to hear that the UN and countries who are signatories to the treaty say they will protect it from any interference by the US since we are not even part of it since the repubs wouldn’t allow the treaty to pass…but, this doesn’t matter…any country who is part of the ICC can start an investigation and then prosecute those found to be a war criminal…and I sure hope that happens and the idiot trump and his cronies have to stay out of Europe since all of those countries are part of the ICC…and this doesn’t end when they are no longer in office and there is no statute of limitation on war crimes…and that means idiot boy can be arrested when he visits his golf club in Scotland…go get him Scots…geez..
July 15th
Well…that kinda sucked…it didn’t get below 84 in here overnight and that is going to continue for 4 more days…have 2 fans on today with the box fan trying to suck in the 77 degree air from outside to try to cool this place a bit before the heat starts again…of course I didn’t sleep for crap last night but that’s not from the heat…I just don’t sleep anymore and that gets pretty frustrating…I will reach my final goal I have when I get on the bike here in 30 minutes…I’ve ridden either the indoor or outdoor bike for 1000 straight days starting when I got back from the UK trip in October of 2023…and the funny thing will be that the string will break when I head out for the Italy trip…not sure if it’s much of an accomplishment but I guess it shows that I can still beat the hell out of myself for no reason…the new coffee table is supposed to be delivered today and it will take a couple of hours to put it together but it will be nice to actually have furniture instead of plastic containers in here…not much to do today….have the dentist appointment at noon and the bike rides but that is pretty much it…going to cook the t-bone I got yesterday with potato salad and that will be the only meal for the day…more later…
An ugly 4 days…
Well…my most hated days of the year start tomorrow with Michigan’s largest motorcycle event going on for the next 4 days…lots of racing motorcycles through my neighborhood at 70 mph in a 25 zone and burnouts and lots of bad country music that is so loud it sounds like the band is set up on my front yard…4 frickin days of this crap and the cops just let these assholes do whatever they like through the neighborhoods…yeah, I know that sounds like sour grapes but who the hell is this for…less than 10% of the participants are from Muskegon so those who come here don’t really care about trashing this place that then takes a week to clean up…but I guess they do spend a little money here and last year they had a car show over at the Harley dealer that was cool…damn, when did I get to be such a pessimist? I guess hundreds of bikes revving their engines all day will do that…
Trumparrhea..
Well…with the cuts the moron in chief has done to state health departments that have prevented them from getting ahead of infectious diseases like the diarrhea causing parasite that is now ravaging Michigan with over 3,000 cases reported so far…and this parasite causes severe distress in people than has led to many hospitalizations and severe illness…so, of course some wag (or funny person) has renamed the disease “trumparrhea” which has sent the thin skinned asshole in chief into one of his stupid rants to his staff that has been described as “apoplectic” with lots of screaming and ranting that went on for hours…hey maga, this is what you foisted on this country and I really do hope that some of you get this parasite that would have been prevented without idiot boy gutting public health in this country…geez…
July 14th
Well…going to try something a little different this morning and do both rides before I head out for the grocery run so I can go to the beach after I get back here…there has just been a heat advisory issued for us here and old people will be dying from it…I’m glad that I tolerate the heat so well and even revel in it being hot that the next couple of days may be a pain with it being in the mid 90’s but I’ll live through it…but getting out on the bike before it gets really hot is a smart thing to do since it never got under 75 overnight and it is humid as heck…I would expect some fog out there, too…slept okay last night but was up at 4:22 that turned into 5:22 as I fought to get a little more sleep…feel okay today but pretty sore with the same neck problems I’ve been fighting for years now but I know how to stretch that out…so I need to get out as soon as it gets light here in 15 minutes or so…I think I have time to toast a bagel to get some fuel in me for the rides and I do need to pour more coffee down to go with it….more later…
Got a chance to read…
Well…after a late start to the day and having to run an errand to pay the water bill and pick up more books, the day got away from me and I didn’t get back from the beach til almost noon and didn’t get the 2 loads of laundry done until after 2pm…in between that I did cook the ingredients for the potato salad I’m making tomorrow…might even go to DD to get a strip steak for my b-day since they have them on sale for 6.99 a pound until tomorrow and I need to do the grocery run tomorrow since I have a dentist appointment Wed…so that means I won’t have a day off until Thurs and this being retired is still too damn busy…my allergies are off the scale today and I am miserable and this is just the start of the bad allergy season…okay, I want to start a new book right now so I’m going to end here…
The AI bubble is bursting…
Well…after all the tech billionaires went all in on the idea that AI would replace all of their workers with computer programs, it seems the investment of trillions of dollars in that vaporware is coming back to bite them in the ass…just today S&P downgraded Oracle’s debt to one step above junk status due to the billions it wasted on AI that doesn’t work and never will…and many of the other companies that bet themselves on this stupid technology are quietly killing these programs and are trying to figure out how to recover some of these stupid investments…and even companies like Ford who fired thousands of engineers since they were deluded enough to think AI could do a human’s job are rehiring human beings since AI couldn’t be trusted and made so many mistakes it cost them close to a billion dollars…and this is added to the realization from some of these morons that there really isn’t any way to profit from their AI investment since no one wants to use these stupid programs since they make so many mistakes…and colleges and universities are starting to ban their use saying that it is tantamount to cheating if students do use them…and let’s not forget how much resources the data centers that house AI use…in one Colorado town a study was done showing that just one of these resource pigs uses as much as half the electricity and water in the town…raising rates for the people who live there…so maybe, just maybe some of these billionaires going broke will end this stupidity…man, there are going to be a lot of unused buildings when this bubble pops…and guess who pays for that…yep, you and me…geez…
July 13th
Well…damn, running late this morning with not getting out of bed til 6 but that was from a chemical intervention…had to take a benadryl last night to keep from getting up at 4am…again…not sure how that is going to work for me today but I know I feel pretty crappy right now and need to pour the coffee down to get jump started…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I am going to get the ingredients cooked so I can make potato salad tomorrow…still thinking about getting a steak for my birthday but spending 15 bucks for one meal seems a bit much…I do need to run an errand after the bike rides this morning to pay the water bill and return some books to the library and get more…I did get a LeCarre last time but I find his stuff to be too dense and small so I’m not sure if I’m going to finish the one I started…I guess we’ll see…okay, I just remembered that I did get the car washed yesterday so I guess that’s something…so I’ll have a clean car to run errands with…I do want to get out to the beach this morning and that means I need to get off my butt and get going soon…so no bagel today or later for that…think I’ll take coffee on the first ride since I don’t want to sit here wasting time to have a 2nd cup…more later….
Took it easy today…
Well…after getting the two rides in…the front wheel is fixed and I’m still kicking myself for screwing that up when I know how to work on bearings…they’re a pain in the butt since they are just 9 loose balls on each side of the wheel…but, if you do it right, it’s easy…and I figured that out after spending an hour trying to re assemble the wheel…and after I got back here after the 2nd ride, I washed the car…finally, from top to bottom and even did the glass…didn’t wax it since the water is still beading pretty good so I’ll let that go to til the next time…there was a lot of sand in the interior but that happens when you go to the beach a lot so that took a bit to get vacuumed up…then I washed the interior to get rid of the dust that builds up everywhere…and then I’ve taken the rest of the day off from about 11am on to read and that is going to be what I go back to right now…won’t have to cook for a couple of days and I wonder if I should splurge on a steak for my birthday? Or make some potato salad…that sounds good and I think I’ll do that tomorrow…reading time…
Lindsey Graham is dead…
Well…I know I shouldn’t be happy when anyone dies but Lindsey Graham was one of the idiot trump’s sychophants who started out as against him but then his lust for power brought out the hypocrite that he was and he supported every damaging thing that the asshole did…this is just a great example of how corrupting idiot boy is when he turned Graham into his little doggie who went along with everything…but it couldn’t have happened without Graham making the calculation that sucking up to idiot boy would help him and he didn’t care how much damage was done to the country and the world…so good riddance, Lindsey..rest in hell…