Well…as you could see in this election, Medicare for all has started to be pushed to the forefront of health care debate in this country by a lot of the newly elected dems…our new senator included…and of course, the insurance industry and right wing pundits are already out there with the long knives out saying it could never work, rationed care….and the rest of the bullshit that has left people with unaffordable health insurance premiums…I mean who can afford 1,400 dollars a month just for insurance? Not many and the repubs have made it much worse by ending the enhanced subsidies for the ACA policies that have seen prices rise by up to 50% this year…with all of this, something needs to be done and I think it’s a good thing to get the conversation started on our side and try to figure out if Medicare for all is the best way to get people insured…I think cutting out the insurance companies is a good start since they just add cost without benefits…and I have felt pretty good about my Medicare coverage…they paid the full 77K of my prostate surgery and all but 30 bucks of my skin cancer surgery….I couldn’t imagine have a family and not being able to afford health insurance for them but that is where we are in many cases…I do support Medicare for all to get us to where every other developed country is…healthcare that starts with birth and continues til death without having to worry about whether you can get coverage…geez…
November 7th
Well…that sucked…up a 3am and then up and down til I got out of bed at 5:08…going to be worn out all day today so I’m glad I have extra coffee and the drip machine set up for more…it’s over 40 out there so the rides should be okay today…and it’s not raining so that will be nice…will be out by 6am or so I’ll be done by 9 or so and then I’m just going to laze the day out…really don’t have much to do but watch races today and maybe clean a bit…I’m running out of books from the hoard so I’ll have to think about authors I want to read so I can check them out…looks like I’ll be able to get on the leaves again Monday but I was really hoping all of them would be down since we’ve only got 2 weeks left where they collect them so some of them are going to stay on the yard…may just mulch them up to feed the lawn over the winter if I can’t pick them up…the right side of my neck has been howling in pain the past few days and I have no idea how I hurt it…haven’t really done anything but raking the fence line and that was last week so I wonder i it’s a delayed reaction to that…okay, need to get a bagel toasted and get on the bike…more later…
A totally wasted day…
Well…yeah, that’s a loaded title that I’m really trying to get away from thinking like…I mean when do I get to the point where I just live and forget about whether I accomplish anything…oh, well…I’ll get there probably on the day I die…but today was an easy day since I really didn’t have much to do after I got the bike rides in…and damn, it was cold at 40 degrees when I went out and to cap that off, it was raining all the way out to the beach where it stopped raining and we even got some sun here…so the 2nd ride was better but still cold and it’s going to be even colder tomorrow morning so I may wait for it to come up off the low of 31 to go out…okay, nope they revised the forecast and now the low is 38 so that’s plenty warm to go out as soon as I get up if it’s not raining…I did do some straightening out of the kitchen today and got rid of about 300 meijers bags that I had stored on the bottom shelf of the storage…now it looks much more neat and I like that…I’m glad I didn’t buy a new toaster since this one seems to still be working even though the inner heating elements are not red…not sure how that works but I’ll take it…it never got warmer than 44 today but that’s normal for November in Michigan so I guess I can’t bitch…okay, back to reading…
A few things…
Well…my brain is a little jumbled this morning but I do have a couple of things I want to talk about…first is the fact that if we get out there and vote, even ole elon’s 474 million dollars can’t beat us…and that sends a message to the rest of the techbros that their money won’t work either when we stick together…and another little thing that made me smile was the drop in tesla and spacex stock prices after the election cost elon over 70 billion dollars…poor elon…the bubble in AI is about to burst as the entire country is tired of the big tech companies dropping data centers wherever they please with the blessing of the idiot trump and his minions but that is about to change as the ponzi scheme of AI is being revealed…there is nowhere near enough revenue or profit to support the trillion dollars that has been poured into it…and most of the money is borrowed that companies like meta are going to lose…and the new idea of local AI on pc’s that don’t need data centers is going to kill them before they’re done building…and I hope our new congress will investigate the scam of AI and all of the companies, including google, will have to explain how no profit supports all those loans that the techbros will walk away from when they can’t scam any more money out of them…geez…
November 6th
Well…damn, it’s going to be a cold one on the bike this morning since it’s only 40 degrees out there and it’s supposed to be raining but I don’t see it…will have to do full thermasuit with rain gear but it is November so I guess it’s supposed to be cold…slept okay last night but must have done it wrong with the right side of my neck hurting like crazy…have tried stretching that muscle but I think I’ll have to treat it with something before I go out in a half hour…at least my right hip doesn’t hurt this morning after making it painful to walk yesterday…I have enough pain everywhere to justify an ibuprofen before the rides so I’ll take one before I toast a bagel…after cooking yesterday, I won’t have to make any food for a few days and I’ll look in the freezer to see what I have…I know I have 2 pork chops and a little more chicken but I’ll have to buy more next week at aldis…don’t really have a lot to do after the rides and that will be welcome…just going to clean up a bit but the house still looks okay…maybe the dining room? We’ll see…need to get moving to be on the bike by 6:30….more later…
Not too busy today…
Well…it was a not too busy day today but I did get the rides in, paid the water bill and made Masala…when I suited up for the first ride and got out about 100 yards, it started to rain and I really didn’t want to get cold and wet since it was only 53 degrees…which it has been all day…so I came back and waited a half hour to go out after the rain stopped and by then the city offices were open so I could stop and pay the bill… the wind was nuts, though and I was going into the wind all the way out to the beach…and when I got over the hill on the way to the beach, I had to pedal like crazy to go downhill the wind was so high…still feeling pretty beat today and still have the weight work to do so I need to get to it…it will be nice to not have to cook the rest of the week but I do still need to figure out what comes after the Masala…probably some pasta since I have 5 jars of sauce after going crazy on the Prego last week…oh, I did see the turkeys today and one of them was perched on top of the 6 foot fence around the paper plant site…made me laugh but she flew down before I could get a photo,,,
No, Hakeem Jeffries…
Well…as I said the other day, we don’t want Hakeem Jeffries as speaker of the house…he was on Morning Joe today misreading the dem electorate saying that we didn’t want to “get even” with the repubs but just to have the new congress focus on affordability…well…Hakeem, you are wrong…we want accountability for all of the criminals that infest the WH…there needs to be a rebirth of the rule of law here in this country so that means hearings on what the criminals have been doing…it why we have the idiot trump and his lawlessness, because he never had any consequences for what he did and is doing…he’s gotten away with it because of people like you who just wants to go along to get along and I really can’t understand why you want to squander this opportunity to root out all of the criminals…it’s not getting even when you uphold the rule of law…it’s necessary to start to repair our country and if you are not up to doing what’s right go back to secret meetings with the criminal kushner and leave fixing the country to the new blood that has been elected or even to anyone else who understands that this is a necessity not a nice to have…get out of the way if you can’t do it…geez…
November 5th
Well…damn, didn’t get out of bed til 6:01 and I am trying mightily to not think I’m behind for the day…I’ll still be out on the bike before 7am and done by 9:30 so why the stress? I do need to pay the water bill today so I’ll take it on the bike for the first ride and stop to the city offices on the way back…it’s 54 out there and I wonder if I can get away with shorts again today? It says it’s raining out there but I don’t see it…again…so I’ll be out as soon as I pour coffee down me and eat a bagel…I thought my toaster was broken but I did some toast in it yesterday and even though the elements are not red, it did brown the bread…weird…I do need to make Masala today and will do that for lunch and then take the rest of the day off…feeling pretty worn out today and it’s probably from not eating enough with just half a chicken breast with potatoes and rice for lunch and then two eggs and toast for dinner…so I’m going to try to do better today…how, I don’t know but I’ll figure something out…more later…
The Eiffel tower is blue…
Well…the world was watching our elections closely and you can see that when a poster at Kos showed the Eiffel tower bathed in great blue light overnight and many other countries are breathing a sigh of relief that we Americans have pulled back from the precipice of fascism and kicked the maga assholes to the curb…most of them anyway…and what I’m hearing from those elected on our side is just what I wanted to hear…that ICE is going to be torn apart so they can no longer terrorize this country…that people in trump’s circle better “lawyer up” with the investigations that are coming and that impeachment of everyone who has helped the idiot trump break the law is on the table…and I’m reading about reform of the SC that has been moved to the mainstream of the party and will start to happen to stop the lawlessness and corruption that stinks up the court and gives idiot boy whatever he wants…that is going to end…so things are looking up but there is still so much work to do and that includes electing a progressive fighter for house speaker…not Hakeem Jeffries who is part of the dem establishment who does not have the sping to do what needs to be done…there is no compromising with evil and they need to be held responsible…geez…
A pretty good day…
Well…with the election news and being able to ride in shorts, it was a pretty good day today…didn’t go out until it was light since the radar said it was raining but it wasn’t so I got my 30 in just before the rain started…now the big question is do I have a cocktail tonight to celebrate? Not sure yet but maybe…started Arthur C. Clarke’s last novel today in the Space Odyssey trilogy called “3001, The Final Odyssey” and I’m enjoying getting back to some science fiction for a change and it’s one of the 35 books I got at the sale…I opened some weird mustard I got at aldis called dill pickle and I used it on some dogs today…not sure if I like it or not but I do like that aldis is being creative like with heat and sweet stuff I really like so I bought 2 more bottles of it…and at 1.49 a bottle, I can try it and toss it if I don’t like it…going to make the masala tomorrow and I’m glad I bought 5 pounds of jasmine rice with the coupon Tuesday…I guess the weather changes the world is going through has devastated rice production this year…and it’s so bad that Kelloggs is not using whole rice in their rice krispies anymore but a blend of wheat, rice and corn gluten…ick…so I wonder if I should stock up on it? Five pounds should last me a year or so and maybe something will change…who knows? Time to read…