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…
August 1st
Well…damn, I may be getting this sleeping thing down with not getting out of bed til 5:31 this morning after going to bed at 10 or so…feel okay even without the coffee working yet but I am still pouring it down so I can get out for a ride before I head to menards to get the new door seals this morning…it looks like we may get some rain today but it looked like that yesterday, too but we didn’t get a drop…radar was filled with it but not a damn thing…oh, well…I did get some work done yesterday and will get a little more done today…want to wash and wax the front door after I put the new seals in and then I’ll get to the garage door…but not if it rains, I’ll have to wait a couple of days til everything dries out…don’t have any leftover food left so I’ll have to figure something out…if it rains, I think I’ll make potato soup since I still have 10 pounds of potatoes to use and they don’t last like they do when it’s cooler…have about 10 minutes before I need to get on the bike so I have to get going….more later…
Man, I’m sore…and exhausted..
Well…it’s been a busy day today with getting the two rides in, mowing the lawn, applying the weed killer, and then tearing the front door apart, then prepping and painting it…and then running to the library since I ran out of books…got done around noon after starting at 6am and I am sore and exhausted…and I’ll be heading out to menards in the morning to get the new gaskets for the doors so I can get them replaced tomorrow…have to cut them to fit but I have the old ones to measure with so that should be easy…need to lubricate the parts that slide in to hold them with some dish soap so they’ll be easy to install…will probably take a 10 minutes per door and I’ll finally have them looking and working like new again…the old ones are really weathered and looked like crap and I’m glad I got off my butt and got them started…next project will be the garage door that needs to have the trim painted, too…but right now I need to think about dinner and using up the last of the leftovers…and then get to reading…
Now we know what’s important…
Well…there were a few bombshells from the todd blanche hearings this week and the biggest one is that we all found out what’s important to idiot boy…two repub senators said they wouldn’t vote for the corrupt, unethical blanche until they got it in writing that the scam “lawsuit” against the IRS that gave idiot boy 1.8 billion dollars to pay the thugs who attacked the capitol but also gave him and his friends complete immunity from any investigations/audits from the IRS forever…this travesty was thrown out by the courts who then referred blanche and all of the lawyers working with him to their state bar associations for sanctions since they violated every rule in the book…so the two senators said they wouldn’t vote for blanche unless they had it in writing that the corrupt agreement was dead…when idiot boy heard that he withdrew the nomination of blanche until next year since he really wants the immunity agreement even though the courts have said it’s illegal….and the landscape for getting blanche through the senate is even going to look worse next year when we take control of the senate…so idiot boy is seething that he didn’t get his pet lawyer through or his immunity agreement…poor baby…geez…