Well…I took an easy day today and only cleaned the bathroom and read and I needed a day like that…again…my forearms are really sore from the shoveling and I probably should take something for it…damn, it’s only 17 degrees here right now and the hibernation will continue until I need to go out for the new tires on Tuesday then I should be able to come and go as I please…the Lions play tonight at 8 so I won’t have to burn any of the good shows that I save for Thursday nights….going to make ham soup in the instant pot tomorrow and then see what’s in the freezer after getting those two big lumps out of there…but I need to thaw them and cut the ham off one of them to make them fit but that will make for a really hearty soup…can’t wait…oh, I remembered that I put potatoes in it so I’ll need to remember them in the morning…
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Time for the 25th amendment…
Well…anyone listening to the idiot trump has got to know he is losing his mind…I mean calling lawmakers who reminded the military that they have a duty to not follow illegal orders treasonous and saying they should be put to death is only one of the crazy assed things he has been saying…telling a female reporter “quiet, quiet piggy” on AF1 while he attacks others by calling them stupid and for asking “stupid questions” every time anyone asks him anything…these are all markers of his steep mental decline and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle should be brave enough to invoke the 25th amendment and remove him from office…his is, after all, not up for the job now if he ever was…but for some reason, people are still scared of the senile old fool so they will allow him to stumble us into wars and allow him to murder people…any other president would have been removed…geez…
December 4th
Well…up at frickin 2:42 this morning but I was able to get back to sleep until around 5:30 and I guess I’ll have to take that…had an easier day yesterday and I’m going to continue that today with just the rides and weight work to do…but I’m already running late so I’ll have to haul butt starting right now…it got cold last night and it’s only 18 out there right now and I’m happy that I don’t have to go out in it…the weather widget say rain/snow ahead and I am already tired of this damn weird weather….and winter doesn’t even start for two weeks…oh, well…going to make ham soup tomorrow and I’m not sure if I’ll use both ham bones I have in the freezer or just one…it will depend on if I can get two of them in the instant pot…still need to go over the kitchen since I skipped the microwave yesterday and I should have cleaned it…not much to do today…just need to get moving and get the weight work done…okay, Meijers has spiral sliced ham on sale for 89 cents a pound so I’ll be getting one next Tuesday…more later…
Killing small business…
Well…we all know that the idiot trump doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself and you can see that in what he’s done to small business with his stupid tariffs…in November, companies with 50 or less employees cut 120,000 jobs that are never coming back…all companies shed 32,000 jobs, the biggest monthly drop since the pandemic..and it keeps getting worse as a Dow/Jones survey predicted a net gain of 40,000 jobs that didn’t happen…and let’s remember that most of the time the jobs numbers are adjusted downward when more data comes in…now we see why idiot boy is doing everything he can to hide the jobs data just like he did with the Epstein files that he now has to release by the 19th of December…geez…
Rut roh..
Well…after yesterday’s special election in Tennessee where a dem almost won a house seat in a district the the idiot trump carried by 22 points, the 2026 election election has swung so much that it appears we will take the house by a huge margin and even the senate…and this comes with the repub rats increasingly abandoning ship in the house even before the election…so we may be able to gain control of the house before that since we only need to pick up 3 seats to do it…and we have over performed the polling by 15 points in the special elections that have been held since 2024…so I really am starting to have hope that idiot boy will be left with just the executive branch and will have to deal with multiple investigations to go with the bipartisan ones that have already started about the murders that Hegseth ordered in the Caribbean…geez…
December 3rd
Well…up and out of bed at 5:40 this morning and I’m gradually getting my poor old body moving after all of the shoveling yesterday…not too sore right now and I really should be after all of the abuse from shoveling more than a foot of snow….haven’t been sleeping well for a while now but that doesn’t help me take a nap in the afternoon…at least it didn’t snow overnight so I can take it a little easy today…the weather widget says “light rain today” and that just fits with he weird weather we’ve been having…don’t have to go anywhere until next Tuesday when I get the winter tires for the car but I’ll probably have to shovel the alley to get out but I’m not starting that today…don’t have to cook today but I will be making ham soup Friday…just remembered that I put diced potatoes in the last batch so I’ll do that for this one…not much to do today…just going to get the normal stuff done and maybe do some cleaning in the kitchen…more later…
I did it…
Well…I’m finally getting to the point where if a decision needs to be made, I just do it without agonizing over it for days…so, I bought the winter tires for the car this afternoon and will have the installed next Tuesday at 8am at Discount tire…1,100 bucks but the car is undriveable in the winter without them…and I think the battery needs replacing, too but my meter died so I couldn’t check it…but I figured out why my battery box didn’t have any effect when I hooked it up last week…forgot to hit the on switch since I hadn’t used it in a couple of years…so I’ll do that tomorrow and just see if it helps…then I’ll order a battery from the zone or Amazon…
27 inches of snow
Well…after shoveling again today and with it taking over 2 hours, I read on the local news that Muskegon got 27 inches of snow over the past two days…the largest two day snowfall total since the blizzard of 1978…and that really sucks…I am going to be really sore tomorrow and won’t be able to get out of here for at least a week…and I got a bad surprise that the steel winter wheels I was looking for are about 120 bucks each and tires are over 200 bucks each…so if I want to have them, I’ll be out 1,200 bucks or so and that is going to hurt…but I guess if you extrapolate that out to 10 years, it’s only 120 bucks a year so I guess I should bite the bullet and buy something…crap, I hate making decisions every damn day…
9 months of job losses…
Well…you know the idiot was elected because he lied that he would “bring manufacturing jobs back” but when you look at the numbers, the idiot trump’s performance is the worst of any president in 50 years…and now his stupid tariffs have led to manufacturing job losses for the past 9 months…and let’s remember that idiot boy was one of the only presidents to have a net job loss of 2.7 million at the end of his term…in contrast, Joe Biden’s administration added almost 13 million jobs and idiot boy was handed an economy that was the envy of the world and trump trashed it with his stupidity and his “trump tax” tariffs…and let’s remember one other thing…that his tariffs take money out of people’s pockets so they can’t spend it on anything else which is showing up as we fall toward recession…good job…geez…
December 2nd
Well…up and moving at 5:25 this morning and that follows waking up around 4am and I sure don’t want that to be the new normal…the goal is to stay in bed til at least 6am but that seems like a goal too far these days…we got another foot of snow last night so I’ll be out there shoveling for a couple of hours after I get the weight work and rides in and that sucks…it’s barely December and we’ve had 22 inches of snow in the past two days and that is so damn depressing…but there isn’t anything I can do about that but just hunker down and hibernate…have 5 1/2 books and enough food for a week and I don’t have to go out until the10th….so damn tired of the weather running my life…not sure what I’m going to do today other than read…should do some meal planning and I am going to make some ham soup but not until I use up the container I took out of the freezer a couple of days ago…so, I need to get going and get the weight work started…more later…