Well…have been sidetracked a little today with Man U playing…and winning to my surprise…but, I need to make sure I don’t get behind this late in the month so I may just do some wandering today….it has been a depressing month with not making any cash all and that has made my already pretty small life even smaller since I can’t spend cash I don’t have….but, I am going to enjoy tonight with the Wings playing and still working on the “Dexter” marathon that I have been doing the past couple of days…one thing I just don’t understand is all of the stores that are opening on T-day…when polls that have been done show that only about 10% of the people are going to go out and shop…and, having the food courts open? I guess there are people who don’t cook and need to eat out…but, I would guess there are not that many…I’m even making a turkey just for me…trying a new brine with apple/cranberry juice that I’m hoping will be good….and how much cheaper can you buy protein? See, I am wandering….it has been a chore trying to get rid of all of the leftovers before tomorrow but it looks like I will be successful…only two more bowls of homemade soup to go…and, with that…I think I’ll go have soup…
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November 27th
Well…it was another lazy day yesterday and I just didn’t feel like doing anything..so, I didn’t…did do a mini “Dexter” marathon and that was fun since I don’t really remember seeing them when they were new…slept okay but woke up with my right big toe hurting and I think I may have kept it flexed all night just like I have been clenching my teeth…have to stop doing that…and, I am still sore all over except my legs and I am at a loss to know what that is about…can you get sore everywhere just from sleeping? Not much to do today…I do have to get the turkey in the brine this morning…am using apple and apple-cranberry juice for the liquid this year…have been using orange juice but last years turkey was sub-par so I thought I’d change it up…other than that, I am going to go back to “Dexter” today for more and just veg it out until cocktails later….more later…
Just wandering around….
Well…have been thinking about a political one to do today and really haven’t come up with anything…so I’m going to wander around a bit and just see what happens…it is a little heartening to see the progressives start to find their feet lately with getting the filibuster eliminated for judicial appointees which will give us the ability to appoint judges that will follow the law and not ideology…and that is one of the ironies that I see in the judiciary…the righties howl and howl about activist judges, but which ones are the most activist? It’s always the conservatives who don’t believe in the law or precedent…and to prove this, you only have to look as far as Citizens United where the conservatives on the court threw out a hundred years of precedent and made corporations equal to people….and they are poised to further extend this terrible precedent with a new case that will allow Scalia and the rest of the conservative thugs on the supreme court to say that corporations have religious rights, too…and that one will have to be pulled out of their asses since nothing like that appears anywhere in precedent or the constitution….and it will mean a huge increase in the power of the corporations since they will then be able to argue that they can do whatever they want to their employees…basically nullifying the last 100 years of labor law…so, progressives, we need to keep fighting to take back the court and our government from these folks, to make this country what it can and should be…where people count more than corporations and the law is the law…geez…okay…I didn’t wander as much as I expected…it’s funny sometimes how a topic will just write itself…
November 26th
Well…it was just another day yesterday and I didn’t get much done but I really don’t have much to get done so that’s okay….slept okay and didn’t get up until after 7 so I guess I needed it…there were dreams but they were pretty amorphous so I can’t report on them…..I did just get back from the final grocery run before the holiday but I forgot potatoes so I may have to go back tomorrow….did get to try out the summer tires on snow and they are not terrible…I am still going to put the Blizzaks on since I did paint the wheels and they have one more winter in them….not much to do today…just going to work out but no bike ride since it is slick and I don’t want to fall off and break myself….more later…
Unintended consequences….
Well…have been reading lately about the fallout from the decision that many repub governors have made to not allow the medicaid expansion in their states…whether it just ODS or the fact that the repubs hate poor people, the results are the same…to deny millions of people any sort of health insurance and hurt people mainly in red states. But, there is is an unintended consequence that these idiot governors didn’t see coming…without this expansion, many hospitals can no longer shoulder the burden of providing free care to the uninsured…so what do they do? Across the red states hospitals are closing in record numbers…many in rural areas that invariably vote for these repub idiots leaving no care for anyone. So, the smug, insured repubs who think that it’s not their problem that the poor have no health care are finding that they now live in areas where even they will have to drive 50 miles or more to the nearest hospital…a long way to go when you have a heart attack, stroke or even a car accident….I think it serves them right…maybe this will be another instance where the repubs don’t give a damn about anything until it affects them? Just another time where they will do anything to hate on the people of this country…even if it costs more money or even kills people…what a nice bunch…geez…
Of course they hate the Iran deal…
Well…after the announcement of the deal with Iran to slow down their nuclear program, of course the right comes out hating any idea of talking to the Iranians since they have been just itching for another war somewhere…they couldn’t get one in Syria and now it appears they won’t get on in Iran, either. So, their masters won’t get to replace their billions of dollars in war material that won’t be used and that just pisses them off…after all, what did they purchase legislators for? Now, what the hell is John McCain going to talk about on the Sunday shows? I just don’t understand why war is preferable to talking to the right…I think they do have ODS…Obama Deranagement Syndrome….and they are just unable to think in any terms but “if Obama did it, it must be bad” or to take the longer view that this is certainly better in the long run than destroying another country just because we can…we just need to let the adults in the room do their jobs and maybe get what we want, and for the Iranians to get what they want…is that so wrong? It’s just part of the whole mindset of the right that there is no win-win…there are only winners and losers and if we compromise at all, we are the losers…stupid…but that is the repubs these days…geez….
November 25th
Well….it was just another Sunday yesterday with all the disappointment that comes with being a Michigan sports fan…at least the Wings won last night…slept okay but the dreams were weird again that I don’t remember…they are becoming as boring as my life is right now….haven’t been on the bike for three days and today may be another one…I just can’t get motivated to get out in the cold and without music, the bike is just so boring….and it does feel good to have no pain in my legs for the first time this year…not much to do today….and that is the truth this time…I may do some cleaning but that is about it…have to conserve cash since I am broke again so that doesn’t leave me many options…more later…
November 24th
Well…it was a disappointing day yesterday with both Michigan and the Wings losing and the Dr. Who 50th anniversary special being less than stellar….I did get the couch torn apart and cleaned so that was something…but that was about it for the day…I think I may have to put a new thermostat in the car since it just doesn’t seem to have the heat it had last year…but, that is pretty easy so no big deal…or, it could be that it is 17 degrees outside….slept okay but still feel like crap today and I am really tired of it…it may be a new bug on top of the old one….not much to do today…I do get to watch the last formula 1 race this morning and then the Lions…after than, it looks like just another veg day for me….more later…
Another reason to not eat at McDonalds…
Well….as if a person needed more reason to not eat at McD’s….other than the food that will make you fat or kill you if you eat it all the time…okay, maybe that is a little harsh…the company came out this week with some tips on how their starvation level wages can be supplemented and everyone can have a wonderful, happy holiday….the first one is just a wonderful piece of corporate crap…they recommend that their employees just sell their Christmas presents or anything else they don’t need on e-bay…the problem with that is that, with the wages they pay their folks, they probably don’t have anything to sell anyway….maybe they should sell their food next? One other thing that this poor excuse for a company does is give out instructions on how to sign up for food stamps…not pay their people enough so they don’t need them, but get the government to pay for their food and subsidize the profits of the owners…and these are the same people who decry welfare or any type of public assistance and do their best to have it cut while feeding at the government trough themselves for billions of dollars a year…just like Walmart….what a bunch of crap…geez…
November 23rd
Well…running as normal today since it is only 9…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t do much…even took the day off the bike and my legs are thanking me…and it looks like I’ll be off it for another couple of days with it being so cold…maybe if it gets sunny I can go out but I am not going to beat myself up if I don’t…I did have to adjust the calories I took in but I think I may have re-think that…don’t want to start the winter weight gain yet but 1200 cals is just not enough for me to feel good…slept okay and the ibuprofen seems to be helping the elbow so things are looking up…it is going to be a less boring day today with lots of sports…Michigan, State, and the Wings all play today and there is the Dr. Who special on around 3 so I will have things to do…I am going to clean too, and do laundry etc. so I can at least keep busy and keep the boredom at bay…no cooking today since there are leftovers and I need to make sure I have all of the food gone before thurs….more later…