Well…it was an okay day yesterday with having lunch with T and the out for a couple with G later but now I’m completely broke so I need to just stay around here for the rest of the week….and, it looks like I’ll be eating out of the freezer the rest of the week…slept okay last night but I didn’t eat enough yesterday so I am a little sluggish this morning…going to have a bagel here in a minute and then get on with the workout….have to find a new battery for the walkman so I can use it again…riding the bike is not anywhere near as much fun without it….and, I’m waiting for the maintenance folks to come and do the furnace inspection today….it is really dark in here today and I don’t like it….more later…
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Going to have to cheat a little…
Well…with the end of the month rushing up, I do need to cheat a little to make sure I don’t miss the 62 necessary to keep the sting alive…well…not alive since I did have the problems with the servers for the site back in March and missed that one by a bunch…there has been some good news in politics lately with the ship finally starting to turn our way…it will probably take until 2016 to clean out the nuts here in our legislature and regain some sanity and caring for people that the repubs have even quit faking…and maybe even make Snyder go away…we can hope anyway…just had a nice lunch with T…good to see her and have an adult to talk to…not sure what else to write…but, this will get me toward the goal and cheating is okay for that….back later for more….
October 28th
Well…it was another uninteresting day yesterday but the Lions won so that is something….didn’t do much except watch sports…I did go out to meet up with the new car club but no one showed for the drive so I just came back here and vegged…slept okay last night but I am still tired today and sore…both elbows are now hurting and it is really no fun…and I didn’t come back for another one so now I am really behind for the month so I have to get it in gear and get a few of these done today….I may have lunch with T today so that may be something to look forward to….but, not much else….I really hate getting to the end of the month but you know that…more later…
October 27th
Well…it was a dull day yesterday but I did get the bike ride in so that is something…slept okay, too, but still feel a little crappy from cocktails that I think will go away after the ride this morning….at least I hope so….there is really not much to report on yesterday so I’m not sure what to write about today…I am going to go and meet up with a new car group this aft for a color tour and I hope they are not as old as the folks in the Miata cloub…I am the young guy after all in the Miata club and I am tired of hearing how many houses, cars, etc, that they own….okay…not feeling this right now so I am going to finish the coffee and get out on the bike before it rains…more later…
Just wow…
Well…I have been laughing a little today about one of the features out on Kos where Kos goes out to the right wing echo chamber and finds the craziest ideas and people out there…and this week was a special one since there seems to be a surge in people hating us over at Kos since we are starting to win some of the political battles that are being fought…and what I find the funniest thing are the comments that we are violent socialist, totalitarians that are the worst people who have ever lived on the earth because we care for other people, want healthcare, and want the tea party to go back under the rock they crawled from….and then the righties that are posting invariably say they are coming with their guns and we’d better watch out…and much other violent imagery…..so who are the violent ones? I’ve never seen anyone on Kos say anything but that we need to continue to win elections…and the right thinks that is violent? I think these idiots are really, really, confused, since they equate losing elections to coups, government takeovers, and a loss of freedom….just a big ole bag of stupid over there on the right…geez…
October 26th
Well…another day gone by with nothing to show for it….I did win at pool but it was mostly that the luck has returned and that is okay…I need a little luck right now…it was just another night last night, too, getting pretty boring just sitting around here every night but I do need to conserve cash so I guess that is all I can do right now…tonight should be better with a Wings game to watch….not much to do today…I did get behind with not coming back for another one yesterday so I’ll have to do a couple more today…not even going to cook today since I have leftovers to use before they spoil…and I do have some smoked fish that Tom gave me that I am going to have right now…bagels, cream cheese, and smoked fish with coffee as I wait for the rain to end so I can get a ride in…
October 25th
Well…it was a long day yesterday but I had some fun going out for a couple with K…but, that led into cocktails so I do feel a little crappy today…and sore from head to toe probably from the windy, cold bike ride yesterday…my elbow continues to get worse and that is a surprise…all the other joint pain I’ve had has gone away after a few months but his one has been there since April and I am getting tired of it…oh, well…not much to do today..pool, of course but not much else….I am going to wait for the temp to come up before I get on the bike so that will give me some time to take some ibuprofen and I hope that will help on the bike…more later…
Hypocrisy seems to be the theme of the day…Ted Cruz…
Well….with all of the efforts by ole Ted to try to make sure no one in the middle class or working poor get any subsidies to help make their healthcare affordable…we have this delicious little tidbit about where he gets his healthcare….turns out he is covered by his wife’s policy at Goldman Sachs where she is a managing director making over 10 million dollars a year…and, since her policy that is conservatively estimated to be worth over 20 thousand dollars a year is considered part of her compensation, she doesn’t have to pay the estimated 8,500 in taxes it would cost if it was compensation….so in effect, they are getting a tax credit or subsidy of over 8,500 dollars a year to help them purchase their health insurance. I find it so damn hypocritical that ole Ted spends all of his time trying to eliminate Obamacare and it’s subsidies to the little guy while he and his family wallow in the largess of tax breaks for their healthcare…and I bet she even has her income treated like ole Mitt’s as carried interest and pays only 8-10% while the rest of us pay up to 30%. Typical hypocrisy that is rampant from all of the repubs these days…geez…
Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy….
Well…I am still laughing about the abject hypocrisy that is oozing from the repubs in the house today as they try to use hearings on the glitches in the Obamacare sign up website to continue their fight to end it…but, as with most repubs these days, they have no memory of even 6 years ago when Medicare part D was rolled out…and guess what? The same sort of glitches happened…exactly the same sort…and not one dem came forward to say that it should be eliminated since the rollout was glitchy….they agreed with the repubs at the time that people should be patient and allow the fixes to take effect…what is different now? Could it be that these crazy repubs just don’t give a damn about anything but scoring political points and trying to hurt Obama? That is sure how it looks…and they couldn’t look worse…but I’m sure they’ll try…geez…
October 24th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I finally got the thermasuit figured out so I didn’t freeze on the bike….and I am running late since I did have to get some groceries today and gas the car up…still haven’t had the nerve to find out how far below empty I can go on the gauge…the old car would cough about 2 miles before I ran out of gas…probably not something I really need to know…one needle width below empty should be far enough….slept okay and don’t feel too bad today but part of it may be I may have things to do this aft…definitely going to meet up with K later but might even have a meet up with T…although the one sched for yesterday didn’t happen….it was a little disheartening to see the snow falling on the way to groceries today…and to having to warm the car up to melt off the ice…way too early for that to happen…not much to do today…I’ve already said what may happen….and I hope it does…will be nice to get out of here for a while….