Well….getting an early start today today for some reason…feel a little crappy after a cocktail night but I did break down and run the air early last night…just got tired of being damp and walking on damp carpets…slept okay but again no dreams….I did get a lot done yesterday so I feel okay about that and I’m not sure what is going on today….Tom’s shift might have changed so there may be no pool today but it looks like there may be storms to watch so that will be cool…and then the weather breaks tomorrow…I do have to do another grocery run today but that is about it…more later…
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The liar gets called out…
Well…having problems with the computer shutting down but I thought I’d get to a bit of deliciousness that I read online a few minutes ago about your friend and mine, Mitch McConnell and his lying ways finally catching up with him. Well…it is not only John McCain who is fed up with ole Mitch…as you remember, John McCain cut ole Mitch out of the filibuster negotiations the other day, wanting to actually get something done instead of the constant obstruction that ole Mitch has been doing for the past few years…and in a meeting with the repub caucus yesterday, ole Mitch tried to outright lie about what had happened and spin it as being some kind of brilliant maneuver on his part…but, Bod Corker was having none of it and called “bullshit” many times during the meeting…I wondered if there was anyone left in the repub party that had any integrity left…and I know there is just about a thimble full of integrity left on the right…at least there is still a thimble full…and it looks like Bob Corker and John McCain own most of it…geez…
July 18th
Well…running kind of normal today but barely survived the day yesterday with it being so hot…and the sleep was really crappy again for the same reason…looks like more of the same today but I have lots of stuff to do so we’ll see how that works out…work around here and then out for some errands so it looks like I’m going to skip the workout this morning, get the work done and then get out on the bike….I can always work out tomorrow and sat to make up for it….or maybe just eat veggies and call it good….more later…
Losing the political game…
Well…just wanted to comment a bit on the nonsense that has been going on in the senate since Obama was elected…where the repubs, as always, put political concerns of their party above the good of the American people; blocking nominees for executive positions and filibustering popular legislation just to suit their crazy assed right wing base. But, now it appears that even some of those in the crazy party are tiring of never getting anything done and have teamed up with Harry Reid to end the obstruction and start getting the people’s business done. It’s about time…Harry Reid has been bringing a knife to a gun fight for far too long…not believing he also had one…an even bigger one called the nuclear option where he can change the rules of the senate with just the dem caucus…and then, with those rule changes, he can tell the repubs to just go to hell if they don’t want to really govern…which describes most of the tea party folks. I am glad that ole Mitch McConnell played the petulant little child that he is right to the end…even going so far to show up at Reid’s office and try to get himself included in the reform, only to be told by Harry to basically “not let the door hit you in the ass on the way out..” something he deserved considering that he reneged on the January agreement about an hour after he made it with Reid. What a lying sack of crap….and now the rest of the repubs have lost the selfish political game they have been playing with the lives of all Americans and I hope that leads to more and more losses as the people understand that the repubs don’t give a crap about them…geez…
July 17th
Well…running really late again today…I did have to go out for some groceries but I could have done this before….but, the heat is taking a lot out of me and the lack of sleep is not helping…might have to run the air tonight to just dry this place out…it was weird this morning when someone left me a gel seat cover hanging on my door….not sure if I’ll use it or not but it sure was different….I am sitting here at 9:30 and I’m already sweating through my clothes…it’s going to be a hot ride out there and I should get going before it gets too hot….other than that…not much to do today…going to just lay low and try to not dehydrate too much…more later…
Not sure what to write…
Well…haven’t been thinking too much about what to write today but I do need to find something so I don’t get too far behind….maybe I’ll take a second look at the papers and see if there is anything there….oh, maybe we should all boycott Florida until they become humans again…I mean, letting ole Zimmerman off for killing a kid but then putting a black woman in jail for 20 years for shooting at her boyfriend (and missing) while he was beating her? No matter what anyone says, racism is alive and well and institutionalized in Florida. Then we have the repubs across this country seemingly unable to do anything but think, talk, and legislate against abortion when even their constituents don’t want that crap from them…so who are they representing? I am damn tired of having these religious nuts getting their way when they only represent about 15% of the people, the hard right that wants to turn this country into a theocracy. Maybe there is a little hope with the filibuster deal that was reached in the senate today….as I’ve said, the repubs only respect power and that Harry Reid finally used his is a good sign…but ole Mitch McConnell acted like the spoiled brat he is and opposed it….now, ole Harry just needs to use the nuke when, not if, the repubs renege on the agreement…
July 16th
Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for another yesterday…I have an excuse…and you know it…birthday and all of that…had a nice lunch with T and then out to dinner with G and then out for drinks after that so I am worn out today…and not feeling any different so that is a good sign…it is already hot outside (and inside) so it is going to be a chore to get on the bike…after all of the festivities from yesterday…I am looking forward to just having a normal recovery day today and then back at it tomorrow…not much to do today…as I said, just a normal recovery day and I think I will just let the day go as it goes…no ambition for anything else…more later…
July 15th
Well…the big day is finally here and I am still not sure how I feel about it…I mean, being 60 is okay…I really don’t feel any different than I did yesterday but it is still that I’m not in my fifties anymore…and it feels like the possibilities that were there in my 50’s are gradually going away….slept okay last night but it just doesn’t seem to mean much…okay, not feeling this right now so I’m going over to Kos and do a couple of comments…more later…
Just one last one while I’m still in my fifties…
Well…I was hoping that this one would be the 2500th one that I’ve done…that would be some kind of cool coincidence..but, it’s not…only 2453 so I guess it’s nothing special…it’s just kind of weird to think that I’m not going to be in my 50’s any more in just a few hours….that is something that I am having a little trouble wrapping my head around….oh, well….I did take the drive down to the Gilmore museum today and it was kind of fun…only had three cars from the club on the drive but it was cool that we had an NA, an NB, and an NC on the drive so it was kind of a rolling show of the evolution of the Miata….other than that, it has been uneventful today….I think I’ll go make the final cocktails as a fifty something….and try not to dread the big 6-0….might even stay up til midnight just to see it come in….who knows?
Okay…had to add this Pink Floyd lyric…”The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older…shorter of breath, and one day closer to death…”
July 14th
Well…it’s the last day of my 50’s and I’m not sure how I feel about that…it was an okay day yesterday and I finally won at pool again so that was okay…slept okay but repair dreams again for the car…not sure what that is about but I’m not going to think about it…I may take a drive down to k-zoo today to look at the british cars at the Gilmore museum…the Miata club is even driving down but I’m not sure I am going to go or not…that would mean skipping the bike ride and I’m not sure I want to have that much guilt today….okay…this isn’t really working so I am going to come back later for more…need some more coffee…