Well…sitting here waiting for the ice to melt off the car and thought I’d get an early start today…for a weekend, that is….it was a cocktail night last night so I’m a little cloudy right now…and it was a long day yesterday with trying hard to keep the boredom at bay was hard work but I survived it…and today looks like another one but there are sports to help…Man U plays this morning and then there is a race…nope, two races on this aft so I may be able to get through it…I’ll be back in a while to add to this one…need to go to Meijers to get food and cocktail materials…
Okay…the third cup of coffee has worked wonders and I feel almost human…slept okay last night but no dreams to speak of but that is okay since none of them have been very fun lately….I am just getting tired of waiting for spring to come and the trails to melt so I can get back on the bike…I think my body misses the abuse and I know I miss the fresh air and exercise….and I feel fat with the 10 pounds I’ve gained….all that on 1200 calories a day…weird…okay…Man U is starting and I need to see it…more later…oh, one last thing…T is leaving for Atlanta for a few days and I am going to miss the texts we send every day…she sure keeps my spirits up….
One other good thing…just found out that Ian Darke and Steve Macmanaman are doing the match this morning! It’s like listening to Ken and Mickey do the Wings….
Well…I am still laughing about the interview that the Romneys gave to Fox news the other day and the abject whining, whining, and more whining that ole Ann did again…you’ll remember her “campaigning is hard” comments from last year? Just more of the same of that crap this time…bitching about how when the campaign was over they were left alone and how they like to “give” so much…and the implied tone of the article was that it wasn’t enough to “give”, but they wanted to be thanked for it..thanked for helping screw up the country, thanked for just being such assholes…I wish they would just go away so we don’t have to hear from them ever again.
Oh, one last thing about austerity…if you want to see what the effects the sequester and it’s budget cuts are going to do, just look at what the same crap has done in Europe….record high unemployment and negative growth…let’s keep saying that…Keynes was right, again….
Okay…wanted to do one on Snyder and Detroit here but I’m just not feeling it today…I’ll be back later and try again…
Well…it is the first of the month and I just hate these days…oh, said that in the last one…and it was a cocktail night last night so I feel crappy this morning and not very lucid so this one is going to be short…slept okay…I think, but who can tell when there are cocktails involved? Okay…as always, not feeling it right now so I think I’ll go back to the couch and have some more water…
Okay…back for a few…feeling much better and came across the movie “Airport” on AMC this morning…I think it’s dating me but I saw this 1970 movie in the theater when it came out…kind of soapy but I think it’s still a good movie and is making the transition into the day a little easier…not much to do today…I am going to do a total veg out today just hang out here and watch movies…so there is not much to talk about right now…I will be back later for another one…don’t want to get behind for the month and I do need content for my DailyKos account…
Well…even though I’m ahead by two for the month, I felt like I wanted to come back for a recap…maybe not a recap but just to muse a little…it has been a frustrating week and, as you know, the last day of the month is one of the worst ones for me since I have to pay the rent tomorrow…so, it is going to be a cocktail night tonight to try to shut the brain off for just a little while…and as a reward for being good all week…I do think I may need to stop reading the Miata forums since there are people talking about all of the failures in their cars…it makes it look like the Miata is the least reliable car that has ever been built and give me just a few more things to worry about that I don’t need right now…and, mine is reliable, now. But, the forums do help me pass the time and keep the crushing boredom at bay so I guess I’ll just have to take them with a grain of salt…and, no one writes to the forums to say that nothing has failed so I have to remember that….and, they like my car so that reinforces how much I like it. I have also been spending time out on DailyKos but I’m not sure how long that is going to last…it is nice to have like-minded individuals to talk and listen to but I would like some reasoned argument for the other side once in a while…okay…that’s it, it’s not cocktail time yet but it’s only 45 minutes to go and I guess I can amuse myself until 7….
Well…I am actually ahead by one for the month but I thought I’d come back here for one more to deal with a a couple of things that have come up over the past couple of days..the first one is the comments that justice Scalia made during arguments over the continuation of the voting rights act and whether or not discrimination still exists in voting rights in the southern states that are covered by parts of the act. This idiot stated that the only reason that the congress re-authorized the act overwhelmingly in 2006 was that the members were afraid to vote against a “racial entitlement”, not that there is still discrimination going on..something that is clear IS still happening; especially during the last election with all of the voter suppression that happened across the country. This is probably one of the most outrageous statements I’ve ever heard from a justice of the supreme court and I really do think it raises to the level of an impeachable offense…especially since he is attributing the votes for the act to being a sort of reverse blackmail that minorities are doing to the congress when the only reason the act was re approved is that when these states are left to their own devices, they immediately go back to discriminating against the poor and minorities by throwing up new barriers to their votes. Over the years, Scalia has shown that he is not the “huge brain” that the right holds him up to be, but just a venal, misogynistic, hack who has no problem using his lifelong appointment not to judge on the facts of a case, but to continually misinterpret the law to further his own political ends…the country would be better off if he would just resign and go to work for one of the corporations that he reveres and stop gutting the laws of the land. Geez…
Well…it was a long day yesterday and I lost a pool but really can’t feel bad about it with the run of wins I’ve had….and I did sleep okay but really short again but I think that may be what has been wrong lately…I just need to let the natural sleep patterns take hold again and not feel bad when I sleep 4-5 hours a night…doesn’t work when I force it so let’s try something different…I am ready for the snow to be over so I can get back on the bike and get the toxins out…I am getting really bored with the nothing that has been going on lately and I need to think of some new techniques to help alleviate it…not sure what those would be but I think it’s worth some thought anyway…not much to do today….I do need to make the grocery run but that is about it….more later…
Well…there has been a long running thread over at Kos this morning about people that leave their cars/trucks running when there is no need for it…and I have bitched about the guy last spring that left his diesel F-350 idling in 60 degree weather at the coffee shop for a half hour that damn near choked me…but, I guess all of them have new cars that instantly defog or defreeze the inside of their windshields. In the last two cars I’ve owned…my 93 MX-6 and my Miata, if you try to just start them up and drive them when it is below freezing, you get a layer of ice on the INSIDE of the windshield that you have to use a scraper to get off to be able to see…and it re-fogs and re-freezes about every 30 seconds after you do clean it until the car warms up. so, I think I made myself a pariah over there by pouring a little water on the self-righteous indignation…now, if I lived in a warmer climate…there would probably be no need to warm it up…except that it shifts better when it’s warm…will probably be attacked pretty quick so I need to go back over there and wait for it to happen….
Well…sitting here trying to watch tv but the dish is screwed up from the snow so I had to go to Netflix and the Roku….it was an okay day yesterday but I did have to pick G up when her truck died…it was good to get the car out on the e-way for a run and all of the rain cleaned the salt off it better than the car wash…I was up late and up early so I am a little tired this morning but I was good last night so that’s not it…slept okay without a lot of tossing and turning for the short time I was in bed and there were dreams that I don’t remember….I am really tired of the snow and I can’t wait for spring to come but it looks like another week at least until we get weather above 30….not much to do today…will probably just hibernate here with the snow and get some reading done….
Okay…forgot to talk about the snow that fell last night…had about 8 inches of the wettest, heaviest snow all winter on the car this morning..but the car took it well on the trip out to get the papers….and it looks like some of it may melt today so that will be a good thing…more later…
Well…it has been a tough day to try to get a topic to do a whole one on but maybe I can think of something if I go back to read the papers again? Nope, that didn’t work yesterday so I guess I won’t do it again today….so, how to get a topic? maybe I’ll go back to the Post online…wait a sec and I’ll be right back…okay…Greg Sargent has a point that I can comment on…in all of the reporting on the sequester, it seems that the commentator class is making it out that both parties are equally responsible for the gridlock that is going on…not on your fricking life. It is all repubs, all the time…their refusal to agree to anything that doesn’t give them everything they want without compromise is what is the problem…and the great thing is, the American people agree that it is the repubs fault…nevermind their #obamaquester hashtag ( which I think is their only bow to technology) that they are using to try to shift the blame to Obama….it is all repubs, all the time…and I will keep repeating that all day…the repubs are just a bunch of fools who are believing their internal polling again while they ignore every truth in economics….they are the know nothing party, after all…geez…
Well…it was a day yesterday and I did go out for a few with G that I shouldn’t have since I can’t afford it…slept okay but I am sore for some reason almost everywhere…and that is without being out on the bike…hope it’s not the normal state of things from now on…and we are getting another huge storm tonight which will put getting back on the bike back a few more weeks…that may be what has been making me so grumpy lately….so, it looks like hibernating tomorrow if we get the 6 plus inches of snow that is forecast…not much to do today….and that is the truth…I do need to go out and get the papers so I can get the brain working and have coffee…more later…
Oh…one thing, I did have the top down on the car yesterday…twice and that was fun but it looks like that will be the last time for a couple of weeks….I do need to get out and wash the salt off soon but I’m not going to do it today with the snow coming…