Well…I know I promised a couple more today but I am having a hard time getting motivated to do the political thing…so I think I’ll just wander around for a while and see what happens. the bike ride was so damn cold today that when I got back my hands were almost frozen….they hurt so bad under hot water that I almost couldn’t stand the pain…never had that happen before…might have to get the gloves out, huh? The lunch with T was fun…hmmmm…my energy level is so low right now…not sure what is going on…still waiting for them to come and fix the furnace and that is putting a huge crimp in my plans…might have to go back to the office again….okay….this is boring me so it must be boring you so I’m going to stop….won’t promise there will be more later…I did get some t-bone steaks for 3.99 a pound today so that was okay…
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October 21st
Well…I had some things to do yesterday and it was good to get out of here for a while…had a few with K to celebrate her certification and then I had a couple here but I have my newfound restraint to thank for feeling okay this morning. But, Thursdays are kind of boring without hockey….just can’t warm up to the World Series without the Tigers in it. It looks like I can get back on the bike today after two days of rain and I can’t wait….it feels like I’ve gained 10 pounds in the last two days and I do have 200 more miles to do to get to 2500….looks like I won’t get to 3000 this year but that’s okay….I could do 30 or so a day for the next month to do it but I’m not that motivated. I do have some things to do today…having lunch with T and I am excited about that….and the Wings play tonight so I’ll have to get the gear out….I will have a couple more later today….oh, and I’ll have the lyric after the bike ride…
Here’s the lyric” “Hold on to freedom…freedom’s the only thing you have…hold on to justice…justice is your biggest laugh…”
Nolan Finley is still an idiot…
Well…it was an interesting article by ole Nolan in the Detroit News this morning where he decries the lack of civility and bi-partisanship that is coming from the Obama administration on a range of issues….and he goes on and on citing examples where Obama has ratcheted up his rhetoric against the repubs plans for the economy. Nolan, Nolan, Nolan….Obama tried bipartisanship and got nothing from it but being kicked in the teeth by you and your repub buddies, he tried conciliation and compromise but your thug party did nothing but try to shut down the government to get what Boehner called “90 percent of what the repubs wanted”. I think ole Nolan is having the same reaction that all bullies have when their victims stand up to them..they go running home to mama complaining that it’s not fair…how does that one feel Nolan? It’s just another example of the thugs in the repub party who have no solutions for the middle class, no solutions for unemployment, and no solutions for this country and they know it…so they have to do the only thing they know how to do; gin up some phony attack that will distract the voters and keep their rich buddies from paying their fair shares….geez…
October 20th
Well…it was a long day yesterday with pool with Tom and then out with G after that for a couple….I was good when I got home, though, so I feel okay this morning….I did win at pool for the third week in a championship game so the competition was good and had fun. I hope the rain quits today so I can get back on the bike…it is such a big part of my feeling good that even missing one day was not a good thing….and I still hurt so I guess it’s just the way I’m going to be..G did give me some great news…she is going back to finish her degree and I am so happy for her…I remember my college days fondly and the challenge of new learning always made me smile…not much to do today…it is Thursday so there will be a grocery run today…but that’s about it…I have been keeping up with the posts this month so I do have one thing to feel good about….more later….
here’s today’s lyric: “can’t imagine the moment…reaching out through the silence, all the things we both might say….to the heart that will not be denied…’til we’re both on the same damn side…all the barriers blown away…”
I’m a little disappointed…
Well…this has been a disappointing week so far…I did have some resumes go out and I don’t know why I should be depressed that I haven’t gotten any responses…after all, there have been hundreds go out over the summer and now the fall with no luck…maybe it’s the inability to ride the bike today…the guilts have already set in and now I have to try to figure out how to take 800 calories out of what I eat today to make up for it….I’m sure there is a weather component to it, too, with the day being so dreary…but I think the root cause is the lack of possibilities that now exist….and the fact that I’m balanced so precariously on a razor’s edge of financial ruin that the next repair on the car or unexpected bill will nudge me over that edge. It is extremely stressful to live that way and I think that is one of the reasons for the discontent in the country right now…there are too many of us who have worked our whole lives chasing the American dream and now find that there is no place left for us….but, I’m going to keep on trying….what else can you do?
Here come the lies from the right…
Well…I am not surprised with the now concerted effort to vilify and demonize the “Occupy” movement that is spreading across the world that is coming from the right…after all, they have a vested interest in keeping the status quo where 20% of the country who are rich and connected take, and take, and take while the rest of us keep butting our heads against this money and power. Now, some of the golden oldies of division that the repubs trot out any time they feel threatened with the truth are weaving their way into the daily talking points and are getting constant airing on Fox News…that the movement is overrun by “commies” and anti-semites and propose that “Occupy” is just a cover for socialists trying to force everyone into labor camps and confiscate the wealth of the rich for redistribution. I mean, really? The rich have been confiscating the wealth of everyone else for the past two decades by the purchasing of the government through the repubs and that is okay? Oh, I get it…it’s okay to redistribute wealth up but not down. I finally have a glimmer of hope that the rich and connected have overplayed their hand by bringing their naked theft into the open and not caring who knows about it…starting in Wisconsin and continuing with the Cain 999 plan that would cut taxes for the top 5% while raising taxes on the rest of us. Keep it up “Occupy”…the screaming you hear coming from the right is fear and the repubs understand the use of fear better than anyone else…geez…
October 19th
Well…a third night with no cocktails so I feel pretty good today…weird dreams again but they are not really clear right now..something to do with fish that I was trying to keep alive….I did get a lot of stuff done around here yesterday since I am still waiting for them to come and look at the furnace…I can’t remember this place looking so clean in a long time and I kind of like it….maybe I’ll have to try to keep it this way for a while…it looks like the string is going to be broken today….looking at the radar, it looks like we have an express train of rain coming in from the south all day and it has already started….I’ll look for a dry slot until the aft but 180 days in a row is not a bad record…..I wonder if taking the day off will help the soreness? Not much to do today…I’m supposed to hang out with G later but Tom wants to go today, too…so that is a dilemma….but a good one to have with being cooped up here since last Thursday…more later…
If corporations are people…
Well…read an interesting little tidbit in one of the papers this morning that I thought I’d write a short comment about….if corporations are “people” according to the supreme court, why haven’t any of them been sentenced to the death penalty in Texas? There have been many cases of negligence by corporations that have resulted in human deaths there, but not once have they been held accountable as a human would have been. So, what is it Rick? You revel in the fact that you have put more people to death than any other governor in history but when it comes to holding corporations accountable, you just turn a blind eye to make sure your campaign money keeps rolling in. It is such an egregious pattern of allowed lawbreaking by the repubs that puts the rule of law second to political gains and allows felons like Dick Cheney to walk away from breaking both domestic and international law with impunity….oh, I get it…it’s George Orwell at work from “Animal Farm”….”all pigs are equal but some are more equal than others..” Geez….
Okay….look down…I added to the last one….
October 18th
Well…an easy night last night with G out of town so a no cocktail night and I feel okay today…weird dreams that included Aquinas College, BMW loaners, tornadoes, and lots of dirty dishes….yep, it;’s getting strange inside the head again and I like it….the Aquinas part is a repeater where I haven’t finished all of my course work yet…I forgot what classes I had and the ones I remembered, I couldn’t find…the BMW loaner thing was connected to that part, too….a new detail, to be sure…not much to do today…have to clean some and get out on the bike but that’s about it….I could whine a little about not getting any resume responses but that’s just not me….I will come back later for at least one more….
Okay…already did the one more so look up this time….today was 180 on the bike and it was a dead mouse alert day…saw 15-20 of them in 20 feet on the trail…..don’t know if I’ll make it to 183 but I’m going to try….
Here’s today’s lyric: “Find the cost of freedom buried in the ground…Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down…”
If you liked Scott Walker…you’ll love Herman Cain…
Well….it’s a good thing that, finally, the media is starting to catch up with the story of how connected to the Koch brothers Herman Cain is…and if you like what Scott Walker did in Wisconsin (the first governor from Kochland) you will just love what ole Herman has in store for all of us. Isn’t it enough that almost all of his campaign staff has worked for the Koch brothers or one of their front companies over the years and whose strings are still being pulled by the Koch’s? Or should we instead just look at his performance on “Meet the Press” this past Sunday? This man is an idiot, another repub who thinks that just repeating things makes them true, and who truly believes that just because something is simple (like his 999 tax plan) it has to be correct. I marveled when he said that the new 9% national sales tax couldn’t be added to the state sales taxes we already have….so now the repubs don’t believe in math? We already have enough stupidity in Washington, let’s not add to it…geez…