Well…another night, another good Wings game that made the night go by pretty fast…I was the text hub for the game last night and it was a little fun…but slept like crap and feel pretty lousy this morning…and it looks like I’ll be staying in today since I only have 6 bucks in my pocket and going out for coffee would take it all….so, I’m going to hunker down here today and clean to take my mind off being broke…maybe watch a couple of movies, too, but I just looked through Netflix and there is nothing I want to see….I guess I’ll figure something out…not much to do today…have to try to find something to cook but there is nothing in the freezer but fish and I am getting tired of it…maybe some turkey soup….more later…
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Can Rick Perry be this dumb?
Well…I have been getting more and more amazed every time ole Rick opens his mouth over the past couple of weeks. Can anyone running for president be that dumb? Okay, yeah, I know, most of the repubs that are running are that dumb but the stupidity just oozes out of ole Rick. I’m sure you’ve heard of the last couple from the idiot…..at a campaign stop last week, Rick wasn’t sure what date the election was on and he then compounded that with thinking that the voting age was still 21 years. But, here’s the capper…this idiot doesn’t even know how many supreme court justices there are…coming up with 8 instead of 9….I don’t know where these idiots come from but back in my earlier years, folks like this would be laughed off the stage….geez…
See….told you I’d get another one out….
December 13th
Well….as I add the titles to these, I get this feeling that my life is slowly slipping by in those numbers…..and it is 5 in the morning again and I am up; sitting here trying to make my brain stop and not having a lot of success. Today may be a lost day again…I can’t see it being a success at all…maybe a survival day….trying to smile and make it all go away but I’m getting less and less certain that that is possible anymore. So, I’ll be back later to try to add to this one but I can’t promise that it will happen….
Okay..two days of wallowing and that is just enough…so, it’s time to get going again and stop this nonsense. it has been an okay week but the car is still not fixed right….only got one day out of the gasket this time but I’m not going to take it back until tomorrow or thurs…did get the bike ride in and it was a good one…it does make a difference when I eat before I go…had some energy today and it felt pretty good. Not much else to do today…I was up at 4:40 so I may take a nap and not feel guilty about it…or I might…still not completely out of the black hole yet…more later…and I mean it this time…
December 12th
Well…it was an excruciating day yesterday and I am now just beginning to see the light again…but I have been busy this morning..took the car back in again and I think they may have fixed it finally…that is one thing I won’t have to think about for a while now I hope…but I’m still broke so that is another problem that has to be dealt with..but not right now…I do need to get back into the fitness routine since it looks like I have 4 days that I can still ride the bike…my eyes have been bad all morning and I can’t see too well even with my glasses on…that is kind of weird but I don’t think it’s anything serious….not much to do today…geez…even my fingers aren’t working too well so maybe I’ll keep this one short and come back later for another one…I do owe you one on politics, after all…
Okay…I’m back for a minute…it’s been a whirlwind day with going out the door at 7:30 to have the car fixed and then have been working on some resume revisions for a contract job that I applied for….so, I may not get to the political one today…but I will promise that I will get caught up tomorrow and have a couple extra ones….
December 11th
Well…this is going to be a short one…have fallen off the cliff again and I am having trouble just writing this little bit…the car broke again yesterday and I am so broke that I am going to have to beg off the friends Christmas dinner with G since I can’t afford the 50 bucks or so the food would cost….it feels like my life is a black hole that is slowly consuming itself…so, I won’t make the promise of coming back later…
December 10th
Well…another night of boredom but I think it was okay…I survived it, after all, and I’m back to do this for a while…it was a pretty good day yesterday…made turkey soup from the carcass of the t-day turkey and it came out a little strange…the orange juice that I used to brine it really came out in the soup so it has a kind of citrus taste that I didn’t expect…but it is still good and I have 3 containers in the freezer. Looks like another day of no riding and I am not looking forward to it…oh, well…not much to do today…might have a couple with K later but I haven’t heard from her so it may be another day of staying in…saves cash so I guess I shouldn’t complain…okay, going to go watch W.C. Fields in “The Bank Dick” and veg….more later…
More Republican shenanigans here in Michigan…
Well…I really shouldn’t be surprised at the behavior of the repubs here in Michigan but then they do something that just whacks me in the side of the head and makes me realize that the pit where they get their shenanigans has no bottom. Let’s back up a little for some context…as soon as the repubs gained control of Michigan, they passed one of the most undemocratic laws ever seen here…the so-called “emergency manager” law that would take the governing of some cities and townships that are in fiscal distress out of the hands of the elected officials and hand it to an appointed “czar” that could then fire anyone they want, abrogate union contracts, and run the city as they see fit, not as the people of that region want. Again, more of the hypocrisy that oozes from every pore of the repubs across the country, where they cry about the left trying to kill democracy and then try to nullify elections by the phony cry of voter fraud and this type of law. When the outraged citizens of Michigan decided that they didn’t vote for the type of nonsense included in this law, they did what they always do, getting a petition drive started to put the measure on the ballot in 2012. What was the repubs response to this perfectly proper use of citizens power? When it began to look like the signatures would be easily collected, the repubs again tried to game the system and silence the voice of the people by rescinding the law and replacing it with another so the petitions would be invalid. This is the type of nonsense you get from these folks…they don’t give a damn what the people of Michigan want, just what their ideology driven masters want…the total destruction of unions and the middle class….geez….
December 9th
Well….another night of the normal stuff but the Wings won so that made it a little better….I am running late today and just looked outside to see that there is snow on the car which just depresses the heck out of me…I know it’s December in Michigan but it doesn’t make it any easier…oh, well…looks like no bike ride today but that may be okay…the wind yesterday was just brutal and I am sore everywhere….not much to do today….and I really mean it this time…I will go out for coffee but that’s about it…and I will be back here for a couple since I don’t have anything else to do….more later…
Nolan, Nolan, Nolan….
Well…if you had any doubt that the attacks from the right on the middle class and poor are a coordinated message, let’s look at the latest nonsense from ole Nolan Finley in today’s Detroit News…yeah, I know, like shooting fish in a barrel but hey, I need and easy one once in a while and ole Nolan has obliged today. His screed in today’s paper center on this contention that people on unemployment don’t work hard enough looking for a job so they should be forced to “volunteer” their time to do various jobs that are now being done by unionized labor…can you see a theme here? Just reference ole Newt’s comments that we should eliminate unionized janitor’s jobs and have poor kids do them. So, Nolan, it’s not stressful enough to be unemployed in this market, now you want to take time away from the job searches that people need to perform to get new jobs and lock them into the declining spiral of minimum wage “volunteer” jobs until they lose their houses, cars and and hope for retirement? I just hope you lose your job at some point, you hack, and then we’ll find a volunteer job for you cleaning sewers since you seem quite familiar with them….geez….
Where are the jobs governor Snyder? Where is the jobs plan republicans?…still not one jobs bill in over a year of your control of the House….
December 8th
Well…another night and no cocktails for 5 in a row…not having all of those calories is a good thing and I feel quite good so far toiay….it was another bore of a night last night with no Wings but today will be different so I have something to look forward to….no dreams to report either so this one is going to be really boring for you, too. I did get a ride in yesterday which put me over 2700 miles for the year and there even may be more coming later in the week or weekend…..and I guess I am appreciating every extra day that I get…and I did feel so much better after the ride…oh, well…not much to do today…that’s not really true…I have to do the grocery run, make a nice lunch of roast pork, and then out for HH with K and V…it will be nice to get out of here and talk to some humans for a change…and there is a Wings game tonight so it will be quite a full day for a change….I will have more later that will be better but those damn politicians aren’t helping….