Well…running a bit late this morning with not getting to this until 7am…and I am still sore from the new exercises…hurt just about everywhere and should take something for it before I have to go for the appointment at 10….had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get anything done but I need to get going on cleaning this place up today and running some tomatoes through the food processor to make some sauce before they spoil…going to take the garden down over the weekend so I can put it out next week for pick up…didn’t get much out of it this year and I won’t experiment next year…if I even have a garden…not sure where I’m going to be living or if I’m going to be living…the cancer could still kill me and I’m so tired of being in recovery…maybe I’m just getting old but life sure seems like a lot of work right now……I did marinate some chicken thighs last night and will be cooking them today…was going to grill them but I think I’ll just put them in the air fryer to make it easier….not sure what I’ll make with them since the potatoes are sprouted…maybe I’ll hit Meijers after the rehab appointment this morning…it is going to be cold tonight…down to 48 degrees and I’m sure the heat is going to come on for the first time in August…and then next week it goes back up to near 90…weird, weird weather…more later…
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The new exercises hurt…
Well…after having two days of the new exercises in, I can say they hurt…a lot…my hamstrings are howling in pain from the new stretches and my back and sides really hurt from the twists she has me doing….and I still have another set to do later in the afternoon…it now takes me almost an hour to do all 9 exercises…have the next to last appointment tomorrow morning and then the last one next Tuesday…and I am going to get back on the bike next Tuesday, too…not for 30 miles but I am going to ride a bit just to take a look at the trail to see what has happened in the past 6 weeks…right now I’m going to turn some soccer on and take it easy for a bit…did the grocery run today sine I have the appointment at 10am tomorrow morning…
The two parties are not the same…
Well…you know, I am so damn tired of people saying they are not going to vote at all since both political parties are the same…I wonder if it is willful ignorance or if it is just them trying to fake being cynical that will make them look cool…and you just have to look at the news announced today to see how wrong they are…just today, the Biden administration announced the first ten drugs that Medicare is going to start negotiating prices on…in just those ten drugs, Medicare spends 50 billion dollars a year…yep, that’s billion with a b so if they can get a 50% reduction, or to the price in other countries who don’t allow the price gouging that the repubs have written into the laws here, this one thing could save people on Medicare 25 billion dollars a year since a lot of these are barely covered as it is…have you ever seen a repub support saving ordinary citizens this much money? No, you haven’t…I’ll save you the work of going out to look…if it doesn’t give tax cuts to the rich or corporations, they hate it…so voters, just vote on this one issue if it’s too much work for you to look for all the ways the Biden administration is working for you and me…but don’t vote for any damn repub…geez…
August 29th
Well…damn, firefox just dumped the post I was working on so I need to start over and that sucks…up at around 6 again today so that is about normal for me lately….slept okay but still feel pretty worn out and it may be that I only had a half bowl of the chicken masala and a couple of small tomatoes and that is only around 700 calories…I did get the nice surprise that my rehab is ending next week since my tech said I’ve gotten as far as I can with them and now it’s up to me to continue to improve by doing the exercises…with the new ones they added yesterday, it will take me an hour twice a day….I did thaw some chicken thighs that I need to get in a rub today so I can grill them later in the week and that will be a change from the chicken chunks I have been eating…I do have way too many tomatoes and I need to process them into a sauce with some onions and oregano…have a couple of green peppers from he garden to put in, too, and then I can have sauce to add to other meals over the winter…not much to do today…it looks like it’s going to rain for a bit but the thunderstorms they forecast are not coming and that sucks…just going to sit here for a bit and have more coffee before I get going…going for what I’m not sure of right now, but something…more later…
One more week of rehab…
Well…just got back from rehab and the tech I’ve been working with thinks I’ll have all of the tools I need to finish so next Tuesday is the last appointment…only 80 more bucks out of pocket for that so that will be a relief…got 5 more exercises to do on the portal and will get a few more and now all I have to do is do them…worked hard at today’s appointment and am feeling it in my legs and I’ll do that again later today…even got a massage on my right leg since Allison thought it was tight and needed some work…it does feel better so that’s cool…not sure what I’m going to do the rest of the day…should clean a bit and I probably will…more later…
August 28th
Well…damn, it got down to 50 out here last night and I really thought the heat was going to come on…and it still might…not sure where the heat went but 50 in August? I’ve never seen that before and I’m older than dirt…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and need to clean today but I don’t have any motivation right now…have a rehab appointment at 11:45 today but I’ll only do two more and then I’m done…not getting much out of it and at 40 bucks a pop, I’ve put in too much money for nothing….okay, the little weather widget at the bottom of my screen now says “record low” and I wonder if it’s for last night or tonight? Okay, just looked at the weather and it must be for last night since tonight it’s supposed to be 61 tonight…going to start taking the garden out today…or maybe wait one more week…not sure…I do have to figure out what to do with the tomatoes I have…I may seed them and put them in the food processor to make sauce but I don’t have any room in the freezer…probably should take the chicken thighs out so I’ll have something to eat this week…need to clean the fridge out soon so I’ll have nothing in there to spoil when I’m gone….not much to do today…just the rehab and some packing but right now just some more coffee and to sit a bit….more later…
Go NLRB…
Well…yeah, this one is a little in the weeds and I almost forgot to do one on it today…over the weekend, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that if a company gets caught union busting, they will automatically be forced to recognize the union and to start negotiating with it…and this should put a stop to the bullshit that Starbucks is still pulling by closing stores where the employees start to form a union…and it will stop companies like Amazon from firing workers who are involved in organizing the company…they are not supposed to be able to do that but no one is enforcing those laws…maybe now the NLRB will grow a spine and level the playing field across this country…
Got to get off my butt…
Well…man, I need to get off my butt and start getting some things done around here…haven’t done anything but water the garden, flowers, and grass out front and make lunch so I feel like a slug….so, tomorrow I’ll get back to it and get more packing done but I don’t want to pack my shirts until the day before I leave so they won’t be as wrinkled when I get to the UK…have another rehab appointment tomorrow at 11:45am and I think I’m getting to the end of what I want to pay for…so this week will be the last week…and then I’ll keep up the exercises they have given me and just do them here….I do have to log my exercises from yesterday and today on my rehab page…so I guess I’ll get back to it…
August 27th
Well..dang, it got cold out here last night and I forgot to close my bedroom window so I was freezing overnight….still cold right now but I can live with it after the heat and humidity….slept okay last night but my allergies are really bad today…I really want to get on the bike and this last week of waiting is going to be hard…I did expect that the heat was going to come on last night with it only 53 right now and having the window open but it hasn’t…the little weather widget at the bottom of the screen is shouting “humid” and “near record lows” still and now I’m waiting for “high pollen” to come up and I will have hit the trifecta….don’t feel too bad right now but I am still discovering new pains and I am not sure where the heck they are coming from…still have the neck pain on my right side and it must be from sleeping on that side lately…don’t have a lot to do today after getting the laundry done yesterday and I have leftover chicken masala to eat today so I don’t have to cook but I should do more than one meal even without getting any exercise….have to figure out what to do with the tomatoes I have in the fridge and plan on getting the garden taken out before the UK trip….I am just do damn worn out…need coffee….more later…
Greedy billionaires…
Well…just wanted to do a short one on a chart that I just saw on Mastodon about the Hollywood actor and writer’s strike that has beewn going on for a couple of months now…to hear the studios talk, you would think that even giving the writers a penny more would bankrupt every studio and they would all go out of business…but the reality of it is the studios have taken advantage of the writers for decades and have never paid them anywhere near what they are worth to the studio’s bottom line…and the chart I saw showed that…for example, if the writers that work for Disney got everything they are asking for, it would cost them 72 million dollars a year…which is .088 of a percent of their revenues…at Netflix, it would cost them 65 million dollars or .205 of a percent…and at Warner Brothers, it would cost them 45 million dollars or .104 of a percent of revenue….yeah…piddling amounts that they can surely afford but the billionaires who own and run the studios are just greedy and want to hoard all the money for themselves…in fact the ceo of each one of these companies makes more than what all of the writers are asking for…so what’s fair? One greedy ass getting everything or thousands of writers finally making enough to live on? I know what’s fair to me…geez…