Well…I did get out to the beach today but the water was really cold and wavy so I didn’t want to chance injury by going in…after just lying on my stomach on my beach chair for 10 minutes, my abdomen started to hurt so I think it was a good decision to take it easy…there were only about 10 people on the beach so plenty of room to be away from everybody…only stayed out there for an hour and a half…got some color but no enough for me to be uncomfortable…I may just go out there tomorrow to see if the water will be warmer and less wavy to get a swim in…who knows?
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Corrupt FBI…
Well…when the idiot boy was in office, we knew that the NY FBI office was a hot bed of trumpism and corruption, and just today another whistleblower came forward and said in a complaint that his supervisor told him to stop investigating rudy giuliani and to cut off contact with with any sources who reported corruption by any associates of the idiot trump…and he reported interference in his work of intelligence gathering on “certain” politically active figures and FBI agents who were connected to Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs and including anyone in the trump WH…and it looks like that supervisor is the agent who is negotiating a deal to plead guilty to working for a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska when he was an FBI agent…so the fix was in at the highest levels of the FBI to protect trump and his cronies and pay for it by oligarch’s money….that’s why every damn one of the corrupt bastards need to be rooted out prosecuted…no slaps on the wrists but real jail time…geez…
August 10th
Well…running a bit early today with getting up a little before 6 but I’m not getting moving too fast….used the Voltaren on my right thumb last night and it worked pretty well…going to keep that stuff around…slept okay last night but feel worn out this morning and I think it’s not eating enough…really trying to gain some weight and haven’t been successful yet….still looking pretty gaunt and that needs to be fixed….I thinking of going out to the beach after I run an errand this morning…feeling good enough to do an easy swim today and get some sun…yeah, I know…not supposed to exert myself but I got through mowing the lawn with no damage so I guess I can try swimming….but I will just float and nothing else….didn’t get much done yesterday and I think today will be about the same…don’t have to cook today but I will need to figure out what recipe uses the peppers that are in the fridge so I can use them before they spoil….not much to do today…just the post office run and then an errand and I’ll be back here before 9 or so….then I’ll have the rest of the day to do what I want…but I don’t want to do much with how I feel right now….more later…
I think the big bill is on it’s way…
Well…got a weird phone call from Priority Health this morning where they wanted to try to enroll me in Medicaid to go with my Medicare and the only reason I can think of is they are going to send me a bill for my 5 grand copay for the surgery and they don’t think I can afford it….I make too much on SS to qualify for it so I just cut them off…it was an automated call anyway and I was just not going to spend a minute going through it when I know the outcome…what a waste of my time….
Rigging didn’t work in Ohio…
Well…the repubs know they have no ideas that anyone wants so of course they are still trying to rig elections across the country…just yesterday, their attempt to do more rigging in Ohio failed by 13 points…they knew that the abortion rights initiative that is on the ballot this fall that would change their constitution will probably pass and would make the 6 week ban the repubs jammed through after Dobbs moot…so instead of listening to the will of the people, the repubs tried to change the way citizen initiatives are run, requiring that they get 60% of the vote instead of 50% and requiring that signatures be gathered in every county…making the process so hard that no initiative would ever make the ballot again…and they scheduled the vote in the summer where they hoped that no one would show up…but, as across the rest of the US, the will of the people won and now reproductive rights will pass in the fall election…and abortion bans continue to be a loser for the repubs when over 70% of the people in the US think it should be safe and legal….so, keep it up repubs and you’ll never win another election…that would be joyous…geez…
August 9th
Well..damn, having a hard time getting going today with not getting out of bed til 6:45…and my fingers are numb so I must have slept on my shoulders wrong last night…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get a lot done but the grocery run and today is going to be much the same…just need to change the oil in the car and that only takes about 20 minutes or so and then I’m going to grill some burgers and sausages to have for the rest of the week…have a green and red pepper in the fridge that need to be used so I’ll have to look at the recipes my daughter left and see what one they are used for and make it….still don’t have much pain from the surgery even with mowing the lawn and carrying in 25 pounds of groceries yesterday….so it looks like I’m pretty much healed and I hope to continue to improve over the next 6 weeks until the UK trip…still having problems gaining weight since I don’t have any desire to eat but that is not new…had a bowl of soup and a sausage yesterday and that’s not enough even with not riding the bike…not much to do today…just working on the car and grilling but I sure don’t feel like doing any of that right now…just so damn worn out and feel old…but I am old so I guess that’s normal….more later…
Not good news…
Well…talked to the surgeon this morning and that conversation burst my bubble of being cured from the cancer…and reading the report today there appears to still be a 2mm spot in the tissue left behind since he couldn’t take that out or all of the nerves would have been gone and I’d be peeing myself for the rest of my life…so now my life hangs in the balance with the PSA test in the first week of September…if it’s not 0, I still have cancer and we will start to talk about more treatment and that just sucks…this surgery was supposed to be it and I’d be done with it….pretty damn depressed right now…
Since when is following the law optional?
Well…ever since the ascendance of the idiot trump and his utter disdain for the law, the repubs have embraced the idea and have all started doing the same all the time…an it’s my contention that they still think following the law is optional…for them anyway and we saw that as they protected idiot boy through two impeachments and are continuing to protect him by bashing everyone involved in all of his investigations/prosecutions. Now we have the media making a big deal that Mike Pence has said he will “comply with the law” when asked if he will testify at idiot boy’s January 6th trial…making him out to be some kind of hero for agreeing to testify…and I will say it right here…nope, he is not any kind of a hero and he has no choice but to testify if given a summons….that’s how this works…witnesses aren’t given a choice whether to testify ever…and it’s entirely up to the prosecutor who is going to testify…and now we are making pence out to be a hero when he was in the planning meetings for the coup attempt and never did or said anything about when he knew it was against the law…you know he could have spoke up on the 4th of January 2021 when idiot boy’s lawyers came to him to ask him not to certify the election results on the 6th…so, no, he is no kind of a hero…a hero would have stood up the first time he heard of the plot in 2020, and not wait til now to speak….geez…
August 8th
Well..running about on time today and I’m at this at 6:30 so I’ll be able to get to the grocery run around 8…need to hit Menards for oil and a filter for the car and I need to make a DD run to get some 1/3 pound burgers for 2.99 a pound…not cheap but I can really use a burger on the grill to try to gain some weight….the pain is completely gone in my abdomen and today marks two weeks since the surgery…was certain that it was going to take longer to heal but I am still learning the new normal with my incontinence and how it feels….not a problem during the day but I’m still having problems at night that sucks…oh, well…it was an okay day yesterday and it felt good to get something done for a change…going to do the grocery run today and I’m excited to drive my car for the first time in almost 3 weeks….top down and smiling…the idiots were at it again last night and I had to make a call and I’m going to do it every time they pollute this neighborhood with their bullshit…now it’s personal and I am going to make them pay….not much to do today…just the grocery run and maybe some cleaning but I’ll take it pretty easy…two weeks after the surgery and only 4 weeks until I can get on the bike again…do I want to before the trip? The way I feel right now is yep…going to give it a try….more later….
Who cares?
Well…the media is going crazy since desantis said something the other day…in an interview over the weekend, ole ron said that the idiot trump lost the 2020 election and that Joe Biden was the legitimate president…then he went on to say that all of the conspiracy theories that the right spouts have been proven wrong…and the media has now started to push the idea that this is a “new” ron…one who is willing to tell the “truth”…but my question is: who cares? Ole ron has been lying his ass off since the 2020 election and has toed the line of the crazies in the repub party until now…and he is furiously trying to walk back these comments by trying to say the election “was not run good” but the result are the results and we “have to” live with it…but we won’t have to live with ronnie since his campaign is going down in flames as measured by crowd size as he stumps in Iowa where less than a dozen people came out to listen to him prattle on about nothing…he couldn’t even get people to come out in NH where he offered free beer…so, let’s just ignore ole ronnie from now on and let him scuttle back and continue to ruin Florida…geez…