Well…I finally sucked it up, suited up and got out and shoveled my walks…damn, it looks like when the wind comes from the west every damn walk will have a snow drift on it…and my front walk was under 3 feet of snow as the walk alongside the east side of the house was…so a lot of damn work and even had to break it into two chunks since it was so damn cold out there my hands and feet got frozen and I had to come in to thaw them out…but it looks like the snow has eased up some and the winds are a little less than they were this afternoon….got the first sparrows on the feeder today and there was a steady stream of birds out there all day…had to fill it again today after filling it before the storm…and now I’m sitting here with the heating pad on my back to try to keep it from seizing it up…hey, it’s all the way up to 8 degrees out here…man it’s cold….my hands hurt…ow…
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The January 6th report is out…
Well…I know we’ve all been waiting for the January 6th report to be released and now it has…over 800 pages of evidence and conclusions on who was responsible and guess who was? Yeah, that’s an easy one…it started with the idiot trump and he was the ringleader of the whole thing…the one conclusion that can be drawn from the report is that if idiot boy acted like every other president in the history of the country and transferred the power of the presidency peacefully, January 6th would never have happened…and that’s the bottom line it was all trump’s fault as those of us living in the real world knew from the start…but some of the detail that has come out, especially about the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson and the pressure and potential bribes offered to her to just say that “I don’t recall” instead of answering truthfully as she did should result in charges for the lawyers and others who were applying the pressure…so we’ll see about that, if the justice department will follow up and charge every damn person that was in on January 6th…and almost everyone in the WH at that time were…so lets get going Justice Department…charge these pricks already….geez…
Damn, it’s cold out there…
Well…damn, it cold outside…the temp keeps dropping and it’s at 6 right now with a -15 to -20 wind chill and it’s still snowing and looks like it is setting up some lake effect that is going to go on for hours…it’s noon now and I am going to wait a couple of hours before I go out to shovel…I did get to 6,000 miles on the bikes this morning and that leaves me 43 to go to get to my goal and over a week to do it…and that feels pretty good after not thinking I could get there this year…it has been a long haul and I can take Sunday off like normal to let my legs rest a bit…now I need to go read the news to try to find a political topic for the day….more later…
December 23rd
Well…damn, up at 5:23 and out of bed by around 7 and I feel really worn out in anticipation of the huge storm that is here…it’s 8 degrees and the wind is howling so loud I could hear it through the ear plugs I use to sleep….I did sleep okay, I think, but no amount of sleep seems to leave me refreshed any more….got through the night with the power still on so I guess that’s something and I’ll keep my fingers crossed that I get through this mess without an outage…but the main part of the storm is not here yet…I will have to go out and shovel the snow later but I think I’ll wait til after I get the two rides in…I do need to get the turkey into the brine tomorrow morning so I can cook it Sunday…and I am looking forward to having something other than ham that I’ve had for the past few weeks…but I have two days more of it before I put the ham bone in the freezer….it looks like it has gone down to 7 degrees but this is as cold as it’s going to get…the high is supposed to be 13 today and only down to 11 tonight…not much to do today…just need to get going and that feels pretty hard right now….I am going to clean the kitchen today…or not…doing the snow might be all the work I want to do…who knows? More later….
Biden does it again…
Well…with the big spending bell getting passed through the senate today, all I can say is Biden did it again…and two things that got included were the Pregnant workers act that prohibits discrimination against pregnant women on the job and the electoral count act that adds to the language of how electoral votes are counted so the repubs can’t try to steal the election again like they did in 2020. I wonder how the right is going to spin this one with their continuing efforts to paint Biden as a doddering old fool? Sure seems to get a lot done for an old fool but those of us here on the left don’t think that of him at all…yep, he’s old but it would take many pages to list the achievements of his administration and he really is trying to make this country a better place for everyone…and in the atmosphere in DC, I think he’s doing a pretty damn good job…geez…
Ready as I can be…
Well…just filled the bird feeders and put the trash out and I guess I’m as ready as I can be for the storm…really don’t have to go anywhere for a week or so with the supplies I’ve gotten so I’m just going to relax and plan on not going anywhere until late next week…I did finally get the living room and my bedroom cleaned but I am coughing like crazy from all of the dust…I think I’ll make cleaning the thing for my time in and get started on the trim in the dining room along with that….I wonder how they are going to cope with the snow out here? They never plow the residential streets so I hope there is some traffic to pack the snow down so I can get to the main streets that they do take care of…but I’m not going to worry about that now….City and Liverpool are playing in 20 mins so I’m going to shut this thing off and just watch….
What a bunch of asses…
Well…with the visit of Ukrainian president Zelenskyy to the US yesterday, and the repub response to it, we again had it confirmed that the repubs are a bunch of assholes and that they truly are traitors who support Putin more than Ukraine. When Z spoke in front of the congress, most of the repub caucus didn’t even show up and the ones who did disrespected Z by talking, playing with their phones and sitting on their hands when the House rose for a standing ovation…and the new meme that the right and it’s Putin apologists is using today is that Ukraine is a “welfare queen” and we can’t afford to support them anymore and they are repub house members are trying to get the additional funding for Ukraine ripped out of the spending bill being worked on as they poured money on the US military to the tune of 860 billion dollars just last week. Let’s remember what Ukraine is doing for the world…since Russia invaded, they have lost half of their military strength…hundreds of thousands of their soldiers dead and essentially a gutted economy exposing the hollowed out military that no one is afraid of anymore…just that much would be more than we should have expected…and Ukraine deserves whatever they need from us as they continue and until they win…which they will give enough support….geez…
December 22nd
Well…when I got up this morning and we didn’t get any snow last night, I decided to head out to Meijers to try to get the ingredients I need to make ham soup and the store was still nuts…nothing on the shelves and long lines to check out…but I did get what I needed so I am ready to start hibernating and get ready to start shoveling snow later today….didn’t get much done yesterday and I’m not planning on doing much but clean a little later but I need to get on the bike first…only had one meal yesterday and I’m feeling it today…pretty worn out and feeling a little old….I had to buy 1% milk instead of non fat this morning since they were out of what I normally buy….maybe that will be good to put on the cheerios I’ve had in the cupboard for months….man, doing all the work of going out was really hard this morning and all I want to do is sit here and do nothing…but I won’t…need 75 more miles to hit my goal and it’s in sight….but it’s cold downstairs and I am not looking forward to it….not much to do today…going to clean the living room so I can hibernate in peace and not look at the mess…okay, not a mess but I do have books piled on the coffee table I need to put away…and I need to dust everything in here since it is bugging the heck out of me….and I need to rotate the couch cushions and dust it, too….more later….
One good thing…
Well…one good thing about the aborted afternoon Meijers run…when I was leaving, a guy walked up to me to ask about my Miata and I found out he used to own one…then we got talking about mountain bikes and trails to ride around here and I found out he lives right next to the trail I ride outside every day…we stood outside in the cold for 45 minutes…these are the kind of things that make me smile after not talking much for a week….
I gave up….
Well…when I forgot to get a couple of things this morning to make ham soup, I decided to make a quick run out to Meijers to get the veggies and containers I needed and that was a mistake…starting with getting virtually the last parking spot in the lot, I walked in the door and the lines for the cash registers were all the way across the entire store and even the self checkouts had a line that snaked all the way through the produce area and would take a good half hour to 45 minutes just to get to the checkout…so I just gave up an turned around and walked out…I guess I can make soup next week…glad I got the big stuff in the morning but even then I had to wait in line for the self checkouts….it’s just nuts out there….