Well…with the daily reporting of the size of the vast right wing conspiracy to steal the 2020 election for the idiot trump, I can’t wait for the televised hearings from the House that are coming up soon…and just the other day rep Jamie Raskin was quoted to say that the hearings are going to “blow the lid” off the House with all of the repub members who were involved with the plot…but, how will they be held responsible? It is all well and good when their roles are exposed, but, if they are not held responsible, what’s the point? This is obviously where the committee needs to refer every damn one of them for criminal prosecution and the DOJ has to follow through and file those charges and haul every one of them off to jail…it can’t be left to private citizens to hold them accountable like they are doing with Madison Cawthorn where private citizens are suing him to disqualify him for office by using the 14th amendment that prevents anyone who supports an insurrection against the US from holding office…and it is clear that he supported the attack on the capital and was part of the conspiracy. If these hearings conflict with the Olympics, I’m watching the hearings instead even with being a huge Olympics geek….it way more important….
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Got the kitchen stripped..
Well…have been working hard all morning to get the kitchen stripped so I can get started taking the doors off and filling and sanding….moved the shelf holding the coffee maker and microwave into the dining room along with all of the food and dishes and that filled two big totes…and I removed the ugly range hood and put that in the trash since it was so filthy that I wasn’t going to attempt to reuse it…but I just checked on a stainless steel one and the cheapest 30 inch is almost 80 bucks and it was only 55 last year…sure don’t want to spend that amount of money but I guess I’ll have to to complete the look I’m going for….and I decided to go with black hinges and pulls since they will go better with the colors I’m going to use…so that adds another hundred bucks or so to the total since I can’t use any of the ones I have downstairs…but I want it to look nice and bronze hinges and pulls just won’t go with grey….so tomorrow looks like door removal and then I’ll dive into sanding and filling Monday after I take the car out and wash it…need to get the salt off it to try to keep it from rusting more but I think that is hopeless….oh,well….
Justified is coming back…
Well…just read a short article the announced that Justified is coming back as a limited series…which will mean one year of about 8 episodes but that is still cool…and it will be set in Detroit and based on another of Elmore Leonard’s short stories as the first series was…there wasn’t a lot of detail in the article but Timothy Olyphant is coming back as Raylan…who will have a 14 year old daughter to deal with…but no mention if Walton Goggins is going to come back as Boyd Crowder and I think the series would be less without him…I would expect it will take a couple of years until it’s complete and I hope I live to see it…would be cool…
January 15th
Well…running a little late from the new normal for me with not getting out of bed til almost 6:30 so I won’t be getting on the bike til 7:30 or so…I have to remember I don’t have a schedule anymore and it doesn’t matter if I’m on the bike a few minutes later…but it is nice to get the ride out of the way early before I have the chance to think about it…slept okay last night and I was good for the 13th day but I almost had cocktails to watch the Ray Donovan movie last night…that was a habit for so long that it was almost easy to fall back into it…the movie was just meh and a little disappointing but it filled a night so I guess that’s okay…watched the last episode of the Expanse last night and it had a pretty good ending after 6 years so that was cool but I’ll miss the show….I did get a little work done yesterday but I’m only going to do a little today..going to take the big upper doors off the kitchen cabinets and get all the food, spices and dishes out of them and into totes so I can get started sanding the insides of them….want to get the upper parts of them done this week and then get on the lower ones next week with the ones over the stove the week after….I can’t wait til all the sanding is over and I can do one final dust clean up but that won’t come for a month or so in the kitchen with needing to do the door frames and baseboards before I can paint the walls…so it looks like mid Feb to have the work done in there or maybe even a little later….it is a pain that every surface in the entire house needs work but I do have to remember that I have the whole winter and summer to work on it and I don’t need to rush…working on the house will be my job for the year…but I am going to take a two week vacation in July and just go to the beach every day and get a good tan…and I may just go fishing this summer too, even if I can’t eat the fish…and the kayak is still in the back of my mind but I need to get one on sale and not spend more than 200 bucks….so, I need to get on the bike right now and get my day started…lots of soccer on and Man U plays at 12:30 so I want to be done with my work by then….more later…
Built a work room…
Well…with fighting all the dust since I started on the kitchen, I figured there must be a better way to deal with it than just letting it blow all over the house…and with starting on the cabinets and doors and all of the filling and sanding that they are going to need, I decided to build a little 9×12 work room in the basement out of drop cloths to try to contain at least some of it…luckily, I had enough them of them to do the two sides and cover the floor to protect against paint drips…I’m pretty careful when I paint but there is always at least once that I’ll drip some paint and this way I don’t have to clean it up as I go…and there is enough room to put all 4 or my sawhorses in there and still have room to move around…and I have two 100 watt LED lights in there so I’ll be able to see really well when I work…and I even have a small window in my glass blocks that I can open to get some ventilation…man, I love having a basement that I can use…so, that’s enough work for the day…need to get photos of the kitchen tomorrow before I start tearing the doors off…oh, I did plug the new light socket into the outlet over the sink and I’m not sure if I’ll keep it there or not but it is nice to have light over the sink….oh, and while I was downstairs, the combustion blower on the furnace started to whine again so I whacked it hard on the side of the furnace and it stopped…I guess sometimes you need to use brute force to fix things….
The new house across the street is a two story…
Well…as I watched the new house going up across the street, I couldn’t figure out what kind of house it was going to be…it was way too small for a one story and I had no clue where the garage was going to be…but, this morning, they started to put the second story on and that made much more sense…and some of the other new ones around here have detached 2 stall garages but this lot has a curb cut for a garage that fronts on Merrill so I’m not sure how that is going to work…but I am relieved that it is not going to be a tiny house that would sell for less than mine is worth…and that makes the eighth new house that I can see from my yard and that is a welcome restoration of this neighborhood…
Good errands this morning…
Well…I can’t remember when I had a more relaxing time running errands in the morning…the roads were clear and very little traffic and when I got to depot to get the first batch of grey paint there was no one waiting so it only took about 5 minutes to get the paint mixed and I was able to wander around and get an outlet to try to put a light over the sink…it’s just a plug in with a pull chain but I thought I’d try it and see if I need the light….then I stopped at Aldi’s to get 10 more pounds of chicken leg quarters and I was the first in line at the checkout so it only took me about a minute to get out of there…then a run across Sherman to HF to get sandpaper and a short handled brush to paint the inside of the cupboards…and the sandpaper was only 2.47 for 7 sheets while it was 7 bucks for 4 sheets at depot and that was just a little ridiculous…and I got some new style pads for my detail sander that I wanted to try…so, all in all, a good day so far and I was back here by 9:30….now I need to get a couple more leg quarters in a marinade for later and put the rest of them in the freezer…I think I have just about enough room with giving Tom some ham soup yesterday…oh, Tom…the Ray Donovan movie is out on Plex…going to watch it tonight…
This is welcome news…
Well…as the revelations of the depth of the repub plot to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, the tentacles of the conspiracy made their way to our state of Michigan where many, many repub leaders conspired to send a fake set of electors to the National Archives as a way to cast doubt on the outcome of the election and allow Mike Pence to throw out the votes of the people in 7 states that went for Biden…but today, we had a welcome bit of news when our AG, Dana Nessel, referred this group of traitors to federal prosecutors…and to add to that she stated that there are state charges that are coming for “forgery of a public record” which carries a 14 year sentence and election law forgery which has a five year sentence attached…and the lies and forgery purported that the idiot trump won the state, falsely claimed to record the official slate of electors, and falsely claimed that the electors had been selected at the state capitol….when this scheme was hatched and the forgery was done at Michigan repub headquarters…and these morons sent the forgery by registered mail to the NA and signed their names to it…and the forgers included the state repub chair and vice chair, and a member of the RNC and a township election clerk…and as part of plot, to make it appear official, these forgers tried to enter the capitol so they could say that the vote was taken in the capitol but they were turned away…and this plan was part of the entire scheme that was presented to repubs in congress so they would know what to do on January 6th. Sounds like a pretty broad based conspiracy to me…and I applaud AG Nessel for not putting up with the bullshit here in Michigan and making sure there will be consequences for this seditious conspiracy…they all need to go to jail as a deterrent to them trying it again….geez…
January 14th
Well…darn…another 4am morning this morning but I was able to get back to sleep until a little after 6 so that is a win…but, I wonder why I don’t feel like I slept at all? I have been good for 11 days now and you would think that would be enough to feel better but I just feel worn out…again…had a nice day yesterday with Tom bringing out his new puppy and I couldn’t help but laugh at all the energy Lucy has…damn, I would love to harness some of that…think she is going to be a good dog and a lot of fun…didn’t get much done yesterday but clean but the house needed that and I have plenty of time to get to the kitchen cupboards….I had a brainstorm last night on the colors for the doors and it may work and it may not but I’m going to try it and see….will probably start taking the doors off today so I can get started on sanding and filling them or I may just prep my workspace downstairs and call it good til Monday and take the weekend off…I am going to go out and get the first gallon of grey paint for the insides of the cupboards and some more sandpaper for my sanders since there is going to be tons of sanding on both the doors and the inside and outside of the cabinets….just realized I have about a grand going out in Feb for my property taxes and house insurance so I won’t be gaining any cash in the bank next month and that kinda sucks but it is part of life…I am going to stop at Aldi’s this morning and see if I can get another 10 pounds of chicken leg quarters for 4.90…and that will give me protein for the next month or so…the marinade I use for the last chicken really made it taste good and I am going to look for a few different ones to add to my recipes to expand my taste and that may be the task for the weekend….more later…oh, found out this week that there is a Ray Donovan movie coming out today on Showtime and I am going to try to find a channel to watch it on…
Arrest the traitors….
Well…not sure if you read the news over the past couple of days but it has come out that in 7 states that Joe Biden won in 2020, repubs conspired to send in fake slates of electors to the National Archives with the intent of getting them accepted as real and installing the idiot trump as president again….in Arizona, the repubs that broke the law and betrayed the country were even so brazen as to take a photo of the group of them who faked the electors and signed their names to the fakes…look, come on DOJ, all of these people admitted to breaking election law and you do nothing? Every damn one of these people should have been arrested and indicted for this scheme…and this same thing happened here in Michigan…where the hell is the AG here? Why haven’t these folks been charged? Every damn time this type of behavior is allowed to go unpunished, it erodes the rule of law in this country and emboldens the repubs to go farther and farther in destroying our democracy…this bullshit has to stop now if we are to salvage any pretense that the law applies to everyone…Garland can speechify all he wants but without action, there is no rule of law anymore…geez…