Well…woke up this morning and took a look at my phone and thought I saw 5:14 but then my coffee alarm clock said it had to be after 6 since I could smell the new coffee brewing…so I’m up and here I am…again…had dreams last night about Steely Dan concerts and people that I met before but didn’t know where I met them…it was one of those things where you see someone and you know them but you don’t know where from…kinda weird….it was my 9th day of being good and it is starting to be a habit and I am curious how long this is going to last….one place that it has really affected is the bike ride every morning…it is still a bit of a struggle to force myself to get on the bike but once on it the rides have been much easier and more fun…I think part of that is that I have the plans for working on the house to think about while I’m on it and that is a good distraction…I did get the salt I needed to do the walks yesterday and they are finally clear….and the chicken I got from Aldi’s is really good after I marinated it in balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, worst sauce, garlic and onion powder along with some Italian seasoning….and the leg quarters are pretty big so one makes a meal and I have another one for later today….if I had room in my freezer, I’d run out and get another 10 pounds at 49 cents a pound to stock the freezer for a month…not much to do today…Tom is coming out in the afternoon so I can meet his new dog and hang out a while…and I have to remember to send him home with some of the latest batch of ham soup that I made a couple of weeks ago…and I have laundry and cleaning this place up a bit to do before then…it is nice to finally be making some progress on the house and to have a vision of what I want it to look like when I’m done…going to go out tomorrow to get the first of the grey paints so I can start painting the inside of the cupboards…it is going to be a subtle grey that I think will look cool…more later…
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I guess we’re all going to jail…
Well…hey, everybody…get your go bags and get ready to make a run for it….the pillow guy has “evidence” that 300 million Americans committed voter fraud during the 2020 election and he is just this close to sending the information to the supreme court who is going to arrest us all and put us in jail….okay, yeah…I’m laughing my ass off at this clown, too…how the hell is he still walking around when he is this delusional? Hey, Mike…there were only about 150 million people who voted in the 2020 election…so are the other 150 million accomplices? Damn, why didn’t anyone tell me that this was going on so I could join in? So, I guess the 70+ million who voted for the idiot trump were in on it, too, since, using ole Mikey’s logic every adult in the US was in on it…man, this is some eleventy dimensional logic going on from ole Mikey…okay, it’s really easy to make fun of Mikey since he is such a delusional ass but shouldn’t there be consequences for being this crazy in public? Cripes, this kid of crap would at least have resulted in a 72 hour psychiatric hold when I was a kid…but now, he gets to go on tv and there are many other delusional morons that are listening to him…this is some deep cult crap right here….geez…
Rut Roh, idiot boy…
Well….boy, some news I’ve been waiting for out of Georgia in the case of election fraud against idiot boy…in early December, idiot boy’s lawyers were seen meeting with the Fulton county DA to talk to her about the case she is building against trump and all of his cronies who tried to interfere with the election by having the SoS “find” 12,000 votes to give idiot boy the victory…and normally when these meetings take place, it is because the DA has enough evidence to indict the targets of the investigations…and the DA herself has said that she feels the evidence warrants the empaneling of a grand jury for just that end….so, while the DOJ may not get it’s head out of it’s ass and charge trump for all of his crimes, this state case is a felony that could land him in jail for 20 years…and maybe even Lindsey Graham since he did the same damn thing by calling the SoS and spouting the same lies that idiot boy did and putting the same pressure on him to declare that trump won the state…this case should come to a head sometime in the spring and we just may see trump doing the perp walk that he has been able to avoid his whole criminal life….geez…
What a pain…
Well….darn…got most of the shopping done by 10 this morning but no one had any salt for the sidewalks…Meijers and depot were out and I tried menards website to see it they had any…and they did but that meant another run over to Sternberg Road when I was just there for Aldi’s, Meijers, target, and the dollar store…so, I jumped back in the car for another 10 mile round trip and finally got 50 lbs of a blend for 12 bucks so that was cool…so now, after lunch, I’m going to go out and clear the sidewalks and salt them since it is warm enough for the salt to work really well….and it is going to get much colder later in the week…I did get the 10 lbs of chicken leg quarters for 4.90 this morning so I need to marinate a couple for later today and that will keep me going for a week or more…going to make some alfredo sauce tomorrow for fettucini and I got eggs and thawed some bacon so I’m set for food for at least a week to 10 days….I will be back for a political one later but I need to have lunch first…
January 12th
Well…a 5:39 morning this morning but I was able to lie there until a little after 6 so that is pretty normal for the past 10 days….don’t hurt as much as I should with all of the climbing, carrying, and twisting yesterday and that is welcome news when I thought I’d be limping around here…still a little stiff but I can deal with that….it’s nice that I have a plan to rehab the kitchen over the next few weeks and I will be happy if I have it done by the end of the month….going to be a ton of sanding, filling, and painting and I’m going to buy a new range hood to replace the ugly painted one that is in there…a nice stainless steel one will look good when I get it done…I may start tearing the doors off today…have 11 of them to remove but I need to fit them first so I don’t have to do that after I’ve painted them….and I need to empty the cupboards into totes so nothing is in the way…and that means I’ll have to get a gallon of grey paint to do the insides of them along with the walls….but I won’t do that til next week since there is lots of prep to do before I can paint…..man, I have a busy errand day today and I can’t remember having a list so long…and having to hit 5 stores in one morning…going to burn over a hundred bucks but I’ll have everything I need to go a couple of weeks and get a lot of work done….hope I can get the 10 lbs of chicken from Aldi’s since I’ve planned to marinade some and have that later today…and fill my freezer again….more later….
I wonder if it takes 10 days?
Well…I wonder if it takes 10 days of being good to feel better? I had a day today with lots of work in it and I still have tons of energy and it’s 5:30 in the afternoon and I’ve been going since 7:15 this morning…no hitting the wall, no feeling like crap, no nothing…I have been trying to eat more, too so that may have something to do with it but whatever it is, I’ll take it…I know part of it is accomplishing something today and, looking at the window, it came out a lot better than I thought it was going to….I really like this Glidden paint I’ve been using…the satin finish just looks rich and pretty nice for a cheap paint….I am really sore after the painting today…trying to turn myself into a pretzel so I could get at the back side of the header was a bit much for an old guy and I had to stand in the kitchen sinks to even get close to be able to do it…I did discover there is an electrical outlet on the back side of the header and I am going to try to put a pull chain socket in there to see if it works….I could use more light in the kitchen and that would help…I’ll bet they had a clock plugged into it like most kitchens had in the olden days…I may even be able to put a pull chain light fixture in there…we’ll see…okay, that’s enough for the day…time to take it easy….
Finished the window…
Well…you know me, if I have things that need to be done, I just can’t sit and wait to do them…so the plan to put the second coat on the window tomorrow didn’t hold up too long…right after lunch, I dragged the paint and brushes out again and finished it up so I don’t have to paint tomorrow…or, I can start on the dining room windows that should only take a couple of days to sand, fill, and paint since they don’t look too bad…at least not like the kitchen window I just finished…that one was just ugly and looks okay but there was so much damage on it, it was never going to look new…but it looks okay and I can live with that…and I painted the space above the window that was still the original green of the kitchen from 3 or 4 paintings ago….will probably start putting everything in the cupboards in totes tomorrow so I can start taking the doors off to sand, fill, paint and remount with the new hardware…and then the facings of the cupboard need the same work so that is going to take a while since I need to sand and paint the insides of them, too…lots of work to do but it will be worth it…I hope….
What the hell is wrong with these people?
Well…as I read the news about all of the ways the right wing morons are using to justify avoiding getting the covid vaccine, all I can do is shake my head at the latest one….one of the most followed anti vaxxers on the right just yesterday came out and told his followers to drink their own urine and that would protect them from covid better than any vaccine can…and this is just the latest in a long line of stupid shit coming out of these people…I mean, Ivermectin? A horse dewormer that almost every damn one of them is slurping down like candy even though it will not and cannot treat a virus…and they end up in the hospital begging for the vaccine as they drown in fluid in their lungs…why not get the free vaccine? Nope, that’s not a choice for them since vaccines are evil…even though every damn one of them have had the polio vaccine that ended that pandemic and the vaccine against smallpox….just look at your left shoulder….it will have the scar from the smallpox vaccination…I wonder if these guys that are daily getting their followers to do stupid shit are just doing it for shits and giggles…to just be able to sit back as say “look at these maroons, they’ll do whatever I say”….what’s next? Making them eat the feces of a person that has had covid? I wouldn’t be surprised…geez…
Worked hard this morning…
Well…busted my butt this morning to get things done in the kitchen and I feel good about that….had to fill a bit on the window after I sanded and had to wait for it to dry so I could sand again so I decided to replace the hinges on the big doors and try to adjust them so they would close…both of them were a little warped so they are never going to close like they should but I got them so they don’t stay open 6 inches and I think that is about as good as I can expect with 82 year old doors….and the new bronze look hinges look good, too, replacing some that were so covered with paint that they just looked ugly and, while it is just a little progress, it is progress and I feel good about it… I had to take everything out of the cupboards and clean all my spices, dishes, and the rest of the food from all of the dust from sanding and fitting the doors and wiped out the inside of them…I worked for 3 1/2 hours today and will work again tomorrow to put the second coat on the window after all of the errands in the morning…I am getting used to getting on the bike early and had the best ride I’ve had since I started riding downstairs….had to contort myself so much to get at the space over the window that I think I’m going to hurt tomorrow….but it is looking better than it did and that’s all I can expect….more later….
January 11th
Well…another 6:01 morning and I really wish that how I feel when I get up would last all day…feel okay after my 8th day of being good but it exposes how it feels to be old and I’m not sure I like that at all…having cocktails masks all of that and gave me something to blame feeling old on but that is gone with being good….I guess it’s good to know what reality is for a change but I don’t have to like it…I did sleep okay last night but getting up so early and coming here early sets me up for another day like yesterday where I’ll be on the bike a little after 7…may even have time to paint the window today and work on the hardware on the doors….I may do the kitchen rehab before I work on the rest of the windows since the kitchen is the worst looking part of the house…but that means taking the entire kitchen apart to sand, paint, and replace all the hardware and get a place set up downstairs to do the work…will be living out of tubs for a month or so since I want to paint the interiors of the cabinets and put some shelf paper down…the last time they were painted it was done so badly that there will be a lot of prep work…I wonder if I should paint the interiors grey as an accent…that may look pretty cool with the grey I’m going to paint the walls and will cover a lot of the flaws of the 82 year old cabinets…we’ll see…..not much to do today….need to get started on my day here in a minute and I need to sand a little more on the window before I can mask it off and paint…just had a thought that the grey blinds would look cool with the grey interiors of the cabinets….okay, too much to think about…want to read a little news and have more coffee before I get on the bike….more later….