Well…it’s been a busy one today with doing the grocery run this morning…and I laughed at what the total bill was today…only 15 bucks but Meijers and Aldi’s didn’t have a lot of the stuff I wanted so that saved me some cash…but 15 bucks? It’s pretty cool when you don’t buy cocktail materials…and today is the 17the day of being good and I am starting to like it….but I am really sore from working on the cupboards but only have the one over the stove to do…but it is by far the worst of all of them and it is going to take a few days to get it done so I may not get to painting til next week with still having to do the final finish sanding on all of them…but right now, I’m taking the rest of the day off after cleaning up after this mornings work…Man U plays this afternoon and I want to start to watch them but if they suck like they have been, it will be a short watch….
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The walls are closing in on the trumps…
Well…with the trumps refusal to heed subpoenas in the NY civil case that NY’s AG James has brought…she has gone to court with a huge filing of evidence that she has of all of them committing fraud in inflating the worth of their property to get loans on those properties…especially the idiot boy’s penthouse that is about 11,000 square feet when he told lenders it was 30,000 sqft…and this is only part of what James has said is a consistent pattern of fraud by the trumps including saying a property that is worth 20 million is worth 250 million including houses and other amenities that don’t exist….this filing is to convince a judge to compel the trumps to sit for depositions that they have sued to prevent…and even if they do show up, they will just do what Eric did when he took the fifth over 500 times in his deposition….but the screws are turning and we are getting close to trump and his stupid children ending up in jail….and it can’t happen too soon….geez…
Ordered my covid tests….
Well…as I sit here finishing up my coffee before I get to work on the kitchen, I decided to try to order my 4 free covid tests and it was the easiest damn thing I’ve done in a while…just went out to covidtests.gov and it only took about a minute to enter my address and hit the order button…and that was it…no insurance information or anything else was necessary to get it done and they will be shipped in a week or so…not sure if I’ll ever need them but with going out this weekend, if it’s not snowing, it will be nice to know if I’m sick or not…order the tests, they’re really free….more later…
January 19
Well…3:30 and 5:54, and that’s all I’ll say about that…slept pretty crappy with lots of tossing and turning and I hope that’s not the new pattern like the old pattern that I struggled with for years and years….I know I talk a lot about sleep but you don’t know what it’s like unless you’ve lived not being able to get any….just wears you right out…but hey, I’m not as sore as I expected to be after the work yesterday so I guess that’s something….and I really hope to have the cupboard work done today but I think it’s going to take until tomorrow…damn, just saw that there is a winter weather advisory in effect from later today through Thursday with at least 6 inches of snow and possibly more and there is a gale warning to go with it so there will be some drifting…glad I’m going out for groceries this morning and don’t need to go anywhere til Saturday…there is a reunion of sorts of the old gang I use to hang with in GR on Saturday but I won’t be going if it’s snowing…I am a little torn about it anyway with being in an enclosed space with people who aren’t wearing masks and omicron still tearing through west Michigan….not sure if it’s worth it to take the chance…sure don’t want to get sick….not much to do today…just the grocery run and a stop depot to get some more filler and some plaster tools since I need to get at the bad plaster patch in the kitchen…think I may buy a big bag of plaster this morning since it is so much cheaper than the filler I have been using and I do need to learn how to do skim coats with the bathroom ceiling needing a complete redo….and it’s only 20 bucks for 20 pounds which should be enough to do everything around here…and more work on the the cabinets in the kitchen to get ready to start painting them…so, I’ll be damn busy again today…just like every day…more later…
Four hours and I’m sore…
Well…a body this old is not supposed to be pretzeling itself into tiny little cupboards…it just isn’t…but that didn’t stop me from doing it for 4 hours today to sand and fill and I am damn sore from it…have only one more to do on the side of the kitchen near the sink along with the cabinet over the stove that is probably the worst one….and I am going to try to get both of them done tomorrow so I can do the final sanding Thursday and set myself up to start to paint the interiors Friday…and that is about a week earlier than I had planned but I can’t string a job out when I have work to do…and that is going to unleash huge clouds of dust in the kitchen that will have to be cleaned up before I can start to paint…and I know that there will be other repairs that will need to be made as I go along…as old and decrepit as the kitchen is, I know I’ll miss something and have to come back to it to fix it…but I am losing patience with everything that needs to be done…the cupboards probably should have been torn out and replaced but I just don’t want to spend the money for the next owners of the house when I can live with however the kitchen comes out…after all, it will still be 100% better than it was and clean….I wonder if it will help if I just put the shop vac running in the middle of the floor when I do the finish sanding? At least the airlock is doing it’s job to keep the dust in the kitchen…but it will be tested Thursday….I’m sore…..
Why isn’t it the 50 repub senators fault?
Well…you know, this bullshit that it is Biden’s and the dems fault that voting rights legislation hasn’t passed the senate is starting to piss me off…after all, not one damn repub senator has even made any comment that they would work with the dems to protect voting rights…so why isn’t it the 50 repub senators fault? But no, the media is just looking for any way to show the Biden is a failure…they can’t deal with the fact that Biden has brought a calm to government and they don’t get all of the easy stories the idiot trump gave them…and they really don’t want to hold the repubs responsible since they may be back in the majority next year and that would limit their access…and they just don’t care that they are complicit in the failure of our democracy…not a damn one of them cares about any of that, they just want a horse race that they can report on for clicks…and I’m sure Ben Bradlee is spinning in his grave right now with how shitty the editors of the major newspapers have become…they have no ethics or morals or any hint of concern for our democracy and with that they are going to kill it….I think we need to take to the streets like the 60’s and flood Manchin and Sinema with a million people who care about voting rights and this country…they sure don’t…geez…
Not a bad winter so far….
Well…as I sit here finishing my coffee before I get to the kitchen, the thought came to me that this has been a pretty good winter so far…we’ve had some snow that hasn’t been bad to shovel and I just looked at the weather and, while it’s going to be cold for the next week, there is not a lot of snow in the forecast for the rest of the month…maybe a couple of days with snow showers but that is about it…and that only leaves about 6 weeks where we can potentially get some big lake effect snow storms….but, if they set up, we could get feet of snow so I guess I shouldn’t be happy yet….one strange thing with how cold it’s been out here is that the lake ice is at the lowest in almost 20 years…and I do need to get out to Lake Michigan to take a look at the shore ice and wander around on it a bit…I do need to get a new phone so I can take photos again without dragging my tablet with me…okay, back to work….
January 18th
Well…up at 4:30 again but was able to get back to sleep until a little after 6 so that is the new pattern and I don’t mind it a bit….I am really sore today after working on the cabinets yesterday and I have new pains I haven’t had before so I think there will be ibuprofen before I get going on them again today….I’m sure it’s going to take a good month to finish the kitchen if I do everything including painting the walls but that can’t happen until I do the ugly patch they did on one of the walls and re plaster it and sand it…all they did was slap plaster on it and then paint it without sanding…another instance where the repairs were done half assed around here…it’s never going to be smooth like a professional plasterer would have done but it will be better and I have to remember this is an 82 year old house and it’s not going to be perfect…and I don’t want to spend the rest of my life working on it….other than all the work, it was a good day yesterday and I feel marginally better after my 15th day of being good and I am starting to entertain the idea that I could make no cocktails permanent but I’m not sure if I am ready for that yet…I do like the idea of saving all the cash I used to spend….a hundred bucks a month is not a little money living on SS and if I keep it up, I will have saved enough by spring to buy a kayak and that is pretty cool….not much to do today…just going to get on the bike here in a few minutes and then get back to working on the cabinets…need to put in at least 4 hours a day to make the progress I need to make and I want to get everything ready to paint so I can do all the white in one setup and only use one roller to do both coats…hoping for next week for that and doing the grey interiors…then I’ll get on the doors…work, work, work….more later…
Rethinking the range hood…
Well…since the first time I saw the ugly white range hood in the kitchen when I bought this house, I had planned to buy a stainless steel one since I like the way they look…but the prices of them have ballooned to the point that the cheapest 30 inch stainless one is almost 100 bucks and that is a bit much…and, my range is black and the rest of the door hardware is going to be black to go with the grey doors…so, I thought about it today and think I’m going to buy a black one to go with the rest of the kitchen…and a black one is only 62 bucks so that will save me almost 40 bucks and I think it will go better than a stainless one…so now it looks like I have everything figured out and just need to get at it and get the kitchen done…
Two faced asses…
Well…on this MLK day where voting rights are under assault by every damn repub in the country, we see he same old bullshit platitudes being offered by corporations across the country praising MLK for his work on civil and voting rights…but, I call bullshit on these two faced asses…look, after the insurrection on January 6th last year…many of these same corporations made a big deal of not donating to the repubs in the house and senate who were in on the plot…but, that sure didn’t last long…all of those who withheld donations for a couple of months are right back at it…flooding the repubs with money again even though they are passing law after law making sure that voters of color can’t vote…or making it so hard that voting becomes an all day ordeal…and the cutesy repubs have made it illegal for anyone to give these people who are standing in line to vote for hours and hours any water, food, or any other comfort…but do these hypocrite corporate honchos care? Not one damn bit since the repubs will give them more tax cuts if they get elected and that’s all they care about…so, honchos, you two faced asses…shut the hell up with quoting MLK until you put your money where your mouth is and force the repubs to stop suppressing the votes of people they don’t like…geez…