Well…damn…that was a bad night and I’m still coughing like crazy right now…I wonder what the trigger was this time? Was okay most of the day yesterday but then it went to hell just before I was going to bed…I am so damn tired of this crap…so, I feel pretty crappy this morning so I’m going to have to ease into it and let the painting go until later in the day…cripes, there is snow on the ground out there this morning and that is the last thing I want to see this early in the fall…but, it is going to warm up this week so it won’t stay long…will have to be careful on the bike today since there are parts that will still be icy…okay, forgot about the weird dreams I had last night…they involved a custom electric Cadillac with a cut down windshield and a removable steering wheel, stylish clothes, and someone stabbing the tires on my bike….all that in between the coughing bouts that kept me up most of the night….weirder and weirder…not much to do today…just painting and more painting but that will end it for me and I need to start cleaning this place up for the move…to where, I don’t know….more later…
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A few things done…
Well…okay…you know I must be a little bored when I’m doing another one of these today…I did get to most of the things I wanted to do today…got the bathroom cleaned and did the kitchen floor and the living room floor so that was enough for the morning…just went out and kicked the leaves under my maple tree in the parkway so the high winds will blow most of them away today and I won’t have to rake them…still need to clean out the flowers beside the steps to the front porch and pull out the snapdragons that filled the empty spot next to the shrubs but that will happen later in the week when it gets warmer…it’s only 33 out there right now and I’ve even seen snow today and that is quite depressing…and I’ve started to cough again after doing okay last night…damn…still have to wipe down the linen closet doors to paint them tomorrow but that will be the last work I’ll do today…or maybe not if I get even more bored…
Countdown…2 days til the election..
Well…damn, it’s only 10:30 and I’ve accomplished everything I wanted to already…so, I thought I’d come here for the next to last one of these…or the penultimate one…can’t remember ever using that word before….so, let’s go…new polling is out today that shows very little movement in any of the states other than one that shows trump up by 12 in Iowa when every other one has it tied or with Biden ahead by one…I’ll take that one as an outlier since the sample size is only 200 and that makes it easy to not be representative…Biden looks good in the states that idiot boy needs to win, Pa, Wi, and MI with near double digit leads in those states where Hillary was even to up only around 2%….so that looks good for Joe and us…and many of the pollsters have started to convert these percentages into EV’s that all look pretty good for Joe…not one of them have trump winning with Joe having a floor of 280 EV’s without any states that are really swing ones anymore…it appears they are being conservative and I like that…they have also put the swing states in and with a Biden win in those states, it could be a landslide with up to 400 EV’s…but I am just hoping for any kind of a win even if it’s 270 and I am still nervous about the voter suppression that the repubs are doing openly now when they used to do it in the shadows…in Georgia, there was march of mostly AA people going to the polls who were attacked by police using pepper spray when they did nothing but walk….I think there will probably be more of that in the next two days but I don’t get the mindset of these morons…I mean, if we win all three branches of government, many of them will be held accountable and will be out of jobs…but past that, how much of an asshole do you have to be to pepper spray someone just wanting to vote? Okay, I’ll stop editorializing now…just get out to vote if you haven’t already…we need all of you…and we need you right now…
November 1st
Well…damn, I almost missed the start of the F1 race with the time change…thought it was going to start at 8 but it is now at 7…not sure why I looked for it early…I think it was looking for the MotoGP race but I don’t think there is one of those today…I did sleep okay last night and the coughing is better today…fingers crossed…and I had dreams about some biting salamanders that were like baby alligators who were then killed by giant spiders….yep, it’s strange inside my head….got a ride in yesterday and it felt pretty good other than the high wind and that wind is going to keep me off the bike today…it’s supposed to blow 25 to 50 mph today and that is just too much for me…and it’s going to be cold, too, so I’ll just take the day off and finish the prep work for painting tomorrow and I need to clean the bathroom and the kitchen floor but that will have to happen before Man U plays at 11:30…don’t have to cook today with having lots of leftovers so it is going to be a pretty easy day…might even watch the Lions play but that depends on what soccer is on…but right now I need more coffee and to watch the race….more later…
RIP Sean Connery
Well…damn, I hate 2020…and even more with the news that Sean Connery died last night at his home in the Bahamas at 90…he was another actor that spanned much of my life and I enjoyed every performance of his that I saw, from the Bond movies through the later ones like the Hunt for Red October and the Indiana Jones Movie to many more…cripes I was only 9 when the first Bond movie came out…and I always found it funny that as a Scottish actor, he had to do a British accent for many of his films….but, I’m weird that way…I do know that he will be missed by Scotland and the rest of the world…RIP, Sean…
Countdown…3 days til the election..
Well…yeah, I’m sure you noticed that I skipped day 4 until the election…I decided to stop counting election day itself so that makes it three days…and I’m writing it so I can change if I want…if you’ve been here on the weekends, you’ll know that I usually slack off some with the political ones on the weekends but with the election so close, I thought I’d try some discipline and make sure I do one…so, here goes…after the past four years of stress every damn day with waking up to some new outrage that the orange asshole has foisted on the US and the world, it has gotten considerably worse over the past month or so and I think my stress o meter is pegged at 11…it sure feels like my body is reacting to the news with ever greater nervousness as I see the repubs abandon democracy to try to cheat in the election with their willing enablers on the SC and other courts across the country….I remember when when there was a repub party that was somewhat honest and listened to the will of the people….or at least they didn’t cheat so openly or so widely…but now it appears to be all cheat, all the time across the entire country since they know that 70% of the country don’t want the policies they are selling…and that includes repubs who think that every vote should be counted no matter how long it takes…I mean how does counting mail in ballots a few days after the election proper in accordance with state law make them invalid? But that is the attack that they are going to make…and since some states, like Michigan, can’t start to count the votes until election day (another repub law that is designed to allow some votes to not be counted) we may not have the entire count done until a few days after the election with the huge increase in mail voting due to the pandemic. It is so disheartening to have one of our major political parties abandon democracy to try to protect their power and abandon the principle of “one person, one vote” that has been the bedrock of our country…okay, yeah…that sounds naive and I know that the history of the country is spotty at best giving everyone qualified the vote…but, isn’t it an ideal to aspire to? This is going to be a tough three days….
October 31st
Well…I’m getting tired of talking about my bad sleep so I’m not going mention it this morning…I will mention that I am frustrated with the cough being bad again with only spending an hour working downstairs yesterday…I am getting to the point that I am going to just tear out what is left of the downstairs project and fold it….there really isn’t any point of keeping it going and I am just damn tired of the coughing….got a few things done yesterday with finishing the prep work for the last painting project but I think I’ll wait til Monday to do that…just not feeling it right now and F1 qualifying is on in a bit and I do want to see that…and it is damn cold out side so the ride will have to wait until the aft but Michigan and Michigan State is on at noon so that will push me back til almost 3…I don’t think it will be warm enough before then anyway…didn’t get out yesterday with the cold and wind and I am finally okay with taking some days off since I will be able to do doubles next week with the last of the good weather coming and I may even be able to get out in shorts a couple of those days….not much to do today…just coffee, coffee, coffee and some sports until I get motivated to get my day started…and a half cup of coffee just doesn’t do it….more later…
Every dem should be asking this question…
Well…I think I’ve decided to take the day of riding today with the cold and wind so to keep the guilts at bay, I decided I’d do another one of these since this just popped into my head…why aren’t the dems asking the age old presidential campaign question: “Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?” We all know the answer to that one…NO! I’m sure the 250,000 dead from the virus would agreee…I’m sure the 8 million plus who have contracted the virus would agree…and I’m sure the 30 million people out of work (including the 1.1 million out of work in just the past week) would agree…along with the hundreds of thousands of business owners who have gone bankrupt or closed…and every damn dem should be asking that at every campaign stop, every press conference, and every debate. And the bullshit shouting by the idiot trump about the strongest growth ever in the economy needs to be met with…that may be true but we are still well below the economic activity that was given to him by Obama….and all idiot boy did was screw it up….so dems, if you are listening, ask the damn question and the watch the faces of the repub idiots as they try to lie their way out of answering…
Countdown…5 days til the election…
Well…there is quite a lull in polling right now so there is no movement to talk about but there is one thing that I do want to talk about and that is turnout. News reports from across the country are reporting record after record turnout…in Texas, they have already passed the entire turnout of the 2016 election with one day of early voting to go and election day to add…and this is being repeated in Georgia, NC, and other states including here in Michigan. But, what does this mean? There are some good results for the good guys with a million people voting in Texas that have never voted before (much of them the under 30 crowd) but there is no way to tell which way they will break in total…I think the other side is almost as motivated as ours and that is seen in Florida where we are only up by 2% in early voting and that has come down from almost 25% up….one thing that I see as important is the young, democratic county clerks in some locales who are being very creative in getting around the repub restrictions on voting as in Texas where their repub governor limited ballot drop boxes to one per county, even in counties with 5 million people in it…so Chris Hollins the country clerk opened 100 early voting locations, kept some of them open 24 hours a day for shift workers, and even instituted drive in voting for people who were concerned about voting in person…and this has led to an explosion in people voting who just couldn’t swing it with the restrictions that the repubs had in place. So, should we be optimistic that this explosion is going to help our side? Cautiously, probably…that is how I’m looking at it with the hope in the back of my mind that there is a landslide in the making for our side…and that we can finally drive a stake through the heart of the repub party…after all, and I’ve said this before…we outnumber them…and if we vote, we win….keep it up folks…vote!
October 30th
Well…that was weird…slept okay last night and didn’t get up til 5:44…and had dreams of a thousand foot tall hollow tree that was in danger of blowing over in the wind along with the old Aquinas dream that I was missing classes and couldn’t figure out how to get to them…and I haven’t had that one in quite a while…weird….so, I don’t feel too bad this morning… a little worn out but that’s to be expected after only a few hours sleep for months…and doing only one ride a day now is leaving my legs without any pain or stiffness and that is welcome after hobbling around here all summer…I did get the gardens taken out yesterday and now I just need to chop up the plants and bag them so I can put them out to the trash next week…I think I’ll try to seed the one in the yard but I need to fill it in first but I don’t know if I have enough dirt behind the garage for that…it’s going to be in the 50’s all next week so I’ll have plenty of time to do that and do the final cleanup of the lawn before winter…I am going to get on the prep for the final painting today so I can paint over the weekend…or maybe next week…I am going to need something to do on election day since I won’t be doing any news until the 4th….way too nervous about the outcome….more later….