Well….running on time today but I am not really okay with it being 51 degrees outside in August…slept kind of okay last night but flipped and flopped a lot and it took an hour and a half to get to sleep so that made it about 5 hours last night but I don’t feel too bad so I guess I can live with that….after all, I can always take a nap later if I need it…didn’t get much done yesterday but I do have a couple of errands to run tsis morning since Meijer’s is so screwed up with the rebuild that they only had about half of the stuff I needed so there will be a trip over to Aldi’s to get the rest of what I need for the weekend…I am going to clean the kitchen today since I do feel a little guilty about not doing it this week…I did get a good bike ride in yesterday between the raindrops and I’ll do another one today as soon as it warms up to 57…not sure how long that is going to take but I do need more coffee and to read the news so that should work out….more later….
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Just some thoughts…
Well…haven’t been able to come up with a big topic for this afternoon and I was almost going to bail until some information started to ooze into my brain by osmosis, I think, so here goes….one of the things that got trump elected was the persona cultivated on his reality show of a successful, forceful businessman that is reality to people who watch those kind of shows…I wonder if we can call them “reality show voters” and do some research on how many of them voted for trump….that would be interesting to me since I really don’t understand “reality” shows that present at best a scripted reality that normalizes the terrible behavior we see in most of them…I think I’ve seen one of them and I immediately knew that I didn’t like the people who infest those shows and sure as hell didn’t want to waste one minute of my time watching it…one thing we need to remember is the reality of the idiot trump…that everything he touched ended in bankruptcy until the Russian mob got involved with him…just a useful dupe, not a good businessman…impeach…
August 29th
Well…running early today and maybe that is the new normal with not sleeping too much…or too well…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done…still not feeling 100% so I think I’ll continue to take it easy today and only clean a little…I do have a couple of errands to run this morning after the workout and bike ride…my allergies are going nuts right now so I need to get some more medicine for it…I am trying to eat a little more healthy getting ready for my check up next Tuesday and I’m taking the week off from cocktails, too, and that makes it a little boring at times…but necessary so I guess I can take it….didn’t get much done yesterday but I will clean the kitchen today and maybe vacuum some but not right now…I need more coffee and to read some news first…after all, it’s only 7 am and I really have no place to be….more later….
Devin Nunes, superspy…
Well…just read an article that I wanted to comment on that made me laugh out loud at it’s absurdity…it seems that earlier in the month the superspy Devin Nunes went over to England to try to dig up dirt on Michael Steele who has been the big bad boogyman ever since his mostly confirmed dossier on trump’s conspiracy with Russia was exposed….and it is still freaking the repubs out and they are still, two years later, spending time and our money on this bogus task. Not sure where Nunes got the idea to go over and try to get a meeting with MI5 and MI6…but I think it was from bad spy movies or maybe even from “The Beverly Hillbillies” modeling his behavior on Jethro who fancied himself a “double naught spy”…when I think of it, that’s the better description. So, ole Devin goes over and wants to have meetings with the heads of all the spy agencies and all they do is roll their eyes and avoid him like the plague…so, he spends thousands of dollars of our money to fly to England to support a conspiracy theory that has no basis in fact and comes back empty handed…which would have happened even if those folks would have met with him since, let me say this again, more than 90% of Steele’s dossier has been proven to be true so far with more to come. What a waste of space this idiot is…Californians, do us a favor and vote this moron out in November….geez…
A few stats…
Well…as you know, I do this site mainly for myself to have a place where I can vent or just talk a little about things that mean something to me…and there are times when I am lucid and make some good, original points…not all the time but sometimes…and there are times when I am curious how much I really am doing this for myself and how many other people come here to read this stuff…so, being a little bored today, I went out to the stats section of my site to take a look…and I am a little humbled by how many people come here every day to take a look at what I have to say. Over this past month, there were almost 10,000 individual visits to this site…I know this is not a lot when compared to others but that is over 300 separate people a day that stop in to take a look….and there were over 141,000 page views in that same time so it appears that people are looking back into the almost 7,000 posts I have done here since I started this thing almost 10 years ago….and I really do appreciate that….being retired now through no choice of my own, this site gives me something to do on days when life seems interminable and boring….so, I’ll keep doing this as long as I can and I hope you find something that is thought provoking, or funny at times….or even silly…I’ll try to not be boring..but even that happens sometimes…
Whine, whine, whine….
Well….trump must have found his stash this morning and got up tweeting again…at 5:24 this morning he got started bitching that when he googled himself, he got 96% negative news returns…and it couldn’t be that he is a terrible person, an asshole, as it were, or that he hasn’t accomplished anything positive for the majority of the people in the US…nope, it has to be a giant conspiracy by every media company in the world to prevent his genius and brilliance from being accurately reported. It can’t be that he committed two felonies (so far) in ordering Cohen to pay off Stormy Daniels, or it couldn’t be that he delivered a tax cut for the 1% and blew up the deficit so the repubs can go after SS and Medicare, or that he conspired with the Russians to steal the election, or that he ordered children ripped from their parents at the border and kept in cages, or that he daily shows how petty and small he is by refusing to acknowledge McCain’s service to the country, and on, and on, and on…hey donnie, show me one positive thing you have done that is based in reality not on fox news…I’ll give you a minute…tick tock….no? Can’t think of anything…yeah, no one else can either, you moron…geez, you sound like a toddler whining about wanting a second piece of cake…why don’t you just shut the hell up and resign already? Impeach….
August 28th
Well…running a little early today with waking up at 5:08…didn’t get up until 6 but that is still early…had an okay day yesterday and today is starting out okay with rain and some thunderstorms moving in soon so it looks like I won’t be getting on the bike until 10 or so…I did have a nice ride out and back to pool which we tied and found that I had won 12 bucks in the last Mega drawing so I rolled it into 6 picks for today…it would sure be nice to win something….woke up feeling a little better today after being half good with only one cocktail last night and that was the last one until after I get my checkup next Tuesday morning…I am kind of looking forward to that, really, I can use the weight loss and I’m sure my liver will like the rest…not much to do today….going to clean some as I wait for the rain to stop but not right now…going to ease into the day with some more coffee and reading the news then getting to work….more later…
What a petty little punk…
Well…by now, everyone in the world knows what a petty little punk the idiot trump is but over the weekend, he outdid himself with his temper tantrum over a WH statement on John McCain’s life and death. After the WH staff put together a press release praising McCain’s service to the country, the petty little punk told them to throw it away and then tweeted some inane nonsense…in the same vein as “thoughts and prayers” that the repubs always use in a time of tragedy. Trump then added to his pettiness by only allowing the flags at the WH to be flown at half staff for one day and then personally telling the color guard to raise them again. What a petty little son of a bitch who cares nothing for anything or anyone but himself and needs to go…now…impeach…
August 27th
Well…running late again today and I feel pretty crappy still…my lungs and head are filled with crap and I still don’t have a lot of energy…but, I don’t feel all too bad and will get out on the bike in a while…the storms missed here last night and that is getting to be a broken record….just got a little rain but that was about it ….there was almost 5 inches of rain to the north and it is still raining now but nothing here…didn’t get much done yesterday with feeling crappy and today will be the same with pool this aft…I may get my hair cut this morning if I feel like it but right now it looks like I’ll wait until tomorrow…have had pain in my hips and legs since yesterday but I’m not sure what that is about….all I know is that I had a hard time getting comfortable yesterday and my thighs are burning today so I think I’ll take something for it in a while….more later…
RIP John McCain…
Well…I have mixed feelings about John McCain but there was enough good and, compared to the normal repubs today, that I can say that I admired some of the things he did and his service to this country…and that makes him human in my eyes and that is not a bad thing. There are many, many tributes on the internet and in the news today so I won’t repeat any of them here…I’ll just say Rest In Peace, Mr. McCain…the Senate will be a much worse place with you gone…
Oh, one last thing….striking out at the idiot trump from beyond the grave, McCain made it perfectly clear he didn’t want trump or his family or his minions anywhere near his funeral….asking Obama and GW to do the eulogy…mavericky to the end….