Well…got a call from my doctor’s office this morning that the lab screwed up my blood test and forgot to do two of them so I have to back in and get bruised again Friday so they’ll have the blood to do my cholesterol test and one more…going to get the chance to try out the re-balanced tires and see how good they are in freezing rain since that’s what’s in the forecast for Friday and the lab is just off the freeway…ick…so more crap to do but Monday will be the last health thing for the year and I know I’ll get bitched at for my BP, cholesterol, and everything else…at least my weight is down from last year and I am a little curious as to how much…really want to get into the 160’s again…going to wash the car tomorrow just to get it dirty again Friday and I found 4 bucks worth of quarters to do it with so that is cool…okay, need to read a bit…
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December 24th
Well…up at 5:14 again and I am just damn worn out from these short days of sleep…I know I’ve been bitching about that for a while now but I wonder how many days it will be before I really sleep? Probably hundreds and the thought of that is tiring by itself…oh, well…we lost a lot of snow yesterday and that is going to continue today and for a couple of more days…have bare patches on my lawn and really hope we don’t get more heavy snow since it’s so damn depressing….didn’t get much done yesterday and I am going to do that again today…don’t have to cook with the leftover chicken breasts I made yesterday…only had a quarter of one for my meal but I really do need to eat more than that…so I’ll try to figure out how to eat more but why? I like losing weight and not being able to taste anything leaves me not caring much about food…not much to do today…just the normal stuff and lots of coffee…will have a bagel and cream cheese in a few minutes with more coffee ut I just don’t have the energy to do it right now…more later…
A nice visit…
Well…after the run into GR yesterday, K and I had a nice visit and she commented that our conversation was completely comfortable like we hadn’t seen each other for a couple of weeks when it was almost 3 years…and her daughter is now a teenager turning 13 years old this year…man, does time fly…and it was good to see her after all that time…I did get to discount and have an appointment scheduled for Friday morning…the person I talked to there said they had problems getting the weights on the wheels so I think they will use some stick ons for this time…so, it’s 11 am and I have everything done for the day…I’m glad I went to the library today since I forgot they will be closed on the 24th and 25th…so, I’m making some chicken breasts for lunch and then back into reading…
Shedding jobs…
Well…the stupid it burns in the idiot trump…as always what he promises the American people is always a lie…he promised his tariffs would bring back manufacturing and mining jobs and that hasn’t happened…in fact just this year we’ve shed almost 100,000 manufacturing jobs and for the past 4 months we’ve lost almost 60,000 jobs a month and now the idiot has put all of the wind and solar projects on hold so we will be seeing layoff of all the people who worked to manufacture the equipment and install it for these projects…and that will be another 100,000 jobs gone…and just because the moron in chief was pissed that they put a wind power installation offshore of one of his tack golf clubs in Scotland…yep, the petty son of a bitch is perfectly willing to put hundreds of thousands of people out of work just for one of his petty grudges…I sure hope lots of the workers are maga folks…they deserve it after voting for this asshole…
December 23rd
Well…up before 5 am this morning and didn’t sleep at all last night so I’m going to have to take something for it tonight…a full week of not sleeping and I am just worn out…so the coffee needs to work soon so I can get going…need to hit the library again today since I have 6 books to take back and I need enough of them to get through the week…going to buy another BAH since they are so cheap and I need another ham bone to make another batch of ham soup…put the other one in the freezer yesterday so I’ll have to make some chicken I thawed for a meal today…don’t have a lot to do but the grocery run but that is going to be a lot of work…damn, I’m getting old…more later…
Going back to discount…
Well…after my first e-way ride with the new tires, I’ll be going back to discount tire after the 1st to have them re-balanced since at around 70, they shake the car so bad the mirrors are fuzzy…darn…not the first time this has happened but it is still a pain in the butt…oh, well…went out to get my blood drawn this morning and they threw a new test on me…had to pee in a cup since I had some results last time that sent me to a full abdominal ultrasound that didn’t find anything…I am just getting tired of all the tests and the stress it causes me…I think I’m at the point that I don’t want the attention anymore and I’m going to choose to stop this crap…I mean if it’s something that’s going to kill me without symptoms I may just let it happen…I’m tired and I’ll at least have a few months to get my affairs in order and get an updated will done…a little more than an hour before I head in to GR…it will be nice to see K after 3 years…
Trump is killing Jim Beam…
Well…everyone knows that the idiot trump’s trade policies are hurting damn near every business in the US and this one put a big ole stamp on it…Jim Beam, the bourbon distiller, has shut down it’s main distillery for a year since there is so much bourbon in storage…16 million barrels across all manufacturers and the main reason is the idiot’s stupid tariffs that have closed markets in Canada and Europe…and I’m sure Jack Daniels won’t be far behind…after all, Canada was 35% of the market for American bourbon and they have stopped buying completely in retaliation for idiot boy slapping tariffs on everything Canadian…so now layoffs are coming for all of the maga folks who work at Beam…just like they came for the Tyson workers in Oklahoma when they shut down their meat packing plant and put 3,200 workers out of a job…and this was caused by nothing being exported anymore due to the stupid tariffs again…no wonder only 23% of people approve of how the idiot is handling the economy…geez…
December 22nd
Well…up and out of bed at 5am today and that is going to make for a long day…need to go out to the north end to get blood drawn for tests and I am getting damn tired of it…just tired of all of it from the tests to being told I’m not taking care of myself and getting my BP and everything else under control…cripes, I’m 72 years old and maybe my cholesterol is supposed to be a little high…but the thing that they should be working on is of little importance…I would love to be able to taste food again but when I complain about that they frickin ignore it…so yeah, I’m a little frustrated….oh, well…need to get my butt in gear right now but the coffee is not ready yet…going to get both rides in before I head out…or I may just leave it with one ride today…haven’t done that in a while…need to make the run into GR today the hang with K for a bit and I’m sure the car can use some exercise…more later…
Impeach Pam Bondi…
Well…with the AG Pam bondi breaking the law by not releasing all of the Epstein files on the 19th as she was required to do, there are dem legislators who are drawing up articles of impeachment against her…and they should…she is not only incompetent but blatantly breaking the law…the law releasing the files said All of the files, not some of them, not redacted ones, not dribbling them out over weeks, and not to protect the idiot trump as people who have seen the whole files have said…I mean idiot boy with a 14 year old girl? It’s in there but redacted and there are many, many instances where the idiot was with underage girls and every damn one of them were redacted…so house dems are working to get the voted to charge Bondi with inherent contempt to bypass idiot boy’s corrupt justice department and arrest her under their authority and send the sergeant at arms to arrest her…please do that…someone there needs to follow the law…geez..
Happy winter solstice…
Well…happy winter solstice everyone! Now the real hunkering down starts as it’s the first official day of winter…you’d ever know that with how much snow we’ve had out here…I mean we’re already over the yearly average in snowfall and there is still over two months of winter til March…but we got up to almost 40 yesterday which melted a bunch of it and, after the 20’s today, we are going to be in the 30’s and 40’s this week so the snow may be gone before New Years…I can use some rest from shoveling to let my body heal up from all of the abuse from it…so now the grind back to increased sunlight starts today and we should start to notice that in a couple of weeks…