Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made some cash so that was cool….slept okay but feel a little slow today…had a tough bike ride yesterday that I hope does not repeat today…only added a couple of miles but felt quite crappy by the end of it….I did get some stuff done around here yesterday and I will need to continue that today but it is so sticky already I may have to turn the air on the next couple of days since it is supposed to be over 90 until Friday….and maybe some storms that we really need….so, I won’t wash the car until Friday…I do need to remember to take the ibuprofen again today since it has been helping on the bike…my hands are not cramping anywhere near what they were….not much to do today…need to work out and the bike ride of course, and maybe clean the kitchen…..not too motivated, though, so that could wait…more later….
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July 4th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done….slept okay last night and had some dreams that I can’t make sense of…just bits and pieces of unrelated stuff….weird…..I did get a good bike ride in and it looks like a long one today since I’ll have to take a detour with the July 4th parade going on in Kentwood which runs along my route….they have the streets blocked off so I’ll have to add a couple of miles….don’t hurt anywhere so that won’t be too bad…don’t think I ate enough yesterday so the legs may be a little heavy today….finally got rid of the snacks that I was binging on…almost fell back into that bad habit but now that they are gone, it makes it easy to keep the calorie count under 1500….not much to do today…going to get the bike ride in and then just take it easy for the rest of the day…I do have some stuff to get done around here but that can wait if I don’t feel like doing it…more later….
Are you surprised?
Well…with all of the evidence that the repubs economic plans of tax cuts for business and the rich do not work to create economic growth, are you surprised that another state has weighed in and it is not pretty…for workers, that is…for the rich it’s great. The latest analysis centers on Wisconsin and the tax cuts that the idiot Walker said would magically create jobs even though they have never worked anywhere else. But, that’s not the worst part of the whole scheme….these idiots missed the projections on what the tax cuts were going to cost the state and now they are more than doubled to almost 300 million dollars a year….and these cuts were a direct transfer to the rich with people with incomes of over a million dollars a year getting almost 80% of the cuts…a direct lie from ole Scotty who said the “middle class” would benefit. Where did the money for these cuts come from….hmmm…it seems like it just matches the amount of money they cut out of the University of Wisconsin system…after all, there are no repubs who want educated people…it makes them much harder to lie to. After the wreckage of Kansas and now the unfolding one in Wisconsin…and in every other state run by repubs that are in dire fiscal states, shouldn’t we be able to bury this tax cut nonsense once and for all? Probably not…since there are so many people driven by hate in this country….and they are all on the repubs side…geez…
July 3rd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool…slept okay last night but I am still feeling a little under the weather with all the coughing and that is getting annoying….the ibuprofen worked on the bike yesterday and my hands were better….the ride was good one and I am not sore at all today….other than the little sunburn I got trying to even out the bike tan….I do need to get a few things done today but I’m not sure I will…there is a 6 hour sports car race that starts at 10 so I’ll have to get the bike ride in right after the F1 race…..and I do want to see Iceland play later today so I’ll have to get everything done before that….not much to do today…just going to veg out and see what happens…everyone is out of town so it will be another day of just hanging out…more later…..
July 2nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made some cash so that was cool….slept okay last night but wasn’t good so I don’t feel that hot today….have been coughing again so the bug is still here and it has been a week so that is a little frustrating….not sore anywhere else but had massive cramps in my hands yesterday so I need to take some ibuprofen before I get on the bike….no pool this week so I didn’t win or lose….didn’t get anything else done yesterday so I will have to try to get moving some today….I do have some errands to run but I’m not sure if I’ll do them or not….just don’t have any motivation today….not much to do today…I am going to grill today but there will have to be a nap later…the wheezing in my lungs kept me up a lot last night so I’m pretty tired….more later….
Notorious RBG is at it again….
Well….just read a little story that was part of the landmark abortion rights win for women this week and the assent that was written by Ruth Bader Ginsberg….she basically put all of the repubs in the counrty on notice to stop the damn TRAP laws that don’t do anything to protect a women’s health by saying that none of these laws will pass muster since their only purpose it to make abortions harder to get. And today, the people who won the Texas case filed suit in Alabama since they have the same type of nonsense law that was thrown out in Texas….all I have to say is it’s about time that the courts started protecting women’s rights to control their own bodies…keep it up RBG….
An epic smackdown for hate….
Well…I was really pleasantly surprised yesterday with a federal court ruling that was an epic smackdown of hate legislation enacted in Mississippi that would have allowed discrimination against the LGBT community by idiots that would only have to shout “religion” and then be able to fire people for being gay, or refuse them housing, or doctors could refuse to treat gay people…you get the drift. In handing down the ruling, this judge did what I have advocating for quite some time now…that the 14 amendment’s equal protection clause be used to attack this discrimination since they all create classes of people who have less rights than everyone else…and this judge threw in the establishment clause from the first amendment for good measure since the idiots that passed this law openly said it was based on religious beliefs and that is directly forbidden by the first amendment. It has been a pretty good week for we progressives who believe in an equal society…and with the appointment that Hillary will make to the supreme court….it is only going to get better…I can see the smoke coming out of the the ears of conservatives…and I just fricking love it….
July 1st
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was cool…slept okay last night and feel better than I should this morning but I’ll take it….have had some problems with my left foot the past few days with some pain in the bottom of it when I walk…not sure what the heck that is but I hope it’s not where the pain has decided to settle this year….I did put the top down on the car on the way out to get groceries today and it is still down since I have to make a run out in about an hour…..didn’t get much done yesterday but I did clean this place up for the repair guys so I don’t have a lot to do today…not much to do today…errands this morning and then just the normal stuff for the day….have to use up the leftovers so there won’t be any cooking today….more later….
Last one for the month…and more Trump, of course…
Well…you have to hand it to the super geniuses that are running the dumpster fire that is the Trump campaign for thinking out of the box…their campaign is so bigly stupendous that it can’t be contained in the US…and when those super geniuses sat down to figure out how to milk the most money from the rubes with the least amount of work, I’m sure one of the super geniuses thought that there are conservatives all around the world so why not ask them for money? So, earlier in the week, the super geniuses sent out a fundraising e-mail to conservatives all over the world to try to fill up the empty coffers that their fearless leader thinks is just not important enough of a task for him to do. Just one teensy little problem with the e-mail…it is illegal to solicit or take campaign contributions from outside the US….but Trump is so bigly stupendous that he thinks the law doesn’t apply to him….or these “best people” are just to damn stupid to even tie their shoes in the morning…either one shows that Trump is not even remotely qualified to be president….or anything else but to be king of the grifters…geez…
June 30th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done…had to wax the car to get the water spots off it that didn’t come off washing it the other day….and I had to clean a lot around here since the guys are coming to service the furnace today…and that made for a lot of work for me….slept okay last night and feel okay today but I scorched myself trying to even out the bike tan yesterday…can’t figure that out with only 25 minutes front and back but I was pretty white….I did make a nice lunch yesterday that I am going to do again today..steak, portobello mushroom cap, and corn…yummy….haven’t used the grill in a while but I think I will this weekend since I have burger to use….not much to do today…have to wait for the guys to come and then the normal stuff for the rest of the day….yeah…sounds boring to me, too….