Well….it was an okay day yesterday but I had the up and down feeling crappy thing going on again and it’s been almost a week now and I am getting tired of it…slept okay last night but feel a little crappy this morning since I was not good last night but it was the first time this week so I don’t feel bad about that…it was another windy day yesterday that kept me off the bike and today the cold looks like it will do that again…where the heck is my 60 degree weather? Oh, well….I am almost 200 miles up on where I was last year at this time so I guess I shouldn’t bitch too much….and my back doesn’t hurt today so that is a plus, too….didn’t get much done yesterday and today looks the same with pool, maybe, so the weekend will have to be cleaning time….not much to do today…I have a ham to cook this morning but that is about it….just going to veg it out and have more coffee after I finish this…more later….
Category Archives: Misc
Just some stuff…
Well….have been thinking of a topic for today and haven’t had much luck…I could write about the word salad that ole Palin did the other day when she was endorsing Trump…or that Palin now blames her son’s arrest for domestic violence on Obama…thanks Obama….or I could write about the stories I read today that says everyone that has ever met Ted Cruz hates him…now that is something to think about…how hard would you have to try to have everyone hate you? I know some people hate me, mostly commenters here, but not everyone….or I could write about the big donors from Jeb!’s campaign already pointing fingers at people trying to find the blame for how terrible he’s doing…I have news for them…he’s just an idiot spawn of an idiot family, that’s why no one wants him. I could write about our lousy governor and how incompetent he is unless it’s harming unions or giving tax cuts to his business cronies…and, how the e-mails that were released show that no one in his administration gives a damn about anyone that can’t give them money….but no, not going to write about any of those….just about stuff….nope, not even about stuff….just bored and I think I’ll go back and read some more…
Two more for the B-3 count…
Well…just finished up the work that I had to do today…it took longer than I expected….but, were back to the Hammond B-3 count and just saw two more groups that use the B-3..Umphree’s McGee and The String Cheese Incident were on AXS tv doing concerts today and both had a B-3 on stage….so let’s add two more groups and keep the count going….can’t remember if I put Buddy Guy in the count yet but if I haven’t, he needs to go in, too….
Starbucks declares war on Christmas…
Well…I kinda figured you were tired of me writing about ole Ben Carson so I thought I’d go another direction today….if you haven’t heard, Starbucks has declared war on Christmas….at least according to some of the really crazy religionists on the right…and, how are they doing that you may ask? They have taken aim at Christmas by taking the snowflakes and reindeer off of their cups! I tell you it’s a travesty…Christmas will be ruined now that you can only get plain red cups for your coffee in the morning! Yeah, that sounds pretty ridiculous, huh? But, there are a bunch of nuts on the right who have taken this seriously to the point that a rant video by one of these nuts had gotten over 10 million hits…and write-ups in many of the mainstream newspapers followed…and not even tongue in cheek like my rant here…I wonder if we are going to have to endure this crap for the next two months when someone somewhere doesn’t celebrate Christmas to the satisfaction of these crazies…I know it will give me something to ridicule but I mean, really? Don’t these folks have anything better to do? I’ll bet Starbucks is shaking with the threat of a boycott…okay, I even laughed at that one….geez…
Volkswagen is a cheater..
Well…in this age of computer run cars, I guess this had to happen….the other day, it was discovered that Volkswagen used the computer software that runs their engines to cheat the EPA tests in their diesel cars sold in the US. The software was so sophisticated that it could tell when the engine was being tested and put in the pollution control protocol when, all the rest of the time, the engine would run basically without pollution controls, spewing from 10 to 40 TIMES the pollution that it was certified for. It was also revealed that there are almost a million cars with this software that are polluting our air…and the funny thing is the CEO of the company doesn’t know anything about it…okay, that was sarcasm…I just wonder why they would want to do this..better mileage? Okay, I am having a hard time working up outrage when this crap happens all the time…corporations are not people…but who are the people behind this? Nope…no outrage…damn…I wonder if my outrage meter is broken? Geez…
Mish mash….
Well…I have been running a little low on topics lately since I think I am becoming immune or inurred to the craziness on the right…I think that may be from feeling kind of calm lately and not talking politics anymore with anyone…so, this one will be a mish mash of thoughts that are running in and out of my head lately…it was a good match last night with the US women’s team beating the number 1 team, Germany, 2-0 and getting to the world cup final this weekend…it should be a good match tonight with Japan and England playing for the other spot…will probably watch some of that one, too….I am kind of amazed at how fast the secretary of state is with license plate renewals…sent mine in last Thursday and they got here yesterday…even have them on the car already so there will be no crap from the cops….the rides have been getting better but I think the back wheel is going to need to be replaced…noticed some cracking in the inner wheel, the non-structural part, when I had it apart the other day…would rather just buy a new bike since the wheel is over 50 bucks to replace….just need 1300 more miles to get to 25K and then I think I’ll retire this one and buy a new one if it makes it….okay, that’s enough I think…more politics tomorrow if someone does something really stupid…
A little music stuff…
Well…didn’t get to putting the clothes away but I did read something that I find to be really funny…during old Donald’s announcement yesterday, one of the reporters mentioned that he came on stage to “Rockin in the Free World” by Neil Young….and that was too funny because I knew what was coming next…and, sure enough, Neil Young sends a ‘cease and desist” letter to the idiot Trump who thinks (like most repubs) that he can take what he wants without paying for it….and the kicker of the thing is that Neil is a supporter of Bernie Sanders as I am…
One last thing that I have been thinking about lately that has me confused…what the hell does a DJ do that would make them famous? They play other peoples music in an order that is different than anyone else? I think that is called a playlist and I have made a bunch of those in my day….just don’t understand why that would make you famous…I know I’m not….weird…
Tim McGraw is a good guy….
Well…as you know, quite a bit of the time I rant about the bad things that are happening in this country and across the world and that gets to be hard on my psyche at times…but then, a story comes along that brightens my day and makes me smile a little. One of those I just read was about the country artist Tim McGraw who is doing something to help our returning veterans that is just so frickin cool I had to write about it. During this summer’s tour, Tim is going to give away 108 houses, mortgage free to our returning veterans…yeah, 108 houses to help these veterans and their families get back to normal lives after serving you and I…now I think it’s a little odd that McGraw is an outspoken Democrat in an industry that is mostly quite right wing and I won’t make the connection that being a Dem is part of why he cares…doesn’t matter…it’s the act that counts..and it’s a big one….Thanks, Tim…..
RIP B.B. King….
Well…there is sadness for the music world today and for me personally…B.B. King died last night at the age of 89. Throughout his 75 year career, he influenced many of the rockers that I listen to from the Beatles, to Eric Clapton, Joe Walsh, and many others and once I heard his “The Thrill is gone” I was hooked on the blues. The world will be different without him in it….RIP B.B….and thanks….
Here’s the thing…
Well…have had this one percolating away in my head for the past couple of weeks once I read a screed by one of the “Christians” on the right that was an attack on we atheists and our values…saying that you can’t be a good person or have values that contribute to society without religion. I’ve got news for all of these supposed “Christians”…we do okay without religion and here’s why…we do have values of our own, values that include treating everyone as we would like to be treated and trying everyday to be a better person than the day before…and, here’s the key…we do that because it’s the right thing to do and WE decided that it is…it wasn’t decided in response to some threat from an imaginary super being that lives in the sky…it wasn’t decided to get any “reward” in an imaginary afterlife…it wasn’t decided to avoid the punishment of an imaginary hell that religious people are afraid of. We of the rational persuasion look at the world for the reality that it is and know the only hope for a better one is for us to do something about it…not to waste our time wishing and praying that things will magically be different. We also know that this is the one and only life and the only reward there is is to do the best we can to live a good one….and that’s what most of we atheists do….and we won’t be denigrated by those that believe in fantasy and magic…go live your lives in your fantasy world but leave us alone to live in the real one….