Well…..the damn cursor has disappeared….need to restart….okay back from that one….just wanted to do one more today so I don’t get further behind….decided to change the oil in the car before winter…realized I have almost 7,000 miles on this change and, with the oil pressure drop, it probably wouldn’t be smart to let it go til spring…bought the new oil filter today and it says to change it no longer than 5,000 miles so I guess I’ll get that done tomorrow if the pavement dries out….going to make enough cash to buy the oil in the morning so that is cool….okay…..that’s enough for now….this one is kind of a filler but not really….I did have something to say….
November 22nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but with all the sports on, I didn’t get much done….slept okay and am having a recurring dream that I don’t like much and I can’t figure out why I’m having it….might have to do with the new show I’ve been watching on Netflix called Jessica Jones….who knows? Didn’t get out on the bike with the storm yesterday and it was a pain cleaning the car off this morning…the melt of the snow along with it being 19 right now froze the doors shut and I had to melt them with some hot water….it looks like it should melt off today with it being sunny and then it will get warmer later in the week so I can put the snowies on the car….if there is a good melt, I may try to get out today and get a ride in…..not much to do today…just need coffee right now and then I may clean a little…might even watch the Lions again today….maybe….more later…
November 21st
Well…running a little early today even with doing a grocery run…got the rest of the stuff I needed for t-day so I am good for the week…and the snow was not bad yet so that was cool, too…slept okay last night and the lungs are getting still better and I am relieved about that….now I’m pretty sure it was a bug along with allergies that was causing all the coughing….already talked to T this morning since was up early to get ready for the Santa Clause parade where she is walking with the Salvation Army…going to turn that on at 9 to see if I can see her…and Man U is on right now so this one is going to be short…not much to do today….going to clean the bathroom and watch a lot of football today along with soccer and races…probably won’t get out on the bike again and that’s okay….there is always tomorrow…more later…
Didn’t think it could get worse….
Well…I sit here shaking my head at the nonsense coming out of the repubs in this last week over Syrian immigrants and I really didn’t think it could get worse…but then these idiots go even farther toward fascism led by…well..by all of them…first there was a governor in the south that said that he thought internment camps for all muslims was a good idea…then we have the Donald saying that all muslims should have special ID and we should have a database with all of them in it…registration as a muslim…hmmmm…does anyone else remember when this was last done…to the Jews…in WW II? Then we have ole Rubio proposing we shut down anywhere that muslims meet in this country including coffee shops and I would suppose shopping malls. Then the normal cast of candy asses on the right who are scared of their own shadows pass a bill in the house that prevents any more Syrian refugees from being allowed to come here…you get my drift…these tough guys who say they can take on the bad guys in the world and stand up to Putin are all shaking with the prospect of orphans and families from the middle east coming here to live and make a new life…the American Dream…you remember that assholes? I just can’t any more of this dumbing down of our country….what a bunch of crap…geez…
Idiot repubs….
Well…with the scared shitless repubs across the nation taking their fear out on Syrian refugees and the vetting process for those refugees, when asked, these idiots can’t point to one part of the process that is deficient…they just know it must be because Obama or something…and this doubly applies to our idiot governor, Rick Snyder, who started this whole mess. When asked yesterday which part of the 2 year process needs to be changed, he couldn’t come up with one thing….not one that he would change but he is also so scared by orphans and families from the middle east that he just KNOWS it needs to be changed…and it is all caused by the attacks in Paris. Here’s the thing…none of the attackers in Paris were refugees…they all were residents of Europe and had passports from Belgium and other European countries and no tightening of the vetting process would have kept them from coming to the US…we don’t even require visas for people to come here…meaning that these same terrorists could have just gotten on a plane and flew here with just their passports in hand. But, again, we have the repubs in their fear filled world attacking the wrong people for the wrong reasons since facts don’t mean anything to them…..good job you ignorant asses…hurt people and make the world more difficult…it’s what you are good at….geez…
November 20th
Well…running a little late today since I needed to put fuel in the car when I want out to get the papers…and I got gas for $1.86…the lowest price in years…slept okay last night and feel okay this morning….with all of the high winds we’ve had over the past few days, I have this Phil Collins song running through my head…”the roof is leaking and the wind is howling, the kids are crying cause the sheets are so cold…” don’t remember the name of it…the lungs appear to be getting better again today but we’ll see….haven’t been coughing nearly as much as earlier in the week and that feels good….it looks like I may not be able to do the bike ride today or tomorrow since the wind is still blowing about 20 and it is going to snow tomorrow so maybe Sunday….I am going to have to go into the thermasuit soon since I was damn near frozen when I got back here yesterday…..not much to do today…I have an errand this aft and I am going to make a little cash so there will be groceries again and I can pay for my t-day dinner….more later…
Oh, one last thing…happy birthday to Joe Walsh who turns 68 today…
Now for something different…
Well…I am getting a little tired of talking about assholes here but I was tempted to do one on ole Ben Carson comparing Syrian refugees to “mad dogs” or that the repubs are doing exactly what ISIS wants by refusing to settle refugees here…so, let’s do something a little different and just talk about anything that comes to mind…just ran an errand with the top down and it was a little cold with it being 45 degrees out there…but, I wanted to get it down one more time before we get some snow sat….still a better November than last year with the 31 inches of snow we got…not going to put the snowies on til next week…watched a new show called “Flesh and Bone” the other day about ballet dancers in New York city…some pretty weird stuff in it but it hooked me and I watched the entire first season over a couple of days….almost lost my hat when I got back here and was putting the top up on the car…a 40mph gust caught it and it ended up about 200 yards away….and the wind darn near blew the door shut with some damage to my hand…even at my advanced age, I was still quick enough to avoid that….still trying to cleanse my brain here…will probably have to do 200 of these to get to that point after what is going on in the world…oh, one last thing….the repubs…nope…not going to do it…more later….
November 19th
Well…running a little late today since I had to go out and get the groceries for t-day…got a 13 pound turkey for around 6 bucks so that was cool…didn’t get the pie, though since they’re not on sale and I won’t pay 6 bucks for a pie…slept okay and had dreams that were kind of weird but at least I had them….didn’t get on the bike yesterday with all of the wind but today I am going to try it…still warm enough to go out in shorts so that’s what I’ll do….the lungs seem to be getting better and I hope that continues today….but, I am sore everywhere and that is strange with not riding the bike yesterday…oh, I did lose at pool yesterday and needed to get that one in…not much to do today…just going to work out and ride the bike and then clean some….it is kind of gloomy so my mood is the same…I will come back for another couple today since there is lots to talk about…
Mike Pence is just the biggest ass in the US….
Well…with all of the chickenshit repub governors, including ours here in Michigan, puffing out their chests and saying they will block any Syrian refugees from settling in their states…we have a new low from the really, really asshole governor of Indiana, Mike Pence, who today said that two Syrian families who have been waiting for three years to come here will not be allowed to settle there. There’s your modern repub christian folks…spout Jesus all the time but when it comes to really following their supposed religion, they are just too damn scared or, even worse, are making a political calculation to leave these families in limbo just to get some votes from their equally scared and equally asholley voters….this crap needs to be stomped on now, it is against the law for Pence to do that…federal immigration law trumps what an asshole from Indiana thinks…states do not have the authority to ban anyone from entering the country…he should be sued or arrested and put in jail…I have had enough of these holier than thou asses who wave the constitution around but then ignore it when it’s not convenient or can’t be used to discriminate against people they don’t like….as you know, I’m an atheist but I know a little about religion and know that there is a special place in hell for people like Pence who do nothing to protect the least of the people…to paraphrase the new testament…I think it goes like this…what you do to them, you do to me…so Pence…you’ve discriminated against Jesus as you’ve discriminated against these poor folks who are yearning to breathe free…what a chickenshit move from a chickenshit person….there is even a better rant on this subject by Hunter over at Dalykos today….breathtaking in outrage…
November 18th
Well….it was a different kind of day yesterday…not really, but I wanted to start this one differently than normal….got some work done around here and a little cleaning done so that made it not a total waste….slept okay but my back is still sore and I haven’t been able to get it to crack…still coughing, too, but it seems to be getting better and I hope that continues since it has been three weeks since it started and it is so damn annoying…did get a nice bike ride in yesterday but today looks like a no go since it is raining and the radar has rain all the way south of Indiana aimed right at us here..and that is a shame since it is already 62 outside and it would have been a t shirt day…not much to do today…pool today but that looks alike about it…have to get the list ready for the grocery run tomorrow to get the stuff for t-day….more later…