Well….I figured I’d do an update of the day so far…got over here on time and got my tux….oh, then I had beers and hung out with Steve for a while…now, I’m back here and just hanging out while I wait for 6 and the rehearsal….then out for pizza for dinner then back here for a cocktail or two…not a bad day so far but I think I got sunburned….more later……
May 8th
Well….have been up for a while and didn’t sleep too well so today could be somewhat of a chore…have most of the stuff ready for the trip out for the wedding and I have just a few things to do around here to finish….and, this is one of them…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get the car washed and waxed but then it rained so it will be spotted again..oh, well….I am going to take the computer with me to do updates over the weekend and give me something to watch if there is nothing on tv….need to get to the coffee and finishing up so I can get a bike ride in before I take off at noon….more later…
All the hypocrites are on the right…
Well…here we go with more kabuki theater on Benghazi…where the repubs are going to spend millions more on what they surely know is a cynical ploy to derail Hillary in 2016…all of the investigations that have been done…20,000 pages of them has said the same thing, yes, it was tragic that 4 Americans lost their lives (in ole GW’s term, there were 15 embassy attacks with 54 killed but not one investigation from the repubs) but the “coverup” or lies or whatever that the repubs think are there just aren’t….and I call hypocrites on this whole nonsense of the right’s newfound outrage that there may be politics involved….let’s go back to one example from ole GW’s term….when Cheney planted a false story with the NY times, and then he and Condi and others went on the Sunday shows saying “see, it must be true…it’s in the Times” and used the false story on the aluminum tubes to gin up the justification for going to war with Iraq…bald faced lies that Cheney and Bush knew were lies a year before they went on tv…where was the outrage then? Where were the investigations then? No where to be seen…in fact, Fox news basically said that it was in the past and it was time to move on….and now these same hypocrites want to spend taxpayer money that could fix a bridge or two on this useless partisan nonsense…I hope they keep it up, the ads will write themselves in the fall…geez…
May 7th
Well…running a little late and am waiting for the coffee to finish so I thought I’d come here and get this done…I may be turning the corner with the tooth…no pain this morning and the swelling seems to be going down…hope so….slept okay last night and feel okay this morning…have already been out to the grocery store to get the supplies I need for the trip and I need to get going on getting ready for that all day…need to get the car cleaned and laundry done but I’m not leaving until after noon tomorrow so that leaves me the morning to finish up…have all of the sites mapped out so I know where everything is and my hotel is right about in the middle of them so that worked out well….need to get to the papers and coffee and then get on it so I need to end here…more later…oh, I will be taking the computer and doing updates while I’m gone so stay tuned….
The supreme court gets it wrong…again…
Well…I am continually exasperated by the blatant, christian leaning rulings that have come out of this supreme court…and the latest one, allowing all government meetings to be opened by christian prayers…without any consideration for those of us who are atheists, or for the first amendment for that matter…a very simple amendment that says that government will do nothing to establish a national religion or to interfere with the practice of religion. But, allowing christian prayers to the exclusion of all others IS establishing a preference for one religion over all others…something that the founders specifically warned against and something that this right wing court is doing it’s best to promote….and this latest ruling will dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that has been in force since the country was founded…and place the 30% of us who are atheists in the position of having religion shoved down our throats any time that we go to any public meeting of any governmental unit we may have to interact with…placing us in the way of unwanted scrutiny when we decide to not stand and pray with the majority…essentially forcing us to abide by the tenets of christianity or be outcasts in our own country…but, that is what the right always does…force people to abide by their interpretation of religion and country and using the levers of government to do it….worst court in my lifetime…geez…
May 6th
Well…running late today since I went over to Kos to do one first….it is teachers day and I wanted to comment on a couple of mine from my childhood….slept okay last night and with being good, feel okay today…didn’t get much accomplished yesterday but I did get the bike ride in and saw those two foxes that I am worried that the den is too close to the road…only about 20 yards off it and too close to people, too…I am waiting for them to come and clean the lot here so I can wash and wax the car for the trip Thursday…the dust from the vacuum truck will make that thing moot if I do it too soon…might have to wait until Thurs morning….not much to do today…going to start putting together the clothes I need for the weekend but that is about it….more later….
Wildlife galore…
Well…I know the few of you that still come here everyday are expecting political stuff but, if you’ve ever tried to write on a daily basis, you know that there are times that it just doesn’t come…so, it’s a little bit of trail wildlife today. It started out in the first pond along the e-way where there were 3 or 4 muskrats swimming across the pond to the other side…..then a group of 20-30 turkeys just sauntered across the trail about another mile or so in…then, on 60th street, no more than 20 yards from the street there were two red fox kits just sitting on top of their den like they had no care in the world…took a picture of that one since it is so rare to see….then the normal contingent of deer an other assorted stuff finished off the day. It was a good day for wildlife…just not for politics…oh, well…
May 5th
Well…running late today and I just don’t have any motivation to get moving…I think part of it is that I don’t really have anything to do so why do it fast? Slept okay but, again, the allergies are killing me so that makes it hard to get going, too….other than lunch with T, it was just another normal Sunday with soccer and races in it and lots of vegging….going to try to do more today but I’m not sure why….not much to do today….going to work out and get the bike ride in before it rains but I hate having to wait for the temp to come up…it is May after all and it should be warmer…more later…
A better day…
Well…it’s been a better day today with getting a bike ride in without rain and making a steelhead filet for dinner…and I had a pleasant surprise when T texted to have a late lunch and it was fun to catch up, have beers, and laugh a lot…for some reason, I always feel better after lunch with her…and the steelhead was just caught a week ago so the flavor was great with just olive oil, salt, and pepper….but, I am still blocked with political stuff…I think part of it is just overload of outrage and the toxicity that comes with it…just haven’t wanted to wade back into the mire…maybe tomorrow if I can work on a way to talk about it without internalizing it….not sure how long I can go before this crap corrodes something important…
May 4th
Well…it was a different kind of day yesterday and I didn’t get much done but laundry…slept okay but feel a little worn out again today and I know it’s from not eating enough or allergies, or getting old…not sure which but it is sure a pain…at least it’s not raining so I can get a bike ride in as soon as I finish this and the second cup of coffee…..the wind is blowing like crazy but it’s from the north so that’s not bad….and I should do a full 15 mile run today….not much to do today…I am going to make a filet of steelhead today for lunch and then watch races the rest of the day and not much else…just don’t have any motivation right now…..more later….