Well…it was a long day yesterday with pool with Tom and then out with G after that for a couple….I was good when I got home, though, so I feel okay this morning….I did win at pool for the third week in a championship game so the competition was good and had fun. I hope the rain quits today so I can get back on the bike…it is such a big part of my feeling good that even missing one day was not a good thing….and I still hurt so I guess it’s just the way I’m going to be..G did give me some great news…she is going back to finish her degree and I am so happy for her…I remember my college days fondly and the challenge of new learning always made me smile…not much to do today…it is Thursday so there will be a grocery run today…but that’s about it…I have been keeping up with the posts this month so I do have one thing to feel good about….more later….
here’s today’s lyric: “can’t imagine the moment…reaching out through the silence, all the things we both might say….to the heart that will not be denied…’til we’re both on the same damn side…all the barriers blown away…”
Well…this has been a disappointing week so far…I did have some resumes go out and I don’t know why I should be depressed that I haven’t gotten any responses…after all, there have been hundreds go out over the summer and now the fall with no luck…maybe it’s the inability to ride the bike today…the guilts have already set in and now I have to try to figure out how to take 800 calories out of what I eat today to make up for it….I’m sure there is a weather component to it, too, with the day being so dreary…but I think the root cause is the lack of possibilities that now exist….and the fact that I’m balanced so precariously on a razor’s edge of financial ruin that the next repair on the car or unexpected bill will nudge me over that edge. It is extremely stressful to live that way and I think that is one of the reasons for the discontent in the country right now…there are too many of us who have worked our whole lives chasing the American dream and now find that there is no place left for us….but, I’m going to keep on trying….what else can you do?
Well…I am not surprised with the now concerted effort to vilify and demonize the “Occupy” movement that is spreading across the world that is coming from the right…after all, they have a vested interest in keeping the status quo where 20% of the country who are rich and connected take, and take, and take while the rest of us keep butting our heads against this money and power. Now, some of the golden oldies of division that the repubs trot out any time they feel threatened with the truth are weaving their way into the daily talking points and are getting constant airing on Fox News…that the movement is overrun by “commies” and anti-semites and propose that “Occupy” is just a cover for socialists trying to force everyone into labor camps and confiscate the wealth of the rich for redistribution. I mean, really? The rich have been confiscating the wealth of everyone else for the past two decades by the purchasing of the government through the repubs and that is okay? Oh, I get it…it’s okay to redistribute wealth up but not down. I finally have a glimmer of hope that the rich and connected have overplayed their hand by bringing their naked theft into the open and not caring who knows about it…starting in Wisconsin and continuing with the Cain 999 plan that would cut taxes for the top 5% while raising taxes on the rest of us. Keep it up “Occupy”…the screaming you hear coming from the right is fear and the repubs understand the use of fear better than anyone else…geez…
Well…a third night with no cocktails so I feel pretty good today…weird dreams again but they are not really clear right now..something to do with fish that I was trying to keep alive….I did get a lot of stuff done around here yesterday since I am still waiting for them to come and look at the furnace…I can’t remember this place looking so clean in a long time and I kind of like it….maybe I’ll have to try to keep it this way for a while…it looks like the string is going to be broken today….looking at the radar, it looks like we have an express train of rain coming in from the south all day and it has already started….I’ll look for a dry slot until the aft but 180 days in a row is not a bad record…..I wonder if taking the day off will help the soreness? Not much to do today…I’m supposed to hang out with G later but Tom wants to go today, too…so that is a dilemma….but a good one to have with being cooped up here since last Thursday…more later…
Well…read an interesting little tidbit in one of the papers this morning that I thought I’d write a short comment about….if corporations are “people” according to the supreme court, why haven’t any of them been sentenced to the death penalty in Texas? There have been many cases of negligence by corporations that have resulted in human deaths there, but not once have they been held accountable as a human would have been. So, what is it Rick? You revel in the fact that you have put more people to death than any other governor in history but when it comes to holding corporations accountable, you just turn a blind eye to make sure your campaign money keeps rolling in. It is such an egregious pattern of allowed lawbreaking by the repubs that puts the rule of law second to political gains and allows felons like Dick Cheney to walk away from breaking both domestic and international law with impunity….oh, I get it…it’s George Orwell at work from “Animal Farm”….”all pigs are equal but some are more equal than others..” Geez….
Well…an easy night last night with G out of town so a no cocktail night and I feel okay today…weird dreams that included Aquinas College, BMW loaners, tornadoes, and lots of dirty dishes….yep, it;’s getting strange inside the head again and I like it….the Aquinas part is a repeater where I haven’t finished all of my course work yet…I forgot what classes I had and the ones I remembered, I couldn’t find…the BMW loaner thing was connected to that part, too….a new detail, to be sure…not much to do today…have to clean some and get out on the bike but that’s about it….I could whine a little about not getting any resume responses but that’s just not me….I will come back later for at least one more….
Okay…already did the one more so look up this time….today was 180 on the bike and it was a dead mouse alert day…saw 15-20 of them in 20 feet on the trail…..don’t know if I’ll make it to 183 but I’m going to try….
Here’s today’s lyric: “Find the cost of freedom buried in the ground…Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down…”
Well….it’s a good thing that, finally, the media is starting to catch up with the story of how connected to the Koch brothers Herman Cain is…and if you like what Scott Walker did in Wisconsin (the first governor from Kochland) you will just love what ole Herman has in store for all of us. Isn’t it enough that almost all of his campaign staff has worked for the Koch brothers or one of their front companies over the years and whose strings are still being pulled by the Koch’s? Or should we instead just look at his performance on “Meet the Press” this past Sunday? This man is an idiot, another repub who thinks that just repeating things makes them true, and who truly believes that just because something is simple (like his 999 tax plan) it has to be correct. I marveled when he said that the new 9% national sales tax couldn’t be added to the state sales taxes we already have….so now the repubs don’t believe in math? We already have enough stupidity in Washington, let’s not add to it…geez…
Well…I have been thinking about this since the race yesterday where Danny Wheldon was killed…and I can’t shake the feelings that the world is a little darker today without Danny in it….I always enjoyed watching him race and seeing his huge smile when he won Indy….to have him leave behind a young family just makes it that much worse…as I said earlier it brought back feelings I had in 1966 when the first driver a 13 year old kid had ever idolized was killed in an unimportant F2 race in Hockenheim, Germany. Jimmy Clark, “The Flying Scotsman” died when a tire came apart and his car went off into the forest that lined the track. I don’t know what else to say except rest in peace, Danny….
Well…not a very good day yesterday…one of the drivers in the Indycar series was killed in the race that I was watching from Las Vegas and it took me back to 1966…I’ll talk about that in one later today…needless to say, that cast a pall over the rest of the day…not much to do today…feeling a little low from yesterday’s events so I am going to end early here and come back later for more….
Okay…got the bike ride in and it was brutal out there again today…I did get number 179 in the books but it looks like I won’t get to 183 if it rains like forecast for Wed…..I just noticed that this is number 1200 in the series…that’s a lot when you think about it…
Here’s today’s lyric: “the maids are in the hallway banging on the door, asking what that funny smell was…wake you up to tell you it’s okay to sleep some more…by the way, is there any you can sell us?…”
Well….not so good of a day for us here in Michigan yesterday…the Tigers got beaten to a pulp and U of M lost to State…so I guess some people here will be happy…at least the Wings won in OT so that was a plus…it seems like I’m always running late on Sunday and I never know the reason for it…waiting for the rain to stop so I can get out on the bike and make it 178 days…the wind is calm today so it may even be pleasant to go out….not much to do today….not even going to cook today, just use up the leftovers from a couple of days ago, but I do need to watch the Lions to see if they are a good team or not….that should be fun and then there is the F-1 race later…I’ll try to come back later for another one and a song lyric…it will probably be a Pink Floyd since that’s what I listen to on Sundays…more later…