Well…It’s my birthday and I already feel kinda crappy…started out the birthday celebration with a couple with K and then back here for some cocktails….so this one is going to be short while I lick the wounds and drink a lot of water….then I’m going out to hit some golf balls…and meet up with K at Logan’s later for nachos and more beers….I’ll try to come back later…
Okay…I think I’ll add to this one as the day goes on…nearly just a little bit of irony on the bike ride…damn near got run over by an idiot woman that ran a red light to make a right turn…that would have been the ultimate in irony,huh? Especially since I was going to take the day off riding to let the legs rest…but, I survived it and there will be more later…bad luck, huh?
Back again…had a lot of fun out with K at Logan’s and won some money at Keno….she brought me a bottle of wine to have with my steak for dinner but I couldn’t wait until then so I’m having the wine right now…this is shaping up to be a really painful day tomorrow but I just don’t care…..might be back later…
Well…as you know, I’ve been having a problem getting worked up enough lately to put down any political thoughts but today, thanks to Nolan Finley, I have reached the boil over point and need to respond. In today’s column, ole Nolan goes on and on and on about how he thinks that Michigan is going to be in play in the 2012 election and tries to make his case by enumerating how many times that Obama or people in the federal government have visited Michigan over the last two years. He digs himself an even deeper hole by saying that the only reason this has happened is that Obama is using the government and promising help to the people of Michigan is to ensure that he gets re-elected; projecting his warped, right-wing view of government and its purpose on the administration. Nolan, Nolan, Nolan….just because you and your troglodyte brethren in the repub party think the only reason for government is to use it to gain power or reward your rich buddies, does not mean that everyone thinks that way of that it is even true. Could it be that the administration sees a state that is in dire need of help that only the federal government can give? Could it be that Obama and his administration actually care about the citizens of this country that are not rich and connected?
This is the typical repub nonsense that passes for deep political thought these days…..one more thing Nolan, where are the jobs from the Bush tax cuts?
Well…another day, another night….the sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death…okay, that’s not how I feel but that line from Pink Floyd ran through my head as I started and I thought it fit a little…with the birthday coming and all…it was an okay day…I did get to see G for a couple of minutes as she left for Livonia and that started my night off and helped me feel a little crappy this morning…not sure what I’m going to do today…I should go out for a few groceries…I have a weird taste for potato salad and I think I may try to make some if I can remember my mother’s recipe….I know it had eggs, radishes, and sweet pickles along with the potatoes but I’m not sure of the rest…so I’ll guess I’ll just try some and see…I may even go out and hit a few but will probably do that tomorrow….that’s about it for now…I am trying mightily to get dome political stuff out and I’m going to keep trying until it stops hurting…more later…
Well…there has been a bunny alert on for the past couple of days and I don’t know if it was caused by the storms or not but there has been hundreds of little ones that scurry across the trail and I am kind of afraid that I’m going to hit one of them. I do hope they get the park trail cleared soon…a huge tree fell on the entry bridge in the storms and I do miss my forest racetrack….for a couple of miles today, my ride was pine scented with all of the trees that are being cut up and I wonder why pine scented cleaner can’t be made with that smell instead of the ones they do produce….one last thing…every couple of weeks, there is an older guy practicing his roller disco moves in the parking lot of Creekside Park that is my last water stop….and he’s pretty good, too….I will be back later after the women’s world cup game with France and the USA…that’s on right now so bye….
Well….it was a nice day yesterday with lunch with T and lots of laughs….but then lots of boredom for the rest of the day that culminated with cocktails last night…I have been good lately so I thought the liver could afford a night of enjoyment….I’m still having problems with dead legs so I may have to take a couple of days off to let them rest but then what would I do? It could be that I’m not eating right but that would mean I’d have to eat more and I don’t think I want to do that…a conundrum to be sure. Not much to do today….I think I will go out for coffee this morning and read the papers since there really is nothing else to do…more later…
Well…as you saw I just did the 1,00th post here and I will come back to it later on over the course of the day…but right now I just wanted to do what I do every day…give an update on my day and the possibilities of this new one….it was a weird day when the storms rolled through…I can’t remember seeing the wind blow that hard and when I went out on the ride…I could see the damage that was centered along 60th street and was everywhere…there were at least 5 houses that had trees toppled on them and I couldn’t believe that just straight line winds could do all of that damage….it was a hard ride and I can’t figure out why my legs are so dead and I am so tired on the bike…I may have hit one of those spots where I’ve over-trained and have to take a couple of days off to make it better….we’ll see….not much to do today…okay…I do have some things to do…I’m going to be depressed over the cost of the car repairs….but then out to coffee and I’m going to get the haircut that I said I got last week…then I have to meet up with T for a couple of minutes….then maybe out with G for a couple later but I’m not holding my breath about that one since she is so busy…I will come back to the 1,000th one since I do have a few things to say….
Well…just wanted to start this thing so I’d have the 1,000th in it’s right place….not sure what I’m going to write about or how much longer I’m going to continue but I will get to it a little later…
Okay, I’m back and, as I said, I’m not sure how long I’m going to continue this…I seem to have lost the fire that powered this thing in the early days and even with reflecting on what it has meant to me over the last 1,000 of these I don’t know what to say. It’s a lot more difficult than it looks to keep these coming at this pace even if they are short ones…and they have gotten shorter over the past month or so as I have become overwhelmed with the fallout from not being able to find work…it is tiring to be broke all of the time and to have a simple car repair throw you into an almost fatal funk….oh, well….I think I’ll try to keep going forward and who knows, you may just see the whole thing blow up in real time…that would be funny, wouldn’t it? So, let’s work toward that goal and enjoy the ride….
Well…kind of in limbo today with the storms rolling through which is going to keep me here since I am waiting to hear about the car…so, I thought I’d just kind of drift through a few things while I wait for inspiration to hit me…I am quite depressed about the jobs report from last week that hiring has stopped and I am seeing that in the amount of job listings on the boards…they have just about dried up and I am looking at further depleting my resources to try to get through August and September….it is getting really tiring thinking about this stuff 24 hours a day and having no hope….and my world is getting smaller by the day…I think I’m down to about three people that I talk to or hang out with…never knew how social a person I was until the opportunities for social interaction went away…and it’s just not right for someone my age to haunt the bars anymore…so, I guess I have to find a different life, again, it is getting harder and harder to start over and over and over…..I’ll be back to add to this one later since I want to save number 1,000 for tomorrow….
I could talk politics for a while but I’m just not interested right now…I guess I could do laundry and clean but that doesn’t interest me either…..so, I guess I’ll just wait for the call on the car and try not to wince when I get the bill….
Carnage, carnage everywhere!! Well…just got back from the bike ride an there are trees down on houses everywhere…Eastern Ave. is closed from trees and power lines down in the street….and I saw a baby hawk walking on the sidewalk that must have been blown out of it’s nest…going to watch the news in a minute to see if it was a tornado….and there was financial carnage earlier when I had to pay 300 bucks to have the car fixed…
Well…it was a Sunday yesterday but that is about all I’ll say for it…..didn’t do a whole lot but watch soccer and get a long bike ride in and then took it easy the rest of the day….didn’t get a whole lot done but didn’t really plan to…I hope to get the car back this morning but it is going to be a wet one riding down to pick it up…but it’s going to be warm so that is okay….I’ve taken a few days off from cocktails and I feel pretty good today….the sleep wasn’t too good but I’ve had worse nights so I’ll take it….not much to do today, I may go out and get the papers and head for the coffee house but I’ll have to check the radar to see when the first wave of storms is going to get here….I’ll have two more for today since the brain seems to be working a bit better today…more later….oh, if I get two more out today, I’ll reach the 1,000 mark…don’t know what I’ll say about that…
Well…just finished up with one of the most exciting soccer matches I have ever seen….the USA women just beat Brazil in PK’s after overtime…and they scored the final goal to send it to PK’s in the second minute of added time after the two 15 minute overtimes….the latest goal ever scored int he history of the sport…men or women…I am now really excited for the next one…the semifinal in a couple of days….but the refs almost jobbed us with disallowing a PK save that was perfectly legal and sending one of our women off with a red card….and it was not even much of a foul…but a win is a win and I am a little concerned that there will be a letdown in the next game….but, I am going to enjoy this one for a while….go USA!