Well…as we find out things about the extreme right wing speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, he gets more and more hinky…like how does anyone in this day and age not have any bank accounts, checking accounts or any other financial records? But that is what ole mikie reported on his financial disclosure forms that he is required to file…do you think you could get along without a bank or checking account? His wife ran a “business” and the same for her…no bank account, no checking account…so now my question is “do they pay cash for everything? They have a half million dollar house in Louisiana…how is that mortgage paid? do they walk into the bank with a couple of grand in cash each month and pay for it? You get the idea…there is no way that this guy has no savings or any money trail anywhere…I’ll bet he scrubbed those records just like he scrubbed all of his internet presence in the past couple of weeks…poof, all gone so none of the extreme right wing bullshit he believes in is easily accessed….but it’s still there and as time goes on, this guy looks worse and worse…typical repub…geez…
November 2nd
Well…damn, the string broke this morning and I didn’t sleep in…up at 4:54 and I went to bed late so about 6 hours of sleep and I’m feeling it today…didn’t get much done yesterday but I do need to do the grocery run this morning and try to get a name of a tree service from my brother so I can get in the queue and get my yard cleaned up…it is going to make me cringe driving the perfectly clean car in the slop this morning since there is still snow on the roads that they never plow up here…but I do need things and I can’t wait til tomorrow with the doctor appointment at 9…I do need to get on the bike today since I took the day off yesterday but I just don’t feel like it right now…so maybe after I do the grocery run…might be able to ride outdoors tomorrow and Saturday with the highs in the 50’s…it’s only 36 right now so I’ll be inside today….not much to do today…just need to get moving in an hour or so but I’m not motivated at all…and I do need to clean more today but that won’t happen til this afternoon…more later…
Insurance doesn’t cover the trees…
Well…after another tree fell and hit the house this morning, luckily no damage to the house, I called my insurance agent and she passed it on to my insurance company…whatever you do, don’t use Frankenmuth for your home insurance…they don’t cover trees falling unless it falls and damages your house…so, it looks like I’m on the hook for 2-3000 dollars to get the other half of the rotted tree taken down and get all of the branches cut up and get the sagging ones cut off…and it’s going to be almost 7 weeks before anyone can get here…fun, huh?
November 1st
Well…damn, at least the power stayed on last night…but I lost so much of my big tree that I’m not sure it will survive…and it’s 16 frickin degrees out there on the first of November when the normal lows are in the mid 30’s…and we got 13 inches of snow yesterday so that means I can’t even get out to do the grocery run…have a doctor appointment Friday morning and I’m not sure if I will be able to get to it since they never plow the streets out here…so here I sit…depressed as hell hearing more and more branches fall outside and knowing I’m going to have to spend thousands to get my place cleaned up…so today is going to be just sitting here and doing nothing…don’t have the energy to clean and don’t want to ride the indoor bike…crap, I’m getting too old for this shit…more later…
Lost my trees to the snow…
Well…we’ve had almost 13 inches of heavy snow out here today and I’ve lost half of my big tree to the weight of the snow snapping branches off…and half of my mulberry tree is touching the yard since the biggest branch snapped but is still connected to the rest of the tree…so now I have two frickin weeks of work to clean up after this and it is not even over sine it is too cold to melt the snow off until tomorrow…when I was shoveling the snow, it sounded like shotguns going off as branches shattered all over the neighborhood…and now it’s going to cost me at least a couple of grand to have a tree service come out and cut the branches off that are still hanging on…I just don’t need this…
The new speaker is whitewashing his past…
Well…isn’t this to be expected from any repub who crawls out from under his/her rock? The new speaker of the House has started to delete his electronic past, eliminating his radical website that compared gay people to beastiality and pedophiles and his wife is doing the same with hers that was even more radically right wing and was cheering for the end times of armageddon where the final war takes place and jesus the comes down to save all of the people like them who are trying to cause it…but again, they don’t understand how the internet works and that there are hundreds of copies in archives across it…so now, why would they spend their lives spouting their hate for anyone who is not a white, straight, christian and now try to whitewash their past? Could it be that they are trying to hide who they really are sine now they are exposed to the general public instead of their inbred right wing bubble? They know that a large majority don’t support their truly radical policies so now they will try to hide them behind the lie that they are moderates…lies which should be challenged every time they open their mouths….geez…
Unions on the rise…
Well..with a settlement being reached with all three of the big three automakers and the UAW, the only conclusion that can be reached is that unions are on the rise in the US…and it really does appear that the worker are starting to get their fair share finally after sacrificing pay and benefits to keep the automakers afloat during the great recession…on average, it appears that the pay raises are going to be 25% over the next 4 years along with better retirement benefits and lower healthcare costs…and this is only fair after all of the companies announce record profits over the past 5 years…and this whole settlement is a result in a change in tactics by the UAW that saw strikes against all of the companies at once and then a continual adding of more and more plants until the companies came to the bargaining table with no bullshit this time…and with all of the union activity going on in this country across almost every industry, workers have finally realized that their employers are not going to give them what they deserve out of the kindness of their hearts so they are banding together to use the power they have as a group to be compensated for their true worth….there are still people like Jeff Bezos of Amazon and the movie/tv studios who are willing to take on hundreds of millions in lost profit just to keep from paying workers, writers, and actors and small percentage of that they are asking for….showing this is just a bunch of assholes who run these companies…keep it up folks, we need a middle class again….geez…
October 31st
Well…that was a little weird…hit the sack at 11 or so…up once at three and then didn’t get up again until 7:34…so, I’ll consider that a good night’s sleep…and I feel good this morning even though my neck hurts and I have a slight headache but I think it will work out after I sit here a while…it was the third day of being good and I’m starting to like how I feel when I get up in the morning…we have a winter weather advisory on today with the possibility of 6 inches of snow out here and it’s going to be cold so I’ll be back on the indoor bike for two rides this morning…and I’ll continue cleaning the kitchen…don’t need to cook since I have lots of leftovers still but I have the ingredients for the chicken masala that I’m going to plan to make later in the week…and I need to look at the recipes that my daughter left and find a second one to make and get those ingredients tomorrow…still have chickpeas and lentils she left me and I want to use them….going to ease into it today but I want to get on the bike by 9 so I can get both rides in this morning and have the afternoon free….not much to do today…have lots of coffee left over so I need to have a couple of cups before I get on the bike…and I think I’ll have some toast to use of the 4 buck loaf of rye bread I bought two weeks ago….more later….
Rode inside today…
Well…it’s been a pretty busy day that started out with me looking at the weather and the temp of 38 out there and deciding that was just too cold to ride in, so that meant I had to get the indoor bike ready by airing the tires and hitting the chain with wd…but then I discovered that the battery in the computer on it was dead so I had to find the spare batteries and the instructions on how to program it so I could log the miles…I finally got that done by around 10am and then got two rides in totaling 16 miles and that felt good since all I had to do was walk downstairs in shorts and a t-shirt dragging my tablet and it’s tripod with me so I could watch tv while I rode…and it’s a good thing I got it up and running with the “enhanced” lake effect snow that is going to be falling all day tomorrow that will keep me off the outdoor bike probably til Friday or Saturday…and it’s going to be cold with highs in the 30’s so there is no way I was going out in it…I did have a problem with my bluetooth earbuds when one of them died by dead battery about halfway through the second ride…so, I may have to buy another pair…only about 20 bucks so no big deal…and then I made the best pizza I’ve ever made on the grill…loading the crust up with garlic powder and Italian seasoning and then putting turkey pepperoni, thin smoked ham, green pepper, onion, and green olives….big taste that I needed to do since I can’t taste much anymore…I’m only going to have that one piece of pizza today since I need to cut calories…need to lose ten pounds since I overshot gaining…oh, well…
Can’t we agree that killing children is wrong?
Well…with the terrorism on both sides in the Hamas/Israeli war, can’t we agree that killing children is wrong? So far, there have been at least 3,000 children killed by the Israeli attacks in Gaza and there have been some Israeli children killed, too…but this is not tit for tat…children should be off limits to any kind of warfare…for that matter any civilian should be off limits and what Hamas did in their attacks when they killed almost 2,000 people in Israel were unconscionable and there is no justification for it…but Israel attacking civilians, hospitals, and infrastructure in Gaza is no better…and I hate the Hamas cheerleaders across the world saying that the Jewish people deserved the attacks…and it is nothing more than antisemitism…something I’ve never been able to understand at all…this hate is just bullshit and I’m tired of how much there is of it in the world…children are children and I don’t care if they are Palestinian or Jewish or American…killing them is just wrong…geez…