Well..darn…went out last night to see if there were any aurora and nope…it was even clear in patches so I could see the moon and one of the planets near it…oh, well…went to bed late and then was up at 4:04 so I’ll count that as 4 hours last night…but I did climb back into bed until almost 7 and I think that added about an hour so lets make it 5 hours….got a bunch of stuff done yesterday on the lawn but my hands hurt some from sawing and chopping so they need to be taken care of today…so it will be an easy one today as I wait for the MRI this evening…might run over to DD and pair that up with a recon ride to the hospital so I know where I’m going today….not going to eat much today but I am going to cook the big ribs I have in the fridge so I’ll have something for later if I want it…I was good last night but won’t be tonight when I get back here….it is snowing out here so it’s a good idea I covered the garden last night but most everything in it is not going so it all needs to be replaced…have the stuff to do it downstairs but I have to remember that I need to dig big holes and fill them with potting soil to give them a chance to take off….going to start the day off with an indoor ride and then think about a second one…but probably just think about it…more later….
Go out and look up…
Well…with the big solar flare that happened last night, there is a possibility that there will be some Northern Lights that will be visible here in Michigan…there was supposed to be some last night but it was cloudy here and it’s supposed to be partly cloudy tonight but I am going to go out and look up anyway…you never know when a clear patch can come over….haven’t seen any for 30 years or more…fingers crossed….
It’s just plain greed…
Well…not sure if you’ve heard that Bed, bath, and beyond just filed for bankruptcy the other day or if you’ve heard what the management did shortly before that filing but it is one of the worst things I have ever heard….the company had been flailing around for years as they couldn’t figure out how to make a brick and mortar store move into the present and defend itself from online retailers like Amazon…that same shitty management is the one that declared bankruptcy but not before they stole a billion dollars from the company in the form of stock buybacks and direct cash payments to management while long term employees got nothing…no notice, no severance, no health insurance, no nothing for anybody but the owners and managers. It is just plain greed that these people are allowed to gut the company and enrich themselves while their creditors and employees are left holding the bag…typical American business practices…all of the management should be in jail for theft…geez…
Bye, bye tucker…
Well…it’s a small bit of good news but it IS good news…it was just announced the fox news has fired tucker carlson effective immediately…not sure what the reason is but I don’t care…anything that gets that asshole off the air is fine with me…and he has now been fired by every national cable company…MSNBC, CNN, and fox…and his rabid fans are reacting typically, by threatening fox with boycotts and even investors are reacting…driving the share price down by almost 20% in trading today…ha, ha, ha….787 million dollar settlement to Dominion and now another couple of billion down the drain…couldn’t happen to a worse family but I won’t be happy until the murdochs are penniless and living on the streets….geez…
April 24th
Well…it looks like it didn’t get as cold as they predicted last night but a hard freeze is coming the next two nights so I’m going to have to uncover and cover the garden…and then it looks like I’ll be done with that…there were Northern Lights last night but it was cloudy here so I couldn’t see them…and that is a little disappointing….and now it’s clear…it looks like the rides are going to be inside today with how cold it is out there…damn, it’s the end of April and it’s only 34 outside and I wonder when spring is going to come? Didn’t get anything done yesterday but I am going to pick up all the sticks in the yard today to put them out tomorrow but I won’t have a full yard bag and I think I’m still going to put it out….haven’t put the trash out in 3 weeks so it has to go out tonight….after taking the day off yesterday, I don’t hurt much anywhere but I’ll be changing that soon….need to eat low fat foods today and tomorrow and I can’t wait till all this medical crap is over…after tomorrow, I have two months of nothing until they tear the other side of my mouth apart and then I’m done unless I have to have treatment for cancer….it really does suck getting old….not much to do today….just the rides and yard work then the afternoon off…more later….
Going to be a bad week for idiot boy…
Well…I did find a topic that seems to have gone a little under the media radar over the weekend…it is going to be a bad week for the idiot boy with a new trial starting in the suit against him for raping E. Jean Carroll back in the 90’s…and since this is a civil suit, the evidence rules are different which makes it easier for the jury to find against him….and his schmuck lawyer has tried to get the judge to say that trump was “excused” from the trial so he didn’t have to be there…but the judge would say no such thing and told the lawyer he could come or not come, he has nothing to say about it…will this have an effect on the deplorables that make up his base? Nope, they love the fact that he is a low life rapist because it gives them permission to be a terrible person, too….I can’t wait to hear idiot boy rage when the trial starts in a week or so…jury selection is Tuesday and Carroll has a great team of lawyers who are going to shred the blustering moron that trump is using…I can’t wait…
A slow news day…
Well…have been looking for a topic for quite a while now with little success so I think I’ll do this instead…I took the day off the bike today and I’m balancing on the knife edge of guilt from it…so I’ll only have the one meal for the day that I’ve already had and nothing else…no cocktails tonight either and that will continue tomorrow night, too…just got a call from Trinity Health about the MRI Tuesday and that is now all set…still going to make a recon run over to the hospital tomorrow so I know where everything is and I don’t end up being late Tuesday…the rest of the day here is going to be the race from Talladega that starts at 3 and that gets me to the fox animation at 8 that are all new…I am going to make one more pass at the news to try to find something to talk about but it has been a slow news day today….more later….
April 23rd
Well…you know, it’s damn frustrating when you get one night of good sleep to tease you and then you go back to the up and down crap that leaves you worn out…and I am worn out today and the day is just getting started…had a good day yesterday but didn’t get anything done but the two bike rides…I’m taking today off…or that’s the plan but until the day is over, the specter of my guilt driving me will keep that a question….but right now, that’s the plan….I really am thinking about giving up on the garden this year since nothing is growing out there…the bean plants have not grown a bit in the three weeks they’ve been in so there is something going on that I don’t understand…I know it’s been cold but they should have grown a little by now…and it’s going to get down to 32 degrees Monday night and that is not going to help….it’s almost May and it’s still freezing and that’s just not right….I do still have plants downstairs so I’m going to give it one more try…..have to go to my low fat diet today with the requirements of the MRI Tuesday so it will be chicken, chicken, and more chicken until Tuesday night…just want all this health stuff to be over…it’s so wearing to have to do all this crap….not much to do today…just going to ease into it and have more coffee…the Talladega race is on later and that may be fun but I sure don’t feel like doing anything right now…my hands are sore again for some reason and I’m tired of that, too….more later…
Cheap elon did it…
Well…it is starting to trickle out that the failure of starship this past week is a direct result of ole elon being cheap…when I was watching the launch, I noticed that 6 or 7 or the outer ring engines were dark and knew it couldn’t be good…and they were dark because elon cheaped out on the launch pad and didn’t build flame deflectors for under the pad…he just dumped the exhaust from the 39 engines onto the concrete pad and the aftermath photos showed that the pad was totally destroyed from it…and debris from the pad bounced up and destroyed the engines…some of the chunks of concrete flew almost a half mile and destroyed a bunch of cars…and the dust and dirt from the pad covered the sensitive wetlands the pad is built on…and the reason he built in Texas was that he could do whatever he wants with no regulation…typical billionaire bullshit that they get away with all of the time…now one question I have is where were the engineers as all this crap was going on? The math should have told them that the concrete under the pad was not strong enough to take the exhaust of 39 engines fired at once but not one of them said a thing since ole elon is notorious for firing people who tell him no…so, all of this is on elon and I hope the feds step in and at least fine spacex for the damage this launch did…we know Texas won’t…geez…
April 22nd
Well…damn, forgot to make coffee last night and now I’m sitting here waiting for it and that is not a good thing…I think I slept through the whole night last night last night and it’s the weirdest feeling for me…woke up at 6:23 but stayed in bed til 7:21 but I really don’t feel refreshed…but that is from not being good last night but I don’t mind…it’s only 40 out there so I will probably do the first ride indoors today….but the high is only going to be 48 so maybe both inside? Who knows….I’m feeling the need to take a day off after all the work yesterday but that is reserved for Sunday…had two meals yesterday and I’m thinking that is too much so I’m going back to one today….need to stay under 1K calories for the rest of my life it seems to be able to maintain my weight…I wonder what it would be like to be a normal person and eat three meals a day? Okay, just poured the first cup of coffee and it needs to work right now….who decided that three meals a day is normal? That’s a little jumbled I know but I talk about thoughts when they come to me….not much to do today…just need to get the rides in and clean a bit but I am going to allow myself to not get started til 9 or so…pretty worn out today and would love to just sit here for the day…but, I won’t…one of these days I’m going to just live before I run out of days to do that….more later…