Well…I’ve finally done it…I reached peak veg today with doing absolutely nothing but watch old movies and fart around on the internet…darn, nope I put the trash out…does that count? Oh, well…I guess I can try again tomorrow…but I won’t since I need to cook tomorrow and today was an all leftover today…I do need to give myself a haircut tomorrow and I want to get another walk in since I really didn’t get too sore from the first time and I do need to get myself in shape…and I need to do laundry with running out of clean clothes after the shower tomorrow morning…I finally have a new show with a new “The Last of Us” showing up today and I’ll pair that up with a couple “That 90’s Show” and then figure out what I want to watch after that…I did watch “The Banshees of Inisherin” last night and I just never got the point of it…it got rave reviews and I can’t figure that out…no more later….
The FBI is corrupt…
Well…with the arrest of a high ranking FBI agent last week for spying for the Russians, and all of the other nonsense that has gone on for years like comey getting trump elected by shooting off his big mouth about a new “investigation” of Hillary just before the 2016 election, the only conclusion you can draw is that the FBI has been corrupted both by outside influence and the adherence of many of them to the MAGA bullshit that has also infected the Secret Service. There have been stories of the complete magafication of the NY FBI office and the refusal to investigate trump in any manner there…so much so that they had to bring in agents from other offices to get anything about trump done…and don’t get me started on the Kavanaugh “investigation” where they were given over 5,000 tips about his sexual assaults and not one agent investigated them at all…all they did was give them to the idiot trump’s white house where they were just thrown away. Biden needs to root out all of the people involved in all of this crap an fire them at least, but if they broke the law, they need to be prosecuted….geez…
January 23rd
Well…up at 3:04 and then out of bed at 5:55 and I know I’m going to feel that later….slept okay and got to the edge of dreams last night but still just the edge and that is a little frustrating….would just love to have an entertaining dream night one more time…watched “The Banshees of Inisherin” last night and I am still trying to figure out what the heck it was about…change? I did find out one thing this morning…Joe Walsh’s middle name is Fidler…must be a family name of some sort….didn’t get much done yesterday but cook and I have zero motivation to do much more today….I’m going to drag myself to clean the bathroom today but not until much more coffee….it’s a leftover day today so I don’t have to cook but I do need to plan for meals for the rest of the week…have been sort of successful limiting my calories since I’ve been off the bike and haven’t gained as much weight as I expected and I hope I can keep it up for two more weeks…I do need to get out for another walk today but I don’t want to think about that right now…not much to do today…just going to wing it for a bit and have more coffee and head over to Mastodon for a post or two….damn, I’m worn out….more later…
What are the Germans thinking?
Well…not sure if you’ve been following the Ukraine invasion closely or at all, I have an I can’t figure out what the Germans are thinking…over the past week or so there has been conflict with them about supplying German made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine to give them the advantage in armor since most of the tanks they have are old soviet designs from the 50’s and 60’s and the Leopard 2 is Germany’s most advanced tank… and Germany itself won’t have to give up one since this tank is used by almost all of the NATO countries and all of them have volunteered to send them to Ukraine…but, since the tanks are a German design, the Germans have the say where they can be deployed and they are dragging their feet…and they have said that they won’t approve that use until the US sends M1A1 Abrams tanks…but that doesn’t make any sense since only the US knows how to operate and repair the M1 while the Leopards can be repaired and Ukrainians can be trained right next door in Poland…so, I think we should call their bluff and take some of the hundreds of Abrams that are stored in Germany and send them to Ukraine for use as non mobile artillery pieces since the drive is the least reliable part of them and the most complex to keep running since it uses a jet engine to move it…it would just take too much time to get the logistics and training for the Abrams for them to be useful in less than a year and Ukraine needs armor now…so get off your butt Germany and release the Leopards…geez…
Grilled some ribs…
Well…yeah, I know I haven’t been doing a lot of political stuff lately but I will try to find a topic this afternoon…one thing I did want to talk about is the ribs I grilled this morning…making lunch kind of brunch I guess…I did not know how much I missed grilling until I had a small slab of ribs with some Bullseye barbecue sauce on them…I do need to spend 50 bucks here soon to buy a new tank and get it filled but I have bills of over 5 grand coming due in Feb so to spend even more money is going to be kind of tough…I did grill enough ribs so I have enough for another meal tomorrow but I guess I’ll have to take another bag out of the freezer…more later…
January 22nd
Well…that was an odd bit of sleep last night…up at 3 and 5 and then out of bed at 6:22 but I feel okay this morning…even went out in the snow to get the paper and I’m glad they hadn’t salted the roads yet so no extra rust on the car that I have to worry about…I did get out to get a two mile walk in yesterday and I went downtown past the arena and over to Hackley Park, then to the library so now I know I can walk to all of the places I want to go…may even walk down for a hockey game later this winter…and I’m not really sore from it but I did have to heat my back when I got back here since that used a bunch of new muscles I hadn’t used in a while…I am going to get some cleaning done today since the bathroom needs it and it will only take a half hour or so to scrub it….and the kitchen could use a once over but I don’t want to think about that…I did get the first batch of ribs marinated overnight and will put them on the grill this afternoon and I hope I have enough gas left in the tank to get through them….not much to do today…just coffee, soccer and maybe some football later along with cleaning but right now all I want to do is sit here and read a bit…more later….
A Lazy Day…
Well..damn, I’m becoming a slug around here and I don’t like it one bit…haven’t done anything today but write a bit, eat lunch, and watch soccer but I think I’m going to put the new shoes on and head out for a walk after the soccer match is over in 15 minutes…it is still only 30 out there so I’m going to put the long underwear, stocking hat, and gloves on when I go and then we’ll see how long I’ll be out…it will be nice to get some fresh air and try out the shoes and it won’t be too strenuous…I think I’ll go downtown and just look around some but using these new muscles is going to hurt tomorrow…it looks like I’m going to have to rent an auger to clear out my main drain downstairs some time this week if the drain cleaner doesn’t work…it costs almost 60 bucks to rent one for 4 hours but it would probably be 200 to have a plumber come out…oh, well…
January 21st
Well…running about on time with getting up at 5:04 and out of bed at 6:35….damn, I feel worn out today and all want to do is go back to bed…but I won’t…just started the first cup of coffee and I’m waiting for the first soccer match to start at 7:30….I am a little sore this morning and it has to be from the tossing and turning from trying to sleep last night…the comforter was tied into knots so it must have been fitful sleep last night and that sucks….I did figure out the water on the floor downstairs yesterday and I think I’m going to have to rent an auger to clean the main drain out but that won’t be til next week…I did pour two bottles of drain cleaner down it last night since I got them on clearance last week and that may help but I’m not holding my breath….didn’t get anything done yesterday but break down the 10 pound lump of frozen ribs that I bought and get them in the freezer…and I need to marinate the ones I left out so I can grill them tomorrow…not much to do today…I do want to get out for a walk later to try out the new shoes but not if it’s 29 degrees…so, I guess I’ll watch soccer and have more coffee….more later….
Didn’t expect this from Kos…
Well…cripes we lost twitter when ole elon took it over and now it looks like we’re going to lose Daily Kos, too…one of the last progressive sites left on the internet but they are now threatening the writers guild that represents the writers there that they are going lay off 30% of the staff and it looks like Kos is not operating in good faith or is willing to work with the guild to try to figure out how to make the site profitable again….all this from a progressive? I guess that once you build a business with the help of lots of others, you turn into an asshole and abandon the very things that made the place profitable in the first place…support of workers and unions and you learn to treat people like crap…shame on you Kos…geez…
Vinyl Friday…
Well…this has turned into a “Vinyl Friday” and I haven’t even turned the tv on yet today and it’s after noon….have “Barnstorm” by Joe Walsh on right now and I had forgotten how good this is…probably Joe’s best work and I’m going to play it all the way through…have done CSNY, The Doobie Brothers, Lee Michaels and now this one….feels like that kind of a day and felt transported back to my first house..I am playing the same equipment after all…