Well…as of yesterday, oil prices were back under 100 dollars a barrel and the wholesale price of gas fell almost 40 cents a gallon yesterday…but I’ll bet you didn’t hear a thing about it…when the prices were rising, there were breathless reports all day long about high prices and how high they could go and how the people with their 10mpg trucks couldn’t afford to fill their tanks and how people had to choose between eating or putting gas in their car…and it was all Biden’s fault….but now, silence…gas is down by almost a buck a gallon out here in Muskegon and that is without the big drop that will filter in over the next week or so…so if Biden is responsible for rising prices, shouldn’t he be praised for falling prices given that he has tried damn near everything to get the oil companies to stop gouging American consumers? That is the problem that the dems have had since forever…they get only blame for the bad stuff and no credit at all for the good stuff they’ve done…and inflation is coming under control and should be back down to normal levels by the end of the year….and you will notice that as it gets better, inflation is no longer being blared out by every damn news outlet in this country…look, this is not a horserace that both sides needs to be covered like one….just give the dems some credit for a change…be fair and truthful…that’s all I ask….geez…
July 6th
Well…darn, another 5:04 morning and that makes it another 5 hour night of sleep and that sucks…but is pretty normal for me…at least I’m not depressed this morning…or not as depressed I should say…not sure if I’ll ever not be depressed completely since I don’t remember ever being that way….I did sleep okay even if short and need to get moving here in few minutes if I want to get on the bike by 7am to get the first ride in before the grocery run…it did rain again last night but the weather channel missed it completely and didn’t have any rain in the forecast…but now that means no more rain for the next 10 days or so and that means more cash going into the lawn…the flowers I planted along the back of the house are blooming now and it looks pretty cool to have all of the styles and colors back there…and my sunflowers are getting close to opening but they are going to be small since they are only about 4 feet tall right now but are supposed to be “giant” and 8 feet tall or so….might have to feed them more….need to look for garden fertilizer at menards when I hit there this morning….didn’t get much done yesterday other than getting the phone thing straightened out and today will probably be the same….I do have the two store grocery run to do along with menards this morning and I want to get started on that around 8 or so after I get back from the first ride….I was counting on it raining tomorrow to get a day off and get some rest but that is not happening now so I may have to schedule one…yeah, I laughed at that one, too….not ever going to happen and I still need to ride my age here in the next week and I do need to start planning for that today…only 5 laps of the 15 mile route but that will keep me on the bike for 6 hours or so and I’m not sure if I’m eating enough to support that…I do have the electrolyte drink mixes my daughter sent and those will be a help but I probably should have some pasta for a couple of days before to load up…more later…
Getting closer to trump….
Well…it looks like the grand jury investigation of trump and his cronies attempt to commit voting fraud in Georgia by getting the SoS to “find” enough votes to give the state to idiot boy is heating up big time….just today a slew of subpoenas went out for Giuliani, Lindsey Graham, and John Eastman along with many others who were involved in the scheme..and that means that Fani Willis is getting ever closer to trump and he may be seeing a subpoena soon…not that they need it…they already have the tape of the hour long call where he asked the SoS to find the votes and threatened him with jail time if he didn’t go along….but what is really making me smile is that ole Lindsey is getting what he deserves after sucking up to trump and also making a call to election officials there trying to interfere with the act of counting the votes….what a two faced little weasel he is…I still cannot understand why anyone would think trump is worthy of such loyalty…he is such a stupid, stupid man that I would have been embarrassed to be in the same party with him let alone kiss his ass all the time…I really do hope they subpoena him since he is incapable of telling the truth…and perjury will put him in jail for at least three years…go get him Fani…..
Feeling better…
Well…got everything done and have started to feel a little better and thought I’d come here and do one as I wait for lunch to warm up…I have been thinking about this for a month or so and it is strange enough that it has stuck with me so here goes….after watching 8 or so swans grow up last year along Muskegon lake along with many ducks, I noticed that there aren’t any this year…there have been lots of baby geese that are already changing color to look like adults, but not one swan or duck baby…and with all of the swans out here, we must have over 50 of them, you would think that there would be one cygnet from the 25 pairs…or a few ducklings. I wonder if this is a natural cycle or maybe the eggs got eaten by predators? Just something to ponder and maybe do some research on….more later…oh, the political one is going to be a little late today…going out to the beach for a while after lunch…it is hot and humid out here today….
July 5th
Well…damn, got whacked with depression again last night and that continues this morning….couldn’t drag myself out of bed until almost 7 and doing this physically hurts….at least it rained a bit out here last night so I won’t have to water the lawn today….I may have slept okay but I don’t feel like it right now…and I’m not sure if I’m going to get on the bike today…maybe it would be a good day to take the day off and just veg a while….didn’t get much done yesterday and today looks the same…I have a splitting headache and need to do my teeth after making popcorn last night to try out some white corn I got a couple of weeks ago….there are still shortages of everything and I can’t figure it out…peanut butter and popcorn? I do need to run an errand this morning and that is going to take all the energy I have just to get in the car and drive a couple of miles….so I probably should get in the shower and get going….more later….
Got a few things done…
Well…when I got started today, I didn’t really have any plans other than to get the bike rides in….but after I did that, I decided to mow the lawn since it was looking pretty shaggy and uneven and I had to do a small weed walk to get at the ones I missed the other day as I waited for the pizza I made for lunch to bake….after lunch I decided I had time to hit the beach for a little while but I forgot it was a holiday so I thought it might be a pain to find a parking spot…but, it wasn’t….even though my little beach was the most busy I have seen it since I moved out here….and it still was only about 40% filled…and now, I just laughed since I was going to write that I am waiting for the rain to come but it is going to fall apart when it hits the lake just like every damn time I get my hopes up that my lawn is going to get a drink…so, it’s 3:20 and I am done for the day…I did get a few things done so I don’t feel too badly about not getting more work done…there is always tomorrow…
Demonic possession?
Well…cripes, just as I thought that repub candidates couldn’t get any crazier, along comes the trump backed candidate for SoS here in Michigan who is literally batshit insane. This woman, Kristina Karamo opined in 2020 that abortion was “child sacrifice” and a “satanic practice” and went on to say that child sacrifice in other cultures was okay because they thought it would bring them prosperity, or good crops or whatever…and she thinks that women getting abortions today are doing the same thing..sacrificing a child to get something better in their lives like prosperity or freedom. But that is not the most insane thing she has said….she “knows” that demonic possession is real and the demons are what people getting abortions are sacrificing to…but that’s not all of it…she thinks that people can be possessed by demons and if you have “intimate relations” with that person, you can get possessed, too….the one thing you have to remember about this person is that she supports the big lie and it is the reason she is running to control our elections and she attacks anyone who disagrees with her by calling them instruments of satan or “demonic”….and that includes all of the dem party and everyone in the lgbtq community…typical bullshit trumpist baloney…cripes I remember when we actually had mental hospitals here in Michigan and I’d bet that if you walk into one of them and picked some random patient, they would be more sane that this lunatic….so folks, this is what the modern repub party has devolved into…and it ain’t pretty…cripes…
July 4th
Well…another 5:35 morning and I wonder if I’ll ever be able to sleep in again? I did sleep okay so I guess that’s something….and I don’t hurt much this morning…had a pain in my chest yesterday that was a little concerning but it was just a muscle problem since it changed as I moved and was not affected by riding hard…but it worried me for a bit since all of my brothers have had heart problems…and even a couple of my sisters so the time bomb is ticking….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but cleaning and today will probably be the same…I do want to mow the lawn with the mower set pretty high just to even it out…haven’t mowed it at all in almost two weeks since it went pretty dormant with no rain out here…I do need to go to menards for more lawn food, some weed killer, and some grass and weed killer that I use to keep the sidewalks clear of grass growing in the cracks….but that won’t be today with the holiday and everyone having the day off…..not much to do today….just the two bike rides and some more cleaning…want to do the bathroom today after I get the lawn done….I’m really hoping the rain that is forecast actually happens today…or tonight….it’s been almost a month since it last rained here and everything is brown from it….even the tall grass along the trail is dying and the trees look wilted…it would be nice to not have to water everything all day long for a change….more later….
My next project…
Well…after eating smoke from all of the damn campfires around here, I have found my next project…getting the city to enforce the open fire ordinance that tells people they have to put out fires when the smoke or smell enters someone’s house…as it does here almost every day. It’s a pain in the ass to not be able to open my windows on an 80 degree day and have some breeze blow through here…so today, I sit here cooped up with a fan on since some ass has had a fire going on since Friday…but it’s not just one person…it’s basically everyone up here and it reminds me when I moved in and everyone played their damn music all day long…with my efforts, that is much better…still making noise calls but I can get 3 or 4 days in a row where I don’t have to….so, starting Tuesday, I am going in full force on shutting the fires down up here….wish me luck….
No politics today…
Well…I have been having a hard time even reading the news after the SC took a hatchet to our country and I dread the rest of the things they have in store to turn it into a dystopian hellscape that only straight white guys will be happy with….and I am filled with the same dread that gripped me for months after Putin installed trump in the presidency…and that took me about 5 months to be able to even look at the news and you know the topics here were few and far between…it’s tough to write these when I am so depressed…probably the most about politics that I have ever felt in my life time and I still don’t understand how the repubs get such joy from taking rights away from people and thinking up ways to hurt the rest of us…I mean how do you sleep at night when you know that women are going to die with the death of Roe…and in every damn repub controlled states they are trying to outdo each other trying to control and punish women…making it illegal for women to travel if they are pregnant? That is just one of the laws that have been proposed in red states that will be nationwide if the repubs win in November…and the latest from one of these hellholes is making it illegal to even talk to a pregnant woman about abortion…damn the constitution and the first amendment…they know that the right wing judges that mcconnell helped install will approve of anything that these assholes want and know they no longer need to follow the law or the constitution….because the SC doesn’t….whatever you do, get out and vote in November…but only for dems…if you want to vote for repubs, you don’t belong here….oh, I guess this one was about politics…