Well…up early this morning around 5 but I slept okay so I guess I’ll take it…man, what a busy day yesterday with the bike rides, dentist, and getting the new phone set up but now the healing can start in my mouth…but the medicine I have to use twice a day to get rid of the infection in my mouth makes everything taste like acid for three hours after I use it so I need to figure out the timing so I can still eat twice a day…probably early in the morning since I don’t eat breakfast and that will give me time for the effect to go away so I can have lunch…I’ll probably lose some weight since I won’t be able to taste anything if I want to have a snack at night so I probably won’t…damn…at least my teeth don’t hurt anymore and if I have to do a little work to heal them, I’m in….I like my new phone but it is going to take a while to get used to it and I need to buy a case since the one I had for the old phone worked so well….much brighter screens and a better camera so now I can shoot all of the stuff I haven’t been able to since the camera on the old one died last year…and the tech was able to clone the new one from the old one so everything that was on the old phone is in the new one with no work by me…pretty cool…I do have my yearly physical this morning and need to get my two rides in before the 11 o’clock appointment….sure hope not having cocktails has helped my blood pressure since I don’t want to have to take meds for it…and my cholesterol was borderline in my last checkup 3 years ago and I’m hoping that has gotten better, too….not much to do today….just the bike rides and checkup and I think I’m going to hit the beach and relax after I get back here and have lunch…it has been a long week with a lot accomplished and I need some time to do nothing…it is already 72 heading for 86 this aft so it will be a good day for it since it is supposed to rain again tomorrow…sure hope so…more later….
The attacks start…
Well…sitting here waiting for my new phone to come and thought I’d do one on the laugh that is the attacks on Hutchinson’s testimony from the hearing yesterday…after she testified under oath, let’s remember, the attacks started from “unnamed sources” that trump didn’t touch the wheel of the car of do anything else in the limo that day…and thy all say that the people who were in the car would testify it was a lie…so, if it was a lie, where are they? When are they going to testify under oath and not on fox news? One of the striking things that these protectors of trump are doing is to center on a few minutes in the car since everything since it is the one part of the testimony that Hutchinson wasn’t personally present for but heard from the people that were…the rest of it, the most damning part, she was there for all of it and saw it personally…so, when fox news bleats about “hearsay” it all just a lie…she was there and saw it and testified under oath…let’s see the protectors of trump do the same….geez…
June 29th
Well…only one wake up last night at 2:24 and saw a few flashes of lightning before I got back to sleep…I wonder when I’m going to see an actual storm during the day out here? That was the first rain in over a month out here and my lawn is teetering on dying but at least I won’t have to water it today…slept okay last night and have some energy today and I’m going to need it with the long day I have in front of me….but it will mean progress on all of the necessary things I had to do and I’ll be able to settle back into a routine by the end of the week…I did get the remainder of the food on the lawn yesterday and I hope it will green it up a bit with the rain last night…haven’t had to mow this week and will probably not have to do it until next week the way the lawn looks…with getting the new phone later today, I hope they can just dump my address book over to it or I’m going to spend the rest of the day and into the evening recreating it so I’ll have my numbers in it….it normally takes a while to get a new phone dialed in and this one probably won’t be too different…just as long as I can text with it by the end of the day I’ll be okay….and it’s an android so I know how to work most of it…it is going to be strange to just leave the data on all the time and not think about it…but cool….not much to do today…and, as you know, that’s not true…need to get on the bike here in a few minutes and get the first ride in and that will start this long day….but I will feel good when it is done with only one more thing to do this week….more later….
Not a bad day…
Well…when I started this day, I really didn’t know how much I would accomplish other than getting two rides in…but the day just fell together with my dentist calling to do more work on my teeth tomorrow and the tech at verizon ordering my new phone that will here tomorrow….and I never really expected this outcome…sometimes you get lucky…or maybe if you do the work you get lucky? I was lucky to get the tech I did at verizon, though, who was pretty damn creative to get me the deal on unlimited data and a new phone….now I’ll be able to just turn the data on whenever I’m away from home and use it wherever I am….and that is how smart phones are supposed to work and for 20 bucks less than I’m paying now? My next dentist appointment wasn’t supposed to be until August but I guess it was a good idea to tell them I’m available anytime but that is going to make it a busy day tomorrow with the first bike ride, then the dentist, then the grocery run, and then back out to verizon after the phone arrives…and then maybe back on the bike for a second ride if I get the phone done soon enough…..that will make Thursday pretty easy with only the check up at 11 and I may be able to get two rides in before that and then just water the lawn….I just hope they don’t find anything wrong with me so I have to go for more tests or any procedures…I am a little curious where my weight and blood pressure are since I do feel like my clothes are looser and I’ve been only having cocktails once a week or so…or even less and I’ve tried to cut down on salt….we’ll see…with all of this stuff done, I might even be able to take a week off next week…and I am going to have a cocktail Thursday night….I’ve earned it….
Trump assaulted his SS chief…
Well…just watched the latest hearing on the January 6th coup attempt and I think that idiot boy should be arrested for assault…when he was told that he was not going to the capitol on January 6th since the secret service couldn’t guarantee his safety, idiot boy grabbed the steering wheel of his limo and tried to yank it toward the capitol…when the SS chief grabbed his arm to asked him to stop, the asshole in chief tried to choke the chief in the limo…to me, this is an assault and trump should be charged for it…and we learned of the fact that idiot boy knew that his followers were armed and was told about it many, many times but his only comment was “they’re not here to hurt me” and that shows that he wanted them to hurt people in the congress and he didn’t care that people may be hurt or killed…and this shows trump’s “depraved indifference” to other people’s welfare and that is a crime, too…so what’s taking so long to charge idiot boy? It’s time, Merrick…get off your ass….geez…
Staying with Verizon…
Well…went into verizon this morning fully expecting to leave them and move to a new carrier but I was surprised when the tech I worked with was able to get me a new phone and unlimited data for only 7 bucks more than the phone and 8gigs of data at consumer…and he is setting me up to be able to get a flagship phone down the road if I want one since the free phone is worth 500 bucks against any new phone….and it was covered by the insurance I didn’t even remember I had…the new phone should be here tomorrow and the tech told me to come in when I get it and he will take care of me…I am a little surprised at the service but I can live with 20 bucks less than I was paying and getting unlimited data…so very cool…and now only the doctor appointment Thurs morning is left to accomplish this week…lots of progress….
Update: damn, things are happening very fast…just got a call from my dentist and they have an opening to finish my teeth scaling tomorrow morning and that will lead to them being able to start the repairs sooner…so, even more progress and I may be able to take the week off and go to the beach next week…wow…and take pictures with my phone again…and the older re-conditioned phone I’m getting is the top of the line samsung from 2020…and I can live with that…just saw a review of it on youtube and the guy doing it said he bought his in 2020 and will keep it for a few more years it was so good…so, going from depressed to progress in two days….I guess I just need to get off my butt at times, huh? Oh, and I get to keep my old phone that will still work on wifi here…not sure what I’ll use it for but I’ll still have my photos…and that is cool…
June 28th
Well…that was okay…it took me forever to get to sleep but then only up once at 3:24 and then out of bed a little before 6 so I’ll call that about 5 hours or so and for me, that is about normal…and I feel okay this morning so I’ll take that, too….I did make some progress on getting my life back in order after finding a dentist a month ago and then a doctor yesterday, and I’m going out to see what verizon can do to give me a better plan or I’ll be changing carriers by the end of the week to get my bill down to about 50 bucks a month and that includes paying for a new phone…they don’t give those away anymore and that sucks….I could get a much cheaper phone but I can afford a better one and I am going to splurge on a mid range android…unless verizon will give me a new Iphone for free…we’ll see that this morning…had tons of damn flies in my back windows yesterday and I spent the day killing them and need to clean them up today and clean the poison off the windows…not sure how the hell they are getting in but it is annoying….had the same problem downstairs last year but fixed that so I’ll need to work on that today….it’s still pretty cold out there at 51 degrees right now so I am going to wait a bit to get on the bike today…will only get one ride in before I head over to verizon and I’ll try to get back on the bike this afternoon but the wind is supposed to be blowing up to 20 and that is getting up to being too much….after a year, my right thumbnail is almost healed from the damage I did catching it on the top of my chain link fence while working out front…only have about 3/8ths of an inch of split left and it will probably grow out in a month or so…I’m pretty happy the split isn’t permanent and I can stop gluing it together with superglue…not much to do today…just the normal stuff other than the run out to verizon…can’t wait to do the grocery run tomorrow so I can make my first batch of potato salad for the summer….I’m not sure why I don’t make that more often since I like it a lot and it’s not expensive to make…hmmmm….more later…
I am tired of the do nothing dems…
Well…I can’t believe that this hair on fire moment in the US where the out of control supreme court is destroying our country in front of our eyes is being met with a shoulder shrug and just frickin words by the do nothing dem leadership. Where is the fighting back against the repeal of Roe? Where is the fighting back against the destruction of the separation between church and state that just happened today? Let’s send the whole house dem delegation over to manchin and sinema’s office and ask them to explain why they are blocking saving women’s rights, voting rights and the wall between church and state. And why they are blocking SC reform that would add 4 justices to blunt the far right capture of the court….and where the hell is Biden in all this? Just sitting on his hands and expressing “regret” that Roe is gone and the court is out of control…do something already…just frickin do something…do you want to lose the mid terms? Keep this inaction up and the youngsters are going to stay home since you talk and talk and do nothing….damn, I may have to move to Canada if they’ll have me…DO SOMETHING!
Found a doctor…
Well…one task for the week is done…I found a doctor and have scheduled my yearly checkup for Thursday morning…and they are even closer to me than the dentist…right over near depot and that is only about a mile and a half from me…and this guy specializes in old folks medicine and I guess I’m old so that’s cool….and he’s gotten nothing but great reviews so I’ll give him a try….now I just need to talk to Verizon tomorrow and get them to change my plan or sign up with consumer by Friday….making some progress…
June 27th
Well…darn, it is such a pain in the butt to go to bed feeling okay and wake up depressed as hell…that might have had something to do with how worn out I felt yesterday….and it’s only 52 degrees out there so there won’t be any beach trip today with the high only around 70….and it still hasn’t rained out here in almost a month and I think I’m losing the battle to save the lawn….and after all of the work I did to make a lawn, that really sucks….at least I’m keeping my garden alive and the first flowers have started to bloom at the back of the house…but my tomatoes are showing the stress and look pretty odd with the leaves kind of shriveled looking…you know, I’m at the point where I just don’t care about much anymore and if they die it will be met with a shrug….I think I slept okay last night but don’t feel like it and I wonder if I can just take the day off sometime soon? Haven’t done one of those in a long time but I know it will depress me even more if I do….and that’s the problem…it’s a catch 22 that I have to gut my way through and I’m tired of it….oh, well….not much to do today…did laundry yesterday so I don’t have that to do today so I guess I’ll just try to find a doctor this afternoon and then over to verizon tomorrow….but I don’t want to do either of those….don’t want to do anything….more later….