Well…you know, I can’t feel bad for the people of Nebraska and their looming economic depression since they voted for this crap by going for the idiot trump by double digit margins in the 2024 election…and now the idiot boy has essentially destroyed their predominately agricultural economy…how did he do it? By the stupid tariffs that stopped exports of all of their products…and the shockwaves have started with Tyson closing a beef processing plant with 3,200 jobs lost…and the ICE raids have driven off all of the labor farmers and ranchers depend on every day to exist…and with the cuts to Medicaid that most of the state depends on is forcing the closing of hospitals across the states…and these closings effect everyone across the state since so may people out of work can’t buy food, cars, or houses…the state is heading for a huge depression and they only need to look in the mirror to see who’s at fault…geez…
Ran an errand…
Well…since it really hasn’t started to snow yet, I decided to run an errand to get the egg noodles I need to make turkey soup in a couple of days…and with the snow coming in, I won’t be able to get out of here until mid week next week…the computer on the car has gradually started to reset itself after I took the battery cable off Wed…it didn’t stall but the idle is still pretty rough but that should get better as I drive it more…already have the weight work and one ride done and I will get back on the bike after the F1 sprint race that comes on at 9…not sure if I’m going to do anything the rest of the day but the kitchen does need some work…I guess we’ll see…more later…
November 29th
Well…it’s been 2 months since I had to do one of these as soon as I got up and I didn’t remember how hard it is to get my brain working this early…had a good day yesterday but didn’t get anything done but some reading and shoveling the snow off the walks…and that will probably be the only work I get done today with the 6-10 inches of snow that is in the forecast…it’s not even December and the winter crap starts…and I’m nowhere near the acceptance that I get as the winter drags on…oh, well…up and out of bed at 5:26 today and that is a bit too early for me…but it’s been the pattern for quite a while so I guess I have to get used to it…need to get on the weight work in a few minutes to get my day started and I don’t want to…my bp was through the roof this morning so I’m going to take it again before I start on the coffee…just reading, riding the bike, and cleaning on the agenda today…and that seems like too much work right now…more later…
These are war crimes…
Well…with all of the illegal and immoral attacks on the “narcoboats” in Venezuela and the murdering of over 80 innocent people, which are war crimes or crimes against humanity, it got worse today when our drunken secretary of defense Hegseth ordered the survivors to be murdered after their boat had already been cut in half and two people were clinging to the wreckage…and he personally gave the order to “kill them all”…now, you do not kill unarmed people ever and this thug giving the order is going to end up in the Hague for this order…Hegseth should really never leave the US again because if he does, there are many European countries that would love to arrest his ass and lock him up for the rest of his life…geez…
Broke a record…
Well…while I was doing the second ride downstairs this morning, it dawned on me that I was close to my yearly record in miles for the indoor bike…and I actually went past it yesterday…the record was 3,151 miles and the total for the year is 3,180 and I still have a month to ride…so that means I’ll get maybe another 3-400 miles in and that will get me to about 8,500 miles for the year…not too bad for an old guy…I know I’ve been pretty lucky with my health after the cancer and I really may be able to get to 80 riding my bike…
It’s going t take a while…
Well…it’s been almost two months to the day that my site went down and it’s going to take a while to get back in the swing of things…going to have to start reading about politics again and I’m not sure if I like that a whole lot…it really has been quite pleasant to not have to think about deadlines or topics but I sure did miss it…when I get an idea, there was no place to go with it…so now there is again and I’ll need to turn that part of my brain back on…it looks like we are under a winter storm warning for tomorrow with 5 inches of snow forecast…it looks like I won’t be able to not drive the car in the salt but they never put any on the roads up here anyway…just like they never plow them…I forgot to shovel the driveway when I went out and did the walks today…and I know I’ll be shoveling the alley if I want to get out for groceries next Wed and I can use the exercise…and it’s not getting out of the 30’s for highs for all of Dec so I guess I’ll have to get used to the cold a little faster….
House on fire
Well…I did mention that I had a tree fall on my power line and ripped it off the side of the house starting a small fire and melting some of the vinyl siding…I was downstairs on the bike and it went black so I came running up the stairs to hear the loud crackling from the resulting electrical short…the power line was on the ground smoking so I called 911 and all kinds of police, fire, and Consumers energy trucks showed up…and of course it was a cold, raining Sunday when this happened so getting anyone to come out and fix it was going to wait at least a day…but all of the electrical folks who I called Monday said they were all busy and it would be two weeks before they could come out…but then I discovered an unlikely company..Service Professor…who came right out and started working on it but after he was done, consumers had to come back and do the last connection and there were trips to the city hall for permits and all kinds of other bullshit…cost 2,700 bucks that insurance covered 2,450 when I have a 1,000 dollar deductible…still can’t figure that out…oh, well
Repubs in disarray…
Well…after the repubs spent months labeling the new mayor of NY, Mamdani, a “socialist and Jihadi” and showed that he was going to be attacked by every one in the party, the “stable genius” in the WH blew the whole thing up by inviting the mayor to the WH and then praising him as he joked around…essentially giving Mamdani political teflon from those attacks…that right there shows that idiot boy doesn’t care about anyone but himself since he was using this meeting to push stories about the Epstein files off the front page for a couple of days by destroying the repubs talking points…all I have to say about that is keep it up idiot…do our work for us…geez…
Car problems…
As you know, I bought a new Miata back on May 2nd and it hasn’t been as reliable as the old one…first the cd changer stopped working and couldn’t be fixed…then the driver’s side front brake caliper froze up and I had to replace it…only paid 70 bucks and it took about an hour to replace…then, last week the passenger side did the same thing so I had to replace that one that was only 63 bucks from Amazon…and it only took me 45 minutes start to finish…then Wed, while I was cooking the turkey on the grill, I decided to check out the slow starting and found that the positive battery cable was completely loose…and I’m hoping that the small amount of contact it was making was not charging the battery enough…so I tightened that up…the car was idling pretty rough so I had to figure out how to change the spark plugs which ended up being pretty easy and it made a huge difference…so after I tightened the battery cable I started the car and it immediately stalled but then fired right up like normal after that…I think the computer now has to learn everything again but I guess we’ll see after I drive it next but that won’t be till next week with the 5 inches of snow we’re getting tomorrow…back for a political one in a minute…
I’m back!
Well…it’s been a couple of months but my son finally got my site up and running again…and I’ve got to reset the way the site looks since the theme I was using is no longer there…so I’ll be fooling around with that for the next couple of weeks…it has been way too long since I’ve3 been able to talk about my life and things that have and are happening…a branch took out my power line and set the side of my house on fire…okay want to go out and see what the site looks like after I post…okay, resetting the themes is going to take a while…I did get my partial dentures a few weeks back and I’m still learning how to talk with them in but I don’t talk much so that is going to be a long process…think I’ll have to start reading out loud or I’ll never be understandable…one thing that came with hearing myself speak with these things in, I can pick out all the people on tv who are also wearing them…okay…need to do a car one…more later…