Well….darn, already running late today and it’s only 6:41….didn’t get out of bed until after 6 and didn’t have any dreams that I remember and that sucks a little….have been sleeping pretty well lately and that usually means some dreams and I may be getting spoiled from it….I did sleep on my right shoulder again and it is howling in pain and I’m glad I have this week off to let things rest…had a completely veg day yesterday that should have happened Sunday but today is going to be a little busy with trying to find a dentist and doctor so I can get back on track with my health….I have tempted fate too much by waiting to get going on my teeth and I am longing for the day when I can eat without pain again….and I know I need a yearly checkup that I missed last year with the pandemic going on and I hope that being good has helped my blood pressure some…I know I weigh less so that should be a good thing….we did get a bunch of snow out here yesterday but I didn’t need to shovel with the walks melting off as the day went on…I really hope that will be the last time it snows out here but the forecast is for temps that are around 10 degrees below the average for this time in March….I do need to cancel my Netflix account this week since they are raising prices again next month and it is not worth over 15 bucks a month….I rarely use it anymore with Plex and emby available so I need to say goodbye to them….and I will tell them why in a scathing e-mail if I can work up the outrage of their almost constant rate hikes…two this year already? I think they have miscalculated the necessity of using their service with everything else that is out there….not much to do today…and that is boring, boring, boring….just the bike and then planning for the next repairs on the house…I am really leaning toward doing the bathroom next since it is the second worse room here after the kitchen and it is small enough that it won’t take much time….and I may let the ceiling go til summer since it needs lots of plaster repair…we’ll see….more later…
The “happiest place in the world” is a fraud….
Well…not sure if you’ve been following what has been happening in Florida with deSantis and his troglodyte followers passing the “don’t say gay” law that would prevent any teacher there from mentioning that gay people exist or even children from talking about their gay parents and their family…and would allow any asshole parent to sue teachers if they even hear if they might have slipped and mentioned that gay people exist….and one of the biggest donors to these assholes is the Disney corporation who continue to pour money into these cretins to help them get elected….and they explain it by saying that they can’t speak out against the law or stop their donations or the extreme right wing assholes may boycott Disney and cost them money….but that is all just an excuse…what they are really doing is protecting their sweetheart tax deals they’ve gotten from Florida that allows them to essentially pay no taxes at all….and that is what concerns them more than laws that codify discrimination against the LGBT community….after all, Disney is run by a MAGA apologist who donates only to right wing assholes like trump and he is just fine with gays being treated like crap….so he fakes that Disney is being blackmailed by the red hats out there when he really doesn’t want to do anything to support the gay community anyway…it’s all just a convenient way for him to wave away the cynical calculus he is making to keep the cash pouring into his own pocket…the happiest place in the world, my ass…boycott Disney until they show that they care about all humans, not just the ones that line their pockets…geez…
I’m bored, but feeling better….
Well….damn it’s before 10 am and I’m already bored with taking time off working on the house but this happened last time I did it, too, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised….have done a little meal planning for later in the week and that includes getting a pork shoulder for 99 cents a pound at Meijers and cooking it in the instant pot Thursday…and that gave me an idea to make some pulled pork soft tacos for the second meal later in the week after I finish off the container of ham soup that I thawed the other day…but that means making some pickled red onions and sauteeing some red peppers to go with it….and I need to figure out the spice flavors I want to use on them….probably some chili powder, cayenne, and cilantro would be a good start….will have to look on the internet to get some ideas…oh, and I’m starting to feel better after going really hard on the bike this morning but still feel like I have a cold with the slight headache I’ve had for a month now…I wonder if that could be the caffeine in the coffee? Not sure but at least I have a little energy again and need to remember to keep eating two meals a day to help that….more later…again….
Bill Barr, Mark Meadows and a few other things…
Well…lots of stuff going on today in the news but I’m still trying to get my brain working to be just a little lucid and talk about it…okay, Bill Barr…the rehab process goes on for the trump protector Bill Barr and it is just sickening to hear how he justified not doing anything to hold trump accountable for his crimes and how he tried so damn hard to discredit the Mueller report and yet the major news channels bring him on and let him lie his ass off like the hour he was on tv last night…do you need any more proof that the media is run by right wing apologists who have an agenda to wreck this country and allow trumpism to flourish? Now, with Mark Meadows, the idiot boy’s chief of staff who was neck deep in trying to overthrow the results of the 2020 election and who should be charged by now…it was reported yesterday that he has committed voting fraud in NC by registering to vote at an address that he has never owned, never lived at, and that the former and current owners have no clue why he would use the address….and the excuse the repubs in NC are using to justify not prosecuting him is that “no one has filed a complaint yet”…so now I guess it’s okay to commit crimes in NC just as long as no one complains? Let’s remember that every damn instance of voter fraud revealed in the past few years is all done by repubs as they wail about it….I wonder if the old saying “thou doth protest too loudly” applies here? Oh, and one last thing about Ukraine…a defense department official has said that the most effective weapon the Ukrainians have is the Javelin anti tank missile they got from the US…remember the Javelin? The missile that the idiot trump tried to use to extort Zelensky into fabricating dirt of Joe Biden? This shows just how dangerous that extortion was and how trump was working for Putin at the same time he was trying to cheat to an election win…I wish the media would ask some of the repubs about the Javelins and why none of them voted to convict trump in the senate for withholding them…it would be fun to watch the squirm….
March 7th
Well…that was strange…had some long lasting weird dreams last night where I was trapped in the office I was working in by a nuclear or biological attack of some sort and I had to figure out what procedure to use to get out of it and no one was telling us what it was…yeah, pretty damn weird and it took a lot out of me that I am still feeling right now…and I wonder how that works? How do you get tired from the stress that happened in a dream? Or is it just a continuation of how I felt yesterday? I know I feel pretty worn out and it is no better than yesterday…getting on the bike is going to be hard this morning but maybe it will make me feel better…and I think I may have to get the french press out to make more coffee later since I went through more than half of this pot yesterday and I need more than two cups to get started in the morning….and to reward myself for getting on the bike and doing the miles…it looks like we are getting 2-4 inches of snow today and I’m glad I have nowhere to go today…and it is going to be a shock to put gas in the car wed with the prices almost 5 bucks a gallon but I don’t drive much so I can live with it for a while….not much to do today…I am still in my rest and healing week and, after two days off, my hands are getting better and the cuts are starting to heal up so that is progress…and there is not too much pain so I’ll be ready to start on the dining room next week…but, I am thinking about doing a quick paint job on the bathroom first since it is the second worst room in the house and I could get it done in about a week but haven’t decided on the color yet….maybe I’ll start on the trim first and see how it goes….more later….
How can I be this worn out?
Well…it’s supposed to be a good day on my Sundays where I take it easy and enjoy the day…but today, I have been so damn worn out and I can’t figure it out…okay, yeah I can…only had one meal yesterday and Friday and I really do need to stop doing that….especially with getting two rides in yesterday…I wonder why it’s so damn hard to keep eating as I get older? I know part of it is I Iike losing the weight that has gone along with no cocktails anymore but I do wonder if I could have a cold,too, my head has been plugged up big time the past few days and it sure feels like a cold so maybe that’s it? Whatever it is, I don’t like it…think I’ll try some allergy meds here in a minute before I have some soup for dinner…I did open my small hot glue gun and glued the loose kitchen floor tiles down and that worked pretty well….I wonder why I never bought one of those before? It was only 7 bucks and that is about what a tube of glue costs…we’ll see how durable it is as times go on….
The limits to a moron’s thinking…
Well…there really limits to a moron’s thinking and the moron trump showed it this weekend when he was talking to some repub donors….his solution to the challenge of Russia and China is to paint some Chinese flags on our F-22s and bomb Russia…and then Russia would naturally attack China and the we could “sit back and watch” as they fought each other…cripes, where do I start with this monumental bit of stupidity? First, we are the only country in the world that flies the F-22 and it can hardly be mistaken for a Chinese aircraft even by an idiot like trump…okay, yeah, he would mistake it since he thinks that “stealth” aircraft really are invisible and can’t be seen even just sitting on the runway….look, even if the Russians are as inept as their Ukrainian invasion shows, I’m sure they could tell an F-22 when they see one….this is the depth of critical military thinking that idiot boy and his followers have…and to be sure, there are millions of his idiot followers who will think this is the greatest piece of military strategy in the history of the world….the question that comes to me is why the hell does anyone still listen to this moron with a 3rd graders grasp of the world? Okay, his followers are proud to be thought of being that dumb since it is just the “elites” who think that and they really are stealth geniuses who know more about everything than the “libs”….stupidity has never been so revered as it is in the trump cult…geez…
March 6th
Well…hey, the power didn’t go out last night even with the wind blowing so hard the Miata changed lanes all by itself in the gusts when I went out to get the paper….slept okay last night but on my right side all night and I must have put some pressure on my eye since my vision is fuzzy today…but that’s getting better as I sit here and I will need to go back to the paper to actually be able to see it to read without squinting…and I’m much less sore than I should be after getting a ride in outdoors for the first time this year…but that will be the last time in March with how crappy the weather is going to go…looks like I’ll just have to hunker down for the month and continue to work on the interior of the house and ride downstairs….no early spring this year….and it is supposed to snow 3-6 inches tomorrow and that sucks…I did get started working on the front yard yesterday and got a lot of the concrete and piles of dirt raked an shoveled into the street….I sure hope they come back and repair all the damage they did to it or I’ll be working on it all summer…after taking a couple of days off my hands are feeling better and I can use my right one again but it is still pretty darn stiff….need to start planning the dining room work this week and get started on it…I think I’ll do the window first and that should only take a couple of days before I get on the baseboards but I do need another gallon of the white paint I have been using and I do have to remember that it takes a couple of weeks for the paint to cure before I can mask the window off to paint the walls….but I can work on the trim around the ceiling and on other windows as I wait….not much to do today…it’s my day off of of everything and the MotoGP races are on for background noise…that’s how a Sunday should be….more later….
Got an outdoor ride in…
Well…I know I said I was not going to even try to get out on the bike outside today but I got bored and it was 52 degrees so I said what the hell and gave it a try….it was actually pretty nice out there and I was able to leave the gloves at home even…and there were only 3 places on the trail that I had to get off the bike and walk because of the ice…got 13 miles in out and back to the beach and found out why the lower road to my beach was closed….it was under about 4 feet of sand that they are in the process of removing while they wait for the ice to melt so they can put the sand back on the beach…it was so nice to get outdoors again and see the sights and there were still people ice fishing on Muskegon Lake where the ice hasn’t really thinned a lot with how cold it’s been out here…and after today and tomorrow, it goes back to highs in the 30’s for the rest of the month so I probably won’t be back on the bike outside for a while and we have a high wind warning for tonight until tomorrow afternoon that is going to make a mess…so I’m glad I got out today and can’t wait for the pain to start from doing the ride today…and I’m glad that I have the day off the inside bike tomorrow…it’s gonna hurt…oh, and I did get my March top down run in today, too….every month for 9 years running…
Plans change….
Well…I had to laugh when I went out to put some more bird food on the sill and in the feeder and then walked out to the front of the house to check on the dirt piles that are on my lawn…they are still frozen hard as concrete and I don’t think they will thaw anytime soon even with the temp getting up to 56 this aft and rain and thunderstorms tonight…and it is still in the 30’s right now so I think trying to get a bike ride in outside today is on hold, too, with ice still on the roads up here so there will have to be ice on the trails and I just don’t want to get cold and have the chance of crashing the bike…so, I guess plans change for the day and I may just take the car out and get my March top down run in today with a little trip out to the beach again…I do want to take some photos of the beach that I use during the summer and see what it looks like and why the road is closed to it….so, I guess I have an easy day today and will focus on making lunch in a while….more later….and I mean that…what else am I going to have to do?