Well….when you are the son of a consistent liberal who was assassinated and spent his life working to make it better for the regular American, how the hell do you end up hanging out with Nazis? That is exactly what happened with RFK jr. and now he is suing Daily Kos to try to get the name of the person that did the honest diary there that reported on Jr. meeting up with ultra right wing neo nazis in Germany…and we can’t ignore the first amendment issues here that the right wing consistently ignores except to bleat about it when their hate is removed from social media and they are “canceled”…not even understanding that private companies can’t violate your 1st amendment rights…that can only be done by a government entity of some sort….and here’s the thing, the right wing judge that got the case ruled that Kos has to supply the name and that ruling is being appealed….it has been reported that the entire Kennedy family is running away from this idiot and I wonder what is he getting by being a terrible nazi lover? Of course, all of this is just my opinion and that IS protected by the first amendment…but, if you were seen at a nazi rally, doesn’t that make you at least a sympathizer? I guess every family has their morons in them….
May 25th
Well…man, for being good last night, I still feel pretty crappy this morning and didn’t sleep well at all…but, I have lots to do today and I’ll need to shake that off and get at it here in a few minutes….need to get the string trimmer out and then mow the lawn and get some bare parts seeded since it is going to rain later today and last a while and that may just sprout the seed…finally…after using the weed killer, almost half of the lawn is now dead and needs seed but I am going to take it piece by piece since doing large parts without a cover of topsoil didn’t work too well…only did one ride yesterday and today looks the same with using the morning to work around here and the rain coming in by late afternoon….it looks like I’ll get to 1k miles for the year in the next couple of days but won’t get anywhere near the 6k I did last year…and that’s okay….I won’t say not much to do today because I do have lots to do and will be working all morning and then I have to use up leftovers for lunch….then on the bike for a ride and I may be able to get a little down time later in the day….more later….
A republican disease…
Well…just read a really interesting article that proposes that since repubs are not going to take the covid vaccine, the disease is going to turn into an ideological one…with those on the left being immune and the repubs on the right continuing to be in danger of dying even though herd immunity could be reached for the rest of us. This is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard…with fox news and the rest of the right wing propaganda outlets still pushing their idiot followers to reject the vaccine for whatever reasons they choose for the day, these folks are setting themselves up to continue to get sick and die for as long as the virus is still circulating…which will probably be forever if it is anything like the flu. But, most of them don’t believe the virus is a problem so I say let them…if you are still so stupid after seeing almost a million Americans die from covid that you can’t do the simple thing like get vaccinated, I have no craps to give for them anymore…and it will be better for the gene pool to eliminate these morons…
May 24th
Well…I wonder what would happen if I decided to just not do anything today? No bike ride, no yard work, no garden work…no nothing and just sat on my couch and watched tv? Yeah, I don’t think I could do it either but the thought of it seem oddly comforting in some way. I did sleep okay last night and didn’t get up til after 6…and that should have been enough but I still feel pretty slow…it may be the lack of motivation I’ve been feeling lately….didn’t get anything done yesterday but the bike rides and I even forgot to make coffee last night which is happening more and more often…I think I may need a reset…can a human do a control alt delete? Was thinking that living out here is changing me in ways I don’t like….with all of the selfish people booming their music all the time, I have become harder and less tolerant and I don’t like that at all…and I have forgotten my mantra that you can control how you react to things…need to work on that or I’m going to be just as terrible as the people around me here….hmmmm….not much to do today…I need to figure out why my roku is not shutting off any more and try to fix that and I was going to go out and get more grass seed to start working on the huge parts of the lawn that was all weeds that I killed and is now bare….and I might do that…but right now, all I want to do is have coffee and read the news….more later…
Just don’t feel like politics today…
Well….it’s been one of those strange days where I just couldn’t get motivated to read the news so I didn’t get any ideas to do one on politics today…just didn’t feel right all day and when that happens, nothing works right either….I did get two rides in but didn’t get to the second one until 4 or so and that is really late…I was hoping that the fog had started rolling in at the lake but nothing yet…we are under a dense fog warning from tonight until tomorrow morning with the visibility under 1/4 of a mile and that would be cool to see….that damn heartburn is back again and I wonder if it’s the burrito I made for lunch…had some hot sauce with it and that may be it…or the cumin….who knows? Okay…I can’t get motivated to do any more of this…so I’m stopping now…
May 23rd
Well…running really, really late today with getting out on the bike before 7:30 and now just sitting back down here…I think I slept okay but don’t feel like it today…just darn worn out and I can’t figure it out…but, I’m not sore so I guess that’s something…didn’t do a second ride yesterday and that makes me feel a little guilty so I will get out for another one today before the napcar race is on…I have started to notice that my legs are getting definition from the almost 1k miles I’ve ridden since I moved out here and I think I’ve lost a little weight, too, so I guess that’s cool…I am still pretty depressed and I think part of it is that I have so much work to do around here and I’m not making much progress…I did finally get the light shut off downstairs and got the last of the plants planted so I need to get rid of the cups that had seeds that didn’t come up in them today and take the light down and pack it back up…not sure how much else I’ll get done today since I have been trying to take Sundays off and not feel guilty about it…and I haven’t been too successful with that…more later….
That didn’t work…
Well…hmmm…I guess that taking things with less urgency isn’t working today….I did get out on the bike before 8 and got a ride in before F1 qualifying…after that, I got the rest of the plants in the garden, got weed killer on the lawn where there were tree seeds that had sprouted all over it, and than had lunch and I am now thinking about getting the second ride in for the day…so, taking it easy is not working at all…but, I am going to try by watching Indy qualifying in a half hour or so….I need some rest…
May 22nd
Well…running late this morning with trying to not feel any urgency about the day and just letting it happen instead of forcing it…yeah, I know that sounds weird but I seem to be forcing everything lately and running when I don’t need to…you know, I am beginning to get cautiously optimistic about the noise here with having a Friday night where it was tolerable and I had all the windows open here…and they still are and it is quiet here at 7:38 in the morning…I did get out to the new bar that just opened down the street yesterday for a couple and it was a little strange being out and sitting there and sipping a beer…might get used to it after a while but is going to take some time….only did a ride and a half on the bike yesterday and I am trying to not feel bad about that…they were painting the railings out at the beach yesterday and I feel a little guilty that I’m retired and not helping the rest of the oldsters that were doing it…I mean, I could tell most of these folks didn’t do sanding and painting much since they stood there and looked at it more than working but they were doing something and I wasn’t and that made me feel bad….but, I’m not even working on my own house much so it’s hard to justify working on other stuff….not much to do today…I am going to just sit here and have coffee while I wait for F1 qualifying at 9…or maybe I should get off my butt and get a ride in before? Damn, more urgency…what to do?
Why hasn’t bill barr been disbarred?
Well…we all know that former AG bill barr was as corrupt as they come, but the revelations of this week where he used the full might of the justice department to investigate to try to get dirt on a reporter from the Washington Post in direct violation of the first amendment…and this wasn’t the first time barr tried this crap…he got involved in trying to find out who was behind the parody accounts that went after devin nunes know as “devinnunescow” and others who tried to hold trump’s cronies accountable for their bullshit and lies. I really can’t understand why bill barr hasn’t been disbarred yet and his law license taken away for failing to follow his oath of office and the rules of the American Bar Association…look, I know we are all weary of hearing how bad these guys are…but we need to figure out how to get the Biden admin to hold these assholes accountable or the next ones will be worse and we’ll no longer have a democracy anymore…geez…
May 21st
Well…didn’t get up til after 6:30 this morning even with waking up a little before 6….can’t figure out why I’ve been so darn tired lately and I feel the same today…just worn out and that means I haven’t been getting much done around here and that feeds back into feeling depressed that makes me even more tired…okay, doing 30 miles a day on the bike probably has something to do with it…but, I did ride all the way out to the state park yesterday and that is a 16 mile round trip…the first time I tried it a few weeks ago, I felt like I wasn’t going to make it back without a rest but yesterday it was pretty easy so I guess I’m finally getting back into shape…but, I was suffering with pain by the time I got back here and my right elbow still hurts this morning from it so I think I’m going to try some ibuprofen before I get out today….I do have some errands to run this morning since I need more sunscreen so I have to hit the dollar store and Meijers to get my Mega tickets since the jackpot is over 500 mil…and I should hit depot to get some topsoil so I can start seeding the yard where I killed the weeds…and more potting soil so I can put the rest of the veggies in the garden…I did get some peppers to come up downstairs and should get them in the ground in the next couple of days so I can turn the light off….not much to do today…just the errands and two rides again today…I did check the temp of lake Michigan the other day and it looks like about another three weeks before I can swim…it’s still going to be cold but I want to give it a try soon….more later…