Well….it you’ve been here for any bit of time, you’ve heard me go on about my favorite race day of the year…normally the weekend of Memorial Day when we had the F1 race from Monaco, the Indy 500, and then the Coke 600 all on the same day and I spent that day being a couch potato watching 15 hours of racing…but this year, F1 moved the Monaco race to this weekend and screwed up my big race day…ever since I can remember, I’ve spent my Memorial Day Sunday watching all three races and this is going to put a big dent in my fun…I guess I’ll be able to get a bike ride in that morning now instead of using the races as an excuse to take a day off…oh, well….but, it just won’t be the same….
Don’t they have anything better to do?
Well….man, don’t these morons on the right have anything better to do? The latest conspiracy that all of the right wing nut jobs have seized on is that Joe Biden wasn’t driving the Ford electric truck that he was shown driving earlier in the week…and they think that Ford made a truck with two steering wheels so it would look like he was driving but Biden is too old and feeble to drive at all…never mind that he walked over to the truck and climbed in on his own…it is driving that he can’t do. There were even blurry photos that these morons say show a second steering wheel when the picture actually shows a camera sitting on the dash that a SS agent is reaching for to keep it from hitting the floor as Joe floors it…look, it these idiots want to compare Joe to the idiot trump, just look at the video of trump sitting at the wheel of a truck at the WH, not even touching the steering wheel but play driving like a 5 year old would…which one shows competency more? I’ll take the guy that gets in a fast truck and mats the gas…grinning all the time since he is not allowed to drive his 427 Corvette since he became president….those are the rules for presidents….and those on the right are just too stupid to know….
This sucks…
Well…this sucks a bit….I should be really happy sitting on my front porch with a coffee, the windows open, and the Doobies playing on the turntable and no other noise…but the depression came back last night and smacked me really hard this morning and I don’t know why…yeah, I know, there doesn’t have to be a trigger reason…it would be so much easier if there were…then I could just fix it and move on…I’m sure part of it is that I’m not making progress on the house after being here for almost 3 months…still no paint or repair on the stuff that needs it before I can paint…and windows still need to be cleaned and I need to cook….and the outside of the house needs to be cleaned, and I need to start reseeding the lawn…you get the picture…but, all I want to do is sit here….cripes, this sucks….
May 20th
Well…running a little late this morning with not getting out of bed until 6:30…again…and I wonder what the heck is going on….but, I’ll take it if I can sleep more than 5 hours a night…still feel pretty worn out and will need the coffee if I’m going to get out on the bike before 8….one of these days I’m going to take a day off and just lie around here and not feel bad that I’m not making any progress on the house…but, not today…I need to cook and clean some to have food for the rest of the week…have some boneless skinless chicken to cook today so I’ll have leftovers to make some chicken burritos for the weekend….or some wraps, not sure which yet….I did get some beans and more tomato plants in the garden yesterday and it appears that most of them are going to survive but I’m not sure how they are going to cope with the crappy soil that I didn’t do enough to prepare…..next year I’m going to dig down about a foot or so and replace all the sand with some garden soil…if they don’t grow…not much to do today….need to get out on the bike after reading some news…and I need to look at HF’s website to see if I can find a puller to get the pedal arms off the old bike and then look for the special tool that is needed to get the crankset out….really need to get at the old bike and get it rebuilt…oh, and I did check the temp of Lake Michigan yesterday and it feels like about another month before I can go swimming…more later….
It’s been quiet for two days now…
Well…don’t want to jinx it but I really do have to say it has been quiet up here for two days now after they cited the loud house for ignoring the law…and I sit here on my new couch right now listening to birds instead of the bang, boom, thump that had polluted the entire neighborhood…but, I am not so naive that I think that it will continue or that anyone up here has any courtesy for their neighbors…maybe enforcement of the law will change that behavior? I’m pretty sure they were surprised when the cops showed up at their place 4 times…and I will take even small victories…it was so nice working on planting more in the garden today in peace but I think I’m still feeling ptsd from having to call the dispatch all the time….and having to hear that crap all day long….but, right now, I have my porch windows open with a nice breeze blowing through here and need to just enjoy what is now versus what might happen….I just wonder why no one else appreciates the quiet? Or did anything about it before me? Oh, well….baby steps…
This is bad for trump…
Well…as I sit here waiting for the two posts that I read in the morning to go up at Kos, I just wanted to do a shorty on the bombshell announcement from the NY AG yesterday that the civil suit that the AG brought against the trump organization for tax fraud and a host of other charges, is being converted to a criminal investigation that is going to coordinate with Vance since the investigations are covering the same crimes and are using the same millions of pages of evidence that were surrendered when the SC declined to allow trump to escape investigation. Now, this may not snare trump himself since he operates like a mob boss and never puts his name on anything criminal, but his two baby boys are screwed since they supposedly are the ones running the organization…but I think it’s mostly Weisselberg who has worked for trump for decades and knows where all of the bodies are buried…and who is under intense pressure to flip on the orange menace. I know I’ve been talking about this for some time and hoping that justice finally catches up with these criminals, but this time the consensus is that someone is going down for this…and I can’t wait…
May 19th
Well….running about on time for the new normal for me and being here at 6:45 is not too bad…and that’s even without any coffee….slept okay last night but I am a little sore today for some reason…I did do a ride and a half yesterday into some pretty stiff wind but this is back pain that I noticed yesterday afternoon….oh, well….I did go after that damn animal that is still digging under my sidewalk yesterday using some bleach and ammonia to create poison gas down in the hole and then covered it with one of the covers from the totes I used to move to make sure the gas stayed in the hole…going to fill it again today and see I got him or not….really hate to do that but it’s undermining my sidewalk and I guess it’s better than any other way….it’s finally warm enough to go out on the bike right now if I want but I think I’ll have lots more coffee first…will still get out before 8 so I’ll get both rides in early and then have the afternoon to work around here…and I want to make some potato salad to use up the eggs that I have left…I still have 8 more tomato plants to put out as I wait for the peppers to get big enough to transplant and it looks like the ones I put out last weekend are going to survive…I hope, none of them have died yet and that usually happens in the first couple of days…not much to do today…just the rides and I may start cleaning the siding on the house along with cleaning the rest of the windows so I can open them with it being warm now….more later….
Women’s control over their bodies is over this fall…
Well…now we are sure that both Kavanaugh and Barrett lied their asses off when they both said that Roe v. Wade was settled law and that they didn’t see any reason to take any more cases that deal with a women’s right to choose…both of them just signed on to take up a case on abortion from Mississippi that was designed to get to the supreme court and take women’s rights back 60 years….and it will be decided this fall and you can bet with the 6-3 right wing majority that is the court now, that will mean that any restriction that any state wants to make on abortion will be just dandy with the SC…it isn’t even enough that there is only one clinic in Mississippi that performs abortions, these repub assholes won’t be happy until they make sure that women don’t have any rights at all…after all, their bible says they don’t and that is what they use to legislate in that backwater….this is just more of the same bullshit taking of rights that is the only reason for the repubs to exist anymore…just to hate and make sure that they crap on people they don’t like…I hate these people…
May 18th
Well…running a little early today with getting out of bed before 6 and only sleeping so so but a little better than normal so I’ll take it….and I’m not too sore even with getting a ride and a half in yesterday…the half ride was late in the day to go out and see if the car show this week was better…and it was…got to talk to a bunch of folks and there were at least 20 cars there…and even a Miata with a ford v-8 in it that was kind of cool…and a 62 Falcon Sprint 2 door with a 260 and a 4 speed that was really nice….and an assortment of other muscle cars….had so much fun that I rode back home and got my Miata and went back…got to talk to the owner of the distillery who put the show on and some other folks who grew up in Muskegon….one guy had a gorgeous Porsche 356 replica that was probably better than an original….and it was quiet when I got back here and stayed quiet all night…so, I think the call I made to the cops yesterday afternoon got the job done…I think they must have fined the idiots who were loud all weekend…this was the 4th call about these morons and I was able to open my windows yesterday without the incessant boom boom boom that came from their house….now, I’m sure this is not the end of the war but it was good to win one battle for a change…and I’m going to keep it up until it’s quiet for good….not much to do today…going to do the grocery run this morning and then get on the bike for an early ride so I can get two in before Man U plays at 3…it is going to be 80 Thursday and I may just take the car out to the beach and sit on the sand for a while and get a little color…put the sticker on the car so I can park for free and the beach is right in front of the parking so I only have to walk about 10 feet to be on the sand…can’t go swimming yet but I can test the water and see how cold it is….more later….
Got my new couch…
Well…sitting here on my new couch with the new couch smell wafting through the house and it’s pretty cool…it’s a little bit strange have a couch that doesn’t sag or have cushions that I constantly have to rearrange to be able to sit on it and that is nice…it is firmer than the old couch and sits a little higher but that is okay…I had gotten used to the old one and it’s gradual sagging over the 15 years or so since I bought it and had been making allowances for that…with looking at it today, it was time to replace it and change it into a porch couch that I can use when it gets warmer…the cloth on it was getting pretty frayed and faded and and there were even a couple of spots that had almost worn through on the cushions…and the new one is a cool dark grey with textured cloth that will go well with the grey walls when I paint and goes well with the rug my daughter bought me, too….think I may even try to take a nap on it right now….