Well…I really am happy I decided to keep the extending tree trimming saw instead of returning it to depot….spent 3 hours using it this morning getting at more of the dead branches on my trees and still have quite a bit to do…the big dead branch on the tree that hangs over my power line is next in my sights but I think it will take some planning to not get electrocuted since I’ll have to go over the power line and take the branch down piece by piece since it would land on the wires and the roof if I cut it all down at once. Ended up with 5 more bundles of branches and a full bag of twigs and small branches to put out for pick up tomorrow…and, while I was bundling them and tying them up, I looked down and saw more glass buried in my yard but it wasn’t the pieces that I have been finding, it was a cream bottle from a dairy that was all in one piece so I washed it out and I think I’ll use it for a vase if I ever get any flowers to come up this summer…it must have been in there for years and years since the last time I saw one was when I was a kid…and that was a long time ago…back to work again tomorrow since I have to mow the lawn and work on the garden…almost have tomatoes that are big enough to transplant but there is a freeze warning for tonight so I’m glad I didn’t jump the gun and plant them today….
They’re even lying to themselves now…
Well…I really don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t want to know how sucky the population in general thinks your leader is. With the trump cult still in full swing, now the repub house and senate election committees are withholding polling information from the other repubs as they meet to try to work out a strategy to take the house and senate next year…and the reason is that the numbers are just so bad for idiot boy trump that he is going to cost them winnable seats if he pops his ugly head out of Florida and tries out his schtick again…especially after most of the country thinks he is responsible for the attack on the capital. This brings up a question…why the hell is anyone scared of idiot boy if only a small fraction of the country even cares if they ever hear from him again? Or is the support because all of the damn repubs have the same racist views and they still like how he is so good at hating people and has liberated them from having to hide their hate? Whatever it is, there are people in the repub party (not many of them) who are becoming concerned that Biden’s great numbers on his handling of basically everything may cost them the chance to win either the house or senate…and their ever loonier candidates are appealing to an ever smaller base that works in primaries but won’t in the general election…gee, we can only hope…
May 10th
Well…that was crappy…didn’t sleep well at all and feel pretty lousy this morning so it will be an easy morning as I try to feel better with lots of water and coffee….and I even hurt almost everywhere with that dull ache that doesn’t need ibuprofen but it is going to slow me down all day…oh, well….and it is going to be cold for the next two days with a high of 53 each day that is a good 15 degrees under the average high for this time of year…and looking at the weather, there is no relief for the rest of May…I can’t remember a spring where it has been this cold for so long…by this time last year, I was out on the bike for doubles every day in shorts and a t-shirt but I’ve only been out that way 3 times this year so far….I did get an e-mail off to the community officer for this neighborhood since the idiots to the north of me had their damn music playing loud all day and I’m not going to take this crap anymore…I know I live in the city but, after living in GR without this problem, there has to be a solution that doesn’t involve me calling in noise complaints every damn day…but, I will if I have to…and maybe that will get the city off their asses to do something…not much to do today…I am going to run out to Harding’s just to see if the chicken they have on sale is a good deal since I have to wait for the temp to come up to get on the bike anyway…so that means I’ll get the dirt and stuff for the garden tomorrow when I do the grocery run since depot is right by Aldi’s….more later…
No politics today…
Well…just couldn’t work up enough outrage or motivation to get to reading about politics today so that means I don’t have a topic to write about…so I think I’ll just talk about the day I’ve had…I did find something out…I really like going into the wind on the first leg of the bike ride…and I really hate going into the wind on the way back…it was just so brutal today with a 15 mph wind coming from the NE that I’m sore still and I got back here before 2 and it’s almost 6 right now….I did get more seeds planted since I have had to change to brute force to get enough plants for my garden…still haven’t gotten one green pepper plant to come up and I planted over twenty of them….and I’m going to plant 8 more seeds tomorrow to go with the 8 more bean seeds I planted today….I do have to plan to go to Harding’s market tomorrow since they have boneless skinless chicken that if you buy 2 family sized packages, they give you three more for free…so I expect that the two I have to buy will be about 25 bucks but it still should be about 1.29 a pound after I get the three free ones…if it’s not that good of a deal, I’ll pass on it since I really don’t need 20+ pounds of chicken in my freezer…I did make room for it by taking out the half pork shoulder that I had in there and I’ll be cooking that Tues or Wed…but that much chicken would get me through the entire summer…would have to get really creative to not get tired of chicken by then….okay, that’s enough….going to get ready to veg for a while and stare at the tv…
May 9th
Well…I think this is about on time for a Sunday with getting up a little before 6 and running out to get the paper…and it’s still damn cold out there at 36 degrees and I have to remember not to think about that or I’ll get depressed again..but still, 36 degrees in the second week of May? Oh, well….I did have a funny little surprise yesterday when one of the feral cat mommas that are all over the place out here strolled through my yard trailing 5 kittens behind her and seems to have taken up residence in the garage next door…pretty cute little things with colors that ranged from black to white and multicolored….and that made me smile a little….I did get out for a bike ride yesterday when I thought it was going to be a miss day as it was so damn cold all day…but, it got to 48 degrees around 4 pm so I decided to give it a try and it wasn’t too bad….and I am getting used to the wind as I talked about the other day and even going into a 15 mph headwind is tolerable now…so I will get out again this morning after the F1 race and ManU playing at 9….it was a pretty quiet day out here yesterday with just a little music that I could tolerate but I’m afraid that it was only because of the cold….but, we’ll see…I do have my fingers crossed….not much to do today….I do have to water the garden to try to keep the bean plants I planted alive and I need to go out and get some garden food and some potting soil tomorrow so I can start to transplant the tomatoes…need to put a big ball of potting soil in the holes in the garden when I do to give them a chance to survive…I did hang one of the led lights downstairs yesterday to get the plants growing more and I hope they will be ready to move by next week….but, right now I need much more coffee and to read some news to just ease into the day with soccer on in the background….more later….
There is no “labor shortage”
Well…damn, my stomach is feeling really queasy right now and I’m not sure why…yeah, I know I had a couple of cocktails last night, but it shouldn’t be this bad…but, that’s not what this is about…I’m sure you’ve heard the whining talking points by all the repub business owners that say that there is a “labor shortage” and that they can’t find workers since the workers can make more money with the extra UI benefits than they can working….god, don’t you just hate these people? With these assholes it’s always the workers fault for everything…I wonder if any of them have looked in the mirror to see themselves and the bullshit they’re spouting? Look, if a worker can make more money on UI than they can working for these cheapskates, isn’t it smart to not work for them? Raising the pay to lure workers to their businesses is never, ever considered since they think workers are overpaid if they make enough to pay their bills and feed their children…and that is one of the biggest markers of a “labor shortage”…that owners have to raise pay to get workers to take their jobs and they will after that happens…but, since employers would rather whine than pay their workers what they are worth, there is no labor shortage…and every economist who is not a repub hack agrees there is no shortage and workers are not just sitting on their couches eating bon bons…there are reasons that workers are not taking these crappy paying jobs just to be mistreated again…and you can see that mistreatment by how these repub employers are lying about a labor shortage…they just don’t want to pay what their workers are worth and that is their choice…as it is worker’s choice to not work for them…
May 8th
Well…you don’t know how disappointing it is when you wake up and see that it is light, roll over and go back to sleep thinking that you are finally sleeping in, but when you wake up for good and look at the clock, it is only quarter to seven…damn, I wonder when I’m going to be able to get more than 6 hours of sleep? Oh, well…feel a little slow this morning with having a couple of cocktails for the first time in a week and that fits right in with the plans to do nothing for a while this morning with F1 qualifying on in a little while and it too damn cold to get out on the bike with it being only 32 out there and that means the bean plants I put in the garden are toast so I’ll have to plant another 8 in cups today so I’ll haven enough to put outside if it ever gets warm enough…I guess that will give me time to prep the soil better than I have since it looks too sandy for good growth and, with firing up a light downstairs, I don’t have to rush to put them out anyway…I wonder if I should start one of the LED lights instead of the T5? The tomato plants sure are liking being under the lights and I’m sure the new bean plants that are coming up will, too….that sounds like a plan and I think I’ll do that later today…but that means transplanting them into bigger pots so I’ll have to go out and get some potting soil Monday….or maybe today…who knows? Not much to do today…I did get a bike ride in yesterday and I think I’m getting used to riding in the high winds out here…it was blowing almost 20 from the NW yesterday and I just shifted down to 21st to grind it out until I made the turn to the beach…and the ride coming back was rocket propelled with 20mph at my back and that was fun….oh, forgot to talk about today…just going to watch races and fool around but may clean the kitchen after starting on it yesterday….more later….
This is kind of funny..
Well…I guess you have to hand it to the lawyers who are defending some of the traitors who attacked the capital on January 6th…the latest one made me laugh a little since it is something I have commented on quite a few times in the past and it is kind of satisfying to have my thoughts verified…at least a little. Just the other day, one of the lawyers presented the idea that his client was not guilty since he was forced to watch fox news for 6 months straight and even coined a new term for the malady…”foxitus and foxmania” that resulted from being fed a steady diet of lies by both fox and the idiot trump…and started to believe what he was being fed by both…and even one pundit even termed it “not guilty by reason of sean hannity” as a cute take off on insanity that this traitor is trying to plead. Now, I’ve talked about the propaganda that spews daily from fox and other right wing “news” services, and have likened them to Tass and Pravda in the old Soviet Union who did exactly the same thing as they brainwashed their people with lies about the US and the world…the only thing that penetrated this dome of lies was the work of Radio Free Europe to try to send the truth to the people under Soviet domination…but the key difference here is the people behind the Iron Curtain wanted the truth and sought it out anywhere they could find it…unlike fox news viewers who are just perfectly happy to be lied to everyday and accept these lies as the unvarnished truth that can’t be penetrated by a “radio free America” which is the rest of traditional media. I am curious to see if and when this gambit will be laughed out of a courtroom…which it will…but there may be a civil suit against fox for the lies that they still spew that I would pop popcorn and sit down and watch….cripes…
May 7th
Well…another Chrysler morning with getting up at 4:40 but not out of bed until a little after 6 so I consider that a win and the new normal for no cocktail nights….and I feel okay today if a little sore from nothing that I can pinpoint…it can’t be from just cleaning the bathroom, can it? Darn…it is a pain to get old…the tomato plants seem to be growing better under the light downstairs and they should be ready to go outside next week but I am having the same problem as always getting the green peppers to come up….not sure why that is but I probably should do some research on that this morning since it too damn cold to do anything outside…and I may lose the plants I have already planted outside since it is only 34 out there right now…darn…I really do think I’m right…there is going to be no spring this year and that just sucks…didn’t get much done yesterday but the deep clean on the bathroom and I probably should do that to the kitchen today since I haven’t done that since I moved in over two months ago and the microwave is pretty bad…and I need to start designing the corner work bench that I am going to build in the garage so I can mount the vise to hold stuff that I need to work on…it needs to be a small one since the garage is small and I just need room to mount the vise and have a little work space to set stuff on….I wonder if I should just buy a small piece of 3/4 plywood for the top or build it out of the 2×4’s I already have? Not sure yet…not much to do today…need to run a couple of errands this morning but I’m in no hurry to get started since it is not even 7 yet and I am going to try to get on the bike today but that will mean gloves for sure with a high of only 51 out here today…yeah, there is no damn spring…51 for a high in May? This really does suck….more later…
What the hell is wrong with repubs?
Well….was just sitting here thinking about the weird crap going on with the repubs these days and can’t figure out a few things…first, why the hell are they so scared of the idiot in chief who lost the last election in a landslide? Every damn one of them but Liz Cheney and ole Mitt are still parroting his lie that the election was stolen and the only reason for that has to be fear of the idiot boy and his crazy assed followers…and this rot goes from top to bottom to the point that they are trying to throw Cheney out for saying out loud that Biden won fair and square…now that is just wrong to have an entire party based upon lying about damn near everything but that is where we are now and who knows how to fix it? The only thing I can think of is to take the few sane repubs out there and turn them into independents to keep the repubs from winning the house and senate in 22. That party is just performative right now, too, they have nothing to give to the American people at all but voter suppression and death and sucking up to the idiot, as evidenced by the moron governor of Florida, DeSantis, signing a voter suppression bill this morning but only allowing fox news to cover it so the idiot trump would be sure to see that his lips are firmly attached to his white pimply ass….what the hell are wrong with these people? I can only shake my head….geez…