Well…yes, I am going to do a political one but it won’t be til after lunch that is cooking right now…so I have 10 mins to fill and thought I’d talk about the morning…I did get out to Lowe’s before 9 this morning but they didn’t have the fencing that was on their website…or, they didn’t have it at the price that was listed and I am not ready to spend 50 bucks on a temporary gate…I can get a chain link one for 250 bucks so it doesn’t make a lot of sense to burn a fifth of that on a plastic one…after I got back here, I took a look at my tomatoes in the cups and they are just not growing fast enough sitting on the windowsill so I hung and lit my T-5 flourescent downstairs and put them under it…I’ll keep them lit for 24 hours a day for the next week or so to get them big enough to transplant outdoors…then I got after my bathroom and did a full cleaning that I just finished and that felt good since it needed it for the past week or so…but now, I am going to get lunch and watch some drag races as I eat….more later….
May 6th
Well…didn’t sleep for crap last night and I think part of it is stress from having to take on the new “end the noise” project out here to make it livable for me and the rest of the neighborhood…but, I’ve done these kind of things before and I am looking forward to seeing how committed Muskegon is to making this a welcoming city for everyone…and hell, I’m retired and don’t have much else to do so let’s get started…I did get some work done out in front yesterday and seeded the parkway where there was nothing but weeds before…and I cut out the rest of the sod that had crept over the sidewalk even though that part belonged to the neighbor on that side…just didn’t look finished with ending the trim 6 feet from the end of the parkway…and, again, I used that sod to continue to fill in the entry to the back yard and the 3 foot deep holes that were there are now just a memory…I had a brainstorm yesterday about how to fence off that entry and found some 4 foot tall green plastic fencing that I can stretch across it and remove when I want to have access with the mower and that should work until I put in a chain link gate…and it’s only 15 bucks for a 50 foot roll and should serve the purpose for now….so I may go out to Lowe’s and take a look at it this morning since it looks like rain all morning…I should clean in here some and I will get to the bathroom at some point today….I may not get a ride in with Man U playing at 3 and the rain looking like it’s stretched back into Minnesota…a day off may help my legs some after going out into 20mph winds yesterday…but, my legs don’t really hurt today so I think they may be adjusting to wind every day….more later…
I’m a troublemaker…
Well…as you know, I have been having trouble with the constant thump, thump, thump of people playing music so damn loud that I have to put earplugs in to sit in my living room at times…even to the point of me calling in a noise complaint Sunday that the cops responded to and finally shut the music down…but that is not a long term solution to every damn house out here doing the same thing…so today, being the troublemaker that I am, I e-mailed the city manager (the guy who runs Muskegon) with the particulars of all of the noise and the fact that no one is doing anything about it and that it is ruining my quality of life out here…and, to my surprise, I got an e-mail back a few minutes ago from the manager saying he is bringing in the neighborhood officer and they will start to put together a plan to deal with the noise…now, I’ll believe it when I see it but to get back to me within an hour from his phone is pretty cool and gives me a little hope that something will be done….but, as in GR, why the hell do I always have to be the person to fix problems that affect everyone? I guess I do have time on my hands and most other people don’t so I’ll make it my job to raise as much hell as is necessary….not going to be liked out here, that’s for sure…
The idiot doesn’t deserve any credit…
Well…with all of the lies the repubs are telling to try to give the idiot trump credit for “operation warp speed” being responsible for the vaccines that are available for covid, let’s take a look at the reality. The timeline for development of the vaccines starts to put the picture together that the repubs really are lying about the whole thing…the vaccines from both Pfizer and Moderna were in the works and being tested three months before warp speed was even announced…and that means that not one dime of government money went into that development, contrary to the story that the repubs trying to sell…and why they are doing it, who knows? To made idiot boy feel better? So the two most widely used vaccines had not one damn thing to do with trump or his stupid minions…but, what about the companies that did take the warp speed cash? The two biggest recipients of all that cash, Sanofi-GlaxoSmithKline and Novavax have taken billions and have not produced one dose of a viable vaccine…gee, could this just be another grift by cronies of trump? It sure looks that way since, as time goes by, the need for any vaccine from either company becomes less and less with the other four big companies having made more than a billion doses so far. So, whenever you hear that idiot boy deserves credit for anything to do with the vaccines, remember that he had not one damn thing to do with any of it…and I wouldn’t be surprised that some of that grifted cash found it’s way back into his pocket…geez…
May 5th
Well…that was a little better…up at 5 again but stayed in bed until almost 6:30 so that is a win….and I feel okay this morning even with mowing the lawn and then treating it with liquid weed killer and that was a lot of walking for one day…and I got a bike ride that was into the wind of 15+ again and damn cold…had shorts on but had to put on my leather riding gloves since my hands were freezing after about 200 yards…and I was glad I brought them with me….and today is going to be cold with the high of only 52 out here…in frickin May? oh, well…I do have more work to do on the lawn this morning….need to seed the front part that was all weeds and is bare now and then edge the rest of the sidewalk…but that is after doing the second grocery run to Aldi’s around 9…need to get some chicken and other stuff so I’ll have healthy food for the rest of the week…and I still do need to get some stuff out of the freezer to start emptying some of the food out of it….need to plan some of those meals but not right now….the cukes and beans I planted outdoors have survived 3 days and that gives me hope that maybe I’ll have veggies this year…but I’m waiting to put the tomatoes out until it gets over 40 for a low…and I have lots more in the cups so the garden is going to be a little crowded…just like last year…might even have to have an overflow garden like last year, too….not much to do today….need to get out for the errand at 9 and the right on to the lawn…and I need to prep veggies for snacks later since I’m giving up my favorite nuts and that may even be harder than giving up cocktails….more later…..
51 years ago today…
Well…just a short rememberence of the day….51 years ago today…about an hour ago… Ohio national guard soldiers murdered 4 students at Kent State University…some of them were protesting the Vietnam war and others were just on their way to class….I was 16 at the time and couldn’t understand how kids could be killed just being kids….and I still can’t…but it still goes on every damn day….think I’ll go listen to “Ohio” by Neil Young…peace…
They have nothing but hate…
Well…after getting the yard work done this morning, I have been reading a bunch of news as I finish off my last cup of coffee and one thing strikes me after that reading…the repub party has nothing left but hate to offer anyone…and that revelation was spurred by an article where an army of the asshole tucker’s minions were standing outside a damn middle school in California screaming at the kids and their parents for wearing masks to keep them safe from transmission of the virus…I mean, how would you feel if your kid was walking to school and a bunch of crazy assed adults started getting right into their faces…trying to use fear and hate just to intimidate them…and what kind of an adult would do that to other people’s kids? This is the modern repub party folks…when was the last time you read anything positive that the repubs are doing for you and me? Yeah, me either…all there is now is hate and trying to make the “libs” uncomfortable by passing laws targeting trans kids, by restriciting the votes of people of color, and now passing laws that would allow for voter intimidation at polling places with the same angry mob that was at that middle school this morning….they have nothing but hate…and that isn’t good for our country…
May 4th
Well…it just dawned on me that it is Star Wars day…may the fourth be with you…yeah, kind of corny but it still makes me smile…slept okay last night with being good but I forgot to hit the timer button on the coffee maker so my first cup of coffee is about a half hour late…and I woke up at 5:24 but that is okay, too, since I didn’t toss and turn too much…and that still give a a solid 6 hours and I’ll take that any day…I’m a little sore this morning with doing a double on the bike yesterday and finally getting some plants in the garden…but, I may have jumped the gun on my beans and cukes with the possibility of frost coming over the weekend…but, I can cover them if I need to since I only have two rows in…have lots of work to do today since the lawn needs to be mowed again and I need to seed a big part of the front of the lawn where there was nothing but weeds that I finally killed with liquid weed killer so that means seed and covering it with some topsoil to keep the seed moist and watering it for a week or so along with the flower seed I put in a week ago…and I need to do the grocery run to Meijers to get some veggies this morning since I need to get more fruit and veggies into my diet…wouldn’t hurt to have a few salads and some carrots and celery for snacks instead of the dry roasted nuts that I know have huge amounts of calories….more later….
No herd immunity thanks to the repubs…
Well…this is a little disturbing…news reports all over the internet today are giving the US the bad news that, because of the idiot repubs not getting vaccinated, the holy grail of herd immunity that would allow us get our society back to normal is just not going to happen if 30+ percent of the population refuses to get vaccinated…and that means that this damn virus and it’s variants and even new variants will be with us for “a generation” and that means that the disruption to our lives will due to spikes in infections and mutations that are sure to come is going to become permanent, along with the slow, painful deaths that come from it….and this will mean yearly vaccinations for those of us who don’t have their heads up their asses and rolling restrictions that will be re-applied whenever a new variant comes along….and all because these morons won’t get a tiny little jab in the arm. We all know that repubs are the most selfish people on the planet, but this is beyond the pale…putting people at risk of death or serious illness just because idiots like tucker and the rest of fox news are still telling them everything is about “freedumb” and they are lapping it up like the dogs they are. At least some companies have had enough of this bullshit and are requiring their employees to be vaccinated or they are out of a job…and no stupid excuse is going to work…either get the jab or leave….I wonder how the repubs will react to this? Not well, I’ll bet…
May 3rd
Well…damn, that Sunday sucked….had the idiots in the house a street over starting their party at 8 am and it went on all damn day long with the loud, thumping music that everyone plays out here and I had enough of that bullshit so I made a noise complaint with the city and they sent some cops out to try to quiet them down…and that worked for about 5 minutes until the cops left then they were even louder so I called them back again and they sent out two cars to put an end to it…all I want is to have a little peace and quiet and be able to open my windows on a warm day without having to put earplugs in to sit in my own living room…so now I guess I’m the hardass old guy that will be shunned by the neighborhood but I don’t care…my question is why hasn’t anyone else complained about this house before? This crap has been going on since it got warm out here and even the cops said that I should be able to sit on my front porch with the windows open and not have to hear that thump, thump, thump all day….I guess I won’t be getting an invite to their next party…oh, well….I did get a ride in yesterday…finally…and it was a good one but windy…and it is already 60 out there so I can get out as soon as I have coffee and read the news….I do want to get 5 bean plants and 4 cukes planted today since it does look like there won’t be a freeze later in the week but it is going to get down into the high 30’s and I hope they will survive it…and I put 8 more beans in so I’ll have two rows of them when they sprout…the tomatoes have sprouted but I am going to wait a while to plant them…want them to be a little larger before I transplant them….not much to do today…might mow the lawn after I get a ride in and just fiddle around in the yard for a while since I’ll be out on the bike by 9….and I’ll be enduring the dirty looks from the neighbors since I am the designated enforcer of neighborly courtesy…and I don’t think it will end here…but, I’m up for it….more later…