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…
Grasping at straws in Arizona…
Well…to see just how far the repub party has fallen, you just have to look at the debacle going on in Arizona where they brought in a firm to “recount” the votes in just one county…and guess why it’s just that county? Yep, because Joe won it and those votes put him over the top in Arizona…and the company the repubs brought in has never had anything to do with elections before and it’s run by a Qanon spouter who truly believes that trump won the election…so guess how it’s going to come out? Look, if I were one of the people in that county whose votes are being questioned and the repubs are trying so hard to discard, I would be talking to a lawyer right now to sue these assholes….especially since the re counters don’t have a clue what they are doing and ballot experts are certain they are ruining them as they use UV light and are also using blue pens that are the same color as the ones used to mark the ballots in the election…gee…I wonder why they would want to use the same color pens? Yep, I’ll bet these morons are changing the ballots as they “count” them…..and these “counters” are looking at the thickness of the ballots and whether or not they have been folded….not that either has anything to do with the election but lying is all the repubs do these days and you can just about guarantee that this “count” is going to show trump as the winner…lying bastards…
May 2nd
Well…running a little late for a Sunday morning since I’m back to the normal schedule and read the newspaper first…damn, just looked at the weather and it is going to be in the 40’s for highs later in the week and that is so damn depressing…I have beans up that need to be planted and now I’ll have to wait another week since there is going to be a freeze later in the week, too,…crap….Oh, well…need to just grit my teeth and live with it….I did sleep okay last night and don’t feel too bad this morning and I am going to get a ride in just a little later since it is already almost 60 out there but I need to see the F1 race first at 9 so I’m not sure if I can get two rides in today…would like to since I couldn’t ride with the wind yesterday or Friday and it is still going to be blowing around 15 today but, if it’s out of the South, it won’t be too bad….I have been slipping back into bitching and complaining too much and I just don’t like myself when I do that…have had some streaming tv problems and have been texting my son too much about it…he has his own life and family to take care of and I need to remember that….don’t want to be that crabby old guy that complains about everything when I really do have a pretty good life…other than the damn groundhog that is back to digging under my sidewalk again and, if I ever see him, I am going to hit him with a shovel and kill it….okay, probably not…he’s just doing what they do and I can’t even kill spiders in here and try to not run over bugs on the trails so killing an animal would be too much…it may be a challenge to get him to move somewhere else but I’ve got the time…sure hope it’s not a skunk…one of my neighbors said that there are a lot of them around here but I haven’t seen any yet…not much to do today….just going to ease into it and have some more coffee…I do need to plant a few more bean seeds today since I really like fresh green beans out of the garden and only have 5 plants when I need 10 or so….more later….
Got the garage work done…
Well…finally…got a lot of work done in the garage today…got the old opener down and in the trash and then built the shelving unit and organized all of the stuff that was stashed all over and still have some room on the shelving for more stuff so that is cool….and then I swept the garage floor and cleaned it up pretty good and all of that took about 3 hours so I am taking the rest of the day off and watching some races…didn’t get out on the bike with how hard the wind has been blowing out here today and we even almost got a storm…heard some thunder but it looks like it missed here to the northeast and that was disappointing…really wanted to open up the porch and watch but I’m sure I’ll have plenty of opportunities over the summer…after all of the dust and tree pollen outside, I am miserable right now and I think I need to use some nasal spray to help it…darn…at least I have a halfway clean and organized garage…nice to see the results of working for 3 hours…
May 1st
Well…damn, can I go down to only one night a week of cocktails? Or be done with them completely? Last night was the first cocktail night of the week and I think it will be the last one…didn’t sleep well at all last night and feel pretty crappy right now and I think it’s just not worth it anymore…we’ll see…and it looks like another day off the bike since there are gale warnings out here with winds kicking up to almost 30 mph with gusts of even more and it’s only 35 right now…on the first day of May? I really have to stop thinking about this weather even though it’s the coldest spring that I can remember…it just depresses me to no end to not be able to wear shorts yet and the highs are still only going to be in the 50’s for the next two weeks and that sucks….okay, enough of the whining and bitching…the weather is the weather and I can’t do anything about it….if I can’t get on the bike today, I may just clean the garage….boy, I’ve waited a long time to say that…clean the garage….and I need to put the shelving unit together so I’ll have a place to put all the stuff that goes in it…the gas cans, clippers and other stuff that is spread around it will look much better organized…not sure where I’m going to put it yet but it’s small enough to move it wherever I want….and I could take the old opener down when I have the garage cleared…so I might get some stuff accomplished today….but right now I’m going to have coffee and watch some F1 practice and qualifying….more later….
Last one for the month…
Well…how the hell is it 48 degrees for a high on the last day of April? With the wind blowing almost 20 and gusting out here, I skipped the bike ride since I just couldn’t take being that cold or putting on all of my heavy stuff just to go out and suffer in the brutal wind…I did get some stuff done this morning when I tried to clean the porch windows but found that the problems are between the double glass so they can’t be cleaned…and you can’t get the screens out to even clean them so they will have to be on the agenda to be replaced next year if I can afford it…should cost over a thousand bucks even with cheap windows and I just don’t want to spend that right now…. and I got some flower seeds planted out front along with using my new hose end sprayer to put weed killer on the front where the weed and feed didn’t do crap and it is full of dandelions….then I put some new veggie seeds in cups since the ones I planted a week ago aren’t doing anything and I need to get them in the ground in the next couple of weeks…I do have 5 bean plants up and some tomatoes but no peppers came up so I planted a whole new set of them to make sure I have everything I want…I really do have a big garden and want to fill it….other than that stuff, I haven’t done anything else today…just tired with only getting a little sleep last night but I do need to get started on the rest of the windows to clean them but I want to wait for that until I power wash the house…the 8 foot ladder I bought will really help with that and reaching the gutters that need repairs…but, I’m taking the rest of the day off and I think I’m having cocktails tonight since I’ve been good since last Saturday….and I have to remember that I don’t have a schedule anymore…that I don’t need to bust my ass anymore working around here…but that is going to be a hard habit to break….
Matt Gaetz is screwed…
Well…with all of the sex scandals swirling around ole Matt, revelations over the past few days show just how screwed this asshole is…his pimp buddy greenburg, who Gaetz paid to pay women (and one girl at least) to have sex with him, was just reported to have been begging roger stone and even offering to pay him 250,000 dollars to get trump to give him a pardon…and all of this is down on paper and in screenshots that the moron took from his encrypted texts with stone that were supposed to disappear so no one could prove that he asked for the pardons….and stone really wanted that cash to the point of telling greenburg to have it ready for when he talked to trump….and the FBI and prosecutors have all of this information and it IS going to result in multiple indictments for ole Matt once the wheels of justice grind that far forward…and with all that going on, ole Matt now has plans to hold “America first” rallies with another idiot repub, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was stripped of all of her committee assignments since she is such a wacko….I wonder if ole Matt is going to continue on that path now? Probably, since all repubs think that the law doesn’t apply to them and that would be par for the course…tick, tock, matt…they’re coming for you….
April 30th
Well…finally, it rained overnight and was still raining when I got up…and I think the birds liked it since I could hear them like they were inside when I was walking through the living room…I really hope this will help my lawn filled in and get the weed killer activated that I put on the lawn weeks ago…I still have liquid weed killer to use if the damn dandelions in the front don’t die and I may treat the yard anyway since the liquid stuff works better…I did sleep okay last night but was up at 5:04 and then spent an hour in that state that is not really sleeping but not really awake, either, until a little after 6…and I have found that I really don’t need the sleep aids anymore if I just accept that I won’t have the deep sleep that I remember when I was younger…and that’s okay…feel pretty good this morning and have a couple of errands to run early…the Mega is up to over 300 mil so I need to get a few tickets and I forgot to get milk when I did the grocery run earlier in the week and I need to get more cups for veggie seeds since the old ones I’m using don’t seem like they are going to come up and I bought more at lowe’s yesterday just in case…I do need to get on doing the windows on the porch since I do have a ladder to reach it now and I hope they can be cleaned but I think they my be permanently cloudy and will have to be replaced at some point….not much to do today…going to have to wait to get on the bike since it is in the 40’s still and that sucks with it being only one day away from May so I’ll get my errands done first and then see how the day unfolds….more later…
Ha, ha,ha…Rudy…
Well…from the responses I’ve seen in the news, I’m not the only one laughing about the FBI raiding ole rudy’s apartment and offices in NYC and confiscating all of his phones and other electronic devices in regard to his sketchy attempts to get “dirt” on Joe and Hunter Biden in the Ukraine…look, I know you’ve heard from his idiot son and lawyer saying that it wrong to go after the former lawyer for the president and it’s never happened before…etc….yeah, but no lawyer for the president (other than John Dean) was involved in crimes like ole rudy was and still is…and the hoops that investigators and prosecutors had to jump through are much more stringent than in normal cases, but the underlying principle is the same…that the prosecutors had to prove to a judge probable cause that a crime had been committed to be able to get the search warrants…or they never would have been issued. One thing we have to remember is that all of the evidence that was presented to this judge existed while trump and barr were running the justice department and they knew it, but they did everything they could to make sure that no one would prosecute…but now that a real AG is running things there, crimes will be prosecuted no matter who it is or what connections they have…..and it is just so delicious that one of the idiots that enabled trump at every turn is getting his criminality exposed to the light of day…and I hope he pays for the damage he has done to this county…and I hope the idiot trump and bill barr are next….
April 29th
Well…it’s official, there will be no spring this year…just looked at the weather and it’s supposed to be in the 50’s to lower 60’s all the way through May and that just sucks…and the heat just came on and it’s the end of April…and I haven’t even tried to get into shorts this year and this is the latest in memory that there was not even an attempt…oh, and it doesn’t rain out here in Muskegon…the last appreciable rain was almost 3 weeks ago and I was so looking forward to sitting on my porch in the rain….oh, well…I did sleep okay on the 4th night of being good and had some dreams that I don’t remember but that’s okay…as long as I had them it means I got into REM sleep and that is the restorative kind that helps your brain heal overnight…and I didn’t get out of bed until almost 6:30 and I’ll take that…I think I may have to buy more veggie seeds since I’m using last years and none of them are coming up in the cups on the windowsill….the only ones that are up are the new beans that I planted but I have 5 of them up so far…I guess I can wait a week to see…or maybe I’ll get some at Lowe’s this morning since I am going out to get some concrete paver blocks to make a path for the mailman through my flowers in the front…if they ever come up…not much to do today….just the Lowe’s run after I have coffee and read the news and then a bike ride before lunch….and Man U plays at 3 so I need to have everything done by then..at least I’ll have a clean car for errands this morning….more later….