Well…running about on time this morning with getting up a little after 6 and I consider that a win with only getting up once overnight….and I feel pretty good this morning so that’s a win, too, but I’m laughing that yes, I can hurt myself sleeping…my left side ribs hurt today and I know it’s not from doing anything since it was too cold to work outside yesterday and all I did was scrub parts of the kitchen…and that looks pretty cool and makes me want to get to the stripping so I can repaint the cupboards…but, I want to do that outside so I don’t die from the fumes and it won’t be warm enough for that until May at least…I do have to make a run to Menards this morning to get some more outdoor supplies….need a push broom, a hose end sprayer, some weed killer, grass seed, and some more green pepper seeds so I can get them started in cups inside…didn’t get out for a bike ride yesterday but I am going to try to get one in today if it gets above 43 so I don’t have to wear a stocking cap….I am so over having to put my thermasuit on to ride but I know it’s not good for me to skip getting exercise….the weed and feed I put on the lawn doesn’t seem to be doing anything for all of the weeds in the lawn so I am going to get some liquid stuff to treat it again over the next few days and I still have lot of bare spots that need seed and I would like to get that in before it rains on Sat….not much to do today…just the errands and maybe some weeding outside and I need to cut the sod out for my garden so I can prep the soil but nothing has sprouted in the cups so I have a couple of weeks to get that done….more later…
Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts….
Well…I’ll admit that I was concerned that the jury would come back with a not guilty verdict for Chauvin murdering George Floyd and I am happy that finally, Chauvin is being held responsible for kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for 9+ minutes until he died….it’s about damn time that one of these assholes is convicted and is going to jail for a long, long time….from the start, I was outraged that this smug prick…grinning while Floyd died was not charged for months…and nothing could bring George Floyd back but again, finally, one of these thugs is held responsible…it’s about damn time…
Snowing in April?
Well….damn, just looked outside here in Muskegon and it’s snowing…on the 20th of April…it’s so darn cold out there that I just skipped doing any work outside today and my furnace has been running like it’s February….so it looks like a hibernation day for me…I did get errands run this morning and then continued to clean the counters on either side of the sink that were just coated in black goo and splashes of food that took me almost 3 hours to get to the point that I can live with it….lots of razor blading and bleach cleaner that took all of the oil out of my hands and I’m still coughing from the fumes…but it looks pretty good and the shiny trim is shiny again and I can put things on it again and not cringe from it being so dirty…and I’ve been putting stuff away that had piled up from the work I’ve been doing around here…but I need to get after the rest of the things that I haven’t put away yet…but not now, going to watch some soccer and take a break…at least my legs are not as sore as they were and I was able to walk around all day with just a little limping…baby steps…
Another covid denier bites the dust…
Well…okay, I probably shouldn’t revel in other people’s suffering but hey, it’s the idiot Ted Nugent so here goes…ever since the start of the pandemic, old ted has been one of the most vocal of the covid deniers…ridiculing people doing their part for our society by wearing masks and taking other precautions…along with getting the vaccine when it became available…and constantly telling anyone who would listen (and who would?) that the “china virus” was a hoax and even if you did catch it, it was no worse than the flu so you should just “man up” and not lose your “freedoms” by doing anything…and in the sweetest bit of irony, ole ted announced today that he has covid and has been “sicker than he could ever imagine” for weeks and he “thought he was dying”…so, does the flu make you feel that way? In my long life, I’ve had the flu numerous times and never felt like I was dying…I felt lousy, yes, but there was never the fear that I was going to die from it like there is from covid…and assholes like ted make things worse as his right wing moron followers do what he says to “own the libs” even though almost 600K people have died in this country since the pandemic began…and guess what? The virus doesn’t care if you’re a science denier or don’t “believe” that it exists, or bluster that people are “sheep” for taking precautions….if you give it the chance, the virus will get you and no amount of bloviating bullshit like ted spews will stop it….I have no f’s to give for people like ted who has caused the deaths of many people by his lies…and even getting the virus won’t change him…just wait, I predict his next statement is going to be “be a man, I beat the virus and you can, too”….just sick…
April 20th
Well…running quite early today with getting out of bed at 5:44 after waking up for good at 5:20…but, I feel pretty good this morning so I’ll take it….but that makes me early for everything I have to do today…need to do the grocery run and go to the bank but that can’t get started until after 8:30 so I have a couple of hours to kill…I even have an hour or so until the news sites I read update with the new articles that usually start my morning….it is kind of weird now that I look more forward to the no cocktail nights than I do to the cocktail nights…and the pain is not too bad today…I am almost walking normally again and I sure hope that doing the grocery run doesn’t flare up the pain in the calf again….I did get all of my garden seeds planted yesterday and I have all of my window sills in the kitchen filled with them…and that means I need to prep the garden soil over the next week or so and work a little manure in…I think the outside is going to be a full time job over the next few weeks since I need to weed around the house and get my flower seeds planted…have all kinds of flowers to get in and I’m not going to plan it too much…I do have some tall poppies that need to go near the house but then the rest of it is just going to be a mix of everything I have…I kind of like it being unorganized and surprising when the flowers come up…..not much to do today….just the grocery run and will probably skip the bike ride today with how cold it’s going to be all day today and tomorrow….but then it appears that the temps are going to moderate and get back to normal next week and I am looking forward to that….more later…
I may have figured some of it out…
Well…you know I’ve been bitching and whining about being stiff and in pain all of the time and I’m even getting tired of it…the whining that is, but I may be able to stop that now…when I was out on the bike today it dawned on me that the wind is always blowing out here and I’m going into it either out or back from the lake…and it’s not a slight breeze but a 15 mile an hour gale that stops me in my tracks when the gusts hit…and then I remembered how I felt the day after a ride into that wind in GR…I was stiff and sore but it got better after a couple of days of normal rides….but I don’t have normal rides out here when the wind is always blowing and I don’t get the recovery days to let my legs heal…so, I wonder how or if I’m going to adjust to this new normal? The strange thing is that now that I think I have it figured out, my legs don’t seem to hurt as much since it’s not a permanent condition and I’m doing it to myself just like all of the other stupid stuff I still do at my age….now I guess it’s a challenge to figure out how to cope with it without more ibuprofen….oh, one good thing today…I talked to my insurance agent and the 450 buck check they sent me is mine…the house insurance came out of my loan and they sent me a bill by mistake…so that’s found money and it will buy me my new garage door opener, ladder, push broom, hose end sprayer, weed killer, stuff to repair the top on the car, grass seed, and paint for the door frame on the garage entry door….and I’ll still have 200 bucks left for the rest of the stuff I need…maybe a grill? Who knows?
Why all the hate for trans kids?
Well…damn, it appears that the repubs aren’t happy unless they have a new group to hate…Muslims, African Americans, Latinos, Gays have all had their turn in the box with these assholes and now they have picked trans kids as their latest group to be attacked across the country with laws that are legislated child abuse and cross the line over into sexual abuse….and all this from the biggest damn group of hypocrites the world has ever seen and who say they are against government intrusion in people’s lives…but I guess that’s just for people like them. Why the hell is there so much hate for trans kids? First, they started with banning trans kids from sports from kindergarten through college and are still trying to force them into standard binary choices of how they were born when we now know that sometimes you are born into the wrong body and the medical literature now support that there is a myriad of types of how sex is manifested in humans….okay, I think there is a religious component to all of this hate since religion is quoted by every damn repub hater who are responsible for these hateful laws….and that is just wrong…why should it be allowed to use your religion to hate an entire class of people? The worst law in the country has just passed in Florida that requires children to submit to “inspection” of their genitals before they can go out for sports to make sure that no trans kids can participate…now, how would you feel if some “doctor” hired by a school district forced one of your kids to expose themselves for “inspection” just to go out for sports? Never in a million years would I let any of my kids suffer this degrading crap that could scar them for life…but repubs don’t care…their hate trumps everything…
We flew a helicopter on Mars!
Well….I kind of wanted to get out of my rut of topics lately and NASA helped that out with the first successful flight of a helicopter on Mars early this morning….and I just saw a photo from the lander showing it about a foot off the ground and I can’t wait to see the video of the flight that should be available next week…and it takes that long since the data stream is very small from the copter to keep the weight low and give it a chance to succeed…something like this is just what I needed since the start of the pandemics…yep, I said pandemics…one caused by the virus and the other caused by guns that are used for the daily mass shootings we have seen for the past month…but, that is for another one of these. One of the coolest parts of the Mars helicopter saga is that it has on board a small piece of the fabric from the original Wright flyer onboard that the Wright Brothers flew for the first powered flight of a heavier than air craft in 1903…there are some dreamers at NASA still and that makes me smile…and it looks like the proof of concept that this copter is providing will lead to others on other missions no matter what the results of the next flights are…and I can’t wait til the copter can go higher and get a shot of the lander and it’s surroundings…we humans can still do astounding things when we try….
April 19th
Well…that was a little better…didn’t get out of bed til 6:30 and I slept okay but I have a question…how the heck do you hurt yourself while you’re sleeping? When I walked out of my bedroom, my damn calf hurt worse that it did when I went to bed last night…okay, it could be that the ibuprofen that I took wore off but darn, I expected that rest would make it better but I guess the weird way that I’m contorted when I sleep is not helping….the weather is going to be crappy the next few days with rain coming in in the next couple of hours and then it will only be in the low 40’s tues and wed and that is just damn depressing for the middle of April…but, it’s another one of those things that I can’t do anything about so I just need to forget about it…weather is going to be what it is and being annoyed just wastes energy that I need to conserve…and I can get out and finish the weeding and get the flower seeds planted along with filling cups to start my veggie plants in so I can make some progress….but that won’t happen until after the rain comes through….not much to do today….just going to ease into the day and have some more coffee and read the news…can’t wait till it’s warm enough to do this on the porch with the windows open…but that won’t happen until the middle of May the way it looks…more later…
A rough day…
Well…damn, I almost forgot to come here for this one today since it’s been a rough day…no, nothing big happened…no one died, the house didn’t burn down, I didn’t wreck the car, but it was rough physically…can’t remember feeling so sore and creaky and exhausted and I sure hope this is not my life from now on….I did get a bike ride in but that didn’t help and even a short nap didn’t do anything for me….and now my back is sore on the right side like I strained it…but I can’t figure out what the hell I did to do that…cripes…I feel my age and I don’t like it one bit…but, we’ll get up and get going tomorrow morning and get back to it….I do need to get a ladder this week and take the old opener down in the garage so I can get a new one and move back into the modern age….but right now, all I want to do is watch tv and go to bed early…but, that won’t happen either….