Well….running a little late today after waking up at 6 or so and not having any motivation to get started…but, I’m here now so let’s go….crap…my damn heel has split up the side of my foot now and that restarts the healing clock…I was really hoping that the week it normally takes to heal would be over this weekend but, with this new crack, it looks like I’ve got another week of limping around….it appears I slept okay because I woke up with my shoulder hurting and that means I slept on my right one all night with little tossing and turning…but I still feel pretty slow right now and will need boatloads of coffee to fix that….I did get an 8 mile ride in yesterday but the trails are still snow covered so it was all on the street and that’s where I’ll be today when I get out…but, that won’t come til later today since it is in the 20’s out there and that’s too damn cold…I do need to remember to put the trash bin and recycle bin out this morning since they are both full and I think I’ll do that right after I finish this one…didn’t get anything done yesterday…geez…that’s starting to sound like a broken record so I guess I won’t share any plans to do anything today…if I get to cleaning, I’ll report that tomorrow….more later….
Is this enough for you repubs?
Well…what the hell can you say when one of our political parties is run by a lunatic whose troglodyte followers were allowed to attack the US capital? And the idiot trump told them to do it in a speech just an hour before the attack…so, again, as I have asked many, many times in the last 4 years: “is this enough for you repubs?” Is it finally enough that treason was committed in front of your face on national tv? And then you and your colleagues were threatened by the attacks? And these thugs then broke into the capital and trashed the place…and it is all on cctv…so when is the FBI going to find and arrest every damn one of them? This one is quite disjointed since I am so damn outraged that trump has been allowed to spout his bullshit and egg these assholes on with no consequences…and even when the attacks were happening, idiot boy tweeted out “love you guys” as they were trashing the capitol…then, these traitors were allowed to just walk out of the capital like they had just finished taking a tour….imagine if these were BLM protestors….there would be a hundred dead and thousands in jail right now….there had better be investigations and arrests of all of them…including trump…the rule of law is hanging by a thread and inaction will cut that thread…geez…
January 7th
Well…feel a little down today with not having any luck on finding a house but I didn’t get out of bed until after 6 so I guess that’s something…I don’t know when I’ve had a heel crack last this long but I’m still hobbling around in pain this morning and it doesn’t seem to be getting much better…will have to make sure to treat it twice today after the bike ride…and just hope that it will follow the normal pattern and I’ll just wake up with no pain soon….didn’t get a damn thing done yesterday but look at the house and I don’t feel like doing much right now but I’m hoping I’ll get some motivation later on and get started packing my stuff up and cleaning…I do have to do one later on about the right wing attack on the capital yesterday and the apparent collusion with the capital police that made it happen but that’s for later…I think today is going to be a day to take it easy and just get a bike ride in when it gets light since it is 33 and is just going to get colder all day…and I need to get my miles in with a double after not riding yesterday…but not until lots more coffee and reading more news….more later…
Bye, bye Mitch…
Well…let’s get back to the real world and talk about the Georgia senate elections for a bit…as you can tell by the title, it looks like we won both of them and that means that moscow mitch is no longer going to be able to continue to damage this country with his packing of the courts with unqualified right wing judges and obstruction of the relief package that is needed to get this country to recover from the covid pandemic. We can all thank trump for this great turn of events with his bullshit rants about voting fraud and even discouraging repub voters from turning out. This means that Joe will get his cabinet picks confirmed, he will get tons of judges confirmed and we may even get DC statehood which would give us two more dem senators and shut the repubs out for long time with the favorable senate map for 2022 for the dems. So, bad day on the house front but a good day for our country….and I can take that…
Doesn’t look good….
Well…just got back from running out to look at the house in Ionia and it doesn’t look good…the whole house is trashed and looks like it hasn’t been taken care of in 20 years…and the garage is full of trash along with the house…just loads and loads of work to be done and boatloads of money to be put into it…and unless I can get it for around 80k, I don’t think the financials will work…it is on a huge lot on a hill in a quiet neighborhood but with the asking at 109K, I don’t think there is any way I can get there…oh, well…
January 6th
Well…didn’t sleep at all last night with all of the happenings…a new grandchild, maybe a new house, and the dems took back the senate with wins in two seats in Georgia…so I woke up at 4:22 and didn’t get back to sleep but this time it’s okay….I sure hope this house is going to be the one…and there is another house in Ionia that is for sale at 96K that doesn’t need any work at all but it’s right in town and I’m not sure I’d want to live there…going to have my brother do a drive by when we are out there just to take a look at it…of course I didn’t get anything done yesterday and today will be the same with all of the traveling and with Man U playing City in the semi finals of the league cup this afternoon…I am going to try to get a bike ride in today after I get back from looking at houses…it hasn’t been bad riding in the streets but I think I’ll go out and take a look at the trails to see what condition they are in….I am pretty excited that today could be the day all of the stress of house hunting and moving is gone…the we go into the stress of applying for a loan and getting the closing done but I should have enough time to make it and only move once…that would be cool….more later…
I have a second grandchild….
Well…just got a text from my middle son that my granddaughter was born tonight….and he sent me the coolest video that he took….my son said “hello Lily” and she answered him with a little baby noise….I have tears in my eyes tonight….I’ve been damn lucky to have such great kids that are such nice people….life is okay….can’t wait to meet her….
I may have found a house…
Well…what a whipsaw of a day…I was going to run out and look at a house but when I pulled it up to get the address, it was already sold so I was pretty depressed all day until another listing came up that I might just want…okay, update…just talked to my brother and we are going out to take a tour of it tomorrow morning…this could be the one…it’s an old house but 1600 sq ft….needs work but at 110k asking, I think it’s a pretty good deal and my brother thinks I may be able to get it for 100…even has a two stall garage which I wanted and city water and sewer along with cable so I can get internet…and it’s empty so I could move in at close…oh, and it’s on double lot that is combined .6 of an acre and is close enough to bike trails that I can ride to them….and I can move in and work on it from there since it is essentially livable….it’s been empty for a year so that might affect the price some….so, I’m a little excited but will probably be disappointed when I see it…now I need to think what is acceptable to me and will probably just buy it no matter what…oh, and it has a front porch and a sun room on the back of the house….and, it’s only 20 miles from Ada so I can shoot pool when the pandemic is over….oh, and it’s on a side street so it should be pretty quiet….damn…I sure hope this works out….
No “looking forward”
Well…damn, it only took me a month to be disappointed in the Biden administration and they haven’t even taken office yet. And it is because of the same bullshit that Obama did when he took office and even sounds the same…that the new administration is “looking forward” when asked if trump and his cronies are going to be held accountable for their crimes…no, damn it, there is no forward without making sure trump and his cronies pay for their trashing of the US and their blatant lawbreaking or everyone on the right is going to say that “how can they have committed crimes? They weren’t prosecuted so they must not have done anything wrong.” We on the left have to grow some spine no matter what the political fallout is…after all, we don’t ask what the political ramifications are in every case that comes through the justice department and then don’t prosecute if it’s going to be hard…and we can’t leave it to the states, either…most of them are cash strapped and can’t afford to mount a multi million dollar prosecution that could drag on for years…so Joe, no damn looking forward…tell your justice department to follow the evidence and charge these bastards if the evidence is there for it….we need to save the rule of law in this country that trump has trashed every damn day since he was installed by Putin…I fear that if we don’t do it now, it will be gone forever….as will our country…
January 5th
Well…damn, don’t you just hate it when you are having a nice dream and then you just wake up for no reason and can’t get back to sleep? That just happened and it is annoying to be on the way to a good night’s sleep and then 5:24 comes and it ends…oh, well…my internet tv works again so I guess that’s something….and the Mega is up to 410 mil for tonight’s drawing so I think I’ll blow a few bucks to have at least one day of hope….my heel still hurts like crazy but it may have the signs of getting better…at least I hope it does since the rest of my foot now hurts from favoring it and just walking on the ball of my foot….man, I’m feeling pretty decrepit right now…I did get out for another 6 mile ride yesterday and I think I may double it today to see how it works…but that will come after going out to see a house that is for sale over on west river drive….need to go see at least one a day if I’m ever going to get out of here….the listings have slowed to a trickle and I’m sure I’m going to have to settle for anything just to get out of here…not much to do today…just the grocery run and riding…and maybe some cleaning but I’m not sure of that right now….more later…