Well…not sure if I’m running late or not today with forcing myself to stay in bed after I got up at 5…I do know I fell pretty crappy today and part of it is cleaning up downstairs with all of the dust…my head is plugged up and I’m coughing again and that makes for a miserable morning….good thing I don’t have a lot to do today and it’s too cold to get out on the bike…and probably will be all day so I may just take a day off…I did get a package from my daughter yesterday and the socks and hat she knitted for me are pretty cool and fit great…have the socks on right now and it is nice to have a little color to wear instead of the all black that I normally wear…I just thawed some half and half that I froze a week or so ago so it would keep and it looks weird in my coffee so I may just toss it…might try to shake it up to get the milk fats to reincorporate better but it tastes okay so I think I can live with it…had to buy a pint of it since they were out of the small containers but I wonder if I can just use milk instead? Probably, but it isn’t as smooth and I think I can splurge a little on the calories….not sure what I’m going to cook today since I am out of leftovers…might do some pasta for a change of pace or look in the downstairs freezer to see what’s there…there is finally some room down there but I don’t want to fill it again until everything is gone…not much to do today….going to just take it slow and ease into the day with more coffee and news and not think for a while….more later….
Still freezing my butt off…
Well….I guess I’m not used to the cold yet…went out for a ride at 28 degrees this morning and I am still frozen from it…and I even added some poly long johns under my wind pants since I thought that would happen….it did help my feet a little but I still need to figure out how to keep them warmer…it was just damn unpleasant but the good thing was that I had the trail to myself with not seeing one other person in the entire 15 miles….and the problem with the garage opener light is not the bulbs since they didn’t light after I replaced them…but it’s too damn cold to take the cover off and see if I can fix it so I am going to wait until it gets a little warmer later in the week to work on that….I sure hope I warm up some soon….this is really pretty annoying….
The electoral college votes today…
Well…in any other presidential election year, voting by the electoral college to elect the new president would go by without many people even noticing it, since it has always been a foregone conclusion that the person getting the most votes in each state go the vote of that state’s electors. But, with the new, radical repub party, there are no rules and they are still trying to use the EC to cheat like they do everywhere and install the idiot boy for 4 more years. In all my long lifetime, I have never heard of threats of violence aimed at the electors in any state, but this new trump repub party, it is standard procedure to try to bully people and threaten violence if they don’t get their way…the threats got so bad here in Michigan that they closed the capitol for the EC votes in the senate chamber today and the electors have been given police escorts both to and from the chamber for the vote that is going on right now. Look, this is not normal…this kind of thing has never happened before and shouldn’t be happening now and the blame lies squarely on the repub party and it’s ringleader trump….at any point, or at every point the repub leadership should have shut this bullshit down but they are too damn scared of getting a trump tweet aimed at them…what kind of person can be scared of that asshole? All I know is that everything that is happening is the fault of the repubs…and there is no “both sides do it bullshit”…not once, not ever, has a dem politician called for the cancelling of election that they lost in a desperate attempt to stay out of jail…but that is just what is happening now…and that is the only reason idiot boy is doing it now…he needs the office to stay out of jail…nothing deeper than that…and he believes that because he would do anything to win in business or politics, he projects that the dems did that in this election…a delusion he will die with…
They are addicted to hate…
Well…there have been many articles that have tried to explain the blind devotion that 40% of this country has to the idiot trump and one I read yesterday hit the nail on the head…for me anyway. This article and study posited that hating people and being outraged all the time is just like any other addiction…it stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain and gives the haters a high from dopamine just like they would get from heroin or any other drug that does the same thing…and, just like heroin, it overrides the logic centers of the brain that would normally curb the behavior and makes the hater want to come back for more and more and more….and you can see this at any trump “rally” in the twisted faces and the look of euphoria that pervades the crowd…just like the look that is on the faces of those at the more right wing evangelical churches who practice speaking in tongues….it is all the same…they are hooked on this feeling and since it is the best thing in their lives, they will continue and continue to hate since it make them feel good and nothing else in their crappy lives does….I still don’t have any compassion for them, though….they are killing this country for their addiction and that is not forgivable…geez…
December 14th
Well…made it all he way til 6:20 this morning but I still feel pretty crappy right now….and I had weird dreams about fixing outboard motors and getting laid off…but even in the dream I remembered that I’m retired so it wasn’t as stressful as it should have been…and in the dream I was still young…ish…and I think what I looked like was still how I see myself, not how I really look on the outside…it was sure a relief feeling better yesterday but I am still concerned that feeling lousy and exhausted is going to come back as the damn coughing has….I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday but it is going to be cold today with a high of 31 and I’m not sure I want to get that cold anymore…we’ll see if it’s going to be sunny or not and that will probably decide it for me…I do have an errand to run this morning to return the faucet I bought and the lights in the garage door opener have burned out so I need to stop at the dollar store and get some leds that should hold up to the vibration better….and I should have a couple of spare bulbs around here as the incandescents go out…and I need a spare pair of sunglasses for riding the bike, too….other than that, it is going to be an easy day…didn’t get to the cleaning yesterday so that should be on the agenda for today, too….but, who knows? Just haven’t had any motivation lately and don’t have any right now either…jsut need more coffee…more later…
I think I feel better…
Well….after spending the day yesterday…really the past few days feeling like crap…I think I’m starting to feel better…at least I got past noon without being exhausted so that is a marked improvement over yesterday…and I got a good bike ride in even though it was only 33 when I went out but with no wind, I can deal with that…my toes were cold when I got back here but the hot shower fixed that pretty quickly….now I just hope that the exhaustion doesn’t come back as the day goes on….I wonder if I ate enough Friday or yesterday? Still haven’t gotten the proper adjustment for only riding once a day yet I think….so, we’ll see…
Purge the police….
Well….as many reports have revealed, police forces across this country are infested with white supremacists who have sympathy and connections to the facsist, white supremacist gangs like the proud boys and others…and this causes many problems in how these forces see and deal with demonstrations…just yesterday in DC, these right wing fascists started rioting and attacking peaceful protestors and what was the police response? “Oh, please boys…please stop”…as they proud boys stabbed 4 people and beat many others….I wonder what the response would have been if these would have been peaceful BLM protestors. Yeah, we really don’t need to speculate…we’ve seen the police wade into those peaceful protests and beat protestors just like the proud boys did last night…and as we saw in Milwaukee, where gun toting assholes were causing trouble, the police actually handed out water to them and asked if they were okay….as they beat any other protestors. To restore the trust in police that has been shredded by this white supremacy infestation, we need to purge every damn police force in this country from this cancer…from the sheriffs who refuse to carry out the laws they don’t like and foment hate, to the officers who look out for the proud boys, every damn one of them need to be investigated and fired or trust can never be restored….I hope this is one of the things that Joe takes on when he is sworn in…I know his plate is going to be overflowing cleaning up after the idiot boy and his minions, but this needs to be done so the police really are there to protect and to serve…everyone…
December 13th
Well….that was a little more normal with getting up at 5 or so but being able to get back to sleep until 6….and I think I feel better this morning and I’m not sure why that would be…of course, I’ve only been up for an hour or so and my energy can leave at any time so I think I’ll enjoy it while it lasts….at least I’m not coughing as much today and I think I’ll enjoy that, too….didn’t get out on the bike with all of the rain yesterday but I am going to try to get out today but that won’t be til later since it is too damn cold right now…but no wind so I’ll take that when the F1 race is over and I suit up to go…I did get a few things done yesterday but just small things and I do need to clean more…with how much I talk about cleaning, you would think this place is slathered in dirt but that’s not it…it is a very dusty house and I haven’t done any dusting in a month and that annoys me…along with the little things like junk mail and newspapers that seem to accumulate little by little until there is a pile there that needs to be dealt with…and the kitchen sink needs to be scrubbed along with the dish rack so I do have things to do…if I feel like it and that is not at all certain right now….not much to do today…just more coffee and some soccer until F1 comes on and then just wing it the rest of the day….more later…
Tired of feeling crappy…
Well…you know, I’m tired of feeling crappy..it’s been days now but I really don’t have any symptoms other than I’m exhausted…okay, it does feel like a cold but again, how the hell do I get a cold when I wear my mask out and my hands are drunk all the time from soaking them in so much alcohol? I’ve had another day today where my stomach felt lousy, too, along with some coughing and wheezing….oh, well…I guess I’ll stop bitching now…it’s time to watch some tv and have a cocktail or seven….oh, and I figured out how to make Pluto work on my roku again…and that was by accident…so it was a Doctor Who marathon this afternoon….
A supreme court smackdown…
Well…wanted to get a comment out early on the supreme court smackdown delivered to idiot boy yesterday evening when they ruled that the suit from the moron in Texas, Paxton, had no merit and they were not going to overturn the election on lies and stupidity. Even Alito, who dissented from the ruling on procedural grounds, added that he would rule that the suit would not succeed even if they took the case up…and even trump’s toadies, who he counted on to appoint him president for life, joined the majority in rejecting the case. You know what came next? Of course the Texas repubs were crying in their beer and threatened to take like minded states and form their own country that would “follow the constitution”…which is the biggest piece of irony I’ve seen in quite a while….this should end all this nonsense but with trump and his cronies, who knows? What I do know is that they are still fundraising as if the decision never happened and are still running ads that say the election was “stolen” from them and this is all that fox news viewers will see since they will never report the truth….we all knew this would be the ruling but were still holding our breaths until it came…now, just go away, trump…we’ve had enough of your crap…geez…