Well…you knew that the idiot trump was not going to go quietly or make the transition to Joe an easy one…and yesterday, his crony that runs the GSA has refused to send the transition letter that allows the winners to access funds necessary for the transition process…and I’m sure trump called her and told her the same bullshit he has been peddling in the news…that the election is not over yet and he hasn’t lost and will “probably” win after more votes are counted so she shouldn’t send the letter. Now, we’ve seen this asshole shred the norms of our society on a daily basis, but this bit of pettiness could only come from trump…in every other transition in every other presidential election, the letter was sent the day after the election was called or even the day it was called…but we all knew trump wouldn’t do it…and with the virus raging across the country, this bit of bullshit is going to delay Biden’s virus committee from getting a flying start and could cost another 100K American lives…but, idiot boy doesn’t care about any of that…he only wants his revenge on everyone who didn’t kiss his ass enough…just as firing the Def Sec this morning was…just pure revenge for Esper bucking him and not putting troops in the street to attack Americans. god, I can’t wait for that asshole to be gone….
November 9th
Well…woke up at 4:14 this morning and just rolled over and tried to go back to sleep…that worked for a while but the coffee maker woke me up at 6 and I thought to myself “what if I just don’t get up…what if I just lie here instead?” That thought was overruled by my bladder but it was still an okay night of sleep…no dreams to speak of so I’m not sure how well I slept…didn’t cough much until I got up so I guess that’s a plus…My legs finally started to feel the excess riding I’ve been doing and have a dull pain that won’t go away but that’s pretty much normal…down to 36 miles to go to the last goal and should make it tomorrow if it doesn’t rain too much…I am getting a little tired of riding this year and that hasn’t happened before…so I’m a little concerned that I may be getting bored with it and may start to make excuses to not go when I know I don’t have a choice if I want to stay healthy…..I’ve already started to gain weight with only doing one ride a day after I got to 5K miles and reducing calories hasn’t really helped….I did only have two pieces of pizza all day yesterday so maybe that’s a start…not much to do today…going to finish the clean up on the yard and then clean in here but that’s about it…..just feel pretty worn out right now and need to ease into it….more later…
What a day…
Well….running late for this one with getting my new tablet and then spending a couple of hours with my routers tech support trying to make it connect…finally gave up on them and just did a hard reset and now everything works…I kind of like the tablet…it has quirks with being from amazon and lots of the things I use are app based but that is just like my phone so I’m used to that…it is kind of cool to have a huge screen instead of the 3.5 inch one on my phone and the battery is supposed to last a full day which is a lot more than my phone and I think it will be fun to figure it out over time….still am having trouble just buying anything for me and that is going to be something that I’ll get over in time…I hope….oh, and this thing has alexa built in so I can talk to it just like my phone once I figure that out….I did get two rides in today but I think I ate lunch too late to have a second meal today so I guess I’ll just have a snack later….
November 8th
Well…that was a better night with remembering to take the cough medicine before I went to bed and sleeping okay…had a weird dream that made no sense so I won’t report on that one…I will say it wasn’t a fun one but tedious…and that’s not what I like in dreams…it was a pretty good day yesterday with the big political news and then getting two good rides in…only have about 60 miles left to do and I should get that done by Tuesday….I did get the news that my new tablet is supposed to be here today and I am a little excited about that…haven’t spent any money on myself in a long time and it is still hard to do and I know I’ll agonize over it for a few weeks but I only had about 50 bucks to pay on the credit cards this month so I know I can afford it…that really doesn’t help, though…didn’t get any work done yesterday but I’m going to finish up the yards today and get all of the waste bagged and in the trash before it rains Tuesday….it’s going to be 75 today and that means the second ride will be in a t-shirt and that is pretty cool for November…but the weather is going back to normal later in the week and that means highs in the 40’s and lows around freezing so I’ll be back in full thermasuit then….not much to do today…don’t have any work left on the house and that is kind of a relief….but there is soccer and races on so that will be a nice relaxing thing for the afternoon…it sure feels good to know that trump is going to be gone…I didn’t know normal could feel so good….more later…
I refuse to forgive and forget…
Well…as predicted, pundits all over the country are flapping their gums and telling our side that we must try to “understand” trump voters and their lives and move on from the hatred of trump…I call bullshit on that whole idea…I refuse to forgive and forget what those people did to our country by voting trump into office in 2016 and then reveling in his hatred and racism and letting their own fly like a flag…making this country a cesspool of misoginy and xenophobia and loving the fact that children…damn it, children were ripped away from their parents and put in cages just because they were fleeing violence in their own countries. These are not “American” values…and this is not political, this IS all about values, how you treat other people and try to do anything to make this country a better place…but, 70 million Americans still think that the idiot trump and his hatred is just what they want….and that will never be my values or that of any of us on the left…the right has no values if they still want trump…and how do you reconcile that with the love for others that we have? It is time for them to understand us…not the caricature that has been built by fox news and right wing radio but who we really are…I have absolutely no hope that any person on the right even has the capability or desire to change…they don’t think they need to…and that is a chasm too big for us to bridge…and I am in no mood to build one….
The world is celebrating, too!
Well…with the news that they don’t have to deal with the orange moron anymore, there has been an outpouring of support and relief from our allies across the world…with the kind of words no one would ever say about idiot boy…like “friends” and “looking forward to working with the president elect” “we have shared values”, “looking forward to stability in our relationship”…there were even fireworks set off by the mayor of London as he congratulated Joe….I hope this keeps up and idiot boy really gets to understand that not one world leader liked or respected him other than the thugs like him…and even they didn’t like or respect him…they just knew he was so damn dumb they could manipulate him easily with just a few words of praise…now the long task starts to repair the damage that idiot boy did…like stopping his stupid trade war, re joining the Paris Climate accords on day on, and reaffirming our support for NATO. I really do think that the world understood that the US was off the rails because of trump and his minions and with Joe and Kamala in charge, our respect around the world will skyrocket since they know we will be a dependable partner again….man, it feels good to feel good about this country again…
Our long national nightmare is over!
Well…I have been waiting for four long, miserable years to write that title…a few minutes ago every news organization (except fox of course) called Pennsylvania for Joe and Kamala and that puts him over the top in the EC and makes him president elect….I can’t really describe the relief I feel that the stain on America, trump, is going to be gone soon and some sort of normalcy is going to come back and we no longer will have a government full of grifters, incompetents, and assholes….I’ll come back a little later and add to this one but right now, all I want to do is read more about it in the news….
Okay, I’m back and I am surprised at how emotional my reaction has been to this good news…I would love to be sitting in a bar right now with like minded people having a few and laughing and smiling but that is one of the blackest of lasting legacies of the idiot in chief…I miss my friends and the surprise text to go out and hang out…but there are so many things I won’t miss…children in cages, ICE agents terrorizing the countryside, having a new law broken every damn day, having that smug orange piece of crap defiling out house, waking up to what new outrage the orange asshole has done, Bill Barr corrupting the justice department, more and more pollution, politicized government, stealing everything for trump’s cronies, incompetence, misogyny, fascism, hate, stupidity, corruption…you get the picture…it has just been so draining to see all of this crap for the past four years that I think I’ve got PTSD….I need to take the rest of this day off and just let all of the stress go….happy days are here again…..
November 7th
Well…damn, I want this coughing to be over…I am exhausted and feel like crap….and my brain isn’t even working very well with not sleeping much last night….I want a nap and I’ve only been up an hour…cripes….I did have a semi productive day yesterday and got the doors back on the linen closet and that finishes up the work I’m going to do here…and I’m down to about 80 miles to go to get to the last goal on the bike and that should happen on Tuesday…the first ride yesterday was a chore but the second one was better with going hard the whole way….but, I’m going to wait to go out today until after ManU plays at 7:30 even though it’s warm enough to go now…but I am going to ease into it today and let the coffee work for a while before I do anything other than this….I should be more sore than I am after all of the riding but the only thing that hurts is my right heel that has started to crack and it is a pain to walk on it…need to continue to use the lotion that is supposed to prevent that but I guess I got after it too late this year….okay, I’m tired of whining, too, so I’m going to end here and watch some Moto3 qualifying and have some more coffee….more later…
Think I’m going to buy something I don’t need….
Well…if you’ve been here a while, you know that I don’t like to spend money for things that I’d like to have versus things that I need…and I even don’t like to spend on things that I need usually making whatever I have work or just doing without…I mean, I drive a 26 year old car and have a 46 year old stereo and I have some clothes that are over 25 years old….but, I think I just may buy something that I don’t need but I want for the first time that I can remember. I have looked at tablet computers with an eye toward buying one for quite a while now and a deal that I don’t think I can pass up just showed up…amazon has their best Fire 10HD tablet on sale for 80 bucks for the next few days when it is normally 150 bucks and at that price, I think I can justify splurging on myself…I can get one with 32 gigs of memory and no ads on the start screen for 95 bucks…the reviews said it was a screaming deal at 150 bucks so I wonder if it is a double screaming deal for 50 bucks less? It would be pretty cool to have a new toy to play with and to be able to read the news on something bigger than the 3.5 inch screen on my Galaxy S-7 phone. I still have to think about it for another night but I am inching up on buying one…after all, how much longer can I wait? I am getting pretty damn old….
Okay…I just bought one….yay!
Still no election call…
Well…it’s pushing 3 pm here and there still is no call of the winner of the election…although, Joe is ahead in all 5 states that are left to call and idiot boy would have to take them all to win the election…so it is looking pretty good right now and no state has more than 6% of the vote to count so the call could come in the next few hours…or it might not…it might be next week, who knows? So, I think I’ll leave that there and do another one to talk about something else….