Well…hey Michiganders…I know we’re all sitting around with plenty of time on our hands and I have a suggestion how to use some of it…with the new, voter passed law from last year, everyone has the ability to request a permanent absentee ballot so, if there are still coronavirus problems in November, or if you’re busy, or for any other reason, you can have a ballot sent to your home so you can fill it out at your leisure…and that means that the repubs can’t shut down your polling place, or move them or change ID requirements to keep our side from voting here in Michigan…I did it when I moved into GR and changed my address and the county clerks, or city clerks will send you the forms necessary to do it…so, let’s do this one little change that will keep the repubs from stealing any more elections here in Michigan…I know you’ll feel better for it…vote!
I’m beat…
Well…I’m pretty sure that getting 3 1/2 hours of sleep is not a good thing…I am so damn beat right now that it’s tough to just sit here and do this…but the weird thing is that I tried to take a nap and got about 15 minutes before I woke up and I can tell that any more is just not going to happen….so, I decided to to defrost the upstairs freezer…well…not really defrost it so much as just scraping the frost buildup out of it….and I found that my car ice scraper works perfectly for it and makes short work of it…so that was cool…I did get out for a grocery run this morning and the car started right up after the dead battery Sunday and just running it for 15 minutes or so then….so it was good to drive it a little…it doesn’t like sitting and is not idling right but getting some injector cleaner should help that….I do need to put the summer wheels back on this week so I can order the new tires for it next week after I pay off my Capital One card…and I got everything I needed at the grocery store…really just wanted to get a Cooks ham for 89 cents a pound and got that so I’ll be eating off that thing for a week…and I got my green bean seeds to plant so I think I have everything for the garden….but, I’m so damn tired…not sure if I should try to do more or just give up and veg…probably just veg and start over tomorrow….I do want to get out to HF to get my new little compressor this week and they have micro fiber towels on sale for 4 of them for 69 cents and they are really hand for dusting around here so I need some of those, too…will probably spend 60 bucks or so there but then I shut everything down and no more spending for quite a while….especially since they are going to stiff people who are getting SS and don’t have to file taxes…no 1200 buck stimulus check and it’s trump’s fault since he told the IRS not to pay anyone who is so poor they don’t owe taxes…what a prick…
250,000 dead is now acceptable?
Well…I really think it’s dereliction of duty for the media to allow the idiot trump to start to normalize the death of 250,000 Americans and are not holding him accountable for any of them…even though it was his denial and incompetence that is responsible for most for them. They just can’t allow those goalposts to be picked up and moved a hundred miles down the road after idiot boy said at the start that “it’s just one guy coming in from China and it will be over quickly” and downplayed that there was any threat at all when an early response like we have here in Michigan would have at least lessened the outbreak…and the bungling of a testing program that would have basically tested everyone in an area with an outbreak would have allowed us to recognize people who were infected but not showing symptoms yet and isolate them would have stopped the spread…just like South Korea did. The only thing I have to scream at the top of my lungs to the media is “do your damn jobs” stop following the shiny new thing that idiot boy puts out there every day…stop going to his daily campaign rallies and reporting on people like the “pillow guy” who have no damn business being at the briefing in the first place…after all, none of this is normal and if you keep trying to normalize trump and his mental illness it will only result in more and more dead….and remember your failings in 2016…when you ignored trump’s obvious unfitness for office and wasted gallons of ink on Hillary’s frickin e-mails…it’s partially your fault that Americans are dying…so do better this time….
April 1st
Well…damn…it was a 4:01 morning today with getting up at 2 for the first time….so that makes it a 3 1/2 hour night and that takes me back to my college days when I had those kinds of nights for 4 years…but, I was in my 20s then and pretty invincible…not the old guy I am now…was a little worried yesterday that I was getting a fever and it was going to progress into something bad…but, I almost stopped coughing and the fever stayed low so I think it will be okay…I do have a bug of some kind but it feels more like a cold than anything else since I’m not sore or tired…and I should be with not sleeping much…it’s a little weird to get up so early to have to wait for 2 hours for the coffee to brew but I don’t want to start too early so I’ll be out by 7….didn’t get much done yesterday and today is probably going to be the same with not sleeping….I know my energy is going to run out really early and will probably only last until the bike ride later this morning…I am going to head out for groceries this morning to try to get a cheap ham at Meijers and a few other things that I need before they start restricting who can get what and there are long lines out the door while they limit the number of people in the store at any one time…with the ham, I don’t have to go out again for 6 weeks or so…I will miss having milk with meals but I guess I’d better get used to it since I am not going to stand in line for hours for food…booze maybe…but not food….more later…
How low can he go?
Well…we all know the the idiot trump is the worst person in the world, and that was before his rant at one of his campaign rallies/briefings the other day where he attacked doctors, nurses, and hospitals for using “too many” masks and ventilators…saying bluntly that he thinks they are stealing them since no one could go through a million masks or that any hospital needs more than two ventilators…how stupid/venal can one person get? It’s all part of trump’s mental illness where he thinks that everyone is on the grift like he is and he can’t understand that people are honest and dedicated to protecting their fellow citizens…and since he is full of scams, everyone else is too. Just this one statement would be enough for anyone with any shred of compassion or empathy to resign in shame…and the rest of the repub party should be pushing him to do it…but the cult of trump won’t allow that…anything is fine if it keeps them approving unqualified, right wing judges that are going to trash this country for a generation…they are all in on the grift…and all need to go…
It’s getting dire…
Well…things are getting pretty dire around here when I’m three weeks past the time to get a haircut and all of the places I use are closed to stop the virus spread…so, I decided to do my own hair this morning using my beard trimmer since it was annoying the hell out of me…just finished it and it doesn’t look too bad…it’s the same way I have it cut when I go out for a haircut…a number 3 clipper over the whole thing with a number 2 on top….I think if my clippers weren’t 20 years old it would have looked a little smoother and I have to figure out how to trim over the ears and around the back but I have lots of time on my hands so I think I can….after all, it’s just hair and it will grow back…but I just bought myself another month so that’s cool….and I saved 13 bucks….woo hoo…
March 31st
Well…up at 5:24 this morning and that pretty much puts things back to normal after the late morning yesterday…and yep, I have some kind of bug….woke up kind of sweaty this morning and have been coughing up lots of stuff and I don’t think that is all caused by allergies….but, I don’t feel too bad so I will be back on the bike this morning to get the miles in and may even be up to doubles starting thurs with a little warmer temps coming in…I am almost to 700 miles for the year and that puts me ahead of where I was last year at this time…but getting to 5K is still pretty daunting….haven’t been too motivated lately and I’m not sure why that would be….I know I haven’t been feeling too hot but that’s normally not the problem….maybe it’s that there is so much to do outside and the weather hasn’t been cooperating…and I know that the abuse my hands are going to get is going to be quite painful when I start chopping out the stumps in the front of the house….I know that all I need to do is just get started and take it piece by piece but I need paint and other supplies that I can’t get right now…not much to do today….I am going to ease into the day until I get on the bike around 10 or so and that will still be in full thermasuit for the next couple of days….I really should clean but I’m still not too motivated…more later….
Crap, I might be getting sick…
Well…okay, have had really bad allergies for months now but this feels different…I have started to feel warm this afternoon and just weird…still coughing but that has been going on for months so that’s not a new one…I’m not sure if I’m eating enough and that always makes me feel warm the following day…I mean I had two eggs, two pieces of bacon and two slices of toast along with two pieces of pizza yesterday…and I figure that is over 1500 calories and that should be enough…although the day before that I only had half a chicken breast and couple of bowls of soup…and so far today I’ve had half a chicken breast and a handful of fries and that is only about 400 calories so I could be behind for today…and I am trying my hand at baking bread right now I am so bored…so I’ll have a couple of slices of that in a few minutes….all I know is this feels different than normal…like I have a bad cold coming on…do colds still exist? No one is talking about that right now…crap, I don’t need this right now…or ever…I guess I’ll keep you posted if this gets worse….
The rat bastards…
Well….I think we now have a new worst company in the US and it isn’t even close…as you know, the US government is sending out 1,200 dollar checks to almost all adults in the US and 500 dollar checks to each child to try to limit the damage the coronavirus is doing to the economy…and how long do you think it would take for the rat bastards that run a lot of the companies in the US to figure out a way to suck that cash up from their employees to enrich themselves? Yeah, you guessed it…the checks are not even written yet and I’ve read we have a company called ImageNet Consultants in Oklahoma City ( a red state, go figure) that sells high end printers, copiers and IT services wanting their remaining employees (after laying off most of them) to forfeit part of their April paychecks equal to the amount of money they get from the stimulus checks with the company even wanting half of any dependent checks their employees may get for their children. Now, I’ve seen a lot in my days here on Earth but this is one of the worst…how the hell does the CEO of this company sleep at night? Yeah, probably pretty well and I’ll bet he is a repub to boot…nothing but grifters and cheats there, that’s for sure…if there wasn’t a depression coming, if I were employed there it wouldn’t be for long…oh, and if you’re doing business with these assholes, go somewhere else…let’s make this 100 million dollar company a zero dollar company…and fast….
March 30th
Well…running really late this morning with a miracle happening and not getting out of bed until 7:18….I did wake up at 3:30 but was able to roll over and go back to sleep for the first time in what seems like a year…don’t think that helped in feeling better though, since I still feel worn out and crappy and just can’t get started…I wonder if you can get too much sleep? If this is going be what my allergies are going to be like this spring, I’m going to be miserable and I’m not sure how long I can take it…have felt like crap for months now and it is getting to be a bit much…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday in shorts but it looks like I’ll be back to full thermasuit for a couple of days…but I just looked at the weather and some 60 degree days are coming…it’s about damn time to be able to get out in a t-shirt and get started on the lawn and outside of the house….need to get the hatchet sharpened so I can try to get the stumps out of the front of the house and get ready to plant flowers…not sure if I’ll be able to get flowers this year and I won’t be here next year so maybe I’ll just fill the spaces in with dirt….didn’t get anything done yesterday but I am going to try to do something today…not sure what but something…cleaning? Man, it’s weird to be on my first cup of coffee and it’s after 8….and I think it’s going to put me behind for the whole day…behind for what I don’t know but behind….more later….