Well….that’s four days in a row of sleeping all night and not getting up til 6…this is just too damn weird….but this morning I don’t feel too hot…just exhausted and am having a hard time getting started….the coffee is not helping yet either…oh, well…just getting old I guess…at least I don’t hurt as badly as I did yesterday but the low level pain is till there everywhere…okay, going to stop bitching about that….the vestibule does look good after finishing it yesterday and that is motivating me some to complete the painting…just have the cabinets in the hallway and the spare bedroom to do and the majority will be done…still have the dining area of the kitchen to do but that is going to take some prep work that I may work on today have some big cracks to be repaired and then some window work….have to strip the paint off the frames and that is slow going…didn’t get a bike ride in yesterday but I may try to get out today to see if they plow the trails…don’t think they do but it would be cool if they did…not much to do today…just going to ease into it right now and let the coffee do it’s work…today would be a good day for the extra caffeine coffee…I may add one scoop of it to the next batch just to try it…more later…
Ow…
Well…with all of the damn snow this morning and how heavy it was, I had a hell of a time just getting out to get the newspaper today…almost got the car stuck on flat ground at the gas station where I buy the paper…but, that’s not what this is about…it is about how much I hurt now from pushing that heavy crap to clear my driveway and sidewalks. My thumb, right hip, and right shoulder are just screaming at me and I even had to take something for it a little while ago to make it tolerable…hmmmm…I guess part of it could be that I put the second coat on the vestibule, too, but most of the pain was already there to the point that I had to use the roller with my left hand….and that was a trip since I never use my left for detail work…or much at all really….and my shoulder is back to the popping and creaking it was doing just after I crashed the bike a year ago…so, yeah, I feel old tonight and may have to take the day off working on the house tomorrow to heal up some…and that adds a pain in the ass to the pain list…oh, well…back to politics tomorrow…
December 1st
Well…this sucks…got up this morning to 6 inches of that wet, heavy snow that kills lots of old guys when they go out to shovel it…and barely made it out to get the paper…almost got stuck at the end of my driveway and on flat ground over at the gas station where I get my Sunday paper…but, I didn’t and not having to clean the car off before going out is still pretty cool…I did sleep through the night for the third day in a row and I am really confused why that would be…I’m not doing anything different than I have for years but I guess I shouldn’t analyze it too much….I did get the vestibule painted yesterday and am hoping I have enough paint left to put the second coat on today but it’s going to be close…and I am not going out to get more paint today so it may end up being a two day job…and that’s okay….it’s such a small space with lots of detail on the door and around the lights that it took quite a bit of time…I did get my last piece of basement equipment yesterday and got it up and running and that is pretty cool….now I’m just waiting for my sound bar to arrive and then no more spending until January…not much to do today…it’s pretty obvious that there will be no bike ride today and I can use the day off…so that leaves sports with the F1 race on at 8 and then Man U plays at 11:30 so that will take care of the morning but it looks like a boring afternoon….more later….
If the repubs won’t convict in the senate…
Well…as we watch the impeachment proceedings that have already revealed that the idiot trump has committed multiple felonies while in office and before…and as Mitch McConnell has made it clear that he will not allow trump to be convicted in the senate no matter what the evidence is or how much he has betrayed the country, the dems need to come up with a new strategy that will guarantee that trump pays the price for his crimes after the repubs can no longer protect him. Now, I have never seen such a corrupt party as the repubs now are in my long life…so it left up to us to make sure that whoever comes next sees that, while it may take a long time, they will not be allowed to commit crimes with impunity. I propose that we use the impeachment inquiry as a grand jury that will gather evidence that will then be given to prosecutors across the country to bring charges against trump and his minions after they are out of office…and we need to make the country aware that, if it wasn’t for the cult of trump that the repubs are willing members of, idiot boy would be convicted in the senate and removed from office. One component of of this action would be a letter from Jerry Nadler to trump telling him that this is what is going to happen and that there is not a damn thing trump can do about it since it is within the power of the House committees to release whatever evidence they want to whomever they want. One last thing that need to be shouted to the heavens is that ALL repubs who have decided to not uphold their oaths of office are part of this conspiracy and just as guilty as trump…we need to play hardball to make sure trump knows he isn’t going to get away with all of his crimes…
November 30th
Well…that was a little weird…didn’t get up til 6 and slept through the night, mostly, and don’t feel too bad this morning so I’ll take it…I did get some work done yesterday for the first time in a few days and will finally get the vestibule painted today…after F1 qualifying and while soccer is on…need to find my painting clothes and get a little more sanding done first but that will wait until after I have some coffee…had an okay day yesterday and got a nice bike ride in but it looks like the next few days are going to be rainy with some snow/ice mixed in so it looks like some hibernation time is going to happen and that means I’ll have time to get started on the cabinets at the end of the hallway and then move on to the spare bedroom…that one is going to take a lot of prep work before paint but I have the time so no big deal….not much to do today…after painting I need to clean some and start getting the tools put away so the place doesn’t look too messy…I still don’t need to cook for another couple of days but I do need to think and plan what is going to be next….more later….
The Irishman…
Well…with all of the hype about how wonderful the new Scorsese movie “The Irishman” is, I decided to take a look at it and invest 3 1/2 hours into it last night….hmmmm…while I think it was a serviceable movie, I really don’t think it lives up to reviews that called it “a masterpiece”…especially after watching “The Godfather” earlier in the day which truly is a masterpiece. One of the most jarring parts of the movie was the attempts to de-age the main characters to show their earlier lives but DeNiro and Pesci still looked like they were in their sixties and the scene where they met over a broken down truck where Pesci called DeNiro “young man” was just weird…and during the rest of the movie, to see DeNiro doing entry level mob jobs when he still looks to be in his 60’s was jarring to say the least and destroyed the believability to me….so, would I recommend this movie? With a few cocktails, maybe…but I didn’t walk away saying wow! And that is what a masterpiece is to me…like watching “Casablanca” or “the Big Sleep”….and I sure wouldn’t rate it an 8.9 like it is on IMDB….
Just bought the last thing until January….
Well…yeah, I know…I said I wasn’t going to to spend any money until the first of the year but amazon had a deal on a soundbar that I have been looking at so I decided to buy it for 10 bucks off at 55 bucks….and it comes with the optical cable I need to connect it to the tv that is about a 12 buck option for other low priced ones and it comes with free shipping…I guess it has free shipping all the time if it’s over 25 bucks so that’s no selling point…but it does have 70 watts and a remote control for volume and an equalizer with three presets…and I may be able to take the audio out and play it through the big speakers if I want so that will be cool….so, NOW I can’t spend any more cash until January…but I’m set up with everything I need until then so no big deal….
November 29th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday and the turkey came out great again and I ate too much as always…but, my eating too much is really not a lot when I think about it…I mean one plate of food for the whole day? And no pie this year? Yep, so I shouldn’t feel too bad about it…and I don’t. Slept okay last night but feel pretty worn out today so I think I’m going to take it easy and just do some small work around here….I really have to clean more around here than I did at the apartment but I haven’t gotten that all figured out yet….I know the space is bigger but there’s more to it than that…it just seems that I track a lot more dirt in from outside than I did at the apt….and this place is really dusty, too…oh, well….I am going to check on amazon today to see if they have the soundbar I want on sale for black Friday but that is about all I want to spend money on right now…the new basement equipment I ordered is coming Sunday so that will be cool but I do need to not spend any more money until after the first of the year to let my reserves build up again…and I really don’t need anything but there are a few things I want that I have to put off for now….but, I’m used to that…have done that my whole life and it’s pretty easy….more later…
November 28th
Well….5 bucks for the GR press? Just went out to get the big paper of the year and they charged 5 frickin bucks just so I can get bombarded with ads? Okay, the ads are the point of today’s paper and it is a little treat for me so I guess I shouldn’t bitch about it…although that’s a buck more than I paid for my 14 pound turkey to put it in perspective….I think I may have found a sleep aid that works every time…a couple of days ago, I watched “The Mandalorian” and I fell asleep on the couch during it…so, I decided to watch it again last night since I am a big Star Wars fan and the same thing happened! Fell asleep multiple times as the loudness of the fight scenes woke me up time and again…so I think there may be something to it….slept okay last night and don’t feel to bad right now other than my thumb hurts like crazy again this morning…I did get out for a bike ride in shorts yesterday since it was 52 at 8am but it will be full thermasuit today…and I got the new front sprocket for the bike that I need to install but I’m not sure if I’ll get to that before I ride today…I think I can get through one more ride with the old one and I don’t want to miss Man U playing at 11 this morning…not sure how long it will take to change it out but I think the last one took about a half hour….not much to do today…just cooking, eating, and watching the Lions lose…and some cleaning if I can get motivated but I’m not holding my breath…more later….
I feel pretty lucky…
Well…as you know, I read a lot and one of the sites that I read the most is DailyKos since it has like minded people there from the more progressive side of the country…but, this one is not about the politics that I write about a lot but it is about the real pain that has been coming through a lot of the writing there over the past few days. One of the best parts of the site is the fact that, while they do have some paid writers there, a lot of the content comes from what is called the community…and any member is encouraged to add his two cents on any topic they choose…and this time of the year, there are a lot of people who are living through loss and loneliness…and are having such a hard time dealing with the change in their lives that comes with the death of a parent or estrangement from family that it is heartbreaking to read. But I do read some of them and comment when I think I have something to say that might help…and with that reading, a revelation has come to me that I am pretty lucky…I don’t see my family a lot and my kids spend the holidays with their inlaws…but I don’t feel the loneliness that other people feel and I realize that loss is part of life and have been fortunate to be able to let that go as just that…part of life that we all have to deal with in our own way. A few years back, I had quite a few friends who didn’t have any place to be on Thanksgiving so I would cook a huge turkey and invite them all over for the “Orphan’s Thanksgiving” and we would eat and laugh and drink a lot of wine…but, things have changed with many of them having their own families and new traditions but I still cook the huge turkey by myself and for myself and I still consider myself to be really lucky to still be able to do it and not be sad about being alone….I just wish that the posters at Kos could find some of the peace that I have…and find some little reason to smile that will lift the veil of depression for just a shining little while….