Well…is anybody else bored at 8:30 in the morning? Today, I am so I thought I’d come here and talk about something I noticed when I got the stereo running again. With living in an apartment for so long and not wanting to disturb the other tenants, I didn’t really use my stereo much but used my mp3 player with the earbuds in…and quite a bit of the music I have I have never heard on the stereo before….so it was kind of funny that it sounds so different when I connect the mp3 player to it and play it loud…really loud…and adding the extra set of speakers that I found in the basement really fills out the sound…I do like how it sounds and it is like listening to the music for the first time in some instances….and did I mention loud? It is pretty cool to not have that to think about that anymore…I should probably play something right now and try to find a book to read since I don’t feel like working on the house….more later…
November 22nd
Well….I think I have a bug…crap….and I wonder how that could be since I am never around people…my lungs hurt and I am coughing like crazy…oh, well….but my thumb hurts less today so I guess that’s something…but, I do feel old today and just want to do nothing but that just makes things worse…okay, that’s enough bitching….I did get some patch work done on the vestibule yesterday and can get it painted if I can get off my butt and I almost have the last room cleared up so I can start on that next week…or over the weekend if I can get motivated….kind of wasted the day yesterday and didn’t even get out on the bike with the rain and wind…and the wind is still blowing this morning and it’s cold out there so the ride will wait til later…don’t really have a lot to do today…got most of the outdoor stuff done and I’m just waiting for the last of the leaves to fall so I can rake the back yard and get the leaves on the compost pile behind the garage…need to mix in some dirt to get the breakdown started but that will wait a few days until it’s a little warmer….more later….
Dr. Hill nails the repubs…
Well…I haven’t been watching too much of the hearings in the house but I’m glad I did today….the state department Russia expert, Dr. Hill, tore into the repubs for parroting Russian talking points that Ukraine was responsible for the 2016 election interference when every damn intelligence agency of ours and of our allies have shown that it was Russia and Russia alone who did it…and she said this disinformation is part of the Russian plan to continue to meddle in our elections and that the repubs are willing dupes for Russia. I can’t wait to see if the repubs will still push this nonsense later today since they have been crying that Dr. Hill has been mean to them by being blunt about their help for the Russian interference…this could get interesting later….
November 21st
Well…have been up for a while and still feel exhausted but I think that may be my fault…and not sleeping well has something to do with it…oh, and getting a late start on the coffee doesn’t help, either…so, I’m going to ease into it this morning…there really is no reason to rush anything today with the rain moving that will keep me off the bike today…so that leaves only inside work to do so I think I’ll continue to prep to get ready to paint the rest of the interior…I did get some grass seed laid down and fed the lawn for the last time this year and had to repair the gate stop since the exterior adhesive I used turned to powder so I will have to fix that in the spring…just used a tube of caulk for a temp fix and I think that should work…it is kind of fun to have a place to just fool around outside and in the garage….not much to do today…I may have to make a run back out to the south end to pick up some venison today if I hear from B…oh, I did get the t-day grocery shopping done and got a 14 pound turkey from Meijers for only about 4 bucks so that was cool…..and I am looking forward to making my first big meal here….more later…
I think I saw an elk yesterday…
Well…I almost forgot to talk about something I saw on the trail yesterday…after doing the river part of the trail and getting ready to make the turn into the swamp, I saw what I first thought was a deer crossing the trail about 30 yards in front of me…but it was not the color of the normal white tail deer that I see every day…it was almost a dark brown and had a set of antlers that looked like an elks…but it was only a little bigger than a deer so then I started to wonder what that would be….and the only thing I thought of was a reindeer but there are no reindeer here in West Michigan…at least they are not indigenous to this area…but, I did remember that there were some reindeer that escaped from a game farm in the area a few years back and I wonder if they are still at large? Pretty weird…
In any normal time, it would be all over after today…
Well….I wonder if they make a bus big enough for all the people Gordon Sondland threw under one today? If you didn’t see it, trump’s ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, testified in the impeachment investigation in the House today and boy, he laid out that every damn one of the department heads that work for trump was in on the extortion of Ukraine and took an active part in it on the orders of the idiot trump….let that sink in for a minute…almost every damn cabinet secretary has committed a felony in support of trump trying to get a foreign power to help install him just like Putin did in 2016…Mulvaney, Pence, Pompeo, Perry and many more people were in on the scam according to Sondland who was there and pushing most of it with those other criminals….and in any normal time, there would be a delegation of repub senators heading to the WH right now to tell the idiot boy that it’s all over and he needs to resign…but, these aren’t normal times since every damn repub has lost his mind and still supports the criminal in chief…and I can’t figure out why. After all, trump can’t even get repubs elected in deep red states and his influence is waning every day…so I wonder why all of the repubs still kiss his ass and protect him regularly…and here’s the kicker….we haven’t even heard the worst stuff yet since the courts haven’t forced any of the criminals from trump’s inner circle to testify yet…what are we going to hear when that happens? It sure as hell isn’t going to get better and more and more of trumps cronies are going to end up disgraced or in jail or both….and resigning like Perry did or that Pompeo is contemplating is no protection or a get out of jail free card…there are consequences for extorting a foreign government for personal gain and every damn one of them that don’t resign should be impeached…
November 20th
Well….another night of semi good sleep and I don’t feel too bad this morning other than I’m a little tired still…but not tired enough to make coffee with the extra caffeine…used new muscles again yesterday with raking the leaves in the front yard and the soreness is not too bad…I actually enjoyed getting out and doing some yard work and I still have the back yard to do but the leaves are not all down and I only want to do it once…I decided to stop favoring my right thumb yesterday and it may be better from using it…at least it hurts less right now and I’ll take that…even used it on the bike to work the brakes on the back wheel and that hurt like crazy but I think that’s just breaking the scarring in it…we’ll see today…I may have to change out the rear shifter since it just doesn’t shift right anymore and that is a little disappointing after only 8,000 miles…but, not getting the gear you need when you need it is annoying as hell…I did get out to run some errands yesterday and need to do the grocery run this morning…I’m glad I decided to put gas in the car the day before yesterday at 2.13 a gallon before the price shot up 40 cents…I know that 40 cents a gallon for 6 gallons is not a lot of savings but it is something…not much to do today….need to get the stuff for t-day and Meijers has turkeys for 33 cents a pound so I need one of those…I mean a 15 pound turkey for under 5 bucks? Can’t pass that up….more later….
I don’t want to hear it…
Well…the next time any damn repub goes on about how they are the only party that supports our troops, I don’t want to hear it…after how the assorted group of draft dodgers and pedophile protectors went after Col. Vindman today, trying to impugn his service and love of this country with innuendo and outright lies to protect the 5 time draft dodger who squats in the WH, they can never say they support the troops ever again…and, we all know that the repubs support of the troops has been a lie for decades as they stage photo ops with them but then cut the VA and any programs that benefits them…like the bone spur in chief who stole funds earmarked to rehab schools and hospitals that the troops need for their families to build his stupid wall…and now they are trying to tear down a decorated veteran who is doing his duty to protect the constitution while the criminal in chief just keeps committing more and more crimes. When Col. Vindman was at the end of his opening statement, he did what any good son would do for his father when he stated “do not worry, I will be fine for telling the truth”….this is a true American talking, not the repub assholes who are attacking him for his “divided loyalties” because he wasn’t born here….they can all go to hell….
November 19th
Well….staying in bed didn’t work this morning and that is a little disappointing…so, I’ve been up since 3:30…how about you? Feel pretty damn exhausted this morning but have a lot of work to do so maybe I’ll get a nap later in the day…yeah, I laughed at that one, too….got a few things done yesterday…ran errands in the morning and got gas for the car at 2.13 a gallon so that was cool…and got some cheap boots to do the snow in along with another set of work out pants to wear around in here to stay warm…and I talked to one of the guys from the old apartment complex who got three deer so far and it looks like I’m getting some fresh venison Thursday which is really cool….I do need to get out to get a leaf rake this morning and rake the leaves here while it is going to be semi warm and dry and I need to compost them behind the garage since the city doesn’t pick them up anymore…and I am not going to fill the Miata up with them and take them to the dump…I could burn them in the incinerator that is in the basement but that seems like too much work and I can use the compost in the garden next summer…so, I do have things to do today along with getting out on the bike again….but, right now I need more coffee and to just sit here for a while….more later….
More crimin’….
Well….I am still smiling that Roger Stone is going to jail for a long, long time but there is a little detail that not many people have picked up on and the danger it poses to the idiot trump….as the trial went on, it was made clear that Stone lied to investigators about his contacts with Wikileaks, saying that he didn’t have any at all when all of the evidence showed that he was the conduit between Wikileaks and the trump campaign…coordinating the campaign’s response to reinforce the effect of the release of the stolen dem e-mails…that were stolen by the Russians. When asked what he knew about Wikileaks by Mueller, the idiot in chief said he had no knowledge of anything about the stolen e-mails and put that in writing since he wouldn’t sit for an interview with Mueller…but, during Stone’s trial, many witnesses testified that Stone had talked directly to trump abut Wikileaks and the e-mails, showing that trump lied to Mueller and that is now being investigated by the House…and I really think that perjury will be added to the articles of impeachment that are piling up on a daily basis. I think the stress of all of this is getting to idiot boy since he ended up at Walter Reed Hospital over the weekend for what the liars in the WH said was “getting a head start on his annual physical” but was reported that it was some sort of a panic attack…or a reaction to all of the Adderall he snorts…at least that was the major speculation that was going around this weekend….or it was just the start of the latest lie that he is going to use as an excuse to resign since even someone as stupid as trump must realize that things are only going to get worse for him…