Well…I think my brain is getting numb with all of the hypocrisy and criminality of the trump and the repubs ao I just can’t muster up the energy to write about that right now…so, I won’t…so it looks like today you’ll get a triple dose of my life…or any other thoughts I may have…I did get more done on the yard this morning and unearthed the block patio that is in the back yard with my spade and then took the power washer to it and, although it is pretty worn and the blocks are a little crumbly, it still looks pretty good…well, at least better than it did and I moved another ton of dirt out to behind the garage that I am going to have to figure out what to do with. Oh, the fence guys are here! It looks like they will have it finished by the end of the day on Monday and that will make a milestone for the house with all of the big projects done…and I am going to pat myself on the back a little for getting all this done in less than 4 months…but, I am feeling it today…after working this morning and not sleeping last night, I am just beat today and I think this is going to force me to take a few days off after I get the apartment cleaned…it looks like that will be Tuesday if the fence guys are going to be working here Monday…and I still need to find a car for winter…yeah, I am exhausted…
Cripes…I’m bored already…
Well…it’s 8am and I’m bored already…this crap of getting up at a little after 5 screws up my whole schedule and I have everything that I normally stretch out til 10 done already and now I sit here bored…even finished my allotment of coffee for the day so now I’ll switch over to water and try to get the necessary gallon started….I think I may go out and get started…or re started on cleaning up the back yard since there is dirt and a pile of burned wood where it looks like the idiot had a campfire that needs to be removed…or moved behind the garage like I did with the dirt from the side of the house yesterday….I couldn’t believe how much dirt there was on the blocks…have a huge pile behind the garage now that I will need to spread over the yard after the moss in it dies and rots….I did get my first 94 gallon load out to the trash this morning and the damn wheelie container must weigh 200 pounds…and it is going to cost me 7.50 to have it dumped but that is okay…put 100 bucks in my account and I will be filling it with leftover crap from the garage for the next few weeks starting with the old microwave that I took out of the kitchen…that will probably almost fill the container but it is still worth it…the trash truck is working the street here right now and I think it’s pretty cool how fast the automated dumper grabs the containers and dumps them…hey, it doesn’t take much to amuse me…more later….
October 25th
Well….damn…up at 3:14 today but I was able to get back to sleep for an hour or so so I guess that’s something…and I don’t feel too bad this morning so I guess there’s no damage that is visible right now…I do have a sore right hip that has been hurting on the bike lately and I hope it’s not something serious…I wonder it it’s just the tendonitus moving around again since I really haven’t had much of that this year other than in my thumb…but that hurts almost all the time with me continually abusing it like yesterday when I cleaned the brick on the side of the house of all of the moss, dirt and debris that had piled up there…had to take my spade to it first to get the big stuff up and then power washed the rest of it and it looks pretty good…still have some small stumps from the brush that need to be removed but I need to rest my shoulders and hands some first since they are always in pain from working around here….I did get the grocery run done yesterday morning and it was not too bad with traffic at 7am…and the Meijer’s over here was not busy at all so I zipped right through…I did break my reading glasses loading stuff into the car since I couldn’t find the hard case I normally keep them in so I had to go back to Meijer’s and get two more pair since they had them on sale and I got two for only 9 bucks…and then I found the hard case with my work glasses in it in the basement here and I can’t figure out how they got there…oh, well…not much to do today…was going to go over for the final cleaning of the apartment and to turn the keys in but the fence guys are coming today so I think that will have to wait until Monday…I have until next Thursday so no big stress….more later…
They’re playing it right…
Well…I’m not sure what the stupid repubs thought they were going to accomplish with their stunt of invading a secure space to try to disrupt impeachment testimony yesterday, but it appears that all it did was make them look ridiculous since the testimony they were trying to disrupt happened later yesterday and by all accounts drove another nail in the idiot trump’s coffin. I just loved the reaction to that crap by Pelosi and Schiff…which was to have a press conference saying that plans are forming on their part for the public impeachment hearings…essentially ignoring the repubs who broke house rules. But, I’m sure that Pelosi is not ignoring their unethical behavior and will drop the hammer on them at some point in the future…and as I suggested, it could include losing committee assignments or even censure. The real problem the repubs have is that they have nothing…trump has already admitted to the extortion and no amount of pretzel logic is going to change that…all it is going to do is make the repbs like Lindsey Graham look more and more ridiculous every day and may even cost a few of them in 2020…we can hope….
October 24th
Well…it’s the first day of the grocery run to Meijer’s over here and it will be interesting to see how bad the traffic is at 7am…made the run out to Aldi’s yesterday around 9 or so and the traffic was quite heavy but I guess I’ll just have to deal with it…but I know that stretch of Alpine from 96 North is a no go zone at rush hour but it was getting that way over at the apartment at certain times of the day…slept crappy again last night with getting up at 4:19 and not being able to get back to sleep even though I laid there for another hour or so but I wonder when that will turn into the new normal for me and I’ll stop thinking about it? Should be soon…I did get out and check the mileage on the trails yesterday and with adding one loop to the outside trails, I have found a 15 mile run so now I can just veg out on the bike and think like I like to do…but, I am going to have to break out the cold weather gear here this week since the highs are going to be in the 40’s….I do have to remember to put my trash out tomorrow morning since the bin is full and I need to get rid of a bunch of stuff from the garage….it’s already starting to look better with just this one load and I do need to continue to clean it up so I can get the Miata in the garage….oh, and I did wash the car in the driveway again and it just felt right to be able to do that…the car was just filthy from all of the moving and I could barely see out of the windows…not much to do today…just the grocery run, running the power washer, watching Man U, and getting a bike ride in…cripes, I do have much to do….more later…
More obstruction…
Well…with the stunt the repubs pulled today of storming into the secure briefing room where a witness was giving testimony on the Ukraine extortion, all of them should be censured to start with, but then they should all be charged with obstruction of a congressional investigation…and the kicker of the whole thing was that, again, trump was aware of and supporting this crap…and that makes for another article of impeachment and adds to his already ongoing daily obstruction. Now, the repubs are always going on and on that they are the party of national security but every damn one of these idiots that pushed their way into the secure room where they don’t belong since they are not on that committee who is taking the testimony, took his cell phone into the room which is a severe breach of security and IC rules…and now, because these assholes pulled this stunt, the facility has to be swept for bugs to ensure that it is still secure from spying. This is just another incidence where the repubs don’t think any rules or laws apply to them and I think Nancy Pelosi needs to bring the hammer down on all of them…how about taking away all of their committee assignments to start with…we need to stomp on this crap as hard as possible…and do it now…
October 24th
Well…slept all the way til 5:30 this morning and I am going to declare that a victory…and I don’t remember waking up once so maybe this is a trend that will get better and I may sleep all the way to 6 at some point…my hands are just so beat up from working around here that I may need to rest them some…but not until later…I have to try to chop out the last stump this morning before the fence guys get here but I’m not sure if they will take the abuse…especially my right thumb that has been swollen and aching but not so much this morning so I am going to give it a go and see….I did have to pay the last 5 grand on the roofing and windows yesterday but it was good to meet that milestone and see the progress that came with all the work here….not sure if I want to pat myself on the back for saving this place but looking back at where I started in July, a little tap is in order at least..I did get the stairs down to the basement cleaned yesterday and it looks pretty good after getting all the crap off them with a scrub brush…the water in the bucket was black and I still can’t understand why the idiot who was living here didn’t clean them at all…it only took about 45 minutes to take them from gross to shiny and you would think you’d want the place you’re living in to be clean…oh, well….I do have an errand to run to Aldi’s today and it will be the first one out on Alpine and I hope I don’t have the crazy traffic that Alpine sees normally…will try to hit it around 10 so there should be a lull by then….more later…
Fence is getting started tomorrow…
Well…just heard from the fence company that they want to do a walk through and possibly start on the fence tomorrow! This is the last piece of the puzzle to making the house complete and I am excited about getting this place finished and then move into car search and detail mode on both the outside and inside of the house…there is still so much to do to clean inside but with winter coming fast, I am going to focus on getting the outdoor stuff done and then hunker down for the winter and finish up in here…still have painting to do and the basement needs to be cleaned up so I can do the floor in there and in the laundry room…yikes…still too much to do…
I wonder…
Well…just sitting here taking the day off of everything, reading some news stories and one that jumped out at me was the release of a “fact sheet” by Nancy Pelosi this morning setting out the broad outlines of the impeachment inquiry that appears to center on the abuse of power relating to the Ukraine extortion…now, I believe this is too narrow…but I understand that with all of the crimes that the idiot trump has committed, Pelosi and Schiff don’t want to make it too complicated for the general public to understand and I defer to their experience. Especially since Schiff is a former prosecutor and Pelosi has shown over and over that she knows how to wield the levers of power in the House…there was one thing that was buried in the sheets was the fact that there is evidence that both Pence and Pompeo were involved in this scheme..and that makes me wonder if there are charges and impeachment in both of those idiot’s future? After all, if trump is being impeached for running this extortion, should Pence be rewarded if trump is removed? It should never happen that a VP is rewarded for doing the same crime as the president…and guess what Pencie? There are real laws you have broken that you can be prosecuted for after you’re out of office…just like idiot boy and I’m sure there are prosecutors out there who are already working on the case….don’t think praying is going to help here you hypocrite christian….I just found a popcorn pumper in the basement here and I think I’m going to wear it out watching the hearings…
October 22nd
Well…man, I’m worn out….I think all the work on the house and stress from the move finally hit yesterday…and I’m still not sleeping well, too so I may need to take a day or so off completely and just veg…no bike ride either, and with the rain coming in later this morning, today could be the day…or should be the day…I’m not that young anymore and I guess it’s starting to show…but, I have a powerwasher to play with and I’d like to get to the side of the house and get the patio bricks cleaned off…I wonder if that could wait til wed? Okay, going to stop bitching about how I feel…coffee do your work…one thing you really don’t think of about this part of the state is oil wells anymore but there are still working ones along the trails I’ve been riding and that was a surprise to me…and that there were people fishing in the small lakes that are scattered through the swamp…I wonder how polluted that water is? Can you eat the fish you catch? I think that’s something I need to check out since I could strap my fishing pole on the bike and fish some….not much to do today…have to pay the final payment on the roof and windows and maybe run a couple of errands but that is about it…more later…