Well…running late today after I discovered a problem with changing my address..my damn 5/3rd credit card doesn’t work…tried to use it to buy gas this morning and it was rejected because the zip code doesn’t match…tried both of them and it still didn’t work…and my other card doesn’t have a stripe on the back so I couldn’t use it either…grrrr…had to use my debit card but I guess that’s okay…slept all the way in til almost 6 this morning and that is really, really weird but I’ll take it with the long string of getting up at 4 this week…but, I don’t think it helped since I am still just worn out and plodding toward the move on Sat…but, the heavy lifting at the house is almost done and all I have to do is clean today…and maybe try to get a chair down from the attic…but I don’t want to hurt my back before the move so I’ll have to be careful…I think I’ll have to buy some extension cords for the living room since old houses don’t have a lot of outlets and I have a lot of electronic stuff and lights that I want to light…might stop at depot on the way over to the house today and get that done….going to move the microwave and toaster today so that will leave only the big stuff to move…will clean up the rest of the small stuff tomorrow and take the shower curtain and the rest of my clothes so this place will be empty….need to take photos so I can remember this part of my life….more later….
Lots of work…
Well…this is the one I wanted to do before I read the article about the latest trumpian meltdown….got lots of work done at the house today but that was after getting my hair cut and then going over to the bank to change my address and running a couple more errands. got the blinds up I needed to so now I can have a little privacy and that feels good to get that done…makes it more like a real house every day…then I got started at removing some of the stains on the carpet in the bedroom I’m going to use but need to vacuum it with a real vacuum to do the rest…it appears to not have been vacuumed in years and is full of dirt and dog hair….I did dig out some furniture to use, too getting a nightstand and a lamp along with a headboard out of the attic…will need to clean all that stuff up tomorrow and I may even bring a big chair down into the living room and clean it but it is such a 70’s color…burnt orange, that I’m not sure I’ll like it…but, I do need more than just a couch in the living room so we’ll see. Made the first pass at cleaning the oven and at least now it is clean enough to use but not anywhere near clean enough for me so I’ll soak it again tomorrow and do the racks so I can use it this weekend….I did get a tv set up in my bedroom today and it looks like I’ll get about the same channels I get on the antenna here so that is cool…and the weird thing is that it comes in better with the antenna on the floor and not in the window…at least I can use it for a while until I move it downstairs for use when I have the bike on the trainer….
Just so damn dumb…
Well…along with the idiot boy’s meltdown today at a press conference with the PM of Italy…and that one was a real eye opener with the idiot in chief going off an a psychotic rant while the PM just sat there with a bemused look on his face…I just read of a meeting with house leadership and trump at the WH where he verbally attacked Nancy Pelosi, essentially telling her she loved communists and called her a “third rate politician” to her face…now, we all know that trump is one of the dumbest people on the face of the Earth, but to attack the one person who controls the impeachment process that is going to rid the country of you? That is just so damn dumb as to be pathetic…and Nancy’s comment was just delicious…”what we witnessed on the part of the president was a meltdown…” and that will goad the moron into even more psychotic behavior…people at the meeting described trump as being “genuinely pissed off” and red in the face and noted that no one could communicate with him in that state. So, repubs…you own this mess…what are going to do to fix it and make trump go away? Nothing probably…but that means you are going away in 2020….and good riddance…
October 16th
Well…damn…I wonder if 5 hours of sleep is going to be the new normal for me…up at 4:14 again with getting to bed late and I just can’t figure it out….maybe it’s the move getting close since that seems to be the only thing on my mind lately…and the logistics of shutting this place down while getting the house ready and transferring the food over and having it all ready for sat morning while still having stuff here for Fri night….I guess I’ll move most of it fri and maybe take two trips to get the frozen stuff moved…or just a late run over for the day…not sure yet….I did get a bike ride in yesterday and the weird thing is my legs don’t hurt as much as they did with not riding…down to only 3 more days on the trails out here and it is going to be odd riding somewhere else after over 46,000 miles since I started…but I am pretty worn out so I think the rides will be a little shorter to start over on the west side…should take a few weeks to get the trails sorted out but that may be fun…and I am going to take a week off working on the house after Sat and just relax for a while…and give the Miata some time to relax, too…it is so dirty that I think a complete cleaning will be my first project after the move….maybe Sunday or Monday…nope, going to rest a while first…I do have to get a haircut this morning and then go to the bank and change my address before I load the car up and head over to put the blinds up…can’t clean until tomorrow since there is no room for the vacuum until then…but I do need to do the carpet in the room I’m going to use before any furniture goes in…cripes, running out of time….more later…
It only took four…
Well…with all of the people that the house committees investigating trump’s Ukraine extortion want to talk to and who are going to talk over the next week or so, it only took the first four to prove that trump and his cronies committed multiple crimes in trying to get Ukraine officials to lie about Hunter and Joe Biden. Since the ex US ambassador testified last Friday, and with the three since then, all have told the same story…that Rudy, Mulvaney, Pompeo, Pence, and Barr all were involved in the scheme that was fought hard by career diplomats who all knew that what they were doing was not only illegal, but that would damage the US standing in the world by showing that trump and his cronies were just as corrupt as anyone in the Ukraine…or anywhere else in the world, and with them in charge the US could no longer be trusted. That is where the huge problem is…and with idiot boy’s unfathomable abandoning of our Kurdish allies in Syria, no one in their right mind can ever trust a thing that trump says or does…that right there is as impeachable an offense as you can possibly commit….and yet he just keeps on criming every day..and the repubs continue to support the flushing of our honor just to get a few more judges approved….every damn one of them needs to be held accountable…not just voting them out but holding them criminally responsible for being part of this conspiracy…one thing that I want to hear is a pledge from every one of our candidates that none of these criminals will be pardoned if they are elected….life in prison is too good for them….
October 15th
Well…it’s another 4:14 morning….sing that to the tune of “Tequila Sunrise” by the Eagles and it makes it a little more palatable and less frustrating than normal…okay, no it doesn’t…it’s still a bunch of crap that even with all the work on the house and getting a bike ride in, I should be tired enough to sleep more than 4 hours but no such luck…it was weird taking three days off the bike and it was going to be 4 but when I walked out to load the car it was just warm enough to get out without the cold weather gear that I packed and moved over to the house…and I forgot to bring back over here…and I packed most of my dishes to be moved today so I guess my diet is going to consist of sandwiches for the rest of the week…or fast food that I haven’t eaten in over a year and I’m not sure I want to start that….that would be easier for sure but I’m not sure how my body would react to that…I am thinking of getting a pizza after the move Sat but I have one in the freezer I got from Aldi’s that should work for that, too and it was only 2.50….it’s only in the mid 30’s right now so I am going to have to put the heat on at the house since I want to paint today so I can put blinds up tomorrow and then get on cleaning thurs and friday so I don’t have to clean around things after the move…may even do some of that in the kitchen today since I don’t need all the tools in the kitchen anymore and the walls and dinette set are pretty dirty…more later…
Progress…
Well….was going to do a political one but I am waiting for the reports on the testimony from one of the idiot boy’s aides that is going on right now…so, I think I’ll do a house update instead…made a bunch of progress at the house today…tried to get the built in microwave running today and the fan and light worked but when I started it, it blacked out completely and started to smoke so I just pulled the unit and cleaned up the area to get ready for installing a new exhaust fan but I’ll have to install a backsplash first since the fan is much smaller and there is just bare plaster there…that should be pretty easy but I think that will wait a while…I got some filling done in the numerous holes in the plaster in the kitchen and on the back door…but then remembered that I bought some 9 volt batteries since I wanted to try to fix the garage door opener and get the remote working again…found the problem with it pretty quickly…just a broken wire so now I have a powered garage door again…and it locks down so I don’t have to install a hasp to lock it…now that made my day and it’s time to take a break and watch the postponed race that’s on at 2…more later….
October 14th
Well…man, I feel lousy this morning and could use a day off but can’t take one with coming down to the wire on moving…feels like it’s all catching up with me but I just need to power through until sat night and then I can rest…I’m sure not sleeping has something to do with it but we all know I haven’t solved that over the past few years and won’t now…I do have almost everything small out of here and with 4 more trips after today, this place will be empty by Friday….I do need to start putting things away at the house after I work on the microwave today and I have new shades that need to go up in the kitchen but I need to paint first and I’m not ready for that yet…should prep for that today but I may put that off for a few days….need to put the tools away and clean the kitchen up today so it will be usable sat…haven’t been on the bike for three days and I can’t figure out why everything hurts from the waist down…might have to take something for it…at least my foot is just stiff today and won’t take anything for it again today to just let it heal some more…more later….
Quick one on politics…
Well…wasn’t going to do one on politics today but a couple of things popped up about the idiot trump that I wanted to comment a little about them…the first thing was that it was revealed yesterday that the 8 page long screed about not cooperating with congress on impeachment, that was supposedly written by one of trump’s lawyers was actually dictated by idiot boy himself…and now we know why it wasn’t up to the very basic standards of a first year law school student…but I can’t understand why that lawyer who was the stenographer would put his name to anything like that…opening himself up to disbarment by the lies that were included in it…are everyone around trump just that damn stupid? Oh, hell…we all know the answer to that…yes, yes they are. Another little tidbit that came up is that it appears that the cone of silence (I know the experienced people that read here know what that refers to) is starting to crack with the former Ukraine ambassador testifying to the house Friday even though she was ordered not to by trump…and next week, the American ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, is going to tell the House that it was trump that ordered him to put “no quid pro quo” in the text to the present Ukraine abassador, Taylor….another incidence of trump trying to CYA after everyone around him told him he broke the law with trying to extort Ukraine into smearing Biden. Okay, so that one wasn’t that quick…it was going to be about the house but my memory just kicked in and I remembered this stuff…whatever, trump is in even more trouble now since that text message can be construed as part of the coverup of the extortion of Ukraine…man, is trump stupid…
October 13th
Well…that was a weird night of sleep with getting up twice but then getting back to sleep and having dreams twice…and that never happens so it was cool for a change…still got up at 5:15, though, and it would have been a trifecta to sleep in, too…but, I guess that’s too much to ask…my foot doesn’t hurt at all this morning and that is even with tapering off to one dose of medication so I may try to not take any today…the redness is almost gone but the skin on the joint is peeling off and I wonder if that has something to do with the gout….strange….it’s also a strange feeling that this is my last Sunday here and next week I’ll have a new routine at the house…hope it is as peaceful as the ones here normally are…and it should be even more peaceful with no one stomping over my head or running up and down the stairs…and I think I’m going to try to wean myself off wearing earplugs to sleep since I started that to blot out the noise from the heating unit upstairs a few years ago…but that will mean getting used to brand new noises at the house like I used to have to do in hotel rooms when I traveled for work….it is going to be a little busy today with trying to get a bike ride in after the run over to the house…need to measure the back door window for a shade and bring the faceplate for the microwave so I can epoxy the fasteners back on it after I clean it…and stop at depot to get the shades so I can get them up before the move…then I need to stop spending money for a while to build my account back up…more later…