Well….as I close in on the move date, I needed to work on details that will make the place ready to go…and today, I needed to test out the new thermostat, burn the crud off the stove top burners, and check out the over the range microwave/fan….and today, I was successful at all three…got the burners cleaned off with them red all the way from the inside coil to the outside one on all 4 burners…but boy did they stink and smoke doing it…think I may have to clean the ash off of them before I get into any cooking…when I got over there, the first thing I did was to turn the heat on and the furnace fired right up, ran a cycle, and shut down again…and did it one more time before I shut it off when I was leaving…I can’t believe how quiet the thing is compared to the 747 sound of the one here…and at 60 years old, I still think that’s a miracle…I had it set at 66 degrees and that was plenty warm enough to work in shorts and a t-shirt but we’ll see what it’s like just sitting and watching tv…still think I’ll have to go with long pants, socks, and a long sleeved t-shirt but I think I can get used to it…the last thing I worked on was the microwave/fan over the stove top that my son said hasn’t worked in more than 10 years but I have experience with microwaves and normally, when they don’t work, it’s just a fuse, so I took the face of it apart, located the fuse, and wrapped it in tin foil to just test to see if that is it…and I laughed out loud when it lit up and the fan worked so now instead of a replacement job, it’s now turned into a cleaning and repair job that I can do after I move in…so, quite a successful morning at the house…just need to get to the final cleaning to get ready to move and put my tools away….6 days….
October 12th
Well…running a little late this morning even with getting up a little after 5 but just haven’t been able to get moving yet…it’s damn cold outside and I think that will keep me off the bike again today as the rain did yesterday…but, my right thigh can use the rest with the damn pain that started a few days ago…my foot seems to be better today but it is still discolored so I’m going to keep taking the medication until it’s gone…I was able to get my slip on shoes on yesterday with just a little pain so that is progress…I did get the wood floors waxed at the house yesterday and they came out pretty good and I cleaned the stove top, too…but that was a greasy mess that took me longer than the floors…and the burners all still work but need to burned to get the grease off them…I may go over and do that today but I need to take my fan so I can open the windows to let the smoke out so the smoke alarms don’t go off….and the drip pans have been soaking overnight and I need to try to get the burned on crap off them…or see if I can find new ones but I can live with the old ones for a while….I do need to vacuum the last carpet that is in the bedroom I’m going to use and try to clean the spots off it, too…and get all that done before next Sat when I move in….but, not right now…just going to sit here and have my coffee for a while before I decide if I’m going over with another load….more later…
So much winning…
Well…as every day goes by, the village idiot squatting in the WH gets more and more deranged as he hears that the walls are closing in…just today there is a hearing in the house where the previous abassador to the Ukraine is going to tell Schiff exactly what happened in her firing to clear the way so trump and his cronies could pressure Ukraine to lie about Biden…and that is going to be good…and Gordon Sondland, who is another diplomat enmeshed in the scandal (okay a fake diplomat who paid a million bucks to get appointed) has agreed to testify, defying the state department’s order to not cooperate with the investigation. And it appears that Bill Taylor, who was serving in the ambassadors post after Marie Yovanovitch was fired, is negotiating to testify what he knows…so, much, winning for idiot boy…and let’s top that off with the dc appeals court that ruled 2-1 that Mazars has to produce trump’s tax returns and give them to congress…of course trump is going to try to appeal this case to the supreme court but it is unusual for them to take the case if both the district and appeals court agree…but, with the hacks that McConnell has infested the court with, who knows? It is only a matter of time until trump goes down and take all of the damn repubs with him…hope I have enough popcorn to watch this show…
October 11th
Well…it’s pretty sick that I now consider sleeping only til 5:14 a win these days…just once…damn, just once I’d like to “sleep in” until 7 or so….oh, well…haven’t taken any ibuprofen for pain all week but I just had to since my right thigh is screaming at me and it hurt like crazy trying to carry the bike down the stairs yesterday…and that is with only one ride a day this week and I don’t understand that…and my head is stopped up…okay…going to quit bitching…at least for now…I did get the lawn mowed at the house yesterday and got the thermostat set…I think, and I think I’ll try it this morning when I go over….need to wax the wood floors today to get ready for moving in next week and the cooktop is filthy so that is on the agenda for today, too along with putting some stuff away….it looks like rain out there but I am going to take a look and see if I can get out before I go over after it gets light…need to lube the rear shifter before I go since I washed all of the wd off cleaning it wed and it was terrible on the run yesterday…I do have almost everything moved that I can in the Miata and still have 4 runs over after today so this place will be cleaned out before the move day sat….I am really tired from this whole process and I think sat night is going to be a collapse night along with sun….I do need to get some long lounging clothes this week to get ready for having the heat set at 68 instead of the 75 I have here….and socks…lots of socks…and I’ll have to find my sweats in one of the many, many bags in the basement….more later….
Bye, bye Rudy…
Well…gee…never saw this coming…it seems that a couple of the criminals who were helping Rudy Giuliani pressure the Ukraine into manufacturing “dirt” on Joe Biden were up to other crimes, too…and they were just arrested for campaign finance violations for funneling Russian money into the campaigns of many repubs using shell corporations…including trump and Kevin McCarthy, who has been one of trump’s biggest supporters since his impeachment has been announced. These two guys were nabbed making a run for it at the Washington airport just after having lunch with Rudy…and I wonder if Rudy gave them a heads up that they were going to be charged with multiple crimes and that is why they had purchased one way tickets back to Russia? Oh, and these two guys were instrumental in getting Pete Sessions (another repub rep) to pressure the state department to remove the ambassador to the Ukraine who was standing in the way of Giuliani’s conspiracy that now looks like will be the downfall of not only the idiot trump but of damn near everyone around him once the truth comes out. I’m pretty sure there will be a perp walk in Rudy’s future since the prosecutors have said today that the investigation is still ongoing and there are other indictments to come…so, bye,bye Rudy…we won’t miss you at all….
October 10th
Well…another weird morning with getting up at 3:54 and then going back to bed around 5 until 6, and sleeping surprised the heck out of me….I really thought my foot was healed but putting my shoe on hurt like crazy again today so back to the medication for a couple more days…but, the pain is not bad at all…more stiffness than anything and I can live with that…but, my foot is still black and blue and red so maybe I’m pushing it a little…got a bunch of stuff done yesterday but I’m still feeling pretty crappy like I have a bug or something and I don’t know if it’s from the flu shot or not, but I do know my lungs have been bad on the bike the past couple of days and I don’t like it…need to wait for the trip over to the house today since I am taking one of my tv’s and I think it will only fit on the top after I put it down…don’t think it will fit in the seat but I’ll try that first…it is beginning to look pretty bare around here and I’m not sure how I feel about that…I mean, I’ve lived here a long time and it has mostly been good but having a house for a while will certainly quell that melancholy…and I am going to treat the floors today….or tomorrow before I move any more stuff in to get the wood as shiny and protected as it can be…and I do need to mow the lawn after I program the new thermostat and put some more stuff away…there is just so damn much storage compared to here that I am going to have to work to not fill it since I’ll only be there a little over a year…more later….
trump frees Isis…
Well…the dumber than a box of rocks idiot who was installed as president by Putin has just done something that no one thought possible…he freed almost 10,000 Isis fighters by giving Turkey the green light to attack the Kurds in Syria who had been rounding them up for the US. This has been on Erdogan’s wish list for years…that the US would stop protecting the Kurds both in Iraq and Syria so he could go in with his army and slaughter them…since he considers them “terrorists” when they just want to be free to live their lives autonomously and without the constant attacks from Turkey. Up until idiot boy was installed, the US was appreciative of the hard work and sacrifices the Kurds made for the US in Iraq, stabilizing the northern third of the country after Bush’s stupid war and being the front line of fighting Isis terrorists in Syria…standing side by side with US forces and capturing almost 10,000 of them and taking them out of the fight…but, now, to the surprise of everyone in our military and intelligence community, trump has listened to Putin and sentenced our allies to death….who the hell is ever going to trust the US again? Impeach this son of a bitch before it’s too late…
October 9th
Well…didn’t get up til almost 6 this morning but that didn’t help feeling crappy again….I think I’m just worn out from all the house stuff going on and getting this place cleaned out…but, I’m almost there with more than a week to go so I guess I can slack off a bit here…but I do want to get more cleaning done both here and there so I guess I’ll just have to suck it up and get on with it…need to put the new thermostat up today and start putting stuff away…there is so much storage at the house that I think it will take some getting used to…even that little house is so much bigger than this place so it should be easy to find a place for everything….as I clear this place down to the stuff I need to move with the truck, it is even more apparent to me that two men and a truck are just a huge ripoff….and it appears the entire industry is in on the scam…not one other mover even replied to my request for a quote since it is not easy for them to pad their fees with such a small job….just a bunch of crooks…not much to do today…just the house run but not loading the car up since I do have the grocery run tomorrow morning…so I think it will be a light day tomorrow with just a tv and a few other things to move…more later….
It just doesn’t work that way…
Well..the little tin pot dictator in the WH has a brand new letter coming out tonight where they are going to say that they don’t believe that the impeachment is “legitimate” and are not going to cooperate with the dems in the house in any way…yeah, fellas, that’s not how it works…you don’t get to choose to “participate” in an impeachment…you are the damn subject of an impeachment and can’t “choose” to not be impeached…and even your stolen supreme court is not going to allow you to destroy the constitution to keep from getting your ass thrown out…okay, house dems…it’s time to start locking these criminals up if they don’t cooperate…and if the SC allows this shit to happen, we will take the entire government back in 2020 and then your asses are on the block, too….allowing the idiot boy to gut the constitution is an impeachable offense…and we will have the means to remove every damn one of you…
October 8th
Well….running about on time today with getting up at around 5 or so and I am just trying to ease into the day with coffee since I really don’t have any schedule this morning….had a pretty good day yesterday with getting the internet running at the house and getting the truck reserved for the 19th…and I got my address changed with the post office and one of my credit cards and now I have to go to the bank and get that one changed…and the mail is being delivered to the house so I can get the bills I need to pay…and I got the electricity shut off scheduled for here but still need to do that for the internet service…there really is a lot of stuff you need to do to move these days and I am getting there…and I nearly have this place cleaned out which I should have done by the end of the week so that will give me next week to finish….I can’t believe how much difference the new spark plugs made with the car…the engine sounds completely different and runs smoothly again and it doesn’t miss at idle like it did with the copper ones in it…so, it looks like the car will make it til the move which I wasn’t so sure about last week….it even shifts better for some reason but I think that’s just getting some of the air out of the clutch…which I need to bleed after I move…I do need to cook today since I have chicken in the fridge that has been there since last week…think I’ll make up some seasonings for it out of the cupboard before I pack that stuff and move it…need to clean at the house today so I can start putting things away….more later….