Not good

The following is a snapshot of the changes in my retirement account over the last year.

If each horizontal line represents $1.00, the path my retirement account over the last year took was:

• April - I'm only worth a dollar. I hope Biden doesn't do anything stupid...
• May - Wow! I'm worth $2.00. Biden didn't do anything stupid!
• June - Okay, I'm worth $2.50. That's good.
• July - I'm worth $3.00. Biden may have dementia but his people are keeping him in line.
• August - Nice. I'm almost worth $4.00. I guess investors aren't concerned about Harris running for president.
• September - Holding steady. Not bad considering the insanity going on with the presidential campaigns.
• October - Shit, back down to $3.00. Harris is acting like a socialist so the market is nervous.
• November - Trump wins! Investors are happy and I'm worth $5.00! This is great.
• December - Between Biden having mini-strokes and Trump spouting off about taking over Canada, I'm back down to $3.50.
• January - Trump is sworn in and everyone is happy that Goofy Joe is finally gone! I'm back up to $4.75!
• February - Wait. Trump really meant all those crazy things he said he was going to do? He's firing everybody in the federal government? Crap. I'm back down to $3.50..
• March - Did he really put 37% tariffs on Liechtenstein? What did Liechtenstein ever do to us? Shit, I'm back down to a dollar...

We, as a nation, are about to become one of those "shithole third world countries" that Trump hates so much.

Not good. Not good at all...

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The Red Sox won their home opener today, beating the Cardinals 13-9.

Buehler got the start and in my humble opinion, he pitched okay. He faced 22 batters over 5 innings.

It was the batters that did great, taking an early lead and never giving it up.

Tomorrows game starts at 4:10.

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I decided to drag my thatching attachment around my lawn today. Things went well right up until I finished thatching the lawn and started picking up the crap using the lawn mower.

After two or three trips around the side yard, the tractor suddenly came to a standstill. The engine was running just fine and the blades were spinning just fine but the tractor refused to move.

I had to go into repair mode and since the tractor has a drive belt from that runs the length of the chassis, I had to drop the mower deck to get access to it.Normally I do that in my garage on the cement floor but this time I had to do it on the lawn.

I got the deck off and I started checking the belt. Turns out the belt was fine but I discovered the clutch return spring was broken. This spring causes the brake/clutch to return to the run position when you take your foot off it. Without the spring, the brake was released but the clutch never engaged.

I mickey-moused the broken spring into a crappy temporary fix and put it back in place. I was able to finish the lawn but more importantly, I was able to order a new replacement spring and it will be here on Monday.

Guess I know what I will be doing on Monday.

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Here are some links:

• Barefoot Dancing Incident sounds like a historical 1840's skirmsih between two American Indian tribes.



• Didn't Psycho Vlad tell Looney Donald that he would honor the cease fire?



• Remove what from where?



• Only in Florida.