Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Another day the Red Sox didn't lose!

It was another day off for them but like I said before, any victory is a good victory.


At some point in 2016, the federal government of the United States opened an investigation into whether or not the Trump campaign worked with the Russian government to win the Presidential election.

After almost 2 years, millions of dollars, hundreds of subpoenas and interrogations of hundreds of people, the investigation concluded that the Trump campaign did not work with the Russian government.

Now the Attorney General is looking into what started that investigation. He is curious as to who or what made the accusations and why it was done. He wants to know if there was any abuse of powers on the part of government authorities.

Sure, why not.

Lets piss away another few million dollars, waste another few million man hours and interrogate hundreds of people. What the hell, we got nothing else to worry about.

The southern border is practically under siege, the Social Security endowment is going to run out in the next few years, thousands of people are dying from opioid addiction and the Dreamers are still in legal-limbo but screw all that, let's worry about Trump's tax returns and who started asking questions about Russia.

Our government is a shitshow and it's our own damned fault because we elected these idiots.

And by idiots, I mean all 536 of them. Every single one of the 100 senators, the 435 congressmen and the president.

Idiots...


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Tuesday, April 9, 2019

They had a winning streak of one game

The Red Sox just couldn't win their home opener. As a matter of fact, they kind of sucked.

The one highlight is that they are not the worst team in all of MLB. The Cincinnati Reds have that glory as the worst team in all of the MLB.


I spent some time chatting with a flight instructor today, going over the free online training offered by the FAA.

He reached out to me because he noticed that I've been doing the training but not logging it. He said if I logged it, it counts towards my flight training and saves me the money associated with normal flight hours.

Hell, if I can shave 4 or 5 hours off of my annual flight requirements, that's almost $1,000.

Sign me up for that!


Okay, I'm filled up with pizza and I'm tired.

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Monday, April 8, 2019

No baseball tonight

That means the Red Sox did not lose a game today.

Hey, any victory is a good victory.


Not much going on today.

My back and hands hurt from yesterday when I spent several hours digging up that freakin' virginia creeper shit out of the gardens and the woods.

Man, I hate that shit.


I was going to try and schedule some time with my flight instructor this week but the weather isn't looking very cooperative. Thursday looks like the best day of the week but all of the aircraft are currently reserved.

I'm beginning to think buying a plane might not be a bad idea. If I do upgrades to it, I could probably sell it for what I paid for it after a few years.

Then again, you need a lot of money to buy a plane with the operative words there being "a lot".

Oh well.


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Sunday, April 7, 2019

Well, at least they didn't get swept.

They won today's game 1-0 and now they head home to Boston where they will.....

....probably get rained out for their home opener on Tuesday.

Oh well, that's what happens every year around this time. Games get rained out.


Lots of yard work got done this weekend including the removal of an old tree fort.

My kids and I built a tree fort about 20 years ago and it lasted for several years. But when you bolt 12 foot boards between trees and those trees sway in the breeze, things break down over the years and around 6 or 7 yers ago, it fell apart.

Today I grabbed my trusty old socket set and a length of pipe. I set the 7/8 inch socket onto the 8 inch long bolts, slipped the pipe over the wrench and proceeded to remove all the bolts.

My hands hurt and my back is probably going to be barking at me tomorrow but the damned thing is gone and I can look out my window without seeing that eyesore anymore.


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Saturday, April 6, 2019

I'm beginning to understand...

...how the Orioles fans felt last season. Watching your team lose almost every game they play gets old quickly.

On the other hand, I know they have the skill and talent. I know they are a better team than this. I know they are going to go on a lengthy winning streak at some point.

I know this because they are good.


My laptop is back in the hands of Apple.

I took it to the Apple store today and the tech that looked at it pretty much said, "Well, they screwed this up. We're gonna have to install a new logic board."

Basically, I'm going to have a brand new computer when they return it to me.

The hard drive in a Macbook is not removable, it is an integral part of the logic board. That means when they install the new board, they install a brand new hard drive.

Thanks goodness I do backups and I have one from this morning. Hopefully things work as planned and when I get my laptop back, all I have to do is select the "Restore from Backup" option and plug in the backup drive.

At least, that's plan A.

Plan B is to just start all over again with a blank hard drive.

I'm really hoping for plan A.


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