I'm still too young to feel THIS darned old

Chiro today. He wants me to get someone to press their thumb along the back of my shoulder while I stretch my arm forward and across my body to break up an adhesion that has been bugging me. "When these things are not dealt with they often lead to rotator cuff tears" And the tendon for my biceps was out of its groove which is why I have felt weak as a kitten trying to do up the girth when I ride lately. He got that put back in but I am supposed to be careful with lifting over my head for a while.


I ordered a dream number bed today. I have been sleeping for a couple of years on a camping/temporary guest bed type air mattress with pillow top foam that I cut off my old foam waterbed replacement mattress before I threw it away. So I know I like the basic arrangement of air mattress with a little foam over it for warmth and cushion but the second camping mattress started leaking a couple weeks ago. I've been sleeping in the spare room and that mattress is disagreeing with me.

I had thought I would suck it up on the $$ and get a sleep number bed, I know the company has been around a long time so their 20 years warranty probably really means I could get warranty service for 20 years and people that have them usually like them long term.

BUT I just could not bring myself to take a day to go into a showroom; if they kept the beds on hand and I could have gone home with one I would have sucked it up but since its shipped from the factory later anyway...... It did look one could order online at sleep# now but their website was beyond awful. I got so annoyed trying to browse around it a little bit that I decided I'd take my chances with the knock-off company whose website was well done. If you have any friends with businesses do impress upon them that an awful website is a good way to lose some customers in this day and age.

I don't suppose it really hurts Sleep number a whole lot; I imagine a lot of people want to go in and test out the mattress and get tips from the salesperson etc etc when they are going to spend that kind of dough but it did cost them my potential sale.

Politics still sucks. There was ONE candidate that I thought was decent this year, but the stupid donors and early voters were scared to death that a Texas accent would bring back Bush derangement sympton + the late night comedians were poking fun at a couple of gaffes he made while being less than 100% recovering from back surgery. The remaining candidates all suck. Newt is a dis-organized mess, I really think Santorum is only so-con, not smaller government, more freedoms conservative -- much like Huckabee was. Romney is conservative only in the sense of supporting the military from what I can see. BLECH. I believe the nation, unlike the MarxSpewMedia, really wants to dump Barry, but with this crappy field it might not happen.

And I just don't feel like there is much energy to fight for congress this year either --although my state has no Senate race and my district got rid of a Dem last year and is OK with the R holding that seat so perhaps their is energy elsewhere but the web is just obsessed with the presidential race.

reason #8987 why it is so hard to balance the U.S. budget

Funding Opportunity Announced for ASR and RGCM
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science is now accepting applications for Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) grants on topics related to the “Reduction of Tropical Cloud and Precipitation Biases in Global High Resolution Models”
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The Department of Energy is in the climate science grants business alongside NOAA, NASA, and the smaller institutions funded by the NSF, oh and the DoD for sure and probably dept of Interior also fund climate study. Talk about runaway mission creep.

WHY is the department of energy piddling in climate research? Oh they have some justification based on AGW coming from CO2 (IOW based on that big fraud) but even if AGW from CO2 was not a fraud it is still a ridiculous amount of mission creep and multiple U.S. agencies handing out money to duplicate each others efforts.


Any money going to a department of energy should be directed to producing energy. Safer nuclear reactors using Strontium maybe. Clean coal technologies. Possibly Solar panel development is valid. But climate research? Its insane and there are probably several duplicated instruments separated by just a few miles funded by different agencies because of stupid crap like this.

Finally rode over the weekend

It had been over 2 weeks since I had any vitamin H and I was much in need. The footing was still a bit sloppy and saturday I had a bit of dizzy headache, possibly sinus so I opted to ride Shade rather than risk Sadie's little test my rider moves being made much more effective. Might have blown off riding altogether but Ole gave me the sad eyes. I'm glad he did, the fresh air made me feel better.

Sunday I rode Sadie, I was expecting a windy cold day on my monday holiday from the forecast so figured I better ride while I could even though I left it till fairly late in the afternoon and it was chilly. We only went down to the ditch, as I was chilled. I had not thought to dress more warmly than saturday. Good training ride for Sadie, we went my desired route at my desired pace.

I am still loving my new kindle. I read an Edgar Rice Burroughs sci-fi novel monday. I love downloading some of the old free stuff onto my kindle, its like browsing old stacks at a big library but with no worries about damaging a valuable old tome.

I am so blue

Cant decide where the hormones being out of whack ends vs just feeling blue because my nation is committing societal suicide and I don't know what to do about it. Need to get my act together. I do not need to be setting myself up for another sinus infection. I miss my phone buddy and somehow am not connecting on FB like I thought would happen.

I remember when I read Atlas Shrugged I was heartened in one way. Over 50 years ago Ayn Rand was writing about the same kinds of self defeatist crap and the nation snapped out of it. Just doesn't seem like there are enough rational thinkers today. I wish I had some talent for persuading people.

I do love the new kindle

Good thing because I am no longer enjoying most old forums and blogs. Thats often the problem with the internet, the people who post a lot usually have that much free time to post for a good reason. And I'm just generally cranky. Feeling like a Cassandra again, shades of fall 2008 (I was so dumb I didn't investigate Barry or McCain until that fall) Well I suppose it was even more doomy for folks that had watched the MFM effectively kneecap better GOP candidates in 2008.

Good lord Romney was probably the best pick of a bad lot out of the last 3 in 2008 and here he is again and again we could get a truly damaging candidate instead because Romney and the MFM focused on eliminating the strongest contenders first and now a base that is reluctant to have a NE liberal may overlook the huge glaring flaws in the last alternatives left. SIGH.

head desk

Arghhh. Overheard co-workers moaning that Republicans are not interested in passing a budget. DAMM idiots who cannot see even yet that the media are in bed with the Democrat party. I hope its just this stupid ivory tower liberal workplace and not a general viewpoint but I despair for the country. Russians seemed to be a lot smarter about realizing they were being fed BS propaganda.

Read my first novel on the kindle yesterday

I bought myself the 7th Terry Goodkind Sword of Truth book last week, started it Friday on my dinner break and read the bulk of it yesterday. It was a cold day, good excuse to just curl up with a book. I clicked on the reviews at Amazon to find out what was the 7th book in the series. I should write one myself, they need more reviews from conservatives. The "most helpful" review was decent but whining about the focus being on a new character. Its a weird criticism because Goodkind has introduced or focused a lot on a different major character in almost all of the books as I recall.

I had "kindle" on my christmas list and my sis got me a kindle touch. I suppose I will get more skilled at that but it added a tiny bit of frustration when I wanted to turn the page and it showed as me having highlighted a word and asked if I wanted the definition or couple other options. No, I know the definition of "they", "of" etc. --or went ahead 3-4 pages instead of one and I had to backtrack. Oh well it will be good practice for using the iphone for the weekend on call rotations. I hate typing out anything on that Iphone touch keyboard, its barely better than tapping the # keys multiple times to "type" out a text on my "dumb phone" cell phone. Sis wanted to step up from the very cheapest model, I had said that I did not want the "Fire" because it wouldn't have the e-ink, easy to read in various light levels and I did not think I would get any use out of a 3-G add on.

Friday I gave Shade her "monthly" dose of Adequan(tm). Its more like 4-6 weeks in the winter when I barely ride and 3 weeks when doing a lot of endurance miles and I figure she needs more help keeping her joints lubricated.