Well…slept til almost 6 again today but I sure don’t feel like I slept at all…I wonder if I’m hitting my limit with my body? I mean I’ve been working my butt off around here along with riding 38 miles a day and that is a lot for an ancient person like me…and not eating enough…okay, going to stop whining now…going to run out to the library this morning to get a few more books since I’m running out and want to make sure I have reading material for the weekend…I have slowed way down from the one book a day that I was doing and I think that’s a good thing…I really do need to get other things done around here…but I will be on the bike here in 15 minutes or so to get the day started around 7am or so…there was just an ad on UK tv for short term loans that had an interest rate of 1,271 %…yow! who the hell can afford that? That means if you borrow 100 pounds, you will owe them 1,271 pounds after a year…who would take that deal? Weird…not much to do today…just the rides and the library run but I really don’t want to do anything…oh, goody…we have an air quality alert for smoke particulates…just what I need…more later…
A busy day…again…
Well…darn, it was another busy day today with getting two rides in outdoors, then doing some yard work…got the front steps coated with Thompson’s and then got after the bushes and filled a paper lawn bag with the cuttings…then I went back out for the third ride and hit 4,000 miles for the year on that ride…again, the earliest I’ve ever gotten to 4K…that’s 1,383 miles outdoors and 2,620 miles indoors so far…so it looks like it’s going to take another 6 weeks to tie them up…it looks like it is going to be warm enough to do all outdoor rides for the next 10 days or so and that will mean 38 mile days…so the mileage will come pretty fast…I do have to do some meal planning since the leftovers will be gone after tomorrow…probably making my one pot chicken dish with tomato sauce in the cast iron pot my daughter gave me…that’s the only one that is big enough…and that will make food for 4 days…okay, back to reading for a bit…
Job growth worst in two years…
Well…this is what happens when you put a moron in charge of the government…job growth for May was only 37,000 and that is with the new steel tariffs of 50% just kicking in yesterday…gee, I wonder that next month is going to look like with prices set to rise for anything steel? And the idiot campaigned on a “booming” economy, more jobs than ever seen before, and the “biggest and bestest” trade that the world has never seen…but all of us in the fact based world know that idiot boy lies about everything and it doesn’t matter to his followers…and even if they lose their jobs or can’t afford food, they are all in for him…now that sure sounds like a cult doesn’t it? I’ve already predicted a recession and these numbers are pointing to it happening soon…geez…
June 5th
Well…man, worn out again today and I really would like to take a day off…but I won’t so the coffee needs to go down and I need to get moving by 7am so I can get two rides in this morning…then the front steps and yard work…need to do some meal planning since I’ll use up all the leftovers today…so I’ll do some looking in the freezer to see what I have…probably some chicken thighs in the cast iron sauce pan with potatoes, celery, onion, and pasta sauce….with rice added at the end…my brain is not working today and this one is harder to do than it looks…it looks like there is not much wind out there so I can get on the bike in a few minutes but I’m really tired of rushing to get things done all the time…I sure hope the smoke has abated after the effect on my lungs yesterday and I think I’ll put a mask in the bike bag just in case…9 minutes until I need to get on the bike so I need to get going on maintenance of this tired old body…not much to do today…just the rides and yard work and I hope to be done by 1pm or so…or maybe earlier than that…more later…
Too damn much smoke…
Well…after getting two rides in downstairs with the rain this morning, it cleared up enough for me to get an outdoor ride this afternoon but it may have been a mistake…the smoke from the Canadian wildfires was so thick out there today that visibility was down to about two miles and by the time I got out to the beach I had a splitting headache and a sore throat from breathing the smoke… and it didn’t have the nice campfire smell but that of a chemical fire…should have worn a mask and, if it’s as bad tomorrow, I will wear one…need to coat the front steps tomorrow along with trimming the trash bushes so I may only do two rides tomorrow…okay, need to watch Wrexham….
Cuts that kill…
Well…with all of the doge nonsense happening across the country, the one thing you have to remember is that the cuts that are being made to science across the country are going to get people killed…just the other day a 35 year veteran weatherman in Florida went absolutely nuts about the cuts to NOAA leaving forecasting offices understaffed by up to 40% and making hurricane forecasting hit and miss at best…no budget for hurricane hunting planes that give invaluable date of the strength of storms and where they are headed…so now all they have is weather satellites that can only get a basic picture of the storm and can’t get barometric pressure that is need to determine what a storm is really doing…so now people in the way of this year’s hurricanes are on their own and when they get hit, the cuts to FEMA are going to ensure they won’t be able to recover…and all these idiots voted for idiot boy…nice job maga…geez…
June 4th
Well…I think my body gave up on me today with getting up at 4:04 but then not out of bed til almost 7…and I’m having a hard time getting going so I won’t be on the indoor bike until almost 8…and yes it is raining here so the rides are going to be indoors today…and I will get some cleaning done…going to make breakfast for dinner today with eggs, toast, and turkey sausages that I got for a buck from DD…and I should make some more potato salad but that won’t be til Friday…ha, the little weather widget at the bottom of my screen just popped up with “rain/snow ahead” and I’m not sure what to think about that…it can’t snow in June…it just can’t…it’s supposed to rain an inch today and we sure can use it…and I can use an easier day than yesterday…can I just do two rides indoors today? That’s the plan and I hope I end up with a clean kitchen and some time to read…the coffee is not working at all and it needs to soon…going to pour the second cup and I need to get on the bike in 15 minutes to get the day started…I’m pretty happy with how the front steps came out after the deck wash yesterday and the Thompson’s will make it look better when I get to it tomorrow…more later…
Got some work done…finally…
Well…it’s been a pretty busy day today with hitting 4 stores on the grocery/ errand run this morning, doing 3 outdoor rides, and then I finally got some work done…got out the deck wash and scrubbed the front steps with a scrub brush…just looked at them and all of the algae is gone so as soon as the rain is done I can treat it with Thompson’s water seal…I think I have enough to do all the flat surfaces and then I’ll have to get another gallon…it looks like rain all day tomorrow so that will wait till Thursday…and I do need to clean the fridge soon and that just may be the job for tomorrow since I have to be indoors…didn’t read much today and that was okay…I think I needed a rest since reading had become a chore to do instead of enjoyment…so, what am I going to do now? Read until 7pm…
Now we know…
Well…with the idiot trump attacking Harvard almost daily and the speculation continues why he is so obsessed with it…according to his late sister, it’s because the idiot didn’t get in to Harvard…and guess who did…Michelle and Barack Obama…and then she also said that, as he brags all the time how he graduated from Wharton, he paid someone to take the entrance exam for him or he never would have gotten in…and that doesn’t even include the controversy of whether or not he even did graduate and how much of the course work he paid others to do for him…and he surely didn’t graduate at the top of his class like he brags about all the time, too…and you can tell that since he had to have the term “GAAP” explained to him during an interview…so take all of his education bragging with a ton of salt…geez…
June 3rd
Well…damn, I’m already behind on these for the month and need to get off my butt and get moving on stuff…have been reading too much and not getting anything done…it’s warm enough to get out on the outdoor bike as soon as it gets light but the wind is blowing like crazy so I may just ride indoors to start the day…going to do the grocery run today since it going to rain almost an inch tomorrow and I’m going to hit DD for another load of 10 for 10 buck food…then I’m doing another errand after I get back here that will make my nights more fun…and I’m going to spend 30 bucks to do that….slept okay again last night and the generic flonase came so I can finally try to get my allergies under control….they have been so bad lately and I’ve been coughing and sneezing like crazy…only have 25 minutes before I have to get on the bike so the coffee needs to work right now…not sure what I’m going to do today but I do need to get something done…probably tear the fridge apart and clean it and I’m going to leave the books on the table and not read anything today…oh, well…maybe some yard work, too…it’s going to be in the 70′s today and I’m sure I’m going to have to make a call on the assholes in the rental…god, I hate them…more later…