Well…damn, up so early this morning that I’m waiting for the coffee to brew and doing this without coffee is just not right…slept okay last night…okay for me that is and that is not that good…it’s 6:13 and I am dreading getting on the bike this morning but I do need to get my 41 miles in today to make a full week of 4 rides a day…okay, the coffee has stopped so I need to get some…okay, the little weather widget at the bottom of the screen just changed to “record highs” and I don’t know hat that means…I do know it’s already 60 out there and there is a high wind warning on so the outdoor rides are going to hurt again today…there is a small blob of rain that is getting here in a few minutes and it looks like it rained overnight but I’ll still need to water the garden and the grass seed today…it does look like rain overnight and through tomorrow so the lawn should green up after I fed it yesterday….don’t have a lot to do today…at least it won’t be as busy as yesterday was…but I forgot to do my weight work and that bugs me a bit since I can see the changes that have come from it…my arms are toned and not flappy like they were…not much to do today…have 35 minutes before I need to get on the bike but I may make it earlier so I can get the outdoor rides in before the wind comes up and Man U plays at 10….I really could use a day off…maybe tomorrow…yeah, that made me laugh, too…more later…
A full 8 hours today…
Well…it’s been a busy day and I put in a full 8 hours of working and on the bike today…and I was outdoors so much today that I got sunburned even with sunscreen on..started out the day with getting on the indoor bike around 7am and then right back down for the second one that I finished up by 9:30…then straight out to mow the lawn and put food down on it…and then I planted veggie seeds and bean plants in the garden before lunch…this year, I remembered to put markers in the garden that tells me what is where after the debacle of making a map last year and not being able to figure out where things were…much more organized…then out for the outdoor rides for the 6th 41 mile day in a row…saw my first gravel freighter pulled into Verplanks today and that was pretty cool…wind was still blowing hard today but I think I’m getting used to it…but it still made me sore across my middle back…finished the second outdoor ride a little before 3 so I’m done for the day right now…a full 8 hours of effort but there will be less to do tomorrow…just the rides…
Okay, Michigan…your turn…
Well…with the announced indictments in Arizona of repubs involved in the “fake elector” scheme, including the repub candidate for senator, my only comment is “okay, Michigan…your turn”…the indictments in Arizona include rudy and mark meadows and Kari Lake who were the people organizing it…not just the foot soldiers that tried to carry it out….and the same thing has happened here in Michigan where the lower rung people involved were each charged with 8 felonies…but there have been no indictments of the idiot trump or ronna mcdaniels who were both on a phone call to pressure repubs to reject Biden’s win…I think idiot boy was named an unindicted co-conspirator in Arizona and he should be here, too…we need to hold these assholes responsible for these crimes and I hope Michigan gets on it…
April 26th
Well…I feel like the line from the Neil Young song “Coupe deVille”…”well I hit the wall, woke up this morning and I hit the wall”…have been abusing my body since the start of the year and I think I need to figure out how to give it a rest at some point…but today I have the indoor rides, then mowing the lawn and putting food down, then outdoors for two rides, then putting the seeds and bean plants in the garden…and doing laundry and cooking two meals…so I will be busy until 5 again today starting at 7am in 17 minutes…I am so damn worn out…but I’ll drag myself downstairs and get going…might have to run an errand, too, but we’ll see about that…had a bad noise from the bike just when I got to the bottom of the hill and I wonder what it is…I may have to get some grease and do the wheel bearings since I’ve never done them on the grey bike and it has over 35,000 miles on it…so that’s another task to accomplish today…I don’t think I’ve ever been this busy and it’s a lot of work at my advanced age…have lots to do today…okay, that’s a take off on the “not much to do today” line that I used to use a lot but those days seem to be gone….more later…
I hurt everywhere…
Well…damn, I think I finally went over the line exerting myself this week…I hurt everywhere and I know it’s going into the wind every damn day…and what the heck is it with weather forecasters? Today, the weather channel said the wind was out of the south at less than 4mph…but when I got out on the bike, it was blowing out of the NE at least 15…again…so it was into the wind all the way out for the 4th time this week and my right thigh is burning and my knee still hurts, too…oh, well…I did get the annuals planted on he east side of the house and put the three sunflowers that had sprouted out behind the house and I’m going to work on the garden…planting all the extra seeds and then the 20 bean plants that are ready…I may wait on the tomatoes until after the storms tomorrow night since they are small and fragile…I even made little signs to stick in the dirt so I know what is planted where…leeks and broccoli and lettuce…along with one for chili peppers that haven’t come up yet…might be my basement is too cold to get them started…who knows…tomorrow is going to be a full work day with mowing the lawn and putting food on it and the 4 bike rides and planting…so, I’ll be back tomorrow telling you I hurt again…oh, I spent more than 60 bucks on bike parts today since I think the shifter is worn out from the sand out here…and I bought myself a new handlebar bag that is supposed to be here Tuesday along with 10 more rear shift cables and some universal links for putting chains together…what a day
They are going to give him immunity…
Well…even though it appears nowhere in the constitution, the corrupt supreme court appears like they are going over rule two other courts and grant the idiot trump immunity from crimes he committed when president…and once they establish that presidents have that power, guess who gets that, too? Yep, Joe Biden will be able to do whatever the hell he wants including locking trump up indefinitely if he feels like it…folks, this is what corruption looks like at the SC…and this now makes the president what we fought against in the revolution…a king…and I’m sure that is nowhere in the constitution either…and the “originalists” are showing that this is just bullshit excuses for them doing whatever the hell they want to further the political outcomes they want…all of the right wing justices should be impeached and now…geez…
April 25th
Well…it’s only 31 degrees out here and I am damn tired of the cold…the furnace ran all night last night and it’s almost May…have to go down to get on the bike in 25 minutes to get the indoor rides in this morning and then the wait starts for it to get warm enough to go outdoors but that won’t be until 2 or so…but that will make it another 41 mile day and I need to keep them up to make the goal this year…it looks like this is going to be the last freeze for the spring and I’m ready to get the garden planted along with the annual flowers for the side of the house…we have some rain coming starting Sat that is going to last for a few days so today and tomorrow should be planting of flowers and grass seed to start filling in the yard again…I do have some pork shoulder marinating in the fridge that I’m going to grill today and I may run out to Meijers to try to get some more cheap pork chops they didn’t have yesterday…going to make some stir fry pork later today and make some rice to put it over if I have time…it’s going to be nearly 70 tomorrow and then into the 70′s for Sat and Sun and into the mid to upper 60′s all week next week so maybe spring is actually here….more later…
Finally…
Well…after months and months of delays as the repubs tried to do putin’s bidding and hurt Ukraine, the senate has finally passed 65 billion dollars in funding for Ukraine to be able to protect itself from the illegal and brutal Russian invasion…and the holdup in the house were the reps who are owned by putin and they are howling about not being able to let Russia keep killing Ukrainians…and there were 94 of them who voted against the aid…over in the senate there were a few repubs, 11 of them to be accurate, who voted for putin and against the aid but it overwhelmingly passed and now it heads to President Biden’s desk to be signed….and the good part is the military assumed it would pass and have been staging the equipment and weapons so deliveries will start today…putin has got to be pissed that all the money he spent to buy repubs in congress didn’t work…this time…and now he is staring down the barrels of new weapons and millions of new artillery shells…what Ukraine had almost run out of…oh, and since all of the weapons being sent are made here in the US, most of the 65 billion will come back here and pay American workers to make the replacements…a win/win to me…geez…
April 24th
Well…man, I feel like crap today and the days of 41 mile rides has a big part in that…kinda slept okay last night but sure don’t feel like it right now…and I need to get on the bike in 18 minutes so I’ll be ready to do the grocery run after the first ride…it’s only 37 out there right now and there is a freeze warning for tonight but then the lows come up into the 40′s and 50′s so I can plant the garden next week…the peas sprouted yesterday and I have 5 of them up but still no peppers so I’ll plant 20 or 30 of them in the garden to brute force them and hope to get 5-6 of them to come up…I’ll do that with the broccoli, leeks, and carrots too, but this year I’ll label them so I know what is in the garden…I did get some grass seed put in yesterday and with the storms that are coming tonight, they should sprout okay…I am curious how the bluegrass seed will do…much more expensive than the fescue I have been using and I hope it works better since I have 1/3 of the lawn to reseed…not much to do today…just the rides and grocery run…have another rear brake making noise on the car so I’ll have to work on that at some point but I’ll wait til it gets warmer to do that….more later…
Another busy day…
Well…I know I’ve said this before but riding the bike for 4+ hours a day is putting a cramp in getting other things done…didn’t even have time to read at all today…got 4 bike rides in and the two outdoors left me with a sore neck…again…from being out in 25 mph wind on the way out on both rides…so that forced me to be out doing yard work at 5 pm and that is way too late for me…but, with the rain coming in, I wanted to get some more grass seed in to start filling in the spots that were just weeds that I put weed killer on…will need some more topsoil for some of the patches and I may just rake in some seed on all those patches and then it will just sit there until it rains enough for a few days to make it sprout…I lost a good third of the yard to the drought last year and it will probably take the rest of the year to get it to fill in…going to need to treat all of my aches with biofreeze and voltaren tonight…along with an ibuprofen…the house a block to the north sold yesterday…it was listed at 225K so I wonder what it sold for? Could be good news for me…would never sell this place for under 180 grand now…