Well…damn, it’s still raining as it has been for 3 days now and I don’t think that has happened in the 4 years I’ve lived here…and the heat is still running as it has been for three days and the high is supposed to be in the 50′s today…maybe…and I am going to try to get an outdoor ride in this aft…have never seen a May this cold but there is a warm up coming…I hope…and we’ll be back in the 70′s next week…for some reason, I only had one meal of a blt yesterday and I think it was that I’m not getting enough exercise so I just couldn’t eat…have tons of food in the fridge and have the ingredients for potato salad that I’ll make today…not sure if I’m going to grill today but I probably should do the chicken legs…I think the house next door is going up for sale and that is just going to make more work for me since I know they are going to turn it into a rental and I am going to have to make tons of noise calls when assholes rent it…it’s only 47 degrees out here right now and I am so damn tired of the cold…so, two rides indoors to start the day and then maybe one outdoors but I’m not holding my breath about that…okay, need to have more coffee and get on the bike in 30 minutes…and I need to mow the lawn maybe Sat…more later…
It’s quieter…
Well…as you know today was the first time I drove my new car with the top up since it was cold and raining…and the car is just so much quieter than the old one…had the headlights on going out and yep, the instrument lights are red but they look so cool I can understand why they did that…and it doesn’t leak at all…yay! Last week I put the grocery bags inside the cabin like I always did in the old car…but the width of the new car and the length of the doors made that a pain…so today I used my push button trunk opener and put them in the trunk and that made it much easier to unload them…little things make me happy…oh, and the defogger for the windshield works great and I didn’t have any fog at all…I did get two rides in today but bought way too much food…two kinds of chicken and brats, along with ingredients for both chicken stir fry and potato salad…so the weather needs to get better so I can get back to 30+ miles a day…
All the banks…
Well…the shit is going to hit the fan with the coming trump recession and the downgrade of the US’s credit worthiness has prompted Moody’s to downgrade all of the big banks too since the US is less able to respond to any financial problems with who is in charge…take that in for a minute…Moody’s is saying they have no confidence in the idiot in chief or anyone working for him because they look at numbers and not feelings or bluster…and with the coming middle class tax hikes that are being passed to give the rich more tax cuts, the buying power of the middle class is going to take a hit so that will make a feedback loop that is going to be ugly…on that same note, consumer confidence has plummeted and people believe that a recession is coming so big ticket purchases are being put on hold…and then lets add in the 500 billion dollar cut to Medicare that is in the repubs new budget bill and no one who is retired is going to have a penny to spend…hey, retired magas, you did this to us by voting for the dumbest damn person to ever sit in the WH…nice job…geez…
May 21st
Well…man, it’s still raining out there and I really wish it would be spread out some instead of flooding for an entire day…but the weather is weird out here so I guess that’s too much to ask…up around 4 am today but was able to get back to sleep until almost 6 and that appears to be the new pattern and that’s not bad…I’m glad the up and down all night isn’t happening right now but I’m still pretty tired…and the heat has been coming on for the past day and I still think that 47 degrees for a high in the end of May is still wrong…the website for DD hasn’t updated so I’m going to have to stop there this morning…and I need to hit HF across the street to get some AA batteries since I am out of them and they have the best prices…the coffee is not going down too well this morning and it needs to for me to get on the bike in 15 minutes or so…only getting to 52 today and it’s going to rain all day and tonight for another half inch so it looks like another slug like 16 miles on the bike…going to buy some chicken breasts so I can make a stir fry and some Masala later in the week…might get some chicken legs to grill with some corn on the cob…have a lot of potatoes so I’m going to bite the bullet and buy a dozen eggs for potato salad…along with some whip at over 5 bucks a jar…yow! More later…
Rain, rain, and more rain…
Well…once the rain started today around 1pm, it has continued to rain and it is still raining as it gets to almost 7pm and I just looked at the radar and it looks like it will be raining for at least a few more hours…and it didn’t even get into the 50′s at all today and that is pretty cold for the end of May…oh, well…so needless to say, I didn’t get an outdoor ride in today but I did get the bathroom cleaned finally and did do two indoor rides…and it appears that it’s going to rain all day tomorrow, too…my lawn is saying thank you…it’s going to be cold again tomorrow, too, so it looks like I’ll be driving the car with the top up for the first time and that’s okay…I’m curious about how quiet the car is since this one has sound deadening in it…so that means I’ll be washing the car Thursday…I did wax it and rainx the glass so it will look pretty cool even wet…tv time…
Walmart raises prices due to tariffs…
Well…the stupid trump tariffs hit the largest retailer in the world and Walmart is raising prices and has publicly said that all of the price hikes are from tariffs…and idiot boy is screaming about it telling them to “eat the tariffs” and keep prices the same…I wonder if all of the maga assholes that voted for the idiot because he was going to lower prices “on day one” feel about it…probably going to try to blame it on Biden like the idiot is trying to do…and I just read an article that shows that there are more Walmarts in areas that voted for idiot boy than in areas that voted for Harris so his voters are going to be hurt more than blue states…and I sure hope these morons are hurt from the tariffs and all of the other things that trump is doing to hurt this country…they deserve it…geez…
May 20th
Well…it’s May 20th and the heat is still coming on and that sucks…just poured my first cup of coffee and needed it to work an hour ago…didn’t get out of bed til 6:20 this morning and that will make me late for the whole day…should be on the bike now but that won’t happen until 7:30 or so and the two rides won’t be done until almost 10am…it looks like rain is coming in in a couple of hours so there may not be an outdoor ride today…but I am going to try to get one in if there is a little break in the weather…I did get a few things done yesterday and I need to clean the bathroom today but I don’t think I have the energy for it…don’t have the energy for anything right now…but I think the first bike ride will help with that…I do need to make the grocery lists today since I’m out of food…might bite the bullet and buy some chicken breasts at 2.49 a pound but I’ll wait til the DD ad comes out later to see what to do…Meijers has corn on the cob for 5 for a buck so I’ll get some of those…I think it may be time to make some potato salad but eggs at 4 bucks a dozen is a bit much…more later…
Got some things done…
Well…I hadn’t really planned for it to be a busy day today but it turned into one…started out with doing two rides indoors since it was only 37 degrees when I got up and there is no way I’m going out in that cold again…so after that, I took the vacuum out to the old car and vacuumed the entire car to try to get the sand out of it and then did the drivers footwell of the new car since I tracked dirt into it…I did discover that the lights in the instrument panel and radio are red like the fad from the 2.000s but it looks pretty cool and fits the car…I may have gotten through to the assholes in the rental behind me when I called on them Saturday since there has been no one out there for two days now…I sure hope the cops finally brought the hammer down on them…it would be such a nice, peaceful summer if they did…going to work on the ad for the old car tomorrow and try to get that moving but I’m not sure why I have to be in such a hurry…I mean if it takes a couple of weeks, that’s fast enough…and I still have to wash the interior and exterior of the car…it looks like it’s going to rain all day tomorrow so the rides will probably be indoors…I did get an outdoor one in today and feel much less like a slug with almost 30 miles in…I did do laundry, too, so I did get some things done…back to reading…
This is what bullies do..
Well…with the “big beautiful bill” that the house just passed in the dead of night that is going to gut Medicaid and impose work requirements on the recipients, the pain it’s going to cause for the less fortunate in this country is going to be immense…and I’ve heard the question asked is “why are the repubs causing so much pain?” I’ve got news for you, the pain is the point…that is what bullies do…they attack people who can’t fight back and then revel in the pain they have caused…and all just so they can give that money away to the rich who really don’t need it…the rich have never paid so little in taxes in the history of this country and they continue to mooch off the rest of us…and I’ve had enough…geez…
May 19th
Well…damn, it’s May 19th and it’s only 39 degrees here and the heat just came on…that’s just wrong for this time in May…so, I won’t be outdoors on the bike until after noon if I get out at all…and that will be three days indoors and I don’t like that one bit…feel pretty lousy this morning with not having any allergy meds…my head is plugged up and hurts so I’ll need to order something today but I really don’t want to do anything right now…need to get on the bike in 20 minutes or so to get two rides in before the day gets away from me…the bucket garden idea seems to be a bust as the tomatoes came up but then stopped growing so I’m going to pull the plug soon…oh, well…I did get three bean plants to come up in the old garden but that’s about it…so that will be one less thing to think about…man, it feels like depression is coming on and it’s been a while…not much to do today…need to work on the old car to get it ready to sell but that’s not going to happen until it warms up this aft….more later…