Well…after getting the two rides in…the front wheel is fixed and I’m still kicking myself for screwing that up when I know how to work on bearings…they’re a pain in the butt since they are just 9 loose balls on each side of the wheel…but, if you do it right, it’s easy…and I figured that out after spending an hour trying to re assemble the wheel…and after I got back here after the 2nd ride, I washed the car…finally, from top to bottom and even did the glass…didn’t wax it since the water is still beading pretty good so I’ll let that go to til the next time…there was a lot of sand in the interior but that happens when you go to the beach a lot so that took a bit to get vacuumed up…then I washed the interior to get rid of the dust that builds up everywhere…and then I’ve taken the rest of the day off from about 11am on to read and that is going to be what I go back to right now…won’t have to cook for a couple of days and I wonder if I should splurge on a steak for my birthday? Or make some potato salad…that sounds good and I think I’ll do that tomorrow…reading time…
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Lindsey Graham is dead…
Well…I know I shouldn’t be happy when anyone dies but Lindsey Graham was one of the idiot trump’s sychophants who started out as against him but then his lust for power brought out the hypocrite that he was and he supported every damaging thing that the asshole did…this is just a great example of how corrupting idiot boy is when he turned Graham into his little doggie who went along with everything…but it couldn’t have happened without Graham making the calculation that sucking up to idiot boy would help him and he didn’t care how much damage was done to the country and the world…so good riddance, Lindsey..rest in hell…
July 12th
Well…didn’t sleep for crap last night and it’s not from the heat since I had the little fan on and it almost felt like I had air conditioning…but not now…it is so damn humid that I am sweating just sitting here…and it’s going to get worse this week with a high of 92 Wed…but I like it hot so no big deal…I sure hope I’ve got the front wheel on the bike fixed but I’m pretty sure I did once I decided to do it right and set the bearings correctly…I do have some work to do today and want to get the car washed since it’s dusty and there is no rain in the forecast for the next 10 days or so…I do need to vacuum the sand out of everything from going to the beach but that is part of summer around here and it makes me feel like I do live in a resort town…I do need to go to the library tomorrow and pay the water bill that I almost forgot…not really, they just move the damn thing around from the 8th to the 15th of the month and I need to keep track of that…hard work I know…I do need to get food in the freezer that I got this week and then plan on what meals are going to be for the week…I do need to make masala before the ingredients go bad that I got last week…going to skip the bagel this morning since I just don’t feel like eating…and I need to get the first ride in before 7:30 since the MotoGP race is on…2nd ride won’t be til after that…more later…
The pickles are okay…
Well…I guess I was a little premature when I said I didn’t like the pickles I made with the new spices…after letting them sit overnight, I think they’re pretty good…different from the spices I’ve been using but pretty close and has new flavor that I really can’t place but I like…I do need to use less spices with the next jar since I think a half cup might be a bit too much…think I’ll try a quarter of a cup and then just add a little more if it leaves the pickles tasting like cukes…..but I have enough to make 10 or 12 jars and I have to think about it as being the best pickles I’ve had and not compare them by price since they do cost about 2 bucks per jar…I may sprinkle just a tiny bit of cayenne in the next jar since these new ones are not quite as spicy as the first ones and I like them with a bit of a bite…still damn exhausted after getting up at 4:50 this morning…oh, well…
The world is noticing…
Well…after embarrassing the US and himself at the NATO summit in Turkey last week with his stumbling, bumbling, and confused speech along with private meetings made most of the world leaders who were there question his mental stability and even his grasp of reality when he called Japan “the islamic state of Japan” and constantly threatened to take Greenland by force and the Finland president just rolled his eyes and said “that’s not going to happen” as the whole world is laughing at this fool who is dismantling the US’s standing in the world…but the interesting thing is that most countries are now separating what idiot boy wants and says from the country with lots of back channel communication going on that isolates idiot boy to his fawning fox news cronies while the rest of the world reports the truth…and the EU especially has started to see the idiot’s instability as not strategy at all but evidence of his cognitive decline that endangers the entire world…about time…geez…
Bike troubles…
Well…after having a pretty good run for a few weeks, bike troubles reared their ugly heads this morning and it took me hours to get them sorted out…first the front wheel started to make a grinding sound and I had to think of the last time I greased the bearings and couldn’t remember doing it at all so I may not have done this wheel…when I tore it apart I screwed it up so badly that I actually put the wheel from the black bike on it so I could get the second ride in…but when I got back, I took another swing at it…cleaned the bearing races and counted the bearings so I knew I had all of them…and when I got it cleaned, I could see that I was putting the bearings in wrong and not seating them in the races as I should have…so I fixed that, greased them with the moly grease I use and put it back together and replaced it on the bike where it spins perfectly and I’ll ride with no problems tomorrow…I did work on the front fender that has been giving me fits by coming loose and rubbing on the tire so I cleaned it up and put some 3M double sided tape on it along with some loctite that I found in the garage that Tom gave me years and years ago and it still flowed so I hope that works…Oh, one last thing, I never open the envelopes that I get from my mortgage bank since they are just updates but yesterday I did…and found I only owe about 36 grand on my house and that means I have at least 120 grand in equity…and that isn’t bad 5 years from being broke…more later…
July 11th
Well…damn, up before 5 again and all of the gains I made in sleeping seem to be out the window and that sucks…and it appears that the new med is starting to cause the pain the doctor said it would and I hurt everywhere…oh, well…at least I won’t die of a heart attack or stroke…I did make a batch of pickles with the new spices and I’m afraid I don’t like it so I’m out 20 bucks and that sucks, too…I did get started straightening this place out yesterday and I’ll continue that today…the flies were not as bad yesterday and I’m hoping that is done today so I can get the kitchen windows cleaned of all the bug spray…it’s going to be hot the next week or so with it peaking at 92 on my birthday next week so I’ll be sweating but I don’t mind that…the fans can go up 3 more speeds and I even have two more I haven’t even used yet…and the water at the beach has gotten almost too warm for my taste but swimming still cools me off so I’ll keep that up…not sure what I’m going to do today other than ride the bike…thinking of making some potato soup but that would have to be for lunch before it gets too hot to cook…no beach today since I don’t go out there on the weekends with how busy it is…I may wash the bike since it is getting really grungy even with spraying it off yesterday…I did lube the chain after it started to make the swishing sound it makes when it’s dry…but it’s going to need a complete cleaning soon with the wire brush and dish soap to get rid of the built up crud in the idler wheels on the shifter…more later…
Busy in the morning…
Well…I almost forgot to come here for this one and I’m not sure why…I did finish a book and start a new one this afternoon but that still leaves time to do other things…the day started busy as usual…got the two rides in and then decided to mow the lawn since it was looking shabby even though it’s not growing much without any rain out here for a week..then I went to the beach at 9:45 after I got all my work done and got a nice swim in…the water was pretty warm and no waves so it was a little boring but didn’t beat the hell out of me so that was a good thing…I did make a quart of pickles with the pickling spices I got today but I’m not sure about them….sure hope they have bite like the old spices did but they smelled great so maybe just a little cayenne if they’re not spicy enough…the flies were not as bad here today but there were hundreds of them at the beach and I hope the pattern keeps up that after 2 days they are gone again…okay, want to watch some HOD….
This is how you do it…
Well…as you know, I’ve done a few of these about what scourges data centers are that are popping up all over this country using more water than cities and raising electric rates with their piggish use of energy…but, there is a new idea out there that Oregon has just started to use that is just how states should do it…Oregon has started to charge these electrical sucks the true cost of their gluttony by raising the rates for them by almost 28% while lowering them for the residences that are nearby by almost 5%…now this doesn’t account for all of the water these stupid data centers use but it does start to get to the true cost of energy they use and stops the subsidy that homeowners have been paying to the owners of these useless pieces of crap…and every damn one of them is based on the pipe dream that AI is going to be the next big thing when even ceo’s of some of these companies are admitting the mistake they’ve made investing trillions in this unstable useless technology…finally, the true costs of these white elephants are being recognized and states are starting to ban the building of any new ones…I wonder what these buildings will be used for when they go broke? Geez…
July 10th
Well…damn, running late this morning and I’m not sure when I’m going to get out on the bike…still need to do the weight work and have a bagel…just poured the first cup of coffee and need to pour it down to get going…it was fight the flies day yesterday and I had at least a hundred of them in the kitchen windows that I had to kill…that happens at least once a year here but it’s still annoying…going to have to vacuum the windows to get the damn carcasses out and then wash the windows to get the bug spray off them…more work that I don’t want to do…oh, well…took the first of the statins yesterday and don’t hurt yet but that is supposed to be coming…not going to worry about it, though, and just get on with life…I do have a headache this morning but I think that’s from allergies that have gotten really bad with the goldenrod and ragweed starting to bloom along the trail…don’t have a lot to do today so I may hit the beach for a bit this morning and then start cleaning this place up…the new pickling spices are supposed to be here today and I think I’ll use them to make more pickles…going to start to measure how much spice I put in the jars instead of just winging it so I can have a repeatable recipe and don’t waste the spices…I did buy the new living room table yesterday and it’s hard for me to spend 53 bucks even though it’s cash back money that was just sitting there…more later…