Well… got a letter from the court today with one sentence: “you are permanently excused from jury duty”…yeah, I know you’re probably going to say everyone should do their civic duty and serve on juries…all I say to that is I’ve done my civic duty my entire life paying my taxes and volunteering at my kids schools, running the AYSO league in Kentwood, coaching soccer and baseball teams, running a cub scout pack and serving on more building committees than I can count…so no, I do not feel guilty using a legal loophole that was put in the jury process just for old folks…I am old after all…
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Boy, farmers are stupid…
Well…just read an article over on Kos and the only thing I took away from it is that farmers are really stupid…in the article they quote a couple of farmers whining about a shortage of workers and saying that they will need to leave 33% of their crops in the field because of the mass deportations that they voted for that are carried out by ICE thugs and the only thing you have to remember is that 87% of the Florida Farm Bureau’s political donations went to repubs…who’d have thought that these guys would be hurt from voting for repubs? Just everyone on the left that’s for sure…and you know what? They will never learn from it and will continue to vote for repubs that don’t give a damn about them…that is why I have no feeling for these people…they got rich off of undocumented laborers and now they are gone and none of them will learn a damn thing from it….geez…
Coughing again…
Well…I really didn’t think that the coughing from covid was going to go away so easily as it did Thursday…and it came back today…not as bad as it was earlier in the week but some coughing is still annoying as hell…and I noticed that my energy level on the bike was a bit lower today…but I still got 25 miles in every day since the whole thing started Sunday and that is pretty unusual for covid…and it’s only 11am and I am done for the day with both rides in and the weight work done…and I don’t have to cook til tomorrow when I’ll make the Masala…Michigan plays their first football game tonight and I’m kind of excited about that…just found out that my friend T fainted and had a fall yesterday which broke a bone in her face and is in the hospital…man, I’m worried about her…
August 30th
Well…damn, didn’t get out of bed til after 6 this morning but I don’t feel better from it…still pretty worn out but I guess I should be fighting off covid…just poured the first cup of coffee and I’m waiting for it to work it’s magic…only 47 degrees out there right now and I wonder if I should wait for the temp to come up before I get on the bike or put warm clothes on…I did dig my long riding pants out yesterday so I may use them today…my damn left knee is cracking and in pain and that is two weeks after the big pop and I wonder if it’s going to be permanent…college football starts today with Michigan playing tonight and I am looking forward to that and Man U plays at 10 this morning so I need to get my butt moving to get the rides in before that..not sure if I can with how cold it is out there…F1 qualifying is on at 9 so I’m going to have to miss something but I’m losing interest in that with Lewis no longer having the car to compete…not much to do today…just need to get the rides in somehow this morning and then clean the living room…more later…
Not getting better…
Well…after going almost the entire night with no coughing last night, I really expected to feel better today but I can’t feel it…still have a little cough and sore throat and feel like I have a cold…I did get 25 miles in again today and that was pretty normal…was able to go pretty hard when I really should have throttled back more…oh, well…I’ll do that tomorrow…so, all I did today was make some more pasta salad and then read all afternoon…I did go out to get 2 more books this morning so I have 4 to read this weekend but they have to last til Tuesday since the library is closed Labor Day…going to watch the F1 movie tonight but I have some work to do first…no rest for me…
What a petty prick…
Well…that the idiot trump is a petty little prick is on display every day whenever he opens his mouth…and he goes about revoking security clearances from anyone who doesn’t kiss his butt…he reached new depths of petty today when he revoked Secret Service protection for Kamala Harris even though there have been recent credible death threats against her…yep, I guess he is now living out his fantasy of killing his political opponents and that is exactly what this about…and gee, do you think it may have something to do with her being black? Of course it is…he hates women and blacks and doesn’t even view them as human so if she gets killed, why would he care? This action is just depraved but it is all idiot boy since he spends his days thinking only of revenge and how he can use the government to do it…this asshole needs to be removed…geez…
August 29th
Well…up at 5:14 this morning and there was really no point in trying to sleep more just like always but I’m okay with that…how else am I supposed to feel…not going to waste any energy whining about it…the bad coughing just stopped last night so maybe I’m getting over covid already? It’s damn cold out here at 47 so the rides are going to wait a while…my doctor told me to take is easier but I’m already down to 25 miles a day on the bike so that is easier to me…need to go to the library for two more books this morning to get ready for the library being closed Monday…and to make sure I have enough to read until next week…think I need to make some more pasta salad today to have that for a side for sandwiches…don’t really have a big meal planned but I should take the chicken out for Masala so I can make it Sunday…and I should take another container of soup out so there is room to make more from the two ham bones I have in the freezer…not much to do today…just need to clean and get the rides in and then take it from there…more later…
It’s all just greed…
Well…if you wonder why the repubs all support so many unpopular policies that hurt most Americans, all you have to do is look at the greed that they exhibit every day…they don’t go into politics to make anyone’s life better…they go into politics just to grift and get rich…I mean look at the idiot trump…he’s skimmed off 3.5 billion dollars since he took office and every damn one of them is trying to do the same…I mean how do you become a millionaire on a salary of 174,000 dollars a year and live in the most expensive city in the US? Bribes, sweetheart deals, and insider trading is the way of the new repub party…I mean you only have to look at brett cavanaugh to see the graft in motion…before he was a SC justice, he was essentially broke and owed a half million bucks…that debt mysteriously disappeared and now he’s worth millions…you see how that works and the repubs have corrupted government so much that this is the new way of life for them…get elected, get rich…and that sucks…geez…
Darn, it’s covid…
Well…have been coughing like crazy for the past 5 days and I just thought it was my allergies since the goldenrod is blooming along the trail…but I used one of the covid tests just on a hunch and it appears I’ve contracted covid somehow…and that is really puzzling with all of the precautions I’ve taken since 2020…I mean I never go anywhere without using a mask and I wash my hands constantly…don’t feel bad at all…just a little sore throat and the cough…since the cough started Sunday, I’ve even ridden the bike 25 miles every day with no problems…it does kind of make sense since I thought it was the worst allergy season I ever had…especially the coughing and the little sore throat but I get that just from allergies, too…I did call my doctor and they said just to drink a lot of fluids and take it a little easier and I should feel better in another 5 days or so…oh, well…not catching covid for 5 years was a pretty good run…
August 28th
Well…that was okay for me…didn’t get out of bed til almost 6am but was up and down just like normal and I’m still waiting for the day when I’ll sleep though the night and wake up refreshed…it looks like it’s going to rain a bit this morning so I’ll be waiting a bit to get on the bike but I’ll still not believe it til I see it…I’m starting to get used to the new car and figure out how to drive it…and yeah, I think the car is getting used to me, too…I am getting under it next week to find the clutch slave cylinder so I can bleed it and make the shifts smoother…and I think the computer on it is finally adjusted to being used…I really do like it and I need to clean it again after ending the beach runs yesterday…still have lots of sand in it that will have to be removed with a tooth brush since it’s in everything…I do need to clean the living room and couch today along with the bathroom and I’ll use the time from not going to the beach to do it…but I may just ease into the day since I only have the rides to do…going to make breakfast for lunch today with a ham steak, eggs, and toast but I’m not sure what the 2nd meal will be…I just know I do have to have two meals today after having only one yesterday…probably finish up the pasta salad and then take the chicken out for Masala over the weekend…no rushing today…more later…