Well…after fiddling with the new bike computer with little success, I got an e-mail from the manufacturer clarifying how things have changed from my old one to this one and now it’s ready to go…and I’m pretty geeked…it was really nice for them to get back to me this quickly to support a 25 buck computer…I really like my new 10 buck power pack that I bought to charge things when traveling or during power outages…I’ve had it hooked up to my mp3 player for 3 weeks without charging it and it’s barely come off 100% charged…and that’s almost 53 hours of running and my other aux battery would last two days before it needed to be charged…I wonder how long this thing will go before recharging…100 hours? 200 hours? For 10 bucks that’s a screaming deal…I did take coffee out on the bike for the 2nd ride again and I am starting to like the boost it gives me for the 6.5 miles coming home…and I do like the Hills Bros coffee beans I tried so I’ll be getting more of them and figuring out how to store them to keep them fresh…and 11 bucks for 32ozs is not a big investment to try them…who knows…you might like them…
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Inflation is real…
Well…no matter how much the idiot and his cronies are trying to gaslight the country that rising prices are “normal”, the latest figures are in and it’s not pretty…the inflation rate for May was almost 5% from a year ago and it’s only going to get worse with the moron in chief attacking Iran again yesterday and sending oil prices soaring…we are all going to look back on 5 buck a gallon gas with fondness soon when it heads up and up to maybe 10 bucks a gallon…and the real economists are all saying the same thing…that one person is responsible for it all and that is the idiot boy squatting in the WH…I’m really glad I stopped drinking or my budget would be squeezed just to put food on the table…but I’ve got it better than the majority of Americans who have no room in their budgets for this inflationary bullshit…as I’ve said before, we are quickly reaching the point where people will have to decide to pay their bills or eat…but this starvation is just what idiot boy wants…so he can lie his ass off as always and say “I alone can fix this” and the stupid people who voted for him will believe it…I hope that voters remember how peaceful and stable things were under Biden when qualified people ran the government and not the lies that spew from the idiot every day as he takes no responsibility for screwing up the country and blames anyone but himself…geez…
Installed the new computer…
Well…did the 2 rides without a computer this morning so I’ll have to remember to add that 25 miles to the total…still having some problems setting the new one up but it will work for what I want and that is just speed and mileage…and, after I removed the old one and could get a close look at it, I found the problem in the wire to the sensor so I can repair that and have a spare computer…but it does look pretty shabby (like me) so having a nice new one without splices is cool…and the odometer works on the new one so it will keep track of mileage up to 10K miles instead of using the trip function to record them…it was okay to ride without a computer this morning but I kept looking down to a blank display and that was a little weird…not sure why having the computer die caused me so much stress but that gives me something to work on…
June 10th
Well…up and running at 5:31 this morning and slept okay I guess but I stayed up late trying to tire myself out and that didn’t help…oh, well…the new coffee beans I bought are growing on me so I just might buy a couple more bags before the price goes nuts…I wonder how long you can store sealed coffee bags before the beans go stale? Have 2 full and 3 opened bags right now so I may need to look for some containers to put them in…got the new tires for the bike yesterday and I like them…they actually have tread on them and I got tubes with them and two sets of the bands that go around the rims to cover the ends of the spokes that normally cost about 10 bucks each and two tubes that are 8.99 locally…and all of this cost 34 bucks when the tires I’ve used for years cost around 30 bucks for one tire…so it looks like a bargain but I’m going to use up the tires on it first before I put the new ones on and try them…and that won’t be til late summer…down to the last book that I should finish up today so I can take 8 books back…not going to get that many this time and I am going to try some new authors to broaden my available books so I don’t run out…not much to do today…skipping the grocery run this week since I really don’t need anything and the freezer is full anyway…going to make a pizza tomorrow and with the stir fry I made the other day, I’ll have meals to last til Sunday..okay, need to get on the weight work…more later…
Bike computer died…
Well…darn, my bike computer died after the first ride today and for the first time, I can’t fix it…so I ordered the exact same one but instead of 18 bucks, it is now 25 bucks but I guess it should have gone up after tariffs and inflation..I looked at others but came back to the Cat Eye 7 since I already know how to program it and I know the battery lasts a couple of years…all of the others I looked at use GPS to measure speed instead of a sensor on the wheels and they all said that trees, buildings, and fog can make it stop reading and that describes my rides every day…and I don’t want to have a cloud account where they have all of my information about my rides and you need to download a smartphone app to be able to program the damn things…so, I guess I’ll stay old school as I have the past 7 years…and that is pretty damn good for an 18 buck computer…and the new one will be here today between 5 and 10pm so I can install it for tomorrow’s rides…might even go down and do an indoor ride so I only lose 5 miles today…
Taking longer than I thought…
Well…it’s 7:56am here right now and I am still waiting for the rain to stop so I can get on the bike…normally, I’d be onto the 2nd ride by now so I guess I’ll have to do the weight work as I sit here…I guess it’s still hard for me to “go with the flow” and let nature dictate my day so there’s another thing I need to work on…after all, why the heck do I need to get things done so fast every day? Don’t really need to do that anymore but the ingrained go,go, go is a hard thing to overcome…at least for me…even if I don’t get out til 9, I’ll still have the rides done by 11am and that’s not late really…and I don’t have to cook with making a big batch of chicken stir fry and baking another breast to use for sandwiches to use the chicken up before it spoils…need to get on the weight work…
This is pretty funny…
Well…just ran across this little tidbit in the Good News Roundup over at Kos…the Chinese are laughing their butts off at the idiot trump and his minions pushing to get his ugly mug on a new denomination of US currency, a 250 dollar bill…and the Chinese are laughing since 250 in China is a widely used slur that denotes someone is a “halfwit, blockhead, and fool”…as usual, all the people around idiot boy are dumb as a box of rocks and so ignorant and dismissive of other cultures that they didn’t see this one coming and the Chinese are “dying of laughter” at this bit of stupidity…I am, too…
War has changed…
Well…I have been closely following the war in Ukraine since it started and it looked like Ukraine was balancing on a knife’s edge as Russia threw wave after wave of tanks and “meat assaults” at them but then things started to change after the war dragged on…Ukraine embraced a new kind of warfare that had never been seen before, anchored on the use of inexpensive drones to take out the tanks and soldiers on the Russian side…and as time has gone on, Ukraine has become less dependent on other countries technology and has built a drone industry that is so innovative that countries around the world are studying how they are doing it…and the industry they have built is going to supply them with a million or more drones this year of all sorts…long, short, and medium range drones Ukraine is using to attack Russian infrastructure that is used to support the war…and just in the past few days, Ukraine has attacked supply lines from Crimea that Russia needs to support their armies and essentially shut them down and it appears that Russia has no answer to it…so this is a new kind of war when a 10,000 dollar drone can destroy a 20 million dollar tank with no danger to the operators of those drones…it looks like Russia has no defense to this new kind of war and I’ll bet they will lose by the end of the year…yeah, I know that’s bold but they have already started to withdraw their armies they can’t supply…good riddance…
June 9th
Well…just poured the first cup of the cheap bean coffee and I really think it tastes like coffee…yeah, I really can’t say much more than that with how little I can taste…and I am reluctant to recommend anything anymore because of it….but 11 bucks for 32 ozs of coffee is cheap in this environment…I mean the last ground coffee I bought was 11 bucks for 35 ozs but that is now 21 dollars…and, from what I can tell, this doesn’t taste worse so I’ll probably buy at least one more bag…damn, it appears I’m not meant to sleep at all anymore since I took a benadryl before bed last night and was still up before 4am…I was able to get back to sleep for a while after that so I guess that’s something…it rained really hard this morning and it just started again so the rides are going to wait a bit but it’s the only thing I have to do today…and overnight it was raining so hard that it woke me up even though I had earplugs in…it stayed 70 overnight so I could leave the windows open for the first time this year…I am glad that I got the lawn mowed yesterday since there is going to be rain on and off for the next couple of days and it was getting pretty ugly…it’s still ugly and will be unless it rains every couple of days and that is not going to happen…don’t have to cook today other than making some more pickled red onions and maybe some pickles…okay, I do think this coffee is good and it has a good jolt of caffeine so I’ll take it…more later…
Got the beans…
Well…got the new HiIls Bros beans today and just ground enough to set them up in the coffee maker for tomorrow morning…first impression is that they are good looking beans but might not smell as strongly as the other beans I’ve used…normally after I grind beans and put them in the coffee maker, I can smell them whenever I walk into the kitchen but these only have a whiff of scent…but they are a dark roast Arabica bean and should be okay…and at 1/3rd the price of the 8 0’clock beans, I sure can live with them…after I drink some tomorrow, we’ll see if I order more of them to make sure I’m insulated from the price increases that are on the way…I’ll bet they’ll be up to 20+ bucks later in the week…