Well….damn, it’s funny how sunburned you can get just being out at the beach for an hour for the first time this year…I guess the 100 sunscreen I’ve been using has kept me pretty white…but I purposely didn’t put any on for the beach since I really did want to get a bit of color…need to get on the bike by 6:45 today sine I want to get a ride in before the grocery run…may just keep it to 25 miles today after two days of 38′s…my legs can use a little rest…it’s already warm enough to go out just a t-shirt this morning and that is what I’ve been waiting for…still have leftovers for today and tomorrow but I will need to take something out of the freezer for the rest of the week…not sure what that will be yet…maybe some bacon for blt’s? Will probably make Masala this weekend before the ginger spoils and I have to make another batch of potato salad to use the potatoes before they spoil…not going to buy any protein this week and will be eating out of the freezer for a couple of weeks…not much to do today…going to take it a little easier today and read another book so I can pick up 4 more Friday…I think I need to pause that for a while to get a few things done around here….more later…
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Out to the beach
Well…I did get out to the beach today and got a little scorched but that feels good…I did get the new chair in the car but just barely and it was so damn comfortable to sit on it in the sun…the water was too cold to swim but it’s getting there and should be warm enough in the next couple of weeks…I did get to the library to get more books and read one of them this afternoon but it was a James Patterson and they read really fast…going to do the grocery run tomorrow since it’s supposed to storm all day Wed…don’t really need much but they have a lot of stuff on sale at Meijers for a buck so I’ll pick up a few things…damn, I really do hope it rains since my lawn will be dead if it doesn’t…oh, well…okay, tv time…
It’s trump’s fault…
Well…if you think there is an escalation in violence in this country since January, you’re right and it’s all the asshole trump’s fault since he has called for violence against his political foes for years…so what does one of his idiot followers do? He shot and killed a Minnesota legislator and her husband and tried to kill another one and his wife…and we know this asshole is a trump follower from his social media posts…and every damn day idiot boy openly calls for “something” to happen to people he hates but he knows what that means…he wants just what happened in Minnesota to happen all across the country…and he has emboldened his thug police forces to threaten people who are exercising their constitutional right to protest…a maga sheriff in Florida with the full support of the AG threatened to immediately kill anyone seen throwing anything at protests…no arrest, no trial, just summary execution for protesting…and idiot boy just eats this shit up…he is such a pussy that he has never done the violence himself but he gets his jollies when his stupid followers do it…that right there is a big sign of his psychopathy…he revels in other’s pain and suffering and he thinks that makes him a tough guy…I think he’s pathetic…as the rest of the world does, too…geez..
June 16th
Well…damn, I’m tired of being up at 5:30am every damn day…and I need to get on the bike by 6:45 to be able to get two rides in before 9 when I want to hit the library for more books…I think I slept okay but sure don’t feel like it…don’t have a lot of pain after doing 38 miles yesterday and I think I’m going to try to do that again today…it’s always nice when I put a new tire on the bike and it rides so smooth and quiet….I may be able to get the rest of the year out of this one…the last tire only lasted about 6K miles and at 30 bucks a tire, that’s not enough…oh, well…I do need to get some work done today since I didn’t do anything but cook yesterday…the living room needs cleaning and the bathroom could use a once over so I’ll grit my teeth and get on that later…my tongue is still coated and today is the last day of treatment so I’ll have them look at it again when I go in to have the threatening freckle removed on the 24th…will probably need more treatment…ick…not much to do today…just going to grind it out and get the rides in before I think of what else needs to be done…more later…
This is too funny…
Well…the crowd count at the idiot in chief’s birthday parade is in and I’m laughing my ass off…8,647 people showed up..barely double those who showed up here in Muskegon against the asshole…that’s $5,204 dollars for each person that showed up…and let’s contrast that with the 11 million people who showed up at the protests across this country against the fascist in chief…a million people in Philly alone…the last military parade celebrating the end of the first gulf war drew almost a quarter of a million people…I wonder how the inadequate orange asshole feels today? The entire world is mocking him today and with that stupid parade, the US is the laughingstock of the world…no, I shouldn’t put it that way…the laughingstock is just the idiot trump…the world still likes Americans just not him and his cronies…geez…
38 miles today…
Well…after getting two rides in this morning and getting back here in little pain, I decided to just check to see if I had healed up enough to get back to stretching myself a little since 25 miles a day is just too easy…so it appears I’m pretty much healed since the right knee made it to the last half mile before I had some pain on the last climb…so I’ll start out alternating 25 and 38 until I can get back to 38 every day…I had those done by 10:15 with getting started before 7 so it really doesn’t cut into my day at all…I did make chicken stir fry for lunch that should last me for the next 5 days or so…I froze the chicken for the Masala and will probably make it Thursday…just talked to my daughter and she wants to do a European trip in the spring so I need to get saving the 5 grand it’s going to cost…it will be nice to see some of the old European cities…and to hang out with her and S…don’t have any reading for today with picking 2 books last week that I’ve already read…darn…I’ll get 4 more tomorrow…time for racing…
No Kings…
Well…it looks like the toddler in chief’s military parade was a bust with only about 10K people showing up…and he spent 45 million dollars of our money to do that…now let’s contrast that to my little town of Muskegon where 3,000 people showed up to protest against idiot boy…and across the country over 11 million people attended the protests showing that there is still life in this country that wants our democracy back from the fascist trump and his minions…now we need to figure out how to put the protests into action and press our reps in congress to oppose everything that idiot boy is doing to us…and it looks like the bully cops were cowed by the size of the crowds and didn’t dare to pull the bullshit they did in LA when they attacked protestors last week…now let’s have an even bigger protest on July 4th and keep up the pressure…oh, and while we’re at it, let’s make a lot of jokes about the idiot toddler’s parade…like everything trump and his small hands, his parade was a pathetic cry for attention…I’ll bet the ketchup hit the walls yesterday….
June 15th
Well…damn, I’m sore this morning for some reason and my lower back is stiff but I have no idea how I hurt it…didn’t sleep too well last night with waking up at 4:04 and then just tossing and turning until I gave up at 5:45…yow…I really do hurt everywhere today and I may have to take an ibuprofen before I get on the bike…didn’t get much done yesterday but the bike rides and finishing up the last book so I don’t have anything to read today and that sucks…I picked up two books I’ve already read on the last trip to the library so I have to figure out how to know what ones I’ve read…I do need to cook today and I’m going to make a chicken stir fry with rice probably for lunch but I’m not sure what the second meal will be…I do have potato salad so maybe a dog since I have buns…I really should clean the living room today and get the couch cushions rotated and need to get that done before the F1 race is on at 2pm then nascar, then the indy car race at 8pm…need to pour another cup of coffee down before I get on the bike in 15 minutes or so and the means I need to get moving…more later…
Had a tire failure…
Well…for the past couple of days, I’ve had a thumping coming from the back tire of the bike and I got tired of it after the two rides this morning so I took the wheel off to look at it and find out what was going on…found a cut in the tire that must have been deep enough to get into the cords and start them breaking…which leads to the tire starting to get a bulge in it that thumps every time it hits the ground…but the cool thing was that my tube protectors I have between the tire and tube did it’s job…without them, I counted at least 10 holes in the tread that would have led to a flat…luckily, I had a new tire in the cabinet that I bought last fall and 10 minutes later the bike is repaired and ready to go out early tomorrow…oh, and later today when I’ll ride down to the “no kings” protest down the hill at Heritage Landing…I am a little curious how many people are going to show up and I saw an article this morning that showed a Target store sold out of poster board so there are a few people that are making signs…it would be cool to see a couple hundred kindred souls down there…
These are human beings…
Well…with the asshole in chief terrorizing immigrant communities across this country…he and his maga folk are the only ones that want this to happen at all…in the latest polls, 70% of Americans don’t want any immigrant deported and especially when it’s done by ICE thugs…read an article this morning that this terrorizing is affecting the health of these people who live under constant stress when they are just trying to live their lives…I just can’t understand why the right just hates these people..I mean, what are they doing that is so bad? Working hard and raising families? And doing work that no one else will do? We all need to remember that these are human beings with the same hopes and dreams as anyone else in this country who are trying to make a better life for themselves and the only reason they are targeted is political since idiot boy thinks it’s an issue that the whole country agrees that something needs to be done…but does it really? Immigrants pay taxes and into SS and never get a dime out of it and I think that’s wrong…what if we stop paying billions of dollars to hunt these people down and just make them citizens…then we wouldn’t need the ICE thugs anymore and that would save billions more…yeah, I know, the cruelty is the point to the idiot trump…he loves the fact that he can bully immigrants and they are helpless to do anything about it…typical bully bullshit…geez…