Well…that was a little better…didn’t get out of bed til almost 6am but woke up at 4:30 or so and the coffee is not working yet since I just poured the first cup…it looks like rain is going to screw up my plans for the day and make me wait to get on the bike but I’ll take rain any time…need to cut up some chicken and put it in a marinade to make tacos tomorrow and I need to make more potato salad…one of the clerks at DD gave me the idea to add some celery to my recipe and I think I’ll try that with this batch…I think we talked potato salad for 5 minutes and that was fun…a nice woman that I look forward to seeing when I go there….damn, this waiting for rain is hard…reminds me of the Pink Floyd lyric from “Time”…”Staying home to watch for rain”…”but you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today”…none of that is true anymore for me and that sucks…oh, well…trying to figure out how to accomplish something as I wait for the rain or should I put the rain gear on and just get wet? I’ve never been good at waiting…and I need to go to the library to get a couple more books for the weekend..aargh…I hate waiting…more later…
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A squeaky clutch pedal…
Well…when I was getting ready to go to the beach this morning, the clutch pedal on the car started to squeak just like in the old car…even though the parts are completely different…so I slithered myself into the footwell so I could see all of the moving parts way up under the dash and then started hitting all of them with some wd and finally found where the squeak was and it’s now quiet again…and now I know why the clutch take up is so different…instead of going straight up to the master cylinder like the old car, this one goes up at a 45 degree angle and the linkage is about 2 feet long…really weird looking stuff…hmmm…I did get out to the beach today but Lake Michigan turned over last night and the water was about 15 degrees colder…not even to cold but straight to pain and I only got in to my ankles before I gave up and cut the stay short since I forgot to buy a red onion and I wanted to make pickled red onion to go with the chicken tacos I’m making this weekend…so I ran over to aldis and got a bag of them for 2 bucks and there is enough of them to make 3 jars so I’ll be having them with everything for a while…need to make the marinade for the chicken tomorrow so it can sit in it overnight…so, it’s been quite a busy day and now I want to read a bit before tv time…
I’ll repeat…
Well…just read an article over at Kos saying what I’ve been saying for years now…that the self-reliant red areas of the country who hate government aid (when it goes to someone else) are the areas that are most reliant on SS, Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps and these morons voted for the idiot trump by 78%…and the ten largest metro areas, deep blue, paid more in taxes to the feds than all the rest of the red states combined…and it’s not even close…so how does that square with super patriotic, pull yourself up by your bootstraps that people in these areas spew every day? It doesn’t, I think it’s just a delusion that they have learned from fox news and the repub party to who up is down and black is white…they are about to find out how that delusion is going to give them health insurance when Medicaid is gone…and it isn’t going to…the only plan the idiot trump’s minions have is to have those on Medicaid go out in the fields to pick vegetables after all the immigrants are deported…never mind that 92% of the people getting Medicaid already work…just look at Walmart whose entire hourly workforce is on Medicaid…are they going to provide health insurance to their workers now? Nope…never in a million years…red states, get up off your lazy asses and get a job…geez…
July 10th
Well…that was a little better…slept through til 5:31 and I don’t think I’ll ever do better than that again…and that sucks…at least I’ll get back to my routine today with getting a ride in and then doing the grocery run…may even hit the beach again but I do need to pay the water bill on the 2nd ride…so I need to write the check after I get this done…and get on the bike in 30 minutes to get the day started…I really do need to clean today and it may be the fridge that has needed a cleaning for a month…need to get some meal planning done, too…and I want to make some chicken soft tacos this weekend and maybe some more potato salad so I’ll be getting a tray of chicken at aldis…and I need to use up what is in the fridge…still have corn on the cob and eggs in there and I may be getting turkey bacon at DD at 2 bucks a pound…turkey bacon? Have never had any good turkey bacon but at that price, I can take a chance…and DD has braunschwieger at 99 cents a chub so I’ll be buying some for my yearly really bad food meals…not much to do today…it will be nice to get back to my routine for the next few days until they tell me I’m dying…oh, well…I’ve lived 16 years longer than my father did so I guess that’s something…more later…
What a day…
Well…what a day…it started way too early having to be in GH by 6:45…but the ultrasound was easy and I had a very nice tech…one concerning thing was they did every damn organ in my body except my left kidney…gall bladder, liver, spleen, pancreas, and right kidney and I wonder what the heck they are looking for and I wonder why they haven’t told me….I guess I’ll find out in 5-7 days when the results are in…so here I sit, waiting out another set of tests that could seal my doom or at least make my life worse than it is…I’m just tired of dealing with health problems…it is so damn wearing…after that I got the rides in and even went to the beach for a bit but I still had 100 sunscreen on from riding so I didn’t get any extra color…but I did get a swim in and the water was still warm enough to be in for as long as I wanted…okay, tv time…and I’m late for that today…
The purge is going to cost you…
Well…with the orange idiot promising to deport anyone who is not white European….all of those jobs the immigrants do are centered in the food industry and we can see the prices of protein already heading through the roof…beef is at it’s highest price ever in real dollars and there is no relief in sight with beef stocks at the lowest they’ve been since the 1960′s…and the ranchers, who all voted for trump, are sure the tariffs on feed grain from Canada are a huge factor in their rising costs…and many ranchers are just giving up and selling their farms…so if you like beef, you are screwed…I’m glad I stopped eating it last year…but it’s not just beef prices, it’s all food prices that are going to skyrocket as immigrants have just stopped showing up as the idiot’s gestapo attacks farms and food processing plant across the country…so now there is food rotting all over this country that there is no one to harvest it…and you just have to look at Florida and the draconian laws against immigrants from a few years back…the immigrants just left the state and up to half the tomatoes and other vegetables rotted in the fields…how about 4 bucks for a tomato to go with your 4 dollar a dozen eggs? Or just no veggies available at all? That is where we’re heading as the racist asshole in chief destroys the food industry….geez…
July 9th
Well…it’s 4:50 am and I’ve been up since 4:30 and I guess I need to get started getting ready for the ultrasound that I have to be in GH for at 6:45…slept really crappy and the no food or drink thing is getting old…as are all of the damn doctor appointments and tests…after this one, no more…I’ve had enough…it stayed almost 70 overnight and it will be warm enough to put the top down on the car for the GH run and I’ll have the headlights on in the car for the first time….and I may have to wait til tomorrow to do the grocery run since I don’t think the ultrasound is going to take more than a half hour and Aldi won’t be open until 8:30 so the timing doesn’t work…so maybe I’ll just get back here, eat something, and then get the rides in…and then get back to my normal life what there is of it…I am going to heat up some coffee and put it in the contego cup along with a hydro flask of ice water for the trip back…this is going to be a long day…it is so humid I’m sweating just sitting here…ick…more later…
A recon run…
Well…I was a little stressed out about finding the medical facility where they are going to do the ultrasound tomorrow way too early…but I chose 7am since the next available appointment was three weeks out and I sure don’t want to wait that long…and I’m glad I did the run since it took me an extra 20 minutes to find it that I won’t have tomorrow morning…have to stop eating and drinking in the next couple of hours and, of course, no cocktails tonight but I will have my contego cup filled with hot coffee for the ride home along with one of my hydro flasks filled with water and ice…it did rain a bit today but the next is not coming until Sat but it will be warm enough to put the top down for the run to GH at 67 for a low…and I’ll have to put the lights on for the first time in the car and that will be cool…okay, time for the weight work…
Stupid trump voters…
Well…okay let’s just leave it as a given that anyone who voted for idiot boy is just stupid so I don’t have to keep writing it all the time…the latest bit of stupidity is the fact that rural hospitals are going to close across rural areas that voted for the idiot and yet these stupid voters still think it has nothing to do with trump and the Medicaid cuts that are one of his signature attacks on healthcare…in North Carolina, a hospital that was set to reopen before the Medicaid cuts is now not going to open, leaving the closest emergency room almost 60 miles away…and that has already cost lives but the repubs don’t care at all…and the trump voters interviewed for the article still cling to the lie that there is widespread “fraud and waste” in the program which there isn’t…and let’s remember this…without blue states putting in more in tax dollars than they receive back, there would be no rural hospitals at all because they are not profitable and never will be…and people in urban areas pay for the welfare queen red states to function at all…geez…
July 8th
Well…up early again today and I’m really getting tired of it…I mean 3:41? But I didn’t get out of bed to 5:38 so I guess that’s a little better…it got down into the 50′s last night and it’s still only 58 out here right now so I’ll have a light fleece on when I head out on the bike before 7am….tomorrow is going to suck with having to be on the road to GH at 6am and trying to find a new place I’ve never been before…loads of stress from that…but I will get to see the lights on in the car for the first time so that will be cool…today is going to be an easy one with just the rides to do…no beach time or anything else but I am going to clean the bathroom and get started on the kitchen…I am so damn tired of the medical crap going on and I wonder what the ultrasound is going to reveal? Just more crap to do and more treatment and more doctor appointments….damn, I hate getting old….need to get moving soon but I am going to have more coffee first…more later…