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…
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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…
June 14th
Well…up at 4:44 this morning but was able to stay in bed almost 6 and that extra hour made a difference…but that puts me late for getting on the bike before 7 so I can see the start of the 24 hours of LeMans…and that will be on in the background all day since the Motor Trend channel is going to cover most of it live…damn, have only 10 minutes before I need to get on the bike and the first cup of coffee is just going down so I need to get going on that, too..I need to do much more cleaning today and I think I’m going to start on the living room first and then maybe do the dining room since I’ve let the table fill with crap that should be sorted out…feel a little slug like with only doing 25 miles a day but that’s enough for an almost 72 year old…still have leftovers for today but will need to cook tomorrow and I think I’m going to do a stir fry and then Masala Monday…I am going to the “no kings” protest down the hill at 6 pm today since every damn citizen should protest the asshole trump and his spending 50 million dollars to give himself a military parade for his birthday….not much to do today…just the rides and the races all day…more later….
The new bags work…
Well…you know I was looking for bigger trash bags to put the new chair in when I go to the beach and they just came…and they work perfectly and are so heavy duty that I don’t think I can tear one if I try…and there is enough extra room in them that it will be easy to put on once the chair is full of sand…so, I’m all ready for the beach whenever it gets warm enough to go…pretty cool…and the two bags of coffee beans came too, but I did buy the Colombian beans again since they were cheaper and came in 6 ounce bigger bags…so now I have three full bags in the drawer that should last me the rest of the year…I was able to taste the pour over I made this morning so I’m holding out hope I may get my taste back…man, that would be so cool to taste hot sauce again or garlic or anything, really…I guess I need to look at the weather forecast to plan a day on the beach…I did get the kitchen cleaned from top to bottom today and that makes me feel good…going to do the living room tomorrow and rotate the couch cushions…I did a really stupid thing and picked up two books that I’ve already read so that leaves me with 3/4 of a book to read for the entire weekend…darn…time for tv…
Fingers crossed…
Well…was just sitting here and got the idea to make some whole bean coffee since I didn’t have enough to keep me moving all day…and it has shocked me that I think my sense of tasted is coming back a little…when I got up this morning the white coating on my tongue had turned green so I think the medication is starting to work and I have 3 more days of it after today…it would be so cool to be able to taste food again but I’m not going to get my hopes up too high…but one of the effects of this yeast infection is the loss of taste and I really can taste the coffee…okay, these are words that I never thought would come out of my mouth…I’m happy with my weight…yeah, that sounds weird to me, too…down to around 170 pounds after this last checkup and, with the muscle I’ve put on my upper body, I don’t think I’ve ever looked like this…I could use to lose the little band of fat around my middle and I may keep trying to lose that but my face is pretty gaunt looking and that makes me look older and I really don’t need that since I am already really old…time for lunch and reading…