Well…I did go out and get the lumber I needed to finish up the door frame work but I did something to hurt my back on the lower right side and it’s pretty bad just sitting here…and that adds to my thumbs that I can’t use from the cracks that is causing a lot of pain every time I hit the space bar…the boards did fit in the car with the top up but just barely but with it 42 right now, it wouldn’t have been bad driving with the top down…I forgot that I had a recip saw and new blades that I can use to cut the tips of the side trim on the door frame and I should do that today along with getting the top plate anchored so I have something I can nail the trim boards to…but with the way my back feels I don’t think I can do that right now…and I have been having problems with finding a political topic that grabs me so I’ll work on that later today…right now I just need to take something for my back…more later…
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February 24th
Well…damn, now I know why I haven’t been sleeping…the depression seems to be back and all of my energy is gone so getting on the bike is going to be a struggle today…but I have 35 minutes before I have to go down and I do need to do three rides after taking it easy yesterday and only doing two…it stayed over freezing last night and we are in a string of days over 40 for the next few and that means no snow or shoveling and I can take that all day…don’t really have to cook for 4 or 5 days but will have to plan what I have to take out of the freezer for the weekend…probably some chicken thighs before the next batch of Masala….looking forward to chili dogs for later today and will be loading them up with cheese but I have to remember I have lettuce and tomatoes so I’ll need to make a salad in the next few days….my damn thumbs are still cracked and hurt like crazy whenever I use them and that happens every winter but it doesn’t make any less of a pain…not much to do today…I measured the car to see if the boards will fit and it’s iffy at best but I can put the top down if they don’t…don’t feel like screwing with it but I have to keep putting one foot in front of the other…more later…
More good bread…
Well…it is nice to a bread recipe that I can make when I want something different…made the second sourdough loaf to have with potato soup I made this morning and it was even better than the first one I made…and I did this one with my own starter that was fresh Friday…much thicker than my son’s and I’m going to make a fresh batch of starter for every loaf….and I looked in the fridge today and remembered that I have shredded cheddar in there so the chili dogs for tomorrow are going to have cheese on them…I had to rethink the frame work downstairs and need to get some 1×6 boards and I hope I can get them in the car since they are 6 feet long…might have to put the top down to get them in…might run out and check with a tape measure just to see…but I’m done for the day and only did two rides but will be back to three tomorrow…okay, out to measure then reading…
Putin’s puppet…
Well…if it wasn’t bad enough that the idiot trump is parroting putin’s talking points every day, he now is in talks with Russia about partitioning Ukraine and letting Russia keep the territory it illegally occupied including Crimea…and he is doing that by stopping all aid to Ukraine and elon is piling on by giving Russia his crappy starlink internet service and shutting it off for Ukraine…now do you see why it’s terribly dangerous to have this utility controlled by some unstable, fascist billionaire? And they never talked about this during the election since aid to Ukraine polled in the 70′s positive in the US and still does…so this is just another of the unpopular policies this unpopular president is forcing on the US when no one voted for the crap they are doing…but that is the repubs for you…they just don’t give a shit what the majority of people want…they just force their stupid ideology on the entire country…geez…
February 23rd
Well…it’s 6:50 and I just started pouring the coffee down so getting on the bike is going to wait a bit until I feel the caffeine start to work…slept okay last night but sure don’t feel like it right now…and the batteries in my BP machine went dead but I had more so no big deal…and my BP was okay at 123/67….didn’t get a lot done yesterday other than fiddling with the damn trim on the bike room door but I won’t be working on that today….have to make soup and sourdough bread for lunch so that means I have to get off my butt and get moving before 7:30….the skin on both thumbs have cracked and it hurts like crazy to use them for anything that puts pressure on them…and that is everything and that sucks…we could have the third day in a row of no snow and I sure need that…this winter has been wearing on me and I just want it to be over…another week and we’ll be into March but it looks like we will be in the 20′s after this little warm up that is going to last a few days….oh, well…not much to do today…just riding and cooking and the race that’s on this aft…today may be that elusive 2 ride day so I can take it a little easier…but who knows? More later…
Rethinking the frame…
Well…I was trying to re-assemble the door trim I am working on and it just doesn’t fit so I need to rethink what I’m doing…instead of using the crappy trim across the top of the door, I’m just going to cut the mitres off the side trim and put a1x4 flat board across the top and I can get a 6 foot one for about 4 bucks and the width I need is 36 inches so I can get both sides out of one board…what a pain in the butt…oh, well…it didn’t snow again today and it was so nice to not have to shovel for the 2nd day in a row…and now it gets around 40 for the next three days so some of the snow is going to melt…I am a little excited to see how my new sourdough starter works when I bake the loaf I made today…mine is a little thicker than my son’s but it was bubbling like crazy and made the dough rise nicely so we’ll see tomorrow…it’s in the fridge doing the cold fermentation until around 11am tomorrow and I want to have it done before I finish the potato soup I’m going to make…okay…time to read…
Repubs are hiding…
Well…as the policies of the moron in chief start to hurt repub voters, the repubs that represent them are hiding from the howling, pissed off voters…the Wisconsin Farmers Union held a meeting to discuss how the policies are hurting farmers in Wisconsin and they invited both dem and repub reps to come and listen…not one of the four chickenshit repubs showed up or even responded while the four dems showed up and took part in the meeting…but the problem is it doesn’t matter…the entire economy was better under the dems and these morons voted for the repubs anyway…and no matter how bad the make the rich richer policies are, they still continue to vote for the repubs and I don’t think they are bright enough to figure out that the dems really do care about them…maybe that will change if the repubs stay in hiding and ignore the people but probably not…they still like the lying, racist asshole in the WH even though he is going to bankrupt many of them…geez…
February 22nd
Well…why the heck does Man U have to play so early? Their match against Everton is at 7:30 this morning and that means I have to be on the bike by 6:30 and that is in 15 minutes…and no, I can’t wait to ride until after they play…so I need to fly this morning to get my day started…and I sure don’t feel like it…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I do need to work on some sourdough today so I can bake it tomorrow to go with the potato soup I’m making…damn, I’m worn out today…I am looking forward to a little bit of thaw that is going to happen over the next few days and I may be able to get out of here next week if the snow melts on the alley…it looks like I won’t have to shovel any snow again today and I can use the rest…both of my thumbs have cracks in them that hurt like crazy from it being so dry so I probably should rest them today…or wear gloves if I work on the door frame….crap, I need to get moving…more later…
More frame work done…
Well…I was going to take it easy today but the door frame turned out to be more work than I expected and I spent a couple hours working on that today…lots of patching on the trim that will have to be sanded before I start putting it together tomorrow…I did get the new trim piece nailed in but the door frame trim at the top has to be glued in since there is nothing to nail it to…lots of duct tape to keep it in place til it dries…then I’m going to paint it white like the rest of the trim in the house…then start with gray on that wall that is a wallboard stud wall…at least I’m getting something done…and I made some more sourdough starter and with just two tablespoons of my son’s starter, it took off and is bubbling like crazy…going to make bread again tomorrow and that will get baked Sunday after the dough stays in the fridge overnight…and that will go great with the potato soup I’m making Sunday, too… but right now, I’m going to find something to watch tonight and read a bit….
The backlash begins…
Well…with all of the illegal slashing of jobs by co-presdent elon from the federal government, the backlash against these random cuts has started…even from repub voters…just last night a repub in Georgia held a town hall and hundreds of people showed up to shout and express their displeasure with what is happening…and this moron MCormick went on to just say that the cuts to the CDC were justified since AI is taking the place of workers…so the AI is going to go out and visit sites where there is a hot spot of disease? Again…these were trump voters who never thought the cuts would be to them or their neighbors or families…and some other reps are starting to feel the heat of the idiot trump letting elon swing the axe at the government saying that these kinds of cuts should be done by the legislative branch and not by an unelected, appointed moron….so this backlash has started really early in the election cycle and can give us hope that all of these illegal moves by idiot boy is going to cost the repubs in 26…geez…