Well…with the idiot trump attacking US citizens with ICE and the National Guard along with Marines in LA, California’s governor, Gavin Newsome, laid out the illegality of idiot boy’s action in an address to Californians yesterday….and I am so pissed at people on the left not getting behind him because he’s not a “pure” progressive like some of them want…holy hell, no damn person is going to be your perfect leader for our side but damn he’s trying to stop trump so every damn one of us should be applauding and getting behind him…so what if he is a centrist at times…the only thing that matters is opposition to idiot boy’s illegal use of the military to attack peaceful protesters and Newsom is trying to do that…what the hell are the rest of the left doing…stop frickin attacking people who are busting their asses to stop this cancer on the country…don’t you understand that this will be the end of our democracy if the left can’t pull together for the one damn thing we need to do right now and oppose trump and his minions? I’ve had enough of the people on the left constantly criticizing anyone who is trying to stand up to this asshole trump…just stay the hell out of the way then…geez./..
All posts by James DeVol
Good health news…
Well…just got back from my checkup and the news is good…BP is down to 122/72 and the doctors says that’s just where it needs to be…I am going to have a huge freckle on my forehead removed later in the month give that my brother is on his 7th melanoma removal and we have the same skin tone…so white we’re almost transparent… and when I showed the doctor my white tongue, he thinks it’s a yeast infection and it is what is causing me to lose my sense of taste…so I pick up a prescription that I take for only 4 days and he thinks that will clear it up…damn, it would great to be able to taste food and coffee again….I miss potato chips….so, it could not have gone better and I guess all of the hard work I do to take care of myself is paying off…and that was the joke I made to the doctor when I said it would be a shame to have a freckle kill me after all the work I do to stay in shape…I can be funny at times…more later….
june 11th
Well…darn, up at 4:23 this morning but I went to bed before 10 so I guess 6 hours is not too bad…feel okay this morning but it’s only 50 degrees here right now so getting on the bike is going to be iffy to get the rides in before the checkup this morning…but the temp is supposed to rise pretty fast and it will be 56 or so by 7 so I’ll get it done…no coffee until I get back from the appointment to try to keep my BP in acceptable range and I am going to take both BP meds this morning to see if that helps…going to be almost 70 before I head out at 10:15 so I can put the top down on the car…might even run over to DD since they have 12 oz packages of thin sliced ham or turkey for 1.29 and that’s pretty cheap…going to assemble the potato salad this morning before I go out on the bike since it just a little after 5 and I won’t be going out til 7 or so…not sure what is going on but I was freezing again last night that turned into sweating again with my winter sleep clothes on…I do need to make the sourdough dough for the bread I want to bake tomorrow but I can’t start that until I have a few hours that I can dedicate to it…so I’ll do that this aft…not much to do today…might wash the car this aft since it’s pretty dirty from driving in the rain the other day and I want to try out my new soap and wash mitt….more later…
It worked…
Well…as you know, I have been feeling lots of pain on the bike and I had to try to figure out what the heck was going on…so, I decided to cut back to only two rides and 25 miles a day starting last Saturday…that made me feel like a slug but the fruits of that decision showed themselves today when I rode both rides without pain for the first time since I started to ride outdoors this year…no thigh or knee pain or any tricep pain either and that has been killing me for better than a month…the only bad thing about that is it makes me feel like my body has just given up some of it’s capability that I’ll never get back…but I am going to try to start alternating 25 and 38 mile days just to see what happens…and I do need to train for the “ride my age” day that has to happen before my birthday in July…I did go crazy at Menards today and bought car wash soap and a new bottle of Meguiar’s wax along with a new wash mitt since the old one is 15 years old an getting pretty raggety…so I spent a hundred bucks today that I shouldn’t have…oh, well…I can always not buy anything next week…
I bit the bullet…
Well…have been waffling about buying a new beach lounger for weeks no but today I bit the bullet an ordered a really nice one…it was 70 bucks but it looks so nice and it sturdy, not like all the rest of them I looked at…and it will never fit in the trunk even folded up so it will have to fit in a garbage bag to contain the salt…the seat surfaces are cloth and look pretty damn comfortable and it sit higher and more stable that my old jelly chair….again, this could be my last chair to go with my last car and last house…it is pretty heavy at 15 pounds but the beach is only half as wide as it was after they dredged and I can manage that with the shoulder strap that comes with it…I shouldn’t be spending any money right now but it’s heading to July and I’m going to need it…and guess what color it is? Gray, of course and it has a hanging bag that has room for a cupholder and my phone etc…so I guess we’ll see if it a good purchase or not by the end of the week…time for weight work…
I figured it out…
Well…after I bought the new car, I was confused about the philosophy of it…and I know that sound a little out there but there is such a difference between the two iterations of them that it got me thinking…the first two models of them, the NA and NB were on the same chassis and were loud, rude, crude sports cars that made you grin about their sharp edges and could readily be called sports cars in the vein of the Lotus Elan or the other British sports cars that came before…kind of a minimalist car that just did the one thing well…handle…and cause lots of grins…but with having the new one for 5 weeks now, it dawned on me that it really is a grand tourer in the European tradition…it is quiet and comfortable but retains or exceeds the roadholding of the first two models…a grand tourer is like a Bentley, made to cover long distances in comfort and get you there not tired out like my 94 does…I wonder who made that decision…I guess the car had to “grow up” to appeal to more drivers that wouldn’t put up with the rawness of the original…the new one is just more refined and does everything better…and while I miss some of that rawness…at my age I really do appreciate that it is a grand tourer and treats my old body much better…my two cents anyway…
Peaceful protest is not an “insurrection”
Well…with the fascist in chief sending troops illegally to LA to attack Americans who are peacefully protesting idiot boy’s policy of sending his gestapo or ICE into cities across the country to kidnap people who are here legally and are law abiding humans, let’s contrast that to the real insurrection that happened when a crowd of his right wing thugs attacked the capital on January 6th…do you see any of the protestors in LA attacking city hall or threatening the mayor or governor? No, of course not…but the January 6th attackers did just that…they attacked government buildings trying to overthrow the government and threatened members of congress and the vice president with hanging…none of that is happening in LA…and what did idiot boy do for those convicted attackers of the capital? He pardoned every damn one of them and a high number of them have be caught and convicted of other felonies since they were pardoned…so that gives you and idea of these traitors who trump never sent any troops to stop…and yet he sends his thugs into peaceful protests trying to start a war so he can implement his fascist plans for the country…and ordinary Americans are trying to stop him…they have my complete support and I may even go to the protest here on Saturday…geez…
June 10th
Well…damn, another night of no sleep and it’s starting to get a bit wearing…and I woke up around 1 just shivering so I have to put winter clothes on to stop it but then sweated the rest of the night as I am right now…pretty sure it’s the no cocktails as my body adjusts to it and I feel okay so I’ll take that…have 20 minutes before I need to get on the bike to get the day started sine I decided to do the grocery run this morning with the doctor appointment tomorrow…so it will be the normal routine of 1 ride, grocery run, then the 2nd ride when I get back and then on to doing meal prep…going to get the sourdough starter fed today to make the dough tomorrow and then bake it Thursday to go with the Masala I’m making over the weekend…and I think I’m going to prep for another batch of potato salad today, too, and make some chicken thighs I took out of the freezer for Wed…leftovers end tomorrow so I’ll have to make something…I did get half of the lawn treated for weeds and need to hit Menards for more killer today so I can finish that up this aft…so, it’s going to be another busy day and I need another cup of coffee in the next ten minutes…so I need to get going…more later….
Couldn’t fix it…
Well…got back a while ago and the bad news is they couldn’t fix the player…but the good news is they worked on it for 2 1/2 hours and didn’t charge me a dime…so now I guess I’ll get started looking at my options to see what I can do…oh, well…drove through a storm on the way back and the car is so stable…not like the old one that was all over the place in the rain…I was flying at 80 plus and no problem at all…I did catch my right arm on the spikes on the fence today and even though it was only an inch scratch, it bled like crazy all down my arm until I stuck a band aid on it…what a day…
At the dealership…
Well…I’m at the dealership in Holland and the traffic was pretty bad to get here and I’m sure it’s going to be worse going home…oh, well…you’ll laugh at this…just got a text from one of their sales people that they want to buy my car…I just laughed…this place was pretty easy to find after getting off 31 it was right there so getting back on 31 north is going to be easy…and now all of my business is on the lakeshore and the only reason I have to go back to GR is to shoot pool and have drinks with K…..now I wait for a couple of hours until I find out the damage if they can fix it…I’m glad I brought my laptop since they have free wifi and I can update these….