Well…damn, I’m running late this morning and need to get on the bike in 25 minutes to be able to get three rides in before Man U plays at 11:30…and the indy car race is on at noon and nascar later so there won’t be any work done today…and I didn’t have enough leftover coffee to even try to jumpstart my body so I had to make some pour over to get me going…woke up a little before 6 today but I tried to stay in bed for a while longer with no luck…and with only doing one meal yesterday, I’ll have an energy deficit that will last all day…it’s only 22 degrees out there but I looked at the 10 day weather and we are going to be getting to 56 next week and that is shorts and t-shirt weather on the bike…I am going to try to get outdoors tomorrow in full thermasuit just to see a few things and what has changed…I do need to do some service on the outdoor bike to get it ready…air in the tires and chain lube along with lubing the swing arm….not much to do today…and I really want a day like that but riding 24 miles is much to do and I don’t know how to do anything else….more later…
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What a day…
Well…today did not start well…when I poured the first cup of coffee every morning, I like to hit it with a splash of milk just as I did today…but, I probably should have checked the milk since it went off overnight and I was pouring chunks…and the weird thing is that the coffee tasted normal and the chunks just sunk to the bottom of the cup and didn’t dissolve…still had to pour out a cup and that meant I was short a cup and I’m still feeling it right now 4:30pm…I did get three rides in, shoveled the snow…and yes, we got 4 inches more snow last night and it was only 17 degrees when I went out to shovel at 9:30…after that I went back down and got the third ride in and then baked bread and made Masala…didn’t get done with the cleanup until almost 2 pm and, with not eating until a little after one, I’m not making another meal today so that will be two days in a row of one meal so I will have to eat two tomorrow but I won’t have to cook…no work on the frame today and I’ll probably skip tomorrow too…need a day off…okay, more reading…
No fuel for you…
Well…after the trump shitshow in the WH yesterday, the fallout has started and this one made me laugh…one of the largest oil suppliers to US navy ships in Norway has said “no fuel for you” and has stopped selling oil to the US…and they pulled no punches saying explicitly that it is because of the treatment of Zelenskyy by the idiots trump and vance…and they are urging other counties to do the same and I’m pretty sure that boycott is going to be pretty popular since other countries have weighed in with support of the company…make it jet fuel next…no fuel for air force one…ha,ha
Shameful…
Well…I know I constantly harp about how shameful the actions of the idiot trump and his cronies are but it seems that every day they do dig the hole even deeper…so, I’ll say it again…if you thought they couldn’t get more shameful, you were wrong after their performance at a meeting with the Ukrainian president yesterday…where the idiot praised putin, attacked Zelenskyy, and told him that Ukraine was losing the war…it wasn’t even really a meeting but an ambush by idiot boy and vance to try to embarrass him to benefit putin and they kept spewing Russian taking points all day…and the idiot basically abandoned Ukraine and with that, made it clear to the world that you can’t depend on the US while the idiot is in charge and has done more to lower our standing in the world than even the last time…good job maga voters…geez…
March 1st
Well…another month starts and the hope that winter is over is getting closer to being a fact but the weather widget just said 2 inches of snow in 4 hours and that is depressing…oh, well…slept okay last night and didn’t get up once all night and that is pretty unusual but I still feel worn out as I always do but that is just from being old…one of the boards I bought for the trim was not straight and I thought I’d have to buy another one but I clamped it to my work table with my c-clamp and it appears straight enough to use and that is cool…it’s going to be another busy day today with getting the rides in, baking bread, and making Masala and that will all be done by noon…I did watch the Bob Dylan movie “A Complete Unknown” last night and it kept me interested through the whole thing and reminded me what a frickin talent he is…very cool…and I’ve seen him live in GR with Willie Nelson but it was pretty disappointing when he stood at the back of the stage and I couldn’t understand him at all…have about 25 minutes before I need to get on the bike but I need to have another cup of coffee first…more later…
Got one side of the frame done…
Well…got one side of the door frame done this afternoon and it came out pretty good…and I didn’t use any duct tape to do it…I think I’ll finish it up tomorrow or maybe not…who knows? I did make a chicken burrito for lunch and got the dough for more sourdough made and in the fridge to bake tomorrow morning…didn’t get out on the outdoor bike today with the gale warning that was on all day and but I did get three rides in indoors to make it to over 1,300 miles so far this year and that’s not bad for two months of all indoor riding…it looks like I’ll be able to ride outside Monday and Tuesday of next week and start piling the miles on out there…ran out of leftovers today so I only had the one meal for lunch and I’m okay with that…need to get back to losing weight again…okay…need to get back to reading for a bit…
Canadian “snowbirds” getting the hell out…
Well…here’s an unintended consequence of the bully in chief constantly attacking Canada…it appears that Canadians who own second homes in the sun belt are selling their houses at a rate never seen before…and every damn one of them says that getting away from the idiot trump is the reason…and idiot boy just said the other day that he wants to put an additional tax on foreign ownership of houses here up to 50% of the value of the property…so the smart Canadians want no part of idiot boy stealing 50% of the equity they have built up over the years and are bailing out before that happens…and it’s not just those threats that have started the stampede, it the general idea of trump and his minions and the damage they have done to US society, making it more coarse and hateful and the Canadians just don’t need to put up with that bullshit like we US citizens do…oh, on last thing…tesla shares have crashed 35% over the past week taking the valuation of the company down from 1.5 trillion down to 900 billion and people are losing their shirts especially elon and he has only himself to blame stupid bastard…geez…
February 28th
Well…up at 5:09 this morning and that’s way too early for me…but I knew there was no chance to sleep more so I decided to get on with the day…so, I’m having my first cup of coffee at 5:33 and should be able to get on the bike around 6 to get three rides in before 10…then I have errands to run…Meijers, Aldis, and depot to set myself up to not go anywhere until late next week…I do need to pick up the 8 foot trim pieces I need so the top will go down on the car today and that helps me maintain my top down in every month streak…I may take the day off working on the door frame and just cook and read…going to make chicken burritos and maybe a salad today to use up the lettuce, cheese, and tomatoes in the fridge…going to prep dough for a loaf of bread tomorrow so I can bake it Sunday along with making some Masala…the new starter stayed on the floor heat register overnight and it looks good so maybe I’ll prep the dough today…I do need to make some stir fry and I got some bang bang sauce to use in one and I think that’s pretty spicy and I can use that…not much to do today…yeah, that’s not true…have lots to do and need to get moving in 14 minutes…so I’ll pour down another cup of coffee and get at it….more later…
4 years…
Well…it’s an anniversary of sorts today and I’m not sure what I think about it…it was February 27th 4 years ago that I moved in to my house here in Muskegon and when I think back to what this neighborhood sounded like then, it still makes my BP rise…I mean there was that thumpy assed bullshit was coming from every side all day every day…since I moved in here in winter there was very little noise…until it thawed and it was so bad I almost sold this place…but that was the bad times and it’s much better now…I’ll still have to make noise calls once it warms up but I don’t take it personally anymore…just call and talk to CD for a minute and a half and be done with it…okay, now the good…I really like owning a home again and it will be paid for in about 10 more years…and the trails are so close and I am itching to get back on them…will do an outdoor ride tomorrow but there will probably still be ice on it…one thing gave me a reminder how easy it is to live here…went out to pay the water bill at the city office and there has never been a time that I couldn’t park right at the door and get business done in about a minute..then over to the library where I parked right out front…again…and got 4 more books…the whole trip took 10 minutes and I was back here…just frickin easy….I do have work to do on the door frame today to get it sanded so I can start fitting the new trim tomorrow…but then again, I can do whatever I want…I will work but battlebots first…
People are already dying…
Well…with the appointment of the stupid vaccine hater RFK jr to head HHS, the inevitable has happened…he has put the health of every American at risk by stopping funding for any vaccine work being done by HHS…and that even includes cancelling a meeting with vaccine makers on the next flu vaccine that was set for a few weeks…and after the most deadly flu season in 20 years, that means that there will be no flu vaccine this fall and thousands of Americans are going to die…and kids are already dying in Texas from frickin measles that were eradicated in the US when I was a kid and now these asshole vaccine deniers are going to put every kid in this country in the crosshairs…there have already been 124 cases in Texas and it’s going to get worse since the morons who live there won’t have their kids vaccinated…look, these idiots even put a hold on polio vaccines and you can bet that polio will be circulating in the unvaccinated soon…I have had enough of these ignorant assholes putting the whole damn country at risk just because of their stupidity…geez…