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…
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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…
Still busy…
Well…you know, I was thinking today that I am always busy and I wonder if everyone is like that…I mean two rides, a run to the library and an errand, mowed the front part of the lawn, and then made the chicken stir fry for lunch…didn’t really get done with everything until 1:30 and that was steady moving from 7am…don’t think I’ll be as busy tomorrow but I do have to do the grocery run since I have a 7am doctor appointment down in GH Wed morning…or I may just not do a grocery run this week since there is nothing I really need and I have plenty in the freezer to go with the 4 days of stir fry I have in the fridge..even have 2 full gallons of milk so I can make that last til next week…okay, time to read…
No one approves…
Well…in polls that should have every damn repub shaking in their boots, the big theft bill that the repubs jammed through with no dem support is opposed by 2/3 of the public…and on every policy that the repubs have run on in the past, they are under water and idiot boys approval has fallen to 40%…and the only people who approve are the maga idiots who spend their days worshiping the orange idiot…and now even the repubs are starting to bail out of running for re election almost guaranteeing we take back the house and senate in 2026…and then we need to have SC reform the first thing on our agenda since they have become just another arm of the maga movement, ignoring precedent and the clear words of the constitution to give the idiot trump everything he wants…and the medicaid cuts are so far underwater that 80% of the country don’t want them to happen…so now we tie these cuts to every damn repub getting ready for 26…geez…
July 7th
Well…damn, I’m running so late this morning…woke up at 5:07 but went back to sleep til 6:13 and I won’t be out on the bike til almost 7 so I’ll be running all morning…need to hit the library this morning and mow the front of the yard…and make the stir fry for lunch…so I won’t have any time to relax until after noon…it is a little cool this morning and that’s okay…it’s getting down into the 50’s for a low tonight so I’ll have to close this place up…or put a blanket on the bed…I guess we’ll see…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I am going to clean today and put stuff away…the dining room table needs attention…damn, only have 15 minutes before 7am and I am struggling to get going….I am old after all and I wonder when it’s going to happen that I just can’t get going anymore? Not today…so I need to get off my butt and prep for the rides…so damn tired…more later….
It rained!
Well…we didn’t get the inch of rain that was in the forecast but it did rain for about 20 minutes this afternoon…not enough to fix my lawn but it may limit the damage some…I am going to have to mow the front of the lawn tomorrow but not anything else since it is completely dormant…so, I didn’t do much today…even skipped dinner since I didn’t feel like cooking so I’ll make the stir fry tomorrow…just don’t have any appetite anymore and I wonder if that will ever change…I did get two rides in this morning and I’ll try to keep that up with how warm it stays overnight…it was 76 with 87% humidity when I want out and I still didn’t sweat much and I wonder if that is a part of the dehydration I’ve been feeling or if it’s from losing 30 pounds? Haven’t even sweated through my hat to get it dripping at all this year…hmmm…okay, need to finish a book before the USA plays in the Gold Cup final at 7…