Well…after getting three rides in for 33 miles today, I’m feeling pretty lazy today and didn’t even feel like making lunch…I should have gone out and seeded bare spots in the lawn but I guess that can wait til tomorrow…I did wash the bike after the third ride today and need to go out later and re-lube it and do the chain…and probably should check the air pressure, too, since I haven’t done that in a month or so and probably should check the air in the car tires…and that will be enough for today…talked to my brother today and he was surprised I haven’t been out to just drive the new car around and I guess I am, too…but I’m trying to not spend any money and get my cash supplies rebuilt after buying the car…it’s an excuse I know but inertia is hard to overcome at times…I did skip lunch today but will make chicken stir fry with rice later so that will make up for it…okay, need to get off my butt…
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It’s going to smack them in the face…
Well…how the hell did the rural maga folks get so stupid? The people they voted into office are passing bills that are going to smack them right in the face…the budget bill that the repubs have passed by one vote will result in the closing of hundreds of rural hospitals as the cuts to Medicaid that is keeping them open bite…and the cuts to Snap or food stamps is going to starve a lot of them…and I know I have been reveling in the fact that they did this to themselves…but with the cuts coming to Medicare it is going to hurt every one of the 70+ million retirees who depend on it to stay alive…in my personal case, I don’t how I could have paid for the 77K that my cancer surgery cost without Medicare…oh, and lets add in the job losses that are coming from the stupid tariffs that are going to hit the working poor the hardest…like those at Walmart where 20,000 jobs are going away…and in most rural communities, Walmart is the biggest employer and there just aren’t any other jobs…and now there won’t be any safety net to help these folks…the latest research shows that maga folks voted their hate and not any economic concerns…and now the hate is coming to bite them in the ass…geez…
May 26th
Well…it’s the end of May and the heat is still on and that makes it 9 days it’s been on…and it looks like that’s going to continue into June and I’ve never seen that before…the way it’s going, it’s never going to get warm enough to go to the beach this year and that sucks…really having a hard time getting going today and need to get on the bike by 7am but then the question comes..why? It’s going to be warm enough to get outdoors on the bike by 9am or so but it will still be in the 50′s so I’ll be in shorts but layered on top…need to go out to the lab and get blood drawn tomorrow morning for my June 11th checkup and I’m holding my breath again that the PSA test comes back negative and that will make almost two years of being cancer free…with losing my sense of taste, I looked at my tongue in the mirror yesterday and noticed it has a white coating on it and that is something the I’ll raise in the checkup in a couple of weeks…I wonder it it’s fungal infection? It would be nice to find something to give me my sense of taste back…life is so bland without taste…not much to do today…just the rides, cooking and then some yard work…want to get some grass seed in before it rains on Wed to try to start getting the bare spots filled in….more later…
Halfway through…
Well…as you’ve probably seen, I don’t think I’ll be doing a political one today…the races are halfway over and I have one indoor and one outdoor ride in and I’m going back out for a second ride after Indy ends since it finally got warm enough to not freeze my butt off…it’s even over 60 now so I’ll be able to go out in a t-shirt and shorts…and then get back here for the Coke 600 at 6pm…I do have to come up with meals for tomorrow and I think I’m going to make a big batch of stir fry chicken and rice and then use the brats I got this week for the second meal…and that will be meals for 6 days so I won’t have to plan again for a while…probably Masala next weekend…okay…need to do the weight work and watch the race…
May 25th
Well…it the biggest raceday of the year today with MotoGP, F1 from Monaco, the Indy 500, and then the Coke 600 last for the day and I used to just take the day off and watch but with my goal of riding every day, I need to find time to fit at least two rides in…and the first one needs to start by 6:30am and that gives me 14 minutes before I need to get on the bike…it is still only 39 degrees out here and that is just wrong for May..there has been no spring this year and we’re almost to June and that just sucks…up and out of bed before 6 today and didn’t sleep for crap and that makes almost a week now with little sleep and I am just so damn worn out…so I’m pouring coffee down and hoping that it works soon or I’m in trouble for getting the day going…with all of the races today, I won’t be getting much done other than that but I may clean a bit in here since I should vacuum the rugs in here and in my bedroom but we’ll see…I still have bacon for blt’s and a couple of chicken legs for the two meals today but will need to figure out meals for the rest of the week…I think I’ll do stir fry tomorrow but need to get the chicken out of the freezer that I put in yesterday…okay, I need to get off my ass and get the day started….more later…
7 days and counting…
Well…I know it’s too much to hope that it will be permanent, but it has been 7 days of no parties at the asshole renter’s house…and it is just so nice to hot have clouds of people out there trying to turn this place into the “hood” and parking in the alley so I couldn’t get out…I guess I’ll just take these 7 days for what they are…and interlude of what this neighborhood can be if the cops do their job and uphold the law…and they must have done something pretty drastic to get these assholes to stop…I’m hoping a fine that they can ill afford and they go hungry for a month…I still wonder how these people were raised…I mean, I’d never have a loud party in my yard every damn day and block the street and alley with cars…we were raised better than that and it has been so nice to not have to call the cops every day…but I will call again if they start that crap again…
A dangerous covid strain…
Well…the dangerous new covid strain that has been circulating in Asia has made it to the US just as the idiot trump and his minions have dismantled the ability of the country to develop new vaccines against it…and this in the face of new studies that found that children who have had covid have severe developmental difficulties and people with co-morbidities are three times as likely to have circulation problems that result in amputation…so I guess I’ll be back in isolation mode and won’t be going anywhere but the one trip to the grocery store each week and I will be wearing my mask any time I go out…god, I hate the stupidity of the assholes running this country who are going to cause hundreds of thousands more covid deaths and I could be one of them…geez…
May 24th
Well…damn, one of these day I’m going to take a day off…so worn out this morning that it’s all I can do is sit here and try to get one of these out…up at 4am today but was able to get back to sleep until around 6 but that is not enough…the damn heat is on again for the 7th day in a row and this is not like any May that I can remember…it’s only 41 degrees out there so that means I won’t be on the outdoor bike until after noon…but I need to get two indoor rides in before 10 when F1 qualifying is on…so I can wait a bit and have all of the coffee before I get moving…didn’t get much done yesterday but I do need to get the chicken in the freezer before it spoils and then plan some meals for next week…I do need to make some stir fry but I won’t get to the Masala until next week…need to get blood drawn for a full metabolic panel and another PSA test next week and I sure hope the cancer hasn’t come back…not sure what I’ll do if it has…it’s been almost two years since I had it cut out of me but I know they left some in there…not ready to die yet but if that is my fate, I can live with it…ha,ha…not much to do today…just need to drag my butt downstairs to get the day going but I am going to have one more cup of coffee first…more later…
This is how it’s done…
Well…I wonder when the people of this country are going to get tired of the bully trump trying to control everything that happens in this country? A few weeks back Harvard sued idiot boy and his minions for trying to cut 2 billion dollars in funding Harvard gets to do scientific research as a punishment for not allowing idiot boy to control everything they do…and now bully boy is at it again Thursday saying that Harvard can’t have foreign students and telling the almost 7,000 students they have to immediately find a new school and leave Harvard…and the idiot’s reason for that is that they allow pro Palestinian demonstrations that make Jewish student uncomfortable…oh, and the second reason idiot boy made up out of thin air…that Harvard is conspiring with the Chinese communist party to do something that they are not really clear about…so, this morning Harvard filed a 71 page lawsuit saying how this latest action is unconstitutional and asking a judge to void the idiot’s order…this is how it’s done, folks…you push back on fascists and do your best to make his life miserable….and let’s remember one little thing…you can’t lie in court like the idiot does every time he opens his mouth so they are going to have to back up their claims with facts they don’t have….geez..
May 23rd
Well…damn, I don’t think I ever remember it being so cold so late in May…I mean the heat has been on for the past 5 days and it’s only 42 degrees out there right now…ick….and let’s heap not sleeping on top of that…up at 3:33 this morning and barely got back to sleep and I am damn worn out from it…I know part of that is busting my ass all day yesterday but I’ll have an easier day today to recover from it…the house next door did go up for sale yesterday and leaves me with some trepidation that they are going to turn it into a rental and I’ll have assholes move in that I’ll have to deal with it and I’m too tired to do that right now…it appears that I have cured the other rental problem since there hasn’t been a party over there since last Saturday but I’m sure I’ll have to add to the 20+ noise calls I’ve made on those assholes…yeah, I’m not in too good of a mood this morning and the lack of sleep will do that to you…not much to do today…just need to get on the bike and get the two indoor rides in…going to get an outdoor ride in but it’s not going to be warm enough until after noon so I think I’ll have lunch first…have to remember that I have bacon to make blt’s and figure out what food needs to be in the freezer today…chicken legs, breasts, and brats need to go in but there is not a lot of room in the freezer…more later…