Well…damn, it’s only 34 degrees out here right now and that is just wrong for the second week of May…woke up at around 4am today but was able to get back to sleep til almost 6 but that is not making me feel any better…have been trying to eat enough to support doing 30 miles on the bike every day but that’s harder than it looks…and I’m going to try to do two indoor and two outdoor rides today to go over 40 miles for the first time this year…but that means I need to get on the bike by 7am…just looked at the weather and it’s not going to be warm enough to go out til this aft so I guess start time can move back a bit…I really don’t have any big tasks to complete until I need to have blood drawn on the 26th so I am just going to enjoy the lull and take it easy for a change…it’s going to warm up into the 70′s for the next few days and I wonder if it’s time to go into shorts for the year yet? Don’t have any that fit me so I may have to buy a couple new pairs after losing a few of inches off my waist…not much to do today…just an easy wing it day after getting everything done yesterday…so I’m going to pour more coffee down and wait for it to work…more later…
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Yow!
Well…finally got the paperwork done for the car at a cost of almost 700 bucks so I’ll need to stop spending for a couple of months to get some money coming in…was pretty easy and only took about 10 minutes to do all the stuff I had to do so that wasn’t bad…had the top and windows down for the fist time and they really have done a nice job of wind management since there was no buffeting even with the windows down…and the injector cleaner I put in this morning really smoothed the idle out and I’m pretty sure it’s just from a little condensation in the fuel tank…I really do need to eat more…when I don’t eat enough, the caffeine from coffee makes me jittery and my hands shake…so I might need to have three meals today to catch up…okay, I did stop at the library to drop off two books and pick up three more so I think I’ll read for a bit….
Trump screws the people…again…
Well…if it wasn’t bad enough that the idiot trump is hitting the middle class and the poor with his stupid tariffs that are raising prices of damn near everything in this country, now he is going to attack people with student load debt by cancelling a program that paused payments to give borrowers a little “breathing space” during the Biden administration…but now idiot boy and his minions are going to take borrowers bank accounts and even start taking their wages…and a lot of these people are barely getting by now but to idiot boy that doesn’t matter…so as soon as he does this, it’s an automatic hit to their credit score that may keep them from getting car loans or even renting an apartment…again, he just doesn’t care about anyone but himself…there is going to be economic fallout from this when the millions of borrowers have to stop buying anything sine they won’t be able to afford it…this is what you voted for you maga idiots…I hope it smacks you right in the face…geez…
A pretty good life…
Well…as I sit here finishing up the coffee and getting ready to get on the indoor bike, the thought hit me that I really do have a pretty good life as I head to the end of it…I mean I have the house and car sorted and don’t really have to do anything about that anymore…and the new car makes me grin and even with burning through almost 15 grand, I still have enough cash to be comfortable and most people can’t say that…so I’m going to enjoy this day and the rest of them that I have…the idea that I have a car that I can take anywhere that I want liberates me from the trapped feeling I had with the old car failing as it was…not sure if I’m going to do the one lap of America but the fact that it is a choice I have with the new car makes me feel like there are possibilities I didn’t have a couple of weeks ago…so now it’s time to get on the bike and get this day moving…
May 8th
Well…up at 5 am again today and I’m really not sure why…I mean I’m working my ass off to get things done and it should tire me out but it’s not…so I sit here before 6am trying to figure out my day and I think I have a plan…not going to skip the indoor ride like yesterday since it really does jump start my day and gets me going…I had a hard time getting going yesterday without it and don’t want to do that again…going to be eating some bad for me food the next few days and I don’t really care…going to make chips and cheese and some sandwiches with ham and turkey I got yesterday…and maybe some bean burritos…who knows? I do have to be at the SoS office at 1:40 to get the paperwork for the car done and that is going to cost around 900 bucks but then I’m done and I’m going to enjoy getting that done and the car officially mine…then I need to go to the library to get a couple more books to tide me over into next week…I did get the lawn mowed yesterday and I need to run the string trimmer to get the yard finished up but that won’t be til tomorrow…so, not a lot of urgency to get going today and I can have more coffee and ease into it…more later…
What a moron…
Well…you know, I am getting tired of the moron in the WH speaking for the country…especially when he makes no damn sense at all…when meeting with the Canadian PM, idiot boy downplayed the effect of the tariffs on trade with Canada saying that we do “a little trade” with Canada…and he is too stupid to understand that Canada is our biggest trading partner with the US importing 412 billion dollars total last year…and then the moron went on to brag that he “fixed” California’s water problems by flushing water out to sea…I wonder if he made it rain and snow, too? That is why their water problems have lessened not anything the moron in chief did…and he pushed the PM about the whole 51st state nonsense and the PM just sat there looking at him probably wondering why he was wasting his time with idiot boy…geez…
May 7th
Well…up at 4:14 this morning but was able to go back to sleep til 6:35 and that makes me late for the whole day…need to get on the bike in 9 minutes to get out for the grocery run by 8am and I sure don’t want to…just poured the first cup of coffee and that means it won’t be working until halfway through the indoor ride…and I think I’ll need to make some pour over coffee today since there is only one cup left in the pot…going to put the top down on the new car for the run out this morning even with it cold enough to have the heat on…and why the hell is it that cold in May? Didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I need to do more today….have laundry and cleaning to do today but don’t have to cook with making the potato soup yesterday…and I have an open jar of pasta sauce so I should make some of that in the next few days…need to start planning the work that I need to get done on the house and yard but I don’t feel like it right now…I wonder if I can skip the indoor ride this morning and just sit here until I have to go out? That would leave me with only 25 miles and that should be enough but with my warped brain I think of it as a slacker day…it is sunny here and it hasn’t rained in weeks…and it’s not going to for at least the next 10 days and that sucks…oh, well…more later…
Not as busy tday…
Well…I finally got the chance to read a bit today after no being as busy as I have been lately…just did the three rides and then made a batch of potato soup and I’m gad I decided to smell the milk before I started thickening it since it had started to go off and it would have ruined the soup…don’t have a lot to do the rest of the day so I’m going back to reading here in a minute…tomorrow will be busier with doing the grocery run along with stopping at Menards for more weed killer and some injector cleaner for the car… and I’m hoping that it will be warm enough for a top down run…then three rides..I did go over 3,000 miles on the bikes this weekend and that isn’t a goal for the year…the only goal left is to keep riding every day for as long as I can…already up to 565 days from October 19th 2023 to now…okay, time to read…
What a whiner…
Well…the developer of the Adelaide Point condos had a meltdown this past weekend and resigned as CEO of the company…and the reason is so typical repub bullshit…he really feels that environmental laws don’t apply to him so he can do whatever he wants…and he tried to get the idiot trump to intervene and overrule Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy who cited the project with multiple environmental violations…and he goes on to whine that they have done so much for Muskegon and basically says that should make them immune to criticism or regulation…and he goes on to say that the people of Muskegon have half the education and income of the rest of the state…why the hell he would say that, I don’t know but it smells like just another rich person looking down on anyone who isn’t…I’ve talked to this guy multiple times and thought he was a pretty nice guy…I guess I was wrong…geez…
May 6th
Well…that was better…woke up at around 4…again…but this time I was able to fall back asleep til almost 6:30 and that is a win in my book…but I’m still pretty darn worn out…and I think I’ll ease into this day with coffee and more coffee…haven’t made pour over coffee in weeks and I think I need to make some soon…need to eat more, too…since my face is starting to look too thin but part of that is the missing molars and there is nothing I can do about that…the heat is still coming on in May and that sucks and I wonder when that is going to stop? Not much of a spring this year and that sucks, too…I do need to do the week walk today to keep the damn weeds from killing the grass like they did last year…and I need to get some grass seed in the bare spots…the bucket garden is not working for the tomatoes and I’m about ready to give up on them…oh, well…need to get on the indoor bike here in a minute but I am going to have the second cup of coffee first…then an indoor ride and two outdoor and I’m not sure if I’ll have any time to read today…still have two books to read this week and could really use a day off to do it…ha,ha…that’s not going to happen…more later…