Well…since the stereo in the new car doesn’t have an 1/8th inch input to hook my mp3 player to, I had to go back a decade or more to dig up my old cd cases and cds and will put them in the car…I did listen to a couple on the way out and back today and even though it’s clunky it sounded good and it will give me the opportunity to listen to entire albums again when I’m not listening to the radio…and I can live with that…and with the two cases I dug up, I have about 40 cds and that will be enough…it was kind of cool to have cruise control on the new car and with the controls on the steering wheel, it makes it pretty darn convenient along with the stereo controls on there…so yes, even if I paid a lot of money for the car I think it is really worth it and I don’t have to think about another car the rest of my life…and that takes a big load off…
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They’ve given us a roadmap..
Well…with the chaos and destruction being levied on the country by the idiot trump and his minions, One thing people are missing is that those morons have given us the roadmap we need to build new guardrails that will HAVE to be followed when we retake the government and that starts with say maybe laws that reign in the executive branch with a simple law that says executive orders are not laws and can’t be used to run the government into the ground and any time an EO conflicts with a congress passed law, the law will be supreme…all of the things idiot boy is doing with EO’s is blatantly unconstitutional and the courts should be shutting this whole set of bullshit down but we know we can’t get that until we reform the supreme court in January 2027…and that should be the #1 thing we do…reform all the courts…but past that, we should be planning everything right now for when we take the WH back in 29…get moving , dems…
May 5th
Well…I really hate being up at 5:14 in the morning…and my damn right thumb is split again and hurts like crazy…and I’m going to aggravate it with the outdoor rides and shifting with that thumb…man, I really hate getting old…it’s going to be a busy day today with hitting the SoS and spending a thousand bucks to get everything transferred and legal…and then I need to run a couple of errands before I get the one outdoor ride in and after that I’ll need to think about making a run to GR to show the car to Tom…still haven’t driven the car other than the 3 miles from the dock to here so it will be a nice shakedown run…it’s supposed to be 60 or so today so it will be a top down run and I can’t wait to see how the wind blocker works and how the top latches down…going to use the cruise control with the buttons on the steering wheel that also has the stereo controls on it so I’ll have something to play with…damn, need to get on the bike by 7 and that is coming up pretty fast…more coffee…I guess I should get moving…more later…
Washed and waxed the car…
Well…wasn’t really going to do much today but after getting the rides in but I went out to look for the trunk and gas door release and felt that car can really use a wax job but it had to be washed first…so I washed and waxed it with the instant spray wax and now it is slippery and really shiny…and there are only a couple of scratches on the whole car which isn’t bad for a 17 year old car…and I noticed that the battery is under the hood and not in the trunk like the 94…and I am amazed at how far back the engine is in this one…there has to be 2 1/2 feet from the front of the car to the front of the engine…and the whole thing is behind the centerline of the front wheels…it’s like a front engine, mid engine car…so tomorrow I go out and spend a thousand bucks at the SoS to get everything done…even going to renew the plates since they sent that to me a couple of days ago…okay, race time…
May 4th
Well…happy Star Wars day to all who celebrate…finally, didn’t get out of bed til around 6 and that felt good but I don’t feel that hot right now…feel pretty worn out…again…but I need to get going soon to get the indoor ride in before Man U plays at 9…not sure what I’m going to cook today…have tons of potatoes so I should make a batch of potato soup but I think I’ll see what else I can make with three kinds of potatoes….really hurt my back working on the lawn yesterday but it didn’t start there…it has been hurting for weeks now and I wonder what the heck I did that hurt it initially….not going to be warm enough to get outdoors until 11 or so since it’s only 40 out there and the heat is still coming on…so I wonder if I can have a relaxing morning? I do need more coffee and I’m thinking of making some pour over but that seems like a lot of work right now…lots of races on today with F1, Indy car, and Nascar all racing so I need to get everything done before that starts at 1:30 and they overlap so I’ll have to choose what I want to see…not much to do today…just need to pour coffee down and get moving but I have a half hour or so to sit here until 7:30 and I am going to try to enjoy that….more later…
Back to the routine…
Well…it was nice to get back to the normal routine today after being away all day Friday…and the routine included 3 rides and mowing the lawn…I was having a problem with the bike and I thought the new front and rear sprockets were wrong…but I figured out that I had adjusted it wrong when I did the replacement work and the gears were off by one…and that kept the shifter from getting to 24th speed since it read 8 but it was only going to the 7th sprocket on the back…after a 15 minute fix I did the third ride and it works perfectly and it is so nice to be able to pedal as hard as I want with no skipping…didn’t take the car out today but I did start reading the manual and the procedure for locking the top down is new to me so I’ll have to figure that out…I did remember that when the NC’s were built they didn’t come with a spare tire since the 17 inch wheels wouldn’t fit in the trunk so I need to get some fix a flat and a new compressor…but then I thought I’ve driven the 94 or 13 years without a spare and only had one flat in that time…I am going to ask 2 grand for the old one and I think it’s worth it even with the rust…okay, time for a little tv…
The lawsits are going to be glorious…
Well… with the idiot trump and his doge stooges eliminating entire departments of the government and cutting jobs across the US, I am just amazed that the House and Senate have let idiot boy usurp the powers that are given to them by the Constitution…I mean there are laws that govern all this stuff and these laws can’t be repealed by an executive order just as the constitution can’t be repealed by one…so that means that every person who has been fired by the doge assholes have grounds to sue idiot boy and his stooges and these lawsuits are going to be glorious and will cost billions of dollars and force the moron trump to rehire them all…and now the idiot has started to deport American citizens with no due process and that will be the next class action that will tie the government up until the idiot is gone…he sure deserves it…geez…
May 3rd
Well…damn, a second day of being up before 5am and I am confused how that happened after getting up before 5 yesterday and needing some real sleep last night…still so tired that all I want to do is go back to bed but I’ll be on the bike in a half hour or so…the heat is still on so I won’t be outdoors on the bike til later this morning…the trip with my brother went okay with no political arguments but I think we were avoiding them and that is a good thing…I really should take today as a rest day and I just may…detailing the new car can wait since I’m going to have it the rest of my life and there’s no hurry…I do need to cook today and I may make some pour over coffee in a little while since I haven’t made any in a long while and I think I’m going to need it…I may keep the miles to around 20 today with one ride in and one ride out…I still can’t believe we are in May and the heat is still coming on and I can’t get outside until noon or so…I do need to mow the lawn at some point but that may wait until Monday…or today…who knows? More later…
Got the car home…
Well…got the car home and in the garage and it is just big enough to make it a tight squeeze in the garage…it really is a nice car and I’m so happy that it doesn’t have leather seats since they get so hot in the sun you can never put the top down and leave it in the sun…I remember the black vinyl in my Fiat 124 would burn the hell out of the back of my legs when I was wearing shorts…it is quite a bit faster than the old car…I mean a lot faster…and I had problems finding reverse since the old car you pulled on the shifter to get it in but this one you push it down…it was a good trip but when we ran over something that plugged the water intake on one side we had to back up for 10 minutes to clear it and then got going…39 mph and it rode really nice…very comfortable but it was so damn cold we didn’t spend a lot of time outdoors…so it was a good day and now the car needs to be detailed and I’ll get on part of it tomorrow…very nice car that I’m going to enjoy…
Deep red areas are starting to die…
Well…I do not feel bad even a little bit for the idiots in Hamilton Montana who voted for the idiot trump by almost 70% and now they are in the finding out phase…as trump and his chainsaw wielders slash and burn federal jobs these red area are starting to find out how dependent they were on these jobs and the spending that these people did at businesses there…and when they are axed there are no other jobs that pay anywhere near what the feds pay and that is already causing a huge brain and job drain in the town…and the maga mayor is whining that these people holding these jobs that are going to be cut are “volunteers at our non profits, at our schools and the loss of them would be devastating”…and a local hotel owner whines that her bookings are down 50% after a federal lab that supported the town was axed by the doge stooges…what the hell did she think was going to happen? Can they not see that voting in an economic moron was going to hurt people? But they did it anyway and I really do hope they all go broke and the town disappears…geez…