Well…sitting here a little bored today so I decided to try to make a loaf of bread today but I only followed the recipe to a point…instead of using a cast iron crock pot, which I have, I mixed up the dough and then just poured it into my buttered 2 quart heavy glass casserole dish, put the lid on it, and set my air fryer to proof to get it to rise and then I’m going to just bake it in that dish after the dough rises…if that works, I’ll be making a lot of bread and not buying any anymore…even had some bread flour to use…it will be interesting to see if it works at all…I guess we’ll see…
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Busy until now..
Well…it’s been a busy morning until now and I’m happy to report I may be getting my sense of taste back a bit after switching to a simple toothpaste from the anti plaque one that I was using…I could taste the turkey soup I had for lunch when a few day ago when I made this batch I couldn’t…so that gives me some hope that it will continue to come back…I did get three rides in this morning and it felt okay and then got to three of these and a post out to Mastodon…and I don’t have to cook today with making the ham yesterday…I am going to make ham soup later in the week and I may even try my hand at baking some bread but I’ll have to learn how to knead it if I want it to rise at all and not be the flat, hard loaves that I normally make with the no knead method…still have to do the weight work this aft and look for bread recipes…and I want to get some reading time in…
It’s already started…
Well…how the hell does a minority of people get to lord their beliefs over the whole country? Attacks on abortion rights in blue states have already begun by red states, specifically Texas suing doctors in blue states for providing reproductive care to Texas residents…and they know that disputes between the states go directly to the SC where the right wing hacks there are just salivating being able to overturn the constitutional protections in states like Michigan that were passed by ballot initiative and enshrined in the constitution…and that is part of a pattern of ignoring the constitution and just doing whatever they want since they have loaded the courts with right wing hacks that will rule by politics instead of the law…starting with the idiot in chief who just yesterday said he will end birthright citizenship “on day one” ignoring the fact that it is written into the 14 amendment that has been upheld numerous times by the SC…and idiot boy said he will do that by executive order and if we had real courts, the EO would be laughed out of court before the ink was dry…so now, all you women trump voters, how do you feel that your rights will be taken away from you in January? Yeah, you’re probably to racist and stupid to think about that…geez…
December 16th
Well…darn, another fitful night of sleep but an okay one with my week on no cocktails starting…just curious to see if cocktails are the major cause of my high BP but I’m not sure if just a week will make any difference but I guess we’ll see…got back on the bike for 24 miles yesterday and will do that for the rest of the year to see how many over 10K I can get in before the end of the year…it’s going to be above freezing until Saturday so the snow will be gone…and then into the twenties for two days and then a week above freezing to end up the year…then only two more months of winter to endure…I did check the coolant in the car while the ham was cooking yesterday an it was only down a half pint or so in a month so I can cripple it along until I buy a new car…and that is going to be my project for the winter…find one and buy one…and I really do need to paint the dining room and all the trim and just need to start and live in dust for a month as I fill and sand the windows and trim…not much to do today…just the rides to start things off and then I’ll figure out the rest of the day…I am going to make the first batch of ham soup Wed or Thur using the old ham bones…sure hope I can taste it….more later….
Calorie math…
Well…just did a little math on the amount of calories I burned this year so far on the bike for the 10,032 miles I’ve done…assuming 600 calories burned for every 15 miles, which may be a little low, I burned 401,440 calories…and that converts to keeping 133.81 pounds off by riding…so now you know why I keep torturing myself by riding so much..
Dinner is started…
Well…have two rides in this morning and have the BAH on the grill, the potatoes peeled, and the trash put out…now it’s time to enjoy my last cup of coffee for the day as I wait for Man U to play at 11:30…the Lions don’t play until 4:25 so I think I’ll go back down for a third ride today so I won’t feel guilty about having two meals today…the second one is only going to be a bowl of soup so I don’t think that’s too much….it is nice to have a second and third streaming service to use downstairs on the tablet since I added netflix and got pluto working to go with freevee since I was running out of things to watch….I do need to clean the kitchen some today after I get done with the big meal for lunch but that will wait until after the third ride…I do need to figure out the goals for riding next year but it hasn’t even entered my head yet…just need to relax a bit for the next couple of weeks…I wonder if I could do two years in a row of riding every day? Or maybe do my normal riding but do 10 100+ mile days? I’ve got a couple of weeks to think about it so no big hurry….more later….
December 15th
Well…it’s pretty icy out on the street this morning with all of the freezing rain overnight but it’s going to warm up and melt it later this morning…slept okay last night and didn’t get out of bed til 6:30 or so and that only leaves me 40 minutes until I have to get back on the bike to get back to the routine of 3 rides a day…going to make another ham today so the third ride will be in the afternoon and I need to fit the Manchester Derby and the Lions game in starting at 11:30…so the ham will go on the grill at 10 or so and will be on it for a couple of hours…so maybe I’ll start it at 9:30 after two rides and then get the third one in while it’s warming…it’s going to get up to 47 tomorrow so most of the snow will be gone and I wonder how may birds I’ll have on the feeder after that….then the rest of the week will be in the 30′s for highs with no snow int he forecast for the rest of the year…and that leaves about two months of winter to cope with..I did get the bathroom cleaned yesterday and really should do the kitchen today but I’m cooking so I’m going to count that as enough work for the day…so I need to get going right now…more later..
I really think it’s the toothpaste…
Well…I really wish they’d stop reformulating toothpaste for a while…when I made the turkey soup a few days back, I couldn’t taste it at all and I realized that I had just opened a new tube of toothpaste that had all the germ fighters and whiteners and all that crap…and as many as 30% of people will lose their sense of taste with some ingredient that’s in there…so I went back to some regular stuff the dentist gave me and had soup for lunch and I could taste the whole peppercorns and turkey in the soup…I am curious if it will get better as I continue to use the basic toothpaste…I sure hope it does…I was really surprised how the same recipe of soup could taste so bland compared to the last time and that sucks….I can even taste the coffee I’m finishing up and couldn’t yesterday…and I even got the french press out to make more…I am trying to take it easier today with only one ride but I did give myself a haircut, and did laundry, and now I’m going to clean the bathroom…then I can take it easy….yeah, right…
Bye, bye jobs…
Well…with the idiot trump’s pledge to end subsidies for renewable energy production, we can already say bye, bye jobs in the battery plants, the solar panel plants, and the wind turbine plants that had started to make the US the leader in renewables…and what about the multi billion dollar battery plant in NC that would create thousands of good paying jobs? The plant is not viable without the tax breaks they get under the Chips act so I can’t wait for trump and his idiot cronies to explain why fossil fuel companies continue to get billions and billions of dollars in subsidies when the renewable plants are shuttered…and this bullshit will hand the leadership in solar panels back to China that Biden and his administration wrestled away from them…but of course this incompetent asshole would do this…fossil fuel companies bought the election for him and now are looking for their payoff…and they are going to get it as the world burns…geez…
This is weird…
Well…this is weird…knowing I only have one ride to do today, I just poured another cup of coffee and I’m going to sit here and watch a tv show until 9…then get on the bike…have been having problems with netflix lately and it wouldn’t run on my roku so I had to reset it back to factory settings and then I downloaded the app to my tablet to give me another option instead of freevee…will try that on the ride this morning…this is going to be hard to relax…I’m just not the relaxing sort I guess but I’ll try…wow, I haven’t sat here until 9am this year and I’m vibrating from the habit of getting going first and then taking it easy…oh, well…I think I’ll get to relaxing…cripes…I even have to plan my relaxation….