well…up and down all night last night and out of bed before 5:30 but I feel okay and I’ll take…I may have broken my compulsion to ride all the time with going down to only 25 miles a day…and I’m even just sitting here this morning at 5:50 instead of hurrying up and getting downstairs to ride before the grocery run…I may still do it but at least there is the possibility of not doing it and that is progress, I think…it’s only 52 out here right now and I hope it warms up a bit so I can put the top down on the car for the grocery runs…running out of those days and that sucks…oh, well…it felt good to get some things done yesterday and I hope to continue that today with cleaning the living room and putting the tools away downstairs that have been out for a month…and I need to get after ordering the new parts for the bike today, too…it will be third day of being good tonight and I’m slowly moving toward only having cocktails 2 nights a week and I should be there by the end of the month…just need to get my body back to feeling better but at my age, I wonder what that will be like? Can’t be worse….not much to do today…just going to try to have another normal day and enjoy myself a bit instead of going, going, going all the time…way too task oriented and organized and I’m going to try another way…more later…
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A good day…
Well…it’s been quite a different day today and only doing two rides has had something to do with that…started out getting the two rides in but I went a little too hard with knowing I only had two to do…so, my thighs are sore right now but I can live with it…my neck is better and fingers crossed it is healing…then I went over to the library to get three new books, then back here for lunch…then I needed to get something done so I cleaned the whole kitchen and mopped the kitchen and bathroom floors while I was doing laundry…just put that away and now I’m waiting for Man U to play at 3…and I am going to really watch the match this time…or read and watch the match, not sure yet…I’m really working toward only having cocktails only two nights a week but won’t get there for a couple of weeks and that’s okay…will need to clean the living room tomorrow and maybe the dining room, too…we’ll see…time to take a break…
Scientific American endorses Kamala…
Well…with the news from yesterday that for only the 2nd time in it’s 179 year history, “Scientific American” has endorsed a candidate for president and it’s Kamala Harris…who else could it be? the intelligent woman who believes in science and the scientific method and the fact that climate change is here and is destroying cities across Europe with the torrential rains an flooding this week…if you can find it, take a look at the news release where they point out that idiot boy would be a disaster for the environment as he was in his term…and his only idea is “drill baby drill” when we should be leaving all of the carbon in the ground and forcing the oil companies to buy solar installations for anyone who wants it for their house…and we need to calculate the cost of the damage they’ve done with their lies and claw that back from them until they are out of business…so, I welcome SA putting science where it needs to be…driving environmental regulations that will at least start to lower carbon emissions…
September 17
Well…another fitful night’s sleep after being good last night and that’s becoming a broken record for me…but, I feel okay and I haven’t even started the coffee yet…I’m hoping today will be a more normal day with emby working so I’ll have background noise all day…I am seriously thinking about going down to 25 miles a day on the bike and only doing two rides…have so much cleaning and maintenance to do around here and I have met the goal for the year and my body could use some rest and repair time…it’s only 53 out there right now so it looks like I’ll have to wait to get on the bike this morning unless I do an indoor ride and I’ll decide that here in a few minutes after I’m done here…I do want to go to the library for more books this morning but that doesn’t take much time…and I have some chicken legs that need to be cooked or frozen today and I’ll decide that in a few minutes, too…no beach today since I got a good burn yesterday and my skin won’t take the abuse…not much to do today…just going to take it a little easier and make sure I eat enough…yesterday I didn’t…more later…
No flow today…
Well…this was one of those days where I couldn’t get a flow going…to much unusual stuff happening…with the biggest thing was having to fix my tv shows in emby and sort them out of the 3,000 channels that are in the list and that took my almost 2 1/2 hours today…I did get two rides in today before I went out to the beach and I think it will be the last time since my chair just fell apart today…I guess I could take a couple of towels out and just sit on the sand and I just might…we’ll see…I still have the weight work to do now so this will be a short one…I did get the pasta salad made this afternoon and it is nice to have that in the fridge to go with the sandwiches…no cocktails this week until thurs and I think that will be the new norm from now on…will save some cash and calories…it looks like a three ride day tomorrow and I do need to hit the library to get more books…
They missed..
Well…another day, another attack on the idiot trump but can you call it an attack if the only people firing any guns were the Secret Service? Guess who the idiot is blaming for the attempted attack? Of course, Kamala and Joe for calling him a “danger to democracy” even though it’s true he is…with the revelation that the attacker was actually mentally unstable and was still able to buy an AK-47, we just need to remember who is responsible for the regulation being removed…yep, idiot boy and in Florida anyone can buy or carry any guns they want since all of the regulations there were removed by the repubs…and now we have ole elon going on his shitty X platform wondering out loud why Joe and Kamala aren’t being targeted and I have a pretty good explanation…they aren’t rage filled racist assholes like idiot boy who daily tries to keep people pissed off so he can manipulate them easier…this attack was driven by the fact that this guy hates trump as does a large part of the people of this country…now acting on that hate is wrong and gun violence is wrong…maybe the idiot should shut up for a while and see what happens…geez…
September 16th
Well…running late this morning after having emby reset and trying to re construct my channels…crap…I did sleep okay last night so I guess that’s something…woke up pretty sore today and I wonder if it’s from doing three rides yesterday? Not going to do that today but I will get 25 miles in and maybe even a run out to the beach…I will have to spend a couple of hours getting the channels back on emby later and I may do that instead of going to the beach…what a pain…I noticed that I had a light out in the overhead fixture in the kitchen yesterday and put another bulb in…now it’s so damn bright in there that I may have to take that bulb out again…I know I can’t take a day off the bike but I sure want to…it would be so nice to just sit here today and let the day unfold…that’s a luxury that I would love to enjoy at some point but my brain won’t let me…oh, well…I did get the bike cleaned yesterday so I’ll have to lube it up again or it will have annoying squeaks from the swing arm bushing…I really should order the parts to rebuild it soon…not much to do today…just need to get off my butt and get moving…and right now…more later…
Eating dogs and cats…
Well…the racist assholes in this country led by the idiot trump and his idiot vp vance are now stirring up trouble in a little town in Illinois where there was an influx of Haitian refugees settled there a few years back and they have settled in and are an asset to the community…so of course these right wing assholes have to smear them by starting rumors that they are killing and eating their neighbor’s dogs and cats…oh, and, by the way, this smear has been used by right wing assholes since the 1800′s to attack immigrants but never by a major party’s candidate for president and vp…there is no truth to any of this bullshit but the maga folks have taken it as truth since their god emperor told them it was and have been calling in bomb threats to schools and hospitals and there have been threats of mass shootings from the right wing assholes, too…my question is: where is the FBI in all of this? Magats are not the brightest people so I’m sure they left a trail…is there never anything that would disqualify trump and vance? This should but it won’t…geez…
September 15th
Well…slept okay last night with going to bed early and not climbing out of bed til almost 6:30 this morning…not too sore today and that is welcome after hurting everywhere for such a long time…the F1 race is starting right now and I’ll be able to get on the bike before 9 and I need to if I want to get three rides in before the Lions play at 1pm…didn’t eat enough yesterday with only having a bowl of chicken masala for lunch and a salad for dinner and that is less than a thousand calories but with only doing two rides, I had to do that…didn’t get anything done yesterday and today will probably be the same with football and races on all day today and I’m going to try to not feel guilty about it…not going to work but I’ll try…the weather here has been hot and dry for weeks now and I may just go to the beach every day this week starting tomorrow…it’s not going to rain until October and that sucks a bit but I don’t have to mow the lawn so I guess that’s something…not much to do today…the little weather widget says “record highs” and it’s going to be near 90 today but this house stays pretty cool with it’s big windows….just need a little breeze…going to just wing it and get the rides in…do I dare to only do two rides for a third day in a row? Who knows? More later….
I feel like a slug…
Well…for the second day in a row I only did 25 miles on the bike and I feel like a slug from it…I mean there really wasn’t time for a third ride since I couldn’t get started to almost 10 with Man U playing from 7:30 til 10 and F1 qualifying at the same time…then after the two rides, I had just enough time to get a shower before Michigan played at noon…and after the game the xfinity race started at 3:30 and it is just finishing up right now…so I kind of had an excuse and tomorrow looks the same with F1 on at 7 til 9 but then I’m clear until 2 when the three other races start…drag racing, nascar, and indycar so if I get on the bike right at 10, that gives me the time to get three in but I wonder if I should…nowhere nearly as sore as I am when I do three rides and I really don’t need the mileage…but I’ll probably do it anyway just to burn the calories…it’s pretty darn hot out here with it still 86 at 6pm but it’s not too bad in this house…fan on the lowest speed an I’m comfortable…oh, well…I think I’ll read a bit…