Well…up and running at 6:46 this morning and I’m having a bit of a problem with taking a light day on the bike today…I don’t think I’ve done a one ride day this year but after hitting the 10,000 mile goal yesterday, I think I’ve earned a light one…but that means I need to cut out at least 1,000 calories today so it will be a bowl of soup and two chicken thighs and nothing else for about 600 calories….it was another cold night last night with it getting down to 12 degrees but it’s going to warm up enough for freezing rain and snow tonight that is going to change over to rain for Sunday and Monday so we’ll lose a lot of the snow we have…and then stay in the 30′s until next Sat…need to get some cleaning done today but I don’t have to cook until tomorrow when I’m going to make another BAH (big assed ham) and that will feed me for another week…I put the ham bone from the last one in the freezer yesterday and it must have two pounds of ham on it so it would make a batch of ham soup by itself…still have three other bones in there that will make a batch next week…not much to do today…just the one ride that I don’t need to get to until more coffee and cleaning somewhere but I’m not sure where yet…more later…
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He is a moron after all…
Well…hey, let’s talk about another one the moron in chief’s plan to deport 12 million people who are essential for the economy to run…what’s the first effect? They tried this in Florida and half of the produce there rotted in the fields as the undocumented made a run for it to keep from being arrested and deported…so, lets enlarge that to a national scale…you think food price inflation was bad the last few years? You ain’t seen nothing yet…if farmers need to raise pay so Americans will take the jobs, the owners are going to be squealing and most of the farms here will go out of business…their entire business model is based on undocumented labor and if their labor costs double, which they will if they have to pay Americans to do the labor…bankruptcies will spread like wildfire…you think the covid shortages were bad? Here come the trump shortages that is going to be a tax on the people in this county who can’t afford it…but they don’t care, their racist policies are more important to them than the poor being able to eat…and this is going to hurt everyone but the rich…but that’s what they are aiming for…lie to rubes to get their votes then put policies in place that will hurt these same voters but they are too damn stupid to figure out who is to blame…maybe not being able to eat will drive this home and change minds…ha, ha…nope, their racist hate is more important to them than living…geez…
I did it!
Well…with the 24 miles I put in on the bike today, I hit the goal and went past it to 10,006 miles…I am a little surprised how well my body held up…I am an old guy, after all…not really any complaints at all for the year physically…just the normal aches and pains that come from overwork and I’ve even figured out the neck pain that was driving me nuts by using the stretching exercises the doctor gave me…the bike held up really well once I figured out the broken adjuster on the rear shifter and adjusted it manually and I think I only had a couple of flats and I consider that a successful year…so I’m going to just do one ride tomorrow as a little reward but I do still need to ride every day for the rest of the year to meet the last goal of riding every day during the calendar year…but will be back doing 24 miles a day after the rest day…the breakdown of indoor and outdoor miles is 3,414 indoors, and 6,592 outdoors….I’ll do a breakdown of the rest of it on December 31st as I always do…yay, me!
December 13th
Well…that was better…slept through most of the night and didn’t wake up til 6 and not out of bed until 6:37….still feel pretty worn out but I guess I should…going to hit the 10,000 mile mark today and I’m not sure how I feel about that…I know it’s an accomplishment but where do I go from here? Is riding 24 miles a day now the new normal? I know I have to ride to control my weight but I have been longing for a day off to do what I want for a change but that can’t become a habit with my well developed sense of guilt….and I don’t think I’ve done any permanent damage with all the miles…I still have the last goal of riding every day for the calendar year and that means a couple more weeks of every day on the bike…I wonder if I should just keep riding to have two years in a row? Not sure yet….it did snow a couple more inches last night and didn’t get above 14 degrees overnight but a warm up is coming to almost 50 by Monday and the it will stay in the 30′s for the rest of the year and I’ll take that over the teens any time…I do have to figure out the meals for the day today with the first big ham finishing up and having chicken thighs in the fridge so I’ll probably make two days of those and make the next ham Sunday…will probably do the next batch of ham soup next week but I’m not sure if it will be with the bones in the freezer or the new ones…not much to do today…just need to get off my butt and get started on the rides and then see how it goes…more later…
18 miles to go…
Well…after the three rides and getting 24 miles in today, I only have 18 miles left to get to 10,000 for the year…so that will happen tomorrow and I’m not sure how I feel about it…after I get there, I still won’t be able to cut back much or I’ll be 200 pounds again quite quickly…I guess I’ll have to go down to 6-800 calories a day and that means one meal from now on…and how the hell do I gain 5 pounds in two weeks? That’s what I did from my checkup to Monday when they weighed me again and I went from 170.5 pounds to 175 and I haven’t been eating anything so you can understand my frustration…and in that time, I averaged almost 30 miles a day…so how can you burn 12-1400 calories on the bike and still gain weight on under 1K calories a day? Oh, well…I did get out and shovel and my feet stayed warm in the new boots and it was only 12 degrees when I was out there…took me about 45 minutes to shovel with the 2 foot drift I had on the sidewalk on the east side of the house…but I’m done now and I’m taking the rest of the afternoon off to watch Man U and read….
He lied again, of course…
Well…in exit poll after exit poll, the primary reason the morons in this country voted for the idiot trump was his incessant promises to lower grocery prices on day one…but now, reality has set in and even idiot boy knows he can’t do a damn thing about prices and admitted it in an interview yesterday…but will that matter? It never has and his easily duped voters will just forget about it as they have forgotten about every other lie he has told…and that is over 50K of them now and his morons just eat them up…I really have not seen so much stupidity and hate in this country in my lifetime and it i just getting started again where the asshole in chief will embarrass all of us with his stupidity in chief schtick….and yes, I’m back to reading the news a bit…but just a bit…only to find political topics to write about and then I re install the blackout…so only once per day…I have to lower my blood pressure, after all,,,geez..
December 12th
Well…damn, it’s only 10 degrees out here right now and that is going to make shoveling the 6-7 inches of snow a two step process…and I don’t think my new boots are going to keep my feet warm in that but I guess we’ll see later…didn’t get out of bed til almost 7 today and I feel pretty crappy this morning and that continues how I felt last night…just off a bit and I’m not sure why…oh, well…coffee is starting to work but not fast enough for me so I’ll have to wait a bit to get on the bike…only have 42 miles left to get to the goal and I’m a little amazed that my body survived all the abuse…I really hope that I’ll heal up after I lighten up the load…don’t have to cook today with making the soup yesterday and still having ham on the first bone but I will have to do some meal planning soon….the bathroom needs a cleaning and I may get to that today but I’m not sure….I am happy that I don’t have to go anywhere for a week or so and this weather is making me want to hibernate for a while….not much to do today…just the rides and no other plans right now…and that is needed since I plan way too many days and I have been trying to just let my days flow a bit….more later…
This is pretty funny…
Well…back to politics…repubs are having a sad today with the release of the Inspector General’s new report on the idiot trump’s DOJ spying on congress when they were trying to figure out who was leaking information to the press…and it was repubs he was spying on…how does it feel assholes? You keep supporting this criminal and he does criminal things and then you boo hoo your little eyes out because he isn’t spying on the “right” people…you all know he was the worst president in the history of this country and will be this term, too but you had the chance to stop him and you chose not to…so go cry somewhere else…you’ve sentence this country to 4 more years of his bullshit so I don’t want to hear a peep out of any repub ever again…geez…
Confusing soup…
Well…darn, I’m a little confused about the turkey soup I made today…when the noodles were finally cooked, I had a bowl and, even though I made it like I always do, it really didn’t have much flavor…so much so that I added a quart of chicken broth at the end…now I wasn’t sure if it was the soup or that I’ve lost more of my ability to taste anything…it was better when I added a little salt which I only do when I ladle it out into the serving bowl and after it sat cooling for an hour, the flavors started to come out and it’s okay…but not as good as last year’s but that may be that I didn’t brine the turkeys so the flavor of rosemary isn’t there…I guess I’ll try just a little of that when I have a bowl tomorrow…down to 42 miles to go on the bikes and it feels good to be able to still ride so much at my age…if I start taking shorter rides, I’m going to have to cut back to one meal a day if I want to maintain my weight…and that is going to suck since I already don’t eat much…oh, well…going to go over to Kos right now and then come back for a political one…more later…
December 11th
Well…running about on time this morning with getting out of bed around 6 am…and I slept okay and I’ll take a night like that any day…and the pain from riding outdoors is subsiding so I’m heading back to just being creaky and old and I can live with that…we do still have a winter storm warning on for today and tomorrow but just a light dusting of snow so far and the radar doesn’t show much but with lake effect, it can set up and snow like crazy any time…damn, it’s nice to have a day where all I have to do is ride the bike and make soup…I took the turkey carcasses out of the freezer last night since I may have to cut them up some to make two of them fit in the instant pot…and I cleared space in the top of the freezer to put 3-2qt containers in there…and 3 of the ham soup I’m making this weekend…don’t really have to go anywhere for a couple of weeks and that is pretty relaxing but I do have to get off my butt and find a new car soon…I did check my BP yesterday and it is still high so it looks like it will have to be treated and I’m okay with that…it’s not a personal failing that it is high…I mean I’m old after all and that is what happens when you get old….not much to do today…just going to get on the bike here in 25 minutes or so to get started on the three rides to get closer to the goal…sure hope the power stays on in the storm today…it’s pretty quiet right now but the wind is supposed to come up around 10 am or so….more later…