Well…damn, up at 5:05 this morning and I really didn’t want to be up that early but here I am…going to be on the bike by 7am and I am going to stay at two rides today to try to keep the healing going…I never thought I’d ever say this but I think I’ve gotten too thin…have been restricting calories for my entire life but I may have overshot the goal with how I look…almost gaunt and I’m not sure how healthy that is…I guess it’s better than being fat…didn’t get much done yesterday and today will be spent taking it easy again…taking the car in tomorrow to see if there is anything they can do to fix the cd player and then I have my checkup Wed morning…then nothing until my birthday when I have an appointment with my periodontist…it’s not easy getting old…I made enough chicken/rice yesterday that I won’t have to cook until later in the week and that’s not a bad problem to have…will have to look in the freezer to do some meal planning and look at the ads to see if there is anything on sale that I need…not much to do today…have 35 minutes before I need to get on the bike and it should be light by then…need more coffee…more later…
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A really easy day…
Well…yeah, I know…I very seldom post this late in the day but today was a strange one with feeling so lousy all day and barely getting through the two rides I did…I knew that I needed to do something to rest this damn old body with all of the pain I’ve been in the past few days but I’m not going to see if it worked or not until I take more than one easy day…have been trying to get my left bicep and thigh to stop hurting along with my hands going numb on the first ride when that normally doesn’t happen til the third ride…damn, I hate getting old…so I’ll take another two ride day tomorrow for body maintenance and try to let the healing start…it may even rain so I’ll have to fit the rides in around that…MotoGP and nascar tomorrow so I may not be bored…tv time…
No topic…okay, I found one…
Well…have been looking for a political topic for today but haven’t found one yet…I’m tired of talking about tariffs but there is one nugget that came out yesterday…imports into the US have dropped 20% since the tariffs kicked in…so, with companies tired of absorbing the tariff tax, price hikes are coming to everything we import…and shortages…you remember them? When you couldn’t find much on the shelves? When you take 20% out of imports, there has to be shortages but at this point we don’t know where it’s going to hit…and, as I talked about yesterday, we will see price hikes even from American manufacturers as they seek to shore up their profits and match import prices…so, essentially the tariffs are going to be applied to American goods, too…and idiot boy had no clue that was going to happen…just like he has no clue about anything…
June 7th
Well…damn, I feel like crap today and I’m having a hard time getting going…hmmm…that is getting to be my new normal and I’m not sure if I like that at all….I did sleep okay but it seems that it really doesn’t matter much anymore….I remember the days when I’d get up and feel like there were possibilities and not tasks to accomplish….have 14 minutes before I need to get on the bike…but I am going to rush another cup of coffee first…I struggled so much on the bike yesterday that I’m thinking of only doing two rides today for 25 miles to give myself a bit of a rest…I’ve noticed that I’m getting old and things that used to be easy aren’t anymore…going to make the chicken/tomato sauce dish today for lunch so I need to get the rides in before then but I’m not sure what the second meal is going to be…and I do need to have a second meal since I have been skipping it way too much lately…not much to do today…damn, the meal thing is going to give me fits since nothing is coming to mind…probably should look in the freezer to see what’s available….more later…
Some good news…
Well…I talked before about the house next door going up for sale after it being mostly empty for the 4 years I’ve lived here…it looks like it’s been sold and I met the young couple who bought it and had a nice little chat…I am so relieved that I’m not going to have another rental that I’d have to deal with like every other one up here…and they made the point that they are very quiet people after I bitched about all of the work I’ve done to make this place less noisy…so that’s cool…I did get three rides in today and went to the library for more books but I think I’m going to have to take an easy day soon since I started to really hurt on the first ride…both my left tricep and my left thigh just burned the whole way and that’s not normal…so maybe just two rides tomorrow…reading time…
They’re not too bright…
Well…when I see the morons running the economy still trying to say that prices will drop from the tariffs and “huge” numbers of jobs will be created as manufacturing comes back to the US I just have to laugh…the last time idiot boy imposed tariffs on steel they did add a few thousand jobs but the higher prices cost 75,000 manufacturing jobs in other industries…and prices surged as US companies raised prices to fatten up their bottom line and match imports…and no the steel jobs didn’t last as prices rose and demand fell off…that is just basic economic 101…prices rise, demand falls and that is starting already…as I’ve said before, there is a recession coming and even idiot boy knows it since he is already attacking the fed to get them to lower interest rates…morons, all…geez…
June 6th
Well…slept til almost 6 again today but I sure don’t feel like I slept at all…I wonder if I’m hitting my limit with my body? I mean I’ve been working my butt off around here along with riding 38 miles a day and that is a lot for an ancient person like me…and not eating enough…okay, going to stop whining now…going to run out to the library this morning to get a few more books since I’m running out and want to make sure I have reading material for the weekend…I have slowed way down from the one book a day that I was doing and I think that’s a good thing…I really do need to get other things done around here…but I will be on the bike here in 15 minutes or so to get the day started around 7am or so…there was just an ad on UK tv for short term loans that had an interest rate of 1,271 %…yow! who the hell can afford that? That means if you borrow 100 pounds, you will owe them 1,271 pounds after a year…who would take that deal? Weird…not much to do today…just the rides and the library run but I really don’t want to do anything…oh, goody…we have an air quality alert for smoke particulates…just what I need…more later…
A busy day…again…
Well…darn, it was another busy day today with getting two rides in outdoors, then doing some yard work…got the front steps coated with Thompson’s and then got after the bushes and filled a paper lawn bag with the cuttings…then I went back out for the third ride and hit 4,000 miles for the year on that ride…again, the earliest I’ve ever gotten to 4K…that’s 1,383 miles outdoors and 2,620 miles indoors so far…so it looks like it’s going to take another 6 weeks to tie them up…it looks like it is going to be warm enough to do all outdoor rides for the next 10 days or so and that will mean 38 mile days…so the mileage will come pretty fast…I do have to do some meal planning since the leftovers will be gone after tomorrow…probably making my one pot chicken dish with tomato sauce in the cast iron pot my daughter gave me…that’s the only one that is big enough…and that will make food for 4 days…okay, back to reading for a bit…
Job growth worst in two years…
Well…this is what happens when you put a moron in charge of the government…job growth for May was only 37,000 and that is with the new steel tariffs of 50% just kicking in yesterday…gee, I wonder that next month is going to look like with prices set to rise for anything steel? And the idiot campaigned on a “booming” economy, more jobs than ever seen before, and the “biggest and bestest” trade that the world has never seen…but all of us in the fact based world know that idiot boy lies about everything and it doesn’t matter to his followers…and even if they lose their jobs or can’t afford food, they are all in for him…now that sure sounds like a cult doesn’t it? I’ve already predicted a recession and these numbers are pointing to it happening soon…geez…
June 5th
Well…man, worn out again today and I really would like to take a day off…but I won’t so the coffee needs to go down and I need to get moving by 7am so I can get two rides in this morning…then the front steps and yard work…need to do some meal planning since I’ll use up all the leftovers today…so I’ll do some looking in the freezer to see what I have…probably some chicken thighs in the cast iron sauce pan with potatoes, celery, onion, and pasta sauce….with rice added at the end…my brain is not working today and this one is harder to do than it looks…it looks like there is not much wind out there so I can get on the bike in a few minutes but I’m really tired of rushing to get things done all the time…I sure hope the smoke has abated after the effect on my lungs yesterday and I think I’ll put a mask in the bike bag just in case…9 minutes until I need to get on the bike so I need to get going on maintenance of this tired old body…not much to do today…just the rides and yard work and I hope to be done by 1pm or so…or maybe earlier than that…more later…