Well…a few minutes ago, I decided to skip the second ride of the day and give myself some rest since I am feeling pretty worn out…and I think that makes me look like a genius now with the storms that have just popped up out of nowhere and that are going to hit here in a few minutes….in reality, I skipped to watch the Man U FA cup match at 1 against Chelsea….along with being worn out and my foot still sore from wedging it into my riding shoe this morning…okay, better end this one right now before the power goes out….need more water…well…I don’t really NEED more water but I do think it would be a good idea to keep drinking as much as I can until my foot is better….
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I guess the election is over….
Well…with all of the polls showing that the idiot trump is sinking like a boat made out of screen…his campaign has come up with a masterstroke that will probably win him the election…boat parades! Since the redneck racist assholes who support him own boats and and are parading them festooned with confederate traitor’s flags and trump maga bullshit, it’s all over for Biden…after all, if there is a boat parade gap this big, Biden can’t come back from it….especially since the repubs will let boats vote but will keep dems from voting…so, I’m pretty depressed today that the Biden campaign didn’t see the boat gap coming and counter it with bicycles…since it is well known that every commie pinko dem eats granola and rides a bike everywhere so how could this happen? After all, how can proposals to fix the healthcare system, control the coronavirus, heal the economy, restore our standing in the world, root out racism, and run the government on fact based science stand up against boat parades? They just can’t and I fault Biden completely for not seeing this turn of events and getting caught flat footed…when the story of this election is written, the most important thing will be the incisive use of boat parades to turn around the 15 point deficit that trump has right now….well played….
July 19th
Well…timed that one pretty well…..just walked in the door from a shortened ride and it has started to rain…and it looks like we are going to get some puny storms but I thought I needed to get this one done before the power goes out…slept pretty crappy again last night but I don’t feel too bad other than my toe hurts again…but the low being 80 was a bit much and I hope these storms coming through will cut the humidity some and cool it off…okay…yeah, that made me laugh too….they have predicted storms for almost a week now and we haven’t gotten anything so I’ll believe it when I see it…I do hear some thunder and can smell the rain so maybe they’ll be right this time….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but pick the biggest damn cuke I’ve ever seen…it must be 18 inches long but it looks like my cuke count will be two from 6 plants and that really sucks…at least I can make another batch of pickles…the first ones came out pretty good but I need to add a little more sugar and dill to the next batch…not much to to today…going to continue the cleaning I started yesterday and I have to get started on some stuff downstairs but I do need to rest my foot some so I am going to do that for the next hour while I wait for the F1 race to start…it the power stays on…more later….
July 18th
Well…this is weird…woke up this morning and my foot doesn’t hurt at all…I wonder how the heck that works after hobbling around here all day yesterday? Who knows, but I’ll take it…I was so damn stiff and sore yesterday that I could barely move without huge effort….I’m still stiff and sore today but it has gone down by 50% so I’m not limping around here anymore….I did take an ibuprofen last night but one can’t take away all that pain…can it? I have been lucky so far this summer with my allergies but they have flared this morning and my head is plugged up completely so I may have to take something for it…almost did last night to get ahead of it but got distracted by something and forgot to….I am going to continue to take the electrolyte stuff my daughter sent me since I think it’s making a difference on the second rides of the day with my legs not going nearly as flat as normal but I do think I need to take a day off soon just for some repair of the legs…I did get to 3,000 miles yesterday so it does look like I am going to make it to 5K for the year pretty easily if I keep up the 36 miles a day pace…I do have to buy a new rear tire soon since the one on the bike has a big cut in it that goes all the way through to the tube protector but there is a tire shortage with all of the people taking up biking this summer so that may be a little hard to find…I do have one on the old bike that I can use in a pinch but I’d like to keep that one intact so I can start working on it soon…ha, I just realized I have a parts bike that I can cannibalize if I need to…I’ve had parts cars before but never a parts bike…not much to do today…going to play that this is a real weekend and act like it without much work….I am going to clean some and do laundry but that will be it…have to get some food out of the freezer to start emptying that with all the chicken I have in it that needs to be used….more later….
trump’s brownshirts attack Portland…
Well…I guess we are a fascist state now with trump sending his brownshirts to attack protesters in Portland where they have been kidnapping peaceful protesters for exercising their constitutional rights. These thugs are the same ones who are in camo uniforms with no insignia to tell who the hell they report to that attacked protesters in DC so idiot boy could get his church photo op….and the governor of Oregon and the mayor of Portland has told them to get the hell out of their city and the head of DHS has told them they have no authority to make them leave…telegraphing his bullshit tactics that are specifically designed to incite violence and get the protesters to respond so they can continue to brutalize them…even shooting one man who was just standing there holding a sign…look, I have some advice for these thugs…your boy is going to lose and then there will be investigations of every damn one of you and there is going to be jail time for all of you…and just following orders is no defense…are you so stupid you think that we’ll forget what you are doing? I also have some advice for governor Brown…call in the National Guard…you have gangs of unidentified roving kidnappers who are tear gassing your citizens…ignoring Oregon law that says no police etc. can use tear gas in Oregon…I’ll bet these thugs will will pile back into their unmarked rental vans and run like the chickens they are when faced by the real soldiers of your Guard protecting Oregonians…and do it now, today….if all trump and his fascist cronies understand is force, give it to them….and then bring any state charges possible to lock these thugs up…
July 17th
Well…this really really sucks…slept with my damn foot curled up under me for a couple of hours last night and now my toe hurts so badly the I can barely walk again….had to take an ibuprofen already just to tolerate it and since it happened early in the night, it kept me up all night trying to find a position that it didn’t scream in pain…as you can tell, I’m getting pretty damn tired of my foot hurting and having to baby it just to hobble around….I finally had enough of the traffic going down the street at 50 to 60 mph in a 25 mph zone so I called the police yesterday to get them looking at what can be done to slow people down to the speed limit…and I would expect that will mean writing some tickets to these cut through assholes that think it’s a big damn joke to go by me 18 inches away at 60+ when I’m on the bike….even the frickin buses that run down the street are going over 50 all day long…and 25 over the limit is going to be a 4 point ticket and at least a couple of hundred dollar fine but I don’t feel bad about that at all….that’s just no damn respect for the people who have to live here with these assholes blasting down the street all day…and we have one moron on a motorcycle that screams down the street at over a hundred every damn evening….yeah, can you tell I’m pretty crabby this morning? I think I just need a day off of everything…but, I am going to get to 3,000 miles today and I think that the second ride is going to be slower than normal just to conserve some energy…damn I’m tired….more later….
The rats are starting to swim…
Well….with it becoming more obvious every day that the polling is not good for the idiot trump and it appears that he is going to lose in November, some of the repub rats are starting to dip their toes in the water to see if they really can swim off trump’s sinking ship. That was driven home by the repub governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, just today when he wrote a scathing op-ed chronicling trump’s failures on the coronavirsus and laying the hundreds of thousands dead at trump’s tiny little feet. I really think all of this is that Hogan knows trump will be gone in a few months but Hogan doesn’t need to run for re-election for a couple of years and he can see that the era of fear of trump’s idiotic tweets is over….I mean, what the hell can trump do to him after he is out of office and his crimes are laid bare? Dr. Fauci basically did the same thing the other day when asked about trump and his minions attacking him and he just dismissed it as bullshit things that trump does and belittled trump’s behavior throughout the pandemic. This is as sign that Fauci has had enough and is really a dare for trump to fire him….and Dr. Fauci can read the polls, too that says trump’s days are numbered. As the pools continue to get worse for idiot boy, it will interesting to watch who the next rat is to jump from the sinking ship…but that is not going to save them…the stench of trump will be with them the rest of their lives…
July 16th
Well…running late this morning with trying and trying to get some sleep all night and finally giving up at 6:30 or so…it was nice to hear the rain all night but that was the problem…I was awake to hear the rain all night….needless to say, I’m pretty worn out today and just can’t get moving yet…just started with coffee so maybe that will help in a while…I am going to try to just take it easy today and get to the rides when I get to them instead of getting antsy since I’m always out for the first ride by now….I am going to continue using the electrolyte powders that my daughter sent me before I go out since they may be helping some…at least my legs didn’t go flat at all yesterday and they should have if they followed the normal pattern…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but work on the downstairs project but that took a couple of hours and hurt my hands even more…it’s a little weird that the part of me that hurts on the bike the most is my hands and I have to keep flexing them through the entire ride to keep them from going numb so I can’t shift….maybe an ibuprofen before I go out today? Not much to do today….I need to clean and cook and I should mow the lawn but that can wait until the grass sucks up some of the rain and grows some…I am a little surprised that the power didn’t go out with the rain last night since it doesn’t take much to have that happen but the coffee maker started on time so it must have been on all night….more later….
Birthdays in pandemics suck…
Well…yeah, it’s my birthday and for the first time in 50 years I can’t go out for drinks with friends…and it’s all the idiot trump’s fault…he took a whole damn year away from me, one that was supposed to have the enjoyment of city living in it…going to Blues on the Mall and other concerts and hitting a few bars to hang out with friends…and riding my bike into town to just take in the energy that was there until trump screwed us all…and no tequila shots with K at the Mex place or sitting with T at the Chance and laughing our butts off…what the hell kind of a birthday is it when you can’t do any birthday stuff on that one day that is yours alone? Okay, so it isn’t mine alone…my oldest brother and I share a birthday 13 years apart…and I talked to him today for a couple of hours and it has been years since I heard from him so that was a cool thing…and he wants to sell me an 800 dollar bike for 50 bucks that he can’t ride any more with his knee problems so I’m going to buy it just to have a spare and a different one to ride sometimes…so that will be 4 bikes that I own and I wonder if it’s turning into a collection? Still haven’t heard from K or C today and I really expected it…or two of my sons but that is pretty normal so no big deal….cripes, I just realized how small my circle has become…I did buy myself a small steak to have for dinner today just for a little treat and I bought some better whiskey for manhattans for tonight…going all the way with BV instead of McMasters but for one day, I think I really can splurge a little….I sure hope the storms that are coming wait until after the races from Bristol tonight since even a light rain seems to put the power out around here and I just don’t need another outage on my damn birthday…after the restrictions are lifted, can I have a do over for my birthday? I think that should be a thing…
July 15th
Well…damn…another night of no sleep but it is a little funny to me that I woke up at 3:40 again…yeah, I’m weird but you have to admit that 3:40 is just a funny time to be waking up every day…I couldn’t believe how much I hurt yesterday with brand new pain in my hands that was stabbing and came out of nowhere…I guess one thing I that came out of the garage debacle was that I don’t like the color that I picked out…way too yellow so I need to try to get the cream color that I want before I go any farther…but that isn’t going to happen this week…have a bunch of other stuff to get done with the downstairs project that I have been neglecting but can’t wait any longer….and I need to do the grocery run this morning after I get the first ride in….and I have a cuke that is ready to be picked that I am going to make pickles with so most of the day is going to be just fooling around with stuff…need to mow the lawn too but that could wait a day…you know, one of the things that sucks about this damn pandemic is that I don’t get to go out and have drinks with friends for my birthday…have done that for almost 50 years and just because of the asshole trump and his monumental incompetence I’m stuck here by myself and I need to get out and laugh some….and that is just depressing….more later…..