Well…okay, I know I haven’t done one of these in a while but something happened yesterday out there that I just remembered….as you know, the trail has been flooded and I have been searching for new ways to get my 15 miles per ride in…but, that’s not what this is about….when I was coming up to one of the road crossings, I looked down at a small bird that looked just like a Kiwi…round body with brown feathers and a long beak just like you see in the photos from New Zealand…but, there are no Kiwis in Michigan so it can’t be that….I stopped to turn around and get a photo but it had run off into the underbrush…okay, I know I’m getting old but I’m not seeing things…it looked like a Kiwi and I’m sticking to that…
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I just can’t with trump today….
Well…how is everyone feeling today? When you are seeing a psychotic moron destroying our country in front of your eyes, what feelings or words can there be? I know I’m feeling despair…that there is a possibility that this asshole could be re-elected even with being responsible for the deaths of at least 60,000 Americans who didn’t have to die….just because he is the laziest person on Earth and just couldn’t be bothered to do anything…and Americans continue to die but he has lost interest in that…and has just stopped doing anything to help….and his shiny new thing is to threaten to murder more Americans by sending the Army to Minnesota to shoot the protestors of another damn killing of a black person by the police…and he just loves the fact that he can play the tough guy and threaten Americans…it gives him the jollies to contemplate…okay…not contemplate…he doesn’t have the depth to contemplate anything…let’s make that fantasize about killing more people since the coronavirus deaths aren’t violent enough for him…they are boring him….hey, idiot boy…if you are so bored you won’t do your job, just frickin quit and go back to your gaudy golf courses where you can cheat and it only hurts the morons that still play with you…god, I’m so tired….I need a drink but cocktail time is over three hours away….
May 29th
Well…running a little late this morning and there is no reason for it other than I laid in bed listening to the rain for a while after I woke up….slept okay but did toss and turn a lot and that’s pretty normal…my foot continues to feel better after getting the prescription refilled and drinking gallons of water for the last week and the swelling is going down some too, so I’ll take that progress…my ribs still hurt but that is the only pain I have this morning and that is welcome after creaking around here for the last week…I know I’m getting old but I really don’t think it should be that bad…I did get some work done around here yesterday and I needed to do some work on the downstairs project that I had been ignoring for a while…I do have a bunch more sunflowers that have come up and need to be planted but that will wait till next week after they get bigger…and I have tomatoes that need to be planted too but I think I’ll wait til next week on all of them…thinking about making a run up to Mt. P tomorrow to hang out with C for a while and try out the new tires on a long. fast run…wanted to change the oil in the car first but I think it can wait til next week too…not much to do today…with it raining I’ll have to wait to get out on the bike and that is not a bad thing…..I could use a light day but I probably won’t take it…it still seems that I am too busy but I guess that’s a good thing and keeps me from boredom….more later….
Trumpism is dying…and not a damn day too soon…
Well…you know what we are going to see for the next 6 months? the dying throes of tumpism that is going to do significant damage to this country that, of course, the dems are going to have to clean up…like after every damn repub administration. The numbers don’t lie if trump does…the latest polls have the idiot boy down by 11 to Biden and in the swing states, trump is down in every one….and it appears that, cross our fingers, that we could pick up 6 senate seats and keep the house…in Arizona…dem Mark Kelly is up by 13 over the universally hated Martha McSally and who could ever have seen that even 4 years ago? Even #richmitch McConnell is in a dead heat with his dem challenger in Kentucky and the Lincoln project has just hit him with their first ad and it’s a beaut…and what about Susan Collins…the senator responsible for Kavanaugh being on the supreme court and trump not being convicted in the senate? Well…she’s down by 9 points to her likely dem challenger and is the most hated senator in the country…behind Mitch of course. So, does this sound like good news? It appears that all of the enablers of trumpism are in trouble for the fall…but damn, why do we always have to come in and fix everything? I really believe that things are changing and the repubs are only looking to the past which should doom them for at least the near future…after all, how many people do you know that think that women shouldn’t have access to birth control? That is still being fought today in the guise of “religious freedom” and how damn backward is that? It’s surely not a winning strategy in 2020…but, keep it up repubs, I want every damn one of you gone forever…
May 28th
Well…damn, that was a lot of rain we got yesterday afternoon…in about an hour, it looks like we got about two inches and my entire back yard was under water along with the small areas in front where I planted flowers…it appears that there wasn’t any damage to my crops but I haven’t been out to take a close look yet….I did sleep okay last night and feel pretty good this morning with continuing progress at getting my foot swelling to go down and most of the pain is gone, too…I can even move it better but I am going to take the prescription that I got refilled yesterday just to make sure the redness and pain stays away….I didn’t get much done yesterday but plan for getting the front door prepped for painting and I may do that later today if the forecast storms do come in….I sure hope all the rain yesterday didn’t flood the trails again since it is really nice to not have to ride in the streets to get my miles in…but it does look like it will be a one ride day and that may be a good thing….I have started to heal from all of the pain I have been in…even my ribs and I sure don’t want to aggravate that…I still do need to finish up the trim on the front of the house but I won’t be doing that until next week with all of the rain in the forecast…and there is some cooler and less humid weather coming that will provide a little relief…I like it hot but feeling sticky and having a fan on all the time is a little annoying….not much to do today…I do have to run an errand after the bike ride today and I need to marinate some chicken for dinner later but that is about it…it may be nice to have an easy day that I can take at my own pace for a change…have been way too busy lately….more later….
This is exciting…
Well….today is a big day for the US and SpaceX and I am getting excited about the first launch of astronauts from US soil in almost 11 years….it’s only an hour away and, while I know it’s not a milestone like the Alan Shepard or John Glenn launches…both of which I watched by the way…okay, I’ll admit I’ve seen every launch that I could from the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space shuttle missions..yeah, I’m that old…and I saw the first successful landing of a Falcon 9 first stage so I guess that makes me a space geek…and I’ll freely admit that. One of the things that will make you laugh is that I actually cheered at the first Falcon 9 launch and it’s first landing…after all, it is too damn cool that we have the talent and drive to do something that no one has been able to accomplish in my lifetime…oh, and there is one bit of comedy that I’m probably the only person who has made that connection….the two astronauts who are flying today are named Bob and Doug…does that strike any memory for you? Well…if you were alive in 1980 I’m sure you watched the Canadian tv show SCTV where they had a skit with a pair of brothers named Bob and Doug McKenzie who hosted a tv program called “the Great White North” that was one of the funniest damn things I had ever seen…and when I heard the astronauts were named Bob and Doug, I immediately flashed back to SCTV and laughed my head off…good luck Bob and Doug..eh? Okay, it looks like the launch is going to be a no go for weather today…darn….
The toddler in chief is angry…
Well…as the country and the media finally get the idea that trump is just a stupid, lying toddler in a 74 year old body and have started to call him out on it, he went into a meltdown over something twitter did that surprised the hell out of everyone…they actually flagged two tweets as being lies. I know you’ve seen and heard the repubs go to lie of voter fraud across this country that has never been supported by evidence…and with the idea gathering support that the only way to have safe elections this fall is to expand on vote by mail, as they have here in Michigan, idiot boy has used his two remaining brain cells to understand that if there is widespread vote by mail, the normal repub tactics of voter intimidation and suppression won’t work anymore and they are in a world of hurt…so, of course trump grabs at the “voter fraud” lie and pushes it relentlessly on twitter…as he has with 53,000 other lying tweets on other subjects he has posted there…but this time, twitter flags these two tweets as lies and points people to a fact check site to get the truth…and predictably the idiot boy just explodes with his ignorance of the constitution, threatening to shut down twitter…yadda,yadda…because his 1st amendment rights to lie to the country are being violated by a big bad company…hey,idiot boy…cripes, do I have to tell you this again? The only way to violate anyone’s 1st amendment rights is if the government keeps you from saying what you want to say…companies are allowed to have their own rules on what speech they will allow and there is not a damn thing you can do about it….this is just another example of how ignorant this asshole is about almost everything…how does it feel trumpie? Being called out for your lies for a change? Keep it up twitter…and hey Zuckerberg…how about your trashy facebook doing the same? It’s time…
I found something out today…
Well…yeah, this one is not political, but I promise I’ll get to one later this afternoon…but, I did find something out today…that it is not really smart to leave the top down on your car for a week when you have a vinyl top…. over the past week or so I have just left the top down on the Miata since I have a garage to park it in….but, after getting out for groceries and seeing that it was going to rain, I tried to put it up in the Meijer’s parking lot and it took me almost 10 minutes to stretch it enough to get it to latch and I had to just slam it down on the pins for that to happen….even with it almost 75 degrees when I got to the lot, it still wouldn’t latch…so now I think I’ll put it up every time I park it even in the garage…the things you learn even after having a car for 8 years…
May 27th
Well…damn…another 2:44 morning this morning but I feel okay and I think that’s a little weird…I was able to get back to sleep with lots of tossing and turning until almost 6 so I’ll take that as a win…the ribs that I hurt over the weekend are screaming at me today and it is a little hard to breathe without pain…but hey, that just goes with my thumb so I have a matching pair of pains…at least the swelling in my foot has gone down to about half of what it was and it almost looks normal today….but cripes, 3 gallons of water a day? I guess I’ll have to keep that up for a while since the redness in my toe is almost gone, too so it must be doing something….getting out in the heat and humidity yesterday took a lot out of me since I’m not acclimated to it yet….and I am getting out here before 7 so I can do the grocery run at 9 and have my first ride of the day in….and yes, I am ignoring my schedule of 3 double ride days and then a single to give my body a rest but I may be able to do that tomorrow since there are supposed to be storms all day….I do need to get started on removing the paint from the front door to get ready to paint it but I’m not sure I want to do it until it gets a little cooler….man, it was 94 yesterday afternoon but I ran my fan and it was tolerable after I got everything done….don’t have a lot do today but the grocery run and I may take it easy and try to heal up some…and I do want to watch SpaceX launch the first astronauts from American soil this afternoon…it’s been almost 10 years since that has happened and I don’t want to miss that…more later…
I don’t know why so many busy days…
Well…okay, I think I’m broken….I really tried to do nothing today but I failed completely…and it should be easy when you can’t go anywhere or do anything…got out on the bike for the first time at about 7:30 and got a good ride in….went hard the whole way with no distress at all and it felt good…then when I got back here I had to make a run to Menards to get some more topsoil, potting soil, and grass seed so I could get at restoring the lawn…it’s a good 20 foot lawn but up close you can see all the bare spots….so after lunch and the second hard ride where I didn’t have any problems again and it was even 90 degrees when I went out, I got back here and then started on the front lawn…spreading two bags of topsoil and then seeding the soil…man, I was soaked after that but I still needed to work on the garden and plant 4 more of the celebration tomato plants that had grown up big enough for transplant…and then put cages on the ones that had gotten big enough…I still have a dozen tomato plants and 4 more green pepper plants to put out along with 9 more sunflowers that I am waiting to have sprout….so, as you can see…another damn busy day….oh, and I mowed the lawn while I was waiting for the chicken thighs to cook for lunch….cripes…