Well…as I wrote about this morning, it did get ugly today with the stock market down almost 2500 points about an hour ago but it has rebounded to being down “only” 1700 points with a half hour to go until close…and with the idiot in chief’s happy talk response to the coronavirus crumbling as his brain (what little of it there is) does the same…with reports that idiot boy is ranting around the WH that he doesn’t have anyone left to protect him from the media and that someone should be doing something to make him look better….but that ranting has taken a really dark turn with trump convinced that members of the media are intentionally going to infect themselves so they can give the virus to trump on AF 1…yep, he actually believes that…and he has tasked the Secret Service to set up barricades around the WH to check everyone coming in and out to make sure they are not coughing….even though the NIH has said that this is going to be one of the worst allergy seasons in years…and guess what allergies do…they make you cough just like I am now…hey repubs, is it 25th amendment time yet? Folks, trump’s delusions are going to get worse and worse as he finally realizes that he is going to be out of office in the fall and then will have no protection against criminal charges from the crimes he has committed while in office….eat another burger, donnie…that will help keep the virus away…
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It’s going to get ugly today…
Well…as the moron in the WH fiddles, there is a convergence of problems that are going to slap idiot boy upside the head this morning…if the coronavirus response bungling wasn’t enough, we now have oil prices that are in free fall along with a major meltdown in the stock market that is going to hit when the markets open this morning. After the rout in oil prices started Friday with a 10% drop across the board, Saudi Arabia has decided to destroy Russia since they wouldn’t go along with supply cuts necessary to support the price with demand crashing…so with the Saudis opening the taps in the face of falling demand, oil is set to drop by 20-25% today which will surely destroy many shale producers here in the US since they were barely staying afloat with their huge debt loads…can anyone say recession? In the stock futures markets, the fall was so severe that the automatic “circuit breakers” cut in when the losses got to 5% and that much of a drop in the Dow will translate to a 1500 point loss that will probably happen in the first few minutes of trading….I wonder what moron donnie is going to say now? The only thing he could point to was the stock market doing well and the myth that he had anything to do with it is going to be exploded this morning…I wonder who he is going to blame for this one? It is going to be an ugly day economically for anyone who has a 401K…and you can blame it on the incompetents in the WH who have systematically destroyed the US influence in the world and have left chaos in their wake….cripes…
March 9th
Well…that was an ugly night with having the worst case of acid reflux I’ve had in a long time…woke me up at 2 and kept me up most of the rest of the night as I waited for the antacids to work…and it didn’t help that it was the first full night of the time change and that always screws me up for a few days…not sure why that would be but I know I’ll still be doing time corrections in my head for a few days…you’d think that getting 50 miles in on the bike the past two days that I would be worn out and sleep better but it really never works that way…oh, well….didn’t get anything done yesterday but it looks like I’ll have time to get a few things done this afternoon with the rain coming in later this morning…so that means I need to get on the bike around 9 after the showers that are on the way move through and before the rains starts again at 11 or so…there won’t be enough time to get a double in today so I guess I’ll get started on the last window in the kitchen…if I feel better…feel pretty crappy right now and my allergies are flaring like crazy so that is going to make for a day to be endured…and I really do hope that I can get a nap during soccer later but that hasn’t been working lately, either….more later…
Out on the bike in a t-shirt and shorts!
Well…not sure if doing two hard runs both yesterday and today is a mistake or not but I am getting dang sore already and that will need some ibuprofen a little later…it was pretty cool to be able to get out for the second ride today in just a t-shirt and shorts for the first time this year and that made the ride just so much more fun and I was able to work up a good sweat, too….did that whole second run today flat out as hard as I could go but I did notice that I am nowhere near summer fitness levels so there sill be some gains to be had..but the weather isn’t going to cooperate with temps heading back down into the 40’s for highs for the next couple of weeks and rain in the forecast almost every day until the end of March…and that sucks since I am trying to get to over 600 miles by the first of April but that will take doubles almost every day and that is just not going to happen…it was still fun to get out on the new bike and not have to think about the damn chain skipping…or any of the other things that is wrong with the old bike…not sure when I’m going to start working on that…have some work to do on the car first so we’ll see….
March 8th
Well…I’m not sure what it is about Sundays but I almost forgot to come here again this week…was getting ready to get on the bike and just realized that I needed to come here and do one of these…and the time change didn’t help, either…I’ll be feeling the effects of that for a couple of days and I’m not sure why that is…feel pretty crappy this morning and it’s entirely my fault but the coughing and stuffed up head isn’t…I sure hope it’s not allergies this soon in the year…yeah, I know, it is but I’m holding out the delusional hope that it will not get worse…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but put the new bike together and ride twice but I did get the dining room window finished…don’t think I’m going to do any work today other than get two bike rides in…I did get the tire liners and tools to install them late in the day but I’m not going to do that today…going to keep my fingers crossed that I don’t get a flat today doing two rides….that would be a pain to walk back 5 miles….not much to do today…going to get out on the bike here in a few minutes for the first one and then watch some soccer before the second one after Man U plays City at 12:30….going to make some chicken with asparagus and potatoes for lunch…it is pretty cool to have a large enough glass dish to cook them all in it….more later….
Trump’s supporters don’t believe there is a virus…
Well…you know, I have mixed feelings about the news stories that almost all trump supporters don’t believe that the coronavirus is real and are not going to take any precautions at all since they have been told by their savior and idiot trump that, if there is a virus, the virus is no worse than the flu and there have only been a few cases anyway…and the numbers are being inflated by the dems to hurt trump’s election chances in the fall. So, in my sardonic brain, that means that the outbreak is going to be worse for these idiots when it comes…I wonder what the excuse from trump will be when he has to cancel one of his hate rallies to prevent the spread of the virus? And I wonder what lie they will tell his stupid supporters to explain it? Look, I don’t normally wish anyone ill but cripes, maybe a little thinning of the stupid herd would be a good thing…no, that’s just wrong…that just doesn’t fit into my belief system to wish anyone death by stupidity….or to their families who would just be collateral damage from stupidity…maybe, finally, some people on the right in this country will finally see that government is not “the problem” and has a role to play to keep us all safe from pandemics….but it has to be be competent government…not the one we have now…
Got the new bike!
Well….I was really surprised today when the new bike came around 10 am when fedex usually delivers late in the day….but, I’ll take it since I put it together and was out on it for a shakedown run by 11:15…and that’s even with getting the computer mounted so not too much time at all…it did help that this one is the same model as the old one since it is the only one with full suspension in my price range, so I already knew everything about it…after starting out on the first ride all I could say is wow! All of the controls are feather light and I barely have to touch the shifter and it is in the next gear…it is so light that I didn’t even hurt my thumb doing two rides and getting almost 25 miles in…even the rear brake is so sensitive that I can lock the rear wheel up with just two fingers….it is just so cool to have a bike that works like it’s supposed to and I can go hard….I had forgotten how nice it is to just power up hills instead of having to shift down 4 gears to keep the chain from skipping…and it works my legs like crazy…so much so that I was already getting sore just sitting here having lunch between the rides…I AM going to need some ibuprofen later today to be able to move and to get ready for another double tomorrow…one crappy thing is that the tube protectors still haven’t shown up so I think I just wing it til Monday when it is supposed to rain and the take wheels off and install them then…oh, one last thing…I expected that the grey paint would just be regular gloss grey….but it is grey metallic and it looks pretty cool out in the sun…can’t wait for oit to get warmer and get some long rides in…
March 7th
Well…up too damn early again this morning….and I knew that if I just rolled over and tried to sleep some more it wasn’t going to work so here we are…so that means that there may be some napcar in my future this afternoon…I did get some work done yesterday and I’m down to only one window left after painting the one in the dining room yesterday…but I have to put the second coat on it this morning…I did find some clear lacquer spray that I used on the rusted part of the frame to try to keep it from bleeding through the white paint…it is a little funny that the spray can of lacquer is over 20 years old and it still works great…I may have to use it on another window frame that is rusted and the rust is making ugly brown marks…and the window over the sink is probably the worst one that I’ll have to take a wire brush to…think I’ll put it in the drill and see if that makes it a little less work…I tried to strip it but that didn’t work on the 60 year old paint…the new bike is supposed to come today along with the tire tools and the tube protectors that I have to install before I can take it out…and that means I have to stay here all day since fedex won’t leave it without a signature…so no last ride on the old bike…I think I’ll go look at the tracking to see if there is a projected time for the delivery…not much to do today…just the painting and the bike stuff along with watching soccer all morning and I need some rest already…or more coffee…yep, I think that’s easier….more later…
538 says it’s going to be Joe…
Well…isn’t it a breath of fresh air to not talk about the idiot trump for a change? After the wins on super Tuesday and with the pile of endorsements he has gotten just before an since then, the polling site 538 is giving Joe Biden a 94% chance of winning the dem nomination for president when you include the latest polling out of the remaining states. While Joe was not my first choice, I can get on board with this fundamentally decent man who we can count on to do the right thing where the country is concerned…and to follow the law…and to not lie all the damn time…and to be competent in appointing judges and his cabinet…not like the idiot who squats in the WH. One thing that does need to happen, though, is that some of the bigwigs in the dem party need to take him aside and destroy the delusion he has that there are people on the right he can work with…there are none and he needs to be ready to govern that way…he needs to make sure that he can get things done without them and that means we need to take the senate back, too, along with keeping the House…one other thing he needs to do is to draft Elizabeth Warren and the other wonderful candidates we had to craft the platform to be presented at the convention this summer…that will at least be a step to mending the fractures that still exist in our party…I will say thank you to Bernie for his comments the other day that he will support whom ever the candidate is…now he needs to get that word out to the berniebros who are grousing and planning to sit out the election that they need to put the country first, that winning this election is more important than their hurt feelings…there is plenty of time to bring this all together and crush idiot boy in the fall…and that has to be our message from here on out…
March 6th
Well…running late this morning and there is really no reason for it other than I just laid in bed for a while after I woke up…and I never do that….I wonder why this morning? Oh, well…feel okay this morning if a little slow and I guess I earned that with not being good for the first time this week….not sure if that is going to continue this weekend but we’ll see…didn’t get much done yesterday but the bike ride as I need to keep resting my hands to get them to heal and it appears to be working…much less pain and I can even do this without wincing…I did remember that I needed to repair the top on the car where more stitching gave way and got that done just before it got dark last night…used every clamp I got from HF to hold it while the glue set…and I needed to get that done before I take it out in the rain…I used the two big clamps and the 6 little ones I got for a buck and it is handy to have them around here….I may not get out on the bike today if the wind comes up like it’s supposed to…20-25 mph is way too much to ride into especially with a bike that I can’t put any pressure on the pedals…but, I haven’t checked if it is windy yet so I may be able to get out early if it’s warm enough….not much to do today…I am going to start working on the window in the dining room so I can paint it over the weekend and then maybe start on the final window over the kitchen sink but with getting the new bike tomorrow, that may distract me some and I may just want to ride….more later….