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….
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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…
Treatment for a year?
Well…as I’ve mentioned before, I’ve toenail infections for a few years now and they got so bad that I lost the one on my right big toe…doesn’t hurt but looks ugly so I asked for a prescription med since none of the OTC ones worked at all…so I picked up the prescription yesterday for a medicine called Ciclopirox that looks like a nail varnish that you brush on once a day…but the thing that surprised me was the length of treatment…the instructions say to use it once per day for a whole year…yep, a whole darn year and I have 11 refills of this tiny little bottle that costs me 10 bucks in copay for each one that retails for 291 bucks per bottle…so, I’m glad I have medicare prescription drug coverage since goodrx has a price of almost 25 bucks a bottle…so, I’ll have big toenails that look like I’m using a clear polish on them for a year until the new nails grow in…weird…
64 to go…
Well…damn, it almost 1:30 in the afternoon and I’m still drinking coffee since I did the three rides indoors without stopping to have coffee in between them…and that gets me down to 64 miles left to go and I’ll only have 18 to do Friday to make it…I did wash the outdoor bike yesterday and didn’t want to get it dirty so I left it at that…it is sprinkling out here and I sure didn’t want to get wet at 40 degrees…I did run out and get the ingredients I forgot for the two batches of soup I’m making this week starting with the turkey soup tomorrow…was going to experiment a little on the turkey soup but it is already great the way it is so the experimenting will wait until I do the ham soup over the weekend…going to use some new kinds of beans instead of the kidney beans I normally use…I have cans of great northern, black, and garbanzo beans…or chickpeas that I’m going to put in and that will be one more can than I normally use…needless to say, this batch is going to be extra hearty with extra ham, too…might end up more like a stew but that’s okay…I did find a Larry Niven novel in the books I bought last year called “The Mote in God’s Eye” that has a forward by Heinlein who called it the best sci fi novel ever…so that gets started today along with Heinlein’s “Friday” that I got this year…so with all of the groceries I got today, I don’t have to leave this place for a couple of weeks and I am looking forward to that…just cooking, cleaning, and reading…maybe that will help my BP…
Putin should pay attention…
Well…with the fall of Assad in Syria when the people had just had enough, ole vladdie putin should pay attention since he and assad were such buddies and ruling in just the same way…murdering their political opponents and anyone else who stands in their way…and I laughed a bit when I read that the thousands of Russians stationed in Syria were “scrambling” to get out of the country before assad was tossed…and the big powerful strongman is now hiding just like every deposed dictator does…I wonder if he is hiding in the same kind of “spider hole” that they found hussein in? And I wonder if ole vlad has a few thousand of those for himself…man, I need to start looking at Kos again to get back up to speed about what is going on in the world…good riddance, assad…geez..
December 10th
Well..I never knew how much pain the daily ibuprofen was masking until I stopped taking them Saturday and then rode outdoors for a couple of days….everything hurts and I really do mean everything….and I’ll have to deal with that on the indoor bike rides today…cleaned the outdoor bike yesterday so I won’t be riding it again for a week or so when it warms up again after the extreme cold that is coming in Thursday…I did sleep better last night but was up again at 2:43 but today I was able to get back to sleep and not out of bed til 6:10…but yesterday took a lot out of me and today I need to lay low and rest a bit…I have that 10 buck coupon from Meijers that needs to be used so I may go out today and get some chicken thighs with it…or maybe the second ham of the season…I know I shouldn’t be eating ham with my BP so high but damn, protein at 89 cents a pound? Can’t pass that up…think I’ll make the turkey soup Thursday and then ham over the weekend since I do have ham bones in the freezer I can use…only have 90 miles left to go to the goal so that times out to Friday…and that means I need to get going after one more cup of coffee….more later…