Well…up and out of bed before 6 again today and it’s down to 61 degrees and I wonder if I’ll have to wear a light fleece for the first ride this morning…have 45 minutes before I need to get on the bike and I need to toast a bagel and have that, too….running out of days to go to the beach so I may go out there this morning to see if I can get a swim in…hasn’t been too bad of a year for the beach but time is changing and I have to get used to that…it seems that the seasons are more defined out here and change more quickly…one day it’s 90 degrees and a few days later it’s only in the 70’s…oh, well…I’ve been emptying the freezer the past couple of weeks and I’m all the way down to soup and I may have to use the ham bones to make more to keep getting the freezer organized…I did get a little cleaning done yesterday and I’m going to try to keep that up today…the bathroom needs a once over and I do need to get rid of the amazon boxes that have piled up in here….but a bagel and the bike rides first….more later…
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Jury summons…
Well…in all of my long years, I have never been summoned to be on a jury until I got one today…and while I was filling out the questionaire I see that by being 70 years old or older you have a get out of jail free card to be permanently taken off the jury rolls…so I filled out the questionaire online and checked the exemption box so I guess I’ll go through my entire life without having to serve on a jury…I guess getting old is good for something….
More pushback…
Well…the dems really are growing spines across this country and are pushing back against the idiot trump’s illegality…the latest is in response to a letter the corrupt AG sent to 32 cities (all dem run of course) threatening to arrest city officials if they didn’t spend their own money to help with the mass deportation scheme which, according to the 10th amendment, is illegal…and I loved the comment from Boston’s mayor when she said “stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures…a theme echoed by the governor of Oregon who basically said go to hell to trump and his thugs…this is what needs to happen everywhere a dem is in charge…every state and city needs to push back like Newsom is doing in California and make resistance the order of the day and make this illegal crap painful for the loser trump and his corrupt cronies…geez…
August 20th
Well…up and out of bed at 5:30 again today and I wonder if I’ll ever sleep well again…on the 2nd cup of coffee already and will need to get moving as soon as it gets light but that gives me almost 45 minutes to sit and sip…it looks like my beach days could be over for the year as it’s not going to get into the 70’s until late in the day for the next week or so and not even out of the 60’s next Monday…brrrr…don’t have a lot to do today after getting the grocery run done yesterday so I really should clean today before I immerse myself in reading this afternoon…no rain in the forecast for the next week but we did get a ton of it Monday night and even had the trail flooded in spots…had a 150 feet under 4-5 inches of water and I soaked my shoes getting through it….unless it rains almost every day for the rest of the summer, my lawn won’t recover and that sucks…oh, well…going to get moving soon and just see what the day will look like….more later…
Victim blaming…
Well…the idiot trump is back at it playing little puppydog to putin and repeating his lies verbatim…an he’s back on the kick of victim blaming Ukraine for defending themselves when Russia invaded saying some bullshit about it’s wrong to defend against a country that’s “10 times bigger” than themselves…yeah, I don’t know what the hell Ukraine was supposed to do…just let Russia roll over them? Or how about a colony fighting against the superpower of the world at that time? Yeah, trump is too stupid to understand that is just what we did in the fight against England…I guess we shouldn’t have fought the Revolutionary War? Oh, and when meeting with Zelenskyy and EU leaders yesterday, idiot boy just had to call his buddy vlad to kiss his ass some more I guess. What a waste of skin…geez…
Still raining…
Well…just put the yard waste bag out and it’s still raining so I may have to re-think my schedule for the day and do the grocery run this morning if it’s still raining at 8am… but the little weather widget says the rain will stop by 7:30 so I may be able to get back on schedule and even get a beach run in today…I do really want more coffee but I’ve had my allotment for the day so I’d have to make some pour over and I don’t want to make that much effort…so I guess I’ll just sit here and wait the rain out…oh, well…
August 19th
Well…it’s spitting rain out there so I’ll be waiting to get on the bike for a bit…but should still be out and riding before 7 so I guess that’s about on time…just poured the first cup of coffee and I’m going to have at least two cups before I go out…it barely got out of the 60’s yesterday but it’s supposed to get to almost 80 today so there may be a beach trip…but my schedule is disrupted by the rain…the forecast says 100% rain with thunderstorms but the radar says it’s almost over so I’ll just have to wait it out…I did almost get through the first book yesterday and I’ll finish it up and start the 2nd this morning if it keeps raining….don’t have to cook today with stir fry and chicken taco leftovers but I do need to plan for later in the week and I have no idea what that will be…I do have a dozen eggs and I could thaw some bacon to go with them for a breakfast for lunch but that doesn’t need to happen for a few days…not much to do today…just going to ease into the day an drink lots more coffee to get me jump started…more later…
This is what an almost day off feels like…
Well…after getting the two bike rides in and an errand run, I really did take the rest of the day off and just vegged out and read…I did get 5 new books from the library today to get me through the week…it just barely got out of the 60’s today so no beach day for me…maybe tomorrow…I did get the trash packed up and out for pickup tomorrow and I have to remember to put the yard waste out as soon as I get up in the morning since it may rain and I don’t want the paper bag to fall apart…I always up way before they come to collect that stuff so that will work out…I did make the chicken tacos I marinaded overnight and I feel so bad that I can barely taste them anymore…not tasting sucks…I’ve already read 2/3rds of the first book and still have a half hour left to read so I think I go back to that now…
No sandbagging this time…
Well…after the sandbagging that the idiot trump and vance did to Zelenskyy at their last meeting at the WH, I’d really love to see them try that again at today’s meeting when all of the EU and UK leaders are going to be there, too…and many of them are there just for that reason…yeah, they will talk about the war but they won’t let idiot boy get away with any bullying…the problem was that Zelenskyy thought he’d be able to have a functioning conversation when he now knows that is impossible with the idiot trump…and idiot boy is not going to be able to lie about the meeting with so many others there…so what’s the point? After the failed meeting with putin where nothing was accomplished, you would think that the idiot would actually prepare for this one and at least try to get things done if only to put a stick in putin’s eye…but after looking like a puppy dog standing there vibrating when putin walked up to him, I guess the best we can hope for is for him to stay awake during the meeting…or maybe it would be better if he did go to sleep…he doesn’t have anything to add anyway…geez…
August 18th
Well…damn, running late already and it’s only 6:40 and that sucks…need to get going by 7 so that means hauling ass from this point forward…didn’t sleep much last night and that is going to hurt later but I’m not sure what I’m going to do today…don’t think it’s going to be warm enough to go to the beach this morning but I do need to go to the library and then to Meijers to pick up a prescription for my BP meds…and do the bike rides…it’s only 63 here right now and I did have to close up the windows since it was a little cool with a breeze blowing through here…and there is a weather change coming with highs in the 70’s for the next week starting tomorrow and I can take a bit of that…the heat and humidity has been wearing me out and I’ve been wearing out the tower fan running it all day…I’m laughing that they have an inch of rain in the forecast for tomorrow and I don’t remember them being so wrong so long…that inch of rain has been forecast for weeks and it never comes…oh, well…need to get going…more later…