Well…had another kind of weird interaction on the grocery run today but it made me smile so that’s cool…when I was loading my groceries into the trunk at Meijers, an older woman was trying to get two young girls out of her van that was parked right next to me…when she got the first girl out, she came over to me and said “what a gorgeous car” and that the older girl had something to ask me…she wondered if she could sit in the car…so of course I said yes and she climbed in then her grandmother took a picture of her to show to her mom…she had the biggest smile on her face while she sat there…pretty neat…
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July 23rd
Well…damn, getting out of bed at 5:14 is starting to get old and I’m just exhausted…and I need to get on the bike in 25 minutes to get the day started…it’s going to be a 5 store grocery run today with DD having a 10 for 10 bucks sale on and needing to hit two Meijers to pick up my prescriptions….my damn right elbow is howling at me as it has been for a couple of weeks now and I’ll need to treat it before I get on the bike…not sure about a run to the beach today with having to go to the library to get more books after the grocery run and that may make me too late…but I really should stop thinking in terms of time since I really don’t have to meet any schedule anymore…the little weather widget at the bottom of the screen is saying an inch of rain tomorrow and all I can do is laugh about that…as I’ve said many times before…it doesn’t rain here and it’s not going to rain tomorrow…and that sucks…even though I didn’t swim yesterday, I did get some color and I think I’ll do that again today…but going to the beach has become a task and that’s not how it’s supposed to be…it’s hard living in my head right now…more later…
Still lazy…
Well…it’s getting easier not feeling guilty just living and not accomplishing things every day…I guess the rides are accomplishing something and going to the beach is, too…but that’s about all I did but read this afternoon and just finished up the 5th book this week and now I can hit the library tomorrow after the grocery run and picking up the two prescriptions I have waiting at Meijers…I really do think the clutch on the car is working better after adding the brake fluid yesterday and that is pretty cool…the water was just too cold to go in today so I didn’t get a swim in…hoping it will be better tomorrow but they just issued a beach hazard statement and that means the red flag will be flying and you’re not supposed to swim…that’s never stopped me before…but I guess we’ll see…the little weather widget just said windy tomorrow so that’s the reason for the beach hazard notice…hope I can get the rides in before it gets too windy….okay, need to read a little news before tv time…
Now they are deporting American citizens…
Well…we knew it was going to come to this…after the ICEtapo started kidnapping people off the streets and deported them with no due process of the law, they have started to deport American citizens like the 4 year old boy with cancer who was sent to El Salvador even though he had never set foot in that country…and this is happening all over the country and the response of at least two repub senators is to laugh about it saying “you have to break some eggs to make an omelet”…never mind that it is illegal to deport American citizens and one has just been paid 175K for his kidnapping and deportation…I told you long ago that ICE was going to turn into the brownshirts just like Hitler used to terrorize every non Aryan across Europe…and they are using the same tactics they used in the 30′s and 40′s…just kidnapping and disappearing people they don’t like…like everyone who isn’t white…there needs to consequences when we take back congress and the WH…and every damn one of these thugs needs to go to jail…geez…
July 23rd
Well…9 minutes…that’s what it takes my coffee maker to brew a pot of coffee…and you don’t know that that is about at all…but Tom does…slept okay last night but was up at around 4 but didn’t get out of bed til 6 so that is a win…damn, my right elbow is back to hurting like crazy when I thought it was healing and that is a little depressing…got some color at the beach yesterday and I’ll be back out there again today hoping the water is warmer today…it was damn cold yesterday but still better than it was last year…the only thing I have to do today is get my absentee ballot filled out so I can drop it off at the drop box tomorrow…going to get some yellow potatoes for a buck for three pounds tomorrow along with picking up two prescriptions so I can make more potato salad this week…it’s only 62 out there right now so I may have to put a thin fleece on but I don’t want to…crap, need to get on the bike in a few minutes but I’m not ready for that yet…need more coffee and it’s not working at all right now….oh, well…more later…
Too many easy days…
Well…I need to get off my butt and get things done instead of acting like I’m retired and doing nothing…and today was another easy day that only had 25 miles on the bike and then out to the beach…I did have an older woman walking a dog stop and talk to me for 20 minutes as I sat in my chair having my 2nd beer and that was nice…and the tiny dog was, too…unusual to say the least…I did find out something about the car yesterday that is a clever bit of engineering…as I was doing some fluid checks, I couldn’t find the reservoir for the clutch so I had to look at the manual to find out it doesn’t have one…both the brake master cylinder and the clutch uses the same one…pretty cool, huh? and it was down a bit so I filled to the max line like the manual says and it appears to have made a difference…the shifting is easier but I think I may still see how hard it is to bleed the clutch since I still think it could be a little smoother…I have all of the equipment to do it from the 94…so, we’ll see…the water was pretty cold so the swim was just and in and out dip and I hope it warms up and I can stay in tomorrow…and yes, I’m going back to the beach tomorrow…but right now it’s time to read….
Doesn’t he look tired?
Well…questions about the idiot trump’s health are starting to get some traction after the photo posted the other day that showed his huge, swollen ankles that are bigger than his shoes…and now there is speculation that he has other health problems with the bruises on his hands that he is covering up with makeup…and noises are being made that Rupert Murdoch is going to start a whisper campaign to get him out of office since idiot boy sued him for 10 billion dollars for truthful reporting about the Epstein files…and this reminds me of a Doctor Who episode where the PM just killed a bunch of retreating aliens and the Doctor couldn’t let that go…so, with 4 words “Doesn’t she look tired” whispered to a aide, he put an end to her term after the media picked up on it…and rupert still has the media to do it and I think he will if idiot boy becomes a liability and that is starting…and I think there is something to that since jd vance was seen meeting with the Murdochs just last week…this could get interesting…geez…
July 21st
Well…it seems like I’m always running late even with no schedule to keep anymore…it’s only 58 degrees out here right now so I’ll be in a light fleece when I get on the bike by 7…just so damn worn out and haven’t gotten the boost I need from the coffee yet…was planning on going to the beach this morning but I don’t know if it will be warm enough to swim and that is the main reason for going out there…I did pick up a 30 gallon trash bag of bottles, cans, and food containers from the assholes in the rental yesterday morning and dumped it in front of their front door and will continue to do that every damn day…damn, I need to get moving and really don’t want to…going to try the curry that my son made today and I need to plan meals for later in the week…my freezer is full and needs to be emptied…I did try Tom’s idea of braunschweiger on crackers for a snack last night and it was the best thing I’ve eaten in a while and I’m glad I have 4 more chubs in the freezer…but I used some thin wheat crackers I got from aldis…not much to do today…I do need to fill out my primary ballot so I can drop it off this week but I have to do some research first….more later…
An easy one…
Well..after having visitors yesterday, today was an easy one and I didn’t do much but watch races and read and I needed that after all the prep work for the visit last week…a strange thing is going on with the eye drops I use to fight against the dry eyes that come from my allergies…have been looking for any kind of Clear Eyes drops for over a month and there is not any on any shelf at three different stores…so I got the brain storm to use my amazon prime and order some from them…and I got it for 29% off, too…but I am laughing about the tiny orders I have been making…I mean card with two button batteries? And then 2 bottles of Clear Eyes with some chain lube? And today I ordered a combo salt shaker and pepper grinder just like one I had for 15 years before it broke….and some tongue scrapers to get rid of the white coating that has been on my tongue for months…and the salt shaker was only 11 bucks which is less than what I paid 15 years ago for the exact same one…it is pretty nice to not have to buy 35 bucks worth to get free shipping…so I’m only buying what I need…didn’t have to cook today with all of the leftovers from yesterday and probably won’t have to until Wed…okay, need to start a new book…
Go Bernie….
Well…the difference between the repubs and dems have been made extremely clear with the release of Bernie Sanders proposed bill the “Pensions for all act” the would completely reform how pensions are regulated here in the US…50 years ago, over 50% of workers had a pension to go with SS and only 6% of retirees lived in poverty…but now almost 23% of seniors live in poverty and less than 10% of retirees have a pension…and the rich designed the system that way…if they don’t have to fund pensions for their retirees, it just puts trillions more in their pockets instead of in the pockets of the people who made them rich…and Bernie’s bill would force corporations to fund pensions exactly as members of congress get so seniors would no longer have to work until they die…and this bill goes along with his “Social Security expansion act” that would raise benefits by 2,400 bucks a year but then tax all income over 250K a year that would make SS solvent for 75 years…this is the difference between the two parties…one gives tax cuts to the rich and cut benefits for everyone else and the other tries to take care of all the people and make their lives easier…which one sounds like what we should be doing? Geez…