Well…up and down all night last night and I think I got about 4 hours of sleep in total…out of bed at 5:26 and need to pour down the coffee so I can get on the bike by 6 so I can get two rides in before the dentist appointment at 8:50…and that will probably be it for me today but we’ll see when I get home…don’t have to cook today but I am going to make cooked cabbage with carrots, onions, and potatoes in the instant pot and that will a side that will last me a few days…didn’t buy any corned beef since it’s 4 bucks a pound and that means the smallest one I could get would be close to 14 bucks and I’m not spending that much…the good thing about this cabbage dish is that it is really low in calories and if I left the potatoes out, half a plate would be about 50 calories…and you need to put in a whole cabbage rough chopped in it so I may stop at aldis and get another one since my dentist is right near it…and then I can make another batch next week…going to try to eat a steak tomorrow with it and I think that could be a good combo…don’t have a lot to do but read so that is what I’m going to do today…it looks like I’ll be able to ride outdoors from Sunday through Sat of next week and we’re going to be over 60 on Wed…so maybe three outdoor rides for 39 miles? We’ll se….more later…
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A pretty lousy day…
Well…I wrote this morning that I had a dentist appointment this morning to clean my teeth but that quickly went to hell with the discovery of an abcess behind a tooth that has to come out tomorrow morning or spend a year and a few thousand bucks to try to fix it….and I’m not going to do that…but this is the last dental work I’m having done unless it’s a screaming emergency…I need the rest of my teeth to be able to chew anything…and the dentist quoted me 30K to have implants put in and that is not going to happen…so it was a pretty lousy day…and now I won’t b able to chew the t-bone steaks I bought…life sucks…
The trump crash has started..
Well…with reports out that say that layoffs are going to be up 245% with negative job growth, the trump crash has started…and the job cuts are accelerating as companies understand how bad the economy is going to get under the stupidest president in the history of the country….and that is the point, ceo’s across the country look ahead to see what their manpower requirements are going to be in the future and they see nothing but roaring inflation and recession coming and the chaos that tariffs are causing is what businesses don’t want to see…most companies have cut back on investment or stopped it completely and that has spread into housing with new housing starts down by almost 10%…you need to remember this that these job losses are the worst since 2009 during the great recession and 2020…so who was in charge for all of these events? Obama inherited the crappy economy in 2009 but the other two idiot boy was in charge and that sure doesn’t look like repubs are good on the economy…what these losses mean to me is that they don’t give a shit about workers…and they are already making excuses for the losses under idiot boy saying that “fixing the economy is messy” but I sure didn’t see anything that needed to be fixed with the best economy in the world that the idiot inherited…geez…
March 6th
Well…up at 4:04 this morning and tried to get back to sleep with not a lot of success…so, I’m pouring coffee down and trying to get going to be on the bike before 7 so I can get two rides in before the dentist appointment at 10:30…they called yesterday afternoon that they had an opening for the cleaning they cancelled a couple of weeks ago…it did snow out here overnight but just a dusting so I won’t have any problem getting out…the wind is still blowing quite hard out here and has been since yesterday afternoon and I’m really getting tired of how loud it is…I think I have enough coffee to last most of the year with 4 cans of ground and 3 pound of beans and if it isn’t enough, I’ll have to switch over to tea since the prices are going to get higher as the year goes on….I do need to cook today and that will probably be a chicken stir fry but not until dinner since I do have leftover chicken burrito materials for lunch…the steak will wait til Sat since I have two days of the burrito stuff left…not much to do today…just the rides and getting the teeth cleaned then back here for the last ride…the afternoon belongs to me so I think I’ll read a bit…the power stayed on even with the high wind out here and that is surprising….more later…
Just a regular Wednesday…
Well…it was just a regular Wednesday today and that means it was busy with the grocery run where I had to hit 3 stores…and I did go to DD to get two t-bone steaks for about 4 bucks each since they were 3.99 a pound…going to grill on of them this weekend…it will be the first time I’ve had a steak since I moved out here and I am looking forward to it…they were vacuum packed and frozen and look nicely marbled…okay this is weird…when I looked at the coffee beans on Amazon yesterday, the two pound bags were 28 bucks…but I just checked and now they are 14.51…only 52 cents more than last week…I need some allergy meds so I think I’ll order a couple more bags…or one more since I already have three pounds here and the allergy meds are over 25 bucks so that will get me over the 35 buck free shipping limit…okay, I probably do that right now…nope, I was wrong…the 14.51 is for a one pound bag of Colombian so yes, it has gone up to 28 bucks for two pounds…oh, well…
It only took a month and change…
Well…just read the APR over at Kos and I had to laugh…it appears that it only took six weeks for idiot boy’s approval rating to go under water with 3% more of Americans disapproving of the asshole than approves what he is doing…oh, and this little tidbit should bring smiles to the maga morons…Michigan gets a lot of it’s electricity from Canada and now with a 25% tariff on it, everyone’s electric bill is going to go up…another “trump tax that we are going to have to pay…and most of the indicators show that the economy is slowing down fast and, when the jobs report comes out, it’s going to show growth is down to 77,000 jobs…about half what job growth was under the dems who know how to run an economy…I’ll bet we are in a recession by the third quarter…and I wonder who the moron is going blame for that? And I wonder if the media will ever do a story on a comparison of Joe Biden’s economy and idiot boy’s? By any measure, Joe’s was the envy of the world and the idiot’s isn’t…geez…
March 5th
Well…up a little early today at 5:40…no, that’s out of bed at 5:40…I was actually up a little after 4 so this is going to be a day of conserving energy since I have a lot to do…it stayed over 40 last night so we may lose the last of the snow today but it’s going get colder until Sunday so I’ll be riding indoors until then…I was thinking about going outdoors today but we are under a gale warning and I can hear the wind blowing like crazy out there…going to hit DD today for t-bone steaks for 3.99 a pound…haven’t eaten any beef for almost a year and a grilled steak would be good…but we’ll see…they also have flat iron steaks for 1.99 a pound and that could make some stir fry beef that I haven’t had since I moved out here…and I’m going to see if they have cheap coffee since the price is going nuts…and I think that’s just the first of it…going to get on the bike early this morning to get a ride in before the grocery run but I need more coffee first…there is going to be a time coming that I can’t afford coffee and that is going to suck…more later…
I predicted this…
Well…when the idiot trump announced his stupid tariffs, I predicted that the price of coffee was going to skyrocket…and I just checked it on Amazon and the 2 lb bags of 8 O’clock Colombian beans that sold for 13.99 before the tariffs kicked in are now over 28 bucks…I told all of you stupid trump voters what was going to happen…that your fixation on the price of eggs that got you to vote for the idiot was going to cost you…and the tariffs are just starting and China and Canada have done the same tariffs against us…25% so we will be losing jobs soon…I told you so…geez…
An easier day…
Well…it has been an easier day today with just the rides, laundry, and some more cleaning up downstairs…I still do need to do the weight work and get the grocery list done for the run tomorrow…I did finish up the 4th book today and it was the Harlan Coben that was his first novel written in his early 20′s and that he put a foreward in that said “put this book back if it’s the first one of mine you’ve chosen”…but I don’t see it like that at all and I’ve read a dozen or more of his now…you can tell it one of his…very complex with lots of great characters and lots of surprises…so back to the library after the grocery run tomorrow…I know St. Patrick’s day is still two weeks away but aldis has corned beef tips for 2.99 a pound this week and I like to have some once a year…have the potatoes and carrots I need and it only takes a few minutes in the instant pot along with the cabbage…never liked cooked cabbage when I was younger but I do now…okay, need to do the weight work…
This is what you did to us maga voters…
Well…just read an article over at Kos where the former head of the Social Security Administration bluntly says that with the changes the idiots trump and musk have made to SS, payments to those of us depending on it will end in no more than 90 days…yep, the system I paid over 400K into over my lifetime and what I depend on to live will stop paying out earned benefits to over 70 million Americans before summer…this is what you did to us maga voters…I have enough cash on hand to live for maybe a year but it means no new car and no spending for me at all other than food…I am in shock that a program that has supported seniors for over 80 years is now going to end just because stupid people were bitching about the price of eggs…so now how are you going to buy your precious eggs when the money stops? I’ll be e-mailing my reps and senators today to implore them to protect us from these idiots…people are going to die from this…and I may be one of them…