Well…noticed this out on the trail the last time the ice was all melted but just forgot about it until now…on the part of the trail that runs beside M-6, there is a spot that is always covered with water for some reason…and it is a little weird that it is not the lowest part of that section of trail…you would think the lowest part would be flooded…but this place is a good two feet higher than the low point and that leaves me shaking my head….back to the flooded part….a few weeks back, riding through the flooded part I noticed that there is seaweed growing in that water attached to the pavement of the trail…now, to me, that just shows how long that part has been flooded this year…and it is still flooded but covered with ice now…can’t wait to see what it looks like if it ever dries out…
Monthly Archives: January 2019
January 5th
Well….you know, I really like fresh coffee days…got up a little early this morning and slept okay with the pain in my shoulder abating some overnight…was almost able to sleep on my right side last night but not quite yet…maybe tonight…didn’t have any dreams last night and that is a little disappointing but the ones from Thursday night will keep me going for a while…I think I’ll try to go without ibuprofen today just to see if I still need it…okay…maybe not since the pain has changed to be in the front of my shoulder, not in the joint anymore and that makes me think that I may have cracked a bone…if that’s the case, it will probably be a few weeks until it is healed…had an okay day yesterday and got some cooking done so today will be a leftover day…but, I am going to make turkey soup in the instant pot tomorrow….only have one carcass to use so it may be a little short on turkey…not much to do today…going to clean some and get the bike ride in but that’s about it….but, I need coffee right now or I won’t be motivated to do anything…more later….
Is spouting Russian propaganda enough?
Well….at least trump didn’t wear a tan suit, huh? Okay…just a little attempt at humor about the absurdity of the repubs over the past 20 years or so…but, that’s not what this one is about..did anyone else notice that the idiot trump has been spouting Russian propaganda for the past two years? Rachael did a great segment on that last night that I’m sure is available on youtube….but, here’s the gist…just over the past few days, idiot boy has started to spout the Russian revisionist history attempt to change the reason they invaded Afghanistan in the late 70′s, saying that it was to fight terrorism instead of the real reason for the invasion…that they were there to prop up the puppet communist government they had installed there…and no president ever has believed that it was anything but an attempt to spread communism across the world. But not trump, in a cabinet meeting the other day, he puked up the Russian line word for word saying that the Russians were “right” to invade. This is not the only time or topic he has done Putin’s bidding since he was installed…when Montenegro was considering joining NATO, trump echoed the Kremlin’s line that they were going to start World War three if they were admitted…and this after it was revealed that Russian intelligence agents paid for and tried to instigate a coup to overthrow the government to keep them from joining since it is one of Putin’s biggest goals to destroy NATO and eliminate it’s counterbalance to Putin in Europe. Now, one of the questions I have for the new dem controlled House is “where did he get these talking points and who gave them to him?” Is there a Russian agent with direct access to idiot boy? Okay, repubs…is this enough for you to do something and support these investigations? Putin got his “useful idiot” in the WH and leaving him there is a danger to our country that needs to be removed…impeach…
January 4th
Well…it’s almost 7 so that means I’m running a little late today and I didn’t even get out of bed until 6:23 so that was cool…and I even slept well and had some weird dreams…but, trying to keep the pain out of my shoulder, I twisted my left knee and now that hurts…how the heck that happens I’m not sure but I do feel a little old this morning….so, I took some ibuprofen already since I am going to get on the bike as soon as it gets light and I want it to have kicked in by then….had an okay day yesterday but still didn’t get a lot done other than a little surface cleaning in the kitchen and I may continue that today but I am going to cook some pot pie filling with chicken for lunch today and all that cutting may just hurt my arm too much to clean after…we’ll see….it looks like it is going to be warm enough this weekend to get my January top down run in and I may wash the car today after the bike ride if the streets are dry to get the salt from yesterday off it…and that should be enough to do for today…more later…
A new day…
Well…the day that those of us who value good government and truth has arrived with the swearing in of the 119th congress and I can’t be happier…well…if we would have taken the senate, too, I could have been happier but I’ll take this…now, we won’t have any more of Devin Nunes carrying water for the most corrupt president in the country’s history and the cool thing is that this new House looks so much more like the country does…the true melting pot that sees many more women elected and taking their seats today…along with many more people of color and of every religion under the sun….I can’t wait for the right’s heads to explode when one of the new Muslim women elected is sworn in with Thomas Jefferson’s copy of the Koran….wearing the traditional headscarf of her religion. One little noticed detail of the dems taking control is the fact that they will also take control of all of the money that the repubs authorized to investigate Hillary and her e-mails and that 172 million dollars is now in Nancy Pelosi’s hands to do with as she pleases…and she pleases to hire many, many more lawyers and investigators to investigate the corruption that is rampant in idiot boy’s administration….and these are not the dregs of the legal profession that trump has to hire since no one wants to work for him, nope, they are the cream of the profession who want to be part of this historic take down of the cancer that is trump…I’m pretty sure that idiot boy doesn’t understand the world of hurt he is in…and that unhinged tweets won’t protect him…get the popcorn ready…this is going to be a good show…impeach…
January 3rd
Well…woke up this morning to the pleasant surprise of no pain in my shoulder…well, almost…and I just hurt it lugging the groceries in from the car but the improvement is surprising with how it felt like it plateaued yesterday with still having pain…I think today will be the last day of ibuprofen but I wonder if it will stop the improvement if I stop? Hmmm…slept okay last night and don’t feel too bad this morning but my neck is back to hurting but I’m not going to bitch about that after my shoulder pain….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I think I’ll try to clean today since I think I’ll skip the bike ride with the ice that’s out there again…or maybe wait until the afternoon and give it a chance to melt…it looks like I’ll get a few rides in this weekend with the temps in the 40′s and it will be nice to be able to go hard and not worry about crashing again….need to get in all the rides I can with the forecast that cold and snow is coming in a couple of weeks but every day that there are not snow piles out there make it a good winter for me…so far…and only two months to go…more later….
One more day…
Well…with the crazy assed tweets from the idiot in chief yesterday and today, we can see in real time that at least a little of the world of hurt that idiot boy is in is sinking in…in one day, we take over the House and Nancy Pelosi becomes speaker again…and all of trumps repub protection goes away…and I have to admit a little bit of a smirk as I anticipate how the best speaker of the house in the past twenty years regains her gavel…and how she will wield it to make democracy work again. After 8 years of sham votes, fake investigations, and putting the repub party before the country, a new day is going to come and, as always, it is left to us dems to clean up the mess that the repubs have made with their know-nothing voodoo economics that is still beating the dead horse that tax cuts will pay for themselves…something that has never happened and never will. The list of things that need to be fixed after Paul Ryan and his cronies is a long, long one….and the difference between us and them is that we know that done right, government can make the lives of everyone in this country better…not just the 1%…I have a little hope again…but I also know the rest of the repubs will do everything they can to keep stealing for the rich…on to 2020….
January 2nd
Well…about on time this morning and have been up a while….slept okay last night…for me, that is and I would like to sleep like a teenager again….but, that’s not going to happen so I guess I won’t think about it…my shoulder seems to have plateaued with some pain still there and it is not better today like it has been for the past week…might have to rest it more and stay off the bike for a couple of days…but, I don’t want to do that…need to take advantage of the lack of snow while it lasts so I’ll just take some ibuprofen here in a minute and gut it out…it was a pretty mush wasted day yesterday with all of the soccer and bowl games on so I didn’t get anything done but lay around here like a veg…will start to edge into normalcy again today with an errand to start but I still have Man U to watch this afternoon which will be a good reward if I get some things done….but, right now I just want coffee and to get to some news for cobweb removal…my brain needs it…more later…
3,486.8 miles….
Well…after resetting the computer on the bike and getting 12.2 miles in this morning, just wanted to recap the year on the bike…almost got to my 3,500 mile goal for the year and the cool thing was that all of those miles were on the new bike and it has performed almost flawlessly other than the normal Shimano shifter adjustment problems…but, I even have that fixed so the ride today was a good one other than having to be careful with a slight glaze of ice on the trail. 2018 was one of the better years on the bike if I discount the crash and I am healing up from that quite well…still have some shoulder and hip pain but it is down to being annoying now instead of the screaming hot pain that it was….still some swelling in my shoulder but that is gradually going away and I should be back on the weight machine by the end of the week. All in all, a good year on the bike…the miles didn’t quite get me to #3 in for the year but it was #4 so that was cool….I wonder if I can ever get to the 4,314 record? I am going to try….
January 1st
Well…here we go again…another new year starts and I really don’t know what to think about it…it is nice that I have another one to look forward to and that there are still possibilities so I guess I’ll leave it at that…I was really close to declaring my shoulder pain free this morning but it’s not quite there yet…maybe tomorrow or the next day but it didn’t keep my up at all last night and I am looking forward to being able to sleep on my right side again….it was an okay day yesterday and I got a bike ride in before the rain started and it looks like I’ll be able to start the year with another ride today…I do have to reset the computer on the bike and record the mileage for last year before I go out today and that is a little bit of a pain since I need to clear everything to do it and that means entering the wheel size etc…will have to dig through the junk drawer to try to find the instructions….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and I probably won’t today either…soccer starts in about a half hour and there are three games in a row along with bowl games so I’ll be watching sports all day and I am still going to rest the shoulder one more day and not clean….more later….