Well…yeah, this one is not political, but I promise I’ll get to one later this afternoon…but, I did find something out today…that it is not really smart to leave the top down on your car for a week when you have a vinyl top…. over the past week or so I have just left the top down on the Miata since I have a garage to park it in….but, after getting out for groceries and seeing that it was going to rain, I tried to put it up in the Meijer’s parking lot and it took me almost 10 minutes to stretch it enough to get it to latch and I had to just slam it down on the pins for that to happen….even with it almost 75 degrees when I got to the lot, it still wouldn’t latch…so now I think I’ll put it up every time I park it even in the garage…the things you learn even after having a car for 8 years…
Monthly Archives: May 2020
May 27th
Well…damn…another 2:44 morning this morning but I feel okay and I think that’s a little weird…I was able to get back to sleep with lots of tossing and turning until almost 6 so I’ll take that as a win…the ribs that I hurt over the weekend are screaming at me today and it is a little hard to breathe without pain…but hey, that just goes with my thumb so I have a matching pair of pains…at least the swelling in my foot has gone down to about half of what it was and it almost looks normal today….but cripes, 3 gallons of water a day? I guess I’ll have to keep that up for a while since the redness in my toe is almost gone, too so it must be doing something….getting out in the heat and humidity yesterday took a lot out of me since I’m not acclimated to it yet….and I am getting out here before 7 so I can do the grocery run at 9 and have my first ride of the day in….and yes, I am ignoring my schedule of 3 double ride days and then a single to give my body a rest but I may be able to do that tomorrow since there are supposed to be storms all day….I do need to get started on removing the paint from the front door to get ready to paint it but I’m not sure I want to do it until it gets a little cooler….man, it was 94 yesterday afternoon but I ran my fan and it was tolerable after I got everything done….don’t have a lot do today but the grocery run and I may take it easy and try to heal up some…and I do want to watch SpaceX launch the first astronauts from American soil this afternoon…it’s been almost 10 years since that has happened and I don’t want to miss that…more later…
I don’t know why so many busy days…
Well…okay, I think I’m broken….I really tried to do nothing today but I failed completely…and it should be easy when you can’t go anywhere or do anything…got out on the bike for the first time at about 7:30 and got a good ride in….went hard the whole way with no distress at all and it felt good…then when I got back here I had to make a run to Menards to get some more topsoil, potting soil, and grass seed so I could get at restoring the lawn…it’s a good 20 foot lawn but up close you can see all the bare spots….so after lunch and the second hard ride where I didn’t have any problems again and it was even 90 degrees when I went out, I got back here and then started on the front lawn…spreading two bags of topsoil and then seeding the soil…man, I was soaked after that but I still needed to work on the garden and plant 4 more of the celebration tomato plants that had grown up big enough for transplant…and then put cages on the ones that had gotten big enough…I still have a dozen tomato plants and 4 more green pepper plants to put out along with 9 more sunflowers that I am waiting to have sprout….so, as you can see…another damn busy day….oh, and I mowed the lawn while I was waiting for the chicken thighs to cook for lunch….cripes…
Man, these people are dumb…
Well…I guess the new attack on Biden is that he wore a mask out in public when he laid a wreath at a memorial on Memorial day….it started with the idiot Brit Hume posting a photo of Biden wearing a mask in public and asking the question: “does Biden look presidential?” Trying to make the whole thing about how he looks and implying that a “real man” like trump doesn’t need no stinkin mask…look, Brit…biden is following the recommendations to wear masks in public to protect other people and himself and is modeling that no one is above the rules and everyone has a responsibility to their fellow Americans to do their part…that is pretty damn presidential to me…hey, Brit…is trump’s tweeting of a conspiracy theory that Joe Scarborough murdered someone in his office presidential? Then today we have idiot boy’s press secretary trying to start a new Biden conspiracy theory that there is “a discrepancy there” because Biden and his wife aren’t wearing masks in their house when they do remote interviews but they wore them when they were out in public…god, these people are dumb…look, from the very damn start, if you are staying at home with people from your own household and no one is infected, it is perfectly fine to not use PPE around them…but you need to use masks when you go out in public around people who are not from your household since you don’t know if they are spreading the virus…see, how frickin hard was that? I guess even that simple set of behaviors is too much for the trumpites to remember with their feeble little brains…cripes…
May 26th
Well…running a little late today with not getting out of bed until after 6 and needing to get started on drinking water again today to help with getting the swelling down in my foot…must have had 3 gallons yesterday and will try to do the same today…you know, I used to be one of those people who lit off fireworks but not like the idiots around here who kept it up every damn night for the past 5 days and forced me to use earplugs again last night since I wanted to keep the windows open….grrrrr….I did wake up in an almost overall pain this morning but none of it is sharp, just a dull pain everywhere that I have already taken something for since I need to get a ride in and then head out to Menards to get some more soil and grass seed so I can seed before the rain that is coming Thursday. I did get some work done on the downstairs project yesterday and that may be part of why I hurt this morning…not sure what I’m going to do today after working on the lawn…I do have a few more tomato plants to get in today that will ensure I have tomatoes through the whole summer and I even put in some more sunflower seeds since some damn animal keeps killing mine….there was good news on the bike ride yesterday when the water has receded enough to be able to avoid riding on the road and I am going to explore a little today to see if I can get to the eagle’s nest and see if the baby eagle has fledged yet…but man, the trail that was flooded smells really bad and takes me back to early days living around the river in Ada…same smell and it brought back some good memories…more later…
It’s “exercise”?
Well…I know I need to get back to doing political ones so I think I’ll dip my toe in right now and see how it goes…as the idiot in chief goes to another one of his golf courses for the 244th time since he was installed as *president and golfs for two days in a row, the death toll from his screwed up response to the deadly coronavirus heads quickly to 100,000 Americans…and still not a peep out of him about the loss of so many Americans and the trauma the deaths are causing to the families and friends left behind. But, that lack of empathy and character is not going unnoticed….with a new ad that came out yesterday, Joe Biden hits at trump for the loser he is and for being the cause of most of the deaths…and of course idiot boy had to take to twitter to try to defend himself even though everything about him is indefensible. Trump’s defense fell back on attacking Obama for some reason…oh, for his taking a golf outing when there were 2…count ‘em, two Ebola cases in the US….and…hmmm, I wonder how many hundreds of thousands died from Ebola on Obama’s watch? None….oh, back to the ad…idiot boy also tried to justify his golfing as “exercise” that everyone should do…but did you see him walking the course pulling his bag behind him….of course not, his “exercise” consists of walking 10 feet to where his ball landed and then walking 10 feet back to the cart…I guess he considers driving the cart to be “exercise” too….so Joe lands a punch that the idiot can’t dodge so he blows up like a toddler…again…..keep it up Joe, we need to see this idiot in jail next year….
May 25th
Well…yep, I’m sore this morning and I’m not sure how the ride is going to go today…maybe I should take the day off? One of these days I’m going to and that will surprise the hell out of me…I did sleep okay last night but feel pretty crappy this morning and already out of energy so the ride is going to wait until I have lots of coffee…may have to take some ibuprofen too….didn’t get much done yesterday but ride and cook but I am going to clean some today…I was really hoping for thunderstorms to watch today but that forecast has changed and now it looks like I may have to wait until tomorrow for the excuse to only ride once….it looks like I may have tomatoes in July from a couple of plants in the garden since they have flowers on them…but I do have many more sprouted downstairs that I am going to plant in the next week or so along with some more green pepper plants if the seeds sprout….I am going to get out to get some more potting soil and grass seed tomorrow so I can get started on reseeding the back yard…the front is starting to grow in some and look okay but after killing the weeds in the back there isn’t much yard left….not much to do today…I am going to take a while to just ease into the day before I get on the bike and I am going to clean the floors today and maybe even start on cleaning the copper on the front of the house…but not now, more coffee….
More damage….
Well….cripes, I finally figured out why I was having shortness of breath on the bike on the second ride today…and it’s nothing but what I’m doing to myself and have done before so I just need to let my lungs heal up over a week or so…and I was feeling pretty good about knowing what’s going on until damn, more damage that I did to myself again…I have been losing my sprouted sunflowers to some kind of animal and when I saw a squirrel rooting around near them, I put my old shoes on and took off after it…well…the damn glue that I used to hold them together let go and the front of the sole came loose and I tripped and went down hard on my right side….now, I’ve had broken ribs before and this is not nearly that painful so I guess I’m only bruised…but it still hurts like crazy and I know I’m going to be black and blue in the morning and it will probably hurt more…so this is a really good compliment for my right foot still having swelling and pain…cripes, I’m getting old…probably shouldn’t chase squirrels at my age, huh?
So far, so good…
Well….you know, I really do need to take a day off sometime…have already gotten a bike ride in and have fixed the spring bracket on the garage door that had pulled loose….and watered the gardens…and, so far, so good…at least from the bike ride…no shortness of breath but my right knee is still hurting from wedging it against the ladder Friday…that DID hurt on the bike but I’m hoping the ibuprofen I took will help that before the second ride…and yeah, I am going to take a second ride as soon as I make lunch and that should be interesting…even went out with only one cup of coffee at 8 so I need to finish that up first…then I think I’ll take the afternoon off…ha,ha,ha…yeah, I laughed at that one, too….I need to do the floors around here and should try to clean up the copper on the front of the house….see…I just can’t do it…
May 24th
Well…yeah, running late again today…it is Sunday after all and I’m always late on Sundays….slept okay last night but feel pretty crappy today with the pain from painting the front trim finally hitting my mid back and everywhere else…even my damn thumb hurts this morning and my foot is still puffy and I need to figure out how to get my back to crack to help that…I am little depressed that today is normally my big race day of the year with Monaco, Indy, and the coke 600 on and now there is only the coke 600 to watch later…it was a great excuse to do nothing for an entire day and now that’s gone…I had problems on the second ride on the bike yesterday where I couldn’t catch my breath coming back and, while that happens sometimes, not to that degree and I was really concerned…but I think part of it was the acid reflux I was having…water helped that but I still had concerns that I was going to be able to get back here…..we’ll see how it is here in a few minutes when I take the bike out this morning….cripes, it sucks getting old…not much to do today….not going to do any work other than on the garden and that will just be screwing around…well, I might try some cleaning on the copper on the front of the house but that will aggravate my foot so I’m not sure about that….and I’m not sure about two rides today but that will hinge on how the first one goes….more later….