Well…I guess I should have expected that I would have a crappy night of sleep again at some time and last night was it…was up so many times I wonder why I even went to bed…and I am sore everywhere again from all the tossing and turning…but, I have an ankle on my right leg again and that is small progress but progress and I’ll take it…and my foot is not too sore so I’m going to stop the medication today and just go with ibuprofen and that will help the pain everywhere….the poison oak on my left arm seems to have plateaued and it still looks pretty ugly but it doesn’t itch right now so I am hoping for some healing to start soon…cripes…I guess this is what it looks like when you get old…didn’t get a lot done yesterday with trying to nurse the foot but I am going to get back at it today and start working on the front of the house…have an idea what I want to do with the overgrown shrubs out there but I just need to get on it…and I think I may need to mow today too, but I’m not going to start on that until after a bike ride…and some more coffee first….my beans started to flower yesterday so at least I’ll have beans and jalapenos out of the gardens….I had one of the sunflowers out back propped up with a stick and some braided string but the sparrows really wanted that string and shredded it for nesting I guess….I wonder if I should just cut some string and spread it across the back yard for them to use? More later….
Monthly Archives: June 2020
Darn….
Well…I am a little frustrated with the progress that my foot is making…it’s been 4 days without and cocktails or any salt and it is still swollen…but, the red color is going away so I guess that’s something…and I haven’t been able to do much around here since being on my feet makes my toe hurt and swells the foot even more so that just adds to the frustration….I have to get out to depot to get the paint I need to do the dormer and I need to figure out how to get the awning over the side door down so I can get the ladder up to get to the front of it and the trim around the windows…I think I’ll try the new sprayer on the side of the garage first so I can fine tune it before I go climbing up on the roof….had to take the screen door on the side of the house apart today since I noticed that the screen and the storm glass that opens and closes were bent all to hell and the spring loaded latches had stopped working…wonder why I never noticed it before? I think that may have been the way all of the damn flies were getting in…have been fighting them for the past couple of days and must have killed a hundred of them in here…and I also sealed up the air intake for the furnace and water heater since it is open without a flap to close it off and flies always find a way in…did I say I was frustrated? At least the bike rides went well today and I got the grocery runs in….only spent 30 bucks…it’s amazing how cheap it is when you don’t buy cocktail materials….
Bolton’s book has started to drop…
Well….even with the idiot trump’s totally corrupt justice department and Bill Barr suing him to prevent the release of excerpts from John Bolton’s tell all book on the inside workings of the trump crime administration, I’m not sure how I feel about Bolton snubbing the congress during impeachment to keep his info close so he could profit off it instead of protecting the country. I am going to relish the dribs and drabs that are going to continue to come out from now until the election…like the first revelation that idiot boy asked XI of China to help him in his 2020 re-election campaign…yep, having Russia install him in 2016 worked so well that now he is asking China to do the same thing…and what do we hear from the repubs in the senate after the sham trial where they didn’t even look into any of the evidence? Nothing but the biggest crickets you’ve ever heard…and them actually running away from reporters so they don’t have to answer why the kept this criminal in office. Oh, and the quid pro quo from the Ukraine corruption? It seems that it is trump’s go to ask since he did the same thing with Xi, asking him to buy American crops to help him win our farm states again…I wonder what he was willing to give Xi for this help? Look, I hate John Bolton with a passion since he could have faithfully executed the oath he took to protect the constitution but he didn’t do one damn thing other than set himself up to profit from his dereliction of duty…and saddled us with trump and his other minions who have killed 117,000 Americans…all he had to do was go to the congress and testify…but I guess making millions for himself is worth more than a gutted economy and hundreds of thousands of Americans dead…so FU Bolton….you fit right in with the rest of the repubs…
June 17th
Well….running about on time this morning with another night of of okay sleep and some pretty weird dreams about college projects and I haven’t had one of those in a while….my foot is gradually getting better and the swelling is going down but I’m wondering if I should continue to treat it or keep the last three days worth of medicine in reserve…we’ll see after the bike ride in a few…..had the third no cocktail night last night and that is helping with the swelling but it looks like it will take a couple of weeks at least to get it back to normal…and not being able to use any salt at all makes the food a little boring…but I did that for years and years so I just need to activate the old habits….got through two rides yesterday with no problems but I throttled back to about 80% on both rides and I’m not sure I like that too much…going hard is my thing, after all, and I would hate to think that I can’t do that anymore…I know I’m old but damn, I need to have my hard rides…I did get out to HF yesterday to get some tools that I need and got myself a new hedge trimmer that I used immediately to start to clean up the bushes out front and it works great…don’t think I’ve ever had a new one before…especially with padded handles and I like it a bunch for only 12 bucks….and I got my electric sprayer so I need to get out to depot to get the paint to do the siding on the garage and the dormer….I am a little excited that the premier league starts back up today and I am going to veg all afternoon and watch the two matches that are on…it has been a long time coming….so I won’t be doing much other than that and the grocery run this morning…..more later….
But wait, there’s more…
Well…with all of the attention given to the miraculous supreme court decision announced yesterday that yes, LGBTQ people here in the US have the same rights as everyone else and can’t be fired or discriminated against for who they are, there were two more cases that were also decided that put the old advertising hook in my head..”but wait, there’s more!” The first one dealt with California passing legislation declaring itself a “sanctuary state” that would not cooperate with the thugs from ICE who were terrorizing the undocumented population there…some with deep roots in the state and most who are contributing members of California society…doing jobs that no one else wants to do at the pay that farm owners want to pay. After the law was passed, trump and his racist cronies sued California for not spending their tax dollars to help them carry out their racist policies of putting children in cages and separating them from their families. Every damn court upheld California’s right to determine how their state will be run and how it’s tax money will be spent…but even after losing in every court, Barr kept up appealing the ruling, thinking that their cronies on the supreme court would certainly allow them to force states to be as racist as they are…but he and the rest of trump’s racist cronies got slapped down when the court told them to go away, that California has the right to control their state. The second case is more about what the court didn’t do…they declined to take 10 cases on gun control that the second amendment nuts had shopped around to right wing trumpist judges who ignored the law to rule in their favor…but after the appeals courts ruled that reasonable restrictions on the second amendment are allowed…as with every other damn amendment, the court declined to take the cases, essentially saying the appeals courts got it right in what they ruled…so now trump is even a bigger loser today than yesterday….he has lost 99% of the cases his crooked justice department under Barr has brought but that won’t stop them for wasting more of the court’s time for the next 6 months….losers all…
June 16th
Well…okay, that was a little strange…had a good night of sleep and dreams again with a solid 6 hours and I’ll take that any day of the week….and the miracle drug that I am taking for my foot has worked it’s magic after only one day of treatment and I am walking around here with no pain at all this morning…but, I think me being good has something to do with that since the swelling in my foot is down by half at least and I can move my toes almost normally today…I think I’ll do another day of treatment and then save the rest of the medicine for the next flare…I could barely get my shoe on to ride yesterday and it hurt the whole 30 miles…yeah, I’m still doing 30 miles but I have throttled back to about 75% and that seemed to help how I felt all day…and I’m trying to eat more since I don’t have empty calories to think about anymore but as I have said before, I find it hard to eat more after years of calorie restriction…again, I didn’t get much done yesterday but work on the garden but today I am going to get out to HF to get the hedge trimmer I need to clean up the bushes out front and the paint sprayer I need to do the garage and the siding on the dormer….I have to remember that I have all day to get this done so I don’t need to rush to get the rides in and the errands run….I need to just relax about this stuff and treat it not as tasks but as life to be enjoyed…but to go against a lifetime of running as fast as I can is another thing that is going take some work….like right now, I’m going as fast as I can to get out on the bike by 7:30 but there is no reason to have to rush…I want to enjoy my coffee and reading the news before I get out so I need to take a deep breath and just relax for a few minutes…cripes, everything takes work these days….more later….
some good news from the supreme court…
Well…just a few minutes ago, the supreme court delivered a landmark decision that title VII of the 1964 civil rights act applies to LGBTQ people here in the US….and that means that no one can any longer be fired just for who they are…to say that I am surprised by this ruling is an understatement, and to have both Roberts and Gorsuch join the liberal justices in making sure that all Americans have the same rights and protections under the constitution is so surprising that it has many court watchers stunned given the outright hate that trump and his idiot minions show toward this community every damn day….as I have said for years now, this is exactly the ruling that should have been handed down…how can you uphold the 14th amendment that requires equal treatment under the laws and then carve out some Americans who are just not quite as equal as the rest of us? Do you hear those heads exploding at the WH? This is not the ruling that trump and his cronies paid for when they conspired with McConnell to put Kavanaugh and Gorsuch on the court and I wonder if Both Roberts and Gorsuch see the writing on the wall that trump will be gone in 6 months and they need to start thinking of the rule of law and the damage they have done to it…especially Roberts who is cognizant of his legacy and the damage many rulings from the conservatives have done to it. Whatever the reason, if they made the right ruling even by accident it is a good day here in the US for our LBGTQ friends and family…finally, equal rights means equal rights and I can’t be more surprised they did the right thing…
June 15th
Well….the first night of the new normal went okay and I got a little sleep so that was cool….still woke up around 5 but was in bed a little after 10 so that was better….and I don’t feel too bad so far with no cocktails for the foreseeable future…but my foot still hurts and that is to be expected with it being just the first day of treatment…I may have to call my doctor to see if they will give me another prescription since what I have left will only last through the week…we’ll see how it goes…I did only do one ride yesterday and I may have to do the same thing today to stay off my foot as much as possible and let the medicine and all the other changes I’ve made have some effect….just have been feeling lousy lately and had to make some changes in my life that I hope will do the trick….didn’t get much done yesterday and today may be another easy day but my well established sense of guilt is going to have to be suppressed for that to happen….had to go out to get some hydrocortisone to treat whatever the problem is with my arm….must have gotten into something poison and it’s not healing too well yet but at least it has stopped itching….not much to do today…going to ease into it with the temp still being too cold to get out on the bike but that’s okay…I need more coffee anyway and still don’t have a lot of energy so taking a little time to get ready is okay….more later….
This is just pathetic…
Well…still sitting here nursing the foot after skipping the second ride and thought I’d do a short one on the most pathetic thing I have seen in the host of pathetic things that trump and his minions have done. Just last week, when idiot boy got news he didn’t want to hear from a CNN poll that showed him losing to Joe Biden by 13 points, he screamed at his trolls to send a cease and desist letter to CNN to stop publishing the poll that shows that trump is a loser….now, threatening legal action because your fe fees are hurt because you are losing big and someone is reporting it is just the head slapping stupidity everyone expects from him…and it shows how far trump’s minions have to go to keep the toddler in chief from throwing fits every hour of every damn day…I am counting the days until this criminal is sent back to one of his tasteless, gaudy golf clubs while he waits for his crimes to catch up with him and the inevitable perp walk….150 days…
June 14th
Well…cripes…more problems with this wearing out body…okay, just a rash on my left arm that looks like poison ivy and I am having trouble figuring out where I got it from…I know it’s annoying as heck so I may even make a run out to Meijer’s later to pick something up to put on it since it does itch….and my damn foot is hurting again today as I try to not take anything for it but that’s not going to work…so it looks like no more cocktail nights for the near future since that is one of the big no nos with this type of inflammation…oh, well…I can use less calories and my liver can use the rest, too….had an okay day yesterday and got a couple of rides in but I think I’m only going to do one today to get a little rest…and it’s too cold to go out right now and it looks like it won’t be warm enough until 10 or so…so I have 3 hours to kill and that is going to be some work since I have already read the paper and the online news….I could clean some but I don’t have the motivation for that yet and my foot hurts to walk so I may just work on figuring out meals for the week…or take a nap since I was up all night and got up for good at 5…I did get the last of the green peppers planted yesterday and that ends putting anything new in and I’ll just live with what survives…I know I’ll get beans and jalpenos since they are already producing fruit and probably cukes too but I don’t remember what they look like when they flower…oh, and potatoes…I am a little disappointed that I am still having flower drop on some of the tomatoes and I may have to look to see if there is something I can do to treat them so I can at least get a few off the plants…but right now I am going to get another cup of coffee and take it easy for a while….more later….