Well…I did finally get the park drive in today and it was nice to just do nothing for a change…but I found out my stereo in the car is dying and won’t play my mp3 player through it anymore…need to get another cable from the dollar store tomorrow to see it that’s what it is…I did also stop at the bar where Tom and I shoot pool and they are open so we may be able to shoot pool Friday…that would be cool…I put 50 miles on the car and I’m sure it is going to thank me for it…it can’t be good for it to drive 4 miles and then have it set again for another week…more later…I’ll get to a political one in a few minutes if I can find a topic..
Monthly Archives: November 2020
November 10th
Well…I think I may be getting over the coughing I’ve had for the past month…didn’t cough much yesterday and I slept okay last night with none that I can remember…I am coughing a little right now but I just got up and I can’t remember not coughing a little in the mornings…I wonder if it was all the outdoor time yesterday? It looks like another day of getting out as soon as it gets light with the temp at 64 right now so I can get both rides in before noon…I’m still thinking about taking a ride with the top down today just to celebrate the end of top down weather…I know I put the top down even when it’s cold but today will be the last day in shorts and short sleeves….man, I was sore last night after all of the work yesterday but it seems to be better today…I did take something for it and I’m sure that helped and I’ll probably need something later after doing two rides today…I’m going to get to the last milestone this morning with only 8 miles to go to get to 5,416 miles that will give me 10,000 miles with this year and last year combined…have never done that before…I’ll have to look at my records to see where I am in total since I started to keep track…I think I’m inching up on 75,000 miles and that would be something….not much to do today….I think I’ll probably take the day off and just enjoy the last day of nice weather…did all of the work I needed to do yesterday and I need a rest day…damn, I’m getting old….more later….
A busy, busy day…
Well…when you get weather like this in November, it makes me feel like I need to jam in a lot of tasks to take advantage of it…and with today being the next to last 70 degree day, I have been busy, busy, busy. Started out my day at around 8 getting out on the bike for the first ride in a t-shirt and shorts since it was 64 already….went hard and pulled top gear all the way along the west side of the park which I have never done before…I wonder if that has something to do with the changes that are happening after the election? After the first ride…I finished up the coffee and got back on the bike for a second one by 10 and, when I got back here, I started lunch and, while that was cooking, got the garden waste bagged up and into the trash, moved the blocks that I had in the center of the lawn garden, and then raked and leveled the garden space and seeded it with grass seed. Then lunch, and after that I got started on the front lawn where I edged the sidewalks, then mowed the lawn for the last time and picked up the leaves….after I put all the tools away, I pulled the car out and washed it…just in case I want to do the top down park run tomorrow…it is going to be over 70 again so I may just pack a couple of beers and take a cruise. Then I came in and did three of these…but now I am done for the day…oh, I did laundry, too…that I need to get in the dryer right now…then I’m done….whew…
Music is becoming just music again…
Well…man, I feel like I’m going through cortisol (the fight or flight hormone) withdrawal today after 4 years of having a ball of it inside me…from the day that idiot boy got elected, I have had elevated stress levels from worrying about what the latest outrage from the moron was going to be and how it was going to affect me. It dawned on me today when I was out riding that one of the effects of having the great outcome of the election is that music is becoming just music again…let me explain…over the past four years, I have had to have many coping mechanisms to allow me to survive the trump years…and music was one of the components of my shield along with drinking too much, riding too much, and keeping myself pretty isolated from the news. But today, music started to return to the thing I have enjoyed all my life…something that made me happy and helped elevate my mood…and with that change I started to notice the songs again and enjoy every note, they were no longer just a noisy shield that kept my brain occupied and the world out but they were different, like they had color again and nuance and even got me bopping to some of them on the bike. This kind of change hasn’t happened with food yet and I wonder if it will? It would be nice to savor some tastes and think of food not just as fuel but to be able to enjoy it…that might be too much to ask.
More pettiness from the idiot boy…
Well…you knew that the idiot trump was not going to go quietly or make the transition to Joe an easy one…and yesterday, his crony that runs the GSA has refused to send the transition letter that allows the winners to access funds necessary for the transition process…and I’m sure trump called her and told her the same bullshit he has been peddling in the news…that the election is not over yet and he hasn’t lost and will “probably” win after more votes are counted so she shouldn’t send the letter. Now, we’ve seen this asshole shred the norms of our society on a daily basis, but this bit of pettiness could only come from trump…in every other transition in every other presidential election, the letter was sent the day after the election was called or even the day it was called…but we all knew trump wouldn’t do it…and with the virus raging across the country, this bit of bullshit is going to delay Biden’s virus committee from getting a flying start and could cost another 100K American lives…but, idiot boy doesn’t care about any of that…he only wants his revenge on everyone who didn’t kiss his ass enough…just as firing the Def Sec this morning was…just pure revenge for Esper bucking him and not putting troops in the street to attack Americans. god, I can’t wait for that asshole to be gone….
November 9th
Well…woke up at 4:14 this morning and just rolled over and tried to go back to sleep…that worked for a while but the coffee maker woke me up at 6 and I thought to myself “what if I just don’t get up…what if I just lie here instead?” That thought was overruled by my bladder but it was still an okay night of sleep…no dreams to speak of so I’m not sure how well I slept…didn’t cough much until I got up so I guess that’s a plus…My legs finally started to feel the excess riding I’ve been doing and have a dull pain that won’t go away but that’s pretty much normal…down to 36 miles to go to the last goal and should make it tomorrow if it doesn’t rain too much…I am getting a little tired of riding this year and that hasn’t happened before…so I’m a little concerned that I may be getting bored with it and may start to make excuses to not go when I know I don’t have a choice if I want to stay healthy…..I’ve already started to gain weight with only doing one ride a day after I got to 5K miles and reducing calories hasn’t really helped….I did only have two pieces of pizza all day yesterday so maybe that’s a start…not much to do today…going to finish the clean up on the yard and then clean in here but that’s about it…..just feel pretty worn out right now and need to ease into it….more later…
What a day…
Well….running late for this one with getting my new tablet and then spending a couple of hours with my routers tech support trying to make it connect…finally gave up on them and just did a hard reset and now everything works…I kind of like the tablet…it has quirks with being from amazon and lots of the things I use are app based but that is just like my phone so I’m used to that…it is kind of cool to have a huge screen instead of the 3.5 inch one on my phone and the battery is supposed to last a full day which is a lot more than my phone and I think it will be fun to figure it out over time….still am having trouble just buying anything for me and that is going to be something that I’ll get over in time…I hope….oh, and this thing has alexa built in so I can talk to it just like my phone once I figure that out….I did get two rides in today but I think I ate lunch too late to have a second meal today so I guess I’ll just have a snack later….
November 8th
Well…that was a better night with remembering to take the cough medicine before I went to bed and sleeping okay…had a weird dream that made no sense so I won’t report on that one…I will say it wasn’t a fun one but tedious…and that’s not what I like in dreams…it was a pretty good day yesterday with the big political news and then getting two good rides in…only have about 60 miles left to do and I should get that done by Tuesday….I did get the news that my new tablet is supposed to be here today and I am a little excited about that…haven’t spent any money on myself in a long time and it is still hard to do and I know I’ll agonize over it for a few weeks but I only had about 50 bucks to pay on the credit cards this month so I know I can afford it…that really doesn’t help, though…didn’t get any work done yesterday but I’m going to finish up the yards today and get all of the waste bagged and in the trash before it rains Tuesday….it’s going to be 75 today and that means the second ride will be in a t-shirt and that is pretty cool for November…but the weather is going back to normal later in the week and that means highs in the 40′s and lows around freezing so I’ll be back in full thermasuit then….not much to do today…don’t have any work left on the house and that is kind of a relief….but there is soccer and races on so that will be a nice relaxing thing for the afternoon…it sure feels good to know that trump is going to be gone…I didn’t know normal could feel so good….more later…
I refuse to forgive and forget…
Well…as predicted, pundits all over the country are flapping their gums and telling our side that we must try to “understand” trump voters and their lives and move on from the hatred of trump…I call bullshit on that whole idea…I refuse to forgive and forget what those people did to our country by voting trump into office in 2016 and then reveling in his hatred and racism and letting their own fly like a flag…making this country a cesspool of misoginy and xenophobia and loving the fact that children…damn it, children were ripped away from their parents and put in cages just because they were fleeing violence in their own countries. These are not “American” values…and this is not political, this IS all about values, how you treat other people and try to do anything to make this country a better place…but, 70 million Americans still think that the idiot trump and his hatred is just what they want….and that will never be my values or that of any of us on the left…the right has no values if they still want trump…and how do you reconcile that with the love for others that we have? It is time for them to understand us…not the caricature that has been built by fox news and right wing radio but who we really are…I have absolutely no hope that any person on the right even has the capability or desire to change…they don’t think they need to…and that is a chasm too big for us to bridge…and I am in no mood to build one….
The world is celebrating, too!
Well…with the news that they don’t have to deal with the orange moron anymore, there has been an outpouring of support and relief from our allies across the world…with the kind of words no one would ever say about idiot boy…like “friends” and “looking forward to working with the president elect” “we have shared values”, “looking forward to stability in our relationship”…there were even fireworks set off by the mayor of London as he congratulated Joe….I hope this keeps up and idiot boy really gets to understand that not one world leader liked or respected him other than the thugs like him…and even they didn’t like or respect him…they just knew he was so damn dumb they could manipulate him easily with just a few words of praise…now the long task starts to repair the damage that idiot boy did…like stopping his stupid trade war, re joining the Paris Climate accords on day on, and reaffirming our support for NATO. I really do think that the world understood that the US was off the rails because of trump and his minions and with Joe and Kamala in charge, our respect around the world will skyrocket since they know we will be a dependable partner again….man, it feels good to feel good about this country again…