Well…that was a little better…didn’t get up til 6:43 but my left hip hurts like crazy and I have no clue how I hurt it…can’t get comfortable no matter how I sit here and that is pretty damn annoying….and I bashed my right elbow in the shower yesterday and that hurts, too, so I may have to take something for all the pain before I get on the bike….I did get the parts and tools for the bike yesterday and got the cranks pulled and the new ones put in place….have to move the front shifter since the sprockets are larger and that will mean more adjustments but I wanted taller gearing….I may have to put the new rear shifter on it with the idler sprockets worn out so that will mean it will probably take me a week to get it all together….and I painted the outside of the back door frame yesterday…haven’t looked at it yet but it needed to be done since the primer that was on it wasn’t protecting the wood at all and it had started to crack….will probably do the inside today but want to get two rides in before the rain….ha,ha…yeah, it’s not going to rain…it never rains out here and the radar says that all of it is going to miss to the north….I wonder why I still feel like I’m on a schedule when I’m retired? Not much to do today….going to get on the bike in a few minutes but it’s going to be another fleece morning with the temp around 55….I do need to clean this place up since I’ve allowed it to get a little messy and dusty but that won’t be til the afternoon….I am still contemplating taking a day off of everything to just veg out and relax but that’s harder than I thought it would be….but, I need one of those days soon to recharge….still pretty worn out and it is going to be a lot of work to get on the bike this morning….more later…
Monthly Archives: September 2021
This never happens….
Well….after getting a bike ride in, mowing and feeding the lawn, putting the sprinklers out, and getting most of the rest of the tomatoes picked for soup that I’m going to make wed…I took the afternoon off and just watched a show on tv…and that never happens…it seems like I always have something to do but today I just said the hell with it…did enough work this morning and needed some time off…my allergies are really, really sucking right now and that is taking a lot of energy out of me and I couldn’t stop coughing when I was mowing…so, yep…it’s pretty bad….need to figure out how to get on the roof to fix the soffit panels that fell out…can get a 12 foot piece for 20 bucks but I need to see how wide the stuff is that fell out…but my ladder is too short unless I try to climb on the little roof over my back door and then on the other roofs…I’m not going to spend a hundred bucks for a bigger ladder just for this job….we’ll see what happens….
Why isn’t McCarthy in jail?
Well….look, I know that the repubs don’t think that the law applies to them but, damn, is Merrick Garland in on it, too? Just last week, when the House January 6th select committee sent letters to all of the big telecoms telling them to preserve any and all records having to do with the January 6th attack, Kevin McCarthy blatantly threatened them with retribution if they cooperated with the committee…and just yesterday another 13 of the repub conspirators sent a letter to the same telecom companies threatening that they will not be allowed to operate in the US if they cooperated with the committee…now, isn’t obstructing a congressional investigation a crime? Yep, it is and this goes to obstruction of justice, too, and now we have Merrick Garland sitting on his hands when the DOJ should be on this right now to squash these little pricks who are so concerned because these records will probably show that all of the 140 odd repubs who voted to not certify the election results were in on the attack. If Garland won’t bring charges against these traitors, then he needs to resign and let someone who will protect this country do it…it needs to happen today since every damn day these assholes continue to get away with breaking the law, the more they will do it….geez…
September 6th
Well…that was a little better…woke up at 5 but was able to go back to sleep until 6:30 or so but I don’t feel like I slept at all…damn, it’s a pain getting old…I think I need a day off everything here soon just to heal up….just feel worn out again and that is happening way too often….maybe I’ll have to start taking vitamins regularly….didn’t get much done yesterday but I do need to mow the lawn today and start masking the back door frame for painting…and I think my tools and parts for the bike will get here today so I’ll need to get on the black bike and get that fixed, too, and I need to pick the last of the tomatoes so I can make some tomato soup for the freezer….but that won’t happen until wed when I get the rest of the ingredients with the grocery run…found an easy recipe from the food network that I think I’m going to try…the sauce I made last week was almost like soup so I think I can get there….it’s still under 60 out there so I may be out in a fleece today but I still have 45 mins before I get out so it might get warm enough to go without it….not much to do today…just more work to do or ignore but I’m running out of time for the outside work and need to get moving….but I need more coffee first….lots more coffee….more later…
Playing in the waves…again…
Well…as you know, I don’t a lot of political ones on the weekends and, with how hard it has been for me to find topics, I probably won’t get to one today…but, who knows? I do know this isn’t one….I did get out on the bike before 7:30 this morning and that got me back on the bike right after the F1 race for the second one…but, when I was out at the beach there were building waves so I said the heck with it and got in the car to go out and play in the waves for a while…and that wore me out with the very little sleep from last night and I am tired right now….might even try to take a nap this afternoon while the napcar races are on…I did get up in the attic to check out how much work it is going to be to straighten out the insulation and it is going to be a big job…but there are boards I can move around to stand on to work so it should only take a week or so when it gets cooler…I may even put a floor up there a little at a time to have more space to use….but that will be a while since I want to paint in here first….maybe more later….
September 5th
Well…that sucked…when I went to bed last night I felt like I wasn’t going to sleep much and I was right…tossed and turned all night and woke up at 4:10 and never really got back to sleep until I got out of bed at 6:10….it was a nice ride out to get the paper this morning with the sky completely clear and just a sliver of the moon in the sky…and it is still warm enough to have the top down but I know that will be gone soon….only did one ride yesterday and there was no reason for that other than the sports that were on and that my thighs were howling in pain that is still here this morning and I’m not sure why that would be….going to try to get two rides in today but will go slower than normal to keep from doing more damage…but I won’t get out for the first one until 11 or so after the F1 race…or maybe if I can get myself in gear, I’ll get out here in 17 minutes and get the first one in before the race…I did decide that I really don’t like what I look like without the beard so I’ve started growing it back…it covers up some weird lines beside my mouth and I don’t look like I’m frowning all the time….not much to do today…no soccer but a couple of races will keep me busy along with masking off the back door to get ready to paint the frame but that will be it for the day…going to take it a little easy since I’m just not feeling too motivated…it did rain a bit yesterday so I can take the day off watering the lawn and save a bit of cash….more later…
Just made my first lasagna…
Well….you would think that with my advanced age, I would have made homemade lasagna before but today was the first time…and it was so damn easy and I used some of my homemade tomato sauce in it and that was very yummy….it only took about 10 minutes to prep it for the oven and, when I count up the cost, it only cost me about 7 bucks and it will provide me with 9 meals so that’s not bad…oh, and it tastes good, too, and I now have another go to meal that is easy to make and is not chicken or pork….chicken is okay but not for every darn day…..I think I’ll modify the recipe and add some Parmesan to the layers before I bake it…just put it on top and that isn’t enough….I even took a photo and may post it on FB since it is the first one…maybe…
September 4th
Well….running really late today with not getting out of bed until almost 7:30 after waking up at 6 or so…feel pretty crappy today and I think that is an extension of how I felt yesterday…I think I won’t do two rides today since my thighs have been hurting quite badly over the past couple of days and I think they may need a rest to heal up some…just feeling old lately and I don’t like it one bit….have to get into a new routine with college football starting up and Michigan playing at noon today…and F1 qualifying is on here in a few minutes so the earliest I could get on the bike is at 10…it was supposed to rain last night but I don’t see that it did and it is supposed to rain today but there is not much on the radar so I don’t think that is going to happen….we so need rain out here….and I need an excuse to stay off the bike for a day….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I am going to put the rear wheel of the black bike together to get ready for the rest of the parts to show up….not much to do today…I am going to make lasagna today for lunch and I’ve never done that before…need to go out and pick a green pepper to put in it and I am going to use my homemade tomato sauce to add to the jar sauce…can’t wait to see how it turns out….more later….
No politics today…
Well….just can’t get motivated to read enough to get to a political one today…and I have been feeling pretty crappy for some reason and I think it’s the miles and miles of goldenrod that lines the trails…along with not eating enough…cripes, that’s a broken record but the I made 5 chicken sandwiches from one chicken breast so that means every one of them is only about 250 calories and even with chips and a glass of milk it’s only about 500 cals and the taco casserole only has a quarter pound of meat in each serving and with the beans and cheese that is still only about 700 calories…and I don’t think 1200 is enough with riding twice a day and working around here….so, again…I did it to myself…oh, well….the second package with tools and the rest of the bike parts is on the way so it looks like I can get the old bike up and running early next week… and it’s just on time since the new bike is wearing out, too, and has started to skip when I hit bumps…I will need to get a new rear cassette for the new bike when I rebuild it since I can’t find the new one I never used so that’s another 20 bucks but then I’ll have three running bikes and I’m going to work on the schwinn over the winter, too…it just needs a new shift cable and I should probably order a few of those when I buy the cassette…can always use them and the black bike seems to break them all the time and I can get 10 of them for 10 bucks so that’s a good deal….I may make it back here for a political one if I start to feel better after eating something but who knows?
September 3rd
Well…can I be running late if 7 is the new wake up time? It’s pretty cool in here this morning and that is kind of a relief after all of the heat and humidity over the summer….I am looking forward to fall since that has always been my favorite season and it will be my first one out here….I am going to get at least one more swim in before I give it up for the year….and that may be today….not feeling too motivated to work hard today and that may be a good reason to just wing it….I do have a couple of errands to run this morning…ran out of batteries for my toothbrush and it is getting pretty slow so a run to HF is in order…and I need some flap discs for my grinder to clean up my winter wheels so I can paint them before I buy the new winter tires…didn’t work too hard yesterday either, other than making the tomato sauce and I am fighting the guilt that comes with not working hard on this place…I figured out that the increase in SS of 6.2% is going to give me an additional 131 bucks a month and put me at 27K from the first of January and that is pretty cool…I’m living okay on what I get now so that will grow my bank account even more…and housing prices went up 18% last month so I gained an additional 18K on this place so that means I have almost 60K in equity here so my goal of getting to 100K in assets is getting closer….not much to do today…just the errands and bike rides and it even looks like it may rain later….yeah, that made me laugh, too…it never rains out here…we’re up to 6 weeks with nothing but dry out here and I’ll believe it when I see it….more later….