Well…when I get up every morning, I try to guess what time it is before I look at my phone….and some mornings I get pretty close…today, I guessed 7:02 and it was actually 7:04 and that was pretty cool…slept okay last night but I’m still feeling a little worn out today and I’m pretty sure it’s from not eating enough so I’m going to try to change that today…it looks like today will be the last day in shorts on the bike til spring since the highs are going to be in the low 40′s starting on Monday and I guess that’s supposed to happen since November is almost here…it is 51 out here right now and that is the low limit for shorts so I will do one more day in them…and I may have the day off tomorrow with the rain that is forecast…..didn’t get a lot done yesterday and will probably just clean today…and cook since there are no leftovers in the fridge….I did get some boneless skinless thighs yesterday and will make some later today but I’m not sure what I’ll make with it for sides….and I think I’ll make a grilled cheese for lunch with both American and Swiss and real butter…not much to do today…going to sit here for a bit and read the news and have more coffee while I wait for it to get light enough to see….I think I’ll make some toast with peanut butter to get started on eating enough today….more later…
Monthly Archives: October 2021
Living in a logging camp…
Well….man, the rides were tough today and my legs were really flat on both rides…and I am still feeling it right now so I’m not sure how much work I’m going to get done the rest of the day…but that’s not what this one is about…over the past couple of days, tree service trucks have been all over this neighborhood and it sounds like I’m living in a logging camp with all of the chainsaws that are being run everywhere…I guess they are clearing the powerlines to get ready for winter and I hope they go down my alley and get the one branch that is hanging over my line….I’m glad this is happening now with the house all closed up…it would be nuts if the windows had to be open…there are three crews within a block of me and the noise really is deafening…oh, well….at least it’s not music…
Shouldn’t they be held responsible?
Well…it’s pushing two in the aft and I still haven’t come up with a topic that I want to talk about…nope that’s not true…I have been reading a series done by Kos over at Dailykos that highlights how delusional some of the vaccine resistant folks are as they slide down into severe sickness and death…and one of the things that is not reported in the news much is how painful and awful a severe case of covid is and how it destroys these families who have be led into not taking the vaccine by fox and the rest of the right wing assholes….and the question came to me is “shouldn’t they be held accountable?” Just Tuesday, it was estimated that the idiot trump’s bungling of the response to the pandemic cost from 130,000 to 140,000 lives of our fellow Americans…shouldn’t he be held accountable for that? Families across this country are being destroyed by the right wing propaganda that oozes out of the right every damn day and I really can’t understand what the gain is for fox and the rest of them…I mean there has been hundreds of thousands of repubs who have dies and will never vote for them again and I can’t understand what the benefit is to them….or is it that they are just a bunch of psychopaths that get their jollies out of watching people suffer? Whatever it is, it is one of the most sick things I have ever seen…geez…
October 27th
Well…running about on time this morning with getting up a little after 6:30 and I don’t feel too bad today…my thumb still looks like hell but it doesn’t hurt so I guess that’s something…it looks like we had our first frost out here and I am happy that I have a garage to put my car in so I don’t have to scrape the windshield…and the cold should start the leaves falling that I have been waiting on…there still isn’t much color out here and I can’t wait to see what it looks like on the north shore of Muskegon lake when they do change…. will probably take a color tour in the car when that happens…might take a drive up to Whitehall when that happens just to see it…I do have the grocery run to do today and I am glad I got the lawn done yesterday so I can get on the bike after I get back here…going to try to get two rides in again today even though it took a lot out of me yesterday…okay, I was wrong…my thumb just started to hurt like crazy again and I think it’s part of the healing process…at least I hope it is and not some permanent damage that I am going to have to deal with forever…still can’t move it much but at least I can shift the bike again….not much to do today…just the grocery run, bike rides, and cleaning some…need to plan some meals since the leftovers are almost gone and I am getting bored with breakfast for lunch…maybe some pasta? More later….
Bike’s on the trainer…
Well…with the weather starting to get iffy out here, I wanted to still be able to ride every day so that means I needed to put a bike on the trainer that I have for indoor riding…got that done just now with the Specialized bike I bought from my brother but that took a bit of doing with the rear shifter not working…so, I took the shift unit on the handlebars apart and wd’d it and now it works like it did before…still can’t get it below 5th on the back sprocket but that’s okay since I’m running it on the 6th one….it has been another busy day with getting two rides in and mowing the lawn along with some cleaning but it is 4 now and that’s enough work for one day…the mower made it through another mowing but it went out of adjustment at the end so I’ll have to take a look at that this week…the actuator bracket is still on tight so the adjustment on the cable sheath must have moved…and easy fix that takes about 30 seconds…now I just need to get a battery for the computer of the training bike so I can keep track of the miles I ride on that one…but the pain is that you can’t just buy one battery anymore…you have to buy a 4 pack for 8 bucks and I’m pretty sure the spares won’t last a couple of years…oh, well…
Rich whiners….
Well…after the details started to come out on how the new infrastructure and BBB bills are going to be paid for by making the rich and corporations pay their fair share, you could predict that the rich would come out and start whining about how much the tax increase is going to cost them…with the first whiner out of the box being Elon Musk who said that he would owe almost 10 billion dollars a year…and went on and on how it isn’t fair blah, blah, blah…I guess he didn’t think anyone would report that with the increase in the price of Tesla and spaceX stock that happened Monday, he made 36 billion dollars in one frickin day…yep, that’s billion with a B and this asshole is whining he may have to pay 10 billion in taxes for a year? He has more money reserves than most small countries and he still bitches about having to pay taxes…Elon, remember what this country did for you to make you so damn rich…don’t you think is would be fair that you pay some taxes to help pay for the infrastructure that the US government built for you? And pay some taxes for the contracts they have given SpaceX that essentially built your company? I have had enough of the rich just whining when they don’t get everything they want….and it is happening more and more and more…what the hell do they have to bitch about? geez….
October 26th
Well…running late this morning with not getting out of bed until after 7..slept okay and don’t feel too bad this morning and I think I’m up for a two ride day as soon as it gets light but that won’t be for another hour or so…and it will be almost full thermasuit with the temp only 37 out there but it is good that the wind is only blowing about 5 mph so it could be a pleasant if cold ride….I was such a slug yesterday with not riding or doing much else but laundry but I think I need one of those days once in a while as I get older….and it rained all day and the wind was blowing in gusts to over 30 and I refuse to even try to go out in those conditions…so, I really did have an excuse to be off the bike yesterday…I do need to get a bike set up downstairs so I can at least get 10 miles in when the weather is bad as it will be more often as we get toward winter out here….think I’ll mow the lawn tomorrow since it looks like rain again thurs and fri and I think we are getting our first frost this week…that should get the leaves falling so I can pick them up and get them out to the curb and I hope my mower holds up for that job….no much to do today…I do have to clean some around here and get the rides in but I am still nursing my right thumb a bit so I am not going to abuse it…and I may do some test stripping to see what the oak trim looks like and to see if I can get the adhesive off the spare bedroom floor….need to start thinking about the winter interior work and how I’m going to schedule it….more later….
New pains…
Well…damn, the hits just keep coming….had to mail a couple of bills and drop my ballot off at the cop shop so I thought I’d take the bike since it stopped raining out here and I wanted to check out how my thumb is faring when I shift the bike…glad to say it’s a little better and I really didn’t notice shifting and that is getting it back toward being automatic instead of thinking about it…but, as soon as I got on the bike I had a searing pain in the outside of my left thigh that continued all the way out and back…and that one came out of nowhere since it didn’t hurt around here when I was doing laundry and the rest of the stuff I did today… so that is a new one that I haven’t felt before….and, at my age, I thought I had felt every possible pain that there is…I almost turned right to the trail instead of left back here but the pain in my leg and the wind gusting to 30 mph made the decision for me and I just came home….will be back on the bike tomorrow for two rides but they will start later with it getting down into the 30′s out here tonight….
Quit using facebook…
Well…with the revelations that have come out about what goes on inside of facebook over the past couple of weeks, people just need to stop using facebook for all of the damage it has done across the world. And just today, an article came out that shows that Zuckerberg runs the whole show and the board of directors is just a sham and have nothing to do with corporate governance….so now we know that it is Zuckerberg alone who is responsible for all of the lies and misinformation that oozes from it…and for getting trump elected and giving us the January 6th insurrection since facebook was used by the attackers to organize and plan the attack. One person should never have that much power and something needs to be done about it, whether it is breaking up the company, forcing it to take on an independent board of directors…or my favorite, just stop using it and get it the hell out of our lives….you can live without it…as I do….the only thing I use it for is to keep up with my family but not even very much of that….just today, one of the company’s officers warned the employees that there is going to be more and more bad news about facebook and what they have been doing to help the right wingers destroy this country…and all for just money…just for Zuckerberg’s greed. So, just stop using it, when you do that ad revenue goes down and you aren’t helping that idiot wreak more damage just so he can line his pockets…geez….
October 25th
Well…this is one of those mornings where I just want to go back to bed…for the rest of the day….I think I’m finally resigned to the fact that my thumb is never going heal enough to be able to move it much…it’s been almost a week and I have no movement in the second joint…and it still hurts like crazy…oh, well….must have slept okay last night since my right shoulder hurts and that means I slept on it all night without the normal tossing and turning….it looks like it rained all night and it is still raining right now so I won’t be on the bike til later in the day…if I get out at all, so that means I have a morning free to do what I want and just ease into the day….but, how do I do that? Have laundry and cleaning to do so I guess that will be the plan for the day….didn’t do a lot yesterday but feeding the lawn and cleaning windows but I finished that and that makes me feel good…I am thinking about stripping the oak window trim and I searched for colors that go with it and was surprised that I can still use the grays that I had planned to paint this place if I do….looked at a bunch of photos that show how it will look but I’m not sure if I like it or not…not much to do today…I do need to get my ballot filled out and drop it off and continue looking for a dentist out here…and I need to go to the Verizon store to see if they can fix my phone and get the camera working again…but that is too much for one day so that will be for later in the week….more later…