Well…just finished baking the pizza and having lunch and I will say that a half pound of mushrooms on one pizza is not too much…I did have to take the pizza and pan over to the sink to pour off the extra liquid that came from the shrooms but the crust was done and not soggy at all and that surprised me a little with all of the liquid that was there…but, I’ve been making the crust drier the past couple of times and that makes it much more crispy and I think that has something to do with it…probably the best tasting pizza that I have made and I do have to remember to put the garlic powder and Italian seasoning in the dry ingredients since it makes such a difference and fills out the flavor so the crust isn’t bland….but now I need to find something in the freezer to take out so I’ll have a second meal for tomorrow to go with the leftover pizza…not that big of a choice since I think there are only various chicken cuts left…I do have some tilalpia fillets that have been in there a while that I probably should cook so maybe that will be it? Who knows? Taking the rest of the day off to watch races and veg….
Monthly Archives: April 2022
Georgia is coming for the trumpers…
Well…almost forgot about this event that is happening Monday in Georgia…that is the day that the special grand jury that is going to investigate the idiot trump’s election interference where he was caught on tape asking the Sos to “find” enough votes to hand the state to him and threatened him with retribution if he didn’t. Because this is a special grand jury, it’s only task is this investigation where a normal grand jury would deal with multiple investigations and probably take longer to get to the point of indictments…and it has been specifically mentioned that Lindsey Graham is under investigation, too, along with the usual suspects like Giuliani and any other trump cronies who were working to overturn the election with their lies and manipulation. I wouldn’t think we will hear anything for a couple of months even though idiot boy was caught on tape as was Graham…but this is as open and shut a case that I have seen in along time…I really do think indictments are going to come out of this and felony ones, too…we can only hope….
6 more to go…
Well…yeah, I did get on the indoor bike this morning and got to 760 miles down there this year so far…and with the 234 on the outside bike, I’m only 6 miles short of the first thousand miles for the year…so, should I get back on it and do 6 more so I can have a grand before the end of April? Nope, not that driven by the numbers anymore so when I get to it Monday, that will be soon enough….and I’m not sure if this is the earliest to a thousand I’ve ever done but I don’t think so…I seem to remember that I reached it once in the middle of April….but that was with riding outdoors in full thermasuit that I’ve only done a couple of times this year since I could just use the downstairs bike instead. So now it’s break time….more coffee and soccer until I get to making the pizza around 11 or so….more later….
April 30th
Well…damn, it’s the end of April and it’s still in the 40′s out there and I’m getting really, really tired of it…I am now sure that there will be no spring this year…and I won’t smell the spring smell until who knows when? And it’s raining out there right now and I really expect it to snow with how the weather has gone so far this year….oh, well…I did get 30 miles in yesterday but have no motivation at all to get on the bike downstairs today even with tomorrow being a day off riding…but I’ll probably drag myself downstairs in a while for the torture…had an okay day yesterday with getting the two rides in but not a lot else done and I think I need a couple of days like that to let my body heal…my hands are getting better with the rest but I have to remember to put a bandage on my injured left thumb since I banged it twice yesterday and it hurt like crazy….I really don’t have any plans to do anything today and just saying that is pretty weird…I did get the old, scruffy looking t-shirts out of my dresser and replaced them with new ones and that little thing made me feel good for a few minutes yesterday…some of them were pretty ugly but now I have a tub full of work shirts to use when I’m working on the car or house that I don’t care about…and I can use bleach to clean again without worrying about ruining a good t-shirt…is that what my life has been reduced to? Or is it finally settling into the mundane little things that I have been working toward for the past few years? The life of just paying bills and living for a change and letting the day just unfold instead of planning it? Not sure yet…but I have planned to make a pizza for lunch to use up the ingredients I have in the fridge…even got some mushrooms to put on this one and need to use the entire container and I wonder how a half pound of mushrooms will work on one pizza? I guess we’ll see…I wonder if I should saute them first to get some of the moisture out of them? Nope, too much work….not much to do today…still thinking about riding downstairs but that can come a bit later after I have coffee and read some news to try to find a topic for later…..more later….
Poor, poor Politico…
Well…I think I may have talked about this before but the media has really started to whine that there is no “excitement” or a chance to be a “star” reporter when covering the Biden WH…yeah, I know it was easy reporting on the WH when the group of idiot boy’s criminals had a new scandal every damn day for them to do 15 minutes of work and call it a day…but now they whine about a competent WH that is transparent, truthful, and accomplished and that it too “hard” to cover what’s going on there since their stories are not written for them and they may have to actually be a reporter and think about follow up questions ahead of time to flesh out a story idea that they have been working on…and they just don’t want to put in the time or work to even come up with an idea anymore…they just want to find out what the repub meme of the day is and try to come up with a sound bite so they can get on fox news and make their bosses happy…and that is what is wrong with the media these days…they are bunch of lazy assed babies who want everything handed to them before they land their gold mine gig on fox or newsmax….and this country is already suffering from it…none of the good news is sexy enough for them so it doesn’t get reported…after all, no one wants to hear how well Biden is doing…they are addicted to scandal and they aren’t getting any and don’t know what to do…geez…
More Ollie’s bargains…
Well…as I said this morning, I was going to head out to ollies for some more 1.99 t-shirts this morning…and it was so nice to have a good running car again and one that is clean to drive around in…so, I got 5 new t-shirts and a pair of Ralph Lauren flip flops that normally go for 28 bucks for 2.99…and the total bill only came to 16 bucks since I did spend 3 bucks each on a couple of the t-shirts since they were new FoTL with some new kind of super wicking cotton that I thought I’d try out…so, I’m done buying new stuff for the summer unless they have some beach towels for cheap since I do need a new one….and now I think I’ll sort out my t-shirts later and put the old ones in a tote in my closet so I can use them to get dirty with….now out on the bike for the first ride…
Kind of a pet peeve…
Well…hey, I found something to fill some time! After getting back outdoors on the trails this spring…is it spring? Sure doesn’t feel like it…I noticed that there is a huge explosion of people riding electric bikes that I wonder if they should be classified motorized vehicles and banned from the trails? Just the other day when I was out riding some idiot came blowing through the crowds at almost 30mph and not pedaling at all…and I can see carnage if this continues when the trails get busy when it warms up when walkers and riders clog up the trails so there is nowhere for someone going at that speed to go…I even find it a little challenging at times when I get up a head of steam and run into a stroller blockade…but I’m not going 30 and I pay attention and have the courtesy to slow down and allow them to get out of the way with a smile on my face…after all, the trails are for everyone who uses them but the speed differential to electric bikes is going to cause accidents…and I wonder who the hell can afford a 2,000 dollar bike anyway? Okay, that’s the end of my bitching…normally I just yell at them that they are cheating with a smile on my face and a laugh…especially when you have an obviously out of shape person flying by me only pedaling once every 100 feet or so…but, they are getting out and getting some exercise and that is always a good thing….and I have even started to do some research on converting the black bike to an electric assisted one to use when I’m injured but it’s still over 800 bucks to do that and I can think of many other way to spend that much cash….maybe look for a used one that is just sitting in someone’s garage after they used it for a week or two? I guess the point of riding for me is to get all the exercise I can to keep age at bay and an electric would make it too easy….going to be an interesting summer….
April 29th
Well…damn, I’m sore this morning…as I was last night and the day before and I’m starting to get a little concerned that it never stops…and I’m not sure if it’s from the work I’m doing or if it’s a medical problem but I do know that I am creeping around here and everything I do is painful…I wonder if taking two ibuprofens a day would help instead of the one I take now? I did get the car finished yesterday and got my new sticker in the window that allows me to park at the beach for free and I will be using that a lot this summer….and I can’t wait to run an errand this morning in the clean car…even with all the rust in it, it is still cool to have clean glass and the un-rusted parts waxed and it is just the best to know that it is ready for summer…and that it is not leaking oil anymore….and I am going to hit ollies again today for some more 1.99 t-shirts if they have them…and then I can weed out all of the old bleached and painted ones and replace them with new ones….I am going to try to get two rides in outdoors today so I don’t have to get on the indoor bike and that leaves me with lots of time to just relax on the couch and have my coffee while I do this…and then I can leisurely read the news….oh, forgot to talk about sleep…should I talk about sleep? Nope, not today…pretty sure you’re getting bored with that and the one thing I strive for is to not be boring…sometimes even successfully….not much to do today…not sure how to do these easy mornings and I’m still wondering if my need to be doing something is going to override that…but I am going to try…but it’s 7am and I really don’t know how to fill the time until I head out on the errand….hmmmm….more later…
They were all in on it…
Well…sitting here feeling like crap after the bike ride…and I felt like crap on the ride, too, so I don’t know what is going on…hmmmm…I did read an article yesterday that I wanted to talk a bit about…after all of the investigations that have been done about the coup attempt on January 6th of last year, on startling fact has come out and that is that every damn repub in the house but two were in one it…every one of them have turned up in text messages, facebook posts, or other media talking about how to do the coup or in planning of it or supporting it…and the only two who weren’t are Cheney and Kinzinger who are on the January 6th committee…just let that sink in a minute, one of the major political parties in this country had every member try to overturn the legal election of Biden… and not one of them has been charged with sedition or insurrection or even jaywalking…not one damn thing for these people who violated the 14th amendment and should have been expelled from congress and banned from ever holding office again…but nothing at all from Garland…has anyone checked on him to see if he is still alive? This is the best way to guarantee that this crap will happen again…and we see that the plans are being laid by these same people for 2022 and 2024 to overthrow the legal votes of Americans again…they all need to go and if Garland isn’t willing to uphold the law, then he needs to go, too…geez…
No drips!
Well…had a pretty busy morning with all of the work I had planned and I got it all done with a really pleasant surprise when I backed the car out to wash it…no drips! After years of just cobbling it together with blue silicone on the drain plug and it never really working, the damn 3 dollar drain plug worked and it was so simple to do, I’m not sure why I didn’t do this years ago instead of wasting all my time looking for the Mazda crush washers that went on the old plug….I guess I get tunnel vision sometimes…and I did get the rest of my work done, too, starting with seeding the front of the lawn, washing the inside and outside of the trash bin, washing and vacuuming the car, washing the bike and cleaning up the garage…and I tried my stainless steel detail brush on the dirt that would never come off the wheels of the car and they even look better so bonus….but now it’s the last cup of coffee, reading some news, having lunch, and then getting out on the bike when it warms up enough…damn, it’s only 44 at 11:30…and that sucks…