Well…not running late today with getting up at 6:05 but I felt so crappy last night that I was expecting to have that continue this morning…and it has a bit…still pretty worn out but I think a large part of it is going back to 45 miles yesterday…but, it’s raining a little out there with a long train of it all the way back into Iowa heading this way so I won’t do 45 today….or I may just take the day off and try to let the pain come out of my legs…but that is harder than it looks….will be looking at the weather all day to try to see a break that I can fit one ride into…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get anything done so I think I’ll do some cleaning today…and I have to cook so I’m going to make tacos this aft but still need to get something else out of the freezer for tomorrow….I did water the lawn yesterday to try to keep it alive til the rain today but I don’t know if it’s raining hard enough to save it…don’t even want to look at my water bill this month…oh, well….not much to do today…just going to take it easy until I figure out if I want to clean….I need more coffee…and more coffee, and more coffee….more later…
Monthly Archives: June 2022
GRRRR…..
Well…I don’t know why I’m surprised…I knew there would be lots of people on the trail for my last ride today with the pub pedal event going on starting at noon…but damn, not one of those people were paying attention at all and I almost got run into at least a dozen times…and I had to ride on the road to get around the swarms that were clogging up the trail on the way out and I really hate riding in the road…from the looks of some of these folks, there are going to be a few heart attacks in the crowd since a lot of them look like they haven’t done any exercise in 20 years…..but, I survived it and now I’m home and going to relax the rest of the day….and maybe come back here for one more after I take a look at the news….
Holy crap! Louie Gohmert is stupid…
Well…sitting here waiting for lunch to cook and just read an article about the dumbest congressman in the country and all I can do is shake my head…after the moron Pete Navarro got indicted and arrested Friday….ole Louie vomited up this little nugget of stupidity…”if you are a republican, you can’t even lie to congress or to the FBI or they’re coming after you and throw you in the DC jail and torture you…” hey, Louie…if you didn’t know, lying to congress or the FBI is a federal crime and it is not, as you say an “affront to justice” this coming from the law and order repubs….none of them think the law should apply to them at all…and if we let them take back the house, no law will….vote! and not for them….
June 4th
Well…damn, it’s only 48 degrees out there and it’s June 4th? Oh, well…that just means I won’t be getting on the bike for an hour or so and that might not be a bad thing…slept okay last night and didn’t get out of bed til after 6 and I wonder if that will affect my schedule for the day…ha,ha…don’t have a schedule other than to get a couple of rides in and watch the drunks on bikes later….should be good for a laugh or two….only did two rides yesterday so I could get out to the beach for the first time and relax a bit…it wasn’t too warm but I did get the first swim in for the year so that was cool…that water was about 62 degrees and that still feels pretty cold when the air temp is only 70 with the wind blowing 15 off the lake….I did almost get out for a third ride but when I got on the bike, the left pedal was making a cracking noise that annoyed the heck out of me and I had to figure it out…so I took a pedal off the black bike to swap out to make sure the noise was in the pedal and then washed it out and then lubed it and I think I have it fixed…just figured out that those pedals have over 16K miles on them so I guess I should start looking for a new set….want to keep the black bike rideable just in case someone comes out and wants to take a ride with me….the first people moved into one of the rentals across the street yesterday and it isn’t even done yet and I can’t figure that out…and I wonder who can afford 1900 dollars a month? They are pretty small houses when I now look at them and can’t be more than 1100 sq ft…and no basement…weird….not much to do today….just going to wait for the temp to come up and then get on the bike for the first ride and then wing it for the rest of the day….it looks like I’m going to take the day off tomorrow with the rain…or I’m going to use that for an excuse and get a rest day in since I’ll probably do three rides today….more later….
Trying to find a topic….
Well…it’s been another kinda busy day that hasn’t left me a lot of time to read the news so I’m struggling to find a topic for today…oh, congress is finally going to investigate how the hell Jared Kushner made 640 million dollars while working in the WH and they are going to look at the 2 billion dollars the Saudis gave him to see if it’s really a quid pro quo for his protecting the Saudis from any blowback after the murder of Khashoggi…and to see if the policy of the government was changed after all that bribe money was funneled to him….ha, ha, ha…of course it was…cripes, the whole damn trump administration was a huge pay for play scheme whose only purpose was to enrich idiot boy and his cronies…look, if this investigation doesn’t result in some quick indictments, what the hell is the point? It’s taken a year and a half to get to the Jan 6th hearings and not one damn person organizing the attack has been arrested or even indicted for it…and the clock is ticking if the dems don’t get off their asses and turn out to vote this fall and let the repubs take over the house…any plan to hold any repub accountable will disappear and they will get away with destroying this country…or making it into their image of a fascist state modeled on Turkey…we can’t let that happen….
June 3rd
Well…damn, I can’t remember being this stiff in a long time and I know how it happened…and it’s all my fault for doing 45 miles a day on the bike for the past 6 of 7 days….and the stiffness is even in my neck and shoulders, too, and that is pretty unusual…even my feet hurt so maybe I’ve reached my limit and should pull back some…I think I’ll use the rain for an excuse to take a day off Sunday and try to heal up a bit….didn’t sleep too badly last night but was up at 3:41 for the first time and the out of bed a little after 6….cripes, I’m worn out….sure hope the coffee starts to work soon or it is going to be brutal on the bike here in a few minutes…you know, I wonder how I got so off track with riding….I’m feeling a compulsion to get out there three times a day and I think that’s not healthy for someone as old as I am…is there a precedent for this kind of self abuse? I started riding as a way to get into shape and burn some calories since I’ve always had a problem with my weight but the weight is not coming off anymore even with not eating much and burning 1800 a day on the bike…I should be losing a pound every 5 days with the extra burn of 600 cals a day…I mean damn, I only had a chicken sandwich with a quarter of a chicken breast and a handful of chips with a glass of milk…at about 500 calories for lunch and a small pork rib with asparagus for dinner for another 400 or so…so I’m under 1K cals a day and can’t lose weight? I am really starting to hate even thinking about this crap all day every day…..oh, well….not much to do today…I do need to do the weed walk in the yard today since I noticed a bunch of them mowing yesterday and I want to run out to Aldis for some stuff I forgot and I may go out to the beach this aft to get a swim in…but, it’s only going to be about 70 today and that may be a little cool for swimming…we’ll see…more later…
Meet the new excuse, just like the old excuse….
Well…it seems the media is actually asking the repubs why they need to have AR-15 murder weapons and the excuses are all just the same bullshit grasping at straws that they do after every massacre of children done by a killer with an AR-15. The latest one would have made me laugh a bit if it wasn’t connected so closely with the murder of 19 children and two adults in Uvalde….one of the idiot repub senators was asked this morning why they need AR-15′s and he said to protect their chickens from raccoons…now, I wonder how armed his raccoons are to need that kind of firepower to stop them? Do they have body armor? Do they do coordinated attacks? Do they ambush people trying to protect their chickens? You can see just how absurd this argument is from my questions…and I’ve never needed anything more than a pellet gun for pests like raccoons and groundhogs…or rocks for that matter…throw a few rocks and they take off running…and if you are anywhere near a city, you can’t shoot a rifle anyway without hitting something you didn’t want to hit. Look, we all know these are excuses to do nothing about these unnecessary weapons just like every other damn time…and the excuse that the right wingers use for needing these guns that they need to “take back the country” with violence against the government should be met with an FBI investigation and the loss of every damn weapon they own if they are threatening murder….there are laws against that, after all…geez…
June 2nd
Well…can’t get a line from the Neil Young song “Coupe DeVille” out of my head this morning…”well I hit the wall…woke up this morning and I hit the wall..” and that is just how I feel this morning after doing 45 miles a day on the bike for 5 of the past 6 days…I had been thinking that I may have been overdoing it for a person my age and I think I was right…but that doesn’t mean I’m going to get smart and take a day off…nope, that would be too easy…and would make me too guilty…so I need to think what to do…I was so exhausted last night that when I got into bed and needed a new set of earplugs, I just bit the cords off them instead of getting back out of bed and cutting them off with scissors….and I didn’t get out of bed til almost 7 this morning…so, I’m pretty used up this morning and I’m not sure when I’m going to be able to get going…or if I should…didn’t get much done yesterday but water the lawn to keep it alive and ride the bike for almost 4 hours…I am going to get to 1K miles outdoors on the bike today and with the 800 miles downstairs, I am inching up on 2K for the year so far but I’m not sure if the 6050 goal is doable with how I feel right now…not much to do today…just need coffee, coffee, coffee…and to read the news a bit…I was bad last night and had a cocktail and that may be why I feel like crap this morning so I won’t do that again for a while….I think that is triggering my depression again and all I want to do is sit here and stare at this screen…but, I won’t…I will drag myself out in a few minutes…or a half hour since it is still only 53 out there and I don’t want to be cold….more later….
Only one bird left…
Well…after having a lot of birds on the feeder out here over the winter and into spring, I’m down to only one bird left still using it. I have a young male Cardinal who is on the feeder almost once every 10 minutes or so and spends a lot of time sitting in the feeder as he eats…and he is even using the water container I put out a couple of days ago but he is the only one I’ve seen do that…I really expected that the squirrels would be the ones getting drinks from it but I don’t think they’ve found it yet…I did almost get the female grey squirrel to eat out of my hand today..she got about a foot away and then ran so I had to throw the bread out so she could still get it…she still runs toward the back door when I come out but is pretty wary and just stands there on her hind feet watching me…still no hummingbirds and I wonder if I should do a count of the days I’ve waited? We’ll see….
Answer this for me…
Well…after reading a little more about Uvalde, Texas after the child massacre there, a few questions have come to me that need to be answered. First, how the heck do you spend 40% of the city’s budget on the police and end up with the results they got? With cops just standing around while these children were murdered? Not sure if you’ve seen the photos of the police department yet but in a town of 80% hispanics, how does almost the entire police end up being white? This goes for the city government, too, with a white mayor and very few hispanics in any role in the city government? Now, I’ve never lived in Texas but I’ve seen this kind of thing in the south before…in majority black towns, the government is white and how the heck does that happen without some chicanery going on…or a flood of money and lies? In a show of the contempt that the police have for any oversight, now the Uvalde cops have stopped cooperating with the Texas state police investigation of the shooting and the response of the police force….sounds to me they have something to hide….and are insufferably arrogant like most police departments across this country…and that should cost them their jobs…