Well…just did something I never do…got out of bed at 5:53 and then went right back for another hour…so I guess that means 6:53 is the wake up time today and that in itself is pretty weird…slept okay last night but I’m wearing out and quickly moving to having to take a day off the bike to rest…I did get to 3K miles on the bike on Sunday morning and I’m pretty sure I won’t get to my goal this year but I’m not disappointed at all…I still remember when I got to 500 miles for the year in August quite a few years back and thought that was a big deal so I guess I’m still doing okay…but I’m running late right now and need to get off my butt and get moving so I can be on the bike by 7:30….11 minutes…damn, I need more coffee….I did get a few things done yesterday and have a few to do today including an errand to return a beach chair that failed the first time I used it and get my 30 bucks back….I did get the old one repaired and I think it will last me the rest of the year and I’ll buy a new one next year….will probably hit the beach again today but I’m not feeling it right now so who knows? Not much to do today….just the routine stuff and the errand…need to do some work on the garden to get the unruly tomato plants back in order and that will mean taking some of the excess ones out that came up from dropped tomatoes from last year…they don’t look good this year and there are very few tomatoes on them so this year is a bust…oh, well….more later…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Back to the routine…
Well…after having things to do all weekend that I normally don’t do, I got back to my routine today and it feels good to go back to basics…after the rides this morning, I got the lawn mowed and had all that done by 10:15 so I just read some news until 11…had lunch, and then out to the beach for a couple of hours and back here by 1:30 or so…just finished up watering the flowers and the veggie garden and now I’m done for the day…the water is getting back to normal but it is still a bit cold that I hope goes away in a couple of days…I set up on the new beach near the water and that was a hike to go the 150 yards to get there…and the new beach is pretty abrasive with all of the zebra mussel shells in it and it hurt a bit to walk all that way….but, I lived through it and they will rake the beach with the tractor over time that should take care of that…so now I have free time for the rest of the day and I am going to take advantage of it by just reading a bit and trying to figure out what I want to make for dinner….
Idaho repubs want their wives and daughters to die..
Well…to all of the people who said that our alarm that the destruction of Roe was not warranted…I say F-you…everyone who cares at all about women’s rights was screaming that letting the states decide would mean that many states would let women die for pregnancy complications that could be safely dealt with when abortion was legal…and now Idaho, or the repub men of Idaho, have codified that in the state constitution as they made sure there was no exemption to save the life of the mother if complications arose…so, if a women has an ectopic pregnancy? Tough shit woman…you die…if you have an incomplete miscarriage?Tough shit, you are sentenced to death by bleeding out when the simple DandC would have saved your life….and this new christofascist cult just doesn’t care at all….and this crap is already happening in Texas when a woman was left to die with a failed pregnancy since Texas has made any and all reproductive health care illegal and doctors can do nothing but sit and watch their patients die…pro life, my ass…when will the women of this country rise up and throw these assholes out? I’ll be there when they do….geez…
July 18th
Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for a second one yesterday since I went out to my brother’s house in the aft and was there til after 8 last night…had my first steak in years and I wonder how that is going to set with my guts….didn’t sleep well at all last night and was up at 4 and then out of bed by 5:38 and I am just damn worn out today…but I will be out on the bike before 7….should take a day off soon since my right thigh hurts and it has been hurting for a week now and I don’t think it will get better until I rest it some…I do need to look for a shop to fix the car but it didn’t leak at all yesterday so it’s not too urgent and I’m going to put it off for a while…it was a lot of work to get out of my routine yesterday and I think I’m taking today off to just ride and go to the beach to get reset and relax…and it was a lot of work being around people all day and took a lot of energy so I need to recharge….and I am going to need a nap later with feeling as I do….not much to do today…just going to get on the bike and get the rides in and then wing it for the rest of the day…it is going to be a relief to be silent today and I am going to revel in it….more later….
July 17th
Well…didn’t get out of bed until a little after six this morning so I guess that is a win but I don’t feel like it….still pretty darn sore and I’m confused about that…didn’t do anything that would cause it but I am still moving carefully to keep from aggravating it….hmmmm….think I slept okay last night but I sure don’t feel like it…I think I need to take a day off the bike soon but I need an excuse and today looks like it’s not going to give one to me with the rain sliding by to the south…..I don’t know when I last had a day off but I think it was back in April and that is still not the longest period…a few years back I did 186 days in a row on the bike but that was when I was only doing about 15 miles a day and not the 30 I’m doing now…and I still wonder if I’m doing permanent damage to my body by riding so much….wouldn’t that be ironic when I’m on the bike to stay healthy? I did get a little done yesterday with doing the weed walk in the afternoon but that’s all I did after the rides…feeling a little like a slug with not working hard enough to feel any sense of accomplishment….and that is leading to a little bit of depression today…can’t I just sit on the couch and relax? Nope….going to get on the bike here in a few and start torturing myself again…I am going to run out to my brother’s house in the afternoon to pick up some things that I can use and that I think you can too, Tom….and it is so funny that it is only about 12 miles from here and only takes about 20 minutes to get there instead of the hour it took to come out here from GR…and I haven’t been out there for almost 20 years…nope it’s more than 20 years….and that’s a little weird…..but normal for our family….and I have gps to get me there with the new phone and unlimited data….but right now I need more coffee and then on the bike….more later…
Target letters…
Well…cripes, things are heating up in the repub election fraud investigation in Georgia with the issuance of target letters to most of the repub leadership who were involved in the fake electors scheme…oh, target letters are given to people who the prosecutor thinks and has evidence that they committed a crime…and this is just at the state level for the time being…but what about the idiot trump who was driving the whole thing at the national level? I’m pretty sure Fani Willis is working on that evidence, too but I wonder why there has been no investigation or indictments here in Michigan when the repubs did the same thing here? I think the AG here needs to get moving before the fall election so none of these traitors who are still running for office will be allowed to get away with it….and lets dismiss the bullshit arguments that any prosecution would be too political…why the hell do we have laws against this bullshit if no one is going to enforce them? The more time passes with no prosecutions, the more bold these repub assholes are going to be and they just might succeed in killing this country next time…so, to every damn prosecutor out there…get off your asses and do your jobs or no one will follow the law ever again…geez…
Lazy day…
Well…damn, another busy morning for me with getting the two rides in, making potato salad, and cooking lunch but now it’s time to turn this into a lazy day and take the rest of it off….I can’t figure out all of the new pains I’ve been having the past few days…my back and sides both hurt and I had really new pain in my right thigh on the bike that I haven’t felt before…and it even hurts up by my shoulder blade on the right side and when I move, I get stabs of pain from the movement….hmmmm…oh, well….it’s not bad enough to take anything for it so I guess I should stop bitching….don’t even have to water anything today with the rain we got yesterday so it really is going to be an easy afternoon but I am going to look for a topic in politics to do later so I’ll be back in a while if I can find one….more later….
July 16th
Well…didn’t get out of bed til almost 7 this morning even with waking up around 5 or so and that means I’m running late for getting on the bike since it is 7:23 now and I have just poured my first cup of coffee…can still make it out by 8 so I guess that’s not too late….and I’ll be able to get two rides in by 11 or so…had a good day yesterday and went out to lunch with my brother to a new place that I’ve never been so that was cool…even after 16 months out here, I’ve not really done much or gone to many bars, etc since I am still thinking about covid and don’t want to be in any maskless crowds…..this could be a fun place if I could get over that fear but not right now….maybe over the winter….it did rain out here yesterday so I don’t have to water the lawn today but I still need to do the gardens…I am really surprised how late my tomatoes are this year…it could be another 3 weeks before any are ripe and that is a month later than last year and I’m not sure why other than the weather….I do have a bunch of food prep to do today with making some potato salad and cooking some of the chicken leg quarters I got wed and then figuring out how to get the rest in the freezer along with the smoked kielbasa and turkey…won’t have to buy any protein for weeks after this and that will keep my grocery bill down for a while….not much to do today…just the bike rides and cooking…probably won’t go out to the beach today but I haven’t decided about that yet….the water was so damn cold thurs that I couldn’t stay in it so it may take a week for it to warm up enough again so it won’t hurt….more later….
Fire them all…
Well…with the revelation today that all of the Secret Service’s texts from January 5th and 6th have disappeared and the reason for it keeps changing as the day goes on, I think all of the people involved in this destruction should be fired…every damn one of them including the head of the service…we need to weed out every trumper from the government since they have shown that not one of them has any ethics or morals and shouldn’t be allowed to be anywhere near Biden…after all, they showed their true colors after Hutchinson’s testimony when people who were high up in management came out and said that she was lying and promised to have agents from the SS come to the January 6th committee and dispute it..that never happened but by this action they have been shown to be liars who don’t care one bit about the service and the oath they took…and let’s remember that trump wanted the SS to kidnap Pence so he couldn’t certify the votes from the electoral college and that is probably the reason these texts disappeared since one of the big shots was appointed by trump and had worked for him previously…so this rot needs to be rooted out before the entire SS is poisoned…and that means they all have to go….geez…
Trying to find a topic…
Well….not having even a bit of luck finding a topic that grabs me today but I will keep trying…but right now, I’ll just noodle a bit and see what happens…I did get out for a nice lunch with my brother at a place called Dockers today and that was only the second restaurant I’ve been to in the 16 months that I’ve lived out here…nice outdoor patio and had some fish and chips and a couple of beers and it was fun to get out for a while….but the rain that was supposed to come didn’t so I’ll have to water the lawn tomorrow….not sure if I can have another meal today with having a bunch of fries for lunch but I do need to make the potato salad that I cooked everything for…will probably just have some cheese and crackers later….I did get two rides in today so maybe just a little dinner? Think I want to take a nap so I just might…it is a special day, after all….more later….