Well…as you can see, there is a problem with getting out of bed a little after 6 and not being able to get on the bike til almost 10…have too much time to fill and I’m really not motivated to start on the windows in the dining room, so I sit here and do another one of these….when I should be cleaning the bathroom…hey, that’s an idea, I think I’ll do that here in a minute…have a new bathroom cleaner to try to get the soap scum and calcium deposits off the shower….and with the white trim, it needs to be washed all the time with how dusty this house is…and I have an hour before it’s warm enough to get out on the bike…that would be an accomplishment that I can build the rest of the day on….once I get started on the bike, I won’t be done til almost 1 and that will make for a late lunch but I still need to do an early dinner to try to work on my new eating pattern…think I’m going to cook the rest of the pork loin later and that will keep me eating for the rest of the week…need to get off my butt and get cleaning….more later…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Last colonoscopy?
Well…as you know, I have my second colonoscopy scheduled for the 24th of this month but there is a new study out there that questions the effectiveness of the procedure saying that it has little effect in preventing colon cancer…but the study is a little confusing and I’m not sure what it really means…the headline says that people are questioning it’s effectiveness but then the states in the article that people getting colonoscopies had a 31% reduction in colon cancers and a 50% lessened chance of dying from it…and an American study showed even better results with a 40% lowered risk of getting cancer and a 68% reduction in dying from colon cancer. With having 5 polyps removed last time, that is 5 sites that won’t be turning into cancer in my colon and I really hope they don’t find more of them this time….I’m getting to the age that the sedation they use poses higher danger than for young people and I wonder if that will be the determining factor on whether I get another one? The prep is pretty unpleasant but the procedure is okay…the stuff the give you really makes you not car what they are doing and it is even a little interesting for a science geek like me since you can watch the pictures on a monitor and that is a little cool….so I guess we’ll see if this is the last one or not…to go through a day of unpleasantness to get a 68% death reduction seems to be a good tradeoff to me…just don’t want to do it every year….
October 11th
Well…that was a little better…slept okay and even had some dreams last night that hasn’t happened in quite a while….but my allergies are really bad and I am coughing like crazy….crap….at least I’m not as sore as I was yesterday and I can move a bit today but there is still pain in my back and sides…and the weirdest thing is that the fingers on my left hand have hurt for a few days now and I’ll be damned if I know how I hurt them….didn’t get much done yesterday but I do need to get going on the dining room today and I probably will but I’ll need more coffee before I do that….and I need to find topics for later today but my brain is fogged up with sleep right now even though I was good last night…and I think that is just getting old…not sure when I’m going to mow the lawn this week with the leaves starting to fall and I am waiting for the changeover to bagging as I need to pick the leaves up…but that won’t happen til next week at least…probably get one more mow in before that….and I need to plan meals better since I have too much food in the fridge right now…need to cook the rest of the marinaded pork loin today and then I’ll have some for sandwiches and it should last longer than raw….and I need to cut the second one up and get it in the freezer and I really hope they still have more when I do the grocery run tomorrow…and I need to pick up the prep prescription for the 24th and that’s going to cost me over 50 bucks since it’s not covered by Medicare…I’ll never figure out those rules….not much to do today…just going to have coffee and read the news as I wait for the temp to come up enough to get out on the bike…it’s only 42 right now and it needs to get much nearer to 50 before I go…there is a gale warning up for later today with winds nearing 40 so I need to get out this morning before it starts to blow….more later….
Tender pork loin…
Well….trying out a new time of eating that is supposed to lower your blood pressure, cholesterol, and give you more energy…read an article about it today that people who ate all their meals within a 6 hour period earlier in the day experience some real health benefits…but that’s not what this is about…just tried some of the new pork loins I got buy one get one free at Meijers this morning and I’ve never had one that is more tender…I did marinate the pieces in my standard marinade with olive oil, soy sauce, worst sauce, onion and garlic powder, and Italian seasoning…oh, and I threw in a little dijon mustard to try to spice it up a bit and then let them set in the fridge for 5 hours….I’ve used this on other pork loins before and they came out pretty tough so I think it’s actually the meat itself….the loins are quite small in diameter and are from a company called Hatfield that I’ve never heard of before…I barely even needed a knife to cut them they were so tender…so, it looks like I’ll get two more of them and try to find some room in the freezer for them…might have to throw out one of the ham bones I have in there since they take up enough space for two pork loins…and at 1.33 a pound, it is cheap protein that can be used in all kinds of dishes…but two more means I’ll have about 13 pounds in the freezer and that should last me the rest of the year…can’t wait to try some just cut into chops and seared before they go in the oven…that will be a good test for how tender they are…it was nice to have something that wasn’t chicken for a change….
They’re lying again….
Well…with the new talking point…okay, it’s not new but the repubs trot out the “soft on crime” bullshit during every election to attack every dem candidate from the top down and the sad thing is people are buying it and some races are tightening because of it…but here are the facts…the top ten states for violent crime are all repub controlled states…every damn on of them and the rate of these crimes are rising faster in these same states…in 2020, the per capita murder rate in states that the idiot trump won was 40% higher than in blue states, and yet they lie and lie that blue cities and states are hellholes of violent crime and the right thinks that if you ever walk down a street in any blue big city, you have a 100% chance of being robbed or killed…and that is what they are using in their ads and the racists who are the repubs are just eating this crap up because they just love to hate….for these kind of lies that have been recycled since the 80′s, you would think the dems would have come up with some effective counters to them, but if they have, I haven’t seen them yet…and they need to get off their asses and debunk this bullshit…and now…geez…
A good deal…
Well…still too cold to get out on the bike so I did make the run over to Meijers to pick up a couple of pork loins…got 9 pounds for only about 12 bucks and that makes it 1.33 a pound and that is a pretty good deal for how high pork has been lately…and I even got some apples for 79 cents a pound since I need to put more fruit and veggies into my diet…I may even pick up a couple more to stock the freezer when I do the big grocery run wed….now I need to figure out what to cook with them…maybe some stir fry? I am going to marinate some of one of them to have some chops tomorrow but I need to figure out how to keep them tender when I cook them….need to look for a political topic right now and will be back later for one of those….more later…
October 10th
Well…I’m sure you don’t care how I slept last night so I’m not going to talk about that….okay, yeah, I’m going to say I didn’t get out of bed til 7:25 and I really don’t care about that with it being so cold I won’t be able to get out on the bike til 11 or so…and that means I need to get off my butt and get started on the dining room today…or I may run out to get a pork loin since Meijers has them buy one get one free and I wouldn’t mind marinating some thick pork chops or maybe cooking some in the slow cooker with potatoes and carrots….but they are still going to cost about 8 or 10 bucks each and I’m not sure if that is a bargain or not….still over 2 bucks a pound but I think I can afford to splurge a little….with all of the pain I have right now, it feels like I have the flu or something…my hands even hurt and my back is no better than yesterday so I am hoping for a day off tomorrow or Wed….not sure at all what the heck I did to my left hand but it hurts like crazy today…now I need to think back to what I’ve done over the past few days so I can figure that out….didn’t get anything done yesterday but I need to clean today after noticing that just sanding on the bathroom door frame left the stove and range hood covered in dust and I am not looking forward to having this place dusty again as I work on the dining room…but that’s what happens when I work on this place…ick…not much to do today….I will come back for a political one today even if I have to read the news for hours this morning…I know I’ve slacked off on that lately but after 10K of these I’m not sure if I have anything new to say…I will try, though, and I guess that’s all I can do…more later….
Still looking for a topic…
Well…have been reading the news a lot today but nothing has grabbed me enough to formulate a post from it…so, what to do? I think I’ll just noodle a bit and see what happens…I think I’ve figured out that it is going into the wind that is hurting my back since it is not healing at all and actually hurts worse than it did yesterday..and today was another windy day on the bike and I went pretty hard coming back, too, and it was nice to have the rides done before 11 this morning…saw a big flock of turkeys on the old paper plant land today and there must have been over 25 of them just standing there feeding and that was pretty cool…I am inches away from giving up and going into long pants on the bike soon…it’s only going to be in the 40′s for highs later in the week and I’ll need warmer clothes for that…and it’s supposed to rain Tuesday and Wed so I may be able to have a recovery day off from the bike…but then I’ll probably just hurt my back working on this place since I do need to get on the trim and windows in the dining room…okay, that’s enough for now…want to watch the race and Man U….more later….
October 9th
Well…another worn out morning and I’m getting pretty tired of it…ha, ha….that’s funny and I didn’t even try to be….what if I don’t get on the bike this morning? Just want to lie back down on the couch and veg out completely for the whole day but I know I won’t…..I did get a few things done yesterday but they were just little stuff like putting things away after doing other jobs so I don’t know if that counts as working or not…and I’m not sure if I’ll get anything done today with races and football and soccer on….but that won’t start until around noon so I will need to get two rides in before that…and it’s 7:13 and it’s not light yet so I do get to sit here for a bit and have a second cup of coffee before I even think of how cold it is out there and how I am going to freeze with shorts on…at least the wind is not blowing like it was yesterday…I hope…and maybe it won’t be as miserable as it was, either….felt like crap yesterday afternoon and I think it was another bout of not eating enough for a few days and I wonder if I ate enough yesterday? Probably not…but I don’t care….getting really tired of even thinking about that….not much to do today…it appears like I may get a day off this week with rain coming in Tuesday so I do need to get two rides in today and I’m not looking forward to it….I should clean some today and I may but I don’t even want to think about that right now….just want more coffee and to read the news a bit…i wonder if I should do full thermasuit this morning? It’s always better to be too warm than too cold so I’ll have to think about that for a minute…more later….
Extortion and bribery, too…
Well…if the NYT reporting is accurate, it looks like the idiot trump is on the hook for extortion and bribery, too…if you haven’t read it yet, the NYT reported that idiot boy stole a lot of the classified documents so he could trade them for the material on the 2016 Russian interference in the election to try to “prove” that it was all a hoax…now it’s bad enough that he stole the documents which is a felony, but to try to extort the government and bribe them to give him other documents is another two felonies to go along with obstruction of justice that he committed by hiding the documents in the first place….and it’s not just me saying this…there have been quite a few former prosecutors that have said the same thing and same as me, they can’t figure out why he hasn’t be arrested and charged since the illegal possession of the classified documents has been proven way beyond the standard for a conviction…so come on Garland, perp walk this criminal now before he can do any more damage…geez…