Well..when the idiot trump announced he’s running for president again, the immediate thought came to me “can’t we get rid of the idiot?” I had enough of him the first time I heard him talk…and all he did in his speech was re-hash all of the bullshit he has been spewing for years…and a funny little fact was that as people tried to leave in the middle of that boring piece of bullshit, idiot boy’s staff wouldn’t let them…they barricaded the doors to make sure the idiot’s fee fees wouldn’t be hurt by people who had enough of his bloviating….the one thing we all have to remember is that this is still all a grift…he got a billion dollars from the rubes for his last campaign that he just kept…no helping other candidates like he lied he would and the flood of fundraising e-mails started up again and the rubes are still giving him money…what the hell is wrong with those people? They must really like being lied to and taken advantage of…after all, he didn’t keep one promise that he made to them and just stole all their money…or are they all just plain stupid? I vote for the last one after hearing these morons speak on tv…don’t have 2 brain cells to rub together between them….geez…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
November 16th
Well…hmmm…it looks like I need to do a complete re-think of my daily routine with the weather change and snow….not doing enough work to burn the calories I’ve been taking in so how do I do it? Cut the calories down to under 1K a day or get on the inside bike twice a day? Or both? I do know I sure as hell don’t feel like doing either but I do need to do something with my weight loss stalling and feeling like I’m getting fat again…but that means I need to get on the bike in 6 minutes and that is not an appealing thought….oh, well….my back pain is not as bad as it was but I’m not going to declare success yet…and I am a little irritated that I haven’t gotten notice from amazon that my heating pad has been shipped….it was supposed to be here by the end of the week but that won’t happen now….at least it didn’t snow as much as they were forecasting and I can take the car out today to do the grocery run….for the first time in a long time I don’t need to hit aldis today…still have what I bought last week in the cupboard so there is nothing I need from there….not sure what I’m going to do today but I don’t want to do anything right now…not going to buy another turkey today since it would thaw too soon so I’ll wait til Friday to pick one up….going to try a new brine with cranberry juice for the next one and I am looking forward to something new…have tried apple and orange juice along with veggie broth and they all came out good…I think I may have enough room in the freezer for another carcass but they will need to be made into soup soon….not much to do today….can I take a day off? Yeah, that’s not going to happen but I’m not going to get on the bike before the grocery run….the conundrum is that cutting calories takes all the energy out of me but I need to burn more of them by doing two rides a day….damn, I feel worn out…more later…
Reading…
Well…I don’t know what happened….after the trip the library out here and purchasing 25 used books, I have been on a reading binge over the past week with reading almost a book a day over the past 7 days….and I just finished up number 8 and I’m looking to start number 9….I used to be such a reader with always having a book going for almost my entire life but got out of that habit with all of the work I’ve done over the past few years on my house and the house on Valley…I think it may be driven by my lack of motivation I’ve been having about working on this place and helps me justify not doing anything…or maybe it’s just a new phase and something different to do…who knows? After I get through all of my books, I going to use my shiny new library card and check out some new ones…will probably have to do that next week….darn…
Russian missiles just hit Poland…
Well…how about something a little different? Haven’t talked about the stupid Russian invasion of Ukraine lately, but what happened today needs a little comment….in a huge barrage of terror, the Russians launched almost a hundred missiles into western Ukraine today trying to hit infrastructure and civilians as terrorists do but there was a little problem with the attack when 2 of their missiles went off course and landed on a farm in Poland, killing two people and wrecking some farm equipment. Now, since Poland is a NATO country, they could invoke Article 5 that requires other NATO countries to defend them…but, they probably won’t in this case, opting for an apology from putin and reparations for the damage done and the people killed…after all, Poland has a bigger, better equipped army than Russia does…and just think of that…Russia is supposedly a superpower and little Poland can kick their butts anytime they want…what do you think the rest of the countries that Russia has under their thumb are going to think about that? Even China seems to be abandoning putin and Russian media is talking about a people’s revolt against the government….I’ve never seen one person so miscalculate a military campaign so that it backfires and ruins his attacking country…it will be delicious to see ole putin groveling to the Polish government….and to see who is going to fall out of window next to pay for this mistake…should find out later today….
Live David Bowie…
Well…to go on with the music topic from yesterday, I was looking for an album to listen to on the indoor bike this morning and came across a live David Bowie album that I didn’t even know I had so I put that on and played it…some songs that are on it I’ve never heard before and that was a little treat…oh, and with that listening, I can add another one to the Hammond B-3 count from the song “Panic in Detroit”…more later….
November 15th
Well…it was a 6 am day to start and I think I slept through the night but sure don’t feel like it right now….I hurt and feel pretty crappy so I need to ease into the day with coffee and some old tv shows…it is supposed to rain/snow most of the day today so it looks like an indoor ride today….and that means I can sit here until 9 or so and watch Route 66 before I get going…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done but the branches and leaves and reading an entire book and I’ll finish another one today…it has been nice to get back into reading again and it fills the time that I would normally use watching tv…the world cup starts next week and I am a little excited about that….started watching that tournament back in 1994 when it was here in the US and it is a nice diversion…but that means there is no EPL to watch but I guess that is okay with how crappy Man U is playing….still haven’t gotten a shipping notice for the heating pad I bought Sunday so it looks like it won’t be here until next week and that does suck a little…I could use it right now with the tightness and pain I have in my back…oh, well…not much to do today…I should be working on this place but I have zero motivation….I’ve worked too hard my whole life and I’m just worn down by it….so I think I’ll just do the grocery list and read a bit after the bike ride…I’m running out of turkey so I’ll need to plan and get some food out of the freezer…..not sure if I’m going to buy another turkey but I probably should…and this time I might buy a butterball for 99 cents a pound but I could wait til Friday for that so it will thaw by Wed and I can brine it…but right now, all I want is more coffee and to sit here a bit….more later….
I guess I shouldn’t have worried…
Well…as you remember, I was a little worried after taking the day off the bike and having my back starting to feel better after I ordered a heating pad to treat it…I guess I shouldn’t have worried about that…after doing two rides outside today, my back is right back to where it was a few days back when it froze up completely and is howling in pain again…and now it hurts behind my right shoulder to go with it…it was a struggle on the bike today and it took a lot out of me but I was able to get the downed branches bundled up and put the 8 bags of leaves out….so there will be an ibuprofen in my future to try to take the edge off the pain in an hour or so…at least now I will know if the heating pad will work….damn…
A little music…
Well…not sure if I’m getting tired of my playlists in the mp3 player, but I’ve been reminded lately of how good playing entire albums can be…so that’s what I’ve been doing on the bike lately and one thing that came out of that is the clear evolution of the band Genesis from “Trick of the Tale” to “We Can’t Dance” that I had not really noticed before…ToT really is more related to their earlier work but WCD is more just a Phil Collins album that Rutherford and Banks play on…but that’s not to say it’s not a good one but the topics are more personal than on ToT and it has lots of ballads on it that are clearly Phil’s work…and love songs and I don’t remember any of those in their earlier work…I just think their earlier stuff was more prog rock than the pop it turned into on WCD…about the same as comparing Pink Floyd’s early works like “Atom Heart Mother” or “Meddle” to “Dark Side of the Moon” or “Wish You Were Here”…they also show a clear evolution from the really experimental stuff they were doing to start their careers…but they avoided going all the way to pop and I am thankful for that….just a few thoughts that came to me on the bike today…and it’s kind of filler since I haven’t come up with a topic in politics yet…but I will keep trying…
November 14th
Well…up at 5:41 and then the switch clicked at 6:33 and I knew there was no point in lying in bed anymore….had an okay day yesterday but didn’t do anything at all other than read…got all the way through a 400 page book in one day and I’m not sure how I got back into reading so much…I know part of it is the haul of books I got from the used book sale at the library but I still needed to actually read them…a habit I had gotten out of for many years…it really does fill the time quite nicely and I wonder if I’ll do another one today? My back still hurts and it’s a weird thing after ordering the heating pad yesterday…I want it to keep hurting until it gets here later in the week so I can see if it works or not..yeah, I’m pretty damn strange….it’s going to be cold from now on so I think I need to put the garden hose away and put the cap on the outside water tap since the valve I have on it now is made out of plastic and won’t survive the freeze…..and I need to cut the fallen branches up and bundle them along with putting the 8 bags of leaves out to be picked up tomorrow…I am going to get one more 5 pack of big lawn bags since there are still leaves falling and I don’t want to leave them on the lawn….I do need to do laundry today and figure out what I’m going to with the leftover turkey since I won’t be able to eat it all before it spoils…and that means I will need to plan other meals for later in the week….and they have to come out of the freezer….not much to do today…I do need to get a ride or two in and I want to do them outdoors….and that will mean I can have two meals today…but it’s only 30 out there right now and that means I’ll have to watch for ice on the trail with all the rain/snow we got yesterday…I did take the day off yesterday to try to heal the back a bit and it seems to have worked some but I know it will hurt again after the rides….man, I’m tired this morning….getting old is a pain in the butt….more later…
Spent some money today….
Well…with all of the pain I’ve been having for the past 6 weeks and not wanting to continually take ibuprofen, I had to try the one other thing I know will help…so, I bought myself a nice heating pad from Amazon today…it’s a big one with digital controls, automatic shut off timer, and it’s even washable when you take the cord off…it can go right in my washing machine and that is pretty cool…and it was only 20 bucks and less than any I could find locally….and that will come in handy this winter when I get too damn cold…and I bought myself a new rechargeable beard trimmer to replace one that I should have replaced 10 years ago when the battery stopped working in it…today was the last straw when I was trying to use it to do the fine trimming after I gave myself a haircut and it was cutting out even plugged in…and that has been going on for months and was a big enough pain that I spent 17 bucks to replace it with a nice Norelco one that has like 13 attachments and I will be able to use it for a month without recharging it….so, I spent 40 bucks today and put it on my capital one card that I haven’t used in a couple of months that pays me cash back…and I think I have 20 bucks of the cash back cash to use against it…so I guess I only spent 20 bucks today…and that feels better…