Well..in a bit of good news, it was announced this morning that we have kept control of the senate and there is a possibility of even keeping the house if everything breaks our way…and these events punctured the doom and gloom that I felt when there were real prospects of losing them both…and going along with the dems taking over all of the power here in Michigan, maybe, just maybe I can get over the depression that came with the election…and I am excited that we can still accomplish a few things in the senate like getting more real judges appointed…not the hacks that the repubs always seem to nominate….and if we do hold the house, we need to take on the supreme court and do a real background investigation of Kavanaugh since thousands of tips on his criminal behavior were ignored by the FBI under the idiot trump and we still need to learn who paid off his quarter of a million dollar debts and paid off his house for him….sure sounds like a bribe to me…and then we need to expand the court and appoint real judges to the new seats, not the political hacks like alito who quote witch burners as reason for them taking rights away from women in this country…so, I guess I may even smile a bit today…not too much, but a little…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
November 13th
Well…damn, I hurt….I really do need to figure out why my back still hurts after 6 weeks from the first time I did it…I feel like I’m 90 years old and hobbling around this place…I think I’ll take the day off riding today and see if that will help…wasn’t going to ride outdoors anyway with the snow coming down out here and I only ate one meal yesterday since I only rode indoors…..and I am feeling that right now with no energy and a sour stomach so I think I’ll have some fruit here in a minute and lots more coffee…didn’t get a damn thing done but reading yesterday but I do need to clean a bit at some point today…and Man U plays at 11:30 so I want to have everything done by then…and there is an F1 race on later along with the Lions losing so I guess I’ll have something to keep me from getting bored…it’s a perfect day for hibernating out here and I think I will….I do need to do laundry today, too, but I have all day for that so I don’t need to rush…not much to do today…I do have to remember to find a political topic for later and I may even give myself a haircut since it is getting a little shaggy….but right now all I want is another cup of coffee and to fire up the tablet to read some news…..more later….
The decision was made for me…
Well…just as I was digging out my big gloves to get on the bike, it started to rain/snow so the decision where to ride was made for me…it will be an inside day today or I may even just say the hell with it and take the day off…it is a little funny that with me losing all the weight, I have that sagging skin on my abdomen that people get after fast weight loss….and it looks pretty strange….I really don’t want to ride today….but I will….and I need a reset about that…it seems that everything I do is focused on my weight and that is pretty unhealthy….but that has been a lifelong thing…I remember when I was in my 20′s that I would skip eating for days to try to get it under control…and very seldom being successful….I wonder what it would be like to be able to eat like a normal person? I’m always under 1500 calories a day and many days under 1000 and normal people are supposed to be able to eat 2500 a day and maintain their weight….but not me….I’m just damn tired of all of it…I would love to just get cleaned up and park myself on the couch with soccer on in the background and read some more…man, that seems pretty attractive right now….oh, well…running out of days to do that….and that sucks, too….
November 12th
Well..damn, just poured the first cup of coffee at 7:45 and didn’t get out of bed til 7:34…and we have a winter weather advisory on for today out here today with 2-5 inches of snow forecast…not ready for that at all but I am happy that I got the leaves picked up…the big tree still has all it’s leaves, though, and I am going to have to pick them up at some point…it’s only 37 out here right now so I’m waffling between an indoor ride or suiting up to go outside…there is no wind so it would be an okay ride….don’t want to do anything right now other than have my coffee…my back is still sore this morning but it’s not the total seize up it was yesterday….but, I really would like to know why it’s hurting like it is….if it snows like forecast, I’ll have to skip going out for the paper tomorrow and just treat it as a normal day…and that will save me 5 bucks and I’ll take that…the Sunday paper is pretty worthless so I really should just stop getting it….and that would end one thing that has given me lots of pleasure over the years…and that sucks…not much to do today….don’t really have a lot to do other than get the rides in but I’m not motivated to do that at all right now…I used to be able to just enjoy a day with nothing to do in it but I lost that when I started worrying about getting old and getting fat….and now I worry about losing all my teeth and dying of cancer…I’m just damn tired and need a break….more later…
Ha, ha….the repubs here in Michigan are nuts…
Well…after the repubs lost everything here in Michigan when they couldn’t cheat, it is a little bit of fun listening to them pointing fingers at everyone but themselves…and they now have even started attacking the repubs who were at the top of the ticket saying they were not “quality” candidates…not that they are just the normal run of the mill maga candidates who had no ideas that anyone wanted…I mean the only reason that tudor dixon was their governor candidate was that betsy devos bought it for her…and all she did was spout that abortion rights would be gone if she was elected…and that was just so stupid with the constitutional amendment protecting those rights polling at nearly 70%…so she gave up all those votes for no reason at all…or just to keep the maga assholes happy…and that was the problem all the way down the ticket…and look at john gibbs who beat pete meijer in the primary…this said that women shouldn’t even have the right to vote and that was just fine with the repub primary voters…here’s the thing I’ve been harping on for quite a while now…if the vote is fair in Michigan, as it now has to be with gerrymandering essentially outlawed, we will win since they are more of us than repubs…and we have ideas for making the state better and the repubs only have hate to run on…and we’re tired of that crap…and that showed election day…yee ha…
6 hours of work…
Well…after waking up exhausted this morning and thinking I was going to take it a little easy, I did the stupid thing I always do and got started as soon as the sun came up and got the first ride in with the brutal wind out there…then out to run an errand, back here to do the leaves that took over two hours and I filled 8 more bags…thought I was going to have to go out and get more bags but I had exactly enough room in the bags to finish them up…then a quick lunch and back on the bike for the second ride where the wind was even more brutal than this morning…and that meant 6 hours of busting my butt and now I’m going to take it easy for the rest of the day…after getting the leaves done, my back froze up completely and I couldn’t move for a good minute…so I did take some ibuprofen before I got on the bike and it appears to have helped…so now I need to find a topic to do in politics…so, more later…
November 11th
Well…man, I’m tired this morning…up at 5:41 and then out of bed at 6:41…and I need to get going but don’t want to…today starts the cold weather and it’s supposed to snow later tonight…so that means I need to do the leaves today even though the big tree hasn’t dropped it’s leaves yet…but I’m going to hope the wind will blow them away…so it may be a one ride day today and I’ll be in full thermasuit or almost full thermasuit since it’s only 50 out there and the temp is going to drop all day…didn’t get anything done yesterday but cook the big meal so I do need to get a few things done today…and need to have it all done before the F1 finale in Brazil later in the afternoon….it has been a pretty crappy season and I’ve kind of lost interest in it but it will give me something to pass the time….the wind is going to blow 10-20 today but it’s only about 8 right now so I need to get out as soon as it’s light….not much to do today…might have to make a run out to daily deals to get some summer sausage that is on sale for 2 bucks a pound and that would go good with cheese and crackers for a snack…I know it’s bad for me but I’m to the point where I just don’t give a damn anymore….so that will have to happen after the first ride and before I get to the leaves…and then it will be the start of hibernation season where I should be working on the house…but I’m not going to…just don’t feel like it….more later….
They went too far…
Well…I think one of the reasons we now have abortion rights and voting rights enshrined in the constitution here in Michigan was that repubs went too far in trying to take those rights away…and with the overwhelming wins of those two proposals, it just shows that the repubs were never really governing for anyone but their base…and there are not enough voters in their base to win a fair election like the one we just had with the districts drawn by the independent commission that again, we voters had to enshrine in our constitution with the repubs cheating in every damn election with the worst gerrymander in the entire US. And we also saw the repubs fixation on taking rights away from the LGBTQ community and election denying were not winning strategies since they lost both the house and senate Tuesday. That’s as it should be…for 40 years the dems have had many more votes cast in every election but the repubs cheated to keep control of Michigan and ram their hate, stupidity, and religion down everyone’s throats…but those days are over for at least two years and I am excited to see what the dems can do to fix the damage the repubs did here…I would suggest a tax on the rich for starters and no more giveaways to business…wouldn’t that be nice?
This never happened before…
Well…after trying for years, I finally had a patched tube last through two rides and that has never happened before…I think the farthest I’ve ever gone on a patched tube was about a mile and most times they would leak out all the air even before I got the wheel back on the bike…so now it will be interesting to see how long it will last before the tire goes flat again…I did hurt myself again today with the wind blowing a good 15 out here but it was a good hurt being back on the bike after the day off yesterday…and I did get the big turkey meal in the oven and on the stove and will be eating here in a half hour or so…and after the very little food I had yesterday, I am hungry today and can’t wait to eat…and then there is the clean up after and my plan is to get that done before Man U comes on at 3….not sure if I’ll do leaves today…I guess we’ll see how I feel after I get everything else done….I could do them tomorrow since it’s not supposed to rain til Saturday…more later…
November 10th
Well…boy, I’m worn out today…I think getting two teeth removed took a lot out of me yesterday and I’m still feeling it today…but my mouth doesn’t hurt much today so I’ll take that as a plus…just turned the turkey in the brine and spilled it all over the fridge and that sucks…but even the brine smells good so I have hope that it is going to turn out okay…just remembered to take a stick of butter out to soften it so I can make some rosemary butter to slather it in and put under the breast skin….going to eat like a lion today and I’ll probably be uncomfortable later…doing the entire t-day meal today with stuffing and green bean casserole and that will make leftovers for the next week…didn’t eat much yesterday so I can lay it on today…need to get out on the bike here in a few minutes and I hope the repaired tube in the back wheel holds up so I can get two rides in this morning….and Man U plays at three so I hope to get the meal done before then…but I need to get the two rides in so I can start getting the sides done for the meal before noon….I am enjoying reading the books I got from the used book sale…have already done a Patricia Cornwell and Jonathan Kellerman and I’m going to start another Cornwell today….helps to pass the time without watching tv all day…not much to do today…just the rides and cooking but I really should get to the leaves today, too but I’m not sure I’ll have time…it’s the last warm day of the year and I should be outside to enjoy it…there is snow in the forecast but that doesn’t bother me…it’s November in Michigan and you need to expect that….more later…