Well…my brother just delivered my new/used Weber gas grill and I put it together and it even has a little gas in the tank and all 3 burners lit up when I got it together…and it has a working igniter and even a rotisserie…but with not riding the bike right now, I won’t be able to use it until that is over on the 6th of Feb…I do need to stay under 1K calories for this three weeks so I guess I’ll just have to wait…darn….and I have chicken legs in the fridge that would be perfect on it….maybe tomorrow…
Monthly Archives: January 2023
January 15th
Well…running a bit late this morning with waking up at 5:04 but not getting out of bed til around 7….slept okay last night and don’t feel too bad this morning but I am sore from the work yesterday but at least my neck and shoulder don’t hurt as much as they did yesterday…this is the second day off the bike and I have to get creative about not eating as I go along…only had two chicken legs and a handful of baked fries yesterday for about 600 calories and I’ll probably do something like that today…I am hoping that the avocados will be ripe so I can make guac today but I think they will probably need another day or two….and the guac will be the only thing I’ll eat on the day it’s made….I did get the bike washed yesterday and put downstairs so I’ll have room to put the grill in the garage but I will need to find space for the bike when I get back to riding outdoors….I may even try to fire the grill up this afternoon…have a package of dogs I can grill but that will put me over my calorie limit…hmmm…not much to do today…and I really don’t…just going to read a bit with my second cup of coffee and maybe get a post out on Mastodon but I’m not thinking past that right now….more later…
Just got back…
Well…made the run into Jenison to put a garage door opener up for my brother…not much of a job but I did take everything down and even new wiring for the electric eyes…it took a few hours but it was pretty easy…and we loaded up the Weber grill he is giving me into his car and he will be bringing that out for me later today or tomorrow…so I can finally cook after I put if back together and get some gas in the tank…now I need to go out and wash my bike so that can go down since the grill is going in that spot…..more later….
January 14th
Well…damn, I feel worn out this morning and I need to get the energy up to head over to my brother’s house to help him with the door opener soon….not sure how I slept last night but I feel like I didn’t sleep at all….coffee, coffee….Man U is playing City right now and they look okay but no goals yet….it’s pretty cold out there right now so I am going to have to dress for the cold today…and I really hate being cold…didn’t get much done yesterday and today will be the same and I need to figure out how to keep the calories down for the next three weeks…not sure if I’m going to fast every other day or go down to one meal a day but I do have to do something….just can’t gain all the weight back that I’ve lost…damn, I’m tired….today is going to be the farthest I’ve driven the car in almost a year and that will be good for it…the short trips out here don’t even let it get up to temp….not much to do today…just the door work and then back here to warm up and veg the rest of the day…it is going to be weird to not ride the bike but it is what it is….more later…
Settle down, people…
Well…after it was announced that the idiot trump’s company was fined 1.6 million dollars for years of ongoing fraud that it was convicted of, immediately the cries of outrage that the fine was too small exploded everywhere I went on the internet today…and, at first, it even raised my outrage meter a bit that the fine was so small…but, settle down, people…that 1.6 million dollars was the largest fine allowed by law so the sentencing judge couldn’t raise it higher than that…so let’s look at this another way…it not very often that any lawbreaking organization gets the biggest fine possible…it’s usually quite a bit under it so I think the judge did the best he could in this instance to make sure people knew that these crimes were serious enough to merit the top fine…now they just need to lock the criminal in chief up…geez…
This feels weird…
Well…sitting here after doing my last bike ride for 3 weeks and it feels weird…I’m going to have to find something to fill those two hours that I rode every day and part of it needs to be something that will burn calories…will probably start to break in the new Fila shoes I got last week…might even walk over to the library since it’s only 5 blocks from here and read some newspapers…probably start that Monday but we’ll see….I’m not sure what I’ll do today but I still don’t feel like doing much so I may just sit here for a bit and do some reading or some posting on Mastodon….feel a little lost…but I will be back for a political one in a while…damn, it’s going to hard taking the calories down to around 500 a day…I’ve already had two chicken legs and a roast potato and that is almost 500 for the day already…and I’m planning on having two tacos for dinner so I’ll be near a thousand for the day…but I did ride so that won’t be too bad…
January 13th
Well…running late this morning and I almost forgot to come here and do this before I run errands this morning….up at 5:04 and out of bed by 7 today but I don’t feel like I slept at all…and that is probably from just pouring my first cup of coffee at 7:40…it feels like a slow day today that I’m not sure how it’s going to play out…I do need to get out to Meijers to get my mega tickets for tonight and an onion for the guac I’m going to make as soon as the avocados are ready and I can’t figure out how I forgot it Wed….I did get some chicken legs in a marinade last night that I’m going to cook for lunch today and then I’ll finish off the tacos for dinner…then I switch to one meal a day for the next three weeks to make up for not riding the bike…not sue how that is going to work going down to well under a thousand calories a day….but I am happy that I’ve lost a lot of weight and don’t want to put 10 pounds back on in those three weeks…I guess I’ll have to see how my body functions on so little calories and adjust as I go…not much to do today…just the errands and the bike rides and then taking the day as it comes…more later….
Next to the last day….
Well….didn’t get a lot done today on the next to last day of riding until Feb 6th…I did find a urologist out here that works for the U of M medical system and the first appointment is on the 14th of Feb, and then my mouth surgery starts the next week but it will all be done by the end of Feb….then I will probably need some kind of treatment for the prostate problems but I am going to cut that off long before the trip on the 19 of Sept so I can be healed up and can walk a lot…it has been nice that it hasn’t been snowing but we are going to get some next week and I hope it goes through here before I have to start going to appointments…I still have no clue how I’m going to get to the periodontist appointments…medicare is supposed to provide rides to and from doctors appointment so I’ll have to check it out…didn’t get the chance to watch any tv last night so I have lots to watch tonight and I’m going to enjoy that…..
The Missouri taliban….
Well…when the Missouri legislature started today, guess what the first piece of business was? The repubs running it just had to propose new rules restricting what women can wear in the chamber…I guess the taliban there was too excited seeing the bare arms of women so they had to make a rule that said that women can’t wear anything that shows their bare arms….what’s next? Are these backward assholes going to propose that women have to wear skirts or hijab? Or veils covering their faces? This is the modern repub party folks…trying to treat women as second class citizens who have no innate rights but only those the men give them…and this is just a part of the repub plan to keep these uppity women in their place across this country…and the only way to make it stop is to stop voting for these pricks…geez..
January 12th
Well…running late this morning with getting up at 5:04 and then out of bed at 7:20….and my frickin back hurts again…not as bad as before but it does hurt and that is disappointing…at least my teeth don’t hurt right now but they probably will in a little while…I sure don’t want to get on the bike today but I probably will…just so damn worn out that all I want to do is melt into the couch for a couple of hours…talked to my oldest brother for hours yesterday and I’m heading to his place Sat morning to help him put a new garage door opener up…it was nice to reminisce about a lot of stuff and talk music and damn near everything else….I think I talked more yesterday than I have in months…and then Tom called right after that and we talked for another hour so I’m all talked out and want to be silent for the next two days…one good thing with being on the phone all night is that I have lots of shows to watch for the next couple of days….today is the last day of leftovers so I need to marinade some of the chicken legs I got yesterday to cook tomorrow but I still need to figure out a second meal for the next few days…I do have avocados to make some guac and I am going to try roasting the garlic for it and I have to remember to take a jalapeno out of the freezer to put in it for some kick…not much to do today…I am going to drag myself down to ride but I should be there now but just can’t do it…need more coffee and to read the news….more later….