Well…took a veg day today and didn’t get on the bike…just wasn’t feeling it and didn’t even get to a shower until after 2pm…my legs hurt much more than normal and I was hobbling around here and still am…but now it’s from sitting here all day and not doing anything…it has rained out here all day and most of the snow is gone so now we just wait for more…I am going to try to wash the car tomorrow morning since it has salt all over it and I can barely see out of the windows…and I will get back on the bike for two rides tomorrow…I may do the car between them since all this rain has washed the salt off the roads…or I could do it sat morning but would rather get it done while everyone else is working….right now, I’m going to start to wind down for the night…going to use up all of my good shows tonight and the go back to the second tier shows tomorrow…..
Monthly Archives: February 2023
They do know there is video, right?
Well…yeah, I’m really late today with taking the day off to lie on the couch and watch movies…but I did want to talk about the stupidity of the repubs when it comes to video evidence of what they say…I mean they do know there is video, right? It started Tuesday when Biden called them out on their plans to eliminate SS and Medicare…and they all complained loudly that they never said they were going to do that…cue the video…so today, reporters kind of did their jobs and had the tape ready when the asked Mike Lee if he was going to cut those popular and vital programs and he again denied it…so they rolled the tape and the idiot just got pissed and walked away…I saw this happen a couple of times in my feed over at Mastodon and I can understand why they keep lying…after all, not one damn repub has been held accountable for their lies so they will just keep doing it unless the media elevates the truth and continues to confront them with it…and the rest of the dems need to “Biden up” and do the same…oh, and I’ll copyright “Biden Up” tm…I thought that one up right now…
February 9th
Well…that was a little better…up at 5:04 but stayed in bed til 6:23 but that was not enough to make up for the sleep deficit from Tuesday night so I am dragging this morning…I did get the house cleaned up yesterday for Tom’s visit and it was nice to see him and Lucy…only did one ride yesterday but need to do two today…was going to wash the car but it is raining out there right now and it looks like it will be going on for quite some time…so that may wait til tomorrow…I did make some guac yesterday but the avocados were so bad I had to throw half of them away…I guess that’s what you get for 49 cents each….only had about 600 calories yesterday with one chicken leg, half a baked potato, and some corn…okay, nope, that’s only about 400 calories so that could be why I’m so worn out today…I wonder if this is going to be a day off? Sure don’t feel like doing anything today…the weather widget at the bottom of my screen has a new one today with “heavy mix” that I’m assuming means it’s just cold enough to make the heavy rain turn into kinda snowing….not much to do today…did the laundry and cleaned yesterday so it may be the day to just veg it out and take it easy…but you know I won’t…at least I’m not sore today….more later…
This a little funny…
Well…yesterday, when I had an old 60′s private eye show called “Mannix” running in the background, the main character walked into a bar and some familiar music was playing…”Bluebird” by Buffalo Springfield…and the cool thing was they were actually on the show playing it…and even weirder was that I saw that clip on a news site just a few days before…you couldn’t see them very well but I got glimpses of Stephen Stills playing in front and of Neil Young standing on the back of the stage next to the drummer looking like he didn’t want to be there…still cool to see them doing something other than “For What it’s Worth”….
State of the Union…
Well…just want to do a short one on the State of the Union address that Joe Biden did last night…and all I can say is wow! I think it was easily the best one he’s ever done and he toyed with the repubs through the whole thing…getting them to promise to not cut SS or Medicare…but we know they are liars so you can’t believe they will keep their word…he did a great job of making people understand the accomplishments of his administration and that is borne out in the polls taken afterward that showed the approval for it at a whopping 72%….and even almost 50% of repubs approved of it…but that didn’t stop the trolls like MTG yelling at Joe while he was doing the speech…acting like the spoiled little toddlers they are…I hope that the people on our side understand that Joe would still be the strongest candidate for 2024…he’s not senile, he’s not “losing it”…yeah, he is 80 but damn what a speech…
February 8th
Well…damn, that sucked…woke up at 3:04 and then tossed and turned for 3 hours until I gave up at 6:23…I am so damn worn out that I may not get on the bike today but we’ll see later…it’s going to be a chore to do the grocery run today and I can’t get to that until 8:30 with needing to get some allergy meds but the pharmacy doesn’t open til 9 so I’ll hit Aldis first….and the means a run over to Sternberg road today since the Aldis over there opens at 8:30….I think I need to take a day off soon and just take it easy but it’s easier to just stay on schedule….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I do need to do laundry today and cook…making some chicken legs for lunch and I need to figure out if I’m staying with the one meal a day or if I’m having two…it feels like my energy level is pretty low from only eating one yesterday so I’m not sure if it’s sustainable….I wonder if spring is coming early this year with all of the snow melting yesterday and no sub freezing temps in the forecast for the next 10 days….haven’t had any birds on the feeder for the past few days and that is a little strange…have had flocks of them this winter and it has been pretty entertaining…not much to do today…just the grocery run and laundry but how I feel right now, that will be enough…more later…
Had work to do today…
Well…when I got off the bike for the first ride, I had some work to do over at mastodon since it had gotten very political in my feed and I didn’t want that…I did remember that the changes happened when I followed a few people that appeared to do nothing but boost posts all day long which cluttered up my feed…after unfollowing them, it is back to what I wanted it for…to talk to people and see what other people are doing in their lives…I did get the second ride in and, with having toast with peanut butter early, I’m only going to have one meal today….so I have the dishes done and only have to set up the coffee maker for tomorrow morning….just wrote checks for another 600 bucks today for my house insurance and electric bill and that brings the spending to 1600 bucks out of the 5 grand I’m going to spend by the end of the month…and that’s extra outlay over and above the normal bills so I guess the electric bill shouldn’t be included….
State of the Union…
Well…it’s almost 1 and I am now just getting things done so I could come here and do a political one…with the State of the Union address happening tonight, the crazy assed repubs are telegraphing the stupid crap they are going to do to try to respond to the good things Joe Biden is going to be able to say about the economy tonight…the moron McCarthy has already said he is going to make a big show of tearing up his copy of the speech just like Nancy did with the idiot trump’s lie filled rant and that is the only thing he is going to be able to do….Joe has accomplished more for the country in two years than any other president in history…and the economy is still humming along adding hundreds of thousands of jobs so now adding jobs and rising pay is now a bad thing? Yep, they’re going to go down that road but they know that they are only playing to their base so they can lie all they want…and I’ll bet the Chinese balloon will get worked in there somehow like it’s the biggest scandal in history…I guess what I’m saying is that watching the response to the speech will be a waste of time…geez…
February 7th
Well..damn, I feel like crap this morning and my head is plugged up and can barely breathe…my allergies are flaring up and there is no reason for it that I can think of….didn’t sleep well at all and I’m in slow mode again today…with barely enough energy to sit here let alone get on the bike…but I will, not for a while but I will….had an okay day yesterday and got a few things done but just vegging out is looking pretty attractive right now….okay, that’s enough of that….heard from C last night and he is leasing out his farm for a huge solar panel installation that is going to pay him a bunch of cash so that is really cool….it was nice to hear from him since there are very few people from the old group that I still have contact with…it’s already 43 degrees outside but there is a gale warning on with winds of 30-40 mph and gusts of 50 today so I think a lot of the snow will melt….and it’s been raining some so that should help, too….was thinking of taking the bike out but with those winds that is not going to happen….not much to do today…going to need to get moving soon but I don’t want to….if I can force myself to get on the bike, I’ll consider that a success for the day….more later…
Got some stuff done today…
Well…it’s actually been kind of a busy day today with getting back to the normal routines and that felt good…got two rides in this morning, and in between them I ran out to menards to pick up the LED paddle lights that I had a rain check for…2-8,000 lumen ones for 10 bucks…they will light up my work area downstairs like crazy and that will be cool when I get back to work on this place…the I got the second ride in and made some lunch and after that I cleaned the kitchen, did the dishes, and a few more little things that kept me working til 3…my daughter texted me and told me she is sending me a new suitcase for the UK trip…I guess she thinks my 40 year old/green target ones are kind of worn out…and they are…and she sent me a list of all of the old folks ride services that I can use when I get my teeth worked on in a couple of weeks…will look at the list tomorrow and see if I can get on the schedule…I really do want to try to ride outdoors this week but my house is still surrounded by ice and I don’t want to dump the bike and get hurt so we’ll see….it’s supposed to rain tonight so maybe that will melt the ice…okay, I’m done for the day….