Well…up at 6:03 this morning and when I was lying in bed trying to get moving, I saw something that was a little confusing…the full moon streaming into my west facing window threw a pattern on my wall that made it look like I had two windows in there instead of one…pretty cool…and I slept okay but ground my teeth again and have a little pain from it but not as much as yesterday so that is cool…not going to ride before I do the grocery run so I can ease into the day and have coffee and then do a ride indoors this morning as I wait for the temp to come up enough to ride outdoors this afternoon…but that will be the last one this week with the temps dropping and watching for a winter storm for Friday morning…so, I need to get all of the errands run today and tomorrow….didn’t get a lot done other than the rides yesterday but I think I may be getting used to it…I did find a container to put on my side table to put the bills in when they come to make sure I don’t miss a payment….need to be a little more organized around here….not much to do today…just the grocery runs and then getting on the bikes…doing the 31 miles yesterday put some miles in the bank in case I don’t feel like riding…my legs are sore and that seldom happens….more later….
Monthly Archives: March 2023
31 miles today…
Well…after getting 16 miles in this morning on the indoor bike, the weather was just so inviting with the temp up to 46 and sunny…so I suited up and did another 15 miles outdoors to give me 31 for the day…surely don’t have my summer lungs or legs but it was a good ride until coming back from the beach into a 10 mph wind that was kind of a chore…I did get the chance to ride by the huge boat storage building that caught on fire yesterday…150 boats in it and they think it’s a 2-3 million dollar loss…and you could smell it from a quarter mile away….my legs hurt quite badly right now so I think I’ll take something for it before I get into the relaxing later…my teeth are holding up now but with a bit of a setback after I got up from grinding them all night…the hole where the molar used to be started to hurt but that went away this afternoon and that was the first time I even felt that part of the work…second day in a row I didn’t use any orajel or ibuprofen for the pain so that’s progress…and I can chew on that side a bit so it’s slowly getting better…yay!
I knew this would happen…
Well…when mccarthy gave exclusive access to tucker of the January 6th camera footage from the capital, I knew that he would edit it to make it look like the thugs and criminals did nothing wrong…and that just happened last night on tucker’s racist, fascist hour… where he described them as “orderly” and non-violent…but my question is if they were so “orderly” and “non-violent”, how did so may cops get injured? Did they all trip and fall down and then beat themselves with flagpoles? Do “orderly” “visitors” smash windows and kick in doors as they smear crap all over the walls? I wonder what the purpose is here? It’s been two years and the January 6th committee has already shown that this was no “orderly” visit…it was a mob who attacked the capital and killed people and no amount of whitewashing by tucker is going to change that…I guess it’s just to gin up more outrage from his conspiracy loving viewers who are not the smartest in the world….gee…z
March 7th
Well…slept okay last night but ground my teeth and that means pain again…but it’s not too bad so I can live with it…must have slept on my left side last night since my neck hurts on that side…having the pain subside a bit yesterday gave me hope that it is going to heal but I’m not so sure today….I know that it takes time and I haven’t had to treat the pain in a full day so maybe? Didn’t get much done yesterday but do some laundry and do the bike rides but I’m still pretty worn out today….didn’t eat a whole lot yesterday with a bowl and a half of chili and a 4 inch piece of smoked sausage in a leftover hamburger bun…less than 1K calories I’m sure and I need to plan out meals for the rest of the week…there is no protein on sale this week and I normally do corned beef and cabbage for St. Paddy’s day but not at 4 bucks a pound…I think I need to vary my diet some and get away from the normal chicken and pork but I am thawing some of the last batch of ribs I have in there for tomorrow that needs to be marinated some time today….it may be warm enough to get outside on the bike today but I’m going to do one downstairs to start the day…it is only 30 out there right now so going outside is going to have to wait…and today will be the only time this week I’ll even think about outdoor rides since the highs are going to be in the 30′s the rest of the week…I get impatient for the weather to break every spring and the wait gets depressing at times…I do have to get my seeds in the cups today and get some bean and tomato seeds tomorrow so I can get everything going to be ready for the last frost…more later…
Progress…
Well…after having pain eating lunch…I was pretty depressed and really thought I wasn’t making any progress in healing….but then I tried some chili as dip with some tortilla chips and was able to eat on that side…still painful but not the howling pain that it has been for the past week…and the pain stopped right after I stopped eating….so I decided to give dinner a try and had a piece of smoked sausage on a bun and was able to eat on the left side and now I sit here with barely any pain drinking ice water so I do have hope that there is progress happening with healing….have not had to use any orajel today and that would be the first time since I had the work done a week ago…I’m going to keep my fingers crossed that it’s not just a fluke and the howling pain starts again…
Tried it, didn’t work..
Well…as you know, I’m fighting to recover from having the gums on the left side of my mouth torn up and then stitched back together…and I haven’t been able to chew on that side in the week since…but it appeared to be getting better over the weekend so when I made chili today, I decided to try to chew on the left side but that lasted one spoonful and the pain started right up again…so we’re back to square one again although it doesn’t hurt when I don’t use it and that is progress from before…I really hope this is one of those times where it hurts until it doesn’t and surprises me with that soon…but now, it didn’t work…and that sucks…
I’m glad I live in a blue state…
Well…when I look at what is happening in the red states across this country…the hatred, book banning, fascism and an explosion in no permit open carry, I am so glad I live in a blue state that is completely controlled by the dems…I mean if your a dem in Florida, how could you take what the asshole desantis is doing to you state in cooperation with even more right wing repub cronies…I mean outlawing teaching of any black history or charging teachers with felonies for displaying the wrong book in their classroom while not telling them what books are the wrong books? So that means the rich environment of ideas that used to exist there is now completely controlled by the repubs…recognize that? Yep, sure sounds like fascism to me…and they have criminalized even talking about LGBT issues in any Florida school and are now packing the management of every college/university with desantis cronies and are turning them all into Hillsdale…that far right college here in Michigan that pushes constantly for the separation of church and state to end….so yep, I am glad I live here in Michigan but we all need to get out to vote in every damn election because if the repubs take over here, the rights of many of our fellow citizens will be gone…geez…
March 6th
Well…damn, must have ground my teeth all night since they hurt with that dull, background ache that is going to be energy draining all day…I feel pretty worn out and I’m having a hard time getting going today…since I didn’t take the day off yesterday, can I take it off today? Just poured the first cup of coffee so that can’t be working yet but it has to start soon or I’ll be lying down on the couch for a nap…didn’t get out of bed til 7 this morning and that is getting to be the norm but that will change tonight with not using the rest of the pain medication for my teeth….it’s raining and 35 degrees out there so I’ll be riding indoors today and the rest of the week since the highs are going to be in the 30′s all week…I sure hope spring breaks soon…I mean we’re in frickin March and it’s supposed to be warming up…but looking out 10 days, there is no warm at all….I did throw some stale ritz crackers out for the squirrels yesterday and I didn’t think they were going to find them but they did late in the day…have two more tubes of them to put out today and I am going to watch to see if any of them are the new babies…not much to do today….I am running behind on these so I’ll have to stay off Mastodon and come here…I am making chili today so I’ll have something easy to eat and not irritate my gums…and that will be for lunch and I have no clue what dinner will be….will have too think about that…more later…
Let 7 million of them go…
Well…this is pretty damn funny…read an article this morning where Putin is offering any American right wing asshole 25 acres of land if they move to Russia…and all I have to say is “let them go”…let’s get rid of this cancer on our country and send them somewhere they already support…if you listen to them, they all want Russia to win in Ukraine, and they all support whatever Putin is doing…like hate on LGBTQ people, trans people, indigenous people, women…you get the point, it’s just what the right wingers here do so go to Russia…oh, but leave your guns here since they are outlawed in Russia…oh, and you better take everything you need to homestead since there is nothing available to build a house or any electricity or water or even toilets…why do you think the Russian thugs are stealing everything they can in Ukraine? No fridges are available in Russia…as there are no other things that big mouth right wingers here take for granted…no comfy couch, no high fat foods, no nothing…but, I so want them to go since they think they are so tough…and then have them slink back here…or even better, throw them into the illegal war in Ukraine…and you know that will happen if any of these loud mouths go…good riddance….
March 5th
Well…running about on time today with getting up at a little after 6 and then heading out to get the paper…so, I’ve already read it and need to get to my normal routine but I am doing this first instead of reading the news since I feel like I’ve been distracted by other things…mostly my teeth not healing and being in constant pain…and that leads to not eating and lack of energy from it…didn’t get a lot done yesterday other than the outdoor ride and today is setting up to be even more sluggish…have the first F1 race of the year at 10, then Man U plays at 11:30, the Indy car race is on at 12:30 and then the nascar race is on at 3:30 so I’m not sure when I can wedge a bike ride in…it is Sunday and I normally take the day off so maybe I’ll do that today….it would be nice to have the day off and do what I want but we’ll see….don’t feel like doing much right now and the pain in my teeth from grinding them overnight has subsided a bit so I’ll take it…there have been little rays of light that have me hoping that I’ve started to heal but it’s been almost a week and I think it should have gotten better sooner…not much to do today…just need more coffee right now and to go over to Mastodon to see who’s up and moving…and I will be back here later for another one or two….more later…