Well…I did remember to check on ticket prices for the Muskegon air show and my jaw just dropped…I mean, how many people are going to pay 50 bucks to see 15 planes on display and a couple of demonstrations? Not me, that’s for sure…oh, well….more later…
Monthly Archives: June 2023
June 30th
Well…damn, need to get moving and it’s only 6:29…will be out on the bike here in about 10 minutes…the particulate number is down to 77 this morning so I think I can go out without a mask…there is a lot of fog out there today and I like riding in the fog…slept okay last night but don’t feel like it right now…having a hard time getting started today and I hope the coffee starts working soon…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but get my surgery rescheduled and the bike rides and today I need to get my paperwork done for the Monday zoom medical conference…it is going to be so busy over the next month and I am not looking forward to it….I am going to bake a pizza on the grill today and I think I’ll do that for lunch…and I need to figure out what else to make and I think it’s going to be eggs and toast since I have more than a dozen in the fridge…not much to do today…need to get the floor in the spare room mopped and get started putting the bed frame together….more later…
Can the SC be more racist?
Well..with the Supreme Court blowing up 40 years of precedent today by making affirmative action illegal in college admissions, my only question is “can they be any more racist?” I mean Clarence Thomas wouldn’t be on the court if there wasn’t AA back when he applied to college…he pulled the typical repub bullshit…he got his and now lets pull the ladder up so no one else an use it. The telling part of the decision is they left in place the ability of colleges and universities to use legacy as a factor for admissions…so family (white) is perfectly acceptable but trying to make the society more equitable and addressing the systemic racism built into it is not…this smacks of the decision the court made to gut the voting rights act saying that racism doesn’t exist anymore…maybe in their world, but in the real world it sure does and now quality minority candidates lose another avenue into the middle class….geez…
Got the new surgery date…
Well…the scheduler called me back this morning and I have my new surgery date…July 25th so that will give me two months to heal before the trip…and truthfully, the trip will be better when I won’t have it hanging over me…got two rides in today both masked and it was okay no shortness of breath no coughing or sore throat…so I think I’ll keep that up until the air gets a lot better…and once I have the surgery, I won’t be back on the bike until after the UK trip since I don’t want any setbacks….but I guess I’ll just have to see how I’m healing…have to be off the bike for 6 weeks or so…so, it’s going to be a busy July with getting my teeth done on the 10th…and that gives me 2 weeks for them to heal until the surgery…going to take a break and try to find a topic in politics….more later…
June 29th
Well…took the day off yesterday with the air quality being over 200 again that is “very unhealthy” and you’re not supposed to do anything outdoors…but this morning, I’m going to put a mask on and go for a ride…can’t take two days off in a row…slept okay last night but a small storm came through around 5 and woke me up…it even rained a little but that won’t do my lawn any good….tried to contact the surgery scheduler yesterday but she didn’t call me back and I’m a little irritated about that….need to get in for the surgery in July so I can heal before the UK trip and I’m pretty concerned that is not going to happen…I did get started on cleaning the spare room yesterday and I need to mop the floor and clean the windows in there today so I can start putting the bed frame together….the little weather widget at the bottom of the screen says “rain coming” and it appears there will be a shower that will keep me off the bike until after I run out to Aldis to get the mozzerella cheese I forgot to get yesterday…going to make a pizza on the grill for the first time tomorrow…going to take some burger out of the freezer to have over the weekend and I wish I had room in the freezer for chicken since Gordon’s has it on sale for 1.39 a pound…oh, well…not much to do today…just going to try to get the rides in and figure out what to eat….more later…
They elect guys like this…
Well…not sure if you’ve read anything about this guy the repubs elected in South Dakota but damn, he is typical q anon moron…his name is Joe Donnell and he really thinks that Mt. Rushmore is a demonic portal that is spreading communism across the US and that it sits on a lay line that elves used to use to magically transport themselves between the mountain and DC…and he knows all of this because god told him personally…and the mountain was carved with magic and used to have different faces and a dwarf hideout under it that is coated with gold and gems on the floor and walls…you get the idea…a person who should be locked up for psychosis is actually a state rep in South Dakota who truly believes this stuff…and the the idiot trump is going to come back and something, something to fix the lay line that was broken by magic so they can get into the magic caverns under the mountain…I really do think that this country is in trouble if repub voters think a guy like this is perfectly qualified to make laws for one of our states…I wonder if the crazy has gotten worse or it was always there but just hidden…and the repubs don’t see the need to hide it anymore? Geez…
Bad air again today…
Well…after being out in the “dangerous” air of 343 for 6 hours yesterday and just finishing up the grocery run in 223 air, I am having shortness of breath just sitting here so I must have had some damage from the rides yesterday…so, I won’t be riding today and I can keeps the guilts away since I did more than two rides yesterday…this does kind of suck to be forced to stay inside in a closed up house when it’s going to be in the 80′s today…but it’s supposed to get better tomorrow and I’m going to clean a bit today to have the spare room ready for my daughter…okay, need to make the call to the periodontist…more later…
June 28th
Well…got the 75 miles in on the bike yesterday and I’m feeling it this morning…and the air quality was so bad from the Canadian fires that I’m still coughing today…and with the particulate readings over 200 right now, it makes it “very unhealthy” and recommends that you don’t do anything outside…I can see the smoke out there right now so I’ll have a decision to make after I do the grocery run…have to make a call to my periodontist to get the prescriptions in for my July 10th treatment and I’m still waiting to hear from my surgeon’s scheduler to get that moved up…man, I’m tired….didn’t get much done but need to get the spare bedroom cleaned out and start setting up the bed in there so I’ll have a place to sleep after the surgery when my daughter comes to stay…so, I’ll work on that today…I’m feeling my mortality today with the bad news from yesterday and I realized that I could really die from this…I’ve always said that I’m okay with dying and I think I am…but I sure don’t want it to be slowly eaten away by cancer….I guess I have some thinking to do….more later…
This is bad…
Well…got a call from my surgeon this morning with bad news…the cancer has spread and it needs to come out as soon as possible…so now I’m waiting for the scheduler to call so I can get it set up in July…crap…
June 27th
Well…today’s the day…going to do 75 miles today to do the “ride my age” day and I need to get moving in 15 minutes…it’s cool out there right now and that will be a good start…still going to be on the bike for 6 hours and that is not going to be easy…but it’s like the old saying “why are you hitting yourself in the head? Because if feels so good when I stop”…didn’t eat enough yesterday to support it but I didn’t last year, either, so I think It will be okay…legs went flat on the third lap last year and I’m expecting it will be the same this year…but we’ll see….not much else on my mind right now so I’ll stop here…wish me luck….more later….