Well…running a little late this morning with my damn intestines giving me fits…and the only reason could be not eating enough over the past few days…had a piece of pizza and 2 small chicken legs and beans from my garden yesterday…and that is well under 1k and that has been the pattern for weeks now…but I like how I look from it so I’m going to keep it up…and after the dental work today, I won’t be able to eat for a few days….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today looks the same…I’ll feel good if I get the bike rides in this morning and then get through the dental work with less damage than the last time…dental work will be over after this and it’s been going on for over a year and takes a lot out of me…and I need my strength for the surgery and recovery…need to plan out how to prep the house and yard for the weeks I can’t do anything…will have to mow the lawn and do laundry on the 23rd since I won’t be able to lift anything for 6 weeks or so…not sure if the lawn will wait that long but I guess we’ll see….not much to do today…just the dentist and rides and healing tonight…and that’s enough….more later…
Monthly Archives: July 2023
It starts tomorrow…
Well…damn, the month of medical crap starts tomorrow with my periodontist appointment at 1:15 that will take two hours of wrenching on my jaw and teeth…and I am not looking forward to not being able to open my mouth for a month…then we go into a two hour pre-surgery meeting on zoom Tuesday morning at 9am followed by my pre-surgical check up and blood work Thursday at 11am…I’m going to be exhausted by the time I get to the surgery…I sure hope I can heal up and regain some energy before the UK trip…I’m already worn out…darn….
Another win for Joe and Michigan…
Well…it looks like we are all going to have to shout Joe Biden’s accomplishments since the media won’t…and the latest is a win for Michigan supported by the Inflation Reduction act is a Norwegian company called Nel Hydrogen who are going to build a 500 million dollar factory to build components necessary to generate hydrogen gas in Michigan…and this is part of 435 billion dollars of clean energy investments by foreign companies in the US…and with the vision of Biden and his advisors, the US is quickly becoming the world hub for hydrogen technology that will allow us to become an exporter of this energy and with being the first, we are on pole position to be the world leader in exporting…something that never would have happened if the repubs were in control…and if we can take back the House in 2024, we can lock in a clean energy future here in the US that repubs won’t be able to sabotage in fealty to the dirty fossil fuel industry….their days are numbered and they know it…let’s get rid of the subsidies we pay them to help their demise…geez…
July 9th
Well…damn, I need to get going to get on the bike by 7:15 with the F1 race starting at 9:55 and needing to get two rides in before that…slept okay last night but was up and down a lot…I discovered that I can sleep on my back without snoring after losing the weight and I haven’t been able to do that in years….I had to tie my riding shorts up for the first time yesterday to keep them from falling off and I’ve used these shorts for 15 years…I did get the kitchen cleaned up and the house is coming into shape for my daughters visit in a couple of weeks…still have the bathroom to do along with the living room but that will be easy with two weeks to do it….I noticed that something new is causing my allergies to flare yesterday so I’ll get ahead of it today…just had the little widget at the bottom of the screen say “high pollen” so I guess it may be accurate this time….have the last periodontist treatment tomorrow and that starts my long week of appointments…three in all but then no more until the surgery but lots of follow ups after….not much to do today…just the rides and I’ll have to hose down the bike after the first ride since riding in the rain really coats it with dirt and grit…. and I need to figure out what shorts I’m going to wear after getting the normal ones filthy yesterday….more later….
This is pretty cool…
Well…it’s been an okay day so far even with getting soaked to the bone on the second ride…starting yesterday, I heard this loud plane flying low over Muskegon with that big rotary engine sound that you just don’t hear anymore…I ran out to my front porch and there was a WWII B-25 bomber flying over the city and I think it’s one giving rides since it has gone over at least 5 or 6 times in the past two days…just neat to see these old planes still flying and hear that wonderful sound…the only better thing would be to hear a B-17 or a B-29 4 engine bomber come over…fingers crossed…oh, and I have the kitchen cleaned…almost….
July 8th
Well…up at 5:08 this morning and didn’t sleep too well so it is going to be slow getting moving today…and it is raining…yeah, I’m shocked, too…so getting on the bike is going to wait a while so I’ll watch F1 practice and maybe get one ride in before qualifying…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but make a pizza and I made it in the air fryer on bake so I really had to make two of them and stack them in there…came out really good so that will be the go to way for a while….I do have chicken thawing and I’m debating on whether to just cook it in the fryer instead of on the grill….have to clean the kitchen today and mop the floor in there along with work on getting rid of the expired food in the pantry….and I still need to completely clear the dining room table and scrub it up so we’ll have a place to eat meals while my daughter is here… and I do need to clean the fridge, too even though I just cleaned it a bit ago….there are lots of old butter containers that need to be tossed along with old pickles, etc….not much to do today…just cleaning and the bike rides…have some of my beans to be cooked with the chicken along with a potato of some sort so that will be for lunch….even with being good, I feel pretty worn out this morning so I need another cup of coffee and to watch practice….more later…
This made me laugh…
Well…just read an article where the author described what desantis is doing to Florida is “Brexiting” the state…okay you may not know what Brexit is…it’s the vote that England mad to leave the European Union since the liars that were pushing it said they would be better off economically if they left…didn’t work out that way with no growth and high unemployment along with shortages of food and medicine…and the almost collapse of the National Health Service…along with all of the labor from the EU that left and that the British don’t want to do…so, in Florida higher education is collapsing since desantis has put so many restrictions on what can be taught and how it can be taught…an all of the undocumented workers are leaving the state since they can be charged with a felony if they stay…leaving produce rotting in the fields…and now there is a huge Malaria outbreak that is going to get worse since desantis fired all the competent people in public health and replaced them with his anti vax toadies…the comment was so on the nose since both brexit and Florida’s problems were caused by ideological assholes lying about the effect would be when they knew it wouldn’t be good…geez…
July 7th
Well…up at around 6 this morning and slept okay but didn’t eat enough yesterday so I’m a little worn out today….no dreams to speak of and that means I didn’t sleep deep enough…my shoulder doesn’t hurt right now and my back even feels okay today…it’s a pain when it’s warm and can’t use the heating pad or I’ll melt into the couch…it’s only 57 out there right now so I’ll have to have a long sleeve t-shirt on over the short sleeves but I think it’s close to having to put a fleece on…at least there’s no wind to work against…have to do better on getting my exercises done for recovery and I’ll do that 4 times today and every day until the surgery…need to have a well toned set of muscles to make for the best outcome after…have a huge 5 pound block of chicken thawing in the fridge but I’ll have to run the water over the bag so I can separate it into pieces…so it won’t be thawed for today….so I’ll grill tomorrow….I do have the ingredients for another pizza but I’m going to break it up into two little ones that will fit in my toaster oven…too much work to do it on the grill….not much to do today…need to get started on the living room or kitchen today but I’m making good progress on this place and will have it done by the time my daughter comes….more later…
Dining room is clean…
Well…with my daughter coming to stay for two weeks on the 22nd of the month, I really did need to get started on the big jobs that I have been letting go lately…so I did today with cleaning the dining room, mopping the floor and then putting two coats of wax on it…looks pretty good for an 82 year old wood floor and I really need to keep up on it…need to do the same on the other exposed wood in the living room and I think I have enough wax to do two coats on it since it’s not a very big area….need to start on the kitchen tomorrow since she is bringing me newish pots, pans, dishes, glassware, and silverware so I need to get the old stuff out before that and then clean the insides of the cupboards since I haven’t done them since I finished them over a year ago…the mattress she ordered for her bed came today and the metal box spring will be here in the next week or so and I’ll have to assemble that…we did get the zoom problems ironed out and when I was talking to her, I held my tablet up and showed her the house which was fun….this will be the second night of no cocktails and I feel pretty good so I’m keeping that up til after the surgery…but that means that watching the new shows tonight won’t be as much fun…oh, well…
The two hottest days ever recorded…
Well…I wonder what the climate deniers are going to say about this? Monday and Tuesday of this week were the the two hottest days since records have been kept…and climate scientists have physical records in the trees and ground that it is the hottest two days in the past 140,000 years…with the highest concentration of co2 since that time, too…so what is the repub response to getting to the tipping point where whole ecologies are going to die? To try to outlaw doing anything about it and giving more subsidies to the oil giants to keep dumping more and more garbage into the air….if we just took the money we give to the oil companies every year and invested it in renewables, we could start digging ourselves out of the hole the fossil fuel industry has dug for the planet. People are dying all over the planet and no one wants to do anything about…I fear for my grandchildren and the world they are going to have to live in…geez…