Well…darn, have been looking for a political topic sine I got back from the rides around 2 and it’s pushing three now so I may have to re-think how I’m doing this lately…I have been busy so maybe that explains it…started out with making the new batch of potato soup that came out pretty good with bacon in it…the problem is that I can barely taste bacon anymore and that sucks…then I did two rides back to back after lunch and I am a little sore from it…I would really like to have some relaxation time to just read but I’ll head out to the news sites first just to see if I can find anything to write about…more later…
Monthly Archives: November 2023
November 19th
Well…damn, I’m worn out today…slept through til 5am today but then I did get back to sleep until 7:12….I am pondering the idea that I may not get on the bike today…I hurt just about everywhere and slept on my right shoulder so that really hurts…okay, enough bitching…I feel good that I got some work done around here and I wonder how long it will be before the birds find the feeder this year? Need to open the blinds so I can see but not right now…seems like too much work…it’s only 32 out there right now and that’s too damn cold to go out on the bike…I am going to make potato soup today and then I may try to ride this afternoon but I do want to see the Lions play…and that’s at 1 and I’m getting tired of having a damn schedule every day…shouldn’t you be able to take some time to yourself when you get old? I guess not when you get fat and need to lose 10 pounds…I am going to find a political topic for today but that will be a little later since I need to go over to Mastodon and do a post soon….not much to do today…just soup and the rides…you know, I used to be satisfied doing 12 miles a day and now 30 is not enough and I wonder how that happened? More later…
Crap, I forgot…
Well…with being busy almost nonstop today, I just forgot to do a political one today…crap…so I’ll do this one and get off my ass to try to find a topic in the next half hour…I did get out on the bike today in the lowest temps I’ve been out in since early spring…it was only 40 degrees but I got through both of the rides and could still feel my feet and hands so that was good….had a quick lunch to finish off the turkey and then got to work on little tasks that I had been putting off for a while…cleaned both east facing windows in the living room so I could put the bird feeder up and fill it…then I took the couch apart to wash the cover that my daughter got me, rotated the cushions and beat them back into shape, and then vacuumed the rug and dusted a bunch, then got rid of the clutter on the coffee table and cleaned it….so I won’t have a lot to do tomorrow unless I want to clean my room up and get rid of the dust in there…and vacuum another rug….and get the clothes off the chair and put away…damn, I still need to make ice for cocktails tonight…oh, well…
November 18th
Well…damn, that sucked…had probably the worst night of sleep I’ve had in a month with waking up at 2, 4, and then out of bed at 6:24 and I feel like crap and I think it’s from only doing one meal a day for the past 9 days…so I will do two today with finishing up the turkey for lunch and then making a BLT for later…it’s only 27 degrees out there right now and it looks like it won’t be warm enough to go out on the bike until almost 10 today and I need to get the rides done before noon since Michigan plays then….didn’t get much done yesterday and today will probably be the same even though I have lots to do…need to tear the couch apart and rotate the cushions today along with washing the cover that my daughter gave me since I’ve never washed it since she gave it to me in July….so that gives me work to do today and I’ll be cooking tomorrow with making the potato/bacon soup that I am really looking forward to that…going to make turkey soup later in the week and I may even go out and get another 5 pounds of bacon before Wed….will have room for it in the freezer when I take the turkey carcasses out….not much to do today…just need more coffee in me before I do anything else and it’s going to be a struggle to get moving…more later…
Another PSA test…
Well…got the grocery run in this morning and two bike rides then cleaned up the kitchen a bit but that’s all I did…oh, I did call my surgeon to see if I needed to get another PSA test for our meeting next Wed and his nurse said yes so I’m going out to the lab Monday to get it done at the lab out here…I sure hope this one is still negative or I’m not going to be happy since that will mean more treatment that I may not do depending on how aggressive they think it is…yeah, this is just what I went through with the initial one back in early September and I have to remember that and not react that way this time…either it will be bad or good but I’m betting on good so I can have a winter without worry….until the next one in another three months…and that goes on for a couple of years…damn, I want this whole ordeal over…
Finally, they are going to expel him…
Well…I never thought I’d see it but they House is finally going to expel George Santos…it’s about time…with almost 30 felony charges against him and the new report from the Ethics Committee that says that he misused his office to try to enrich himself and broke almost every rule of the house while doing it…the only reason they are doing this to Santos when the idiot trump has done 3 times the crimes is that he doesn’t have the rabid base that probably would attack anyone (and already has) he wants them to…so the brave repubs in the House can make a show of policing their own…a cynical bit of political theater to try to limit the damage Santos is doing to their electoral prospects….but what about the other 200+ repubs who are just as crooked in the house? What about Jim Jordan who covered up sexual abuse of athletes when he was at Ohio State? Or Matt Gaetz who sexually abused underage girls in Florida? You get the picture…Santos is not the only one of these cretins that need to go but these guys think they’ve done their duty by getting rid of Santos…it’s not enough…geez…
November 17th
Well…coffee…coffee…just poured the first cup and I need it to work soon so I can get out for the grocery run by 8:15….slept okay last night but I don’t feel like it…I wonder if that means I didn’t sleep okay? I probably should have done the groceries yesterday since I’m not doing another turkey and don’t need to thaw it…but, I didn’t so I’ll just have to suck it up and do it today….didn’t get much done yesterday but I’ll have to get off my butt today and do something…not sure what but something…think I’ll clean the living room today to get the dust out of here and then vacuum the rug both in here and in my bedroom…and I need to get back to doing my core exercises today since I feel a little weak there…it looks like it’s raining out there right now and it is going to get COLD here the first part of the week and stay cold for almost a week…highs in the 30′s so the rides will be downstairs for a while…I would like to get to 3K miles outdoors and I’m only 50 miles away from that….not much to do today…just need to do the grocery run and try to get the rides in…can’t wait to cook something since I’ve had so much turkey leftovers for the past week…potato bacon soup and BLT’s for the next week…oh, and some breakfasts with eggs and bacon…more later…
We save them again…
Well…the government shutdown nonsense has been kicked down the road until after New Years and it’s because of the dems that anything got passed…and we save the day…again…I, for one, am really tired of his crap but we did get what we wanted and that was to keep the right wing assholes from gutting every program that helps normal people…and they didn’t get any tax cuts for their rich buddies, either…so we now have a clean continuing resolution that will keep things operating for 6 weeks….and the really galling thing is that there were over 90 repubs in the House that voted against…you know the ones…who are so ignorant they have no clue how the government even works but they do know that people living “easy” on SS don’t deserve it…so now I can breathe easy for 6 more weeks and know I’ll still have enough money to live on….geez…
November 16th
Well…damn, I’m worn out today and it’s after 7:15 and just poured the first cup of coffee…slept okay but, of course, I don’t feel like I did….I did have an okay day yesterday and got the end of life stuff started and that is both depressing and relieving when I think of it…I did get two rides in yesterday and I’ll have to get going as soon as it gets light to get two in before the gale warning kicks in at a little after noon…the weather is going to change with high temps crashing down to the high 30′s next week…the wind is supposed to be 25-35 with gusts to 50 and that is what hurt me the other day….but the hip pain is gone so I’ll take it…not sure if I’m going to buy a turkey tomorrow with buying the 5 pounds of bacon yesterday and I am starting to get tired of turkey…I could make some potato soup and put bacon in it and make some blt’s and I have so much food in the freezer that I really should just eat out of there instead…and I could make the turkey soup so I think I’ll do that instead…so I’ll just need celery and onion…need to see if I have egg noodles in the pantry…not much to do today…need to finish off the turkey over the next two days and then I’ll cook over the weekend…think I’ll get a baguette to dip in the potato soup…this will be the fist time in many, many years that I won’t have a turkey for t-day but things change and I’m okay with that….more later…
Didn’t have time…
Well…damn, the entire day got a way from me today and just didn’t have time to look at the news til right now and it’s after 6…I did get all my paperwork done this afternoon and did get a chance to get to DD for center cut bacon at 8 bucks for 5 pounds and that filled the freezer back up again so there is no room for another carcass if I get another turkey Friday…not sure if I’ll be able to keep it but there may be some things in there that need to go…I did get the chance to put the top down for running around today so that was cool but the temp is going to drop like a rock starting Sat so it won’t be down again this month…so I guess I’ll go out and read the news to look for a topic….more later…