Well…during the Biden administration, if you asked any man on the street if the economy was good or bad, they almost always called it bad no matter what was really going on…and a large part of it was the news media not doing their jobs in reporting the good news…but, I think that has started to change a bit with many articles about the almost nonexistent inflation that the fed has engineered…in October, there was no inflation at all and in November it was only .1 of a percent and the CBO forecast is for inflation to be right on the 2% target for the next five years and the fed has 3 interest rate decreases scheduled for 2024…and this all adds up to the vaunted “soft landing” that the fed has been working for…do you remember all the doom and gloom that we were heading for a deep recession when Biden took over? When you put competent people and not cronies in charge, it is not surprising that good things happen…but if you listen to fox news, they are still rooting for that recession saying the economy is terrible when it’s not…I guess liars gotta lie…geez…
Monthly Archives: December 2023
December 16th
Well…up and moving a little after 6 today and I’m not nearly as sore as I should be after riding 45 miles yesterday…I wonder if it was the liberal application of voltaren last night? It’s raining out here right now so the first ride will have to wait a bit after sunrise…only going to do 30 miles today to take it a little easier than yesterday…not going to get to 5,000 miles this year but it’s going to be close and that’s not bad for a year where I had 12 weeks off…..didn’t get much done yesterday and I’m not sure what I’ll do today…still working on leftovers so no cooking and I just took the last container of ham soup out of the freezer to make room for the new ones I’m going to make in a couple of weeks…I wonder if I should get another ham since they are 99 cents a pound? Not sure if I can tolerate the salt…would like some pasta or anything different…finished off “The Robots of Dawn” by Asimov yesterday and started a Lawrence Sanders novel and it feels good to have a book going all the time after not reading much for years…not much to do today…it’s already 42 outside so when the rain stops I can get on the bike and get the day started…put the Eagles on for music yesterday and it hit the spot…I think this morning will be “Dark Side of the Moon” since I haven’t played that in a while…more later…
Bike is fixed…
Well…I know I was bitching about the 70 dollar cost to rebuild the driveline of the bike but damn it’s worth it…took it out today and it rides like a new bike again…so well that I did 45 miles on it today…and I like the weird new pedals I bought for it…they look so thin they should be flexing when I pedal but even when mounting the bike with all my weight on one pedal it stays flat…and forged aluminum with ball bearings for 9 bucks is kind of cool…so now I have to spend another 100 bucks to put the black bike back together since it needs the front crankset, chain, rear cassette, and rear shifter…will probably get that ordered next week so I can store those parts on the bike for when I wear out the ones I just put on the grey bike…
Poor Rudy…
Well…today is going to be the day that poor rudy giuliani is going to be destroyed for attacking the mother/daughter poll workers in Georgia and lying his ass off that they were counting fake votes when the mother was just passing a tic tac to the daughter…and he got the maga assholes all riled up so both women got hundreds and hundreds of death threats…and it got so bad that both women ended up in hiding having to move out of their houses…so they sued rudy and won their case and the jury is deliberating what the penalty is going to be…the women have asked for 48 million dollars and they may just get it with the stunt rudy pulled yesterday when he again said there was “proof” they were faking votes…funny thing, he never presented that “proof” and now his lawyer isn’t even talking to rudy probably sine he is not going to get paid for his work since rudy is already broke and can’t pay his bills…poor rudy…geez…
December 15th
Well…up and out of bed a little after 6 today and that’s pretty normal for me right now…it is a little different with the outside pattern of pain from the rides yesterday including the upper body stuff that doesn’t happen when I ride indoors…but, I’m used to being sore so no big deal…I did get the amazon package last night that wasn’t supposed to come until Sat so that was cool…the new pedals for the bike are a little different and of a unique design and I’ll install them after the first ride…did enough work on the bike yesterday that I really just want to ride it this morning….have new heads for my sonicare toothbrush, eyeglass cases, and a digital tire pressure gauge, stuff that I needed and I would like to buy something just that I want for a change….the coffee tastes good this morning and I hope it starts to work soon so I can get on the bike as soon as it gets light but I do need to let the temp come up a few degrees first with it still in the thirties…will probably have to do some adjusting on the bike with all of the new parts on it and I hope it’s back to normal…not much to do today…only had one meal yesterday and will probably keep that pattern up today since I am losing weight…slowly…and need to get back into the 160′s….more later…
Today didn’t go as planned…
Well…I was really hoping that I had the outdoor bike figured out but when I took it out for a ride, I still had the vibration in it so after the second ride, I noticed the the 7th gear on the rear cassette was completely worn out and that was the gear it was vibrating in…and the chain and front crankset were both worn out, too, so I swapped them all out with the new ones from the black bike and fixed a broken spoke in the back wheel with another donor from the black bike so now it’s sitting downstairs in pieces…the sand out here is really hard on the driveline and I only got about 17,000 miles on this one but the last one was even worse at about 13,000 miles…but the good thing is I know how to do this now and have the specialized tools for the chain and the front crankset puller…so now I need to find a bike shop that has a spoke maker like Village does in GR…or I’ll have to drive to GR and buy a few to make it worth the trip…now I need to read the news to try to find another topic…
December 14th
Well…up at 3:14 and then out of bed a little after 6 and I don’t think that’s interesting anymore so I don’t think I’ll talk about that anymore…not too sore today and the rising temps for the next few days will put me outside on the bike as soon as it gets light…but I may wait til 10 or so when it will be in the 40′s…so that gives me 3 hours or so just to sit here and gain some energy…can’t wait to see if the cleaning/repairs to the bike worked and to see if there is anything new on the trail…there was last time I went out after being indoors for a couple of weeks…they are building two new houses on lots across the street from the trail on the uphill going to the beach and I can’t figure out why anyone would buy one since they are crammed in next to each other on a lot smaller than mine…probably more rentals that will go for 2,000 a month….it’s going to be hard being out in the cold since I’ve been so cold indoors lately…probably spent 20 bucks this month just on running the heating pad…not much to do today..still working on leftovers so no cooking for the next few days…it will probably be another one meal day today to continue dropping the weight I gained since the surgery…then I’ll need to plan something or eat out of the freezer for a while…more later…
Got some work done…but not much…
Well…contemplating skipping the second meal today since I had a big one for lunch and still feel full even with eating at 11:30…I did get the grocery runs done this morning and then straight on the indoor bike when I got home…so I was done with the rides by 11:15 or so and then straight into lunch…after that, I got after cleaning the bathroom that really needed it so it looks squeaky clean for a day and that took about an hour…so I’ve been done working since about 3 or so…it looks like I’ll get outdoor rides in tomorrow with the temps getting up to the upper 40′s for the next 4 days so I’ll get the chance to see if I fixed the vibration and clicking in the bike…have started to tally up how many miles I’ve ridden since my 20′s and what I posted yesterday was wrong since I have two totals for the schwinn and I forgot to add in the miles from the indoor bike…and that’s 3,600 miles since I moved out here…still getting really close to 100,000 miles
They don’t give a damn about the “life of the mother”
Well..we know that the repubs lie about everything so I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that the “life of the mother” exception that many of the red states have written into their draconian anti abortion laws just don’t work when women have to sue for that right and it has to go through the deep red court systems…just in the past week a case in Texas shows that the repubs had no intent of allowing any abortion even if the mother’s life is at risk and the fetus has a genetic disease that is fatal every time…a woman there had doctors refuse to perform the needed procedure since they can be arrested for doing it even though she may die or lose her fertility if the abortion wasn’t done…so she sued and a lower court agreed she qualified for the exception…but then the asshole AG stepped in to object and appealed to the Texas SC and the SC said she couldn’t use the exception so she had to leave the state to save her life…now, there is no damn way that any woman should have to sue to control her healthcare…but that is what is happening in every damn red state…and the repubs just don’t care since the cruelty is the point of these laws….geez…
December 13th
Well…up early today with waking up for the first time at around 3 and then out of bed at 5:44…and the slow process of getting moving starts again….need to do the grocery run this morning but don’t have a lot to get…no protein to buy today but I may get another ham next week….I still like the Cooks ham better than the Meijer brand and I wonder why they don’t carry them anymore? I did do two meals yesterday and I feel pretty guilty about that with taking the afternoon off and not getting any work done…but I’m still losing weight so one day of overeating doesn’t hurt too much….not sure what I’m going to do today after the grocery run and the bike rides when I get back here…there is some soccer on so maybe a match or two? Should be able to get outside on the bike tomorrow and I sure hope I’ve figured out the vibration that has plagued me for a few days….not much to do today…I do need to clean today and probably will especially after taking yesterday afternoon off….I feel out of synch today but I just need to plow forward and sleepwalk my way through the day and I’m tired of that….more later…