Well…I made it! Got to 500 miles for the month this morning with 488 indoors and 12 outdoors and that is about a hundred miles more than I expected…and today made 31 days in a row on the bike heading toward the 186 day record….my lap right now on the city streets is only 3 miles and I want to add two more miles so I’ll just be able to do three laps to get to the 15 I need for each ride…not much melting on the trails right now so it looks like it’s going to take a while for them to be passable…even riding around 11 am this morning, there was no traffic but I forgot to check the wind and it was blowing pretty hard out of the NW and that made it pretty cold and I really haven’t warmed up yet two hours later…will have to put heat on my back later since changing bikes from indoor to outdoor really makes it hurt…now we wait…
Monthly Archives: January 2024
The countdown has started…
Well…today is the day that the judge in the idiot trump’s fraud case promised he would have a ruling and the speculation about the fine runs from 300 million to 2 billion dollars and I really do hope it is two billion…that would mean that all of his buildings in NY would have to be sold along with his tacky golf clubs since he really doesn’t have any cash…and he was reminded this week that using campaign funds to pay his legal bills is against the law and that goes for any settlement money, too…so he can’t bilk his stupid followers for the cash he is going to need…and we have to remember that the monitor that is watching his businesses found what sure looks like a “ghost loan” that idiot boy used to write off taxes and probably launder money…but they can’t find the paperwork anywhere so the judge will take that into account when he rules on the case…and I can’t wait to see the ruling and I’ll come back here for an update when I see it…geez…
January 31st
Well…up at 4:04 this morning and out of bed at 5:33 and that sucks a bit…I feel so darn own out this morning and I have tons of things to do that I will need to muster the energy for…two indoor rides and at least five miles outdoors to get to 500 miles for the month…along with the grocery run and I wonder if I can get the first ride in before I head out at 8:15? I did get some good news on the price of my house yesterday when I found out that the tiny 900 sq ft house on a slab with no garage near the back of my lot sold for 141K so my brother thinks mine is now worth 175 K with it’s 1100 sq ft up and 800 sq ft in the basement and a garage…along with a lot that is 4 times the size of the one that sold…so in three years I’ve made almost 90K on this place and that is a long way from being broke 5 years ago…and that gives me 131K in equity that I can pass on to my kids when I go…it sure feels comfortable to be financially solvent…and we went out to lunch at the Mexican place a couple of blocks from here that has good, cheap food…I mean 3 soft tacos for 6 bucks? That’s a deal…I do need to go the the city offices tomorrow to pay my water and property tax bills and that is a grand going out but I have enough in the bank that I can just shrug about it…and that feels good…not much to do today…yeah, that’s not true…grocery runs and lots of rides that will be a chore but I don’t think I’m going to try to get one in before I get out…more later…
Immigration and rural areas…
Well…as you know I read a lot for both pleasure and for topics for this place…and I just read a short article that made me think a bit and wonder why is this happening. Many studies have show that there is creeping brain drain that is happening in the rural areas of the country with most of the young people being driven out by the nasty laws that the repubs have been passing there and for the lack of opportunity to be financially successful…and the repubs are still attacking immigration that has been shown to be the only way that the rural areas can maintain their population and keep the economy working…so who does that benefit? It sure doesn’t benefit the older repubs that are in many places that are slowly dying… and it sure doesn’t benefit the farmers like those in Florida who had entire crops rot in the fields when they drove the immigrants out of the state…it looks like they don’t care about any of the fallout from keeping immigrants who are legally coming here out of the country…so I guess now they are just legislating by hatred of the non-white people who really could help their economies thrive again…and that hurts everyone…geez…
January 30th
Well…was up at a little after 4 today but stayed in bed til after 6 and that has me running late to get on the bike by 8…I am tired today but don’t have much to do but the bike rides…I do need to do meal planning later to figure out how much work I want to do to be able to eat…and right now it’s not much….just poured the first cup of coffee and I hope that it will give me the motivation to get moving sine I have none right now…I do need to mail my water bill and property taxes today or tomorrow but i don’t know if I have the stamps so I may have to go over to the city offices and pay them in person…and that will be a thousand bucks going out…so I won’t be adding to my bank account this month…oh, well…damn, my eyes have been giving me problems for a week now and part of it is my allergies being so bad…and I wonder what the hell is blooming to do that? It’s 7;30 and I need to get on the bike in 30 minutes to get my day going and the possibility of taking the day off is fading into the distance…not sure why this 70 year old is so compelled to get the miles in every day other than weight control…need to lose another 10 pounds or so and the only way to do that is to get off my ass and torture myself…so I’ll leave a fit corpse when I go….more later…
No outdoor ride today…
Well…when I got up this morning, I planned to get outdoors for a ride today but it never got over 35 out here with almost 20 mph wind so I just couldn’t do it…I did get two indoor rides and and then grilled some food for a late lunch and then did my weight work…then I decided to do some reading to relax and have gotten 2/3rds of the way through both books…I am really sore from using the wights but there is progress in getting some tone in my so I’ll keep it up til summer…not going to make it to 500 miles for the month..or I might if I do two indoor rides the next two days and then two outdoor rides wed…and that won’t be too bad but I’m going to have to have some 800 mile months in there and I think I can do it…I guess we’ll see…now I’m done for the day and going to relax for a bit as i put heat on my back….
They are going to nuke him…
Well…with the discovery of even more fraud by the idiot trump that was discovered by the court appointed overseer in place to keep idiot boy from hiding his assets, I think the judge in trump’s fraud case is going to nuke him…3-400 million dollar fine and banning him and his kids from ever doing business in NY again, and they are going close the trump org to sell off his assets…and that was before he lost almost 90 million dollars to E. Jean Carroll…so, sometime this week the nukes will start to fall on idiot boy’s head and there is not a damn thing he can do about it…and this is before the criminal trials start later in the year…he could finally be silenced…oh, and he attacked Carroll again so there may be another defamation trial, too…if it sounds like I’m gloating you are right…this asshole has been polluting this country far too long…geez…
January 29th
Well…that sucked…the Lions lost and didn’t get to the super bowl and I didn’t sleep and woke up at 4:40…but I did stay in bed until after 6 and just poured the first cup of coffee that I need to work right now…it was a little busy yesterday and I am going to end my healthy eating for a few days by grilling some burgers and brats today that will last me the rest of the week…have two days of soup left and I wonder if I should buy some chicken thighs this week…I guess I’ll have to look in the freezer to see what’s there before I do…got lots of exercise yesterday and I am going to try to do the same today but that means getting on the bike in less than an hour…this warm weather is going to last through the 12th of this month and that puts us only two weeks from March and the start of the permanent warm up for spring…all of the snow on my yard will be gone by the end of the week and I’m going to have to start feeding the squirrels again…they have been more active with the warm up and have taken the bread I threw out there…not much to do today…just the rides, weight work, and grilling…and I need to watch the FA cup match this aft since Wrexham is playing….more later…
Got an outdoor ride in…
Well…after the Daytona 24 hours ended, it was only 1:45 and 40 degrees so I decided to suit up and get an outdoor ride in…first was a ride down the hill to take a look at the trail and see if it was passable but there was still so much snow on it I couldn’t tell where the trail was…but the roads were clean and dry so I did a couple of laps around the city and got 10 miles in…absolutely no traffic at all and only a few people out so it was nice…I think I’m going to add an outdoor ride to go with the indoor rides since I need to start pouring on the miles if I’m going to hit the goal of 7,000 for the year…already have over 400 miles for the month but that isn’t going to do it…I need 600 miles a month to do it and I’m already behind by 200 miles…but I’ve ridden every day this year and I wonder if I can get to my record of 186 days in a row? I guess we’ll see….go Lions!
January 28th
Well…damn, I feel like crap this morning and I think it may be not eating enough…only had two bowls of soup yesterday but I feel so fat that I may cut that back to one today….I really could use a day off the bike today but I may just delay until 9 or so…still thinking about getting outside on the bike today since it’s almost 40 but I don’t want to think about anything right now….didn’t get anything done yesterday and I wonder why I feel that I have to do something every day? Haven’t take a day off of everything in a long while and lying on the couch and watching the race is pretty attractive to me….and eating whatever I want….I wonder if I have anything in the freezer to cook on the grill? The doves disappeared yesterday with only 3 of them on the feeder all day and I wonder if it’s the warmer weather? Only had to fill it once yesterday and it’s still full right now…okay, it’s still dark but it was full when I closed the blinds last evening…not much to do today…it’s 6:46 and I have an hour or so before the bike rides start but I don’t want to start them…just so damn tired….more later….