Well…okay, now I’m feeling the effects of not sleeping at all last night but I still couldn’t take a nap like I could in my 30′s and 40′s…so it will probably be an early night tonight and I’ll be in bed by 10 or so…I did get 4 rides in before noon for another day of 42 miles…there is something screwy with the shifter on the bike and I think it may be the cable starting to come apart in one of the sheaths they run through…it’s done that before but I want to hit it with a blast of water from the hose first when I turn the outdoor tap on and put a new valve on the outlet…then I can drag the hose out and wash it out to make sure I don’t replace a good cable…it was a little marginal with it only 53 when I went out but I survived it in shorts and riding gloves…but I may need to rethink spending 4 hours a day on the bikes…I have so much other stuff to do that needs to be done like raking the lawn and reseeding parts of it and it will need to be mowed in another week or so…and my front steps have turned green from algae so I need some deck wash and elbow grease…too damn much work to do…and this summer I’ll have to scrub the entire house again…ick….
Monthly Archives: April 2024
Fundraising lies…
Well…with everyone freaking out about the idiot trump raising 50 million dollars in one night, the only thing I have to say is where is the paperwork? There is no proof that he raised that much…no FEC filing, only idiot boy saying he raised that much money…and everyone in the world knows that idiot boy lies about everything…and I still have a beef with the media that just takes his word for it and prints the stories as if they are true…and they go back to this old saw…”how is trump raising 50 million dollars bad for Joe Biden?” Especially when we all know any money he raised is going to go to pay his legal bills…not for campaigning…just into his pocket and then he’ll milk the rubes for even more…don’t believe a word this liar says…geez…
April 9th
Well…that really sucked…probably the worst night of sleep in a year…got maybe 3 hours of sleep over the entire night and was up and down starting after the first hour of sleep that took and hour and a half to get to…up at 1, 2:24, 3:01, then up for an hour and a half so I decided to start planting the seeds for the garden and climbed back into bed at 4:30 and then out of bed a little before 6..so yeah, I’m a little worn out today and I’m hoping fora nap later but it probably won’t happen…darn…not as sore as I should be after 42 miles on the bike yesterday and I am going to try to repeat that today and need to get going to make that happen…and I do need to start on the yard work to get the leaves picked up…it’s going to need mowing in the next couple of weeks, too…so I’m going to be busy starting today and I’m not sure if I like that or not…the garden needs to be turned over to get it ready if the seeds sprout and I still need to get some more bean seeds and will do that tomorrow…need to pour down the coffee if I’m going to get on the bike by 6:45…not much to do today…the rides are the central part of the day and will take up the morning and into the early afternoon…but, I’m not sure how I’m going to feel after I get started…need to do my teeth first….more later…
Big day on the bike…
Well…not sure why I did it today but I did two rides inside and then did two outside for a total of 42 miles…on the bike for over 4 hours today but I don’t feel too bad right now…and I got the chance to see the eclipse from start to finish and it got all the way down to less than an eighth of the sun showing…pretty neat…and I finally got out to get my prescription that had a retail price of 1,159 dollars that I got for 23 bucks…and Meijers had already applied the discount before I even showed them the coupon from GoodRX…so pretty cool…today is the first day of my month long dry time until May 3rd and I’m pretty sure I won’t sleep at all in that time…oh, well…and the money I would have spent on booze this week can go to a spare tire for the back of the bike…I do need to get my blood pressure down and no cocktails will help that…along with eliminating the calories from it…so we’ll see how I feel in a few days…
Yeah, I know…
Well…it’s been an eclipse and riding day today and I have had any time to look for a political one…okay, but this one made me laugh…there was a smartass that posed the fake statement “why the total eclipse is bed for Biden’s election chances”…and that follows one from yesterday from the right wing media swamp that stated “why the great jobs numbers are bad for Biden”…and this points out the way the media is working it’s ass off to get trump elected again when even the mainstream media frames the good news on everything that Biden has accomplished is somehow a bad thing…over 20 million jobs created on his watch is a bad thing…wages up for working people is a bad thing…more people joining unions is a bad thing…getting more renewables for electricity generation is a bad thing since coal miners will be out of work…you get the gist…and the only place you see any criticism of the idiot trump is basically nowhere even though he promised the right wing billionaires if he is elected again he will end any abortions in this country and will eliminate LGBTQ protections in this country as well…and goodbye same sex marriage, contraception and women’s rights…it’s all there but no one covers it when the right’s plans for this country should be shouted every damn day…but no and that is because all the media is now owned by right wing billionaires…tax the crap out of them so that can’t continue to wreck this country…geez…
April 8th
Well…up at 5:30 this morning and I’m feeling pretty worn out today…as always…and need to get moving and on the bike soon but I really want to have a day off at some point…cripes, I say that every day but the guilts will keep me riding every day…have almost 100 days in a row on the bike and I’m still heading toward riding every day this year…my neck is better today and I can’t figure that out with how stiff and painful it was yesterday…couldn’t even turn it to the left without it howling at me…I am going to take a look at the eclipse today even though it won’t be a total one but that’s okay…I do need to run out and pick up the prescription I’ve been trying to get filled for a week now and maybe go to Menards to pick up some deck wash and maybe some grass seed and some flower seeds for the back of the house…they have the cheap seeds for 59 cents a pack and I would like some color around here…need to plant my garden seeds downstairs today, too…and climb in the crawlspace and turn the outdoor water on…so a busy day today…again…that I need to get started soon…more later…
Got outside again today…
Well…I got another outdoor ride in today and it was in the upper 50′s when I went out so no problem with freezing my hands…but the wind was blowing about 15-20 on the way back but I remembered to not use my left arm to pull against it…had to take an ibuprofen before I went out so it doesn’t hurt as much as it did…still can’t turn my head to the left, though…so that makes the 2nd day in a row of 30 miles and I need to do that every day if I’m going to make the mileage goals…I had to get out early with rain coming in in just a few minutes…I do need to lubricate the bike tomorrow since it has a squeak in the swingarm bushing…and the shifter is sticking from sand in it…should probably crawl into the crawlspace and turn the outdoor water on…
Read the 2025 project…
Well…if you’re sitting on the fence about voting…and I sure hope you’re not…you need to go out and find a copy of the repubs 2025 project that will turn this country into a christo fascist theocracy if the idiot trump cheats his way to another election…some high point include rounding up every undocumented immigrant (only brown ones, of course), putting them in camps and then deporting them…hey, I think you should ask the farmers in Florida who had most of their crops rotting in the field when the repubs there passed a law saying that any latino person could be arrested so they all left…and women are going to be the target of these assholes…no birth control, no abortions, IVF, monitoring women’s periods…and they are even floating taking away the right to vote…and don’t think the courts are going to protect you…especially since a few of them are already members of christian cults and believe that women should be kept in their place…so folks, just because you live in a state like Michigan that, for now, has enshrined women’s rights in the constitution…federal law will override them…and they really plan to come down hard on the LGBTQ community…essentially outlawing being gay or transgender…believe them when they say it and get out to vote in the most important election in any of our lives…geez…
April 7th
Well…damn, I really hurt myself going into the wind on the bike yesterday and I can barely move my neck today….and the thought entered my head that there is going to come a point where I just can’t do it anymore and that just sucks…need to get moving soon to get the first ride in but the F1 race is on and I want to see some of that but they are going to re-run it this afternoon so I guess I can watch it then…slept pretty crappy last night and tonight is going to be the last night of cocktails until after my upcoming doctors appointment on the 3rd of May to get my blood pressure down before then…and it will help me lose weight…want to drop another 10 pounds before summer to get me down into the 150′s…I did get some things done yesterday but I really do need some time off as I get older…getting three rides in, doing the weed walk, and starting to clean up the yard took a lot out of me and it doesn’t help that I only had a bowl of soup and a BLT yesterday but I’m doing that again today…just so darn worn out that it is going to be a chore to get going…not much to do today…have 14 minutes to get on the bike and today is going to be a struggle…more later…
Couldn’t find a topic…
Well…it has been a busy day today and I looked for a political topic but couldn’t find one so I’ll do this instead…after I got up, I was on the bike around 7 and had both rides in before 9:30…then I put wok clothes and went out to clear the dog crap off my front terrace…then I filled my sprayer up with weed killer and did the first weed walk of the year that took forever since I have more weeds than grass at this point with the big drought last year…so I’ll be seeding…again…maybe next week since there are a couple of days of rain in the forecast…I did get out on the outdoor bike but went out at 51 degrees in shorts and froze my fingers in the new riding gloves…and the wind was blowing 15 on the way out and I pulled something in my back that is going to have to be heated tonight…darn…I did take the cap off the outside faucet and put the valve on it but I still need to climb in the crawlspace and turn the shutoff on….should probably clean it while I’m in there since there are some old paint cans that need to be discarded…maybe tomorrow…okay…going to go read a bit…