Well…up at about 4:30 this morning and spent a lot of time just lying in bed starting at the ceiling until I climbed out at around 6…seemed to have slept okay and feel okay for getting about 5 hours of sleep last night and I have to get on the bike in 25 minutes…trying to get to 2K on the indoor bike and will need about 8 rides to do that…went over 1,500 miles outdoors the other day and I’ll get to halfway later in the week…I had a schedule for today that has already been changed with the fog that has the lawn dripping wet so mowing will wait til the afternoon and I’ll get all three rides in this morning…it is supposed to storm overnight with high winds and hail and I’m glad I have a garage to keep my car in…didn’t get much done yesterday but I think I’m going to grill some chicken thighs today if I have enough gas in the tank…will need to have it filled later this week…and I do need to figure out what the heck the grinding is with the brakes on the car….need to buy a new one soon…not much to do today…have tried to throttle back the things I have to do so I’m not so stressed out every day trying to get so many rides in…yesterday was okay and I even had time to read a bit…more later…
Monthly Archives: May 2024
Damn stupid people..
Well…I really can’t believe how many stupid people there are in this world…when I was coming back from the second ride and stopped at the crosswalk on Shoreline drive, I hit the cross button and sat there and waited for the light to change watching the countdown in the display…when the light changed to give me the green, I always look to the left to make sure the traffic has stopped because I just don’t trust people to be paying attention…and today that was a good thing…first, a truck ran the red light a few seconds after it changed, but I kept watching the traffic and a guy in a van ran the light a good 10 seconds after I got the green…and if it wasn’t for me hitting the button and waiting to go…the traffic waiting to turn left onto Shoreline from 7th would have gone and gotten t-boned by these idiots…man, what stupid people…
Get on it dems…
Well…with the recent revelations that the lying alito was flying the upside down American flag at his house after the January 6th insurrection, and will not recuse himself from ruling on any related case, it’s up the senate dems to do something about it…let’s start with every dem legislator calling him out for having no ethics every time they are in front of a microphone…just like Jamie Raskin did this morning…and we need Dick Durbin and the rest of the senate dems to do the same…and it was also reported that alito was up to his ears in the plot to overthrow the election since he was the “go to guy” in the SC that trump and his cronies were depending on to rule that the 12th amendment overruled the electoral count act, sending the election to the house which would have installed idiot boy for a second term…eliminating the almost 80 million votes for Joe Biden…but alito didn’t get the chance sine Nancy Pelosi got wind of the plot and convened the congress on January 6th to count the electoral votes before alito could rule on a lawsuit brought by trumps cronies…that is how this asshole was part of the plot to overthrow the government and should be removed now…and Durbin needs to get the ball rolling today…geez…
May 20th
Well…damn, need to get moving soon to get two rides in before I head over to the library to return the books that are due…going to do an indoor ride and an outdoor ride before then and another outdoor ride as soon as I get back here…should be another 32 mile day today and I’m really hoping that it does rain today as forecast but it’s looking like it won’t be til later in the day…slept okay last night but I forgot to close the front door and it is pretty cold in here right now…only 55 outside but the heat didn’t come on so I guess that’s something…probably made a mistake only eating one meal yesterday for about 600 calories and need to do better today…might grill the chicken thighs that are in the fridge and that would give me leftovers for the rest of the week…need to get my propane tank refilled but I think I have enough in it to do the thighs…need to put gas in the car this week, too, since it’s down to less than a half a tank and I really do need to start finding a new car…going to mark out a time every day to search for one so I can get one before my birthday in July…the little weather widget on my screen says “heavy rain later” and I sure hope it’s right….not much to do today…need to get on the indoor bike before 7 so I have 27 minutes to get moving…only have two cups of coffee for the morning and I need to figure out how that happened…more later…
32 miles today..
Well…I took it a little easier today with only doing 32 miles and one of the rides was indoors when I got up this morning and I really needed it…saw a sailboat race on Muskegon Lake that was pretty cool but I haven’t posted that yet…will do that after I do this one…the outdoor rides were fun even with the wind and it was another t-shirt day for me…but my knees both hurt on the bike today and that may be my fault for going too hard on both rides but damn, it felt good…I did make some chicken masala this afternoon and didn’t finish it til almost 1:30 so there will only be one meal today…and that’s okay…went down on miles so I need to go down on calories, too…lots of people out on the trail today and that made it a little more work than I want but everyone was nice and waving at me so that made up for it…there was a dead deer that must have been hit Friday night that is lying alongside Shorline drive and I pity the city workers that will be picking it up tomorrow with how hot it’s been here…covered in flies and bloating like crazy…sure hope they do pick it up before it smells…have everything done I wanted to do today including the weight work this morning so I have the rest of the day off to watch pole qualifying at Indy and then the nascar race from North Wilkesboro that starts at 5…going to read some news…
Trump froze and no media is covering it…
Well…damn, I’m still pretty pissed off about the unequal coverage that is happening in this election year and it is just so damn blatant that the NYT and almost every other paper ceaselessly attack Joe Biden or purposely do not report on the good things he and his administration have accomplished…and that kept up last night when the orange asshole held another one of his fascist rallies and in the middle of his rant, he froze up completely, stopped talking and stood there for almost a minute until his aides started the music and hustled him off the stage…and he talks about Joe Biden being old? And you know this would be front page news with calls for his resignation from every damn repub if Joe did this…but with idiot boy all we get is silence and then excuses….and this goes with the recent revelation that the idiot had a minor stroke while in office that just got reported this past week…so the media conspired to help trump by hiding his infirmity and brain damage…although that is on display every time he opens his mouth and a word salad pours out…this is just bullshit and we need to ignore the media and make our choice for Joe now and makes sure we all vote in November…geez…
May 19th
Well…damn, need to get moving in 16 minutes and get on the indoor bike to start the day and the 2 day rule kicked in from my 50 mile ride Friday…my back hurts like crazy and it is joined by damn near everything else and I do fear that my body is more easily damaged as I get older…won’t be outdoors on the bike this morning since races start at 8 and run until 11 then I’ll need to wedge two outdoor rides in before pole qualifying at Indy comes on at three…so it’s going to be a busy one today with too much to do…I do need to make some chicken masala but I really don’t know when there is going to be time today…I did sleep okay last night and didn’t get out of bed til almost 6:30 after waking up around 5….I did leave the basement windows open overnight to air it out and I even cleaned the cobwebs from the windows, too…cleaned a little more down there, too, and that needs to continue…the first people toured the rebuilt little house that is for sale at 180K and I wanted to stop and tell them to run from this neighborhood or it’s going to drive them crazy from all of the noise…and I might do that if I see anyone else looking at it…not much to do today…yeah, that’s not true…going to be running all day and I’m only one cup of coffee in….more later…
Big miles for the week…
Well…after another day of 38 miles on the bike, the total for the week is 302 miles and any time you can get over 300 miles in one week that’s a lot…all that had to happen was for my body and the weather to cooperate and they both did…and I don’t think I did any permanent damage since I’m not really sore from it so that’s cool…and I’m getting near the half way point in miles for the year with 1,470 outdoors and 1,942 indoors for a total of 3,412 and that leaves me only 138 miles to do before the end of the month…I’ll do more than that but I may be able to start to manage the riding a little better so I’ll be able to maintain the miles and not have to put in 50 mile or more days…I do still need to ride my age here in the next month or so and that will help…have never had this many miles this early in the year so it does look like the 7,100 mile goal is going to be doable…I think 38 mile days are going to be the new normal from now on since I can do them easily…we’ll see…
Rudy has been served…
Well…I had to laugh when the final subpoena in the Arizona election fraud case was served yesterday to Rudy Giuliani at his 80th birthday party in Florida in front of a hundred people…now, how would you like it to be 80 and to have fallen so far as ole rudy? I still can’t figure out how everyone who is near the idiot trump ends up losing all their intelligence and everything else…after all, rudy is on the hook for 148 million dollars for slandering two election workers in Georgia and still is under felony indictment there and now in Arizona and maybe Michigan will be next…so when rudy goes to trial and gets convicted, he will probably spend the rest of his life in jail…all in the service of the orange idiot…now that’s a bad life choice…poor rudy…geez…
May 18th
Well…up at a little after 6 this morning but I did sleep okay…I think…and I have a decision to make right now…do I get on the indoor bike or do I just wait for the temp to come up and ride outdoors? It’s only 49 out there right now so it needs to come up about 5 degrees before my hands will survive the cold…still pretty sore just sitting here so it will take a little care getting moving today…another little house was rebuilt and put up for sale out here yesterday at 179,000 dollars and it sits on a 49 foot wide lot with no basement or garage so maybe mine is inching up toward 200K now…I really did buy this place at the right time…I made a bean/chicken burrito for dinner yesterday and it came out so good…very tasty and I think part of it was the Ortega taco sauce I used instead of salsa…and the grilled chicken that I tossed in taco seasoning was a good idea along with the pickled red onions…that will last me through the weekend but I am going to make chicken masala tomorrow after I use up the leftover chicken thighs I grilled the other day…need to get my propane tank refilled this week since it’s almost empty…not much to do today…just three rides outdoors and then Indy qualifying starting at 11 so I need to get my butt in gear to get three rides in before then…more later…