Well…sitting here at 11:23 and I am done for the day and that is just weird…Olympics is on and I have the laundry started…I was going to go out and get some 100 sunscreen but I really don’t like to go to Meijers on the weekend so that will wait til tomorrow…they have potatoes on sale again for 3 lbs for a buck along with the bacon wrapped pork loin for a buck, too, so I’ll get a few more of those and I’ll grill some more thighs to make burritos at the same time…I do need to make potato soup in the next couple of days or maybe even today…we’ll see…only did 25 miles on the bike today since I need a semi rest day to heal up a bit and I know I’ll hit my goals for the year so I can afford it…I do need to clean a bit but I’m not sure what yet…or I may just watch the Olympics…great women’s archery match right now…
Monthly Archives: July 2024
Wow!
Well…I know that political campaigns run on money but there is another little fact about the Harris campaign that is making me smile a bit today…they have raised over 200 million dollars in one week which is breathtaking, but that addition of 170,000 volunteers to do the grunt work of knocking on doors and getting the word out on Kamala could be even more important…and the repubs can’t match that enthusiasm at all…I think this is becoming a movement that has so much upside while the idiot trump is going nowhere…the repubs do have a ceiling of about 47% that they have done in the past two elections and Kamala is well past that right now…am I getting cocky? Nope, I haven’t seen politics like this in a while but I know that there are some tough times coming…but one thing I know is that we control this election if we just go out and vote…so please do that…
July 28th
Well…damn, I need to get on the bike in 9 minutes and I sure don’t want to…I am so worn out this morning that I can barely get moving and I just started the first cup of coffee…need to get two rides in before the F1 race at 9 and I don’t think that is going to happen…okay, it has to so I need to gt moving…had an okay day yesterday and gave myself a haircut with a number one instead of a number two comb and I think I like it shorter…it looks like no wind out there this morning and that will be welcome with the wind always blowing out here…I am going to go out and get some 100 spf sunscreen today since I got scorched with the 50 yesterday…or I’ll just wear long sleeves for all of the rides…okay, this is going to be another split day since I need to get going….
Scorched…
Well…yep, I do need 100 spf sunscreen…went out today with just the 50 on at 11am for the third ride and my arms are scorched…my neck even feels like it too so I’m going to run out to Meijers in the morning to see if they have any 100…if not I’ll have to order it from amazon along with the parts for the black bike…I did get the earplugs I ordered and I like them but won’t have to use them for a while since the lawn stopped growing with the 16 days of no rain…so another year of losing the lawn and that is a pain…went a little too low on calories yesterday and was so dizzy that I could barely get off the couch this morning…and I may have done that again today and I really do need to take that seriously with all of the riding I do…I did get over 5,700 miles so I’m down to only 400 more miles to break my record and then another 1,000 to grind out to get to the 7,100 goal…I had thought of another goal that made sense but I forgot what that was so I’ll have to think about it for a bit…but right now I need to try to find something to watch for tonight since Svengoolie has a movie on that I’ve seen lots of times….so I think I’ll do that right now…
They told you what they plan…
Well…I think this one is going to bounce around a bit since I have a couple of things I want to talk about…the first is the speech the idiot trump gave to a group of right wing “christians” where he said all they have to do is just vote for him one more time and it will be taken care of…meaning that it will be the last election in this country if he is elected…so we need to make sure that doesn’t happen…and right now, the prospects of Kamala driving the final nail in his coffin is growing by the day…I cannot believe the enthusiasm I’m seeing from damn near everyone on the left…150,000 new voter signups of with more than 80% of that being young people…and young people vote for our side…and the money raised? Damn near 400 million dollars since Sunday and it just keep rolling in…do I dare to say that this could be a landslide for our side? At this point it may be wishful thinking but the signs are there and getting better by the hour…I mean 20,000 dollars a minute coming in? I can’t wait until the orange loser is out of our lives…and let’s remember he is still being sentenced for his 34 felony convictions and has other trials pending…so maybe things are looking up…at least I feel better about the election and the doom is just about gone…geez…
July 27th
Well…crap…having computer problems this morning and I should be on the bike right now but I just can’t get going…the power went out with a huge bang last night but I think a transformer just tripped since it only took an hour to get it back on…slept okay last night but I don’t feel good at all…just so damn worn out and my tv stream is still out of synch and my son is not going to do anything about it and that pisses me off…two days now and I’m missing the olympics and the race from Spa…okay, this is going to be a short one since I am not feeling it right now…I’ll be back later to complete this one but I need to get on the bike right now…more later…okay, I’m back after getting two rides in and I am going to test how bad the sunburn from the antibiotics is going to be this morning when I go out for ride three after F1 qualifying…will probably go downtown to see the Budweiser Clydesdales this afternoon but I need to find out when they will be here…still in a lot of pain in my back/neck and I wonder how long I’ll let if go before I call my doctor and have it checked out? I’m used to pain so I’ll probably just deal with it…not much to do today…I should make potato soup today or tomorrow before the celery goes bad and to use up some of the buck potatoes I got this week….more later…
Took it easy today..
Well…man, getting three rides in before 10 am took a lot out of me and I really needed to take the afternoon off to try to recharge a bit but it really didn’t work and I’m still so low on energy I could just sit here the rest of the day…and I just might…the pain in my back is still pretty severe and it’s coming up on two months since I hurt it…and it’s weird that my left should has been hurting this summer when it’s normally my right that hurts with any abuse like cutting out the sod on the front walks…one good thing is that I really do think I broke an adhesion or scar tissue in my right thumb and it hasn’t hurt since I did the walks and it’s no way near as stiff as it had been…so now do I wait for the scar tissue to reform and worry about that? Nope, I’m used to it hurting so if it comes back, oh well…it looks like only two rides in the morning tomorrow since F1 qualifying is on at 9 and I can’t get three rides in before that…and I’m not sure if 11 is too late to go out in the sun without burning to a crisp…I guess I could chance it to see if I can get some flexibility back into my schedule…only had about 800 calories today so I’ll probably have to eat more tomorrow…had a chicken sandwich and some chips for lunch and then one boneless/skinless chicken thigh and some creamy pasta for dinner…I did assemble the potato salad today so I’ll have that for tomorrow and then will have to think about what else to cook Sunday and get that out of the freezer tomorrow…okay, I’m done…
Can it be hope?
Well…as I sit here now, it feels like the the blanket of dread has lifted from me and I have been able to read the news again since there is good news out there..could it be hope? It is a little strange that just having Joe drop out and endorsing Kamala could do that…but, it’s more than that…for the first time in a long time the dem party is not infighting and having pie fights and have closed ranks around Kamala with hundreds of endorsements and the polls showing she is bringing in new voters and part of that is she is directly going after the orange ogre and is crossing the country doing speeches that are hanging the demise of Roe right around idiot boy’s neck since he bragged about overturning it many times…how do you brag about taking rights away from Americans unless you just don’t care about them? That should be another theme that gets pushed on the trail…just list all the ways the repubs are trying to take away rights and what our side is doing and will do to protect the rights of all Americans…oh, one last thing…idiot boy has realized that Kamala would wipe the floor with him in a debate and has made some chickenshit excuse about it…what a chicken….geez…
July 26th
Well…damn, running late already today and need to get on the bike in 16 minutes so I can get three rides in before F1 practice comes on from Spa in Belgium at 10…I am so tired of being in a rush every day and not having any time to just enjoy life…slept okay last night and was only up a couple of times and that is better than earlier in the week…have a lot of cooking to do today…or assembling since I cooked the ingredients for potato salad yesterday and grilled a lot of chicken thighs that will last me a couple of days…it is cool out there right now at 55 degrees and I don’t mind that at all…going to wait to take the antibiotics until late this aft so I won’t get sunburned…I wonder if I could just do two rides today? Just so damn worn out and I know I’ll make the goal so why am I working so hard? Need to get on the bike in 5 minutes so I need to get going…more later…
Need to get some 100spf sunscreen…
Well…it’s been a day and I have been running since 7am…got the first two rides in before I headed out to pick up the 3,500 dollar antibiotic prescription that really only cost me 28 bucks so that was cool…but having take it for 90 days is going to be a pain…especially since it makes you extremely sensitive to the sun and has a warning to avoid direct sunlight or it will damage your skin…but, you know I can’t do that so I’m going to take it after I get everything done for the day…and go out and try to get some 100 spf sunscreen to see if that helps…so it looks like my beach days are over for the year and that sucks…and I’ll have to get out on the bike and be done by 10am every day…I did get some more little red allergy tablets today, too, and now I have 96 of them and that will get me to about the time I run out of the antibiotic…I did find the earplugs I wanted on amazon…oh, I already talked about that…only 40 cents a pair and that’s pretty good…I really do want to have cocktails tonight but I need to get the swelling down in my foot and that won’t happen if I’m drinking…tonight will be 4 days in a row being good and the progress on my foot is not as fast as I would like…darn…have everything done but my teeth and making ice so I think I’ll read a bit before I do that…