Well…after getting the work done yesterday, I had an afternoon off today so I decided to go out to the beach since it was so damn hot and humid…and I wanted to try out the repairs I made to my beach chair…and they worked but I think I’m going to re web it over the winter since the frame is so sturdy…not like the new ones that are flimsy and weak…will probably cost me 40 bucks to do it and a lot of drilling for the screws but it might be a fun project…and I’ll change it from the small jelly plastic to a more standard 3 inch webbing…I did get some color in my hands since I didn’t have any sunscreen on them along with my face to get rid of the raccoon eyes from my sunglasses…don’t think I’ll need aloe sine I was only out there for an hour and a half…the water appeared cold the first time I stepped into it but once I got in, it felt okay and I played in the water for a half hour…it might be my last time for the summer so that was a little bittersweet…but, we’ll see…
Monthly Archives: August 2024
They have him boxed in on the debates…
Well…with the one presidential debate coming up, the idiot trump is threatening every day to drop out of it with reasons like how the microphones will be operated and by idiot boy saying that Kamala is “too stupid” to debate…with an insult like that, let’s remember what one of idiot boy’s professors said: “donald trump is the dumbest person I’ve ever taught”…look, they have trump boxed in on the debate…if he does it, Kamala will shred him and he loses the election…if he backs out, the ads will write themselves saying he was too scared to debate and that’s not what we need in in a commander in chief….on other thing I wanted talk about is the photo op of idiot boy laying a wreath at Arlington Nation Cemetery…first it was a political operation which are not allowed there and whoever approved it should be fired…but it was just so cringy having the idiot stand there and fake caring at all about the military and the giving a thumbs up over the graves of fallen soldiers…what an insensitive asshole…geez…
August 27th
Well…I wouldn’t wish that night of sleep on anyone…tossed and turned from 11 til 2, got up for a bit to watch for the storms coming in, laid back down til 4, up again then out of bed for good 5:32…and I must have slept with pressure on my eye since I can barely see clearly this morning…I am so darn worn out today after that…so I started the coffee early and I’m pouring it down and hope it works soon…it never got under 75 again last night and it’s supposed to be almost 90 again today…the heat index got up to 105 yesterday and it will probably be higher than that today since it’s so humid right now with the rain…we did get some good rain overnight and it lasted a little more than an hour and I’ll take it…the lawn was crackling when I mowed it yesterday and even this rain isn’t going to do much for it…I’m thinking of only doing two rides today so I can go out to the beach for one last time this summer and try to get a swim in…the water has to have gained 30 degrees over the past week and I’m not sure if that’s possible…I did get the front porch clean3d up and fixed yesterday and need to start thinking about replacing it in the next couple of years and I may expand it to make it more like a deck…but that will cost 3-4 grand and I’m not sure I want to spend it…we’ll see…not much to do today…just two rides and the beach but I still have an hour before it gets light and I can get on the bike…more later…
Busy again…
Well…one of these days I’m going to stop complaining about how busy I am all the time…it sure doesn’t feel like I’m retired other than I don’t go somewhere to work every day…started out by getting three rides in by 10:30, then mowing the lawn…then I discovered some loose stair treads on the front porch and drilled and screwed them back down…when I was doing that, I noticed that the algae was taking over the flat surfaces again and the door mat so I scrubbed the mat with a scrub brush and dish soap…then I got out the deck cleaner and washed the flat surfaces that were green and I’ll re treat them with Thompsons water seal tomorrow…then I put a load of laundry in, did three of these and now it’s 2:30pm and I am done for the day…now you see what the title said…busy again…oh, well…
Why do they want them to “fear” us?
Well…the latest attack on Kamala Harris by speaker Johnson goes something like this “the only person our adversaries fear less than Joe Biden is Kamala Harris”…now in the repubs tiny little fear driven minds, the bestest thing in the world is that people fear us…they just eat up using fear to get people to vote for them…scary immigrants, scary socialists, and scary women…you the gist…but everyone else other than repubs know it’s respect that helps get things done in the world…do you think people will help craft solutions to the problems of the world by making them fear you and threatening them? You won’t help on climate change? Then we will bomb you until you do…yeah, I hope you get how ludicrous that is…and I wonder how delusional the repubs have to be to think that the idiot trump’s “tough guy” image is feared around the world? The world had four years to see what a bumbling fool trump is and how easily manipulated he is with just a little flattery or even a bribe..there is no way anyone fears him…and it’s only in the mind of maga that he’s tough…everyone else in this country sees him as a washed up has been…or a never was since he started out with the affirmative action of generation wealth that he inherited…”does anyone think he looks tired”? geez…
Shame on you CNN..
Well…after Kamala Harris’s wonderful keynote speech at the DNC last week, CNN had a focus group of “undecided” voters watch the speech and then asked who they would vote for..7 of the 8 people said Harris and one said the idiot trump…after that bit of confusion, some of the independent media did some checking on social media and found out that the one trump voter has always been a trump supporter, not the independent that CNN made him out to be…and he said that he told CNN many times that he supported trump and they didn’t care…so, it’s either CNN is just too lazy to vet these “independents” by looking at their social media accounts or CNN was doing what almost all of the mainstream media is doing…trying to prop up the idiot trump by tearing down Kamala and Walz…and this dishonesty is going to ruin CNN just like it has with the NYT and the Post…in fact the NYT had a headline saying that idiot boy can win on “character issues”…how the hell can an adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, and serial liar win on “character issues”? He has no character and just the times printing the headline shows how far they are leaing over backward to help trump…I’m just glad that there is an emerging independent media that is starting to hold these liars to account…keep it up…geez…
August 26th
Well…it never got under 75 overnight and it’s going to be a hot one today…between 85 and 90 and that will continue for one more day and then down into the 70′s for the rest of the summer…so I’ll need to get on the bike by 7:30 to have the rides in before 11 when the heat just pours in…left the house open all night and should have put the fan on in the bedroom like I will tonight…allergies suck today as they have for weeks now and I really need to some rain to wash the air out and that might happen tonight but I won’t count on it…didn’t get much done yesterday but I do need to clean a bit today if I have the energy for it…have been trying to eat more to support the riding and other work and I’m not sure if I was successful or not…I do know that every damn joint I have hurts this morning and I’ll have to treat it before I get on the bike…and that means I’ll need to get moving in a few minutes to prep my skin, do my teeth, and get the voltaren on my joints….I am so damn tired of the maintenance that this old body needs every day to just keep moving…but, I’ll do it…oh, well…more later…
82 million dollars…
Well…I know that money is too important in politics and donations should be limited to real people not corporations…so with that out of the way I am shocked about how much money the Harris/Walz campaign has raised…in the month since Joe dropped out of the race, the dems have raised over 500 million dollars…and just during the 4 days of the convention, they raised 82 million bucks and the money is still rolling in mostly from small money donors…almost twice what idiot boy raised in the same time and Kamala is not funneling millions into her pocket like idiot boy is or spending it on his own legal bills…and the ratings are in for the DNC which show that the dems beat the ratings of the repubs by 22% and I think that shows that the enthusiasm is real…we now just need to sustain it for the next 70 days and kick trump to the scrap heap where he belongs…along with the weird JD Vance…geez…
August 25th
Well…I don’t know what it is about 3:37 but I’ve woken up at that time for the past four days in a row and that is a little weird…and out of bed at about the same time, too…and I’m not sure I want that routine…I did sleep okay but I think I’m running out of steam and just want to sit here on the couch for a bit…the F1 race comes on at nine and that means I have a half hour to get on the bike to get a ride in before then…so I need to pour the coffee down and get moving…it’s going to be hot the next three days with temps in the mid 80′s but then down into the 70′s for 10 days and I think that’s the end of the hot weather for the year…so I won’t be out swimming again and that is a little sad…I am sore from running the string trimmer yesterday and that will probably continue to get worse for another day…there will be voltaren in my future…not much to do today…don’t have to cook since I still have leftovers but I should clean some…not too motivated right now even to get on the bike…but I will suck it up and get going in 22 minutes….more later…
I want my routine back…
Well…I really like my routine..getting the rides in, getting work done, and cooking, then sitting down at 7pm to catch some entertainment from shows I watch every week…or find some weird Korean or Japanese show on netflix…but since the last week of July, my routines have been interrupted by the Olympics, the convention, and nascar putting races on at night like last night and tonight…now, I like racing and the one from Daytona last night was a good one and I expect that tonight’s race from there will be fun…but it won’t allow me to see Svengoolie or a show or movie for some mindless entertainment…races are supposed to be during the day so I get to watch it and then go into my routine…I really would like my routine back before summer ends…only did two rides today with doing some yard work…ran the string trimmer around the entire yard today and I will be sore tomorrow…heck, I’m sore right now…not eating enough caught up with me this afternoon and I was dizzy as heck but how the heck do I eat more…my stomach doesn’t have that capacity anymore…oh, well…going to order the new parts for the black bike tomorrow but I think I’m going to use them on the grey bike since I’ve got 16,000 miles on the set that’s on it and they normally only last about 12K and I can’t get the hitch out of the idlers and it annoys the hell out of me…I’ll be riding along perfectly fine and smooth and then I’ll get clicking and vibration through the pedals…so I guess I’ll replace the entire drive line again including the shifter that I’ve already got downstairs along with the chain and front crankset and rear cassette…I’ll put a new shift cable on it, too since the one on it is a little frayed at the end and I have a dozen new ones downstairs…but now it’s time to read…