Well…I am laughing a bit this morning when I read that the dock worker strike that was supposed to start yesterday has been postponed until January to give both sides time to negotiate a new contract and I can hear the repubs weeping in their beer since they were all primed to use this as an election hammer to go after Harris for not being able to manage the economy…and the ironic thing here is the head of the dockworkers union is a trump toady who planned the strike to knee cap the economy to help trump…but Biden got involved and appealed to the rank and file and management of the ports that there was another way…and the negotiations are moving forward and the first news is that the port manager has offered a 65% wage increase over 6 years…and to me, that is a good start with the port owners making billions of dollars that has mostly been distributed to stockholders as we see in every damn industry these days…and this from an “incompetent” Joe Biden? The right wing pundit class is just sputtering that there must be a “fix” that is in since they can’t conceive that the dems could out maneuver them…but that is not what this is at all…our side doesn’t think of everything in terms of winning or losing in politics…our side looks at what is right for the country and pursues those goals…and the right just can’t understand that…geez…
Monthly Archives: October 2024
October 4th
Well…up at 5;30 this morning and that is a lot better than 4:04 so I’ll take it…slept okay and only got up a couple of times but I’m sore everywhere for some reason…didn’t do much yesterday other than the rides but I need to do better today…and I’m going to start it off with a ride before 8 and then I need to go to aldis to get the carrots and celery that I need for a chicken dish I want to make this afternoon…and I remembered that I have lentils and chickpeas that I think I’ll put in it, too, to make the sauce a little more hearty…might have to see if they have potatoes on sale since mine are a little old and wrinkled…and after aldis I need to go to the library since I finished the three books I have checked out…it’s only 52 out there right now so I may do an indoor ride to start the day…I’ll have to make that decision here in about an hour but that gives me time to enjoy my coffee…but that might end soon with wholesale coffee prices up 80% over the past couple of months…I did buy a big can before the increases kick in and I think I’ll buy another one next week if I can find some on sale…oh, well…it looks like it’s going to rain a bit this morning so I guess I’ll be on the indoor bike for the first one…not much to do today…just cooking and cleaning since I’m too damn sore to work outdoors..why the heck my knees are hurting is confusing me…I wonder if it’s the weather change that is coming or maybe I slept with them contorted? Who knows? More later…
Got some things done…
Well…damn, I know it says that it is 70 outside but I am freezing my butt off right now…and I wonder if it is still from going out when it was in the 50′s this morning? I did get three rides in today and then repackaged the kielbasa and burgers and got them in the freezer and I’ll have to make room for some chicken thighs I have in the fridge…going to make a dish in the cast iron dish my daughter gave me with chicken thighs, kielbasa, potatoes, carrots, celery and onions with a tomato pasta sauce as the liquid…should be good but I do have to go out and get the veggies at aldis tomorrow when they open…don’t feel like going today…ooo.. I’ve got mushrooms that can go in it, too…yummy! And that will make about 4 days of meals to go with the 4 burgers I left out of the freezer…going to have one of those for dinner along with the rest of the pasta salad…I was going to work on the stump today but my thumb and neck hurt too much…need to vacuum the floor in the bathroom before Man U comes on at 3 and I want to try to finish up the last book I have going so I can get new ones tomorrow…so, I’d better get going…more later…
Jack Smith hits it out of the park…
Well…damn, Jack Smith’s 165 page filing that was released by judge Chutkan yesterday hit it out of the park with what law pundits called one of the best they’ve every seen…and it took the wrongful immunity ruling by the supreme court and threw it back in their faces with legal reasoning that will give the court no avenue to overturn when the idiot rump is convicted…and the trump lawyers response in the 7 pages they filed read like something that idiot boy wrote and his lawyers tried to turn into a response but their point that Smith’s filing was “election interference” did not have one bit of legal reasoning in it…just a screed that won’t carry a bit of weight when the trial starts…and the Smith filing shows that everyone who worked for idiot boy flipped on him so the case is going to be really strong once the trial starts…when that is going to be, who knows…but idiot boy should be shaking since justice is coming and the SC can’t help him unless they ignore their own ruling on immunity and that would expose the depth of the corruption in the court and will dive the reform it needs when Kamala is elected…they did it to themselves and deserve it…geez…
October 3rd
Well…darn, I would really like to sleep a full night for once…up at 4:54 this morning and that broke the string of getting up at a little after 5:30…oh, well…I did get my ballot in the mail yesterday so I don’t have to make a run over to the city clerk today…and I’ll wait to pay the water bill til next week since it’s not due til the 14th…didn’t get anything done yesterday but ride 33 miles and do the grocery run and bought too much food again and now I have to find room in the freezer for it all…but not buying booze saved me almost 30 bucks so that is cool and I won’t have to buy any for another 3 weeks since I’m being good 5 days a week now…still need to figure out how to not be bored without cocktails but that just needs a little work and I’ll figure it out…it looks like it’s going to be a 38 mile day today with it being warm enough to get out as soon as it gets light around 8….going to try to work on the stump left over after cutting out the shrub Monday…then I can start getting the fence tied back to the posts with the ties I got yesterday at menards…I got a new 5 gallon bucket for only 4 bucks and may use those in the spring to have a container garden since the in ground was a bust this year…not much to do today…just going to sit here for a while and have coffee and I may have to get out the french press since I didn’t leave much for this morning…more later…
Walz vs. Vance
Well…you probably already know that there was a debate between Tim Walz and a liar last night an of course, the oligarch dominated media called it for vance even though he whined and lied through the whole thing with the low point being when vance lied about the legal Haitian immigrants in Ohio calling them illegal when they are not…they are all here legally and the whiner vance actually said “I thought you weren’t going to fact check me”…and that was the theme of the whole thing where Walz answered every question especially one where they were both asked if they would certify the election and Walz had a simple answer..”yes”…when vance hemmed and hawed and lied and never answered whether he would or not…that right there should be disqualifying along with the rest of the bullshit…but the media called vance “smooth” and didn’t even note that he was smoothly lying the entire debate…one thing that came out of it was the Walz’s likeability jumped to lead vance by more than 30 points…one thing we all have to remember is that vance is a total construction of Peter Thiel, the right wing billionaire who bought him a senate seat and now is trying to buy him the vp spot since he knows that the idiot trump won’t survive another term…Thiel has already started to float removing trump using the 25th amendment that would make vance president…just as he has planned for the past 15 years…geez…
October 2nd
Well…man, this getting up around 5:30 every morning is getting pretty old and I’m worn out again today…and I wonder why the hell I’m being good if I’m going to feel like I did yesterday…had no energy at all and didn’t get anything done but the bike rides and I only did two of them the wind was blowing so hard…hurt my neck again so I’ll have to hit that with biofreeze before I get on the indoor bike for the first ride…have the grocery run to do today and I’m going to hit DD for some mushroom burger patties for 2 bucks a pound and then look around there for other bargains…no one has protein on sale this week so I’ll have to make due with the burger and then make some burritos…it’s only 45 degrees here and it’s not going to warm up til about 10 so I can have coffee after I get back here…have to hit menards this morning to get some fencing ties to fix the fence and get a new 5 gallon bucket since my old one started to leak and I need a bucket to mop the floors…and I need to do that today since I tracked dirt in on my riding shoes and it bugs the hell out of me to walk barefoot on it…so, I need to get going here by 6:30 so I can get out the door by 8…the grind to get to 10,000 starts today and I’ll hit 8,000 today…more later….
One more goal…
Well…when I was out on the bike this morning and heading toward 8,000 miles, it dawned on me that I still have 90 days left in the year to ride…so immediately I did the math in my head and realized to do 2,000 more miles to get to 10,000 would only take an average of 22.5 miles a day…so guess what? A new goal of 10,000 miles is now accepted and gives me something to shoot for instead of the vague one of just getting as many miles as I can…so for this last goal oriented year of riding, here we go to a new goal…and the thought hit me that if not now, when? I’m getting nothing but older and less capable so this is it if I’m ever going to get into 5 figures for a year…so, I’ll get started piling on the miles tomorrow after just doing two rides and 25 miles today…just too strong of winds out there and after all of the work yesterday, I need a recovery day to just clean a bit…and I hurt my neck pulling into the wind that really does need some rest…
Trump lies, of course…
Well…with the devastation that hurricane Helene left behind in Georgia and NC, the shameless liar trump spewed lies lies and more lies about the response to the disaster and blatantly tried to use it for political purposes saying that “maga areas of the states have been abandoned” by Biden and he is not even taking phone calls from the governors of those states…the only problem with that is that governor Kemp of Georgia debunked that lie an almost real time saying that he talked to Biden Sunday and is in almost contact with the federal agencies that Biden has mobilized to deal with the disaster…and guess who didn’t ask the governor to kiss his ass before he’s send any aid at all…yeah, trump did that but Biden didn’t…with Biden and Harris, it’s all hands on deck to bring the full force of the federal government to help the affected areas…but, in the 2025 project the the idiot trump says he will implement, these types of efforts will be left to the states and they will have to fend for themselves…look, there are things that should be the purview of the feds like these disasters…no one state can shoulder the burden and shouldn’t have to…but they hate the federal government so much they don’t care…they just want to prove the point that government doesn’t wok…and they are doing their best to make sure that’s true…geez…
October 1st
Well…another month starts and I am frickin sore today…might even have to take some ibuprofen before I get on the bike today…I was hoping to be able to take a little time off but the rain missed to the north so I’ll be on the bike by 8…not sure if I’ll do three rides today…probably not but we’ll see…got all the work I had to do this week done yesterday other than cleaning in here so a two ride day would help me get that jump started…if my ballot doesn’t get here by Thursday, I’m going over to the city clerk to find out why…they were supposed to be mailed out last Thursday and it shouldn’t take a week to go 4 blocks….it’s going to be down in the 60′s for highs for a while so I’ll need to adjust riding to it and wear some warmer clothes…I am going to buy some rechargeable heated gloves for this winter since I seem to be more sensitive to the cold as I get older…and maybe follow that up with some heated socks…the I could ride comfortably right through the winter if it doesn’t ice the trail over…I can ride the roads here I guess like I did last winter…but I don’t want to think about that right now…still going out in shorts for the next couple of weeks…damn, my right hip hurts this morning…okay…everything hurts and it would be easier to name the parts that don’t hurt…not much to do today…I feel good that I got so much done yesterday but at the end of it, I was so worn out…damn, I hate getting old…just need to do the rides and get the grocery list made up…need to stop at menards tomorrow to get some fencing ties since all of them are missing where I removed the shrub yesterday…and I’m missing a lot of them all along the fence….more later…