Well…over the past week or so, the bike chain started slipping when I hit bumps while pedaling so that means that the driveline is wearing out so I spent some money today to get all of the replacement parts I need…93 bucks with tax for the front crankset, chain, rear cassette, a bottom bracket tool, and a new set of handgrips…but, I had cashback to spend with Capital One so everything was free…I was going to buy some heated gloves to ride in the winter but even the 40 dollar ones were crap and I’m not going to spend 50-60 bucks for a pair…so I’ll look another direction for that..didn’t get anything else done today but take the left rear tire back off the car since I forgot to lube the suspension bushings when I had the wheel off to clean it…I decided to try a nickle plated rear cassette to see if it will last longer than the anodized ones I’ve been using…and it looks like chrome so that is cool…decided to cut back on my salt intake that I’ve been getting from snacking on pretzels so I won’t be buying any more of those…going to replace them with carrots, celery and cauliflower and see how that works out…it won’t be the same but I only have 3 weeks to get my blood pressure down before the checkup…and an article I read the other day said that extra salt intake is the most common cause of high blood pressure…and cocktails are another bad one so I’ve stopped those, too…and the calories from both have made my weight plateau so I’m hoping to now get down to 160 pounds and stay there…but I am going to have cocktails after the checkup…have to remember to get my blood work done next week and then I can have red meat again, too…okay, time to read….
Monthly Archives: October 2024
A burner phone?
Well…now, I wonder how many times a burner phone has been used to not commit crimes? Probably should ask the idiot trump since he is good at using them to hide his criminality…during his attempt to overthrow the election of 2020, idiot boy used a burner phone that was routed through Egypt to call and try to pressure the Michigan speaker of the house to reject the certification of the election and get him to send the fake electors to DC…now, let’s just think of that again…do you think this is an “official act” of any president? Where does it say in the constitution that the president’s duties include committing a crime to keep himself in power after he lost an election? This phone call happened and no denying it by the right is going to change that…they go on and on that this investigation is dems using the government to go after the perfectly innocent trump…and that is delusional…just plain delusional…but that’s what cults are…delusional…geez…
October 28th
Well…”just one more morning…I had to wake up with the blues…pull myself out of bed…put on my walking shoes” just a little quote from the Allman brothers “Dreams” to get the day started…didn’t plug the laptop in overnight and it still had 54% of the battery left and that’s pretty cool that the battery lasts a whole day…the old one lasted about a half hour…and after being plugged in for 5 minutes, it’s already up to 61%…damn, I’ve been so cold for the past day that I had the heating pad on me just to sit here but I’m sure it’s just the transition to cold weather that I haven’t adjusted to just yet…it’s going to warm up over the next two days and it looks like it will be the last two days of 70 degree weather here for the rest of the year but that is still a little weird for the end of October…have to drag the thermasuit out soon to be able to ride when I want and that’s a transition that I don’t relish…haven’t bought the heated gloves yet and I am struggling with buying them on Amazon after Bezo’s betrayal of the US by killing the endorsement of Kamala in the Post last week…I think I’ll do one last order to get the parts for the bike and then delete my account and go back to the olden days of buying individually…gonna suck but I won’t support anyone who supports the orange idiot…going to start to pick up the leaves today after the rides so I’ll be working outdoors all afternoon..and I need to clean out the flower beds along the house with the string trimmer and get the flower stalks raked up and bagged…more and more work…and more later…
No walnuts this year…
Well…last year about this time, I had to kick a path through all of the walnuts that fell on the trail from a tree that is right next to it..and I still have boxes full of them downstairs…but this year, there is not one walnut from that tree anywhere to be found…now, I saw the same thing a few years back when I lived in Cutlerville and rode through Kentwood where there were three walnut trees along a hundred yard section of the trail that covered it with nuts every fall…and then one year, nothing…I am a little curious about that since we had walnut trees on our property but I don’t remember them ever having a year where there were no nuts…walnut trees are weird…
Here’s the thing…
Well…with the refusal of the Post and La Times owners to endorse Kamala after their editorial boards already had the endorsement statements crafted, it’s pretty easy to see that there are a couple of things happening…one is that Bezos and that LA Times asshole really do want to keep every damn dime they can steal from the rest of us by getting the tax cuts that idiot boy has promised them…but the second thing is that they are scared of what the idiot can and will do to them if they don’t kiss his ass and he is elected…trump is a fascist, after all and will illegally use the government for payback and these guys don’t have the guts to buck him…just a couple of scared little men who are already bowing to trump’s fascism even when he has no power…how lame is that? And these assholes aren’t scared of Kamala or the dems because they know we play by the rules and uphold the constitution not break it, so the first amendment will protect them not matter what the hell they do with their vanity papers…one bit of fallout from Bezo’s timidity is that there have been over 60,000 cancellations of subscriptions to the Post since he chickened out on the endorsement…and even the NYT has piled on to his cowardice by re-running their endorsement of Kamala on the front page this week…I think the Times has gotten much, much wrong during this election but they got this one right…geez
October 27th
Well…having a heck of a time getting going today but I still have to get on the bike by 8am…it’s only 31 out there so the outdoor rides will wait until the afternoon but that will interfere with the races so I’ll have to figure that out…or just skip them since they are pretty boring anyway…yeah, you’re right…sounds like I’m a little depressed this morning and I am….not sure if it will turn into couch melting depression but it could and that means there is going to be a lot of work to do to suppress it…crap…had a good day yesterday and got the last 5 windows cleaned and today should be a bathroom cleaning day and it might be..we’ll see…finished up the antibiotics yesterday and I am a little curious to see what the effect will be without them…have been taking them since July but I think I still have the infection on my mouth and that sucks…man, I am so tired of having a schedule to meet every day…haven’t taken a day off to do what I want for over a year and that is a little sick, isn’t it? At least I don’t have to cook today with leftovers that will last at least 3 more days but I do have to plan what is next…but who knows what that will be…have lots of canned goods that should make some meals and they need to be used…more later…
Don’t use Total Browser…
Well…with getting the new computer, one of the first things I did was to go out and look for an ad blocker to keep the damn pop ups and ads from overrunning it…tried a new one called “Total Browser” and it worked great for two weeks…and then, even though it was advertised as free, after two weeks they shut it off and had their own pop up that said I could continue to have ads blocked for 69 dollars a year…yeah, right…not when there are really free ones that work with Firefox that are open source and free…just like Firefox… so now I’m trying out another one called U-block Origin that got good reviews and doesn’t sell my data and in the past three minutes, it has blocked 18 ads over on Kos and now I can read that again without having to click to get through the huge popup ad that always comes up when you start there…so, I’ll do an update after I’ve used it for a while and see how it works…
October 26th
Well…damn I just realized I’ve only ridden 650 miles this month and that won’t get me to the final goal…still have 1,400 miles to do and the 28 miles I did yesterday just isn’t enough…and it’s pretty depressing that I may not meet the last goal in my life…and it gets worse…I wasn’t good last night and feel pretty crappy this morning…didn’t ever pour the first cup of coffee until 6:45 and that means I’m already late with getting the day started and that is going to follow me all day…it’s funny how much pain I’ve been in and the lidocaine experiment on my neck appears to be a failure since it still hurts and I will need to have x-rays after my yearly checkup to figure out what the heck is going on…I mean how can an injury still hurt after 4 months? Oh, well…it looks like a one indoor ride day today since it is already 47 out there but I hope the wind is a little lower than yesterday…but, it’s always windy out here so why would I think today would be any different? Okay, just poured the second cup of coffee and need to get over to Mastodon to get the first post out there…don’t have a lot to do today other than the rides but I want to get the remaining windows cleaned…and get that off my to do list..more later…
This is why there needs to be a wealth tax..
Well…with billionaires across this country putting their fingers on the scales of the election to try to throw it to the idiot trump, it highlights why there shouldn’t be billionaires and that can be prevented with a wealth tax that taxes every dollar over 10 million dollars that they “earn” at the rate of at least 90%…a great example of why there should be no billionaires came this week when the billionaire owners of the Washington Post and LA Times over ruled their editorial staff and stopped the papers from endorsing Kamala Harris for president, breaking a more than 50 year precedent for both papers…and the interference was so egregious that the editor of the Times and others at the paper quit in protest at the blatant bias they showed for the most unqualified candidate for president in the history of this country…and we all know why they did it…to make sure they get the huge tax cuts that idiot boy has promised them…so what should the personnel at the papers do now? They should go to the papers that have done the right thing for the country and write an op-ed why they think endorsing Kamala is the right thing to do to save our democracy…it’s obvious that Jeff Bezos doesn’t care about the US and some way of making him pay for this betrayal of democracy needs to be found..geez…
Elon is a Putin stooge…
Well…with the revelation that ole elon has been in constant contact with putin since 2022, how much do you want to bet that the money he is spending to install the idiot trump is Russian cash? You can be sure that every dime is going to reimbursed by putin and it is the same kind of crap that putin has pulled in every election since 2016…but he couldn’t do it without the help of traitors here in the US…and you know that includes the entire repub party at this point…but mostly three billionaires…musk, thiel, and murdoch…three “immigrants” who are a lot more dangerous than any person seeking asylum or undocumented immigrant who puts food on your table…so when are these guys going to be deported for being traitors to this country? They are naturalized citizens whose citizenship can be revoked if they are found to be criminals…do we need any more evidence that musk at least is a traitor? Look, musk is a government contractor and should have all of the government contracts he has terminated since he is obviously a security risk…get on it Joe, the country will thank you….geez…