Well…I know I didn’t do a political one here today but I just wasn’t feeling it at all…I’ll try to do one before I get to relaxing tonight…I did cancel my prime subscription trial today before they charged my credit card 150 bucks…and I got the two last packages I ordered that had my new dish drainer and the bike fenders…I really like the drainer…it’s black and very modern standing on legs and having a swivel telescoping drain on it…not the old type that just had a wire basket on top of a drain board…it is a little smaller than the old one but I can live with it if I empty it ever morning and put the dishes away…just looks cool…and I have the fenders for the bike put together and will install them at my leisure since I won’t be riding it for weeks…I did reset the indoor bike computer after doing the mileage report since it starts all over tomorrow…still haven’t figured out the goals for the year but I’ll probably get right back to 24 miles a day indoors and just see where that leads…happy new year!
Monthly Archives: December 2024
Bike numbers…
Well…I’ve decided to give myself an easy day on the bike today so I’ll leave it at the 16 miles I’ve done indoors already…no outdoor rides today since it is cold and raining off and on out here…and I’ve already cleaned up the outdoor bike sine it will be in storage for a couple of months…so now the numbers…total for the year 10,448 miles…3,758 indoors and 6,690 miles outdoors…and that is 4,339 miles more than I’ve ever ridden in a year and three times more than I’ve ridden indoors in a year….and all of that riding burned 417,909 calories, keeping 139 pounds off…and I made the goal of riding every day for the calendar year but I actually hit that on October 19th…so what the heck are the goals for next year? Not sure yet…haven’t really thought about it but I’m sure this year will be the last really huge year…I am old after all and can’t keep this up forever…not bad for an old guy…
December 31st
Well…that was a short night of sleep with waking up at around 4 and then out of bed by 5:30 but that’s okay with going to bed early…another one meal day yesterday so I’m going to be worn out today so I may take it easy for a 16 or 20 mile day…need to get everything done before Michigan plays at noon and that includes washing the bike since it goes back in storage with the temps dropping back into the 20′s for highs and that is too cold for me to ride outdoors…but we only have two months of winter left so I can hunker down and survive that….I really do need to stop buying food for about a month since I have no room in the freezer and have pizza, soup, and Masala I want to make…but need to use up the last BAH today…need to make Masala tomorrow and ham soup probably Thursday but then I’ll only be eating one meal a day so everything will last forever…my new dish drainer and fenders for the bike are coming today and then I’ll cancel prime since I’m not paying 150 bucks for it…I’ll do a yearly recap later and the same for riding this year but right now I just want to have coffee and sit here for a bit since it’s only 6:05 and I don’t need to get on the bike til 7 or so…just cleaning to do today and I may just ignore it like I did yesterday…more later
The sun is shining!
Well…darn…just started to get that broken glass effect in my vision so now I’ll have to live with for a half hour until it goes away…the first time it happened it freaked me out until I looked it up and it’s common in people with migraines…so I may misspell some words in this one…and yep, it happens so little out here that I had to put the sun shining in the title…haven’t seen the sun in almost 3 weeks and I couldn’t believe how frickin bright the sun was…nearly blinded me when I was riding into it this morning but it’s going to be cloudy probably for all of January after one more day tomorrow…I did get out to do the grocery run today and got boneless/skinless chicken at 5 pounds for 8 bucks and if I had room in the freezer, I’d go out and get more tomorrow…oh, well…and put another 33 miles on the tally…and the Lions play tonight so cocktails and football tonight…skipping the second meal again today and that could be the new normal…we’ll see…
RIP Jimmy Carter…
Well…the day we all knew was coming is here…President Jimmy Carter died yesterday at 100 years old…what a life he lived…and if you want to see a real christian, you just have to look at his deeds and the morals he lived his life by…one thing I regret is that I was a republican back when he was elected so I didn’t vote for him…as historians look back at his presidency, they have come to rate it higher than they did in real time…and the repub dirty tricks with the Iran hostages were the only reason he didn’t get a second term…and his active life after he left the presidency doing good works around the world and finishing up with Habitat for Humanity…building houses for low income families right into his 90′s showed his character in spades…RIP Jimmy…the world was a better place when you were in it…
December 30th
Well…how the hell can be running late already with getting up at 6:23? I do have the grocery run to do this morning and need to get a ride in before that so that means I have 15 minutes to get moving…my BP is confusing the hell out of me with it being over 160 last night but 117/66 this morning…weird…the difference in taste of the drip coffee to the pour over is so huge that I think I’ll have to make some of the ground stuff in the pour over just to see if it is the coffee or method that is the difference…have the meal planning done and will be making some masala and pizza this week and I really need to not eat ham anymore…but I will make some ham soup and potato soup this week…I was so damn sore from the outdoor rides last night that I contemplated taking some ibuprofen but I’ve broken that habit and don’t want to go back to it…I guess I’ll just live with pain for now…just remembered I need to buy some more bird food this morning…the doves came back yesterday but they are still spooked from the hawk and I am curious how long that will go on…not much to do today…just the rides and grocery run…have 10,399 miles in so far and will add 60 more or so by the end of the year….more later…
Got my new coffee maker…
Well…I got my new Bodum pour over coffee maker and made my first batch of coffee…damn, that thing makes great coffee…I am going to get spoiled if I use that all the time…and it is so easy to clean up when I use a paper cone filter inside of the stainless steel one that came with the unit then just take the filter out and throw it away…no mess like the french press…takes longer to make the entire 34 ounces but I can live with that since you don’t have to steep the coffee like you do in the french press…smooth, smooth coffee that I’m still drinking at 1:40 in the afternoon…so now I have a corner of one counter made into a coffee making area with the Bodum, bag of beans, and coffee grinder in it…oh, and I bought myself a pair of fenders for the bike this morning after riding in the slop and having it all over me by the time I was done…just forgot that I wanted to buy a set for quite a while now…and they are only 13 bucks for the pair so I could afford it…now I have to cancel Prime so I’ll stop spending money…
They were already laughing at him…
Well…one of the things we need to remember about the idiot boy as he starts threatening the world again with his feeble bullshit is that at the end of his last term, the entire world was already laughing at him…and that’s how you deal with a bully…point and laugh at every damn thing he says and does…annex Canada, buy Greenland, retake the Panama canal? These are all things that idiot boy has said he is going to do when in office but what he doesn’t understand (along with everything else) is that sovereign countries don’t have to take this crap lying down just like Ukraine showed putin…and they also know one big thing about the idiot..all you have to do is flatter him and he’ll give you whatever you want…and this time the rest of the world knows what’s coming and how to react…his schtick is already old…geez…
December 29th
Well…I think the BP meds have stopped working with the reading 137/76 this morning and that is really depressing…oh, well…I’m not sure what the heck it is about 3:53 but I’ve woken up at that time for 4 days in a row now I really thought I wasn’t going to get back to sleep…but I kept at it and didn’t get out of bed until around 6…only had birds on the feeder once yesterday and no squirrels in the yard either with the hawk hanging around and I wonder if it will be the same today….didn’t get anything done but laundry yesterday and I think I’ll clean the couch and rotate the cushions today…the living room can use a dusting and vacuuming but I still need to get three rides in and I’m going to try to get an outdoor ride in before the rain comes in…we’re supposed to get up to half an inch when it starts and it’s supposed to continue all day and tonight…it looks like I’ll have two more days to ride outdoors before the temp crashes into the 20′s for a few weeks and I don’t want to be that cold anymore…not much to do today…need to do the grocery list since I’m doing the run tomorrow and need to do some meal planning before that…I’m thinking pizza and maybe another batch of potato soup…and maybe some pasta…or ham soup to use one or two of the bones I have in the freezer…more later…
Hunting doves…
Well…I was a little curious whey I haven’t had many birds come to my feeder today and thought it was probably empty with all of the doves that come in to feed all day…so I took the bucket out to fill it and saw a female red tailed hawk sitting in my tree about 30 feet from the feeder…after I filled it, I looked down and there were feathers everywhere so I guess the hawk has been hunting the doves that crowd the feeder all day…I did hear a huge thump on the side of the house and I wonder if it was the hawk attacking earlier…I’ll have to keep my eyes open and watch…