Well…I think I have “retiree’s disease” since I have a real problem with knowing what day of the week it is…I know I don’t have to know since I don’t have anywhere to be but still…I’ve lived my life with the weekly passage of time being important but I guess I’ll have to get used to it…it’s a little after 2pm and I finally have everything done that I planned..got three rides in and then built a homemade pizza and put that on the grill…then shoveled the snow while it was baking, cleaned everything up, oh, and ate two pieces of pizza so it will be another one meal day today… and put a load of laundry in…the Robert Ludlum book I’m reading is pretty good so I’ll need to go to the library and get more of after I get through the used ones I bought…just had some sparrows find the feeder for the first time this year but the pig doves just pushed them off…oh, well…okay, time to read a bit…
Monthly Archives: January 2025
These people are just stupid…
Well…I’ve touched on this one a bit before but it really does eed saying again…the people who were pissed off about inflation and voted the idiot trump in for that reason alone are in for a pretty big surprise once the idiot imposes his 25% across the board tariffs on all imports…I’m sure they believed the idiot when he said that tariffs wouldn’t have any effect on their lives…hey, I got news for you if you raise the prices of cars, washing machines and everything else by 25%, and these morons have to pay it, it will make the 1.8% inflation that we have right now look like nothing…one thing that will happen is that price increase (a trump tax if you will) will crash demand and the rest of the economy…just the other day the delusional, ignorant trump pointed to the early 1900′s and tariffs imposed that helped crash the economy and said the economy was never better than then…and what do these morons think that the rest of the world is going to do in response to these tariffs…not respond at all? Say goodbye to any exports and millions of jobs…mostly jobs held by the stupid cretins who voted for idiot boy and again, they frickin deserve it…geez…
January 3rd
Well…man, I’m worn out today and it’s probably from only having a bowl of soup and one of Masala to eat for the whole day…that will change today with making a pizza for lunch after I get three rides in first…and that means I’ll have to get going in 45 minutes or so and that is the last thing I want to do right now….one good thing is my BP is down to 123/70 this morning but I really do need to stop checking it since checking it stresses me out…I did go out and work on the walks yesterday…there wasn’t enough snow to shovel it so I just salted them and that cleared them up completely…but I’ll need to get more salt this week when I do the grocery run since I’m running out…it’s snowing now and we have a winter storm watch on for the day and might get 4 inches before it’s over…I know I’m weird but I’m looking forward to getting outdoors to shovel today…will probably do that while the pizza is on the grill…the lake effect snow is setting up and we could get heavy stuff and that is Muskegon in winter…it’s going to be cold through January and not over the mid 20′s and I can take that…over 70 winters here in Michigan and I’m used to it….I do have to clean the bathroom today and should vacuum the rug in the living room along with couch…but I guess we’ll see…more later…
Have to stop maximizing my time…
Well…for my entire life, I’ve always multi tasked and done more than on thing at once…and I was doing pretty good until today when I fell back into the old habits and did something internally to riding the bike rides…while I was on the first ride, having some fresh baked bread sounded really good so I mixed up some bread dough in the 15 minutes between rides, and put it in the toaster over to proof for the next two rides and then it was ready to bake when I finished the third ride…I could have waited and done the loaf after I was done but thought never even occurred to me and I wanted to have the bread with the last of the turkey soup…still planning way too much but that’s just me…oh, well…I did get three rides in for 24 miles and did the weight work right after lunch to get it out of the way…after that I haven’t really done much else other than clean the shower floor with some new cleaner I bought…will do the rest of the bathroom tomorrow…but right now I’m going to watch ND play Georgia at 4…
Gulag South Carolina…
Well…I hope women in South Carolina just love that the assholes they voted into office are going to legalize executing women who get an abortion…I can hear these stupid people right now..”oh, they’ll never do that..” just like the low income repubs in Pennsylvania that were interviewed after the election said “they won’t cut my food stamps or Medicaid”…and yet that is exactly what is in the repubs plans and these people are still whining that they voted to the idiot since he promised to bring down inflation that was already down but they were too stupid to know it…so now women in SC are going to die in another red state either by getting or not getting an abortion if they need it…to quote Yossarian…”that’s some catch that catch 22″…so now we are in the find out stage of FAFO that these morons have saddled us with and some of them are actually going to die from voting these assholes into office…serves them right and I do hope it happens…geez…
January 2nd
Well…up at a little after 4 this morning but was able to stay in bed and get a little more sleep until 6:09…had a dream that my laptop was falling apart…or wearing out already and I have no clue where that came from…only did two rides yesterday and that makes me feel like such a slug that I will be getting on the bike before 7 and get three rides in…don’t have to cook today with with doing the Masala yesterday and one more bowl of leftover soup so that means I’ll make a pizza on the grill tomorrow…one of these days I’m going to eat fast food and take it easy but then I’d break my record of almost 7 years of making my own food…might try to make bread again today if I get some energy but it’s not looking like that is going to happen with how I feel right now…we’re heading in a stretch of weather with highs in the 20′s for at least two weeks and that means no outdoor rides for quite a while and that gives me time to install the new fenders on the bike and reset the computer….man, I’m worn out today…not much to do today…just grinding through the rides and then figuring out what cleaning to do…more later…
Living on 30K…
Well…when I started to collect my earned SS benefits, I never thought I could live well on it…and I just got the latest statement and with the raise that starts this month, I’ll get over 30 grand this year and even with that little money, I’m putting away over 1K a month and if I don’t buy a new car, I’ll have well over 50 grand in cash in the bank by the end of the year…there has never been a time in my life when I’ve been this comfortable with money and not worried about affording even health problems or having to buy a new car…but, I am done with spending money after cancelling prime yesterday…not really anything else that I need…I guess it paid off that I was frugal my entire life…and still am…
Let the plane crash…
Well…it’s been in the news lately that liberals are pulling out of politics in large numbers after the debacle of the election and the pundits attribute it to trump fatigue but I think there is a bigger thing going on…I think we’re tired of always working our asses off to save this country when 50% of it just doesn’t give a damn… and that’s just how I feel…caring about this country as I do but I think there is something else that is happening on the left and that is that we are going to let the plane crash this time and let the repubs do all the damage they can do for the next 4 years…that is the only thing that is going to get it through maga folks that these guys don’t give a damn about them…let it all burn down…I have enough money in the bank to live for a couple of years so no matter what the idiot trump’s minions do to SS, I can live through it…and you know, I feel better not obsessing about politics anymore…I have a detachment that is serving me well and I’m going back to that right now….geez…
January 1st
Well…is there a better way to wake up to the new year than to have “Monterrey Pop” on the tv and Janis doing “Ball and Chain”? Cripes, I’m back in 1968 again…I sure need the coffee to work soon and I will be making more in the pour over after the first ride..slept okay last night and didn’t get out of bed til about 6:30 and I sure needed that…haven’t been sleeping well lately…ha, lately? I don’t remember ever sleeping well…just saw the little weather widget at the bottom of the screen and it says 3 inches of snow today and it feels good that I don’t have to go anywhere for a week or so….going to make chicken Masala today and it will be good to not have ham and salt anymore…my BP is still over 130 this morning but that should change…I hope….not sure how I feel about starting over on the bike after doing the big year last year…is a new beginning or is it the bottom of a big hill again? I would really like to take a day off but that would break the string and I can’t do that….not much to do today…just cooking, football, and making more coffee but not yet…I can sit here for 20 minutes or so and have one more cup before I need to get moving…it’s a little daunting to have a new year facing me…but the last one was okay so I guess I can survive it…more later…