Well…it’s been one of those days that just got away from me…the bike chain started slipping from wear yesterday and I hoped that just replacing the worn out rear cassette would help but once you wear out one part, the others are too worn to work with the new ones so I bit the bullet and spent three hours today replacing the front crankset, chain, rear cassette, and tearing the rear wheel apart to grease the bearings that were sounding pretty rough…and after that I had to adjust the shifter and probably should have replaced that, too but I was just tired of working on it…and now it’s going to take days to get my hands clean…but right now I just want to read a bit after this day…
Monthly Archives: April 2025
April 30th
Well…damn, I’m so worn out this morning that I can’t get going but I don’t really think I need to get going if I’m only going to do two indoor rides today but I may be able to get outdoors later…I do want to try out the new cassette on the back wheel that I installed yesterday…the old sprockets were worn down to nothing and it started to skip like crazy so I’m hoping that will give me some time until I have to replace the chain and front crankset…it’s funny that I always get about 12K miles before I have to replace the driveline on the bike…it didn’t get down to frost last night staying about 38 degrees but I’m still glad I brought the buckets in to protect them…going to head to to DD tomorrow to get some buffalo chicken lunch meat and I’ve never heard of that before…but at 99cents for almost a pound it could be a deal…and I need bold flavored food since I can barely taste anything anymore…going to try the thawed potato soup today to see if freezing it worked or if I have to throw it out…have so many potatoes here with Meijers having them for a buck for 5 pounds and I think I have 15 pounds in the kitchen that I’ll have to get creative to use before they spoil…not much to do today…I really may take an easy day today since I feel so worn out this morning but we’ll see…more later…
A frost advisory?
Well, now I know why I started my garden in the buckets…there is a frost advisory on for Muskegon tonight so I just brought them in the back door where they will stay warm…the bean and pea plants are really taking off and are 6 inches tall already and I have both regular and cherry tomato plants up…but I’m sure I’m not going to declare success until there a big and little red tomatoes ready to pick…I did get the insurance transfer set up today and for the first time in my life I have a car that is nice enough to have full coverage so I bit the bullet and told them to do it…about 300 bucks extra a year but I really don’t want to be out 12,500 bucks if some idiot totals my car…so that bill is in the mail and that means another thousand bucks going out next week to pay the taxes and transfer fees along with the plate renewal…man, I’m going to have to cut back for the rest of the year to restock my checking account…oh, well…tv time…
The numbers aren’t good…
Well…just a quicky on the economic numbers that are coming out tomorrow for Q1…it appears that the idiot trump has tipped the economy into a recession with growth at -1.5%…and the inflation forecast is set to be 7% which has drive consumer sentiment to the lowest point since the great recession and the consensus is that the jobs report is going to go negative, too…I’ll follow up when the numbers are released…idiot boy has taken a humming economy that was the envy of the world and smashed it in just 100 days and that has never been done before…geez…
Damn, I got a deal…
Well…the first thing my brother said to after I told him I bought a new car was “what’s the blue book price”….and I hadn’t even checked it…just had a gut feel that it was a great price for a great car…so last night when I was watching a boring show on plex, I decided to look up the price and man, am I getting a good deal…the cheapest grand touring special edition on the site was 14,995 and they ranged up to 16,900…and the lowest miles on any of them were almost 90K vs the 49k on mine…so it looks like a screaming deal to me and it will be my last car for sure…okay, need to read a bit…
Good on ya, Canada…
Well…ha, ha, ha…after the idiot trump tried to meddle in the Canadian election that was held yesterday, the conservatives went down to defeat and the mini trump running for premiere even lost his seat in Parliament…as I’ve said before…everything trump touches dies…and with record turnout Canadians did what voters here couldn’t be bothered to do…and that is vote…all of the damage being done to this country could have been avoided if just 300K more people would have gotten off their asses and voted against the orange menace who is destroying this country…so, I guess Canada is not going to be the 51st state after all and they have showed how to treat a moronic bully like trump…I can’t wait to hear what comments the lowest rated president has…not going well for him is it? That cheered me right up….geez…
April 29th
Well…damn, that sucked…up a little after 3 and then up and down until I dragged my ass out of bed around 6…and I feel like crap today and I wonder if it’s just getting old and doing too much work yesterday? It looks like I won’t be outdoors on the bike today with the wind just howling out there at 20-30 and gusting to 50 and I can use an easy day…have to start thinking about how to manage my energy levels and part of that is making sure I eat enough…only had an Italian sausage and a 7 oz pork loin filet yesterday and that keeps me under 1k calories and that is not sustainable…and I know that but with not being able to taste anything, I really don’t care to eat….as if the winds we have are not enough, we are supposed to get “high winds” around noon today and that really makes for a normal day around here…not sure what I’m going to do today but I could do the grocery run after the first ride for the last ride in the old Miata but I don’t know if I’m up for that…only more coffee will tell me what to do…more later…
A really busy day today…
Well…darn, what a busy today and I am worn out from it…started out with three rides, then I mowed the lawn, then washed and lubed the bike and then spent an hour picking up trash up here and filled a 30 gallon bag to the top just doing the triangle lot and the streets but it is clean and tomorrow is trash day so that worked out well…so I don’t have a lot to do tomorrow but the rides and that will be welcome…a lot of the seeds are coming up in the buckets and tomorrow I’ll plant the seeds from the open packets in the old garden just for the hell of it…might get some storms tonight and rain tomorrow but I’m not holding my breath…hasn’t rained here in a couple of weeks and the yard can use it…tried some lidocaine roll on for the pain in my right knee and it helped a bit so I’ll use that again tomorrow…okay, didn’t get the chance to read much today so i’m going to do that now…
No trade talks for you…
Well…who are you going to believe about trade talks? The idiot trump and his cronies keep lying that they are in talks with China…so much so that China had to have a Foreign Ministry spokesperson say “let me make it clear one more time, China and the US are not engaged in any consultation about tariffs” and Japan jumped in and said there will be no trade talks until all of the tariffs are lifted…and that goes for every other country he has attacked with tariffs…they are doing just what I said they should and that is to not even talk to idiot boy and his cronies…and they are building trade partnerships that don’t include the US just to show us that they really don’t need us anymore… and idiot boy has accomplished this in just 100 days…pure genius I say…geez..oh, and this just happened…the EU and the UK have come to trade agreement that promises “free and open” trade…essentially poking a sharp stick in the idiot trump’s eye…see, they really do not need us anymore…
April 28th
Well…damn, up at 4:40 again today and I tried to get back to sleep but it didn’t work so I’ll be worn out all day…it’s before 6am and I just poured the first cup of coffee and there will be a need for a lot of it today…have settled in to the 1 ride in and two rides out 33 mile days on the bike and that seems to fit okay…need to mow the lawn and probably should do that today along with planting seeds in the garden but that seems to be too much work right now before the coffee works…and I need to wash the bike and lube the chain since it started to make the noise that says lube me yesterday…so that leaves me with a full day of work to do and all I want to do is sit here and slowly let my body get used to being up…getting damn old and I’m feeling it…need to think about getting my blood work done next week for my check up and I sure hope my PSA still stays undetectable…don’t want to have to have any more treatment for anything…no more dental work…no more blood pressure work…no nothing…it’s too damn much work getting old…more later…