Well…finally, back to the normal routine and I really did miss it…getting my first cup of coffee and coming here to do one of these has been my thing since 2010 and it has been comforting for 15 years…I did sleep okay last night and that has been the story for a couple of months now so I’ll take it…it looks like no outdoor rides today with the rain coming in and the fact that it is cold out there at only 45 degrees and I really don’t want to be cold…so it will be one indoor ride to start and then see if the weather cooperates to let me get an outdoor one in…but that means I need to get on the bike in 17 minutes and I’m not ready for that yet…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and probably won’t today but I’m not sure about that yet…don’t have to cook with lots of bacon for blt’s and the last bowl of Masala but I have no clue what I’ll make tomorrow…don’t have much in the freezer but I do have pasta and garlic bread and I can take some soup out of the freezer since I won’t be able to chew after Tuesday…oh, well…down to 13 minutes before the bike and I need more coffee….more later…
Oh, Canada…
Well…the dominoes have started to fall with the idiot trump’s boorish behavior toward our allies with the new PM of Canada giving a speech yesterday saying that Canada is done with the US and trump’s bullshit threats and tariffs and are going to integrate their economy and defense with the EU and the US can just go to hell…and he bluntly said that Canada’s relationship with the US is ended…so idiot boy takes our closest ally and tries to bully them and they did what I proposed every nation should do…ignore the idiot trump and the idiots he has in his administration…I know they are going to try to spin this as a good thing, but shattering our relationship with our closest ally that has existed for over 150 years due to the rantings of a delusional bully is the worst diplomatic failure in the history of this country…and the EU is not inviting anyone from the US to their security conference and are going to go it alone along with shutting off any new purchases of US weapons and instead buying it from the UK and EU countries…so it looks like the idiot just revitalized the EU’s military production and gave up every bit of influence we had there just so he can be the stupid bully he is…and here’s the money quote from Canada’s PM Mark Carney: “the era of deep economic, security, and military ties is over”…now that is how you handle an ignorant bully…good on ya, Canada…geez…
March 29th
Well…up early again this morning but I had to be with needing to get three in before 11 so I could see some races…and I did get three rides in but but I got WET on the third one when it wasn’t supposed to rain out here until the afternoon…luckily I had my rain gear on so I stayed dry from my head to my waist but was soaked from waist down and I’m not sure if my shoes will be dry before tomorrow…it is supposed to rain heavily tomorrow so I may just do indoor rides and call it good sine I’ve had three days in a row over 30 miles…Stupid the turkey was alongside the trail today and when I rode by him he started following me up the hill at full run and a guy on the street rolled down his window and said “hey, do you know you have a turkey following you?” and I said “yep, that’s Stupid” and laughed my butt off…when I was coming back I noticed Stupid was standing in a driveway across the street watching a guy unload his car from about 5 feet away…and was acting like it was the most interesting thing he had ever seen…strange, strange bird but very entertaining…okay, have a political one to do and wand to try to remember what the topic was….more later
I’m baaaack…
Well…my site is finally working again but only on my laptop…some error on my phone and tablet but I told my son so I think he can fix it…I hope…man, I am so used to doing three of these a day that it left a big hole in my life…okay, phone and tablet are now working so I’m back to as normal as I can be…after doing 13,000 of these, it does become a big part of my life and there were news items that I was itching to write about so I have an hour to try to get caught up…more later…
Got some deals today…
Well…today was grocery run day and I got some deals at DD…I mean hard salami at 2.00 a pound? Or thin sliced chicken breast for 2.00 a pound, too? I even got an outdoor ride in this afternoon and that felt good and I’ll be sore from that and going up on the weights from 5 to 8 pounds on the low side and I can already feel it just sitting here…I did finish up the last book today so I can go to the library tomorrow and get 4 more…Muskegon Lake has started dropping again after recovering a foot last week and I wonder how low it can go? I’ll bet if it gets much lower they will have to dredge or the gravel freighters won’t be able to get in to the docks…so I did a 29 mile day today with two indoor and one outdoor ride..and it looks like I’ll be able to get outdoors again tomorrow for two rides then it’s going to rain for three days…so I’ll miss the almost 60 degree weather and it will plunge back into the 40′s until the second week of April…oh, well…
Giving away secrets and lying about it..
Well…I know you’ve heard this one if you’ve been paying attention…you know, the one where every damn person is using the unencrypted signal app to share top secret information about an attack in progress in Yemen including the weapon systems being used and the exact time that they were going to be deployed…and in case you’re curious, these are felonies but that doesn’t matter to the repubs since laws don’t apply to them…and then let’s put the icing on top…when questioned in the senate about this huge security breach, every damn one of them lied and said there was no classified information shared…luckily, a reporter who got the information saved it and then the Atlantic gave a big FU to the idiot trump’s threats and published the posts showing that yes, war plans are classified and these asshole broke the law…have you ever heard of a dem ever doing crap like this? No you haven’t because we follow the rules and when in charge of the government and don’t just play at it…heads should roll and if they were dems, they would have all resigned…geez…
March 26th
Well…I’m really not looking forward to a busy day today with a three store grocery run after getting a ride in downstairs…and I need to get going before 7am but that seems to be too much work right now…slept okay last night but it was another 4am wake up and then just broken from that point until I dragged my butt out of bed by around 6…I may try to get an outdoor ride in today since it’s going to be in the mid 40′s but I’ll probably just ride indoors and call it good…it looks like I’ll be able to hit the library tomorrow with only a half of a book to read today and no cooking to do so I’ll have time…I do have to grill tomorrow to eat all the protein I have thawed and I think I’m going to buy some chicken at 2.29 a pound but I’m not sure why…won’t be able to chew anything after Tuesday and that includes chicken…oh, well…damn, it’s only 25 degrees out here and it’s almost April and that sucks…another year of no spring and that’s pretty wearing…I should be in shorts by now and that’s not going to happen soon….not much to do today…just need to keep putting one foot in front of the other and get started…should have all the rides in by noon and then can take it easy again….more later…
I did it…
Well…hit the 2,001 mile mark today so I gave myself a rest day and only did two rides…and that is my only goal for the year other than riding every day…have never gotten to 2,000 miles in March before…I think I had half that last year and still made it over 10,000 miles but I’m not shooting for that…yet…I’ll have to see where I’m sitting around July 1st before I commit to any new goal…so, I finished up book three this afternoon and started the last one that I need to have done before Friday so I can get 4 more and keep reading…might be able to get outside for a ride tomorrow through Sat but lots of rain in the forecast so I guess I’ll see…I really am tired of all of the maintenance I have to do on this old body…I know I’ve bitched about that before but damn, teeth, eyes, cracked skin on my thumbs, toenails, and a plantar wart all need attention twice a day…and that goes with three hours on the bike and a half hour with the weights…it never got out of the 30′s for the past 5 days and I am really tired of the cold…and there is just one day of warm up in the next 10 days so it won’t be until April until spring is here…okay….going to read now and then do my teeth, eyes, and toenails…
Greenland has it’s own red hat…
Well…after Greenland told reps from the US to stay away after the idiot trump keeps threatening them with an invasion, they are trolling idiot boy with their own red hat…and it is even a maga hat of sorts and it is capturing what the whole world thinks of the assholes running this country…”Make America Go Away” is what the entire world thinks of us now and I really salute the Greenlanders for coming up with it…I actually laughed out loud when I read about it and now every country that idiot boy has attacked is asking for those hats…pretty cool….and now after idiot boy saying that they are going to put back doors in the software of US weapons so the US can shut them off if the customers don’t do what idiot boy wants…and you can guess what the response to that crap has been…the EU has called for a military weapons meeting that excludes the US and there are noises that they are going to buy EU and UK weapons to replace US ones as they go obsolete….and this is going to destroy our weapons manufacturers…and all because no one trusts us anymore with the lying rapist in the WH…nice job maga…geez…
March 25th
Well…getting up today was a long process that started at 4:04 then 5:20 and out of bed at a little after 6 and that is not why I’m feeling really worn out…only had about 500 calories to eat yesterday and that is why I feel like I’m moving in wet cement…it’s still cold out here and I’ve given up on it ever feeling like spring…I mean there is still snow on the ground and it’s the end of March…and it is supposed to snow more this morning and we’re under a gale watch…again… so the house will be shaking again and I won’t be outdoors on the bike for the rest of the week…and that sucks…I think I’m going to only do two rides today so I can make the Masala I need to have two meals today…will be grilling tomorrow to use up the steaks and chops but I still need to figure out what to have with them…maybe some air fryer potatoes? It looks like another wasted day today with not getting anything done..or not planning to get anything done…just need to put the grocery list together and read after I cook…will have the Masala for lunch and the finish off the stir fry for dinner and try to get the calories up over 1,000…that’s harder than it looks…for me anyway….more later…