Elections matter….

Well…yesterday was the first election since the corrupt supreme court overturned Roe and all of the pundits who said that the ruling wouldn’t have much of an effect were just flat out wrong…especially in Kansas, a blood red state, that voted to keep the right to an abortion in the state constitution by an almost 20% margin with turnout that exceeded any primary in the state’s history…and I think that shows that our side is pretty damn motivated and will turn out in November…it is looking like we may even gain seats in the senate and possibly hold onto the house if our side just gets off it’s ass and spends an hour to vote….or here in Michigan, just get a permanent absentee ballot and vote from home like I do…..and do that because elections matter and we can have nice things again if we just vote all the repubs out and elect people from the reality based world….and remember, there is a constitutional amendment on this fall’s ballot that will enshrine women’s rights in the constitution…and if for no other reason, vote for that and let’s show the rest of the country that Michigan will not let a corrupt supreme court take away women’s rights…it’s the least we can do…

August 3rd

Well…damn, need to get going since it’s almost 7 and I need to get out on the bike before I head out for the grocery run…tossed and turned so much last night that all of the pillows and covers ended up all over my bedroom…and I’m feeling the lack of sleep today…don’t want to get on the bike with the wind blowing as it is but I know I have to….and the damn rain is missing us to the north today but I am not going to water the lawn after paying my hundred buck water bill today…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and probably won’t today, either, since I’m just not motivated to do much…and I really don’t have a lot to do anyway…but I do need to start thinking about working on the house again…I think I’m going to work on the living areas that I use instead of the last bedroom….want to get the ugly wood grain paneling painted and that will be easier than scraping the wallpaper and paint off the bedroom walls…and that will leave me with that to do over the winter…not much to do today…just the bike ride and the grocery run and need to hit DD since they have ham slices on sale for 1.79 a pound and I can’t pass that up….more later….

Not good news…

Well…had a pretty good day today but had a bit of not so good news from my doctor appointment yesterday…not sure if I talked about this before but I’ll recap…a couple of years ago, three actually, I had a colonoscopy where they found 5 polyps and removed them and they were pretty concerned but life intervened with the covid pandemic so I didn’t get another one in the one year period they recommended…well, the new doctor was pretty alarmed and scheduled me for another one in October…and that’s not the alarming part…after looking at the photos they took during it and the doctor’s report, my new doctor thinks it’s a 50/50 chance that a polyp has turned into colon cancer in the past three years…so, crap…another thing to worry about for the next 3 months..that they may have to take a chunk out of my colon if that’s what they find…at least they now have pills to cleanse the colon to prep and I don’t have to drink a gallon of the other crap that was the worst part of the procedure….but still…this is not a good thing and it will be the first major health problem that I’ve had my entire life…other than pneumonia and I got a shot for that yesterday….crap and double crap…

Real geniuses…

Well…don’t the geniuses running the repub party understand that screwing with sick veterans is not a winning issue for them? I guess they thought they could get away with not funding their healthcare like they’ve gotten away with screwing the country over for decades, but something has changed and I think it’s Jon Stewart. Jon has been out there lambasting them on every news show that there is since they voted against the bill last week…and he was pulling no punches just like he did when he fought for healthcare for the first responders in NYC who put their lives on the line on 9/11….and this time all of lies that the repubs were spouting about 400 billion dollars of pork in the bill didn’t work and now they are backpedaling so fast that their shoes are smoking….and Chuck Schumer has promised that the bill will come up for a vote again this week, putting the repubs on the record…again, if they vote against it…the difference this time is that the media has a spotlight on the bill and if they do vote against it, they are going to have to explain those votes…and jsut a few minutes ago, turtle mcconnell has said the bill is going to pass this week the pressure has been so high on him and his fellow traitors…so, thank you Jon for all your had work to take care of our sick veterans…pretty damn good for a “minor celebrity” to quote Pat Toomey….

August 2nd

Well…man, I must have been tired since I didn’t get out of bed til almost 7 today…and I felt it all afternoon yesterday….might have been the lack of caffeine that I am fixing right now with the first cup of coffee….I only did one ride yesterday and I don’t feel guilty about that one bit and that surprises me some…but, I’ll be back on the bike for two today and I’ll be running late all day since I’m not going to get on the bike for 20 minutes or so….I did get out to the beach yesterday but only got in the water for a minute since there was a bad rip and undertow and I didn’t feel like fighting it…I was the only one on the beach and I wonder why…I know it wasn’t too sunny and the wind was blowing pretty hard but it was plenty warm enough to sit out there for while….I still feel pretty good about having lost 20 lbs this year but, even with that, the charts say I am still overweight and I can’t figure that out….but that means I need to get down another 10 pounds to get to “normal” weight and I guess that’s the goal now….I think the charts don’t take into account that I have 24 inch thighs from riding so much and muscle weighs more than fat….hmmmm…I may even have to buy some new clothes since the ones I have now are hanging off me and that makes me smile….I do have a lot of work to do today so I need to get going…want to get the last of the feed on the lawn and do the weed walk this afternoon since it is supposed to rain tomorrow…ha,ha….yeah, that is still a joke since it never rains out here…I do need to make some more pasta salad today since I like having easy food that I just need to spoon out of the container….and I like it and am still wondering why I never made it before….not much to do today…going to get back into the normal routine of bike rides and out to the beach for a swim…running a little slow today with celebrating that I’m not dying last night with a couple of cocktails….and I had a burger since I could..more later….

Life without caffeine…

Well…have been looking for a political topic for the day and haven’t had a lot of luck so I guess I’ll do something else…not sure if I Iike this life without caffeine…or this day without caffeine since I didn’t have any coffee this morning so my blood pressure wouldn’t be elevated for my doctor’s appointment today…and it wasn’t…it was in the 120′s so I can live with that..but damn, I am just so tired right now that I can’t wait til tomorrow morning when I can get back to normal…and I didn’t take any allergy meds either and that leaves me with a headache that could be from that or from the lack of caffeine…not sure which but it hurts a bunch….one good thing that came out of the appointment today was that my weight is down to 180 lbs and that is 20 lbs less than my last appointment 3 years ago….I knew I was making progress but this makes all the work worth it…and now I’m on my way down to my goal of 170 by my next appointment in November…but today I’m going to splurge and have a cocktail later…after I take a nap right now since I was up at 4 today…and that is way too early….

That was close…

Well…I did get a bike ride in this morning and there was nothing on the radar so I planned to do a second one…but it started spitting rain just as I pulled up to the garage so I decided to put the bike in just in case…and about 10 minutes later it actually rained for about 3 minutes…that was pretty close to me getting wet today and I really wasn’t in any mood for that…now the decision to be made is do I go out for ride two or do I just say one is enough for this morning? Okay, you know the answer to that…if it stops raining…and it has…before 9 I’ll head back out on the bike for another one…it is a little weird going out with no coffee but I feel okay and got a good sprint in on the way back so I guess I’ll survive it….now I need to look at the radar and see if the rain is really done….more later….

August 1st…

Well…not sure how this is going to work today but I’m starting out without coffee to try to keep my blood pressure down for my checkup this morning…read an article yesterday that said coffee can raise it by 5-8 points and I need all the help I can get…along with no cocktails for the past 10 days, I have hope I can get it down to 130 or so…and losing the weight I have might help, too, at least I hope it does…but I didn’t sleep well at all last night so that probably cancels out all my work…have been up since 5 and was up and down all night so only about 4 hours last night and that is probably worse than having cocktails…oh, well…I wonder when the weather channel is going to fire all of their forecasters who keep forecasting rain out here and it never happens…I mean they had it at 100% for this morning and nothing, not a damn drop and nothing on the radar…I guess that could be looked at as a good thing since I can get two rides in before I go for my checkup but I was really looking forward to having a day off without guilt but I guess that is too much to ask…didn’t do much yesterday but get the rides in and watch soccer and races and today will be another easy one after the checkup….might go out to the beach when I get back here if there are no surprises with my health…and I am going to have cocktails tonight and try to get back to the normal routine…my skin has rested a couple of days and can take a trip out to swim and relax a bit….and then back to it tomorrow…more later….