Well…it’s only 45 degrees out there right now so I may not get a ride in before the grocery run and I guess I’ll have to get used to that…the seasons are changing as they always do but I think it happened a little too fast for me this year…I mean I was out at the beach last week sitting in the sun and today it’s 45? Oh, well…I did get the lawn mowed yesterday so I don’t have that to do today…I do need to clean the living room and couch today but I’m not sure I want to…I’ll think about that later…allergies seem to be better this morning but they shouldn’t be so I’ll expect they’ll flare soon…not coughing so I’ll take that…need to pour down more coffee soon and wait for it jump start me to get the day started…I am going to put the top down on the car no matter what the temp is…hey, it all the way up to 48 degrees so I will get a ride in before the grocery run…after all, I got out at 47 degrees yesterday…I do need to clean the freezer at some point and with it half empty it would be a good time….more later…
A pretty good day…
Well…it was a pretty good day today and I got the lawn mowed after I got the rides in and made a trip to the library…pretty sore from that…I did see something I never see this morning and that was two cruise ships trying to come into the dock at the same time…a white one had already docked and then a huge blue ship came and had to park off the pier and wait…pretty odd…my allergies are bad again today and I’m still coughing from them so I started to take some dm medicine that helps de-congest them and that may be helping a little…but, my knee is almost healed so I guess that’s something…it was only 47 degrees when I went out for the first ride this morning and it’s only going to be a little warmer overnight tonight…I really did expect the heat to come on and it just might tonight…doing the grocery run tomorrow even though I don’t need a lot…more pasta for pasta salad but nothing for the freezer…I’m finally getting down to where there is room in the freezer but I still have lots of stuff in there that I’m going to try to use before I buy anything else…okay, time for tv…
Dem governors are after it…
Well…after governor Newsom did his epic trolling of the idiot trump last week and I said that more of them needed to do the same thing, here comes Governor Pritzker of Illinois threatening to hold any official of the idiot trump’s accountable for any illegal invasion of Chicago since the idiot just threatened to send troops there for some reason…okay we know the reason…he’s a fascist…and that’s what needs to happen up and down the line….while the SC gave trump immunity from being held accountable for his crimes, that doesn’t include his underlings and we need to make it clear that they are going to end up in jail if they break the law…ICE thugs illegally sweeping people off the streets? When we are in charge again, they go to jail and their names will get released to the press…any corporations who are bribing trump? That company gets the death penalty and it’s execs go to jail…you get the idea…trump may be out of reach but they aren’t…and if there are penalties to be paid, maybe less people would go along with idiot boy’s lawlessness…we need to fight back and the governors are showing us how…geez…
August 26th
Well…damn, it’s only 49 degrees out there right now so the rides are going to wait a while…not going to put gloves on in August…so I may wait to go out until after I go to the library…or only get one ride in before I get more books…we’ll see…I am going to remember to toast the last bagel this morning since I have the time to sit here and eat it as I wait for the temp to come up…I am a little surprised that the heat didn’t come on overnight with how cold it is but I really don’t want to start paying a high gas bill already…my knee is getting better and I can bend it again…it has developed a bruise that I can’t understand after just having it pop the other day…I have it folded in front of me with no pain…just a little stiffness and I can live with that…what I can’t live with is being forced to change my schedule but I should be better at it and just wing it for at least one day…but that’s not really me…I do need to do some meal planning since the leftovers run out today and I have been thinking about changing up what I cook a bit…have a ham steak in the freezer that I could make with eggs and toast so I think I’ll take that out this morning…along with the chicken for masala that I’ll have later in the week…not much to do today…just getting the rides and library run in and I think I’ll do my weight work after I have the bagel to get started….more later…
Got a compressor…
Well…I know I’ve had it in the back of my head that I needed to buy an air compressor to keep in the car since it was not designed to carry a spare tire…and the old compressor just fell apart…so today while I was reading with the tv on in the background, a commercial for a rechargeable small compressor came on and it perked my ears up…pretty nice unit with a set and forget pressure sensor, an LED light, and a huge display…and it can fill 4 tires on one charge…but the price of 60 bucks was just ridiculous and then I got the idea to check on Amazon to see what is available and the same exact compressor was only 19 bucks…so I bought one and it will be here tomorrow and I’ll get my tire repair kit in the trunk of the car…pretty cool and now I won’t have to drag my pancake compressor out to air up the bike tires…it never got over 66 today so I left the house closed up and have been running the hepa filters all day to help with my allergies…it is working a bit so I’m going to leave them on until bedtime…other than that, I didn’t really do anything but read today and finished the 5th book so to the library for more tomorrow…now I need to figure out what’s on for entertainment tonight…
Here’s the thing…
Well…with the idiot trump’s orders to send the military into 19 blue states to fight “crime”…it’s clear to me that this is nothing less than a military coup that only happens in banana republics and he needs to be held responsible for it…and here’s the thing…the red states governors who sent their National Guard into DC to fight “crime” all have cities that have a higher crime rate than DC…so why aren’t they sending the soldiers to their crime ridden cities? We all know the answer to that…they want to set up a military takeover of all the blue states so they can install fascism and make sure there are no more elections that they would lose…and I call on every dem to join in the resistance to this bullshit…imagine if Biden had sent the military into every red state…the repubs would have called it treason but do you hear one of them saying this is wrong? Nope…and these fascist cowards won’t say a thing…geez…
August 25th
Well…damn, running late this morning with not getting out of bed til 6:30 and it’s already 7am and I just poured the first cup of coffee so it looks like I won’t be on the bike til 8 or so…and that shouldn’t give me the guilts but it does…it’s only 57 out there right now and it may get cold enough tonight to have the heat come on…in August? The low is going to be 51 tonight and not out of the 60’s for a high today so it appears that the beach is over for the year…my knee is hurting this morning and the voltaren didn’t do much for the pain last night so I think I’ll try an ibuprofen before I get on the bike…it looks like I won’t even open this place up today so maybe my allergies won’t be as bad as they were yesterday…it was so bad that I felt like I had the flu…coughing like crazy and that continues this morning as it did overnight…man, I’m feeling old but the extra sleep helped some…I can’t remember the last time I stayed in bed til 6:30 so I guess I should enjoy that a bit…not much to do today…I do need to get off my butt and clean the bathroom and just straighten this place up some and I think I will after the rides…and I need to take the chicken out for Masala later in the week…need to get out of the rut I’m in with food but not being able to taste has taken away my motivation…oh, well…more later….
Damn, I hurt my left knee…
Well…crap, just pulling up to the garage door on the bike this morning and felt a pop in my left knee…have been hobbling around all day from it and every time I use it it gives me a little jolt and I hope I’ll be able to ride tomorrow…okay, it’s not that bad but my right knee has been the one hurting all summer and now both of them hurt…I guess I can take an ibuprofen…didn’t do anything but veg and read today and I got though an entire book and I’m going to start the last one as soon as I finish this…then I need to start weaning myself from reading so I can get other stuff done around here…it looks like swimming is done for the summer since the water is too damn cold and it’s only going to be in the 60’s until Wednesday…I can still go out there to get some sun for this last week but then the chair and towel comes out of the trunk until next summer…oh, well…back to reading…
Stupid, stupid Texas repubs…
Well…you know, Texas repubs thought they were going to cheat on redistricting and gain 5 House seats but golly gee, these geniuses didn’t really look too hard at what happened to the rest of the districts in the state…an analysis out today said yep, they are getting the 5 seats but they also created 10 new swing districts that dems will have a chance to pick up…they won’t win them all but what if they take half of them? Then all the repub cheating will have done nothing and California still is going to weigh in with their own redistricting that will wipe out any gains that the repubs got from Texas…some geniuses…not even smart enough to cheat right…geez…
August 24th
Well…I very seldom feel my age but I am this morning…allergies are so bad I feel like I have the flu and I have no energy at all…this would be a good day to take a day off but I can’t if I’m going to meet the goal of riding every day for two years straight…damn, I’m coughing so bad today that my chest hurts and I’ve had a headache for a full day now so I am going to take an ibuprofen before I get on the bike…it’s only getting into the 60’s today and it will be cool til Tuesday so no beach time until later in the week…this will probably be the last beach week I have this year and I wanted to get one more swim in but it looks like that’s not going to happen and that sucks…I did read a book and a half yesterday and that leaves me with two so I’ll be heading back to the library by Tuesday…going to have to stop reading soon to get other things done around here and that is going to suck since I really have enjoyed reading the hundred books I’ve done since the start of the year…not much to do today…no cooking since I took too much food out of the freezer so some of it may have to go back in… and with how I feel, I just don’t have the energy to do anything….more later…