Well…it really sucks when you wake up at 4:23 and know you’re not getting back to sleep…so it’s a little after 5 and I’m pouring the coffee down to get the day started…it never got under 78 last night and it’s getting to over 90 today so it is going to be uncomfortable later…the humidity is almost 100% right now and I’m already sweating….I really do like the day after holidays when the crap that people do is over…I think that started with having to do everything for christmas when my kids were growing up and all of the traveling that came with it…and I’ve always said that my favorite day of the year is December 26th….didn’t even hear the fireworks before I went to bed last night and that is okay…it is so dry out here that I was expecting lots of fires from the fireworks the idiots were setting off but I didn’t have to put my lawn out so I guess that’s a bonus…just stumbled on the weirdest show on British tv…James May just reassembling an old record player….5 am tv is strange…need to get on the bike as soon as it gets light to get two rides in before 9:55 when F1 qualifying comes on but that gives me an hour to have coffee…not a lot to do today…should clean the bathroom but I don’t think I’m going to have the energy for it…I really miss naps…more later…
Lies from the SSA
Well…the destruction of truth has now bled over into the Social Security Administration with a letter that went out to all SS recipients crowing about the theft bill that is going to be signed today…the letter lies and says that because of the new bill, 80% of SS recipients will no longer have to pay taxes on their benefits when there is nothing in the bill that even addresses the fact that if you make too much money, you can have to pay taxes on part of your benefits…now this is clear violation of he Hatch act that does not allow partisan political activity by federal employees…and this is blatantly pushing this new bill just to make sure the orange ogre gets his daily dose of praise…and the rest of the e-mail is riddled with more and more lies that most of the ignorant, confused old folks who are being propagandized and will not understand that this bill cuts Medicaid and gives huge tax cuts to the rich…and estimates say that up to 20 million people are going to lose health care by these cuts…and they are coming for Medicare and SS next…geez…
July 4th
Well…I am damn tired of all the health crap you have to go through when you get old…I’m tired of the tests, biopsies, and ultrasounds and just want to live what’s left of my life…and I’m tired of busting my ass to stay healthy every day when it just doesn’t mean anything…but, I’ll be on the bike in a half hour to get the rides in before the rain comes in…and yes, it’s not going to rain even though there is a huge blob over in Wisconsin heading this way…man, I feel old…didn’t eat much yesterday and I’m finding it harder and harder to even try to eat when I can’t taste anything anymore…even coffee and that sucks…the air quality is poor again today and I’ll be coughing again after the rides…the rain is supposed to be here in three hours so that give me time to get the rides in before that…have a lot to do today to just keep this place a little presentable so I may skip the beach and get my ass in gear and clean…I’m sore and tired and old and depressed…and I have 13 minutes before I have to get on the bike…more later…
Have the ultrasound scheduled…
Well…I finally got the liver ultrasound scheduled but it is so damn early…I have to be there at 6:45am on the 9th and the only corewell facility that does it out here is in Grand Haven…only 13 miles from here but still, they should have a place here in Muskegon…oh, well…didn’t get a lot done today but the rides and going to the beach…the water is still really nice and I got a half hour swim in…but it’s supposed to get into the mid 90′s Sat but I won’t be at the beach any weekends…just too dam busy…I may go out for a bit tomorrow if I can get out there early before the crowds…there are air quality alerts on til Sunday and I can feel it in my lungs…have been coughing a bunch today and I know part of it is allergies…okay, want to get a little more reading in…
Stupid tariffs and jobs…
Well…with the stupid trump tariffs in full force now and we are seeing just what I predicted…jobs are going away from demand cratering across the country…last months job numbers were revised down to only 28,000 added when it was predicted to add 100,000…but the real thing is June’s numbers where it was shown that the economy lost almost 35,000 jobs and economists are predicting losses in the 6 figures and the economy accelerating it’s fall into recession…do you think the idiot is going to do something about it? Ha,ha…he has no frickin clue about the economy and it is all his doing that it’s going in the tank…and it only effects poor people so they won’t life a finger…or they will say the rich needs more tax cuts to create jobs like they do for everything else…remember it’s stupid trump tariffs that are doing the damage…and it’s all his fault…geez…
July 3rd
Well…I am so damn tired this morning and I need to get on the bike in 16 minutes but I sure don’t want to…need to schedule the liver ultrasound today on mychart and I really think it is going to be something serious like liver cancer that my mother died from…forgot to put sunscreen on for the 2nd ride yesterday and I got pretty scorched after just a little over an hour in the sun…skipped the beach yesterday since I didn’t have the energy to go out there and I’m not sure about today…it hasn’t been relaxing going out there lately and it should be…not sure what I’m going to eat today but I really don’t care either…hey, can you tell I’m depressed? Living in this 72 year body is getting to be too much work…all I want to do is lie on the couch and read all day but you know I won’t do that….after all, I’ve been on the bike for 630 days straight and that is going to end next May when I do the trip to Italy with my daughter…was shooting for 1,000 days in a row but does that matter? Not to anyone but me…not much to do today…need to assemble the potato salad this morning but I really don’t feel like eating at all…okay, this is depressing…so I’m going to stop and have one more cup of coffee and get on the bike….more later…
A tiring day…
Well…damn, I am getting so tired of this body giving up on me…got a call about the blood work I had done yesterday and I have elevated billirubin levels and they want me to go in next week for a liver ultrasound…I am so damn tired of doctors appointments that I may just say no and just live out what little life I have left…if I have to give up the few cocktails I have every week, I’m going to scream…it could be caused by a lot of things like dehydration or gallstones and I know I have both of those…but it still sucks because it they find something, there will be more doctor appointments and more medicine, and more pain in the ass…and I don’t like that one bit…crap…
This is even worse…
Well…we know that food stamps and Medicaid are being slashed to give the rich tax cuts in the new repub tax giveaway bill…but there is another part of that foul smelling bill that is even worse…the bill includes a tripling of funding for ICE/gestapo and trump’s brownshirts…yep, he is getting to get his own private army…is that not fascist enough for you? I’m tire of hearing people on the right bleat about that thye shouldn’t be called fascists but damn, when they are doing exactly what the nazi’s did shouldn’t you call it what it is? So now you can expect more shredding of the constitution that ICE does every day…I mean disappearing American citizens and locking up tourists without any way for them to avail themselves of the constitutional rights that anyone in this country is covered by? That is how these brownshirts operate and the SC is just fine with that…god I hate repubs…geez…
July 2nd
Well…no one should be up at 4:36…it’s just wrong and it is going to set me up for a low energy day that I’m feeling right now…slept okay but this damn humidity is going to kill me…there just is no relief at all and it’s wearing me out…need to get on the bike in less than 15 minutes and I don’t know if I can do it…the coffee hasn’t had time to work and every damn keystroke is too much effort…had an okay day yesterday but did way too much work and don’t want to repeat that today…but I do need to hit the library after the grocery run and a stop at Menards and I think I’m going to do a DD stop just for the heck of it…the results of the latest blood draw are on mychart but I think I’m going to follow my daughter’s advice and not look at it until my doctor calls me…it’s going to be hot and humid for the next week and I’m going to shift into survival mode to get through it…not much to do today…and that is a lie since I am going to be running all morning and I may hit the beach again…but the couch has a gravitational pull right now that is going to be hard to resist…need to get going…more later…
A nice surprise…
Well…got a call from my doctor’s office today and what they removed from my forehead was NOT a melanoma…how it got from melanoma on mychart to the good news of no cancer I don’t know…and the kicker was no more treatment needed…so that was a nice surprise and makes me feel better about my health that I haven’t had two kinds of cancer in two years…yay! It was kind of a busy day with getting out on the bike for two rides before I could break the fast I was on for the blood draw…my legs gave up on the 2nd ride and I know it was from no food for 14 hours and I’ve been struggling to make up for that the rest of the day…had another good phlebotomist at the lab and she hit it with one poke, no bruising, so no big deal..okay, a little bruise bit it’s the size of a rice grain and I’ll take that anytime…when I got back from the lab, I vacuumed and washed the car and I used the car wash I bought and the new mitt…used way too much soap and I’ll fix that next time…and then I went out to the beach for a swim, getting back here about 12:45 then I did the laundry and cooked the ingredients for another batch of potato salad…after that, all I did was read and I’m going back to that right now..