Well…was reading an article today about how the rural part of Alaska went all in for the idiot trump and now are in the find out part of FAFO…they were all for the moron’s tariffs until a surprising thing happened…first you have to remember that over 90% of the goods including food that are sold in Alaska go over Canadian roads…you can see where this is going…the Canadians have proposed taxing any goods crossing it’s territory going to Alaska…making the already high costs for eggs, milk, and any other food probably out of reach for some of these trump voters…and with the looming food stamp and Medicaid cuts (over 50% of Alaskans depend on those programs), it’s going to get even worse for them…so yeah, trump voters that voted for him because he was going to lower prices, what do you think now? Will this shake you out of your stupidity and hate to vote in your own interests? Nope, I can answer that for you…your hate trumps everything and you’ll lie and blame it on the dems…what a stupid bunch…geez…
Damn…
Well…damn, I think I have a sty forming in my right eyelid since it hurts like I have a grain of sand in it…and that has been going on all day and that sucks…if it keeps up tomorrow I think I’ll call my doctor Monday and see if they can get me in…the last one I had left a permanent scar on that same eyelid and I don’t want that to happen again…I did get an outdoor ride in today and the bike shocks felt a little stiff with it being only 31 when I went out but it shifted fine so that was okay…and the trail was clear all the way out to Lake Michigan except for all the sand on it right out at the beach so I only had to walk about 50 yards to get past it…and with the two rides indoors, I got to 29 miles for the day…and tomorrow I’m shooting for one indoors and two outdoors for 33 miles…and I’ll be able to just ride outdoors all week and will be in shorts Wed-Fri when it’s going to be over 60…probably should find and wash my baseball hat that I wear in the summer…the cabbage and steak was really good for lunch but way too many calories in the steak so I’m skipping the second meal again today…although doing 30 miles should be enough to support two….just not hungry I guess…time to read…
The pushbsck is gaining steam..
Well…the pushback against the illegal an unpopular cuts that the idiot trump and his cronies are doing started small but now with the stories I’m seeing, it appears to be gaining steam…and just yesterday the governors of all the blue states sued idiot boy to get the job cuts reversed along with the program cuts to the NIH that has left hundreds of thousands of Americans enrolled in clinical trials to try to save their lives with nowhere to turn…along with the 7,000 job cuts at the SS administration that has left it gutted and has put payments to the 77 million people like me who get SS in jeopardy…and I talked about that last week that it is a huge program that people have to run…not AI as the morons in charge think is the solution to every problem that isn’t a problem…and this national pushback is in addition to the countries of the world basically telling trump that his bullying bullshit isn’t going to work this time as they discover that they can’t trust a damn thing the idiot has to say…great for our standing in the world, huh? No I think we need to take it further like with a national strike against the unpopular policies these idiots are pushing…there is not on thing they are doing that has much support here and we need to remind people at every chance just what this asshole is doing….geez…
March 8th
Well…that was a little better…after not sleeping at all Thursday night, I slept all the way through last night and didn’t get of of bed til 6 this morning but I still feel worn out…it’s still too damn cold for March at 19 degrees and there is a slight warm up coming but then we’re back in the 40′s for highs and I need it to be warmer…it’s nice that when I got up “Top Hat” was on the tv and a dose of Fred and Ginger hit the spot to get me moving…well…not moving yet since I just poured the first cup of coffee and it’s not working yet…I may have to sign up for another 30 day free trial of prime since the shipping cost of a bag of coffee beans is 7 bucks and I won’t pay that…and the normal 35 buck order for free shipping doesn’t apply…I am really looking forward to having a t-bone steak for lunch with cooked cabbage, carrots, and potatoes…so I think that is going to mean only two rides today…having a tooth extracted yesterday didn’t hurt at all and I was able to eat with no pain for both lunch and dinner…so I think I’m going to indulge myself today and have two meals even though lunch is going to be huge…not much to do today…just cooking and the rides and some reading…I think there are races on later but I’m not sure…could look but don’t feel like it right now….more later…
Attacking Canada?
Well…what to you make of of the idiot trump’s attacks on Canada? I think it’s just the moronic bully coming out of him where he thinks just because he and his mob run the US and have the delusional idea that the US is the most important nation on earth and can do whatever they want to any other country…I mean, but c’mon…taking over out nice neighbors to the north? Who are our second largest trading partner? The Canadians are fighting back and I love what Justin Trudea saind the other day “The excuse for these tariffs of fentanyl are completely bogus, completely unjustified, and completely false…what he wants is the complete collapse of the Canadian economy because it will make it easier for him to annex us”…but the question is “what mechanism would allow trump to do any of this?” None…there is no legal way for idiot boy to try to take Canada and I’m sure the Canadian military would have something to say about that…and I’m sure our military would just ignore any such order…but what this is is just bullying…trying to be as outrageous as possible and then settling for some small concession…the only thing Canada should do is tell idiot boy to go pound sand…geez…
Pulled the trigger…
Well…after today’s tooth extraction, I pulled the trigger on getting the rest of the work done on my teeth…so, April 1st we start with a 360 degree x-ray and then three teeth have to come out so they can fit the partial denture so I can chew again…but there has to be about 4 months of recovery between them so I’ll be eating soft foods for that time…all of the work including the making and fitting of the partial denture is covered 50% by the Medicare dental insurance so my end of it is going to be about 850 bucks and I can easily afford that…it will be a pain taking the denture out every night to clean it but I guess that’s part of getting old…so, I’m making a t-bone tomorrow while I can still chew it along with chopped, cooked cabbage with onion, carrots and potatoes with oregano and thyme in the instant pot…and that side should last me 4 or 5 days…and I’ll probably make it again next week since I really do like cooked cabbage…I may leave today as a 2 ride day but I’m not sure yet…still have time for the third ride this morning…we’ll see..
March 7th
Well…up and down all night last night and I think I got about 4 hours of sleep in total…out of bed at 5:26 and need to pour down the coffee so I can get on the bike by 6 so I can get two rides in before the dentist appointment at 8:50…and that will probably be it for me today but we’ll see when I get home…don’t have to cook today but I am going to make cooked cabbage with carrots, onions, and potatoes in the instant pot and that will a side that will last me a few days…didn’t buy any corned beef since it’s 4 bucks a pound and that means the smallest one I could get would be close to 14 bucks and I’m not spending that much…the good thing about this cabbage dish is that it is really low in calories and if I left the potatoes out, half a plate would be about 50 calories…and you need to put in a whole cabbage rough chopped in it so I may stop at aldis and get another one since my dentist is right near it…and then I can make another batch next week…going to try to eat a steak tomorrow with it and I think that could be a good combo…don’t have a lot to do but read so that is what I’m going to do today…it looks like I’ll be able to ride outdoors from Sunday through Sat of next week and we’re going to be over 60 on Wed…so maybe three outdoor rides for 39 miles? We’ll se….more later…
A pretty lousy day…
Well…I wrote this morning that I had a dentist appointment this morning to clean my teeth but that quickly went to hell with the discovery of an abcess behind a tooth that has to come out tomorrow morning or spend a year and a few thousand bucks to try to fix it….and I’m not going to do that…but this is the last dental work I’m having done unless it’s a screaming emergency…I need the rest of my teeth to be able to chew anything…and the dentist quoted me 30K to have implants put in and that is not going to happen…so it was a pretty lousy day…and now I won’t b able to chew the t-bone steaks I bought…life sucks…
The trump crash has started..
Well…with reports out that say that layoffs are going to be up 245% with negative job growth, the trump crash has started…and the job cuts are accelerating as companies understand how bad the economy is going to get under the stupidest president in the history of the country….and that is the point, ceo’s across the country look ahead to see what their manpower requirements are going to be in the future and they see nothing but roaring inflation and recession coming and the chaos that tariffs are causing is what businesses don’t want to see…most companies have cut back on investment or stopped it completely and that has spread into housing with new housing starts down by almost 10%…you need to remember this that these job losses are the worst since 2009 during the great recession and 2020…so who was in charge for all of these events? Obama inherited the crappy economy in 2009 but the other two idiot boy was in charge and that sure doesn’t look like repubs are good on the economy…what these losses mean to me is that they don’t give a shit about workers…and they are already making excuses for the losses under idiot boy saying that “fixing the economy is messy” but I sure didn’t see anything that needed to be fixed with the best economy in the world that the idiot inherited…geez…
March 6th
Well…up at 4:04 this morning and tried to get back to sleep with not a lot of success…so, I’m pouring coffee down and trying to get going to be on the bike before 7 so I can get two rides in before the dentist appointment at 10:30…they called yesterday afternoon that they had an opening for the cleaning they cancelled a couple of weeks ago…it did snow out here overnight but just a dusting so I won’t have any problem getting out…the wind is still blowing quite hard out here and has been since yesterday afternoon and I’m really getting tired of how loud it is…I think I have enough coffee to last most of the year with 4 cans of ground and 3 pound of beans and if it isn’t enough, I’ll have to switch over to tea since the prices are going to get higher as the year goes on….I do need to cook today and that will probably be a chicken stir fry but not until dinner since I do have leftover chicken burrito materials for lunch…the steak will wait til Sat since I have two days of the burrito stuff left…not much to do today…just the rides and getting the teeth cleaned then back here for the last ride…the afternoon belongs to me so I think I’ll read a bit…the power stayed on even with the high wind out here and that is surprising….more later…