Well…with the temp never getting over 41 today and the wind blowing hard, I had time to work on the garden since I wasn’t going to even try to ride outdoors…and it was funny when I was spading it, I found some carrots that had sprouted and started to grow from seeds that I planted last year but never sprouted…so that was weird…it looks like I’ll be able to start planting things out there in a couple of weeks but I’m not going to do that until I’m sure there won’t be any more frosts…last year I lost the entire first planting to frost but I really had to get it done early so I could take it out before the trip…I do have beans, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and sunflowers up right now and I sure hope the green and chili peppers come up along with the peas I’m trying for the first time this year…and I do need to plant the flowers I got this year…probably tomorrow…not going to add any manure this year since I think I put too much on it last year and that was the trouble I had getting everything to live…I guess we’ll see…
Good on ya, VW workers…
Well…just wanted to do a short one on the great news out of Tennessee where just yesterday the 4,000 workers at the VW assembly plant there voted to join the UAW after years of struggle with the government of Tennessee along with management of VW…and the governor of not only Tennessee but of all the other southern red states tried to put pressure on the workers with the lies they always use telling them that things will get worse if they voted for the union and that they now could lose their jobs…the same playbook that has been used against unions since the start…okay UAW, do tesla next…it does make a difference who is president…and Joe Biden has been a vocal supporter of unions since he was elected…keep up the good work…
He really does stink…
Well…the idiot trump in the courtroom is too damn funny to start with as the potential jurors laid into him and told him the truth about what non maga people think of him…and he has to sit there and listen to it under penalty of contempt of court if he makes faces, comments, and generally tries to disrupt the courtroom…and do you remember the stories from a couple of months ago that quoted a bunch of people who have been around him that he has a bad smell to him all the time…and that was confirmed yesterday when it was reported that his lawyers commented that he farts almost constantly and the smell is eye watering…and those guys have to sit next to him the entire time…so now I guess trump stinks both figuratively and literally…I sill think he’s going to have a stroke bottling up all his rage when he is chastised by the judge for his antics…and we have at least three more weeks before he is convicted…geez…
April 20th
Well…running late this morning and feel pretty crappy so I’m not sure when I’ll get on the bike but I know I won’t be outdoors today…the wind is blowing hard and the high is only going to be 45 and I can’t take the cold anymore…slept okay but sure don’t feel like it right now…and the coffee hasn’t started to work at all yet and it needs to…it’s 37 degrees out there right now and it’s almost May and that sucks…but a warm up is coming that will get the temps back into the 60′s so I can ride outdoors again…got quite a bit done yesterday and I may try to get the garden turned over today along with planting some perennials at the back of the house and the annuals along the east side…the days are still running together and I don’t really know what day it is anymore…and it doesn’t bother me a bit….need to get on the bike soon but one day I’m going to take a day off and just rest…I am getting old, after all…going to make chicken Masala with some Jasmine rice today since I’ll have time with not riding outdoors…so I have to get off my ass and get the rides started…more later….
It’s about time…
Well…after the repubs held up aid to Ukraine for months on the orders of putin, it appears that the foreign aid bills that the hard right repubs have been holding up is going to get a vote tomorrow with the vote on advancing the bills to the floor passed today 316 to 94…and guess who did it…of course, the dems and the 94 who voted against the aid of course are repubs who want Ukraine to lose the war since their buddy putin wants it…if the hard right assholes get their way, this will be the last act of speaker Johnson since they vowed to remove him if he worked with dems to pass the bill…one thing you have to remember is that anything that Johnson has accomplished only happened because the dems did their jobs and compromised with the repubs…now we hold our breath to get through the floor vote tomorrow and get the aid to Ukraine that it needs to push the Russians back across the border…geez…
April 19th
Well…up at 5:34 this morning and I think all of the riding is taking it’s toll on me and I am sore and worn out today…and I need to get going in 12 minutes to get the rides in downstairs…have an errand to run after the indoor rides and I think it’s going to be too cold and windy to ride outdoors today and I don’t know it that’s a good or bad thing…haven’t done less than 30 miles a day for a month and this old body is paying for it…had to make a noise call on the new renters over on 7th street yesterday when they had 22 people partying in their front yard with 5 cars thumping away…and I’ll keep calling whenever I hear a peep out of them…damn, it’s like whack a mole out here lately…did get get some stuff done yesterday but I really need a day where I don’t…and that could be today or tomorrow with the high temps in the 40′s tomorrow and not much better today…my hands even hurt today and I’m not sure how I hurt my back but I did….not much to do today…just need to get going right now but F1 qualifying is on and I would like to see that…but I won’t…more later…
One of these days…
Well…I guess I’m going to complain about being busy again and I really was today…started out the day with getting on the bike around 7am for the first of two rides indoors and in between them, I dragged my outdoor bike downstairs to replace the shifter adjuster with a used one from an old shifter I had in the cabinet with the other bike parts…and then I replaced the shift cable, too, since the old one was a little frayed and that got me down to only one spare so I’ll need to order some with the rest of the parts to get the black bike up and running again..so that will be around a hundred bucks…think I’ll get on that this weekend…so after I finished up the second ride indoors, I took the bike back upstairs and set on getting the shifter adjusted to make sure it both upshifts and downshifts…that took an hour or so so then I got on the bike and took a ride outdoors so I could do the fine tuning…by the time I got back here, I had it real close to working and still have lots of adjustment available that I’ll work on as I get rides in…after all that, I had beans that had sprouted and needed to be planted along with peas, cukes, and chili peppers…with some plant up already, I had to dig out my fluorescent grow light and hang it up so the plant don’t fall over…I may have to light one of the leds later if they have to stay down there to avoid the frost…done for the day…one of these days, I’m really going to take it easy…maybe…
Tax time and no drama…
Well…it’s that time of year again where most people in this country have to file their taxes…and guess who just released their tax returns? Yep, President Biden and VP Harris…completely transparent…no lies about “being under audit”…no subpoenas, no leaks to the NYT, no bullshit…just two honest people doing their duty to give people the information on their finances they need to make a proper decision this fall…and you won’t find any Cayman Islands accounts or any shell companies…and we all know why the idiot boy is not going to release his…they are full of fraud and idiot boy has already been convicted of fraud for lying in his returns…after this trial, we all know anything in it is going to be a lie so what’s the point…I know this is going to come up in an ad soon…and Joe has been putting out some good ones…get on it guys…
April 18th
Well…damn, I’m worn out today…have been on the bike for at least 16 miles a day for 109 days in a row this year and it’s taking a toll on this old body…and not eating enough is not helping…did 43 miles yesterday on only a blt and a hard salami sandwich for a total of only about 900 calories for the day…I am going to cook some chicken thighs with broccoli and a baked potato for lunch today but I need to get two rides in downstairs before that…it’s going to be cold and rainy today so I probably won’t get outdoors on the bike…and highs are going to be in the 40′s tomorrow and I sure don’t want to put the thermasuit on again to ride…I should drag the bike downstairs and change out the rear shifter cable and the adjuster but if it’s the shifter that is bad, I’ll be off the bike for a week as I order another one…probably should get that done…and I think I will after the rides…not much to do today…just need an easy day after pushing myself for so long…but I need to get on the bike right now at 7am…and I sure don’t want to…more later…
Damn, running late…
Well..you know, I’m getting tired of the days getting away from me and not being able to do the things I want…like today when I was all ready to settle in for an afternoon of reading but then the damn rain stopped and I felt compelled to go out for a second ride to make the day a 43 miler…so I did…another day of 25 mph wind that I fought the entire rides and I am sore again today…and I’ve been having problems with the bike both in keeping the seat adjusted and making it comfortable for me…as I lose weight, the seat needs to be adjusted to compensate for less fat in my butt that has led to having to raise the seat and tilt it differently…tried that the other day and it just kept getting loose and that is so damn annoying when your trying to put the miles in…and the damn adjustment on the rear shifter is broken so I’ll have to throw away a shift cable to put a spare adjuster in and then get it adjusted right again and that can take hours…oh, well…it’s 7 pm and time to watch a little tv….