No nuts this year…

Well…out on the bike today and noticed something a little strange that I have never seen in my long life…there are no nuts this year. Usually, there are many spots along the trail where I have to dodge walnuts about this time of the year but this year, not one….and that goes for the two spots where I picked up bags of hickory nuts last year…no nuts at all on the ground or on the trees…I wonder what the cause is? This is just too weird….

October 27th

Well…damn, stayed in bed until 6:12 this morning…some kind of a new record for how I’ve been sleeping lately…but, I did wake up at 5:14 so I guess maybe it isn’t a record….had an okay day yesterday but only got the cobweb patrol done so I’ll have to do more today…had a problem with the shifter on the bike but got that figured out and had a nice ride…I did remember to take some ibuprofen before I went out and that made a huge difference with the pain in my neck so I guess I’ll do that again today…but, that will have to wait for a little while since there is some rain out there and I don’t want to get wet with it only 40 degrees out…I do have to clean today and just need a little jump start to make that happen…and I will be distracted with some sports…but, Michigan has a bye week so that makes it a little easier….more later….

Surprise, surprise…

Well…this kind of blows up another trump talking point with the arrest of a surprise, surprise, middle aged white guy for sending the bombs to trump’s “enemies” over the past week…all you really need to know about this asshole is plastered on the windows of his van…nothing but trump propaganda and MAGA bullshit…and do you want to know something funny? Quite a bit of it is known Russian propaganda from the fake facebook accounts that were created by the Russians to throw the election to trump…this is the kind of person that supports trump…he doesn’t care that he was lied to by trump and manipulated by the Russians to hate everyone who has rightly criticized the idiot boy…actually, this guy and the rest of the trump minions just love that they don’t have to think anymore…thinking makes their heads hurt and it is something only radical liberals do…I can imagine what trump’s response is going to be…that this guy is just another “false flag” operation and he really is a radical leftist who worships Lenin and Marx and wants conservatives rounded up and put into camps…I wonder if those will be run by FEMA now that trump controls FEMA? What a sorry bunch of idiots…impeach…

October 26th

Well…ugh…up at 5:30 again today and I feel so damn worn out that it’s like I haven’t slept at all…would love to sleep in til 7 at least one day…and this getting up early just gives me way too much time to be bored before the sun comes up and I can get on the bike…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done but the grocery run and a little cooking…and, I don’t know how much motivation I’ll have to get things done today…but I’m not going to think about that right now….I do need the coffee to work for a while before I even contemplate that…at least my neck was better yesterday and just feels a little stiff today…still trying to figure out how I hurt it and that seems to be a theme lately…trying to figure out why I’m sore all the time everywhere…damn, I feel old lately…more later….

It doesn’t matter that the bombs didn’t go off…

Well…after the idiot trump spurred on one or more of his followers to act on the hate he spews every day by sending bombs to people on his “hate list”…some repubs had started to think that maybe, just maybe idiot boy had gone just the teensiest bit too far…but, that ended this morning when the new talking point was issued to the talking heads at fox “news” asserting that since the bombs didn’t go off, they were no big deal and it was the media’s fault that they think it’s important….and that it can’t be attempted murder since, again, the bombs didn’t go off and no one got hurt. I got news for you repubs, it is still a crime, it is still attempted murder even when the gun doesn’t go off if you are pointing it at someone and pulling the trigger…and that is just what this is, and no amount of rationalizing by the repubs will change that…and still not one repub has broken with trump and his incitement to violence that happens every damn time he opens his mouth….this is radical christian domestic terrorism plain and simple and I wonder why no repub is calling it that…after all, they love to name things and spent years trying to get every attack by a middle eastern person labeled “radical Muslim terrorism”…what a bunch of hypocrites…impeach…

October 25th

Well…sitting here waiting to make the grocery run and thought I’d come here and do this one and not wait until later…after all, getting up at 5:44 and not doing the grocery run until 7 leaves me quite a bit of time to kill…and I don’t want to start with coffee until I get back and have a newspaper to read…I did sleep okay with getting to bed by 10:30 but the tossing and turning is back…one good thing is my neck is not hurting right now and that is a relief after the pain I’ve had for the past few weeks….I did get a few things done yesterday and finally got the new spark plugs in the car and it runs great again…I do have to replace the valve cover gasket in the spring since it is seeping down into the plug wells…used a pair of the disposable gloves I bought last week and it was nice to not have to get the grease out from under my fingernails…even cleaned a little in the kitchen mostly from boredom and I will continue that today…not much to do today…just the normal stuff and a bike ride…oh, and cooking some chicken for lunch….more later…

Hey trump voters, how’s that IRA today?

Well…just as we see daily, the ignorance of trump and all of his minions knows no bounds and that was shown again this week when their stupidity on the economy saw the Dow down another 1,000 points…over 600 just today. I know I’ve said this before but “how’s that IRA today, trump voters?” How’s the MAGA shit working for you? You’ve lost almost 20% in the past month and yet you still think the con man in chief knows what he’s doing…after all, he was “successful” on “the Apprentice”. Every damn economist who is not in the tank for trump has been saying the economy would react to the tax cut scam by continuing to grow for a year or so and then, once the rich got their payoff, it would tank and head for a recession. The warning signs have been shouting for some time now, new home starts are down almost 15% in the past 6 months…a really good indicator for where the economy is heading…and the layoff notices are starting to snowball with the idiot trump’s tariffs…almost 100,000 people lost their jobs in the past month as a direct result of trump’s economic ignorance and magical thinking….even farmers are staying with trump even though they are going broke and the world where they sold their crops doesn’t want anything from us anymore…just because of trump…the rampant stupidity in this country that gave us trump is going to continue because those people just love to hate….and they are just too dumb to do anything else…impeach…

Bombs now?

Well…god damn trump and his idiot minions…as we all know, trump’s favorite schtick for ginning up outrage with his deplorable followers is to attack everyone on the left with veiled threats of “2nd amendment remedies” if they don’t agree with him and call him on his constant lies…but, over the past few days, all of this bullshit he spouts about George Soros, the Clintons, and the Obamas have had some real world consequences when some right wing asshole has sent bombs to all of  them, trying to murder them just as trump has told them to. And, what was the response from the repubs? Yeah, you can hear the crickets from here…not a damn one of them has condemned trump’s rhetoric or these attempted murders of their political opponents…something that only happened in two bit dictatorships until the asshole trump….this IS a high crime and should put impeachment right on the front burner when we retake the house next month…and every person involved including trump should go to jail for the rest of their lives…this can’t stand in a democracy..and let’s make no mistake here, these are not the caravan of invented terrorists who only live in the fevered brains of the right…these are real terrorists who are fully supported by trump and the repubs….impeach…

October 25th

Well…I wonder what happens when the time changes? Will I then be waking up at my normal time again? All I know is I was up at 5:34 this morning and I don’t like it much…that gives me way too much time between wake up and waiting for the temp to come up to get on the bike…looks the boredom is going to start early today…I did sleep okay last night but after having some spicy guac last night, I can feel that my intestines are not going to like me much today…not sure when my sensitivity to jalapenos started but even small amounts now hurt…got a few things done yesterday but that means I don’t have much to do today…and I am depressed that someone won the Mega last night and there is no fantasy left…oh, well….I did get my hair cut yesterday and ran some errands and that leaves me with just a little work to do on the bike before I get on it later….I guess I could clean some but it’s 6 am and I have no motivation at all yet…just need more coffee and some news…more later….

Now for something different…

Well…okay…screed of the day is done so I’m going to noodle around a little with some short stuff that wouldn’t make a whole one of these…it was pretty cool yesterday when I just got started on the bike and flushed 3 yearling deer who were lying down next to the trail…they paced me along the fence for quite ways even when I was moving pretty good…and I thought I could keep up until they decided that I was too close and just jetted away even with me going over 20 on a downhill…pretty fun to watch…I did get some work done on the rust on car and may do a little more before winter if I get a couple more 50′s days….oh, I did get out and got some of the 77 cents a pound turkey breasts at my daily deals store…I mean, 7 pounds of boneless breast for 5 bucks? I just couldn’t pass that up and it was even low sodium so that was a bonus….I even got some Dean’s guac for a big container for 99 cents so I am going splurge with some of that tonight….I know, it’s bad for me but I can afford a little of that….