Well…another 5:23 morning to start things out but I don’t feel too badly about that….I did sleep okay so I hope it will mean I have energy for today since I may try for 60 miles on the bike…but that is all going to depend on when I get out for the first one…if it gets over 50 by 8am, that will be a good start….have been having a hell of a time getting my veggie seeds to sprout this year and I will need to re-think what I’m doing for next spring…might have to spend the big bucks to buy seedlings instead but that will cost 40-50 bucks when seeds only cost me about 10….I think I may have a cuke plant coming up at the end of the garden but I dumped a bunch more seeds in yesterday just to brute force it…just as I did with some green pepper seeds….I had to laugh yesterday when I rode by the rebuilt warehouse on the trail that has huge new windows that act like mirrors and saw that I have riders legs…lots of definition in both my thighs and calves and it looked pretty cool….have never seen my legs in action before and to see that all of the riding has had that effect was a little surprising….little things….it looks like I’ll have a day off the bike tomorrow if we get the rain were supposed to and it’s about time to take a healing day…and this place is so dusty even without doing any sanding or repairs in here that I will need to go over all of the walls and trim surfaces to clean them…and I noticed a film on basically everything in the living room so that will need to be done, too….not much to do today…just going to ride a bit and maybe do a little exploring down by the beach….no cooking today since I have leftovers to use up but I do need to plan meals for the rest of the week and get some stuff out of the freezer for it…don’t have room in there for any other protein so I’ll be eating out of the freezer for the next couple of weeks….more later…
Got a lot of work done….
Well…damn, another busy day that I thought was going to be a total loss with how I felt when I got up this morning….got the two rides in to start it off and then got the lawn mowed after that and it looks pretty good and I’m happy to get it done before the rain that is forecast for wed…ha,ha…yeah, that made me laugh…the rain forecast out here is probably the worst of any place I’ve lived and probably will be until the lake warms up and stops being the barrier to storms that is has been all spring…I did finally get over to the little sitting area along the trail that I have been looking at for a couple of years now and cut the grass and weeds that were about 3 feet tall in it…and cleaned up the all of the trash that was in it, too…then I raked up the cut grass and weeds and tossed them across the trail into the woods and brought the trash back here…it looks so much better and one guy I see on the trail everyday called me a “good samaritan” for doing it but it was more that the city had forgotten about it and I had the time and equipment to do it so why not? Now I won’t have to think about it twice every day when I ride by….and now it’s after 3 and I am done for the day….well…maybe one more ride later…we’ll see….
There won’t be any companies left in Texas…
Well…the anti women lawmakers in Texas are at it again and are attacking companies who have pledged to cover the healthcare travel expenses for employees based in Texas…and yes that does mean abortion related care and have promised “swift and decisive action” against it…now what that action could be so far is just a threat but I think these assholes should be very careful when they threaten the second largest employer in the US, Amazon, who can very easily just stop giving them money…which they should do anyway…can you imagine trying to lure a company to Texas when you have a history of attacking them if you don’t like every little thing they do? I think if this crap continues, we are going to have an even more separated country with the red states only having businesses owned and run by assholes like Musk…and many company owners are starting to appreciate the stability the dems bring in states like California…even if they have to pay a little more in taxes, it is still cheaper than having to fight off all of the lawsuits that are coming from the vigilante laws repubs are passing in red states that allow anybody to sue for any reason…the party of business? That’s all bullshit and always has been…the economy and business always does better under dems…and now we can see another reason why….geez…
May 23rd
Well…darn, a 5:23 morning today and I am starting to feel the lack of sleep a bunch…pretty worn out this morning and my allergies are really sucking….have had a low level headache for weeks now and that is tiring, too…didn’t get much done yesterday other than ride the bike and I have lost all motivation to do anything so today may be the same but I won’t be able to get on the bike until almost 10 since it is only 39 outside right now and I am still wondering where the hell spring is…can’t remember such a cold May with the high today only being 60 or so and it only warming up into the 70′s later in the week…oh, well….I am going to plant the last of the plants from downstairs today so I can shut the light down and clean up down there…not going to have a lot of green peppers this year since I couldn’t get the seeds to sprout and that goes for the cukes, too….none of them sprouted and I have put in so many seeds that I went through at least 30 of them with no luck….might just plant the rest of them today just for the hell of it…at least my 12 bean plants look good and are growing along with the tomatoes….not much to do today…just need to wake up and get moving but I’m not sure when that will happen….and I will need to mow the lawn either today or tomorrow since it is supposed to rain wed, thur, fri and I wonder if I should get more food to put on the lawn before that? We’ll see….more later….
Something’s wrong with Elon…
Well….not sure if I’ve seen another human being melt down in real time but we are seeing it right now with ole elon and it is not pretty….and every time he opens his mouth, tesla stock takes another nosedive losing almost 10% Friday…meaning that tesla has lost hundreds of billions of it’s worth since elon started to try to buy twitter and shot his mouth off that he is only going to vote for repubs from now on…and that is really no surprise since the repubs are the party of the pouty billionaires who know they won’t make them pay their fair share of taxes…I wonder how the board of tesla feels about ole elon tanking the stock price by almost 50% from it’s high? And how he is alienating the normal left leaning tesla buyer with his pronouncements that he is now full maga? How many coal rolling maga folks buy teslas? I think all of this stems from him having someone say no to him for the first time in his life and not falling to their knees and worshiping him like he is used to….and his petulant reaction to is is just like a spoiled child that lashes out when he is told no….and let’s remember, ole elon is not a self made man…he inherited hundreds of millions from his daddy who was an emerald mine owner…and remember that he bought into tesla, he didn’t invent them he just brought cash to a product that was already in progress before he showed up….if anyone cares about him, they should pull him aside and call him out on this craziness and try to put him back on at least a quiet path….it costs quite a few people lots of money as he careens around shooting his mouth off….and as much as I like to see rich assholes lose everything, I feel for the workers at telsa that are going to pay the price for elon’s maga conversion…
Too much sports…
Well…you know, during the winter I could justify taking the day off the indoor bike on Sundays so I wonder why I can’t do that now with getting so many more miles in during the week? Oh, well…today is filled with sports that I want to see so wedging in a bike ride or two is going to be a little difficult…F1 starts right now and runs til 11 when the final day of the Premier league goes off with all of the teams playing at once that will last til 1 or so….then I have a window to get out until 4 when pole qualifying at Indy starts and then into the nascar all star race that starts at 5:30 and runs til 10…so do I watch everything live or do I wait and watch it in replay tomorrow? I know I’ll do the F1 race and then Man U match unless they suck…and it’s still too cold to get out on the bike…I mean 49 degrees in the end of May…and tomorrow morning is going to be in the 30′s and that just sucks….hope it doesn’t hurt my veggies or the flowers that are up…okay, the race is starting so I’ll end here….more later…
May 22nd
Well…I guess it’s becoming normal to wake up before 5 and then try to go back to sleep and then out of bed a little after 6….but, I feel okay so I guess I can live with it….it was a little weird going out for the paper this morning when the store I go to had an outage so I couldn’t use my debit card…luckily, I had just enough cash on me to buy the paper…and the clerk said that even Meijers was out last night and her husband had to use cash to buy groceries…so that means I’ll need to hit the atm sometime this week just to have a little cash in my pocket just in case….I think we got enough rain yesterday that I won’t have to water the lawn this week and it should green up after getting pretty brown in the back over the past couple of weeks…have to start thinking about feeding it again to keep the improvement happening…..I do have two green pepper plants that have come up downstairs that need to be planted but then I’m moving the lilac cuttings outside to continue hoping they will root or I’m going to have to figure out what to do across the back fence to fill it in….not much to do today…it’s still too cold to get on the bike right now and the F1 race is on at 9 so I don’t have time to get out anyway…it looks like I’ll sit here and have coffee for a while and read some news….and then try to figure out if I want to work today or take it easy…I do need to cook some chicken I have thawed but that is about all I can think about right now…more later…
Got the outlet fixed…
Well…yeah, I did look for a political topic all day today…but not too hard so I was bored this aft and thought I’d replace the broken electrical outlet since it is a pretty easy job…so I moved the couch and got at it after I went downstairs to shut the power off…and this house is wired up pretty weird…the breaker that runs the living room also runs half of the basement and I guess that is what they had to do with only 6 breakers for this whole house…I am gradually getting rid of the old two prong outlets so I don’t have to use the grey adapters much anymore and that will be a project to complete as I work on this place….it only took about 10 minutes to do the job and get everything buttoned back up but I did have a problem that I kicked myself a bit from…in trying to find the right breaker, I shut the kitchen one off which blanked all of the clocks in there, one of which is on my coffee maker…so I reset the clocks…or thought I did until the coffee maker started to bubble and make coffee at 6pm…so I had to let it finish and then reset the clock to the right time…but that means I won’t have a coffee smell alarm clock to wake me up in the morning…darn….oh, well…at least I got something done today other than ride the bike…
Got the rides in…
Well…that was a busy morning and it’s finally raining again and I really thought it wouldn’t..got two good rides in and almost did a full sprint on the second one and that felt good….and I was even out around 8 for the first one but got the time wrong for F1 qualifying and didn’t get out for the second one until almost 11 so that put me back here a little after noon…I did have my trash can infested with fly larvae and had to spray it with poison to keep them from maturing and having flies all over the place….I guess now I have the rest of the day off with the rain keeping me inside for a couple of hours at least…haven’t been able to find a topic for a political one yet but I’ll keep trying and see what happens….more later?
May 21st
Well…it kind of sucks when you “sleep in” and get up only 23 minutes later than normal….and the heat is still on and it’s almost the end of May….at least we did get a bit of rain out here last night but, as always, the main part of the storms missed us to the north and south and that is happening again with huge blobs of storm and rain about 20 miles to the south right now and it looks like the rain is done here for the day already….and it’s going to stay in the 50′s all day…and that may make it a one ride day today since I could use a little rest with my legs already hurting and I haven’t done anything yet….and F1 qualifying is on at 11 and I need to see that…and doing two rides this morning would mean I need to get out there here in about 15 minutes and I just don’t feel like it….I need a day to just sit here and take it easy and I think I’ve earned it but won’t do it….I did get a few things done yesterday and have a few things to do today and would like to get the lilac cuttings outside so I can shut down the light downstairs….and I have one green pepper plant that has come up so I need to get that planted outside…the herbs that I planted never came up in the cups so I really don’t have much hope of getting them to sprout outside this year so that may wait til next year….not much to do today….just going to ride and cook and putter around here a bit…I should replace that plug behind the couch but I’m not motivated enough to do that and it may wait til tomorrow….more later….