Well…I hadn’t really planned for it to be a busy day today but it turned into one…started out with doing two rides indoors since it was only 37 degrees when I got up and there is no way I’m going out in that cold again…so after that, I took the vacuum out to the old car and vacuumed the entire car to try to get the sand out of it and then did the drivers footwell of the new car since I tracked dirt into it…I did discover that the lights in the instrument panel and radio are red like the fad from the 2.000s but it looks pretty cool and fits the car…I may have gotten through to the assholes in the rental behind me when I called on them Saturday since there has been no one out there for two days now…I sure hope the cops finally brought the hammer down on them…it would be such a nice, peaceful summer if they did…going to work on the ad for the old car tomorrow and try to get that moving but I’m not sure why I have to be in such a hurry…I mean if it takes a couple of weeks, that’s fast enough…and I still have to wash the interior and exterior of the car…it looks like it’s going to rain all day tomorrow so the rides will probably be indoors…I did get an outdoor one in today and feel much less like a slug with almost 30 miles in…I did do laundry, too, so I did get some things done…back to reading…
This is what bullies do..
Well…with the “big beautiful bill” that the house just passed in the dead of night that is going to gut Medicaid and impose work requirements on the recipients, the pain it’s going to cause for the less fortunate in this country is going to be immense…and I’ve heard the question asked is “why are the repubs causing so much pain?” I’ve got news for you, the pain is the point…that is what bullies do…they attack people who can’t fight back and then revel in the pain they have caused…and all just so they can give that money away to the rich who really don’t need it…the rich have never paid so little in taxes in the history of this country and they continue to mooch off the rest of us…and I’ve had enough…geez…
May 19th
Well…damn, it’s May 19th and it’s only 39 degrees here and the heat just came on…that’s just wrong for this time in May…so, I won’t be outdoors on the bike until after noon if I get out at all…and that will be three days indoors and I don’t like that one bit…feel pretty lousy this morning with not having any allergy meds…my head is plugged up and hurts so I’ll need to order something today but I really don’t want to do anything right now…need to get on the bike in 20 minutes or so to get two rides in before the day gets away from me…the bucket garden idea seems to be a bust as the tomatoes came up but then stopped growing so I’m going to pull the plug soon…oh, well…I did get three bean plants to come up in the old garden but that’s about it…so that will be one less thing to think about…man, it feels like depression is coming on and it’s been a while…not much to do today…need to work on the old car to get it ready to sell but that’s not going to happen until it warms up this aft….more later…
Another slug day…
Well…darn, had another day feeling like a slug with only doing two rides indoors…it never got over 54 degrees here and the wind has been crazy so I didn’t even think about going out on the bike…and there was still Indy qualifying starting at one and it’s still on now at 6pm so, yeah, I had to watch it all day…or at least have it on in the background…and the nascar all star race is on tonight at 8 so I’ll have something to watch…need to get the old car cleaned up and get an ad out for it this week…going to ask 2,500 bucks for it and will settle for 2,000 just to get rid of it and get my life back to normal…I did find a zoom/zoom sticker to put on the windshield of the new car just like I did on the old one and should apply that and vacuum both cars tomorrow…it has been so dry and dusty and even in the garage so I’m going to have to wash the car again…both cars actually and then put the cover back on the old car…time for more Indy…
What does Wharton have to say?
Well…so now the idiot trump’s alma mater has weighed in on his stupid tariffs and Wharton is none too happy…first they will cut gdp by 6% making everyone quite a bit poorer…second they go on to say that the tariffs will reduce real wages by 5% which will cost an average household 22,000 dollars a year…and this is the best case scenario and Wharton goes on to say that it could be double or triple these amounts…and the idiot’s scheme to get rid of the income tax and replace it the money paid in tariffs won’t work at all if the tariffs do what they are normally for…reducing imports into the country…now idiot boy is so stupid that I question that he even did any of the work to get a degree from Wharton…after all, a lot of his undergrad professors have stated that idiot boy was the “most stupid” student they ever had…so I’ll bet he paid someone else to do the work…that would be consistent with his character…or lack of it…geez..
May 18th
Well…damn, up at 4:41 this morning but was able to stay in bed until a little after 6 so I guess I’ll have to take it…so damn worn out so getting on the bike is going to wait a bit…still around 50 degrees out there so I may do another day of two rides indoors but that needs to be done by 9 when the F1 race starts so that gives me 16 minutes before I need to get going and I am damn tired of rushing…have the first cup of coffee down and need to pour another one to jump start this damn old body…it’s 47 degrees out here and I think the heat is going to come on and that is just wrong for the middle of May…I do have a clean microwave and stove so I guess that’s something…I did get the first book done and will start on the second one today but I still need to remember it’s not a race and I can take time to read…not sure what I’m going to cook today…finished up the pasta sauce yesterday so I’ll have burritos and maybe a chili cheese dog since I thawed 4 of them yesterday and just took 2 pork loin fillets out of the freezer for tomorrow…not much to do today…just need to get off my butt and get on the bike right now but I don’t want to…and I need to clean the bathroom at some point to keep the momentum going…more later…
An easy day…
Well…it was only 49 degrees this morning so I made the decision to do two rides indoors today and call it good…and the wind has been blowing hard all day and I just couldn’t get cold again…so it has been an easy day and all I’ve done is ride the bikes and cleaned the stove and microwave…and I did get some reading in and I’ll be going back to that in a minute…feel like such a slug with only riding indoors today but my legs really needed an easy day to do some of the repair work they needed…my right knee has been hurting and I’ve been treating it with roll on lidocaine that I’m using for my left tricep, too, along with my right thumb…just way too much maintenance for this old body just to live…it’s still only 53 degrees here still at 3pm in the end of frickin May…and tomorrow is supposed to be the same…ick…okay, going to read a bit…
The Moody’s downgrade…
Well…for the first time in history, the Moody’s rating service has downgraded US debt and it’s all because of the idiot in chief and his stupid tariffs along with his mismanagement of the entire economy…this is going to cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars in higher borrowing costs…so now we’ll have less money to take care of the people in the US…how many schools won’t be built, how many people won’t be fed, how many people will die without healthcare? This is all unnecessary but it is also part of the attack on the people of this country by the repubs since they just hate you and me and causing pain while they smirk about it is the only thing they care about anymore…and you know when we take back the WH, our side will clean up the repubs mess…again, as we always do…stupid maga people did this to us…and I hate them with the fire of a million suns…
May 17th
Well…up at 4:42 this morning but I was able to get back to sleep until almost 6 but sure don’t feel like I slept at all…I really do need to order some allergy meds today since I feel like crap this morning and my eyes are full of crap…will need to wash them with baby shampoo here in a minute to try to fix that…it’s damn cold out there at 52 degrees and that is almost cold enough to have to wear full gloves when I go out by 7am…it stormed here last night and it was supposed to rain this morning but I checked the radar and it’s moved out to the north…the 38 mile days are wearing me out so I may just do two rides today to give myself a recovery day…went over a thousand miles outdoors yesterday and still have no goals for the year and I don’t mind that…need to get two rides in before 10am when F1 qualifying is on but if I get started by 7, that should be easy..I do need to find time to clean the kitchen today since the microwave is getting pretty bad and my stainless steel prep table needs work, too…along with the sinks and countertops…I did get 4 more books yesterday and got through half of the first one and it feels good to have three more to read…not much to do today…just the rides and cleaning and races…I did cut up a sprouted potato and planted it in the old garden yesterday just for the fun of it…there have been two bean plants that have come up there but nothing else…oh, well…more later…
Elon is the fraud…
Well…as the idiot trump and his cronies keep bleating that there is “fraud” in 40% of the calls going into SS…a number they just pulled out of their asses and continue to treat as fact, a new study using facts instead of asses found that of 110,000 calls made to SS, only two MIGHT have been fraudulent…and that is 1.8 10 thousandths of a percent…so no, there is no damn fraud going on there other than elon lying his ass off…or being a “fraud” whenever he talks about anything…he said at one point that his doge stooges had saved hundreds of billions of dollars when an outside inspector checked his math and it found maybe 2 billion dollars in saving…or less than 5% of what he was claiming…and you know why they are lying about SS…it’s been the repub reason for being to eliminate anything that benefits ordinary Americans…and their goal is to make life worse in every way for all Americans except for the rich…and that shows in the fact that they want to do away with Medicaid and give that tax money directly to the billionaires by cutting their taxes…that is what we all have to remember in 26…the repubs just hate us…there is no other way to explain their behavior…geez…