Well…after waffling most of the morning on whether to make soup or not, I got off my butt and just did it and ended up with 4- 2 quart containers…one for the fridge and 3 for the freezer and just put everything away….I have this recipe down as I do for my ham soup but I don’t have any room for more in the freezer so it will be a while before I make any more…it came out quite good and I wonder if I should write the recipe down? Nope…who would want it? So, I’ll just enjoy it and take the recipe with me when I go…more later…damn, I really hurt myself on the bike going into the wind yesterday and now my abs hurt as much as my back does…I probably should get some heat on them to see if that will help…darn…
November 27th
Well…damn, brand new pains this morning in brand new spots and that is pretty depressing…this one is toward the front of my right side and it can only be from going into the 20+ mph wind yesterday…or from sleeping and that is the weird thing….there are days when I wake up with pain that I have no clue how I got….I guess it’s just part of getting old and I don’t like it one bit….I am going to take the day off the bike to heal up some and the rain that is coming in will help make that decision easy….just feel so damn worn out that I could go back to bed for a couple of hours…but I won’t…have to get the instant pot out and get started on the soup I plan to make here in a minute but I don’t want to do anything right now but have coffee and read some news….didn’t get much done yesterday and I wonder if I need to mention that anymore since it has been so long since I did get anything done…this appears to be what just living is and I’m not sure how I got into this pattern…and I’m sure I don’t like being a slug so much…I did start looking for a new car yesterday and there is not a lot out there if I want another Miata…so I may expand my search to look at other cars…but they need to be convertibles and there are not many of them out there either….not much to do today….need to clean the instant pot here in a minute and get the carcasses out of the freezer and get started….or I could wait til tomorrow since I have leftovers to eat today and the veggies will keep til tomorrow…we’ll see…more later…
Michigan wins!
Well…I was nervous at the start of the game with Ohio State as Michigan did the Michigan thing and started slow so I went over to watch the Argentina/Mexico match and when I came back Michigan was ahead so I stayed with it and Michigan just started gashing Ohio with long runs and passes and now the game is ending with Michigan winning 45-23…12-0 and now on to the Big Ten championship game next week and maybe even a trip to the National championship four…a guy can hope…Go Blue!
A nice surprise…
Well…just sitting here yesterday, I got an e-mail from Social Security saying I had a new message on my account at my SS page…so, I had to find the username and password and luckily, I had written it down on my password notebook since it’s not something I use very much…so, once I got signed on, I found that is was the new amount of my monthly SS payment and it is almost 2400 bucks a month or just a little under 29K yearly…and with Michigan being a no tax state for SS, I can live pretty well on that amount of money…especially with a house payment of only 350 bucks a month…the only catch is that the raise doesn’t start until the January payment….and next month I should go over 30K in cash in the bank so I guess I could spend a little money…I do have 8 grand set aside for a new car so I guess I should say I’ll be getting to 22K next month and will start the cycle again of trying to get to 30K….not a bad problem to have….
Are the repubs working for Putin?
Well…after the repubs won their tiny majority in the US house, they all agree that they are going to try to cut the aid we are giving to Ukraine to help them survive the illegal Russian invasion…and my question is: “are the repubs working for Putin?” It sure looks that way and some of them are even going farther than that by spouting that they will pass a resolution withdrawing the US from NATO…again, just what Putin wants…so how the hell did the repubs turn into Putin stooges? They used to be the staunch anti Russia party through the cold war and now they take their orders from Russia…and I really don’t understand why…what the heck do they gain by surrendering to Putin? I wonder if it’s all the money that Russian sources have given the repubs? Or does Russia have something hanging over all of their heads? I do know that the repubs are the anti American party with all they’ve done to undermine voting rights and their hatred of the LGBTQ community dovetails with all of the autocratic countries that the idiot trump loved so much…so I wonder if it could that simple? Just driven by hate…what a bunch of assholes…geez…
Two rides again today…
Well…man, it was windy out there this morning and it is just brutal when it blows out of the west at 20…so I did the first ride in full thermasuit but it warmed up enough to get my last ride for the year in shorts on the second one…I did give up at about half way when the gusts went over 25 and I could feel my back starting to hurt along with my legs so that was good decision and I just finished up my first heat session so we’ll see how it works with the back pain…okay, need to watch the Michigan game…more later…
November 26th
Well…trying something new this morning with heating my back before I get out on the bike this morning….it was not as bad yesterday but I still had a hitch in it when I got up this morning that hurt a bit….woke up around 5 this morning but was able to go back to sleep until after 6 so I can live with that….and I feel okay today if just a little worn out but that is pretty normal….had an okay day yesterday but again, didn’t get a lot done and if I just get the two bike rides in today I’ll be happy….still can’t get motivated to do much else right now and with Michigan playing at noon my schedule is pretty full until later in the day…have to check the weather to see if it is going to rain today but I think that’s for tomorrow….and that may give me a day off the bike so I can make soup…and it looks like this is the last of the warm weather for the year so I’ll be back on the indoor bike late next week…I did get over 5,600 miles yesterday so that makes it a good year even if I didn’t make the goal of 6K for the year…and I may just take the day off tomorrow to have a lazy one like I do when I’m riding indoors….not sure yet…not much to do today…just waiting for the sun to come up so I can get on the bike but I need more coffee first….I really do need to start getting rid of the cobwebs in the kitchen and clean the floor and I am going to try to do that…but I won’t feel guilty if I don’t….more later…
Not bad….
Well…that wasn’t too bad…the match ended up in a 0-0 draw when England was supposed to beat us 4-0…..so I’ll take it…and we are left with having to win against Iran on Tuesday afternoon and I am excited to see that one….and it was a good game with lots of chances on both sides….but I think we played better than them…at least we didn’t lose today and that is a massive plus with the third youngest team in the tournament….and now we have Michigan vs Ohio State tomorrow to worry about…it’s tough being a sports fan…
So far, so good…
Well…just a shorty on the ongoing US/England match….it’s 0-0 at the half but it has been a good match so far with us getting some good chances…I think even better than England and Pulisic rattling one off the crossbar so close to going in that I jumped off the couch…if they keep playing well and I do that again, I’ll probably hurt myself…wouldn’t that be funny….okay, second half coming up…back later with good or bad news….if we win today, all we have to do is tie Iran Tuesday….fingers crossed…
Okay, this sucks…
Well…I give up…have been looking for a topic since I got off the bike at 11 and there is just nothing that I want to talk about…so, I’ll talk about something else…it really does suck getting old…as I sit here, I’ve just moved the heating pad from my back to my right thigh and knee that I hurt on the bike this morning…but I got two good rides in so I guess that’s something…I am still wondering what happened to lower my outrage meter to the point that I’m not pissed enough about things to want to write about them…but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to stop looking for a topic as I sit here and watch the US play England that is starting in 17 minutes….don’t have a lot of hope for the US getting into the knockout round if they lose today but I’ll keep watching and rooting for our guys…after all, this could be my last World Cup…I am getting old after all….more later?