Well…what the hell is it with these repub assholes who think it’s no big deal to steal millions of dollars from the poor…and the latest one is the asshole Brett Favre who took 5 million dollars that was earmarked for poor people in Mississippi to build a volleyball arena for the school where his daughter played…yep, he took food out of poor people’s mouths so his privileged daughter could have a nicer place to play volleyball…and the even more sick thing is that Favre is worth over a hundred million dollars and could easily afford to pay for it himself but no, he had to steal money from taxpayers just like every damn repub out there who scream about “big government and high taxes” but lines up at the government trough shouting gimme, gimme while his cronies help him steal…I hope this is one time where the rich don’t get away with it…and the guy who helped him steal is cooperating with the feds so I’ll keep my fingers crossed that this will be one of those times….geez…
Only one ride today…
Well…I really was going to do two rides today but the rain came in just after I got back from the first one so I put the bike away and gave up for the day since it is supposed to rain off and on all day with some storms tonight…and my damn garage door opener decided to puke on me so I had to e-mail the company to see if I can get them to cover it on warranty and I can get a new one…what a pain in the butt…more later…
September 25th
Well…that’s back to normal…got up at 6 this morning and that works with needing to go out to get the paper and it was warm enough to put the top down on the car…it was supposed to be raining but it isn’t so it looks like I’ll be out on the bike at 8 today and will get at least one ride in so I’ll be able to eat again…yay! I did get some work done on the bathroom door frame yesterday and I’m going to check on the hinges to see how they’re doing along with starting on the door today….damn, I was really hoping for a day off the bike today to take it easy and heal up a bit…everything from my neck down hurts and I even had my left thigh hurt yesterday and that never happens…oh, well…need to look through the freezer this morning to get something out to eat tomorrow…will be eating out of the freezer this week since there is no protein on sale but I need to check save a lot and DD in case there is something I can use….I guess there will be salads for the next couple of days but I’m running out of tomatoes and that didn’t happen last year…not much to do today…I just want to sit here and drink coffee but I will suit up in a little while and get on the bike….man, I’m tired….one of these days I’m going to go back to bed when I feel like this…but not today…more later….
Got two rides in…
Well…after sitting here all day waiting and watching the rain fall, it finally stopped around 2 and I was out on the bike by 2:15 for the first ride and I thought it was going to be the only one for the day since I wanted to watch football and the race…but, after I got back here I decided to go out for a second one around 4 or so and that put me really behind for everything that came after it…doing this, doing the dishes, and making dinner and now I need to make ice and do my teeth before I settle in for the night at 7….I really did think that I was going to have a couple of days off with all of the rain that is forecast for tomorrow after all the rain today so getting these rides in allowed me to eat a second meal today….and I won’t feel nearly as bad if I do get rained out tomorrow….now I need to get the rest of the stuff done and do a little relaxing….
Still raining…
Well..damn, it’s still raining out here so it looks like two days in a row off the bike so I guess I’ll have to lube up the downstairs bike so I can at least get 8 miles a day in…and two days in a row off will mean I’ll gain at least a pound without burning the 1500 calories I do on the bike every day…and that sucks…I guess I’ll just have to let it go and enjoy the day off and watch Michigan and then the race later…I may be able to get out for one ride after the Michigan game and then miss the start of the race and that won’t be as bad…darn…
September 24th
Well…this is getting weirder by the day…only got up once at 5 but then stayed in bed til almost 8…and had some dreams that I don’t remember but they were pretty vivid…still have that damn headache I had yesterday but I don’t think it’s a migraine but is just from allergies and I think I’m going to have to take something for it….man, I am exhausted this morning and I’m not sure if I have enough energy to get on the bike…I know I will but it’s raining right now so I might get a reprieve…yep, just looked outside and it’s raining so I can just relax for a while and have some coffee….but that puts a lot of stress on me to get two rides in before the Michigan game at noon…maybe I’ll just not ride today….that will be painful…..I did watch the Thor movie last night and Tom you were right, kind of a waste of time and they probably shouldn’t make another one…but the she-hulk show is shaping up to be a good one and the one I watched last night was intriguing….and it gives me a new show to fill my time….not much to do today….have to work on the bathroom door and frame to keep that project on track and I think I can do that when the game is on but I don’t want to do anything right now….I am just worn out and everything hurts so I’ll just sit here and read for a while….I really do hate getting old….more later….
The squiggly lines are back…
Well…when I was out on the bike this morning, the squiggly lines and broken glass look was back in my eyes that are called auras and I get them without a resulting migraine…although I do have one now on the right side of my head…it is just so weird having my vision fractured like that and this one lasted almost an hour but it is gone now and my vision is back to normal…it has been about a year since the last one and that one happened on the bike, too so that’s a little strange….I did get some work done today! Got the work room set up and took the door off the bathroom and have the hinges and hardware in the stripper downstairs where it will have to sit for a few days to get the 12 coats of paint off them….I don’t think they had been removed since the house was built and it took me an hour and a half to get the screws out with having to chip all the paint off them…and just that beating on my shoulder has it hurting so badly that I can barely move it…damn, need to get started on the door tomorrow and I’m not sure how much work I’m going to do to them…I could probably put a month into the door and frame but don’t want to…so we’ll see when I start on that tomorrow…it is so funny that from new they never painted the top or bottom of the door…it’s still raw wood and I can’t figure that out…oh, well…
Why would anyone vote for a repub?
Well…the repubs are out with their latest “attack” on America and all I can say is “why would anyone vote for a repub?” after all, this plan would end Medicare and SS, make abortion illegal across the US and jail women and their doctors, end the ACA, give more tax cuts to the rich, end same sex marriage, end contraception…yeah, get the point? These assholes are trying to take this country back to the 1800’s and these are not popular things, in fact, none of these actions poll above 30% so who the hell are they governing for? Less than half of repubs even want any of this crap…so again, I am going to keep harping on this until election day…we all need to vote…if we vote, we win since there are a lot more of us than them but we are still making excuses…here in Michigan apply for a permanent absentee ballot at the SoS site and they just come to you in the mail and you mail them back…easy peazy and maybe takes a half hour of your time…so there are no excuses…the ballot will get to you a couple of weeks before the election and you just fill it in and mail it…you get what I’m saying? Easy, easy, easy…and let’s make sure the repubs can’t do what they are threatening…geez…
September 23rd
Well…that was a bit of a relief…woke up this morning with the furnace running and getting it to start for the first time is always stressful….don’t really want to start paying a huge gas bill but it is comforting to know the thing will run…and I didn’t get up til 7 again and I’m not sure what is going on with that after waking up only once at 5:08…cripes, it’s only 40 degrees out there and that makes me have no urgency to get out on the bike since I can’t get out in shorts until it’s around 50…and that is kind of relaxing….so I can sip my coffee and read the news this morning…felt like I had a bug of some sort yesterday but I feel better today so it must have been the lack of calories for a couple of days and allergies….it is such a fine line to balance the intake with what I need to not gain weight and you know how much I struggle with that…I do need to get two rides in today with only doing one yesterday but the light day hasn’t helped my back at all and I was hurting just sitting here last night…lubing the combustion blower worked since it just came on and it’s pretty quiet….I think I may be looking forward to the winter this year since I survived a winter out here and shoveling the snow didn’t kill me….but it was a below average snowfall year so we’ll see about this one….not much to do today…going to get started on the bathroom door hinges and get the work room set up but I need a drop cloth and I’m not sure if I have one in the work tote downstairs…might have to make a run out to depot this morning since I need the plastic to put under the sawhorses when I’m going to paint the doors in there…more later….
First day of fall…
Well…another summer is gone and I’m not sure how I feel about that…when you’re young, it really doesn’t matter that another year had passed, you had plenty more to play with but now I can see the end coming and that makes each year a little more important…and my reaction is that I haven’t accomplished enough for the end to be coming…okay, that’s enough of that…don’t want to get more depressed than I already am…fall used to be my favorite time of the year when I was younger and, as I think back, I don’t remember why…I love the color change and that we used to play football in the fall…part of it could be that we never had AC so it was a relief when the temps came down but that just left us in a 100 year old house heated with space heaters and with no insulation…cripes, it didn’t even have plaster on the interior walls so yeah, it was cold in the winter….I guess I am looking forward to it since it takes away my excuse for not working on this place….and I do need to finish it this winter….but maybe I’ll take some color tours with the top down on the car…used to love to do that in the Fiat I owned and I have done that a lot in the Miata and it is fun….I guess I’ll have to re-discover why I liked fall so much…fall is going to be official tonight when the heat comes on for the first time since April…or was it May? I know it was cold pretty late into spring…who remembers that far back?