Well…yeah, I know I said I wasn’t going out to the beach today but it got to be almost noon and I said what the hell…a good way to end the summer of the beach is to do it on a Friday…and I’m glad I did….it was mostly empty but those same damn yakkety people set up right next to me again and they had the whole damn beach that they could have used…what the hell? But, I didn’t let it ruin my day since the water was warm, the waves were fun, and I could stay in for 45 minutes so I didn’t have to listen to them….getting a swim in was the topper for the season…and I didn’t feel the melancholy that I used to get when we did weeks at Harbor Springs since I know I can do it again next year if I’m still alive…should have the house done by then so there won’t be any guilt from taking the summer off…I do have some wood finishing to do down the back stairs, the porch ceiling, and the cabinet in the bathroom and I may try to get those done over the winter, too, so I can really take the summer off to train for the two week trip to the UK that’s happening the end of Sept. next year…we’ll be walking a ton over there so I need to be ready to walk 10 miles a day and that will take some training since riding the bike doesn’t do it….but right now a little football and then the new Lord of the Rings tv show…and that will take up most of the night….
45 empty top secret folders…
Well….the idiot trump keeps being an idiot as he keeps wanting documents exposed that are making it far worse for him in the worst intelligence scandal in the country’s history….this time, he bitched and wanted the inventory of the things seized at his tacky club in Florida released to the public for some reason and I really do think he is too stupid to understand that it would make things worse for him…and it did…this morning, it was revealed as part of the inventory that there are 45 empty “top secret” marked folders that were part of what was seized…and all of the secret material is just gone…to where only idiot boy knows but I would be asking Jared if it went to the Saudis since it is already known that he gave a secret intelligence list of dissidents to them that resulted in many people getting murdered…we will know what was in the folders since they are numbered and the government will have the list of contents for each of them stored in the agencies that created them…so, it’s going to get worse for the idiot and I think this gives them probable cause to search the rest of the trump properties and they need to get on that soon..who knows what idiot boy is doing with the documents now that he knows that the FBI is on to him and the window is closing to get the money out of them that he wants…trump really needs to be arrested right now…geez….
Boy, the facists are upset today…
Well…after one of the best speeches that Joe Biden has done, calling out the repubs for the fascists they are…the repubs are really, really upset that Joe told the truth of how dangerous and terrible the maga crowd is….and how they are trying to destroy our democracy by violence, voter suppression, and rigging elections…all perfectly fascist activities and they just can’t stand that finally, they are being called out for it…I mean when you have a sitting senator, Lindsey Graham, calling for “blood in the streets” if the idiot trump is indicted you are a fascist plain and simple. I really hope Joe keeps this up but then supports this new pugnaciousness with flooding the airwaves with comparisons between what the dems stand for, and I’ll give you a hint…democracy and the rule of law, and then cut it with January 6th footage of the maga crowd attacking our government to try to overturn an election…oh, and by the way, that’s another fascist tactic that is only supported by the repubs…and I really think that the repubs are so upset today because of the light Joe shined on the cockroaches that the repubs are…keep it up, Joe…
September 2nd
Well…one of the great joys of being retired is supposed to be that when you wake up in the morning, you can just roll over and go back to sleep for a while…but because I HAVE to get two rides in every day, that is just not an option for me and that sucks…and I think I overdid the sun yesterday so I’m not going to the beach today to let my skin rest and that will probably end my beach days for this summer…slept okay last night and had weird dreams where I broke my tablet in half and I wonder where that came from? And they had mutated animals in them, too, that was really weird….it stayed really warm overnight and it’s already 70 degrees out there so it will make for a nice ride here in a few minutes after I get more coffee in me and wake up a bit…I do have so many tomatoes that I think I’m going to have to just eat them for a few meals over the weekend and I am putting off making tacos until next week so I froze the pound of burger I had for them to make sure it didn’t spoil….so it looks like I’ll make bean burritos tomorrow after I use up the leftovers…still want to make some of the onion rings I bought the other day and maybe they would go with the last burger that I’m making later today…not much to do today….need to get moving soon but want one more cup of coffee first and to watch the first F1 practice but it’s almost over so I can go in about 10 minutes…and I don’t really have anything else to do today so I’ll just wing it…and not going to the beach opens up the day to possibilities to just be a veg for a while….more later…
Been busy again…
Well…as you can see by how late that last one was posted, I’ve had a pretty darn busy day that I just finished up around 3…the whole thing started with the two bike rides, then out to the beach by noon and I even got a swim in….back here by 1:30 to work on the garden and picked lots of tomatoes and 4 cukes, then I made a big batch of salsa and a jar of pickles and cleaned up….and now it’s doing these and watching the Man U match…and I think I’m done for the day…unless I read the news and find another topic that grabs me…but right now I just want to watch the match…
Repubs cheat in Michigan…again…
Well…like they always do, the repubs are cheating again in Michigan and this time they have tried to have the will of the people not mean anything as they did with gerrymanders here…just yesterday the two repubs on the board of canvassers who were just supposed to certify that there were enough signatures to put two citizen led initiatives on the ballot, one to expand and put voting rights into the state constitution, and the second was to enshrine women’s rights into the state constitution…but no, they are repubs, after all…and they made up new powers for themselves to nitpick the petitions that were used to collect signatures and reject both of them…powers they don’t have so now the organizations who collected the signatures have to go to the supreme court here to overrule these assholes and put the initiatives on the ballot this fall. Folks, this is what repubs do, they lie cheat and steal to force their extreme bullshit on people who don’t want it at all…and polls show that both of these initiatives will pass with almost 70% of the vote…so who the hell are repubs representing? Just their donors and the tiny slice of the population who are in the maga cult…no one else wants them to do what they are doing and we will stop them and the initiatives will be on the ballot…geez…
September 1st
Well…another crappy night of sleep and I’m feeling it right now…it’s 7:11 and I’m just starting on my first cup of coffee and I sure hope it starts to work soon…not sure what is going on but I hurt everywhere today…even both Achilles tendons are howling and stiff and I can’t remember that happening…and that little notice in my lower banner is screaming “pollen high” so I know why my head hurts and need to remember to take some allergy meds before I get on the bike….it’s a new month and I’m not sure how I feel about that…time sure is flying by and I really do wonder how many more of them I have left….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I will need to get at the garden and pick a bunch of tomatoes and cukes today…. and I may make another batch of salsa but I am not putting any cumin in it…I seem to have developed a real aversion to that taste and need to find something else that will give it a normal taste…and I can use it for the tacos and bean burritos I’m going to make tomorrow….I have to remember to put some lime juice in it that I forgot with the last batch…or should I use lemon juice? I guess either would work….not much to do today….don’t want to do anything but I know I need two rides to get back on track and Man U plays this aft and I may go out to the beach again…damn, my right big toe is hurting again and I think the gout may be coming back….what else is going to happen? More later….
Feels like I’ve gained 5 pounds…
Well…okay, this is pretty weird…after only doing one ride today after the grocery run this morning, I feel like I’ve gained 5 pounds and look like it too…so how can that be? I only avoided burning about 6-700 calories (my estimate) so it should take 5 days of that to gain a pound…crap…and calculators say riding an hour with my weight at 180 and 15mph burns around 900 calories so riding for 2 1/2 hours a day should burn over 2K…probably shouldn’t worry too much about one day but you know how guilty I get about this crap…other than that, I had an okay day and did get out to the beach finally…but the water was too cold to swim…at least with how I was feeling when I got out there..so I just burned my skin a bit and came home after about an hour or so…. and then just took it easy the rest of the afternoon…and I just realized that tomorrow is Sept. 1st and I sure don’t know where the summer went….oh, well….
It’s certainly delusional…
Well…damn, has the idiot trump’s head exploded yet? With how he’s going on and on with his failing media app, the explosion should be the next step….but I still have the question why he hasn’t been indicted yet? In the latest DOJ filing in response to idiot boy’s suit to try to get “his” documents back, they made it plain the trump broke the law, and they also had to explain to the trump appointed judge that took the case with no jurisdiction that the documents belong to the government of the US, not idiot boy…and as such, he doesn’t have any standing even to bring the suit that the judge accepted….basically saying they are done with trump filing these bullshit suits. I wonder if anyone is telling idiot boy to keep his mouth shut because he should….and every time they bitch about “transparency” and whine about information that hasn’t been released, the DOJ releases more and it make it worse for trump…you would think a “stable genius” would figure that out, but nope…his delusions are running the show now and he can’t help himself….geez…
August 31st
Well…can I take a day off? I just frickin hurt and getting on the bike won’t help that at all….and I wonder how riding 30 miles a day has become such a given that I do it when I don’t want to? So, today is going to be one of those weird days when I think about what I’m doing instead of just doing it….and will probably only do one ride if I ride at all…yeah, you know how strange that is for me after going over 4,000 miles for the year the other day…..I’m tired…..it was an okay day yesterday but the depression that has been shadowing me lately has grown to the point that it can’t be ignored…I know I’ve dealt with this my whole life but it still wears me out when it comes…oh, well…so what is my day going to look like? I do need to do the grocery run this morning and hit three stores since DD has ham on sale cheap and frozen onion rings that I haven’t had in years but what do I have them with? Probably should get some more burger at Meijers but I’m not sure that would be the right thing…beef is not good for you but at my age is that really a problem? I do have room in the freezer so I can think about that later….not much to do today…just survival…and yeah, that sounds a little dramatic and it is…today will be just putting one foot in front of another and doing what I need to…have done this so many times I’ll be on autopilot once I get started….and that is a little comforting…I wonder how people who deal with this the first time cope? Too much thinking for 7:14….more later…