Well…with the latest revelation that the right wing religious SC justices have been praying in the SC court building with litigants who have cases before the court and who, conveniently these justices cite in their rulings…how much more corrupt do these justices have to be before they are all removed? This is just the latest in an avalanche of information that these justices are not using the law at all to rule and change this country but are only concerned with crony christianism and this latest proves that….any other judge who even talked to anyone who had a case in front of them would be hauled up on ethics or corruption charges but the SC justices just keep doing whatever they want, giving the middle finger to America since they know no one can touch them…and that needs to change…impeach them all….geez…
Done….
Well…damn, just finished the 6 1/2 hours of my “ride my age day” to get to 75 miles…and no, I’m not 75 but I have to ride laps in multiples of 15 since that is how long they are so 5 laps at 15 miles each gets me to 75 miles for the day…and the worst lap was the third one for some reason…just no energy and had a struggle on the homeward leg so I made sure to eat something when I got back here for my water refill….and that helped on laps 4 and 5 and I still had enough energy to sprint a bit on the way back since I knew I could leave it all on the trail….it is kind of a relief to get this done before my birthday and it is a little cool that I didn’t plan it so I didn’t have time to worry about it….now I’m good til next year…I think I may have earned a cocktail tonight….I know I can eat a big dinner so I may have 4 chicken legs and corn on the cob…yummy….I’m sore…..
Looks like it’s ride my age day…
Well…I didn’t really plan this but it looks like today is ride my age day…this is a little test I do every year to make sure I still have it in me to do 75 miles in one day…and I’ve got 30 in so far so only 3 more laps of my 15 mile route….that should take about 6 1/2 hours of seat time for the day…feel pretty good so far but I do have to remember that I am going a long distance and takes a completely different mindset than my normal sprint days…so I won’t be back here until around 3 this afternoon for a recap….more later…oh, and I get to eat whatever I want after I’m done with burning 3,000 calories on the bike today….
July 7th
Well…yep, got scorched yesterday and I’m already starting to peel from it…and that is the first time I can remember that happening in a long time…so, I guess that means no sand and sun for me today….and that’s okay…my ears were full of water again yesterday and they even hurt a bit so I am going to have to get some swimmers earplugs and I wonder what happened to make them fill up when they never did before? Oh, well….I did sleep okayish last night but was up at 3 am for the first time and then out of bed a little before 6…was good last night and feel it this morning…it seems to take so long to get moving in the morning these days but I’ll be on the bike by 7 or so anyway and that may just help….I do need to cook today and I have lots of protein that I got on the grocery run…got some chicken legs for 99cents a pound and some pork chops for 1.49 so I’m set on that for the rest of the week…and I need to make another batch of potato salad since that comes in handy when I don’t feel like cooking…so today is going to be chicken legs smothered in bullseye along with an ear of corn and some green beans then I need to marinate some chops for tomorrow….going to be back at watering the lawn again today and really don’t want to see my water bill this month….ow….I did get some different garden food yesterday and need to give the beans and sunflowers a jolt and I even have two cuke plants that could probably use a bit, too….really need to work on the garden today and I think I’ll do that instead of the beach….I have a few tomatoes that are growing but it still looks like a month before I have any ripe….not sure why I’m a month later than last year and I do need to start finding recipes to use them while I have them….not much to do today….the only plan I have is the bike rides and garden work and then to just wing it for the rest of the day….I do have to remember to put on sunscreen before the bike ride this morning…my skin just won’t take any more abuse and I have tons of 50 spf lotion in the drawer…cripes, my head is peeling….oh, well….more later….
Out to the beach again today….
Well…darn, I could get used to this…out to the beach again today to take advantage of the lake being just perfect to swim in and the center of the lake buoy says it is even 68 degrees all the way out there…so it must be over 70 inshore by the beach….all I know was this was the first day I didn’t have to get used to the water at all and it was completely flat and nice to walk in and out without getting beat around like you’re in a mixer….but I do think I made a mistake…normally when I go out I have sunscreen on from riding the bike but today it was cloudy and I forgot to apply it so I was out there with bare skin and I got pretty scorched so I think I’ll need aloe later….I do need to put a tube of screen in the cooler just in case I want to stay out there longer than two hours….I think I’m going to need a new beach chair since mine is starting to come apart in place and it should with being 15 years old…probably will have to buy a nicer one but it still has to be small so I can fit it in the trunk….hmmmm….
Have you heard?
Well…as of yesterday, oil prices were back under 100 dollars a barrel and the wholesale price of gas fell almost 40 cents a gallon yesterday…but I’ll bet you didn’t hear a thing about it…when the prices were rising, there were breathless reports all day long about high prices and how high they could go and how the people with their 10mpg trucks couldn’t afford to fill their tanks and how people had to choose between eating or putting gas in their car…and it was all Biden’s fault….but now, silence…gas is down by almost a buck a gallon out here in Muskegon and that is without the big drop that will filter in over the next week or so…so if Biden is responsible for rising prices, shouldn’t he be praised for falling prices given that he has tried damn near everything to get the oil companies to stop gouging American consumers? That is the problem that the dems have had since forever…they get only blame for the bad stuff and no credit at all for the good stuff they’ve done…and inflation is coming under control and should be back down to normal levels by the end of the year….and you will notice that as it gets better, inflation is no longer being blared out by every damn news outlet in this country…look, this is not a horserace that both sides needs to be covered like one….just give the dems some credit for a change…be fair and truthful…that’s all I ask….geez…
July 6th
Well…darn, another 5:04 morning and that makes it another 5 hour night of sleep and that sucks…but is pretty normal for me…at least I’m not depressed this morning…or not as depressed I should say…not sure if I’ll ever not be depressed completely since I don’t remember ever being that way….I did sleep okay even if short and need to get moving here in few minutes if I want to get on the bike by 7am to get the first ride in before the grocery run…it did rain again last night but the weather channel missed it completely and didn’t have any rain in the forecast…but now that means no more rain for the next 10 days or so and that means more cash going into the lawn…the flowers I planted along the back of the house are blooming now and it looks pretty cool to have all of the styles and colors back there…and my sunflowers are getting close to opening but they are going to be small since they are only about 4 feet tall right now but are supposed to be “giant” and 8 feet tall or so….might have to feed them more….need to look for garden fertilizer at menards when I hit there this morning….didn’t get much done yesterday other than getting the phone thing straightened out and today will probably be the same….I do have the two store grocery run to do along with menards this morning and I want to get started on that around 8 or so after I get back from the first ride….I was counting on it raining tomorrow to get a day off and get some rest but that is not happening now so I may have to schedule one…yeah, I laughed at that one, too….not ever going to happen and I still need to ride my age here in the next week and I do need to start planning for that today…only 5 laps of the 15 mile route but that will keep me on the bike for 6 hours or so and I’m not sure if I’m eating enough to support that…I do have the electrolyte drink mixes my daughter sent and those will be a help but I probably should have some pasta for a couple of days before to load up…more later…
Getting closer to trump….
Well…it looks like the grand jury investigation of trump and his cronies attempt to commit voting fraud in Georgia by getting the SoS to “find” enough votes to give the state to idiot boy is heating up big time….just today a slew of subpoenas went out for Giuliani, Lindsey Graham, and John Eastman along with many others who were involved in the scheme..and that means that Fani Willis is getting ever closer to trump and he may be seeing a subpoena soon…not that they need it…they already have the tape of the hour long call where he asked the SoS to find the votes and threatened him with jail time if he didn’t go along….but what is really making me smile is that ole Lindsey is getting what he deserves after sucking up to trump and also making a call to election officials there trying to interfere with the act of counting the votes….what a two faced little weasel he is…I still cannot understand why anyone would think trump is worthy of such loyalty…he is such a stupid, stupid man that I would have been embarrassed to be in the same party with him let alone kiss his ass all the time…I really do hope they subpoena him since he is incapable of telling the truth…and perjury will put him in jail for at least three years…go get him Fani…..
Feeling better…
Well…got everything done and have started to feel a little better and thought I’d come here and do one as I wait for lunch to warm up…I have been thinking about this for a month or so and it is strange enough that it has stuck with me so here goes….after watching 8 or so swans grow up last year along Muskegon lake along with many ducks, I noticed that there aren’t any this year…there have been lots of baby geese that are already changing color to look like adults, but not one swan or duck baby…and with all of the swans out here, we must have over 50 of them, you would think that there would be one cygnet from the 25 pairs…or a few ducklings. I wonder if this is a natural cycle or maybe the eggs got eaten by predators? Just something to ponder and maybe do some research on….more later…oh, the political one is going to be a little late today…going out to the beach for a while after lunch…it is hot and humid out here today….
July 5th
Well…damn, got whacked with depression again last night and that continues this morning….couldn’t drag myself out of bed until almost 7 and doing this physically hurts….at least it rained a bit out here last night so I won’t have to water the lawn today….I may have slept okay but I don’t feel like it right now…and I’m not sure if I’m going to get on the bike today…maybe it would be a good day to take the day off and just veg a while….didn’t get much done yesterday and today looks the same…I have a splitting headache and need to do my teeth after making popcorn last night to try out some white corn I got a couple of weeks ago….there are still shortages of everything and I can’t figure it out…peanut butter and popcorn? I do need to run an errand this morning and that is going to take all the energy I have just to get in the car and drive a couple of miles….so I probably should get in the shower and get going….more later….