Well..got a second ride in before lunch today and now I’m sitting here thinking “maybe I should do a third one today?” That would make for 40+ miles today and I feel pretty good about trying it….felt good on the second one but I think this one will be a no sprint, leisure ride and just out there to have some fun and burn off some bonus calories….but I need to get going soon if I’m to make it back here for the next race at Talladega that starts at 4….and with the rain that is coming in around 8am tomorrow morning, it looks like I’ll be off the bike tomorrow since the rain is supposed to last all day….so, I’m going to get off my butt and get out there….again….oh, and I’ll try for a political one after I get back…just need to read the news that I haven’t done yet….more later….
Miggy just got #3,000…
Well…not sure if you follow baseball at all but today was a historic day for Miguel Cabrera who was chasing his 3,000th hit, a feat that very few players have accomplished in the history of baseball…when I remembered it may happen, I changed the channel over to the Tigers and Miggy was just coming up to bat…and he did it! Sliced a grounder through between first and second and Comerica park just erupted with a huge standing ovation for him…and the cool part is that Miggy is one of those nice guys who can be a role model for any young kid growing up a fan of baseball….the strange part for me is that the last Tiger to hit that milestone was Al Kaline in 1974…and I was watching that game, too…48 years ago..man, time flies…congrats Miggy!
Got an 8 o’clock ride in..
Well..damn, that was nice to get out on the bike early and set myself up for 2 outdoor rides today…it was a little cold but tolerable and the wind was coming in out of the south and that is okay essentially being a cross wind for the whole ride out and back….and it looks like it hasn’t come up much but the temp has so I’ll be out in a t-shirt for the second ride about 11:30…I did take my ballot over to the cop shop to drop it off and the only thing on it was a millage increase to fund programs for disabled kids and I can get behind that…going to cost me an extra 60 bucks a year but I’ve never voted against a millage that would help kids or schools…and, as soon as I got back here, I got right on painting the registers…two coats of primer and two coats of gloss black made them look okay…not like a paint shop could do but I got tired of working on the darn things and just wanted them done…and they are so much better than the paint icicle coated ugly things they were that I can live with it…they had lots of rust on them and the one from my new bedroom looked like it had set outside for 20 winters in the salt….so, all in all, I’m satisfied with they came out…now I just need to let the paint harden a day or so and then get them installed…now the F1 qualifying race and then back on the bike before the ARCA race at Talladega…
April 23rd
Well…that was okay…slept a little better last night and didn’t get up until I smelled the coffee brewing but the last hour was just trying to sleep with little success…but, I’ll take it….the damn gash on my left thumb is still seeping blood this morning but it doesn’t hurt as much as yesterday so I’ll take that, too, I really do need to stop abusing my hands for a while so they get the chance to heal and it looks like this could be the week to do that….only have the registers to do today and that is not a lot of work…just takes time to paint them and I need to rig up a magnetic hanger to hold them to be able to paint them without shadowing of the hanger…they are not going to be the smooth surface that I wanted but not being able to dip strip them just makes getting them clean almost impossible…I am going to get outdoors on the bike here by 8 with the temp up over 50 already and it will be a fight with the wind that is already blowing out there and I am going to try to do two outdoors today but I need to make a pizza for lunch and that takes time….so, I will be rushing around here a bit once I get started but that will be okay…it may even get warm enough to open a couple of windows in here today to air it out for the first time this year….but that will spike my allergies that are already bad right now so I need to remember to take something before I go out…not much to do today…just painting, cooking and the bike rides but I think that will be enough after all the work I got done this week…keep ticking off the jobs one by one and there may come a point where I don’t have anything big left to do…ha, ha…then I’ll move to the small jobs like sanding and refinishing the cabinet in the bathroom and doing the same for the porch ceiling and the back entry…and the other bedroom is going to be calling to me all summer…no rest for the wicked….more later..
A small bit of good news…
Well…we’ll get to the good news in a minute but I have a question to ask? How the heck do you operate without a usable thumb? My right one normally hurts like crazy all the time so I use my left one to compensate…but after the injury to my left one yesterday, I’m left without a thumb to use since the left one now hurts worse than my right….maybe I can use it as an excuse to take a few days off? We’ll see…now, to the small bit of good news…I just got a renewal notice for my driver’s license and I can renew it online! No going into the SoS office and having to take an eye test…and that was starting to concern me since my eyes take some time to adjust and become clear when I get up in the morning…I see perfectly fine when they clear up but it would be just my luck I’d go in on a day when they were bad and flunk the darn test and then have to spend big bucks on glasses that I really don’t need…so, I’ll take any small bit of good news and can stop thinking about it for 4 more years….
Dang, another busy day…
Well…I know I said I was going to take some time off after finishing the bedroom but dang, I’m just as busy as ever and am now just getting done at 2:11 after starting about 8:30 this morning…and yes, I did get on the bike indoors this morning since it was still in the 30’s until the rain started out here…right after that, I got on vacuuming and mopping all the hard floors since there was still lots of dust in here from working on the bedroom last week and I hadn’t gotten to the full cleanup yet…and I had to do all of the chairs and table in the dining room and clean out the cold air vent since it had an inch of dust and cobwebs in it…so I got that done and then had to sand the registers so I can paint them tomorrow on our only warm day out here that it’s not supposed to rain until later in the day….and right after that, the blinds for the bedroom came a day early so I hung those to finally finish what I am going to do in that bedroom and it is so cool to have it done…and it looks pretty damn good for all of the work I had to do in there…and now I just got the laundry in and am waiting for the only soccer match to start so I can relax a bit…all in all, I’ve accomplished a lot this week and I’m going to take the weekend off after painting tomorrow…if I have enough paint…if not, it will wait til next week….I’m done for the day…
Here’s a new rule…
Well…it seems to me that we need a new rule when talking to or interviewing repubs by the news organizations since it is clear that all they do is lie, and lie, and lie….so, from now on, once they are caught in one, the new rule should be that no one ever interviews or listens to them again…not to keep “access”, not for a sound bite, not for anything….because if we keep rewarding people for lying, that is what you get…it’s one of the things I leaned getting my degree in psychology…that whatever behavior you reward is what you will get more of…it’s the same thing with kids, if you reward them by giving them what they want when they throw a tantrum, they have learned that tantrums work and they will use them more and more….and when the repubs learn that there are no consequences for lying constantly, they will lie even more. Even when caught in one like Kevin McCarthy was last night on Rachel’s show where he lied his ass off about what he told idiot boy after the attack on the capitol on January 6th….and in a more ethical time, ole Kevvy would have resigned this morning…but in the modern repub party, it is a badge of honor and necessary to lie your ass off to get the support of the troglodytes that make up the repub base….but I still think you can stop this crap by withholding what all of these liars crave and that is attention….geez….
April 22nd
Well…running a little late this morning and it’s from not sleeping until late this morning and then not up until after 6:30…feel pretty crappy today from it and I am not getting on the indoor bike today…I’ve done two days in a row of doubles and will get out on the bike in thermasuit this morning since it is going to rain this afternoon…check that…I won’t be getting outside on the bike this morning with the rain only about an hour away and it still in the 30’s outside…so I will be on the bike downstairs in about 20 mins or so…ugh….I did get my seeds for the garden planted last night since I was so bored just sitting here and that was the only thing I had to do today so I’ll have to think of some other stuff but I don’t want to…this taking the summer off is going to be harder than I thought….the gash in my left thumb seems to be healing some already and I sure hope it didn’t hurt the nail bed like I did with my right one…the nail on it is still not healed from ripping it on the fence and it has a split down the middle that is still there a year later…and it continues to grow with the split in it and I’m not sure if it will ever heal…damn, I just want some time with no injuries on my hands…they are so scarred and beat up from working around here they look even older than they are….not much to do today…hey, I got through this one without talking about working on the house…almost….and I really don’t have much to do…laundry and cleaning but that is about it….probably should get on the bike now…more later….
What are they for?
Well…in all my lifetime, I’ve never seen a political party that not FOR anything…you know, like helping the people of this country and making their lives better…but nope, not a damn thing from the repubs…they only talk bout what they are against…children, LGBTQ people being able to live like the rest of us, voters (that are not white), books, women’s rights, Ukraine, this country, democracy, rich people paying taxes, free speech, gun control, trying to stay alive with covid everywhere, the rule of law, saving the planet, courts (unless they are right wing), and damn near everything else that would make life a little better for Americans…and the sick thing is that even with no platform and admitting that they only favor the rich and everyone else can go to hell, they are still predicted to take over the house this fall…how the hell can that be? Has the American electorate become so stupid that they can’t see what the repubs are up to? Or do they not care…”oh, Joe Biden didn’t personally come to my house with a million dollar check so I’m not going to vote for him” seems to be the mood in the electorate right now even though the repubs have said that they are going to increase middle class taxes and eliminate SS and Medicare in 5 years…isn’t that of any interest to the reliable older voters that vote repub? Look, I’m damn tired about being depressed about the stupid people in this country who are going to vote to make me go back to work when I’m 70 when they elect repubs…don’t need that bullshit right now…geez…
Accomplished some things…
Well…damn, I’m not sure why I keep doing this to myself but I worked my butt off and accomplished some things this morning….first the indoor bike and then a run over to Lowes to look for a short piece of tubing that they didn’t have and I almost left without anything since it was cold and wet but halfway out the door I said nope and went back in and picked up the 10ft piece, put the top down on the car and drove home with 6 feet of tubing sticking out of the back of the car…then I worked on the garden and got the soil turned and the manure mixed in along with fixing the fence and raking the leaves…then cutting up the branches that I’ve picked up since the snow melted and getting them put in a big yard bag…after that, I just couldn’t leave the front gate when I had all the parts so I got out my grinder with a cut off wheel and cut the old corners off, cut a 26 inch piece of the tubing out of the 10 feet, and installed the whole thing and now I have a gate that is not flopping around with the bottom tube rusted completely away…it still doesn’t hang straight but that is a job for another day since I gashed a big one in the back of my left thumb when the cut off wheel slipped…doesn’t hurt much but it bled like crazy…the new band aid with antibiotic with pain reliever has helped…so, I did get a few things done this morning that had been bugging me…but now I’m done for the day other than getting an outdoor ride in after lunch….more later….