Well…running a little late today with getting out on the bike around 6 and then reading the paper before coming here to do this…it was still a little dark when I got out and it was so damn windy that it was a little unpleasant…slept okay last night but was up around 5 and that is disappointing…it would be nice to get at least one night of 7 hours or so…and I even went to bed late last night…oh, well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done but cook and watch races and that looks like what today will be….going to make a pizza for lunch and I’m not sure if I’m going to go out on the bike again…could take a rest day of only 15 miles but I’ll think about that later…maybe it will rain? I do have to do some laundry today since I don’t have anything clean and need to do bedding and towels…so maybe I’ll just take it easy today…have been getting 30 miles a day in and don’t really need to do that every day…more later…
Monthly Archives: June 2019
Almost didn’t come back…
Well…have been sitting around here today not thinking about much at all but got bored watching the 24 hours so I thought I’d just put a couple of thoughts down to fill the time until I can have a cocktail or two…polls…yep I think we need to talk about them just because the idiot trump is freaked out about the internal polling from his campaign that shows that he would lose to almost anyone who is running against him with Joe Biden up by 12 points here in Michigan and the rest of the field from 4 to 10 points up…and this is similar to all the other states he needs to pull off another electoral college win…I know it’s early but Hillary was never up with that large of a margin at any time in 2016 so maybe trump being the asshole he is all the time is turning off the independents and women who gave him his win? Oh, one other short thing that made me laugh a little…by now, everyone knows that trump never pays his bills and has stiffed everyone he has ever dealt with…and guess what? That continues with his campaign “rallies” and even his inauguration where he owes DC over 7 million dollars for police protection…it appears that damn near every city where he has gone to rile up his troglodyte followers is owed money by the grifter in chief…leaving a trail of hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid bills…stiffing the police and fire departments that he professes to “love” even though he has the emotional makeup of a toddler. Okay…that’s enough of this crap for now…I need to use some brain bleach to relax for a nice Saturday night…
June 15th
Well…running a little late today with needing to get a bike ride in before the 24 hours of LeMans starts at 8…and that meant getting out around 6:30 before I had any coffee and that was not any fun…I really thought I was going to get another day off the bike with rain forecast but that changed overnight, I guess, and it looks like I may be able to get two rides in today…slept okay last night and didn’t get up until 6:14 but that meant I was on the bike after only being up for 15 minutes and that is just not long enough to wake up…but, I survived it and now have coffee and this to do…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I do have to cook today with loading up the instant pot around 10:30 or so since the whole process takes about an hour and that will set me up for getting the second ride in early in the afternoon…I should clean some today and I may this afternoon but there is soccer on and with the 24 hours, I should be able to do a pretty good veg job today…more later….
I like our candidates…
Well…you know, I get damn tired of writing about the idiot’s stupidity and criminality all the time that I thought I’d do a little positive stuff today on our candidates and what I’ve seen so far, I think we’ve got a pretty good group and the vision and policy that I hear every day from them almost makes the forget what damage that the repubs are doing every day…almost…whenever I hear any of our people talk, I am reminded that there are adults in politics who really want to try to make the US a better place for all of us…and they have real policy proposals to implement these ideas…like better healthcare for all, more taxes on the rich and corporations, voting rights for all, the end of gerrymandering, getting money out of politics, repealing Citizens United…you get the idea…everything the repubs have been working for to rig the system, our candidates want to do away with. This, along with humane treatment of asylum seekers should put a dagger through the “there’s no difference between the parties” nonsense that people have in their heads for some reason like they just aren’t paying attention. So, I am going to try to let myself be a little hopeful instead of outraged all day every day…I know the outrage is warranted with what trump and his cronies are doing to this country, but I need a frickin break….
June 14th
Well…that didn’t work too well…up at 5:14 and there was no going back to sleep this morning so I just gave up and got up…and it is cold in here since it is in the 40′s outside and it is June…didn’t think I’d be drinking coffee to warm up this time of year…took the day off the bike yesterday with all of the rain and my legs feel better for it…not stiff or sore at all but I’ll change that in a little while when I get out for the first ride…almost went out late yesterday but the wind was blowing over 30 and that is just too much…I fought the guilt pretty well yesterday but I won’t today…I did get a lot of cleaning done yesterday…finally got the fridge done then vacuumed and repaired the crack in my coffee table along with spider web removal…have to work on the car and then run an errand after I get the first ride in but I have to wait for the temp to come up since it is only 45 right now and that is just too damn cold to go out…it’s another leftover day today so no cooking to do…I think I’ll just do a little more cleaning while soccer is on later and then try to get a nap later since I was up way too early…more later…
Is this enough?
Well….as every damn day goes by, I have to continue to ask that question and I am getting tired of it…yesterday, the idiot boy squatting on his golden throne in the WH told ABC news in an interview that he is just fine with getting foreign help to win an election and wouldn’t call the FBI if any offer of that foreign help was offered to him. Let that sink in for just a minute…the supposed *president of the US just broadcast to all the bad actors out there that he is “open for business” and if they want to help him get re-elected by digging up dirt on his opponents or by using social media to rig the election that’s just peachy with him. When George S. of ABC told trump that Chris Wray, the head of the FBI, said that any contacts of that sort should be reported to the FBI, just like every other damn campaign has done since there has been an FBI, the idiot trump bellowed “he’s wrong” and continued to say that he would use any source or help if it would help him get re-elected…just like he did in the 2016 election. This morning, the criminal in chief tried to justify what he said by saying that he meets with other countries all the time and they talk about everything so it’s just fine if one of them offers to interfere in our elections by giving him information….okay dems, and specifically Nancy Pelosi, it is damn past time to start impeachment proceedings against this criminal who has just promised to break the law, again, to rig another election…this is just too much…impeach…
June 13th
Well…it’s Thursday and I’m about on time for grocery day…I even remembered to come here this morning before I got to reading the news and I consider that a small victory…slept okay last night but was up at 4….but, my persistence of trying to go back to sleep was rewarded with another couple of hours of kind of sleeping and some really weird dreams that were quite welcome…and I feel okay this morning even after getting out to have a couple with G that wasn’t terrible…okay, that’s not fair…we actually had some fun and some laughs and it was good to get out of here for a while…it looks like I’m going to have to have the water pump replaced on the car along with the timing belt and a bunch of gaskets so I need to start saving since it will cost about 800 bucks…I’m going to try a foreign car shop that is just a mile or so from me so I can drop the car off and ride my bike home…have been checking comments online about them and they are almost all good ones so I think I’ll give them a try…but it’s not really urgent since the car only leaks about a tablespoon of coolant when I park it so maybe in a couple of weeks…and this will fix the oil seepage that is making the engine dirty and that will be cool…and I don’t have to work on it so that is worth 800 bucks…didn’t get much done yesterday but with the rain all day today, I am going to attack the fridge and get that cleaned later this morning if I can’t get out for a ride….it looks like the rain has parked over GR so I may get a rest day and heal up the legs some and that is a good thing….more later….
Don’t be delusional, Joe…
Well…okay, just a short one on something that Joe Biden said the other day…that he expects to be able to “work with” repubs if he is elected…and to me that calls into question his judgment…don’t get me wrong, I like Joe and always have…he has served this country well for almost his entire life but Joe, haven’t you been paying attention for the past 40 years? Especially the past 10 where the repubs have shown quite clearly that they would prefer to burn the country down than even talk to any dem about anything. Joe, you are not magic…and these are not the people who you worked with in the House and Senate…this crop of repubs are the most ill informed, hate filled bigots who have ever defiled this country and not a damn thing you say or do is going to change that….and to talk about “working’ with them shows a lack of grasp of the political realty that now infests this country and the only thing that will change that is getting rid of every damn repub…things have changed, Joe…get with the times…
Trump just has to go…
Well…I am just pissed off about comments that idiot boy made at a veterans conference on Monday…the 5 deferment, fake bone spur chicken hawk suggested that veterans who return from combat with PTSD are not as “strong” as those who are able to “handle” it…now this is wrong on so many levels coming from a person who is afraid of everything and has been coddled his entire life…a person who would never consider serving in the military since it wouldn’t benefit him personally and even had a clause in his first divorce agreement that would disown his daughter if she ever joined the military. How can the repubs who supposedly are the strongest supporters of the military (hint: they aren’t) let this kind of disrespect for the service of injured veterans stand? I want the chicken in chief to go to a war zone and have the vehicle he’s riding in blown from under him…or face combat every day for months with no let up….or see his friends or brothers or sisters in arms killed right next to him…it’s a miracle that more of our returning soldiers are not scarred for life and that trump, of all people is calling anyone weak is one of the most sick things I have ever heard. He just has to go…he has shown he has no human feeling for anyone…he can’t console anyone because he doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself and he doesn’t understand sacrifice…and it sure isn’t “weak” to react to the horrors of war….but the draft dodger in chief wouldn’t understand that…impeach…
June 12th
Well…this getting up at 5 or so and then going back to bed for a half hour appears to be a new pattern that I think I like a little…that little bit of extra sleep seems to give me a lot more energy and I’m not sure why that would be…I do know that my allergies are bad this morning already and that is a pain in the butt since I can’t take anything for them after taking something last night….oh, well…got another double in on the bike yesterday and am going to try to do another one today since it may rain me out tomorrow or keep me to one…don’t have a lot of pain this morning so only going at 80% for the second ride seems to have helped and I think I’ll continue that and see what happens…at least it’s warmer this morning so I won’t have to put a fleece on when I get out…didn’t get a lot done yesterday with watching soccer most of the day but I do need to spray some bug killer today since I have lots of frickin crickets that are getting in here somehow and that is getting annoying….I’m used to spiders but the crickets a just a little too much…more later…