Well…I do feel a lot better today and got a ride in and got 4 doors half done…need to go down and fill the fronts of the 4 of them here in a few minutes…but I really wanted to talk about the miles I did indoors in January…got to 208 miles as of yesterday and that means if I keep up that pace, I could have over 600 miles indoors before I get back out on the trails…and, when you do the math, you can see that the total is a multiple of 8 since that is how many miles I have been doing per day…down from the 10 miles per day I started doing since the 10 mile rides left my legs in pain for the rest of the day and took too much energy out of them….the 8 mile rides seem to be perfect for what I’m trying to do…I still come off the bike sweating through everything and I have energy left to do the rest of the things I have planned every day…and the 8 miles keep me from becoming totally bored and hating the rides…they are still tough some days but I can now get them done in about 45 minutes and I think it raises my energy level for the day so I am going to keep it up for as long as I can…oh, and I am still being good and may just keep it up for another month….
Trump is certifiably nuts…
Well…man, I am shaking my head at how nuts the idiot boy’s latest rant is..it’s not enough that he confessed to plotting and carrying out the coup on multiple occasions over the past week…and now new documents that were part of the trove of them that idiot boy was trying to hide from the public with lawsuit after lawsuit that culminated in the SC voting 8-1 to release them to the January 6th committee, show that at least three times trump tried to get various parts of the government to seize all the voting machines, ballots, and any other information that said he lost the election. But the most twisted part of what is called logic from the idiot is that now he thinks that Mike Pence should be investigated by the January 6th committee for not trying to overthrow the government…yep, in that shriveled walnut that trump calls his brain he has come to the idea that because Pence didn’t break the law and support his coup, he should be investigated for it…never mind that idiot boy has called the committee various childish names and still feels it is just a “witch hunt” against him, forgetting that he is not president, now he wants to use it against the person he feels is most responsible for him not being president any longer…and you may ask what is Pence’s response to this new slam against him? Nothing…he still is afraid of going up against the diminished, delusional moron and will never say a word against him even though trump’s followers tried to find him and hang him…I still wonder why the DOJ is still sitting on it’s hands after the umpteenth confession by the idiot boy, cripes, I could make the case against him in court and I’m not a lawyer…geez…
February 1st
Well…another month starts and that means we are one month closer to spring and it can’t get here fast enough for me…I did sleep okay last night and had some dreams that were weird as heck that included Ore Ida french fries and an old Monte Carlo with a tach that was stuck at 6,000 rpms and Scarlett Johansson who I knew somehow…..and she was driving my Monte Carlo…yeah, I told you they were weird but nice to have any dreams again…I can’t believe how lousy I felt yesterday and I hope that doesn’t happen again today…I did eat a lot more than normal yesterday and I hope that shows up today but I think I may have a cold but who knows these days? I do feel okay right now but I felt okay yesterday morning, too, so I’m not sure that means much….I do know I have a headache today but I’ve had them off and on for a month or more now so I think it’s from the dust I’m generating around here since my head feels plugged up….I am going to go out and wash the car this morning since it is already 30 out there right now…and I need to hit the atm to get some cash out so I’ll have some in my pocket for stuff like that….not much to do today…need to get my butt in gear and get on the bike right now to keep on schedule for the day and get more work done on the doors….I’m hoping to get 4 done today and 4 tomorrow so I can do the finish sanding Thursday and get started painting Friday…and that will leave me only the drawers to do after I get the doors hung….but right now I’m late and need to get moving…more later…
I’m exhausted and I don’t know why…
Well…damn, I am exhausted and I can’t figure out why…I mean I’ve been good for almost a month now with no cocktails and I’ve been sleeping okay, and I only did three doors today…I know it took me three hours but I haven’t been this worn out since I started being good…I know I only had some beef stir fry that was mostly veggies for lunch yesterday which was about 500 calories or so and then just a boneless skinless chicken breast for dinner with nothing else other than a glass of milk and that is about 300 cals so maybe it’s just from not eating enough? I didn’t really do anything yesterday so I didn’t need to eat much so 800 calories should have been enough…yeah, I know…a normal person is supposed to take in at least 2K calories a day but how do you eat that much? I’ve never been able to…okay, going to stop bitching about it…you know I have an eating disorder and it’s the only way I don’t weigh 300 pounds…hmmm…I did get a bike ride in this morning so maybe that is it? I’m tired of thinking about it but I’m still only going to have another chicken breast and some steamed broccoli for dinner…all I know is that I’m damn tired…and this is the last one for my record breaking month….124 of these? That’s an average of 4 a day and I feel pretty good about that…no more later…unless I read something that I need to talk about…
Have to adjust my schedule…
Well…after starting on the doors this morning and spending 3 hours working on them, I am going to have to adjust my schedule since there is no way I’m going to get them ready for paint in three days…only got three sanded and filled in three hours and, with 11 to do, that makes at least the rest of the week for sanding and filling and I won’t get to painting until this weekend or next week…and my hands are right back where they were with stiffness and pain and I split my left thumb open…okay, nope…it’s a damn splinter from working on the doors and it hurts like crazy….and my right thumb is about done from sanding and it’s going to hurt for the rest of the week if I keep going….but, I have to so there is no if about it…just have to resign myself to being in pain for the next two weeks…okay, just pulled a half inch splinter out of my thumb that went straight in so you could only see a tiny part of the end of it but I was finally able to get hold of it with my tweezers and I was really surprised when it just kept coming out as I pulled on it…at least that’s one less pain to deal with…need to hit it with neosporin…
Is this enough to arrest him?
Well..after his Nazi rally over the weekend where the idiot trump threatened the prosecutors across the country who are investigating him and then following it up with a written admission that he was behind the January 6th attacks and trying to overturn the election…my only question is: Isn’t this enough to arrest him? I mean, with his admissions and all of the evidence that show his criminal behaviors, why the hell isn’t he sitting in a jail cell right now? If you or I threatened a DA who was investigating us, you can bet your ass we’d been in the klink awaiting trial so why is Garland letting him run free to try to incite riots if he is indicted? I think it’s bullshit that there is any political calculation here…there are crimes that idiot boy needs to be held responsible for and politics has nothing to do with it…did they think of the political considerations when they arrested John Gotti or any other criminal? Garland is destroying the rule of law in this country by letting trump dare the justice department to come after him while he sits on his hands and nothing happens…and it all traces back to him…if he doesn’t have the guts to go after idiot boy, then he should resign and let someone take over who will uphold the law no matter who the lawbreaker is…and it needs to happen now…it’s already been over a year since January 6th 2020 and that’s too long to let these crimes fester in the body politic…geez…
January 31st
Well…here we go into the last day of the month and I am hoping that the winter ends after the next month so I can get back outside on the bike…but, I’ll have to have the kitchen done before then so I need to get my butt in gear to have that happen…slept okay last night but had dreams about horse racing for the second time in a week and that is strange since I’ve never been to one and have never bet on a horse race…I did sleep okay and feel good with getting to a full month of no cocktails other than the one night out but I’m starting to eat more and need to have more discipline if I’m going to maintain or lose weight this winter….didn’t do a thing yesterday and my hands are thanking me for it…they are much less stiff and most of the pain is gone and the cut on my right index finger is almost healed but I am going to start abusing them this morning with getting started on the cabinet doors after I get on the bike…not sure how long they are going to take but I know I have 11 of them and a filler plate to sand fill and paint and I need to work out how to do that efficiently since I want to do all the insides at one time and all of the faces at one time to save money on roller covers since I am going to roll the flat parts for the finish…if I work my butt off, I may be able to get all of the first sanding and filling done today and then on to the finish sanding tomorrow with painting starting Wed…if I can do that schedule, I can start hanging doors Friday and have them done over the weekend…I hope that I’ve had enough curing time for the shelves in the cupboards so I can start putting things back into them but I need to get the wall patch sanded first so I can clean up the dust that will go everywhere…at least with the doors on, the dust will stay outside the cabinets and make the cleanup easier….more later…
Ordered the kitchen blinds…
Well…haven’t done much today but sand some drips off the bottom of the cabinet that the range hood is going to mount to so it will be level…and then I painted the places I sanded so there will be good coverage under the hood…not the bare grease soaked boards that were there before I cleaned and painted it….and I ordered the last blind for the single kitchen window and that will be here next week just in time to hang it to complete the kitchen…should have the doors for the cabinets done and hung by then and will be working on the baseboards, walls, and ceiling…will probably do the door frames after everything else but I do need to sand the sides of them so I won’t mess up the grey paint on the walls…and I found out that I can get the range hood cheaper in store at depot than I can get it on Amazon so I can just go in and buy one when I’m ready for it…and that should be by the end of next week and I didn’t fill the mounting holes from the last one since it was a Broan like the black one I’m getting so I hope I just have to put screws in and hang it….but now, I’m done for the day and am going to watch football for a while and then I have the new Boba Fett Star Wars series out on plex to watch for the night…
Made some beef stir fry…
Well…it looks like I went overboard buying protein this week with getting almost 5 pounds of boneless skinless chicken along with 5 pounds of seasoned ranch steak along with a pound roll of breakfast sausage…and the weird thing is that the beef was cheaper than the chicken…and I bought that to make some beef/broccoli stir fry but I added a bag of stir fry veggies to it since I like lots of veggies in my stir fry…I was a little concerned that the seasonings and tenderizer in the beef wouldn’t go with the stir fry sauce I bought but it came out great… and I put 2 1/2 pounds in the freezer and will do the same with the 5 chicken breasts I have left over from cooking three of them Thursday….oh, and I bought some big pork ribs that were 40% off at Meijers since they were at their sell by date…I am going to try some of the seasoned ranch steaks tomorrow to see how they taste by themselves…the sauce they are in is pretty spicy and I like it…they might make a good sandwich and I may try that….it’s weird to have too much protein but it was nice to get the beef at 1.79 a pound…
A good idea…
Well…as you know, I have been abusing my hands for the past few weeks as I work on my kitchen and they are covered with cuts and bruises along with the damage to my right thumb that hurts constantly now…but, I took the day off working on the house yesterday and purposely tried to do the littlest amount I could do with my hands…and, other than my guilt from not working, it appears that it was a good idea…the nasty cut on my right index finger that has felt like a supercharged paper cut is starting to heal and it doesn’t hurt much to do this when it was so damn painful Friday that I almost stopped doing these…and the overall stiffness has improved, too, and I can move them much easier today and I hope taking today off will continue to help them improve….I have to remember that I’m not young anymore and I can’t just keep abusing my body like I could when I was younger…and I really don’t have a schedule like I had when I was younger, either…back then I had to juggle work, school, and home maintenance but now I just have this place to work on and I can look forward to taking a couple of weeks off after I finish the kitchen in a few weeks….that doesn’t help with the guilt of taking time off but I’m working on that….