Well…I guess Americans are just stupid or ignorant or both…according to a poll that came out in the past few days, over 50% of Americans believe that Joe Biden has done nothing to help their lives get better…cripes, do these 50% have amnesia? Do they not remember the 1400 dollar check they got earlier in the year? I wonder if many of these folks have kids? Do they not recognize the 300 dollar monthly credit they get for each kid? Or how about getting vaccines into the arms of almost 200 million Americans? Or the billions of dollars to fix up schools and help local school districts deal with the pandemic? Or the expansion of the SNAP program that made many more people eligible for food aid? I could go on and on about all of the things this administration has done to make life better but I wonder why no one else knows these things? There are many other things that are in the pipeline that will continue to make life better for working people and we retirees…how about expansion of Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing care? I thing the dems have a messaging problem and need to get over it…they need to make sure that people know what they are doing for them and be proud of it….they are making this country better for the little guy and that is a good thing…geez…
September 9th
Well…slept okay last night and didn’t get out of bed until after 7 so I call that a good night…and I feel okay this morning other than the allergies and my finger but I did that to myself so I can’t really bitch about that….it is starting to be pretty dark in the morning and pretty soon it will be the determining factor that controls when I get out on the bike….along with the temp and it’s going to be a fleece morning today since it’s only in the mid 50’s and that is going to be normal from now on….can’t believe how beat up my hands look after working on the cables on the bike yesterday….they are pretty frayed and I think I stuck every finger with the strands…hope the rear one on the black bike lasts until I get new ones for it…will probably order the parts today but I want to get the rides in first to see if the higher gear is what I want for the grey bike….I’ve wished for just one higher gear since I bought the first mountain bike many years ago and this crankset has 6 more teeth than the grey bike and should make a difference…and with the second gear being higher, too, I think it will be more usable…but, with riding the same route every day, I know what gear I should be in with the old crankset…..will have to figure out the new one…and it will be nice to be able to pedal as hard as I want again without skipping…not much to do today…just going to ride and start taking the garden out after I pick the last of the tomatoes…and I do have a political one to do after I do the first ride….more later…
Running late…
Well…damn, running late again today but I did accomplish a bunch of stuff so I guess that’s the reason….I finally got the old bike back together and almost adjusted so I can ride it tomorrow…spent hours on it this afternoon and crushed my index finger on my left hand trying to remove the chain when I realized I threaded it wrong…so it hurts like crazy to type this….I did get to the tomato soup this morning after I decided that it was way too windy to go out..got to the flat along Muskegon lake and could barely make any headway all the way down in 5th on the rear cassette and that is just too brutal for me and, with the worn out driveline on the new bike, I can’t put any pressure on the pedals without it skipping and that hurts when it does…I think I’ll probably order the parts for the grey bike this week since I now know how to change everything and it shouldn’t take me more than an hour to renew the whole thing…and if I order the same parts that are on it, I won’t have to do any adjusting like the black bike…I do need new brake pads for the black bike, too, since they have hardened up and don’t really stop the bike too well…so, I promise I’ll get to a political one maybe later today or early tomorrow…just need to take a little bit of a rest….more later…
September 8th
Well…back to waking up after 6 but it’s only one day so it’s not a pattern yet….don’t feel too bad right now if a little slow but I’m on the first cup of coffee so we’ll see how I do after a while…I am pretty sore after getting out to play in the waves yesterday and getting one ride in that pitched me right up on the beach and I tumbled like I was in a washing machine…laughed my butt off…that took a lot out of me with fighting the serious rip current that was running along the beach and I was exhausted the rest of the day….and it finally rained out here and the storm came through with 70 mph winds that took down a bunch of tree limbs…but I got to watch a storm from my porch for the first time so that was cool….and I hope that my lawn greens up with the food I put down Monday….looks better today but I am going to have to water it in a couple of days with no rain in the forecast again until next week…it’s going to be a busy day today with the grocery run, riding the bike, and then using the rest of the tomatoes to make tomato soup with a recipe I found from the food network that got 5 stars…have to cut and roast the tomatoes then put them in the blender to puree them…just like the sauce I made last week…and that will be a lot of work…..so I probably won’t get much else done today…I may paint the inside of the back door frame while I’m waiting for the tomatoes to roast but they only take 45 minutes at 450 so it may not give me enough time….more later…
Keep taking that horse medicine….
Well….a news story that just came out today made me laugh a bit with the irony of it….it appears that taking horse de-wormer to treat covid is not such a good idea…a study that was done a few months back showed that men who took the drug lost most of their fertility…yep, that’s right, the idiots who are flocking to this treatment have less sperm and most of it is mutated so they can’t reproduce anymore…you know, I just thought of Charles Darwin when I read that article and think it just perfect that these morons will have a hard time having any more little idiots…and with them dying in droves because they didn’t get the vaccine, it thins the herd quite a bit and that is just what this country needs…you can’t reason with these morons so the only way to get through to them is if they die….and I won’t shed one damn tear when they do…geez…
September 7th
Well…that was a little better…didn’t get up til 6:43 but my left hip hurts like crazy and I have no clue how I hurt it…can’t get comfortable no matter how I sit here and that is pretty damn annoying….and I bashed my right elbow in the shower yesterday and that hurts, too, so I may have to take something for all the pain before I get on the bike….I did get the parts and tools for the bike yesterday and got the cranks pulled and the new ones put in place….have to move the front shifter since the sprockets are larger and that will mean more adjustments but I wanted taller gearing….I may have to put the new rear shifter on it with the idler sprockets worn out so that will mean it will probably take me a week to get it all together….and I painted the outside of the back door frame yesterday…haven’t looked at it yet but it needed to be done since the primer that was on it wasn’t protecting the wood at all and it had started to crack….will probably do the inside today but want to get two rides in before the rain….ha,ha…yeah, it’s not going to rain…it never rains out here and the radar says that all of it is going to miss to the north….I wonder why I still feel like I’m on a schedule when I’m retired? Not much to do today….going to get on the bike in a few minutes but it’s going to be another fleece morning with the temp around 55….I do need to clean this place up since I’ve allowed it to get a little messy and dusty but that won’t be til the afternoon….I am still contemplating taking a day off of everything to just veg out and relax but that’s harder than I thought it would be….but, I need one of those days soon to recharge….still pretty worn out and it is going to be a lot of work to get on the bike this morning….more later…
This never happens….
Well….after getting a bike ride in, mowing and feeding the lawn, putting the sprinklers out, and getting most of the rest of the tomatoes picked for soup that I’m going to make wed…I took the afternoon off and just watched a show on tv…and that never happens…it seems like I always have something to do but today I just said the hell with it…did enough work this morning and needed some time off…my allergies are really, really sucking right now and that is taking a lot of energy out of me and I couldn’t stop coughing when I was mowing…so, yep…it’s pretty bad….need to figure out how to get on the roof to fix the soffit panels that fell out…can get a 12 foot piece for 20 bucks but I need to see how wide the stuff is that fell out…but my ladder is too short unless I try to climb on the little roof over my back door and then on the other roofs…I’m not going to spend a hundred bucks for a bigger ladder just for this job….we’ll see what happens….
Why isn’t McCarthy in jail?
Well….look, I know that the repubs don’t think that the law applies to them but, damn, is Merrick Garland in on it, too? Just last week, when the House January 6th select committee sent letters to all of the big telecoms telling them to preserve any and all records having to do with the January 6th attack, Kevin McCarthy blatantly threatened them with retribution if they cooperated with the committee…and just yesterday another 13 of the repub conspirators sent a letter to the same telecom companies threatening that they will not be allowed to operate in the US if they cooperated with the committee…now, isn’t obstructing a congressional investigation a crime? Yep, it is and this goes to obstruction of justice, too, and now we have Merrick Garland sitting on his hands when the DOJ should be on this right now to squash these little pricks who are so concerned because these records will probably show that all of the 140 odd repubs who voted to not certify the election results were in on the attack. If Garland won’t bring charges against these traitors, then he needs to resign and let someone who will protect this country do it…it needs to happen today since every damn day these assholes continue to get away with breaking the law, the more they will do it….geez…
September 6th
Well…that was a little better…woke up at 5 but was able to go back to sleep until 6:30 or so but I don’t feel like I slept at all…damn, it’s a pain getting old…I think I need a day off everything here soon just to heal up….just feel worn out again and that is happening way too often….maybe I’ll have to start taking vitamins regularly….didn’t get much done yesterday but I do need to mow the lawn today and start masking the back door frame for painting…and I think my tools and parts for the bike will get here today so I’ll need to get on the black bike and get that fixed, too, and I need to pick the last of the tomatoes so I can make some tomato soup for the freezer….but that won’t happen until wed when I get the rest of the ingredients with the grocery run…found an easy recipe from the food network that I think I’m going to try…the sauce I made last week was almost like soup so I think I can get there….it’s still under 60 out there so I may be out in a fleece today but I still have 45 mins before I get out so it might get warm enough to go without it….not much to do today…just more work to do or ignore but I’m running out of time for the outside work and need to get moving….but I need more coffee first….lots more coffee….more later…
Playing in the waves…again…
Well…as you know, I don’t a lot of political ones on the weekends and, with how hard it has been for me to find topics, I probably won’t get to one today…but, who knows? I do know this isn’t one….I did get out on the bike before 7:30 this morning and that got me back on the bike right after the F1 race for the second one…but, when I was out at the beach there were building waves so I said the heck with it and got in the car to go out and play in the waves for a while…and that wore me out with the very little sleep from last night and I am tired right now….might even try to take a nap this afternoon while the napcar races are on…I did get up in the attic to check out how much work it is going to be to straighten out the insulation and it is going to be a big job…but there are boards I can move around to stand on to work so it should only take a week or so when it gets cooler…I may even put a floor up there a little at a time to have more space to use….but that will be a while since I want to paint in here first….maybe more later….