Well…sitting here waiting for the chicken to cook for lunch and thought I’d do one of these while I wait so I don’t feel stressed when I head back out on the bike this aft…today could be the day that the first subpoena on trumps financial records gets upheld and his accounting firm could be forced to turn them over. Last week, the judge in the case called bullshit on the delays that trump’s lawyers were trying to do by breaking the case down into tiny little parts and hoping the judge would go along with their ploys and stretch the case out for months…but, the judge wasn’t buying it, saying he was ready to hear from the parties involved today and he would rule on the validity of the subpoenas by the end of the day. One of the stunning parts was the judge told trump’s lawyers that there was no need for any other filings in the case since there was enough case law already on the books for him to render a decision…and legal experts out there think that means that that the legality of the subpoenas will be upheld. Of course that means that trump’s lawyers will appeal the decision immediately and I hope the House’s lawyers will again ask for an expedited hearing to take away trump’s only move that is to delay, delay, delay until he is out of office. There are other cases that are also coming up with idiot boy’s attempt to block Deutsche Bank from handing over more records and we can hope that that judge will expedite the case as well…as Rachel said last night, they can delay but they won’t be able to stop the House from getting the information they asked for…and that could be today…impeach…
May 14th
Well…it’s another 5:04 morning…sung to the tune of “Tequila Sunrise” by the Eagles…even though that was early, I still slept okay but my shoulder is aching today and I must have done something to it overnight…darn….I did have a dream with golf in it for some reason and I had broken my driver somehow…that whole thing was weird since I haven’t had the clubs out for over two years now…I think I may have to go out to the driving range next week just to see how the shoulder would hold up to it…the pain in my shoulder may have something to do with going back to 30 miles yesterday after “only” doing 15 miles Sunday…and it looks like the weather will be nice enough to do the second ride this afternoon with no fleece and that will be nice…it looks like a warm up is coming and the first wisps of spring will be here by the end of the week with temps approaching 80…I think I’ll finally be able to get the spring cleaning done on the car…the glass is just filthy and it needs to be vacuumed and there is winter’s worth of dust on the plastic that has to be removed…and that will make me happy after fixing the coolant leak yesterday…not much to do today….I do need to cook and clean the bathroom along with dishes and laundry so I will have something to do today…more later…
401K’s down the drain…
Well…hey there…trump voters…got a smile on your face today? Got a 401K? If you do, you shouldn’t…due to your idiot president, you have lost over 5% of your money in just the past two days…with the 630 point plunge from today and the 500 point drop from Friday, the Dow is down over 5% in just the past two days and it is only up 1.5% over the entire past year…so with inflation up over 2.5% in the past year you guys have lost a percent out of the gate on top of the 5% loss….and it is all because of the moronic trade war and tariffs that idiot boy has imposed on all of our trading partners. This is the “great businessman” you morons voted for and saddled the country with so I have not one morsel of feelings for you…it is just a shame that you hurt the entire country and the world just because you believed a reality show idiot that knows absolutely nothing about anything….I wish it was later today…I need a drink…
That’s a relief…
Well…as you know, I have been having a problem with coolant leaks on the car for the past couple of weeks with the top of the overflow tank being soaked in coolant and leaving small puddles under the car…so, this morning, I decided to check it out to see where the leak was coming from so I didn’t have to think about it anymore…so, after I fired the car up and let it run for a few minutes, I could see that the coolant was coming out around where the overflow tube is attached to the fitting that is on the cap….so, I thought it was broken since it is 25 years old plastic but when I took it apart to check it, I found that the tube that goes down into the tank was completely plugged so the pressure that made was pushing the coolant out around where the tube connects to the cap…so, after cleaning that out and putting it back together, I let the car run for a few minutes and no leak so that’s a relief and makes my day…it looks like I’m due for another coolant system flush….
May 13th
Well…feel quite out of sorts this morning and I’m not sure why that would be…slept okay last night and I really don’t hurt too much so that is a welcome development…part of that is not doing 30 miles yesterday and taking it easy on the short ride that I did…okay, and the ibuprofen I took last night but I needed that for the pain in my neck that would have kept me up all night…need to make sure that I don’t let that be a habit so I think I’ll skip it this evening no matter how much pain I’m in…and I think I’ll have to do the same thing with the red dots that I take for my allergies since I’ve had them for 3 days now and I do have to think about my BP…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I do need to cook today since I used up all of the leftovers I had in the fridge…have been thinking about making some Alfredo for a couple of weeks now and today may be the day…but, I have some thighs thawing that need to be used, too, so I’ll have to think about that….more later…
May 12th
Well….just can’t get started today and there really is no reason for it other than I burned myself out yesterday on the bike and I’m still feeling it this morning…slept okay last night but was up at 5 again today even after not hitting the sack until almost midnight…that might be one of the reasons I’m so wiped out this morning…or I’m just getting old but I can’t accept that I’m going to feel this way forever…maybe the second or third cup of coffee will help…I am still thinking about taking the day off the bike but that will be harder than going out so we’ll see…maybe just a leisure ride to take a look at the scenery…but, that won’t happen until this afternoon since there is an F1 race on in a while and then Man U plays their last game at 10 so I think I’ll take a relaxing morning and just read some….had coolant on the top of the overflow tank again today so that will be a project for tomorrow to find out where it’s coming from but it should be an easy one…not much to do today…need to continue to work on the bathroom but with my energy level so low, that may not happen….more later…
9 days is enough…
Well…as you know, I have been doing 30 miles a day on the bike for the past 9 days but with the rides today, that is enough…I can’t remember tougher rides that these today and my legs, neck, and shoulders are screaming in pain that just continues to get worse as every day goes by…I guess an old body just can’t take the abuse. It was torture out there today with the wind blowing almost 20 mph but I survived the first one okay…the second one, not so much…I should have known that it was going to be bad when I was hobbling just to get to the bike in here and had trouble carrying it up the stairs…by the time I got out a half mile I was struggling so badly that I almost turned around but, because I am an idiot, I kept on and pushed through til I got back here. The way I feel right now, I will need an off day tomorrow to try to heal up some and I am trying to tamp down the guilt by reminding myself that I’ve done enough miles in the past 9 days to carry me to the end of the month…but, I would like to get to the goal of 500 miles for a month for the first time so that means more 30′s to make that happen…yeah, I know…I’m an idiot…
The stupident just raised your taxes…
Well…as the idiot trump’s ignorance and stupidity is on full display with his moronic tariffs, we need to start talking about them not as tariffs, which people do not really understand, but as tax increases that are going to fall on every household and business in this country…and no, stupident, China is not paying for the tariffs no matter how much you bleat that, it is not now or will ever be the truth…but should we expect anything but ignorance and stupidity from someone who lost over a billion dollars in 10 years? Or who couldn’t even make a profit from casinos? Oxford has come out with a study (and no, Oxford does not do fake news) that says that with trump’s new tariffs on China that he imposed Friday, every damn household in the US is going to be TAXED an additional 800 dollars a year and this is in addition to the 100 farms that go out of business every week due to idiot boy’s stupidity. We need to hammer this home every day…that trump cut taxes for the rich but for everyone else, these tariffs are going to raise your taxes…enough winning, trump voters? Impeach…
May 11th
Well…I wonder if 3:34 is a new record for getting up for me? Okay, I didn’t really get up then but I was awake then and barely got back to sleep before I got out of bed at 6 or so…pretty damn tired right now and I think part of that is going 8 days of 30 miles per on the bike…there has to be some fallout from that since I’m not young anymore but I’m not too sore so maybe another one today…it’s going to depend on the temp and when it comes up enough to get out with the frost happening out there right now… and yesterday was pretty brutal with the wind blowing almost 20 all day…had a weird leak of coolant in the car yesterday where the top of the overflow tank was covered with coolant and there is no way that should be…checked the hose that goes to it and everything else but couldn’t find any reason it would be there…will have to wait until I run it and get it hot to check to see what that is about….at least it going to something simple to fix when I find it…didn’t get anything else done yesterday but I do want to do the bathroom today and maybe a little kitchen cleaning, too, but I’m not sure about that…more later….
A paradigm shift….
Well…just got back from my 8th day of 30 mile rides on the bike and I really can’t figure out why I’m doing it…you know I have the most well developed sense of guilt of anyone I know…guilt about what I eat, guilt about spending money, guilt about almost everything and it appears that my guilt has caused a paradigm shift in my thinking about riding the bike. It started out just doing one double just to see if I could do it and to see how much damage it would do…then, the second day, I felt okay and the weather was nice so I thought why not? Let’s do another one…and that led to day three, four, five, six seven and eight…the first 7 was to get to a goal but I met that yesterday…and today I went out early for the first time and froze my fingers and toes in the cold and brutal wind…so, I was going to skip this afternoon…after all, I had ridden a lot more than normal all week….but, I just couldn’t do it…no matter how inviting the couch was, or how fatigued my legs are, it now appears that one ride a day is no longer enough for my guilt and it is going to torture me by forcing 30 miles a day from now on…not sure I like that….