Well…I feel like crap this morning and it is going to be a chore to get going and get on the bike in a few minutes…didn’t get out of bed til almost 6:30 today and that is going to make me late for everything for the day…after the rides it is going to be cleaning all day and I really don’t want to do it…just want to sit here and do nothing for the first time in 519 days but I won’t…I think I ate enough yesterday with two meals but I sure don’t feel like it right now and I do have leftovers for the next few days to keep me going…the freezer is looking a little bare but that has been the plan for a while now to try to empty it out and see what is in there…still have a t-bone to grill but I’ll need to fill the propane tank again soon…probably should do the two pork chops that are in the freezer along with it while I still can chew them…major dental work starts on April first and I won’t be able to chew anything for 4 months…damn, I’m tired…not much to do today…just cleaning, cleaning, cleaning and the bike rides…I think it might be a goal to get on the bike by 7:30 and that would get me done by 10:30…but that is looking quite daunting right now…more later…
A working day…
Well…it was a working day today as I get this place cleaned up for my son’s visit Sat…and I had to cook today and the stir fry took a good hour to prepare and cook…I did get the kitchen cleaned mostly but I’ll still have one countertop to clean since the dish drainer and all of the pots and pans I used for the stir fry were in it and drying…still need to make the coffee for tomorrow morning but that doesn’t take much time…I did get three rides in and made a run over to the library to get 4 more books but didn’t have a lot of time to read today and probably won’t tomorrow with having to clean the bathroom, living room, and finish up the kitchen and do the floor in there…it is Thursday night and it is my favorite tv night since I can watch the shows I have been saving all week…so probably “1923″ and “Reacher” with “Harley Quinn” as the lead in…so there will be cocktails and relaxing tonight…making coffee now…
Putin’s bitch…
Well…let’s put the idea to bed that putin is treating the idiot trump as an equal and has respect for him…ha, ha, ha…yeah, that made me laugh…and you can see that respect during a public function the other day ole putie was told he had a scheduled phone call with idiot boy and he replied to his aid “it’s not urgent” and went about his business and then got around to making the call over an hour later…now, have you ever heard a time when any world leader ignored the president of the US other than trump? Nope, never happened before and that shows you how much idiot boy has damaged our standing in the world…when a war criminal ignores you, you are not powerful and you won’t be an equal partner in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine…you are putin’s bitch and he will manipulate you and have begging for his attention as you cosplay at being president…hey maga assholes…this is what you’ve done to this country…nice job! Geez…
March 20th
Well…damn, how can I be running late when it’s only 20 after 6? Need to get on the bike by 7 am so I can get three rides in before 10 and then get to the library for more books…no outdoor rides today since it’s not going to get out of the 30′s today and it’s going to be extremely windy…only having one meal yesterday is slowing me down this morning and I’ll try to fix that this afternoon with making the stir fry to go with the chicken and rice I made the other day….and I have a head of cabbage that I need to cook in the instant pot probably tomorrow so then I’ll have three meals of leftovers that will keep me going until next week…so I won’t be making the Masala until next week at some point…need to clean this place up since my son and Art may be coming out Sat and it will be good to see him…so kitchen today, bathroom tomorrow and living room at some point too…one of these days I am going to take a day off…ha, ha….I don’t know how many times I’ve said that but I know that it’s well over 500 days since I’ve had a day off…October 19th 2023…not much to do today…just the rides and the library trip along with cooking so the chicken doesn’t spoil….more later…
Only one meal today…
Well…when it came time to make the second meal of the stir fry chicken today, I wasn’t feeling it so I decided to stick with one meal today and I’ll probably feel it tomorrow…oh, well…I’ll make the stir fry tomorrow…just ran out of time today with doing an indoor ride, hitting three stores on the grocery run and then two rides outdoors…made a huge mistake on the first ride with how sensitive I’ve been to the cold lately…it was 53 when I went out and decided to go out in shorts and my fingerless riding gloves and by the time I was halfway, my fingers were howling in pain from the cold so for the second ride I put on a pair of long workout pants on that my daughter gave me and then put my lightest gloves on and that worked…so now I have another thermasuit that I can use in the in between temps…but that second ride meant that I didn’t get to lunch until almost 1 and I was still full from it at my normal dinner time so no dinner today…I did just finish up the 4th book I got last week and it only took me 5 days to do it…so back to the library tomorrow for more…and I did stop at the cop shop and got my beach parking passes for this summer…so it was a little of a busy day today and now I need to take a break…I am looking forward to the final season of “Bosch: Legacy” that is coming out in a week or so…only 10 episodes so I’ll burn through those pretty quickly….
Technology is screwing the young…
Well…just read an article over on Kos that helped me understand why a lot of young men in the country voted for the idiot trump and the picture is not pretty…the gist of the article is that the use of technology and AI in college admissions and job searches has made it almost impossible for these folks to get launched by getting a college degree or job to get on the bottom rung of the ladder to start their careers and lives…the stories of young men and women having to apply to hundreds of colleges when they are not admitted as legacies and then have those colleges use AI to review their applications and get them tossed for even the smallest mistake like a semi colon in place of a comma doesn’t give many of these applicants any chance…and the the college doesn’t even tell them why they were rejected…and there is no one left to talk to about it at the college anyway…and the same thing goes with the job hunt that I even experienced when I was still looking for work…I sent out thousands of resumes and didn’t get any responses and they wouldn’t say why you weren’t a fit for the job…and no feedback raises the frustration level and makes people insecure and depressed…so it it any wonder that these young people tried anything like voting for trump to try to change anything? Now this is another reason to retire the 80 year olds in dem leadership…the country they are comfortable in no longer exists for a wide swath of the country and the solutions for these problems need to be new ones to match…and that isn’t coming from an 80 year old dem…geez…
March 19th
Well…up at 4:24 this morning and out of bed before 6 and I stayed up late so that’s not a lot of sleep and I’ll be feeling it later today…it’s going to be a busy one with doing the grocery run to 3 stores this morning and I need to get on the indoor bike by 7am so I can get out of here at 8:15…it’s supposed to rain later today so I’ll need to get the two outdoor rides in before that…and I do need to cook today with having chicken thawed for stir fry and that will keep me fed with two meals until Saturday when I’ll make another batch of Masala….or maybe I’ll wait til Sunday for that…man, I’m worn out today…but I still need to get moving soon and then just keep plodding forward all morning…hope to have the outdoor rides in before noon but that gives me no rest time at all…going to stop over at the cop shop to get my beach parking passes for this year and I need to start looking for a new beach lounge chair since the old one is just worn out after using it for 20 years…beach weather seems pretty far away right now with one more warm day and then down into the 30′s again…oh, well….more later…
Kinda busy…
Well…it’s been a kinda busy day today with getting three rides in and then just putting the chicken and the rest of the stuff in the dutch over and getting it simmering…I did finish the third book and have started the fourth one but I’m not sure how much headway I’m going to make on it today…have a few other things I need to do and still haven’t done the weights yet…it looks like DD has smoked spiral sliced ham for about 1.20 a pound so I’ll stop there for that and for roasted turkey for 2.50 a pound so that will give me some easy food to make later…so it will be a three store run tomorrow and I think I can get the indoor ride in before I go…and it will be warm enough to go out in shorts tomorrow before the temp drops and it snows again Thursday so I’ll be riding indoors through the rest of the month…I did get over 1,800 miles today and I just might be able to get to 2K before the end of March…still have 12 days to do it so the numbers work…okay, I need to get the weights going…
Dem leadersip needs to go..
well…after Chuck Schumer caved and got the votes in the senate to pass the maga laden CR to fund the government, I think he and the rest of the dem leadership needs to go and be replaced by people that get the seriousness of the political situation in this country and fight to stop the idiot in chief from doing more damage…and that would mean saying no to everything…this CR lasts a month and now is the time to start organizing and getting the word out that if the government shuts down, it’s the repubs fault…and I have not seen much written about all of popular programs are being cut…no one wants SS destroyed but going along with anything the maga assholes want is going to guarantee that is going to happen…along with shuttering of the NIH and the VA…so, now it the time to throw everything in to stop these assholes…and you don’t have the guts Chuck, get the hell out of the way for someone who will…geez…
March 18th
Well…up and running at 6:06 this morning and need to accomplish something today…not sure what that will be but something…slept okay but had to take a red dot for my allergies and it’s just going to get worse as spring goes on…haven’t eaten a lot in the past couple of days so I’ll need to do better today to fuel the three rides I’m going to do today…going to start with an indoor ride even though it’s warm enough to go outside right now…but it’s still dark and I don’t want to wait til after 8 to get on the bike…the bathroom needs to be cleaned at some point and I’m not sure if I’ll do that today or tomorrow…no one has protein on sale this week so I’ll empty the freezer for meals this week and probably take a container of ham soup out for second meals for a few days…12 minutes until I need to be on the bike and I need more coffee before I can do that…not much to do today…have to get my beach parking permits this week and get the books done so I can get more before the weekend but I have one and a half left to do…and I do need to cook the chicken thighs I thawed and that will be a nice change from soup, soup, soup….more later….