Well…feel like crap this morning and I really don’t know why that would be…probably from not eating enough so I’ll have to eat something before I do the run out to Ada…up at 3:40 but stayed in bed til 5:35 and I don’t know how long I can do that…just getting old I guess….my allergies are bad this morning and they are just going to get worse this month…ick…it really sucks that I made bean coffee this morning and can’t taste it at all…life is pretty boring when you can’t taste anything…need to get on the bike by 7am so that give me about a half hour to get going and that seems like a daunting task right now…but I will suck it up and get moving since that’s what I do…I probably could have left this place open overnight with the low being around 70 and I’m already sweating through everything…just had an inkling of pain on the bike yesterday but my legs hurt already just sitting here so the rides will be painful today…not much to do today…just the library run after the rides and then out to Ada…but that seems a lot of work right now…more later…
Got a few things done…
Well…I really misjudged how much book I had left and just finished up the last of the 5 I got last week at about 2:30…I don’t even remember what I used to do before I got the reading bug but maybe I’ll clean a bit to fill the open time…so tomorrow I’ll have to hit the library before the run out to Ada and after I do the bike rides….was busy all morning with the rides, the grocery run, paying the water bill, and making a chicken casserole for lunch…no beach today since I really didn’t have time to get out there early before it got over 85 here and won’t be going out there until Friday if it doesn’t rain…only a 40% chance and it never rains here so I’ll plan on going out and try to get a swim in…but right now I am going to read some news and think about the blt for dinner…
Overperformance…
Well…I’m not sure if I’m going to make the leap from dems performance in special elections lately to the 2026 general but I will say I think people are getting damn tired of the repubs ruining this country…in a special election in RI for an open seat in congress, in a district the Kamala won by 11%, the dem won with over 83% of the vote to 16% for the repub…and that makes it a 56% over performance which is just stunning and follows up on many other special elections where the dams have won almost every time…even in red districts dems are winning or coming close to winning where they shouldn’t…and with the House repub election committee recommending that repub house members not hold any town halls after the debacles at the few they have held, you really can feel that there is change in the air…but our side needs to get better at messaging to inform the public that the ideas they like; protecting Medicare, Medicaid, and SS are dem ideas and the repubs only want to destroy everything good in this country…should be easy, huh? It’s not going to be and that’s what has me shaking my head…geez…
August 6th
Well…up at 5:38 this morning and I still think it’s a wonder that I can’t take a nap with less than 5 hours of sleep a night…oh, well…it’s going to be a busy one today with getting the rides in, paying the water bill, doing the grocery run, and cooking two meals…going to make some chicken thighs in pasta sauce with potatoes, carrots, celery, and rice and another batch of pasta salad but then I won’t have to cook anything til the weekend…still going to eat out of the freezer for the next week but I need to use the rest of the turkey bacon for a blt at some point…maybe for lunch? Didn’t get much done yesterday but I will make up for that today and tomorrow…not sure about the beach today since I want to finish up the 5th book for the week so I can go to the library tomorrow morning…there is going to come a point where I run out of books to read and that is going to suck…I think I have about a months worth of them left before I have to find new authors to read but that seems like a lot of work right now…more later…
Another easy day…
Well…after driving out to the beach today, I really can’t believe how well the car drives after replacing the brake caliper…just easy and smooth and now I hope that’s the last thing I have to do to it this year…the water was still too cold to swim in it since my feet went numb after standing in it for 30 seconds and I really don’t have anything left to prove to anyone…still have an air quality alert on…again…and you can still see the smoke we have had out here for a week…and even smell it at times…I stopped at Meijers to put gas in the car after hitting the bank for some cash and quarters and it was shut down for a major gas spill that had just happened before I pulled in…I was surprised the gas didn’t go up in flames it smelled so much…so I’ll have to gas it up tomorrow on the grocery run…not sure if I’ll go to the beach tomorrow and I know I won’t Thursday with going out to shoot pool…have gone 8 rides without the big pain I’d been having and I’ll take that any day…so 4 days with no pain and I’m still not sure what the heck happened to make it go away…it’s still there in the background but I have to think about it to feel it…okay, time to read a bit more…
Where the hell is vance and what is he doing?
Well…think back to before the election and how the media was 24 hours a day dissecting everything Kamala Harris said or did…and one of the big themes was how “effective” she was as vice president and the media asked here every question under the sun…so now let’s fast forward to today and compare it to the coverage the JD Vance is getting…has anyone even seen Vance? I read the news a lot and there just isn’t anything…nothing about foreign policy, nothing about domestic policy, nothing about how “effective” he is…just nothing…it appears that ole JD is on a permanent vacation and the media won’t even report that…so now you see why the bias in the media pisses me off so much…they do everything they can to ruin Kamala’s chances and yet JD can take a dump in the middle of the road and no reporting at all…and have you seen him do a town hall anywhere? Nope, you haven’t because of what is going on in repub reps town halls where they are being shouted down ans asked tough questions like “why did you vote to cut Medicaid and SNAP?” So ole JD is just a chickenshit who doesn’t want to get his fee fees hurt and is just waiting for idiot boy to die so he’ll be president…geez…
August 5th
Well…feel like crap this morning and I know it’s from not eating enough…only had breakfast for lunch with two sausage patties, two eggs, and two slices of toast and then just a pork chop for dinner and that is well under1,000 calories for the day…oh, well…will have some toast and peanut butter before I get on the bike to try to compensate for that…I do have to make a run out to the bank today to get some cash that I’ll need for pool day Thursday…and I may hit the beach again to see if the water is warm enough to swim…didn’t get anything done yesterday and I really don’t have anything to do today that is necessary so it may be another lazy day and I don’t mind that at all…I do need to get on the bike by 7am and time is quickly running out to make that goal…it’s nice that I finally have my week planned out…and yeah, I’m still planning even though I’m retired since knowing what I need to do is comforting…and I need to be organized…so, I’m going to pour another cup of coffee and make some toast and get going….more later…
Bye bye jobs…
Well…we all know that the idiot trump is a economic moron and now we have 6 months of his screwing up the economy to prove it…growth has been chopped in half from the economy that Biden handed idiot boy…down to 1.2% and every sector except healthcare are shedding jobs at an alarming rate and no, his stupid tariffs did not bring manufacturing jobs back to the US…in fact manufacturing is the sector that is losing the most jobs heading to a recession…and in every state that voted for the idiot thinking that he would bring jobs back are suffering as tariffs and job losses are combining and pushing the economy to the dreaded “stagflation” where inflation roars and the economy falls into recession…gee, who would have thought that putting an economic moron in charge of the economy would have any bad effects…yeah, that’s sarcasm…and it’s only going to get worse…geez…
August 4th
Well…damn, up at 4:30 and out of bed by 5:30 and I need more sleep but don’t know what to do about it…it’s only 59 out there right now and sunrise has moved back enough that I won’t be able to get on the bike until 7 or so…I do want to go out to the beach today to check to see what the water is like and if I can get a swim in…down to the last pork chop so that will be lunch and then I think I’ll make breakfast for dinner with eggs, toast, and sausage and then maybe take some chicken out of the freezer for tomorrow…didn’t get anything done yesterday other than reading and really don’t have anything to do today other than laundry but I think that can wait a couple of days…I do have to pay the water bill but that’s not due for a week so I can do that later in the week..still have an air quality alert on today from the wildfires in Canada but I don’t think it will be as bad as yesterday…at least I hope it isn’t since I was coughing on the bike…going to be a hot few days with temps up around 90 and no rain at all in the forecast…oh, well…August in Michigan is supposed to be hot…more later…
Yeah, I know…
Well…yeah, I know…I didn’t do a political one today…just couldn’t find a topic that grabbed me…so I’ll do this instead…were you up early enough to see the red sun caused by the wildfires in Canada this morning? It was just surreal since the sun’s rays coming through the trees was actually pink this morning and I can’t remember that ever happening…if it wasn’t for the smoke making me cough on the bike, it would have been pretty cool…and my lungs felt pretty irritated by the end of the 2nd ride so I’ll put a mask in my bike bag if it is like this tomorrow…other than the rides it was another easy day today…and I now have 4 rides in pain free and I can’t figure that out at all…I wonder if it was the ibuprofen I took last week? Think I ate enough today with a huge pork chop for lunch and a couple of bean tacos for dinner…almost skipped dinner but thought better of it…okay, a little more reading…