Well…running a little late today for no reason at all but I can’t get motivated…and I am miserable from my allergies…my eyes have been itchy and dry for the past week or so and it will probably get worse over the next few weeks so I have that to look forward to…might even have to start taking something for it during the day but that will mean I won’t have them for night time and that will probably keep me up all night….hmmmm…I am starting to get concerned about the pain in my knees since they hurt every day now…they just need to hold out for about 550 miles and then I can rest them some and see if that is the problem…didn’t get much done yesterday but go out and get a smaller garden hose so I don’t have to lug the big one around to keep the patches in the front lawn watered….man, it was a pain getting the big one rolled back up to put it away…that one will stay in the garage from now on….I do have to do the grocery run today since I have some tasks to do Wed that are going to take a few hours in the morning….not much to do today…just the rides and groceries but I should get on the last indoor project today….just a couple of doors on the linen closet that should only take a day or so and then the interior will be done…more later….
Monthly Archives: September 2020
Listen up, parents…
Well….yeah, I know…I said I wasn’t going to talk about the idiot trump for a while but this one just popped into my head after talking to my friend K yesterday and how hard the distance learning they have been forced to do is on her and her daughter…and I just want the rest of the parents in this country to understand this one fact as they struggle to juggle their lives and keep their children moving forward…it didn’t have to be this way…almost every other damn country that took the virus seriously and made plans and followed them are returning to their normal lives, schools are opening, people can go out to restaurants and movies, and grandparent can see their grandchildren…but not here…and it is all because of the idiot trump and his incompetence and utter disregard for the lives of Americans…including your children. I’m especially talking to the voters who wanted something different, who didn’t like Hillary and wanted to take the chance on someone else…where did that get you? Have you learned yet that trump and the repubs don’t give a damn about you? Have your lives been disrupted enough that you can help this country throw out the chaos that comes with trump? That’s what needs to happen…we need people of goodwill who made a mistake in 2016 to come back to sanity and make the good man, Joe Biden, the next president…compare the two, who do you think will help us out of this nightmare? trump? If you think that, you are too far gone to be helped or to help us rebuild this country and restore the dignity that every American should want for our country…because of trump, we are laughed at around the world and our influence is at an all time low…our ability to help the world to help ourselves is gone…and it is all trump’s and the repubs fault…remember that when you vote…don’t you want some calm back in your life? That will never happen until trump is gone…vote…
What a selfish prick….
Well…if you read any of the Woodward book or saw any excerpt from it on tv, it is perfectly clear that the idiot trump doesn’t care about anyone but himself….especially since he knew how dangerous the virus was back in Feb but decided not to do anything about it since it would “make him look bad” if he did take it seriously…and this selfishness was on full display at his racist rally in Nevada last night when asked about the virus and that it might spread to his supporters….his answer: “I’m on stage and it’s very far away…and so I’m not at all concerned” …for him that is…but for the people who packed into this factory in a state that has an 8.5% positive test rate and who are NOT far away from each other he just doesn’t give a damn if he gets his jollies and gets to chant “lock him up”…and doesn’t see the irony that it is him that will be locked up when he loses the election. You know, I need to stop writing about this selfish asshole…I am going to consciously start looking for other topics that will help my brain calm itself and not feel so polluted…I think I have PTSD…
September 14th
Well…another night of okay sleep with weird dreams that had spilled oil and big lizards in it…didn’t get up til around 6 so I guess that is better than normal…had a little fun yesterday with going out to K’s to watch the Lions lose and it was nice to talk to someone for a change who is not a cashier at Meijers….but that meant I didn’t get anything done yesterday so I will have to clean today and I have an errand to run…need to get a new garden hose since one of my expandable ones blew a few days back and I really don’t want to drag the big, stiff one around the yard while I’m reseeding it…and I don’t need an inch diameter one just to run a nozzle or sprinkler…I’m not too sore this morning and but that is probably because I only did one ride yesterday but that will end today…have 600 more miles to do and won’t get there with just 18 miles a day…but it is getting light later and later so I can’t even get out of here until 7:30 or so now….which I guess is early enough…I can get two cups of coffee down and that helps on the bike….I think I’ll cut back to one ride a day once I hit 5,000 miles but I do like the fact that I have lost 3 inches off my waist this summer and around 10 pounds and I wonder how much I’ll gain back once I slow down some…will have to cut back my calorie intake to match the new normal but that won’t be for another 6 weeks or so….more later….
September 13th
Well…it’s raining! Yeah, I’m a little excited about not having to get on the bike until after the F1 race since it is raining out there….have been rushing to get out by 7:15 or so every morning so I can get back here and get started on work and to set me up to get two rides in every day….it is so luxurious to just sit here and have coffee while watching the Moto GP races…I wonder if that means I shouldn’t be riding so much? I do know I slept okay last night and don’t feel too bad this morning so I think I’ll just enjoy for that a while…I did get two rides in yesterday but they had another damn marathon on the trails so I had to do some road riding into town to get the miles I need in…only did 20 miles though, so that may be why my legs don’t really hurt this morning….stiff, yes, but not a lot of pain other than my right kneecap has some pain under it that I have been fighting for a couple of weeks now….didn’t get anything done yesterday and today looks the same but I should clean this place up but probably won’t…have been invited out to K’s to watch the Lions game but I’m not sure if I’m going to go out there….I’m so used to just hanging out here that it seems to be a lot of work to go out to Caledonia…and if it’s raining, watching outdoors won’t be too comfortable….we’ll see….more later….
some thoughts…
Well… with the wildfires devastating California and Oregon, don’t you think it’s a little strange that the president of the country has not had a word to say about it? Or has done nothing about it…no offer of federal aid, no visit not a frickin peep out the asshole in chief…and we know the reason why…just as he did with the blue states at the start of the pandemic, trump just doesn’t care about any state that doesn’t vote for him…never mind that he is supposed to be president of all of the people of the US, he is just so damn petty that he won’t do anything, leaving blue states to fend for themselves when a major purpose of the federal government is to help the states when they need it…I wonder what the maga assholes think about that when they live in a blue state? They are probably still cheering as they lose their homes to the fire since it will “own the libs”….what a sick, sick way to think. What else? Oh, it’s now clear that rudy and Ron Johnson are actively working with a Russian operative to get fake dirt on Joe Biden…yep, they are working with a Russian spy who is known to spread Putin’s disinformation and talking point and ole rudy and a sitting US senator are eating it up and actively cooperating with him to damage the US…what the hell happened to the repub party? Crap, they are just another arm of Putin’s party these days and care more about what Putin thinks than what is best for the US…now that IS treason when you work with the US’s enemies to harm the US….god, I hate these guys…more and more every day….
September 12th
Well…damn, I’m sore this morning and I think all the bending to reseed the lawn along with the painting is all hitting right now….but the weird thing is that I’m moving okay but I just hurt…we’ll see how it is when I get on the bike here in a few minutes…I did sleep okay and didn’t get up until almost 6…okay, I did wake up at 3:40 but was able to get back to sleep for a little while so I’ll count it as sleeping okay…it looks like I’ll be dodging the rain this morning since there is a huge blob just to the north and another one to the southwest that is heading in this direction…I find myself hoping that I only get one ride in today after doing two yesterday but I can’t slack off even though I hit 4400 miles yesterday….okay, almost 4400….have 16 more to do and that will happen on the first ride…I still need to make more progress on this place but I think I’m coming to the end of the work I’m going to do….the rest of it is large projects that I can’t do on my own…still going to try to get the last awning down next week but that will be the last project….not much to do today…the EPL comes back today and I need to look and see when Man U is playing and there are lots of races on so I won’t get much done other than vegging and watching today…I do need a day off to heal up some so I am going to try to not feel too guilty about it…maybe enjoy it for a change? More later….
Another busy day…
Well…yeah….I am kind of filling here to make up for not being able to write at all yesterday with the site being down…but, it’s not all filler and I do sometimes talk about my life a couple of times a day…so again, here goes….I really didn’t have much planned for today other than to get the bike rides in and then mow the lawn since my little electric mower doesn’t have the guts to cut the grass if it gets too long…and it was looking shaggy anyway….so I went out hard for the 18 miler and felt pretty good since I only did one ride yesterday and had some extra energy….when I got back here I got the mowing done and the bare spots in the front lawn were annoying the hell out of me so I decided to seed all of them…well…that was about half of the lawn and took a couple of hours and lots of pain to do since I had to bend over to put the seed in and then cover it with dirt that I took out of the piles behind the garage….but, when I was watering it…one of my flex hoses blew and I had to drag the stiff, heavy one out to be able to reach all of the yard…now I have to buy another hose but it’s not going to be an expandable one…they’re not very durable and they are not cheap….then I made lunch and got back on the bike for ride 2 and that one went okay but the wind was nuts and that made it a lot of work….I got back here around 2:30 and then decided that I needed to do laundry and got that started and just got the clothes in the dryer…so now I’m done for the day…a kind of long day after getting started at 7:30 this morning…and 8 hour day but I’m taking the weekend off so I’ll have some time to just screw around…and it’s going to rain tomorrow and there is some kind of running event that is going to happen on the trail in the morning so I may be off the bike, too….who knows?
Like Churchill? No damn way…
Well…the ridiculous liar has a new talking point about why he continuously lied to the American people about the severity of the virus…and, get this, he is comparing himself to Winston Churchill, saying that Churchill lied to the English people during WWII to “soften the blow” of bad news. We all know that the idiot trump doesn’t know anything about anything and history is one of his worst subjects…I mean taking the airports in the revolutionary War? What Churchill did was not to lie at all but the make sure that the English people knew how hard it was going to be after the rest of Europe fell and that they knew the stakes…and told the unvarnished truth that it was going to be the hardest thing any of them had ever done and there were going to be sacrifices of English lives if the country and the world were going to survive Hitler. He never said “Hitler is going to go away in the spring”….or “Hitler is under control and we may lose 15 people” like the idiot did…one thing we all have to remember is Churchill never said “I don’t take any responsibility at all” as the idiot did when asked about the covid response or lack of one that he really WAS responsible for. How delusional do you have to be to compare the complete failure that trump is to a leader who led his country through WWII and helped win the war against fascism? trump delusional….and that is going to be the new descriptor for the most delusional person possible….trump delusional…fitting…
trump knew and, of course, he lied…
Well….why isn’t trump in jail right now? With the revelations from the Woodward book and tapes that he knew how dangerous the virus is and still went out every damn day for months telling people it would just “go away” and basically stopped doing anything to keep people safe, isn’t this a crime? 200,000 people dead and estimates that another 200,000 could die before the end of the year and there are still no consequences for the idiot boy….he’s still flying around the country putting on his superspreader rallies where no one wears a mask and they are jammed in should to shoulder…just last night he brought that bullshit to Michigan and in two weeks we’ll see a huge spike in cases that will keep our state partially closed for months more just so the idiot in chief can get his jollies from his spittle flecked lie fests…and I am damn tired of it…I want our state to continue to get back to normal but this event means that there will be no pool shooting until next year….and this “rally” was illegal but when did illegality mean anything to any repub? I’m just so damn tired of trump and his asshole followers shitting all over this country…people, please get out and vote…they all need to be gone…