Well…there has been massive speculation on why the idiot trump has knee capped every head of the military and the IC since he lost the election last week…but there really isn’t any need to speculate…it’s clear that this is just another tactic to cover up his incompetence and wrongdoing and to hit back at critics and try to prove that Russia didn’t help him in 2016. The people he replaced, the sec def and others, were mildly competent and had shown that they would buck him in certain instances…as Esper did when he resisted putting troops in the streets to attack peaceful protesters in DC…and I’m sure they would have resisted the wholesale destruction of records that trump is counting on his new toadies to carry out before Jan 20th…you only have to look back at the entirety of idiot boy’s term where they wouldn’t even provide any information even under subpoena since they knew it would reveal lawbreaking across trump’s entire administration…so those records have to go even though that would be breaking even more laws…which I don’t get since once Joe takes over, all of this criminality will be exposed and these new toadies will be exposed to jail time. So, a coup? Nope, just trump covering his ass while he still can…
November 12th
Well…that was another night of okay sleep but I wonder when I’m going to start feeling better from it…still feel so damn worn out even without riding yesterday that I’m beginning to think I may be getting old…that can’t be it…had some strange dreams again and that is one bright spot of sleeping a little better and this one had all people I didn’t know and lots of pizza in it…and I was going on a group ride that I never do…strange….I wonder if I should order pizza? I did get some cleaning done yesterday and should do the kitchen today and I just might since it is only 29 outside and that is means I’ll have to wait to get on the bike until this afternoon….just don’t want to do full thermasuit just yet but I guess I’m going to have to sometime…after all, I did put jeans on the last time it was cold and I usually wait to do that until t-day….I think it was a good thing to take a day off riding…my right knee was starting to get sore and I am having pain in my foot that isn’t the gout coming back so maybe I need to take it a little easier…not much to do today…just cleaning and looking for houses…I did see a nice one in Hastings for only 118K that doesn’t even need any work and I may just take a run down there and take a look at it…I am a little limited of how far out I can go since I do need cable internet…I should have something picked out by the end of the month…I hope…more later
Some good news…
Well….I talked about a little disappointment I had yesterday when I was going out for the top down park run yesterday when the stereo in the car wouldn’t play my mp3 player through it…I tried a bunch of other cables and none of them worked so I assumed the unit was at fault…but, I wanted to make sure so I hit the dollar store this morning to get another one on the way back from aldi’s…just tried it and it works again…so I guess all the cables I have are shot….that is pretty cool and is one less thing I have to think about….a bit of good news…
The idiot continues to lose…
Well…this whole not riding thing has freed up way too much time for me so I thought I’d come here and do another one of these while I finish up my last cup of coffee…the idiot boy must just be fuming with going 0-12 in lawsuits to try to overturn the election…but he just keeps filing them…I wonder what the final count will be? Just this morning, he got a bit more bad news on two fronts…the international organization that idiot boy invited in to “watch” the election put out a statement saying they saw absolutely no fraud of any kind in the states they were observing…and then they put out a statement that he should stop lying about it since it undermines the public’s faith in our electoral process…ouch. Then he has the NYT this morning with the front page headline: “Election officials nationwide find no fraud”…that one must sting, too, but will it stop his lying crap? Notp…as I said yesterday, he needs to keep his cult whipped up so they will continue to give him money since his campaign is broke. While all this is going on, the rest of the country knows that Joe won the election with a poll from yesterday saying that 80% of Americans agree that he won…so we are going to move inexorably toward the inauguration and trump is going to be gone on the 20th of January no matter what he does….and he is hiding in his bunker right now…not being seen in public for 5 days…tick tock, asshole…
November 11th
Well…that was weird…slept through the night for the second day in a row and I can’t remember when that happened the last time….and I’m barely coughing now so maybe I’m feeling better…still feel a little slow and low energy right now but that is probably from not eating enough…or from too much riding so I think I’ll take the day off with getting to my last goal for the year yesterday…I do still have that damn headache I’ve had off and on for a month but I know it’s from allergies and I hope I can get some more meds this morning when I do the grocery run….it is a little strange that we had a storm last night and the power didn’t go out….was sitting here waiting for it and dreading the fact that it was going to get cold and I would need the heat to work…it is only 39 out there right now and that is a huge change from 64 yesterday…I’m going to have to get used to the cold all over again I guess….didn’t get much done yesterday but I got most everything done the day before so I didn’t have much to do…I do have to clean today but I really want to just take a day off after I do the grocery run…and I just might….it would be nice to just veg for a while and let my body heal up some….more later….
It’s just another grift…
Well….if you look closely at the “voter fraud” bleating of the repubs that are going on since the idiot boy lost the election you can see that even if they won all of the lawsuits and had those ballots thrown out they would still be behind and won’t have won the election. So, what would be the reason they are doing it other than they just hate democracy and are looking for any way to stab at it? You just have to look at the 200 fundraising e-mails that have gone out since this bullshit started…look, idiot boy’s campaign is broke and there is no way they are going to pay the 3 million dollars to get a recount in Wisconsin or any other state….but what they can do is squeeze more cash out of the rubes so trump can leave office with 20 million bucks and then set up rallies to keep the grift going…and that’s what he wants anyway…to still be able to to do the rallies and work up the idiots who follow him but not have to do any real work…it’s not like he does any now but after he is out of office, all he will have to do is show up, rant a little, and cash the checks…which is right up his alley…so it’s all a grift and he is going to use this chaos to make money…after all, he is going to need it with 400 million in personal loans coming due next year….
Got the drive in…
Well…I did finally get the park drive in today and it was nice to just do nothing for a change…but I found out my stereo in the car is dying and won’t play my mp3 player through it anymore…need to get another cable from the dollar store tomorrow to see it that’s what it is…I did also stop at the bar where Tom and I shoot pool and they are open so we may be able to shoot pool Friday…that would be cool…I put 50 miles on the car and I’m sure it is going to thank me for it…it can’t be good for it to drive 4 miles and then have it set again for another week…more later…I’ll get to a political one in a few minutes if I can find a topic..
November 10th
Well…I think I may be getting over the coughing I’ve had for the past month…didn’t cough much yesterday and I slept okay last night with none that I can remember…I am coughing a little right now but I just got up and I can’t remember not coughing a little in the mornings…I wonder if it was all the outdoor time yesterday? It looks like another day of getting out as soon as it gets light with the temp at 64 right now so I can get both rides in before noon…I’m still thinking about taking a ride with the top down today just to celebrate the end of top down weather…I know I put the top down even when it’s cold but today will be the last day in shorts and short sleeves….man, I was sore last night after all of the work yesterday but it seems to be better today…I did take something for it and I’m sure that helped and I’ll probably need something later after doing two rides today…I’m going to get to the last milestone this morning with only 8 miles to go to get to 5,416 miles that will give me 10,000 miles with this year and last year combined…have never done that before…I’ll have to look at my records to see where I am in total since I started to keep track…I think I’m inching up on 75,000 miles and that would be something….not much to do today….I think I’ll probably take the day off and just enjoy the last day of nice weather…did all of the work I needed to do yesterday and I need a rest day…damn, I’m getting old….more later….
A busy, busy day…
Well…when you get weather like this in November, it makes me feel like I need to jam in a lot of tasks to take advantage of it…and with today being the next to last 70 degree day, I have been busy, busy, busy. Started out my day at around 8 getting out on the bike for the first ride in a t-shirt and shorts since it was 64 already….went hard and pulled top gear all the way along the west side of the park which I have never done before…I wonder if that has something to do with the changes that are happening after the election? After the first ride…I finished up the coffee and got back on the bike for a second one by 10 and, when I got back here, I started lunch and, while that was cooking, got the garden waste bagged up and into the trash, moved the blocks that I had in the center of the lawn garden, and then raked and leveled the garden space and seeded it with grass seed. Then lunch, and after that I got started on the front lawn where I edged the sidewalks, then mowed the lawn for the last time and picked up the leaves….after I put all the tools away, I pulled the car out and washed it…just in case I want to do the top down park run tomorrow…it is going to be over 70 again so I may just pack a couple of beers and take a cruise. Then I came in and did three of these…but now I am done for the day…oh, I did laundry, too…that I need to get in the dryer right now…then I’m done….whew…
Music is becoming just music again…
Well…man, I feel like I’m going through cortisol (the fight or flight hormone) withdrawal today after 4 years of having a ball of it inside me…from the day that idiot boy got elected, I have had elevated stress levels from worrying about what the latest outrage from the moron was going to be and how it was going to affect me. It dawned on me today when I was out riding that one of the effects of having the great outcome of the election is that music is becoming just music again…let me explain…over the past four years, I have had to have many coping mechanisms to allow me to survive the trump years…and music was one of the components of my shield along with drinking too much, riding too much, and keeping myself pretty isolated from the news. But today, music started to return to the thing I have enjoyed all my life…something that made me happy and helped elevate my mood…and with that change I started to notice the songs again and enjoy every note, they were no longer just a noisy shield that kept my brain occupied and the world out but they were different, like they had color again and nuance and even got me bopping to some of them on the bike. This kind of change hasn’t happened with food yet and I wonder if it will? It would be nice to savor some tastes and think of food not just as fuel but to be able to enjoy it…that might be too much to ask.