Well…I am getting damn tired of this crap…back up before 5 with coughing like crazy again and didn’t sleep much at all…so, there will be a nap later on…can’t go on with 4-5 hours of sleep a day…and I had to take something for the coughing this morning…it’s been two weeks since this started and I still hurt like crazy from coughing…this is just so damn tiring….had an okay day yesterday but didn’t do much with all of the sports that were on but I am going to get some cleaning done today in between the stuff that is on today…and I do have to cook again today and I am looking forward to having some chicken and mashed potatoes and gravy…I did put jeans on to go out for the paper today and it was kind of funny with how much weight I’ve lost riding so much this summer…they were falling off and I should have put a belt on….normally when I go into jeans, they are pretty tight but not this year…I should be sore after getting back on the bike yesterday but I’m not and that is a little strange….the only thing that hurts this morning are my abs from all of the coughing….okay, my thighs are a little sore but not much…I am going to try to get back on the bike this afternoon but it is supposed to rain some…nothing on the radar yet so maybe it will hold off a while…more later
Got a bike ride in…
Well…have been trying to find a topic in politics to write about today with no luck so I think I’ll talk about this….I got a bike ride in today for the first time in three days and it felt good to get out and get some fresh air…but it was only 42 degrees when I went at 11:30 and that is borderline for going out in just my riding gloves…but the sun was shining and it was clear when I left but that turned into a cloudy day and I was freezing by the time I got back here and haven’t been able to get warm since….I think I’ll have to start thinking about my winter hat and full gloves if I go out tomorrow….my lungs were okay for the entire ride but I’m back to coughing and wheezing again but I think I’m better than yesterday….we’ll see how the rest of the day goes…I did make chili this morning and it came out pretty good once I remembered that using my tomatoes meant that I would have to add more brown sugar than I normally do to tamp the bitterness down…and I put a little frank’s in, too, and that brought it to life…I even got the chicken in the brine but had to use my big roaster since the chicken was too big to fit in a gallon bag…it’s almost 7 pounds and that’s a pretty damn big chicken….so that will keep me fed for a week and at 79cents a pound, it’s a pretty good deal….maybe more later….
October 24th
Well…damn, I’m so tired of feeling crappy and coughing all the time…and my abs hurt so much from it that it hurts just to move at all…and let’s top that up with a headache I’ve had for a week now and it adds up to feeling miserable…I wonder if part of it is not being on the bike for two days with all the rain we’ve had? I am getting out today but it will wait til the afternoon since it is cold out there right now and I don’t want to do full thermasuit just yet…..what a waste of a day yesterday…didn’t do a damn thing but put the trash out and roll the empty bins back behind the house…they finally picked up my recycling after a couple of weeks of trying so I can get back to it again instead of putting it in the trash…I had things to do but just couldn’t get motivated with all the coughing and feeling sore…and today will probably look much the same with all the soccer and racing that is on this morning and Man U plays at 12:30 so that will put me out on the bike at 2:30 unless they are losing…I do have to get the chicken in brine to cook tomorrow and make chili today so that will be fun to do….but right now I’m watching MotoGP qualifying and then F1 qualifying and having my coffee…and there will be news in there,too….more later…
What a difference a day makes….
Well….you know I talked about the pasta sauce in this morning’s post and I was not too sure about it…with the bitterness that comes from using fresh tomatoes that I had to try to smooth out by adding a little sugar…okay, what a difference a day in the fridge makes…just made some pasta for lunch and it doesn’t even taste like the same sauce…I guess sitting in the fridge overnight gave it a chance for the flavors to smooth out and meld together and all I wanted to do was make another batch of pasta to have more…I didn’t, of course, since it is the second day of not riding with all the rain and can’t afford the calories….I was disappointed in the sauce yesterday but I am so pleasantly surprised today that I may just freeze some of it for another time…yummy…
Support the Lincoln project…for now..
Well…I’m sure you’ve seen the brutal ads against the idiot trump that the Lincoln Project has done over the past 6 months or so, but there is one thing to remember…they are republicans…and not the morons that trump has surrounded himself with but guys with some smarts…so that is why we on the left have to keep our eyes open when the election is over…what mischief will they be up to if trump loses? Look, I don’t trust these guys as far as I can throw them…they are repubs after all and they need to prove they can be trusted and have the best interests of the country at heart…and they have built a fundraising and media machine that can just as easily be turned against our side as against trump and his cronies. That said, what they plan on doing over the next couple of months is turn their efforts to the enablers of trump and those who have gleefully ripped children from their parents, destroyed the post office, and embraced the fascists who are attacking peaceful protesters across this country…and it appears that it will be a scorched earth program that will ensure that if any of these thugs working for trump try to get other jobs after they are done ruining this country, they will be outed to any employer who is considering hiring them and then they are going to run ads in their hometowns to make sure their friends, neighbors, and families know how terrible these people are…and what they’ve done…..and to show people like these that there is a price to pay for being such assholes…and it appears they are going to push for every damn one of them to be prosecuted if they’ve broken the law. Now, I can get behind that as the first step of restoring the rule of law in this country….it would be nice to see Bill Barr running a Taco Bell somewhere as he waits to go to jail for his crimes….but, let’s not let out guard down…one thing we’ve learned in the past 40 years is that you can’t trust repubs at all…and these guys are repubs after all…
October 23rd
Well….damn, my whole chest hurts from coughing again yesterday and last night and it is all from working in my own personal Chernobyl downstairs for only a half hour yesterday…and now I’ll be suffering all day today and probably for another week until my body recovers….but, I’m almost done down there so my exposure will be pretty limited until I’m done…slept okay last night and don’t feel really crappy today… a little crappy, but I can live with that….didn’t get out on the bike yesterday with all the rain but I am going to try to get out as soon as it gets light since it is 66 out there right now and I can get out for the last time in a shorts and a t-shirt if I can beat the rain and storms that are coming in…it’s going to be a race but I won’t feel bad if I don’t get out…there is a long line of storms and rain that are just to the northwest and the weather channel says it may storm around 10….then the temp is going to plunge later in the day and I’ll be back to full thermasuit tomorrow…I did make pasta sauce with my veggies yesterday and it came out good but forgot to put sugar in it to compensate for the bitterness of the tomatoes…but I fixed that after lunch and that made it much better…and I’m going to cook over the weekend…have a whole chicken to get in the brine tomorrow and I need to make chili with some burger that I have thawing downstairs and I’ll use up the rest of my tomatoes…dicing them to replace the canned ones I normally put in….not much to do today…just want to get a ride in before I start thinking about the rest of the day….more later….
Secret Chinese bank accounts…
Well….as the idiot boy tries to tar Joe with the idea that he is soft on the Chinese and has something, something going on with them and he should be locked up for it, it was revealed the other day that the idiot has a secret bank account with a Chinese bank that mysterious funds move into and out of all the time. This was not disclosed on any of his financial forms he had to file every year and the timing of the deposits and trump’s withdrawals are suspiciously near favorable policy decisions that trump has made that effect the Chinese government and businesses. So, we have trump lying and trying to create some kind of scandal against Joe when it is clear that it appears idiot boy is taking bribes from some Chinese entity…one of these was to the tune of 15 million dollars and yet no one in the media is talking much about it even though this lit bit of information was the financial records that the NYT has and that revealed that trump pays no income taxes at all….but, he pays them to China to the tune of almost 200K last year. So let’s weigh this out…Joe Biden something, something…lock him up…and the idiot trump is getting bribed to sell American foreign and business policy…which of these is the most serious and crimey? Yeah, you and I know which one but you can bet the media will both sides this…..cripes…
A productive morning…
Well…yeah, no political ones as yet but I’ve had a lot to do and have most of it done so that feels good…just sitting here now waiting for the pressure to release from the instant pot so I can get to the rest of the process of making the sauce…I did find my blender and got that cleaned and ready to smooth out the sauce and then it needs to go into my two biggest pots to thicken on low….oh, I just remembered I have a big pot that I can use or I can just put it back in the instant pot to thicken it….I did get to shutting down half of the downstairs project this morning and took the equipment down…it will only be about 56 days until I can shut the rest of it down for good and start cleaning up after it and I am looking forward to that…I think I torched my lungs again this morning working downstairs since I am coughing again right now….damn…I will get to a political one this afternoon once I find a topic but I need to get on finishing the sauce right now….more later….
24 seconds of decency…
Well…okay, this is going to be a short one about a video I saw yesterday of Joe Biden talking to and comforting the survivors of the Parkland shooting in Florida in 2018…after talking to Debbi Hixon whose husband died in the shooting while saving many of his students, Joe starts to walk away and you can hear Hixon’s son calling out to Joe and then you see him run into the picture as Joe turns around and Joe give him a big hug…then Joe thanks him for giving him the hug and asks if the boy is okay…when he shakes his head no, Joe kisses him on the head and reassures him that it will be okay…it will all be okay….now, I’ll admit that this small bit of decency, caring, and comfort affected me greatly after 4 years of the asshole in the WH…please go out and find it…it will warm your heart to see…
October 22nd
Well…made it all the way to coffee start this morning! But, I still feel pretty darn crappy and the cough is just as bad as it was yesterday and that makes it over a week that I have been suffering with it…it may be a little better since I was able to stop taking the medicine for it and still slept some…and I got out for a bike ride that was okay and didn’t have any shortness of breath so I guess that’s progress, too…damn, I just want this to be over and to feel well again…I do have some work to do downstairs today so it will probably get worse later….crap…but the work needs to be done so I’ll have to suck it up and live with it…and I am going to try to make some pasta sauce in the instant pot to use up the ripe tomatoes I have sitting on the kitchen table…I did get out to strip the gardens of what peppers and tomatoes that were left and I am hoping that some of them will turn red…I already froze the jalapenos and I have enough of those that I don’t think I’ll plant them for next year’s garden and I have some half sized green peppers that will go into the sauce today…have to drag the blender out to puree it after it cooks…this is going to be the first time I’ve made sauce since I was in my first house and we had spaghetti parties and I am just winging it without any recipe but how hard can it be? I’m going to make chili tomorrow or Saturday and use the rest of the tomatoes for the diced ones I need for it…not much to do today….just cooking and the downstairs work…and probably no ride since it’s supposed to rain all day….more later…