Well…I was going to combine all three of these sports posts into one but the first one went a little long so I decided to break them up into their component parts as I sit here and try to stay busy…I am a little confused about Man U after their start this year in the Premier League….they were mired down the table at about 15th and it appeared they could be headed to relegation which would be one of the biggest shocks in English football…or soccer…but, something happened over the past few weeks and they have climbed up to 7th, only 5 points from the top and with a good shot of making the top four to get back to the champions league in Europe in the spring. But, damn, they are becoming cardiac kids that is a little stressful to watch…like their game yesterday, they went behind 2-0 early and the score stayed that way until well into the 2nd half when I just turned it off with frustration with how they were playing…but then, like someone turned on a switch, they came back to win in the final minutes of the game 3-2 and I missed it until I saw it on the game highlights later in the day….I was shocked to say the least and maybe I’ll have to stay with them in their next match just to see if it’s a fluke or not….it would be nice to have one team that I follow do well since all of the rest of them really, really suck this year….fingers crossed…
Finally, the Lions fire Patricia….
Well…as you know, the Detroit Lions have been one of the worst teams in football since they won their final championship in 1957, only making the playoffs a few times and never winning a playoff game…and the past three years have been one of the worst stretches in that time…with the current regime going something like 13-39 in that time. But, finally, the head coach and GM of this debacle were fired over the weekend and we start another “rebuild” of the team that seems like it has been going on since I started watching them when I was five or so. Matt Patricia came to the Lions from New England along with the GM Quinn and they were supposed geniuses that were going to bring the “Patriot way” to the Lions…after all the Patriots won 3 super bowls while these two were there so they just had to be great….but, not so much….they failed miserably in Detroit and joined the long line of other “saviors” that failed to even put a credible team on the field…so now the rebuild begins and we wait another two years until the Lions can be even a mediocre team….I could be dead by then…I think we need a new team here in Michigan….geez…
A little sports….
Well….I have been sitting here pondering whether or not to go out for a ride and have come up with many reasons not to…okay, not reasons but excuses but they look like reasons to me…it’s cold, the wind is blowing, I have coffee to finish, my legs are sore…you get the idea…but, that’s not what I wanted to talk about…if you watched the F1 race yesterday, you saw one of the most horrifying crashes that I have ever seen…Roman Grosjean, driving for the American Haas team cut across the track to avoid a car that was trying to spin out and clipped the front of another car that sent it straight into the guardrail at around 140 mph….when the car hit, it broke in half, puncturing the fuel tank and driving the drivers protective cell straight through the guardrail leaving it stuck in it and engulfed in fire….track marshals arrived quickly but it looked to be a fatal accident…then, you see the driver climbing out of the remains of the car and running away from the scene with the help of the doctor and driver of the medical car…I was shocked that Roman even survived the crash, but to see him walking away was one of the coolest things I have ever seen…and yesterday evening, he posted a video with his burned hands saying he would be okay and he was in good spirits and looking forward to getting back to the track…go out to you tube and watch it…it is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen at a racetrack….
November 30th
Well…another 4:27 morning today and whenever that happens, the car geek in me immediately thinks of the engines that both Ford and Chevy made that were 427 cubic inches…yeah, I know…I’m weird…but, I slept okay and that isn’t…well..maybe it is the way I normally sleep….kind of sore today after going out hard and keeping it up the entire ride….it was nice to get out in a normal hat and just my riding gloves yesterday but I think that is just about over for the year…but I can get out in full thermasuit so I guess that’s no big deal…didn’t get a whole lot done yesterday with sports on…I am going to talk about a crash in the F1 race that was one of the worst I’ve ever seen but that will be later when I do a sports update…haven’t talked about that in a while and there have been things happen that I want to comment on…the birds still haven’t found the feeders yet and that is kind of strange with how many of them that have been flocking under the awnings…it’s been three days but last year it took them 3 weeks to find them and I wonder if the ones that found and fed off them last year are all gone or if they don’t have very good memories…..I never got one hummingbird to the feeder this year and I just took it down the other day…will need to bring it in and clean it today since the sugar water will leave it sticky….not much to do today….have an easy morning with having to wait to go out on the bike and just having this to do until then…oh, and the news and lots more coffee….more later….
Care package…
Well…you know, when I talked about a “care package” in the last one and still use it in conversation sometimes, I probably should explain what it is since it’s not common knowledge anymore…when I was a kid there was an organization called Care that sent out packages of food, medicine, and clothing to impoverished areas of the world…so whenever I get anything free, I call it a care package…and I got one today from Priority Health that had 2 facemasks, 2 temperature sensors, a band aid holder with band aids, and a deck of cards that have the biggest damn numbers on them I have ever seen…I wonder if they think I’m getting old? Still, it’s pretty cool anytime you get free stuff and I’ll use it….
This is funny…
Well…just sitting here checking out the care package the Priority Health sent me and remembered I hadn’t come back here today and I did have something to talk about that I think is pretty damn funny. I really do think that idiot boy trump truly believes that there has been voter fraud going on…he believes it so much that he spent 3 million bucks of his stupid followers money for a partial recount in the “urban” counties of Wisconsin…can you guess how that came out? Yeah, the funny part is that trump spent 3 million bucks to find 87 net votes for Joe….and this is idiot boy’s entire life…spend other people’s money that he doesn’t give a damn about losing since it is his superpower…losing money that is….he is so damn good at it that he even lost money running casinos…and he is the only person in history to do that…..I wonder what the next fundraising e-mail is going to be? “If we just spend a little more money, we can win”…..and he’ll hit the rubes up for more cash as he is ushered out the door….a day I just can’t wait for….geez…
November 29th
Well…that was better…my stomach was okay all night and didn’t wake me up once and I slept in all the way to 6:03 when the coffee maker signaled it was time to get up….I think I slept okay but had no dreams that I can remember and that is a little annoying with how many I have been having lately….I was really expecting my right shoulder to be screaming at me after raking the leaves yesterday but it doesn’t hurt at all today even with sleeping on it last night….it was probably a good idea to take some ibuprofen last night….I did get a ride in yesterday and will probably ride again today but that will wait until the afternoon since I just can’t get motivated right now and it is still dark…and the F1 race is on at 9 along with Man U so I am going to just ease into the day and have lots more coffee….I really do need to clean this place up today and continue to work on the kitchen after getting the oven done yesterday…and it’s about time to wrangle the dust again since there is a thin coating on everything…I do need to get some new furnace filters this week and I hope that helps with the dust but with how old this house is, it probably won’t….not much to do today…and this time, that is true….just going to watch some sports and fool around here some….more later….
Got a few things done…
Well…I think my experiment for today has proven that the turkey I cooked was off….had everything that I had yesterday except for turkey for lunch and my stomach is perfectly fine….so that is all going in the trash including the carcasses so no turkey soup this year….and I got a few things done today….got the last of the leaves moved behind the garage to compost, got the bird feeders put back together, up, and filled, and then washed the shifter on the bike since the 5-6 shift is still annoying me and I wanted to clean it again before I start adjusting it…oh, and I did laundry and left a paper towel in the sink which plugged the drain up and flooded the floor…luckily it just runs over the top of the sink and then down the floor drain so no big deal….oh, another thing I almost forgot…cleaned the oven today, too, so I did get a few things done after feeling crappy and being a total veg yesterday…but now it’s time to take it easy for a while and watch some soccer….
November 28th
Well…that was an ugly day….my stomach has been roiled up and I have been eating antacids like candy to keep the pain at bay and that hasn’t happened in a long time….and I’m not sure what it is that caused it…I do know that It woke me up all night and I feel pretty crappy right now….the only thing that I changed in my diet was the turkey and I have a suspicion that it may be bad since it had a smell to it when I took it out of the package and it shouldn’t smell at all…so, I’ll skip turkey today to see how that works…I did get out on the bike yesterday and got over 5,600 miles for the year but I have no goal left for the rest of the year…won’t get to 6,000 without doing doubles every day and I’m done with that….today is going to be a little later when I go out since it is in the 20’s right now and I want to see F1 qualifying at 9….I should clean some and I might take a whack at the oven since I spilled some stuff in it and I want to make sure it doesn’t bake on…and I cleaned the bird feeders yesterday and will probably put them up today…I wasn’t going to but I like watching the birds and they have been flitting around the awning like they are looking for it…and I have some leaves in the back yard I want to get in a pile so they will compost over the winter but I can work on that over the next few days….more later…
All that losing…
Well….have been trying to find a topic all day today and just can’t get motivated to do much…but, I did want to talk about the latest suit that idiot boy and his stupid minions have lost….last week after a district court in PA blew them out of the water with a scathing ruling, the chief lawyer idiot Rudy said it was all part of his master plan to get the case to the supreme court where trump’s toadies would bail him out and install him as president….so, just today, the appeals court that they appealed the ruling to blew them out of the water again saying that they didn’t present a case at all and had no evidence…and that opinions are not evidence. So, the master plan is working and they are losing and losing….but the one little problem is that with rulings like these, the SC won’t even take the case if it gets through the last court of appeals…and they are not going to overturn the votes of millions of people when there is no evidence of fraud…and Rudy is so stupid that his suit didn’t even object to enough votes to make trump the winner even if they won…it’s over Rudy…try to figure out another grift….