Well…another 5:24 morning that turned into a 6:23 morning after I was a little successful in getting back to sleep but it doesn’t appear to have helped much since I still feel exhausted this morning…cripes, it’s starting to look like I’m always going to feel exhausted or crappy and I know I don’t like that much…it’s a pain in the butt to get old…oh, well….and I just turned the turkey in the brine and spilled it everywhere and that’s just what I needed first thing out of bed….but I am looking forward to cooking today and having a huge meal that will probably make me uncomfortable the rest of the day….but that comes with t-day and I don’t have much to do so I can just melt into the couch….I am going to get out on the bike this morning since it is already over 40 but I am going to wear my stocking cap since I damn near froze my ears off in the rain yesterday…everything looks like it has dried from yesterday but I need to shake the sand and grit off my wind pants in the tub since they are covered in dirt…and I should wash the bike before I go since the dirt was jamming up the shifter and I could barely get the 5-6 shift to work…but that will wait until it’s light out there and I get some coffee in me….just need to get the ride in and back here before 10 so I can get the bird done for lunch….didn’t get a pie this year since I’m not such a dessert person and I’d feel guilty letting it spoil….more later…
Probably not a good idea…
Well….where was I? Oh, I think I may have eaten some bad chicken for lunch…it tasted okay but as soon as I was done, my stomach went into spasms and I have been nauseous and that is still with me three hours later…an antacid helped some but it is still twisted into knots and I’m pretty uncomfortable….and I am just getting warm again after 5 hours under a blanket…it probably wasn’t such a good idea to go out on the bike and get soaked in 41 degree weather…by the time I got back here my leather gloves were even soaked through along with my shoes…and the way I have been feeling a little off lately, adding this to it tipped me over the edge and I feel pretty crappy…not virus crappy but a little crappy and I think cutting back on food to get ready for t-day hasn’t helped…I do need more than 1,000 calories a day even when I don’t ride and I have been down around there the past few days….I sure hope I feel like eating turkey tomorrow…I mean brineing it with brown sugar, rosemary, bay leaves, peppercorns, thyme, and sage smells so damn good just in the pan that it would be a shame to not be able to eat….and I’m going to slather the breast under the skin with a compound rosemary butter and then use the rest of the stick of butter and rosemary to coat the entire skin so it will be crispy….and putting carrots, celery, bay leaves, and maybe two slices of smoked sausage in the cavity as it cooks is going to make great gravy for the mashed potatoes,too, so I am going to be pissed if I’m not hungry….it still makes me laugh that I have a 16 pound turkey just for me….that’s bigger than the ones I used to make when I hosted the “orphans thanksgiving” many years back…I miss those days…
Now I guess he can shoot people legally…
Well…I think I may have eaten some bad chicken for lunch since my stomach went to hell immediately after lunch and I feel really lousy right now…but that’s not what I want to talk about…if you thought that the idiot trump couldn’t be worse of a person, you’d be wrong…just the other day it leaked out that Barr and the rest of trump’s cronies in the justice department want to fast track at least 5 executions of federal prisoners in his lame duck administration…and, just to make sure it’s the most painful and inhumane death, idiot boy is pushing for a return to firing squads for these executions…why, I don’t know but I’m sure he wants to let some of his deplorable sherrifs shoot people legally…not that they can’t do that now, it happens damn near every day that they shoot unarmed people of color….and you can bet that he will have a long line of his 2A people who will be clamoring to be part of it…and there will be no blank bullets so the people firing won’t know if they really killed the person like it has always been done…anyone that even considers taking part in this barbarism wants to know they killed someone…they get their jollies from it and wouldn’t take part if there were any possibility that their bullet didn’t help kill someone….so this is how far they’ve sunk…it’s not enough to murder someone by lethal injection…something that hasn’t happened on the federal level in over 20 years…but this lame duck asshole needs to inflict as much pain as he can…see, he gets his jollies out of it, too….what a piece of shit…
That sucked….
Well…just got back from a bike ride and it really, really sucked…looked at the radar before I left here and there was nothing on it so I decided to get on the bike around 9 or so…it was pretty cold but I was able to get out without a stocking hat and in a light thermasuit and that was perfectly fine until I got out about 4 miles or so when the fog turned into light rain that kept up the entire 15….I was soaked through and freezing when I got back here but I did get to 1,000 miles over what I rode last year and that was an accomplishment that I was trying to do…still cold after taking the hottest shower I could take and that will probably last all day. I did get the turkey in the brine and I laughed at how big it is….it barely fits in my roaster and the top won’t fit down and seal but that should be okay…can’t wait to cook it tomorrow and have a great t-day meal….more later…
November 25th
Well…running a little late this morning with sleeping in all the way to 5:45 and then staying in bed until 6:45…think I slept okay and my shoulder doesn’t hurt so I guess that’s something…it was a little funny last night as I had Star Trek on the tv while I was watching a SpaceX launch and land another one at the same time…still think it’s pretty cool how many launches they are doing this year…and this first stage had been launched and landed 6 times before and they hadn’t even repainted it so it still had scorch marks on it from landing…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but little bits of cleaning here and there and that looks like today, too, I do want to run out and get some bird food and hang the feeders again…not sure why but I like watching the birds….and I need more brown sugar for the turkey brine….didn’t get a ride in with all the snow and rain yesterday but I am going to try to get out today…it’s supposed to rain today but the radar shows not much going on right now so I may be able to get out after I run my errands….not much to do today…need to brine the turkey this morning and get the bike ride in but that’s about it….not going to clean the kitchen until after the big meal tomorrow but I should do more on the bathroom and will probably work on that this afternoon…there is soccer on…oh, Man U won yesterday! They looked pretty good doing it so that gives me hope they can get in the top four of the premier league and get back to Europe next year….more later…
This is depressing….
Well…have been sitting here as it starts to get dark at 4pm watching the huge snowflakes fall through the little round window in the front of the house and all I can say is this is depressing…I know, I’ve lived here in Michigan my entire life and it does snow in November, but it doesn’t make it any easier when it comes….and it doesn’t help that we are all isolating again and I’ve lost one of my longest friends over the past couple of months and I’m not sure why….and I didn’t get out on the bike today that usually lifts my spirits some since it was just too cold and wet to go…I just had to put the lamp on to be able to see to do this and it’s 4:06 in the afternoon….it looks like I’ll be hunkering down for the next couple of days to let this pass…like I know it will but damn, it’s not easy…..it never is…..
Marco Rubio is dumber than a box of rocks…
Well…I guess the modern repub party is against education, experience, orderliness, and competency….just today, ole Marco responded to the dream team of appointees from Joe with a whiny little screed that ended up with these people will be “polite and orderly caretakers of American decline…I have no interest in returning to the normal that left us dependent on China”…Marco, Marco….you and your trump buddies decimated American agriculture with your stupid trade war with China that China won….and your support of the chaos that trump brought to the world has resulted in the decline of American influence in the world…if you think we are better off after 4 years of trump’s stupidity, you are one delusional little moron….260,000 dead, the second wave of the virus crashing across the country, 20 million people out of work, 25 million in danger of homelessness, and food lines stretching for miles….if that is not “American decline” I don’t know what is and it happened on your watch you stupid little shit. And, as always, we dems have to come in and clean up the mess that you and trump and your cronies left this country in…and I’ll take polite and orderly any day after the thievery and chaos you helped trump foist upon this country…you are dumber than a box of rocks….
Here’s the difference…
Well….with Joe’s cabinet picks emerging, it paints a clear difference between the two major parties here in the US…while the idiot trump appointed a bunch of assholes who thought it was a strength to treat people and the world like crap, Joe’s picks have been hailed as being just good people who really care about others and doing a good job for everyone, along with being some of the most competent people in the US. That is a comforting thought after 4 years of assholery, lawbreaking, and hate…that we are going to have good, competent people running our government again and we only have 56 days of bullshit to get through…it is so cool to see the light at the end of the tunnel…and to know that things are going to get better from day one of Biden’s administration…or even before that as the transition starts. One thing that happen on day one is that there will no longer be children in cages and refugees will be welcomed again in accordance to international law…and the DHS and CBP thugs who have been torturing asylum seekers will be held to account….would that ever happen in a repub administration? Never in a million years…and that is another difference….we have to remember that Joe and his policies are not going to be perfect, especially when Mitch McConnell is already trying to sabotage any progress that the dems will try to make, but they will be the result of trying to make things better and not just burning the country down as trump and his cronies have done. I am really looking forward to retiring the epithet “idiot boy” and never writing about trump again….I’m sure he is going to try to stay relevant, as if he ever was, so I may have to backslide some…but it will be refreshing to write about good things again for the most part…I will criticize when events or policies warrant it…but I’m pretty sure that Joe won’t ever make personal attacks or go off on rants and lie on twitter….and that will be enough for now….
November 24th
Well…I figured out how much good taking an ibuprofen every night does after not taking any the night before last…slept on my right shoulder and the tendon swelled up so I could barely move my arm for all the pain….and that was painful enough that I took one before I got on the bike yesterday so I could hold on to the handle bars…but, there is very little pain this morning and I even slept on the right some last night and didn’t get up til 6:30….had weird dreams about a harley that I leased but it never ran right and I was always losing the keys…and it weighed 900 pounds so I couldn’t lift it when it fell over….and there was rain and mud everywhere so I couldn’t ride it…strange…I did get out to run errands yesterday so I am in til next week…didn’t want to be out in the stores today or tomorrow with t-day coming…it was even pretty busy at Meijers yesterday and I couldn’t wait to get out of there with the explosion of the virus…the chance of someone in there infected has gone up by so much that I do need to stop going out but once a week….I have everything I need and with making a turkey thurs, I’ll have plenty of food….even got all the stuff for making soup just in case I want to do that this weekend…not much to do today…it looks like rain is coming in so I won’t get on the bike til the afternoon…and the rain coming might just turn into snow since it is only 28 out there right now…so, I’ll have time to clean with the bathroom and the kitchen needing some work….more later….
The transition begins….
Well…I guess a little pressure from congress was all that the GSA administrator needed to “ascertain” that Joe Biden won the election and that the transition to his administration can begin. In a letter sent this afternoon after a testy exchange with the chairs of a few house committees, GSA administrator Emily Murphy has sent the letter that will start the transition away from the idiot boy and to a real president…I wonder if the chair’s demands that she explain herself had anything to do with it? The entire holdup was that she is looking for another job and didn’t want to get trump mad and have him fire her since it would look bad on her resume…yep, the transition was held up and people died just so this moron could pad her resume a little bit and find a job in the right wing welfare web that is the only place trumpists will ever be able to work again….I wonder how idiot boy will react to people that he hired saying he lost? Man, this is going to be delicious…and twitter will be on fire later tonight and probably overnight…or, he is just going to go into the biggest case of cognitive dissonance and just lock his tiny little brain right up…LOSER!