Well….damn, my shoulder still hurts but I did get out to run the errands I needed to…trying to put the car in reverse was just too painful so I had to reach across and use my left hand to do it…even putting the key in the ignition hurt like crazy and I couldn’t raise my arm enough to use it to steer…but, I normally use my left hand anyway so that wasn’t too different…the worst part was trying to put a fleece on since I can’t raise my arm or put any pressure on it….can’t even lift a coffee cup with my arm extended…but, I will say this…the pain is less than yesterday…it doesn’t hurt much just sitting here today and that is without taking any ibuprofen yet….couldn’t even get off the couch yesterday without screaming pain and that is better so maybe I won’t have to see my doctor after all…I am going to skip the bike ride today but l’ll try it tomorrow…more later…
December 24th
Well…this is really hard to write this morning with my shoulder getting worse today, as I expected, and it hurts like crazy still so it will be another day of laying low and trying to keep it moving a little…it has a big lump on it so I may have broken something in there…will call my doctor wed and see if I can get in this week for x-rays….damn, more money going out….sleeping was a chore trying to not sleep on it and keep it braced by pillows so it wouldn’t move…looks like I am going to get much better using my left hand over the next couple of weeks…of course I didn’t get much done yesterday and today will be the same…I did get some laundry done but that was about it…I do have an errand to run this morning and I’m not sure how shifting the car is going to work but I guess I’ll find out in a little while….more later….
It finally happened…
Well…it finally happened this morning…crashed the bike hard and did a bunch of damage..to me…the bike is okay but I landed on my right knee and shoulder and it hurts like crazy…don’t think I broke anything because I can still move my shoulder…it kind of feels like I just raked a half acre or chipped some ice but I know it’s going to get worse as the day goes on…luckily, I fell on a patch of dirt and grass but it did make a lot of crunching noises when I hit with my shoulder….the bitch is it all came from starting to turn 6 inches too soon after crossing one of the slippery bridges and just lost the front end…I did ride the bike back here and it looks like just a couple of scratches is all the damage done to it…so, today is going to be laying low but I need to keep moving my shoulder so it doesn’t freeze up…cripes, it even hurts to lift a glass of water so today is not going to be fun….ick…
December 23rd
Well…have had a damn headache for three days now and it is getting really annoying…and I’m not sure if it’s allergies or what but it needs to stop soon…slept okay last night but up again at 5 and that is no fun…but, the coffee is working so that we get me ready for the bike ride in a few minutes…went out yesterday when it was still almost dark but don’t want to do that today…but, I think that will be dictated by the boredom level that I feel…and that is starting already with no soccer until almost 11 today…didn’t get much done yesterday but watch Man U and a bunch of other sports and today looks the same…I did clean a little and will probably do a little more of that today…I may make my big ham today instead of waiting until Tuesday since I really don’t celebrate any religious holidays so there is no reason to wait…other than I have timed out my leftovers to be used up tomorrow and I do need the space in the fridge…okay, I just took some ibuprofen for my headache and I hope it works soon…more later…
Hmmm…
Well… sitting here waiting for the second half of the Man U match to start so I thought I’d come here for a second one of these…not really any reason for it but I just need to stay ahead for the month….but, no politics other than to say that the idiot boy owns the government shutdown and the fallout from it is owned by the repub party…so, on to other things…there were some decorations in the trees on the trail today and that made me smile some and I forgot to mention that a woman was handing out candy canes out there yesterday and that made me smile, too…got out this morning before it was light enough to see the display on the computer and that is probably the only time I’ve done that…but, I needed to get out before the boredom set in…and it was cold enough that I am still trying to warm up even with it 75 in here…have had the blankets piled on me this aft and once I’m done with this, I’m getting back under them…so, I’m done with this….
December 22nd
Well…running on time this morning but getting started is much more work than I expect…let’s start this one again…I’m bored of talking about how I sleep or how I hurt or anything…so, what do I talk about? Politics is for another one of these later so that is out…I did get quite a bit of stuff done yesterday morning but the funny thing is that paying bills, running errands, working out, and doing laundry only took me until 10 am and then the rain stopped and I got on the bike for a nice ride….finally figured out the shifter and got the 6-7 shift to work every time now so that is cool…I did get to 3400 miles yesterday and now the goal is to do 100 more before the end of the year and that will make it the third most miles in a year….and the bike still rides like new after all those miles…once the snow comes, I am going to switch the tires around so I’ll get another year out of them before I have to buy new ones…and I’ll think I’ll do that for the brake pads, too…not much to do today…just going to watch some sports and clean some…I am curious to see how Man U plays with the new manager…they can’t play worse…more later…
Hey Americans, this is what trump voters did to you just this week…
Well…amid the chaos created by the idiot in chief and spread across the world, the damage being done here is just stunning and the rest of us Americans have trump voters to thank for it. Just this week, the stock market has lost over 7%…yep, that’s right…and everyone’s IRA or 401 K took the hit…just like the example I used before…just a few weeks ago where the market dropped 6% and your 100K turned into 94K….now, with this latest bloodbath…that 94K has turned into 87K and that money you worked for and invested is going away just like some invisible tax that none of us has any control over. I wonder what trump will say about this? He sure took credit for the market on the way up, now will he take the blame for this crash? Ha, ha,ha,….yeah, that made me laugh, too…how can he take responsibility for something he is so ignorant of? Brace yourself for more of the same in the next few months since mainstream economists are warning that a recession is on the way…oh, and that huge sugar high tax cut for the rich that the repubs pushed through? It didn’t do anything to create jobs as the repubs lied, it didn’t raise wages as the repubs lied, and it DID reward companies for offshoring jobs…too much winning yet, trump voters? Impeach…
Putin’s happy…
Well….there is really only on thing you need to know about the idiot trump’s decision to withdraw all of the US troops that are stationed in Syria…Putin is happy about it…and even went so far to praise it as the “right decision” and to praise trump for making it…and you know what? If Putin is praising you for making a decision, you can be assured that it is the wrong decision for the US and the right one for Putin. But trump is just so damn stupid that he eats this crap up…to me, Putin’s praise is just like “good doggy” as he pats trump on the head for doing something he was told to do…and he didn’t shit on the floor so that was a bonus. Just today, we heard that idiot boy is also retreating in Afghanistan with withdrawal of our troops there on an expedited basis…leaving the entire country to the Taliban and ISIS….and crapping on the troops who have sacrificed there. Now, I’m not averse to bringing our troops home, but to do it just to do it without any thought of the consequences is just stupid…and it is abandoning the middle east to Russia and Iran with absolutely no concessions from them…just giving away the trillions of dollars we’ve spent there for nothing it appears…typical trump crap…it’s all about him and using the military to distract from the investigations that are closing in around him….but, they won’t stop just from this…trump is going to jail…it just may take a little while longer….impeach…
December 21st
Well…not going to talk about how much I hurt today…it may be easier to list the places I don’t hurt…and that gives me a little chuckle…and I think I’ll be taking something for it here soon…slept okay last night and even had some weird dreams that involved chocolate and tv but I really can’t fathom how that would be connected….but it means I finally got into some deep sleep and that is a welcome change…got a few things done yesterday and will continue that today with nothing else to do this morning since it is raining and that will keep me off the bike until around 11 or so…and I am already bored so cleaning or something might help that…and I do need to do laundry today, too so maybe I won’t be that bored…I do have to cook today, too, since I have some chicken that needs to be cooked or frozen and that will keep me busy for 5 minutes…more later…
No trump today…
Well….was going to write something about the looming government shutdown but since that has the idiot trump in it I just can’t do it….don’t want to even think about the idiot in chief so I won’t….Oh, I did want to talk about the good news here in Michigan that some repubs finally realized that their lame duck session shenanigans are not a good idea and have stopped them…but only after some damage was done…to them in the next election I hope. While they destroyed the citizen sponsored rise in the minimum wage, the rest of their power grab was stopped this week when the senate approved stripping of campaign finance oversight from the newly elected dem was stopped in the house…and guess why that was proposed in the first place? Yep, typical repub crap….the senator Dave Robertson has been under ethics investigations for years due to campaign finance violations and criminal embezzlement by his former campaign manager…and stripping this oversight from the secretary of state would essentially stop the investigations into Robertson….is there anything more repub than that? At least one repub here has had enough, and I applaud rep Aaron Miller for putting a stop to this un democratic bullshit….