Well…yeah, I know, I promised to do this one yesterday but I actually did some cleaning around here and that took up a lot of the afternoon…but, I’m here now so let’s go…got to 5,000 miles on the bike Thursday! Not sure how I really feel about it, though…on one hand, it’s pretty cool that I reached my goal, but on the other hand…why was it even a goal? Not sure what I was trying to prove…and who I was trying to prove it to….I think there were probably a couple of reasons for doing it…like the reasons people climb mountains I guess…”because it’s there”…or because I can still do it….and to prove to myself that I not a washed up old guy waiting to die….okay, that’s a little depressing…and I do have to say it was fun riding all year and it’s only been the past couple of weeks that I’ve gotten a little weary with doing 30-40 miles every day and being on the bike for 2 1/2 hours every day….but, I feel that I’m wearing out some in those weeks, too, just fatigued and sore all the time…but did that keep me off the bike the past two days after I met the goal? Of course not…I am an idiot after all…and did 30 miles a day…the bike that I bought in the spring has been so damn reliable and comfortable and that has made this year so much easier…no flats or breakdowns of any kind and I figured out that you should never, ever lubricate the rear shifter…when it sticks, I just blast it with water and it’s good to go…I did have a back tire fail at about 4K miles but I had one on the old bike I could use but I do need to order a new one so I’ll have one here when I need it. So, it has been a good year on the bike and I guess that 5K miles is pretty damn good for an old guy….not sure what the new goal is going to be for next year…one thing that has been floating in and out of my head is doing 100 miles for every year of age…that would add a couple of thousand to this year and I’m not sure I want to I want to make that much of a comittment…after all, I’m not sure why I did the 5K this year and wherever I end up I may not have trails that are as convenient as the one here….hmmmm…
October 10th
Well…this is starting to suck…have been regressing on wake up times over the past week and last night was the worst so far…went to bed late and still woke up at 3:35…but I will say I did get back to sleep in about a half hour and stayed in bed until after the coffee maker started so I guess I’ll have to live with it….I did get out to hang with T for a while yesterday and even had a couple of beers at LC which I didn’t even know was open….so that was fun to get out, put the top down on the car and have some laughs….and it is over 60 outside right now so I can get out on the bike as soon as F1 qualifying is over at 10…only did one ride yesterday but cleaned this place up some and it really needed it…you know, making it to the 5K goal has reduced my sense of urgency to get out and do two rides a day…I may still do a few as the weather allows but only having about 400 more miles to go for the last goal of the year and having 3 months to do it keeps the stress level pretty low….now I just need to start cutting the extra calories out that I was doing to support 30+ miles a day….and, I know how to but just don’t want to…need more fruits and veggies but doing that will be a long process….not much to do today…just going to veg it out for a while and have more coffee and watch MotoGP qualifying until F1 comes on….or not really watch it but have it on in the background as I read the news…I think there are races on later but I’m not sure about that yet…..more later….
We can impeach her…
Well….I know there has been a lot of consternation with Moscowmitch trying ram Amy Barrett’s nomination through the senate before the election but there is one thing we need to remember if we take back the senate and Joe wins…we can impeach her…it has already been reported that mitch and other senators have been coordinating with her to try to hide her far right wing beliefs and the fact she is not qualified for the SC…but it has already been reported that she may have lied on the forms she submitted to get the appeals court seat where she now sits…and lying on those forms is perjury, which would disqualify her from any court…so, just because moscow mitch can ram her through, it doesn’t mean that she will stay there….once we have the senate, we can do a real investigation into both her and Kavanaugh…who it is clear did lie during his confirmation hearings. Then just impeach and remove them and have Joe appoint two more justices of whom Merrick Garland should be number one….but, they should only be removed if they clearly broke the law…not for innuendo or lies like the repubs use…the rule of law needs to be restored and this would be a great place to start to restore the authority of the court which is in tatters after moscow mitch and his cronies broke every rule to put unqualified political hacks on the court.
October 9th
Well…darn…back to waking up at 3:54 again but luckily, I was able to get back to sleep for a couple of hours and don’t feel too bad this morning…still have that damn cough that has been bugging me for a week now and the wheezing kept waking me up all night…I know it’s just allergies, though, so I can deal with that…I did make it to 5,000 miles on the bike yesterday but I’m going to talk about that in a separate one later so I won’t talk about it now….didn’t get a whole lot done yesterday but some gardening and that’s okay with how crappy I’ve been feeling…just so damn worn out lately and part of that just may be how many miles I’ve ridden this year…I’m not young anymore and I guess I need to really look at a training schedule that would have some more recovery time in it…just so damn sore all the time that I must be doing something wrong….and I need to be able to stop taking an ibuprofen every day to tolerate it…I am going to take Monday off if it rains and I need to start throttling back my calorie intake if I start riding less…I am going to miss having a bagel in the morning since I just added them to make up for not having enough calories when I ride 30+ miles in a day…..oh, well….not much to do today…have to meet up with T some time today and get the rides in but that is about it….I think I’m going to take the weekend off and just ride how much I feel and putter around here…I do have cleaning to do so that will be something to fill the time….more later…
Trump chickens out of the debates…
Well…I’m pretty sure most people saw this one coming after the idiot boy’s performance at the last debate when he refused today to participate in any more debates since they are going to be virtual and not face to face. You know the biggest reason for his hissy fit is that debates to the moron are just theater and he feeds off the reaction of Biden to try to score points…no substance, just bluster, bullshit, and lies that won’t go over in a virtual environment….and idiot boy even hit the nail on the head when he said today that they can just “cut him off” if the debate is virtual and he can’t interrupt and disrupt which is the only thing he has…no policy, no accomplishments, and 215,000 dead….Joe has already said he’s perfectly fine with the virtual format and, since trump chickened out, he is going to go ahead with another town hall style Q and A session that he did so well at last week. You know, I’m glad that trump is such a chicken….we don’t need to hear another damn word from him…we all know his bullshit and we are all tired of it….
October 8th
Well…it’s 5,000 mile day today! Only have a little under 15 to go to get there so that will be done this morning…not sure if I feel relief or disappointment that I reached the goal for the year and there is only one more left to do….need to ride 415 more miles to have a combined 10,000 miles for the past two years…the funny thing is that it’s 6 times more than I’ve driven my car in that time…not sure if I’m going to do a second ride today or take the afternoon off…if it’s not windy like it was yesterday, I’ll probably go out for a second one and wait to take the day off I had planned until it rains Monday….I did sleep okay last night and only feel sore today…going into a 20 mph wind really puts a strain on the legs and I’m feeling it today…I did talk to my son who I’m fixing the house up for yesterday and we were on the phone for almost an hour and that was pretty cool…hadn’t talked to him in quite a while and I am happy he and his wife are so excited to be moving here in March…he seems tired of living in NYC and they are looking forward to less stress from just living….now, I just need to get my butt in gear and find a house for me…I think I have one more rehab in me even as old as I am….not much to do today…just going to take it easy this morning and wait for the temp to come up for the bike ride at 9…and have a bagel with my coffee and news….more later….
Trump loses another one on his taxes…
Well…gee, I wonder what caused the idiot trump’s meltdown on twitter today (other than the steroids they are giving him)? I wonder…hmmmm….could it be that a federal appeals court just blew him out of the water and ordered his accounting firm to hand over his financial records to Cy Vance in New York? Yep, and this appeals court basically told his lawyers the same thing as the lower court did…take your bullshit arguments and go away as they dismissed the suit “with prejudice” which means don’t come back with the same crap you’ve been peddling…and Cy Vance is giving them 12 days to appeal to the SC who has already rejected the arguments that the lawyers presented to them and sent the case back to lower courts for idiot boy’s lawyers to actually come up with a legal argument for withholding the documents and not the political bullshit they presented. And that is even if the SC takes the case…they could just say that the appeals court ruled correctly and that would end it and trump,too….it’s getting to look more and more that idiot boy and his demon spawn are going to end up in jail after we throw trump out next month…and that will be fun to see…perp walk anyone?
October 7th
Well…running at about the new normal time this morning but the extra sleep didn’t help with how crappy I feel…damn, I thought I was over this bug when I quit coughing yesterday and felt quite a bit better…but, the coughing is back and now I feel a little warm again so I guess I’m not….oh, well….I did get two rides in yesterday and I’m down to about 40 miles left to go to get to 5K but I won’t get out until after the grocery run today since it won’t be light enough to go to be back here before 9….so it looks like I’ll just sit here feeling crappy and reading the news with my coffee until then….and that kinda sucks since it is over 60 right now and it would be nice to be out to see the sunrise on the bike…but, I don’t have the energy for it anyway….got the last of my gardening with the big plants done yesterday and now all I have to do is wait a little while to see if I get any more tomatoes before I start taking those out…I did get the lawn mowed yesterday and it is starting to look pretty good with filling in but could use some more seed….not sure if I’m going to do that, though….I do need to fill in the garden that I put in the lawn and put some seed in there to reclaim it as lawn before fall is over so I think I’ll save the remaining seed for that….not much to do today…just going to do groceries and the rides today…I may have overdone it some yesterday and that could be why the bug came back but I still need those two rides today….will just live with the consequences I guess….more later…
John James is either ignorant or a liar…
Well…it appears that the repub party has become a party of liars or of people ignorant of how the government works…or both if you see some of the political ads being run here in Michigan. In our senate race, the challenger, John James, is on the air with an ad that attacks Gary Peters for not doing anything about coronavirus as a member of the senate…going so far as to say he leads the committee that is charged with dealing with virus outbreaks and didn’t do anything about it…that is a blatant lie if you understand at all how the senate works…since the repubs control the senate, Peters could be the ranking member of the committee but a repub runs it as they do every other committee in the senate right now…so is James lying or does he not know how the senate works? Either one should be disqualifying but it has become normal that candidates from the repubs don’t know a damn thing about how the government works and there is not one damn thing that Gary Peters could have done but bitch about the repubs inaction since the repub chair of the committee followed the idiot trump’s instructions and ignored the virus. So, John James is a liar…I guess that makes him qualified in the eyes of repubs…but not the people of Michigan…vote…for Gary Peters…
October 6th
Well…I think I could get used to this not getting out of bed until 6:30…but that makes late coming here and I’m not sure if that means anything…after all, I don’t have a whole lot to do and most people aren’t reading this stuff yet…I do feel a little better today but I still think I have a cold since I have a little sore throat and I’m coughing some, too, but I seem to have energy that I didn’t have yesterday…my normal allergy meds, the little red dots, weren’t working well enough last night so I broke down and used some flonase spray that helped quite a bit…but, I have to be careful since that stuff suppresses the immune system and with the virus still here I need to make sure I don’t use it too much…I did get 30 miles in on the bike yesterday but they were really hard rides with feeling so crappy…so, that gets me down to only 70 miles to go and I hope to do another 30 today and tomorrow and finish up the 5K on Thursday….it looks like I can get out early today with it already 49 degrees outside but I still have to wait for the sun to come up and that should be another hour or so…not much to do today…I do need to mow the lawn and get the buckets that I grew some crops in emptied but that is about it for the day…I should clean the kitchen floor since it is getting a little dirty and the stove and sink could use some work,too, but we’ll see after the errand I have to run this morning….more later….