Well…hey, it’s Sunday and I remembered to come here! You know it’s not normal I remember it so I’ll take that as a win….slept okay last night and don’t feel too bad this morning other than the new pains from spending 5 hours on the downstairs project yesterday…my hands hurt the most but my right shoulder is bad too…I should probably take something for it but I’ll need to think about that for a while…didn’t get out on the bike yesterday with it being so cold in the morning and then raining when I was getting ready to go….and it’s raining again this morning so it looks like it will be only one ride today after Man U plays at 11:30….but this week looks perfect for getting two a days in so I will get to 5K later in the week…I can’t wait for my allergies to get better and working downstairs didn’t help at all…my eyes are scratchy and my head is all plugged up and I am getting tired of it…went through almost half a box of allergy meds over the past three weeks and won’t be able to get more for another month so I need to cut back on those and just live with it I guess…not much to do today…I do need to clean up some buckets that I had plants in outside and but that will have to wait a while until the rain stops…it looks like we may get frost tonight so I’ll lose the rest of my tomatoes and peppers if it does…but my back yard is higher that the surrounding lots so I may be okay…won’t take long to clean up both gardens but it will fill my trash container so I’ll put that out later in the week….more later
Idiot boy is the superspreader…
Well…if it wasn’t bad enough that the idiot trump ignored the severity of the virus from the start and that has led to 200K American deaths…now we know that idiot boy was the one who has spread the virus to damn near everyone in the WH and members of congress. Just today his doctors said that he knew he had the virus on Wednesday but continued to not wear a mask when he went to a “rally” and then to a fundraiser that day…so now he is personally responsible for at least 10 people getting sick but the tally hasn’t ended…we will probably see this weekend how many others he has infected and how many are going to die from trump just being his normal asshole self…now, in any normal time, this right here would be disqualifying and the repubs should throw him out…but, I guess that is going to be left up to us in a month since anything idiot boy does is just peachy with them….so please people…get out and vote and let’s get this country back on track….
October 3rd
Well…I think I like this staying in bed until 6 and easing into getting up….used to just jump out of bed first time I woke up…but I used to not be able to go back to sleep either but that has changed too…and I don’t feel too bad this morning, either but my allergies are off the charts so I may have to take something for it this morning…I did get a bunch of work done in the gardens yesterday and that will continue downstairs this morning…I hope it didn’t get cold enough last night to kill off my pepper plants and the rest of my tomatoes…I am still getting a few tomatoes off them and may get more with the warmer weather that is coming next week…but I’m okay if they have to come out…have gotten a lot of stuff off them and I think I’m getting tired of tomatoes…I did get out to get a ride in yesterday but only one…didn’t have enough time to work on the gardens and get out for a second one and that will be the same today…won’t be warm enough to go out in shorts until the afternoon and I do have work to do this morning anyway….I will get down to only 100 miles left today so I should get to 5K by the end of next week and then I can gradually slow down for the rest of the year and not feel so stressed about doing two rides a day….not much to do today…have another day of ease for this morning but I do need to work downstairs for a couple of hours and that job is going to go on for a few days….more later…
Dropped my ballot off….
Well…I’m finding it pretty darn hard to just sit here and do nothing while I wait for the temp to come up enough to get out on the bike in shorts…so, I decided to take a quick trip over to the Leonard street library to drop my ballot off and complete my voting for the election in November. It was a little more work doing the research for the non-partisan part of the ballot than normal since the GR press doesn’t do a voter’s guide anymore and the Mlive site that is supposed to replace it won’t let you access it if you have an ad blocker on and I won’t look at the damn ads and pop ups they try to force you to see….but, I did find the information in other places so no big deal. I think it’s really cool that they have a way to circumvent the post office with all of the damage that trump’s cronies have done to it…and look, voting frickin counts…if we had a repub SOS, there wouldn’t be any drop boxes anywhere in the state or just a few….just like the governor of Texas who decreed that there is only going to be one drop box for every county, a voter suppression method that shows clearly that the repubs will do anything to make sure people can’t vote…and that is because when we vote, we win…so, vote…
I was going to say “Karma is a bitch”…
Well…with the news that the idiot trump and his wife tested positive for covid yesterday, the first thing that came to my mind was the phrase “Karma is a bitch” but then remembered that even how horrible they are as people, and how responsible he is for the deaths of 220,000 Americans,I wouldn’t wish this disease on anyone…it would be like cheering if idiot boy announced he had cancer…and even though I hate this asshole with the fire of a thousand suns, doing that would undo the years and years of me trying to be a better person once I realized in my 30’s that I could be an asshole at times….so, I won’t get on that train today…I just won’t say anything more about it other than maybe to talk about the political ramifications later today….
October 2nd
Well…I wonder if running late is going to be the new normal here…or will that make it not late? Too much to think about first thing before event the first cup of coffee….slept okay last night but had dreams about dropping my phone and breaking it all night and that is weird…I wonder if it’s because this phone has worked for so many years? Yeah, not going to delve into my mind right now…it’s scary in there sometimes and that’s too much work for any morning…I did get out and get a ride in yesterday but got soaked coming back…was cold most of the day from it and even the full winter indoor clothes didn’t help much…and it’s only 37 out there right now so I won’t be getting out today until after noon when it warms up some….I’m down to only 135 miles left to go so I guess I can do a couple of one ride days and still make my goal….I think this cold is going to end the gardens so I need to get out and pick the last of the pink tomatoes today since it is going to be colder tomorrow….still hoping to have my green peppers finish since I have half a dozen that are growing out there…would be nice to add them to the freezer along with the jalapenos…I did get my ballot filled out yesterday and I am going to drop it over at the library today…they pick them up from the drop boxes 3 times a day so I think that will be safe….not much to do today…it’s weird to have an entire morning to myself so I think I’ll continue the cleaning I started downstairs yesterday and get started getting rid of stuff I don’t need….and look for houses all day since that is my new full time job….more later….
We don’t need another rich guy in congress…
Well….thought I’d talk about some local politics today instead of the idiot trump and his bullshit…so, there is a contest going on here in West Michigan for the house seat the Justin Amash vacated when he decided to not run for re-election…and the contest is between the dem, Hillary Scholten and Pete Meijer..the trust fund baby who, of course, is part of the Meijer family that everyone here in Michigan knows. Look, the last person we need to represent us is another rich guy trying to buy his way into congress…just like the DeVos and Van Andel families, the Meijer family has outsized influence in our community that is for the most part helpful, but I think they should just stay the hell out of politics…especially Pete since he has a reported trust fund that is over 60 million dollars and has never had to work a day in his life…and you just need to look at who has endorsed him to see what he would be like in congress…Michigan right to life, the NRA, and he is a second amendment nut, and a full throated supporter of trump and his cronies…so just another entitled asshole who will do more damage to this country and West Michigan by supporting more tax cuts for the rich, like him, and believes in more guns everywhere along with government control of women’s bodies…haven’t we had enough of this repub bullshit? Vote for Hillary Scholten and we’ll get someone who cares about the people she represents while we are just a means to an end for Pete…rich people don’t give a damn about regular people…the repubs show that every day…vote…
October 1st
Well…as you can see, I’m running pretty late this morning and it is all because I refused to get out of bed until 6:30 even though I woke up before 5…and it is a little cold in here…the furnace came on overnight and I am sitting here in my winter indoor clothes just to tolerate it and I am sure not ready for it to get cold….I’m even going to wait to go out on the bike until 10 or so when it will be 50 degrees since I just don’t want to pull out the thermasuit yet…want a few more ride in shorts before I give in but that will mean probably only one ride for a few days…so, I have to start cutting out calories again and need to figure out how to stop eating one ride’s worth or about 600 calories a day…looks like no more bagels after this week and I am going to miss them…oh, well….I did get both my fridges cleaned yesterday and they sure needed it especially downstairs since I hadn’t cleaned that one since I moved in here…now that I think of it, I didn’t even clean it before I moved in…so it really needed to be torn down and scrubbed….not sure what I need to do today…haven’t really thought about it but I do know I’m getting my ballot in since I did the research I needed over the past few days…but right now I am going to have more coffee and read the news first….more later….
Yep, it was a”shitshow”…
Well….cripes, I’m glad I didn’t watch any of the debate last night since every story I’ve read about it today described it as at least a “shitshow” and some as a “dumpster fire inside a shitshow”…and all of that was because of the idiot trump and his attempts at bullying Biden that didn’t work at all and his generally unhinged behavior that he displayed throughout the “debate”. Yeah, I put debate in quotes because it really wasn’t one…it was trump talking over Biden and lying his ass off all night…along with telling his white power followers to get ready to attack the election and it’s aftermath…you know, trump isn’t even running against Biden anymore…he’s running against the election and his meltdown last night showed he is losing it since he knows he is going to lose…and he knows from the news reports that there are many indictments waiting for him when he is thrown out of office…and I don’t believe the bullshit that he can disrupt the election enough to stay in office…I’m getting the feeling that it’s not even going to be close so any of his shenanigans are just not going to work. If I were Joe Biden, I would tell idiot boy right now that if he pulls that bullshit in the next debate he’s walking out the door and will then do a press conference instead….and tell the world it’s because you can’t debate a toddler…and that’s who trump is….
September 30th
Well…it seems that I have fallen into a pattern with my sleep over the past week or so…up at 4:30 and then back to bed until 6 or so…not sure if that is a good thing or not but at least I’m getting 5 hours or so and that is about normal for me…but that does leave me a little worn out most days but I guess that’s normal too….got a few things done yesterday along with the two bike rides but I was really looking forward to the rain allowing me to take a day off to rest my legs today…but, I don’t see any rain on the radar so my next decision is whether to get on the bike before I head out for the grocery run or to wait until I get back…it’s warm enough at 52 degrees but I just don’t have any motivation yet and getting wet at now 51 degrees is not too pleasant…so I may just drink coffee and read the news instead of rushing out there…I just cleaned the bike and really don’t want to get it mucked up again…I know I will at some point but I only have about 160 miles to go to get to my goal so maybe I’ll wait and hope for rain….not much to do today…I am going to clean some today and defrost the upstairs fridge if it rains…if not, I’m going to get two rides in and then clean….more later…