Well…yeah, it has been a busy day and I am running late again…but I did want to talk about the fiasco of a town hall that ABC put on last night with the idiot trump being asked questions by a group of undecided voters…and let me interject right now…if you are an undecided voter after the last 4 years of the trump shitshow, you are not smart enough to vote and probably shouldn’t. Of course trump lied and lied and then lied some more…and that kept Daniel Dale busy, again, oh, probably should say that Dale is the fact checker for CNN who should get combat pay for covering idiot boy every day…but, his work is pretty easy at this point since trump lies about the same thing all the time…pre-existing conditions? The “great” repub plan to cover them is two weeks away just as it was in May, and as it was last year and the year before that…reminds me of the old saw about fusion power…it is always 30 years away and has been for 50 years…this time, the host of the town hall…George S actually called trump on his lies and made it clear that trump and his cronies are in court right now to remove coverage for them as they try to dismantle Obamacare…and that put everyone in shock since he is not known for actually doing journalism….oh, one jaw dropping part of the night was when asked about why he didn’t institute a mask mandate for the entire country, trump asked why Biden didn’t do it…and he had to be reminded that Biden isn’t president and he is…man, the debates are going to be lit if this is a preview of trump’s performance….let’s just leave it by saying that yes, this was shitshow and whoever thought this was a good idea in the WH is probably packing up his desk right now….geez….
September 16th
Well…this is getting a little weird…have gotten up at 6:03 for almost a week now and that consistency is a little unnerving….and I had strange dreams that had me in a library trying to find a book that I had seen on tv but couldn’t….that is another thing…have been having dreams again and that hasn’t happened in a long time…I wonder what the change is? I was just exhausted all day yesterday and can’t figure that out….have felt pretty good lately, getting lots of rides in and lots done around here but it felt like a lack of calories but my intake hasn’t changed much…I did do two full rides yesterday to get 36 miles in…maybe that’s it…it’s going to be a really busy day today with trying to stay on the 36 mile pace and then lots of work on the downstairs project along with finishing up the trim paint on the exterior of the house…..and I do need to find a house by the end of the month which is going to be a crunch….but I think that will wait til tomorrow since I’m going to be so busy today…and that looks like it will continue the rest of the week with more work on the gardens and getting everything ready for a big project that I need to do next week…or the week after….more later….
It’s just too easy…
Well…with all of the criminality of every damn person around trump that has infested out government, it’s just too easy to write about the latest outrage and it has made me lazy and closed my eyes to other topics that I used to write about. I have been struggling to find things that as important as the crisis this country is in but I know it is as disheartening to you as it is to me…so maybe I’ll alternate politics with other things as we move toward the election….let’s start with something lighter…does anyone else have hundreds of green tomatoes on your plants that have stopped ripening? I just noticed that this week and I’m not sure if there is anything that can be done about it…I did pick a few of them to just put them in the bowl on the kitchen table and see if they will ripen…if not, I think I’ll just start cleaning out the gardens and tossing them…it is a shame that I didn’t get to make spaghetti sauce with all of those tomatoes but I did get tired of homemade salsa and pickles so I probably would with the sauce too…at least I learned something about gardens that I can apply to the garden at the new house if I can ever find one….one of the the worst things about this summer is not being able to see anyone and give away all the excess produce, luckily you can freeze jalapenos and green peppers but I only got one of those off of 6 plants so I guess I didn’t have to worry about that….okay, that’s enough for now…yeah, this isn’t working for me either…I live for politics so I guess I’ll get back to that soon….
September 15th
Well…running a little late today for no reason at all but I can’t get motivated…and I am miserable from my allergies…my eyes have been itchy and dry for the past week or so and it will probably get worse over the next few weeks so I have that to look forward to…might even have to start taking something for it during the day but that will mean I won’t have them for night time and that will probably keep me up all night….hmmmm…I am starting to get concerned about the pain in my knees since they hurt every day now…they just need to hold out for about 550 miles and then I can rest them some and see if that is the problem…didn’t get much done yesterday but go out and get a smaller garden hose so I don’t have to lug the big one around to keep the patches in the front lawn watered….man, it was a pain getting the big one rolled back up to put it away…that one will stay in the garage from now on….I do have to do the grocery run today since I have some tasks to do Wed that are going to take a few hours in the morning….not much to do today…just the rides and groceries but I should get on the last indoor project today….just a couple of doors on the linen closet that should only take a day or so and then the interior will be done…more later….
Listen up, parents…
Well….yeah, I know…I said I wasn’t going to talk about the idiot trump for a while but this one just popped into my head after talking to my friend K yesterday and how hard the distance learning they have been forced to do is on her and her daughter…and I just want the rest of the parents in this country to understand this one fact as they struggle to juggle their lives and keep their children moving forward…it didn’t have to be this way…almost every other damn country that took the virus seriously and made plans and followed them are returning to their normal lives, schools are opening, people can go out to restaurants and movies, and grandparent can see their grandchildren…but not here…and it is all because of the idiot trump and his incompetence and utter disregard for the lives of Americans…including your children. I’m especially talking to the voters who wanted something different, who didn’t like Hillary and wanted to take the chance on someone else…where did that get you? Have you learned yet that trump and the repubs don’t give a damn about you? Have your lives been disrupted enough that you can help this country throw out the chaos that comes with trump? That’s what needs to happen…we need people of goodwill who made a mistake in 2016 to come back to sanity and make the good man, Joe Biden, the next president…compare the two, who do you think will help us out of this nightmare? trump? If you think that, you are too far gone to be helped or to help us rebuild this country and restore the dignity that every American should want for our country…because of trump, we are laughed at around the world and our influence is at an all time low…our ability to help the world to help ourselves is gone…and it is all trump’s and the repubs fault…remember that when you vote…don’t you want some calm back in your life? That will never happen until trump is gone…vote…
What a selfish prick….
Well…if you read any of the Woodward book or saw any excerpt from it on tv, it is perfectly clear that the idiot trump doesn’t care about anyone but himself….especially since he knew how dangerous the virus was back in Feb but decided not to do anything about it since it would “make him look bad” if he did take it seriously…and this selfishness was on full display at his racist rally in Nevada last night when asked about the virus and that it might spread to his supporters….his answer: “I’m on stage and it’s very far away…and so I’m not at all concerned” …for him that is…but for the people who packed into this factory in a state that has an 8.5% positive test rate and who are NOT far away from each other he just doesn’t give a damn if he gets his jollies and gets to chant “lock him up”…and doesn’t see the irony that it is him that will be locked up when he loses the election. You know, I need to stop writing about this selfish asshole…I am going to consciously start looking for other topics that will help my brain calm itself and not feel so polluted…I think I have PTSD…
September 14th
Well…another night of okay sleep with weird dreams that had spilled oil and big lizards in it…didn’t get up til around 6 so I guess that is better than normal…had a little fun yesterday with going out to K’s to watch the Lions lose and it was nice to talk to someone for a change who is not a cashier at Meijers….but that meant I didn’t get anything done yesterday so I will have to clean today and I have an errand to run…need to get a new garden hose since one of my expandable ones blew a few days back and I really don’t want to drag the big, stiff one around the yard while I’m reseeding it…and I don’t need an inch diameter one just to run a nozzle or sprinkler…I’m not too sore this morning and but that is probably because I only did one ride yesterday but that will end today…have 600 more miles to do and won’t get there with just 18 miles a day…but it is getting light later and later so I can’t even get out of here until 7:30 or so now….which I guess is early enough…I can get two cups of coffee down and that helps on the bike….I think I’ll cut back to one ride a day once I hit 5,000 miles but I do like the fact that I have lost 3 inches off my waist this summer and around 10 pounds and I wonder how much I’ll gain back once I slow down some…will have to cut back my calorie intake to match the new normal but that won’t be for another 6 weeks or so….more later….
September 13th
Well…it’s raining! Yeah, I’m a little excited about not having to get on the bike until after the F1 race since it is raining out there….have been rushing to get out by 7:15 or so every morning so I can get back here and get started on work and to set me up to get two rides in every day….it is so luxurious to just sit here and have coffee while watching the Moto GP races…I wonder if that means I shouldn’t be riding so much? I do know I slept okay last night and don’t feel too bad this morning so I think I’ll just enjoy for that a while…I did get two rides in yesterday but they had another damn marathon on the trails so I had to do some road riding into town to get the miles I need in…only did 20 miles though, so that may be why my legs don’t really hurt this morning….stiff, yes, but not a lot of pain other than my right kneecap has some pain under it that I have been fighting for a couple of weeks now….didn’t get anything done yesterday and today looks the same but I should clean this place up but probably won’t…have been invited out to K’s to watch the Lions game but I’m not sure if I’m going to go out there….I’m so used to just hanging out here that it seems to be a lot of work to go out to Caledonia…and if it’s raining, watching outdoors won’t be too comfortable….we’ll see….more later….
some thoughts…
Well… with the wildfires devastating California and Oregon, don’t you think it’s a little strange that the president of the country has not had a word to say about it? Or has done nothing about it…no offer of federal aid, no visit not a frickin peep out the asshole in chief…and we know the reason why…just as he did with the blue states at the start of the pandemic, trump just doesn’t care about any state that doesn’t vote for him…never mind that he is supposed to be president of all of the people of the US, he is just so damn petty that he won’t do anything, leaving blue states to fend for themselves when a major purpose of the federal government is to help the states when they need it…I wonder what the maga assholes think about that when they live in a blue state? They are probably still cheering as they lose their homes to the fire since it will “own the libs”….what a sick, sick way to think. What else? Oh, it’s now clear that rudy and Ron Johnson are actively working with a Russian operative to get fake dirt on Joe Biden…yep, they are working with a Russian spy who is known to spread Putin’s disinformation and talking point and ole rudy and a sitting US senator are eating it up and actively cooperating with him to damage the US…what the hell happened to the repub party? Crap, they are just another arm of Putin’s party these days and care more about what Putin thinks than what is best for the US…now that IS treason when you work with the US’s enemies to harm the US….god, I hate these guys…more and more every day….
September 12th
Well…damn, I’m sore this morning and I think all the bending to reseed the lawn along with the painting is all hitting right now….but the weird thing is that I’m moving okay but I just hurt…we’ll see how it is when I get on the bike here in a few minutes…I did sleep okay and didn’t get up until almost 6…okay, I did wake up at 3:40 but was able to get back to sleep for a little while so I’ll count it as sleeping okay…it looks like I’ll be dodging the rain this morning since there is a huge blob just to the north and another one to the southwest that is heading in this direction…I find myself hoping that I only get one ride in today after doing two yesterday but I can’t slack off even though I hit 4400 miles yesterday….okay, almost 4400….have 16 more to do and that will happen on the first ride…I still need to make more progress on this place but I think I’m coming to the end of the work I’m going to do….the rest of it is large projects that I can’t do on my own…still going to try to get the last awning down next week but that will be the last project….not much to do today…the EPL comes back today and I need to look and see when Man U is playing and there are lots of races on so I won’t get much done other than vegging and watching today…I do need a day off to heal up some so I am going to try to not feel too guilty about it…maybe enjoy it for a change? More later….