Well…this one is a little late because I just keep forgetting to do it…hit another milestone last week when I got to 3,000 miles on the new bike…and now it’s almost 3050 but close enough…it looks like I may be able to get to 3300 or so before the snow closes the trail for the winter…not a record by any means but not a bad summer of riding…ended up being pretty sore today after going into the wind the past couple of days…and my legs have been really heavy, especially today so if it snows tomorrow, I may just take the day off…not sure how many years in a row I’ve gotten to 3,000…will have to look at my records but I’m sure it’s probably better than 10…
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Don’t worry about Mueller…
Well…if you’re looking with alarm at the moves that the idiot trump has made in the past day to try to stop the Mueller investigation into his criminality by firing Sessions and installing a toady in his place, just stop…don’t worry about Mueller, the dems taking the house has ensured that the investigation will continue until it’s end but the idiot trump is still thinking like he has protection from his cronies in the House…got news for you, idiot…you are screwed. There are already plans in place to have Mueller appear in the house for a live hearing on the day the dems take over if trump does any more in his long running crime of obstruction of justice…and, understand this idiot boy, the act of firing Sessions in this context puts another nail in your coffin…and you are just too damn stupid to understand it. So, don’t worry about Mueller, with the dems in charge in January, there are going to be so many investigations that all of trump’s crimes are going to come to light…and he’s going to jail after he’s out of the WH…bet on that…impeach…
November 8th
Well…it looks like the routine is returning with coming here about on time for a Thursday….slept kind of crappy last night as seems to be the new normal but I don’t feel too bad this morning so I guess I can live with it…and I’m not too sore today so that is a plus and I don’t think I’ll need any ibuprofen…I did get a bike ride in and it was not too cold but the wind was nuts and made it more work than I like…I did buy a new fleece hat for riding from Amazon yesterday and it only cost 8 bucks…can’t wait to see how it works…the stocking hats I’ve been using lose their shape after a while and really don’t keep my ears warm enough…I did start to get the winter wheels ready yesterday by sanding the rust and treating them with rust converter and I’m going to re paint the fronts this morning so I can get them on the car today….that will probably be all that I do today since there are some maintenance tasks I need to do on the car that will take a while and should fill the morning after I ride the bike…more later….
I should be dancing…
Well….with the results trickling in, it appears that the dems had a pretty good night last night with taking back control of the House and Whitmer winning the governor’s race here in Michigan, I should be dancing but I’m not sure why I still feel a sense of unease about the election…part of that is the fact the the repubs gained a couple of senate seats even though the dems got 10 million more votes across the country. That is a direct result of the repubs rigging the election and that will continue until we take back the senate in 2020…an election I may not even see. Yep, kind of depressed this morning and I don’t know why…I should be dancing at the fact that Scott Walker lost in Wisconsin…I should be dancing that Dana Rohrbacher, Putin’s buddy in the house, lost and will be gone….I should be dancing that the notorious vote suppressor and racist Kris Kobach lost in Kansas…and I should be dancing that all three proposals passed here in Michigan and the 2020 re-districting will be fair and out of reach of the repub gerrymanders that have allowed them to win this state with much less of the vote than the dems got in every election since 2010. I think part of my sadness this morning is that many right wing repub assholes still got elected even though they are under indictment or investigation for things that any dem would have resigned over but the repubs treat as a badge of honor….oh, well…at least there will be no more repub nonsense here in Michigan and look forward to taking both the state senate and house when the fair maps are used in 2020…then the state can move forward again…I can hope anyway…
November 7th
Well…up way too early again today with getting out of bed at 5:04…but, maybe that’s normal with the time change…didn’t sleep very well either and that is piled on top of the bad sleep since last Wed and I am exhausted from it….have been trying to eat more to make up for the fasting over the weekend but I don’t have any food here that I want to eat and don’t want to do a grocery run until tomorrow so that leaves peanut butter and crackers…maybe I’ll rummage through the freezer and see what’s there…my back started cracking as soon as I got out of bed this morning and it was a little weird to have it do that just walking into the living room but that means that it won’t hurt today and that is a good thing…will have to get back into full thermasuit for the ride today and I think I am going to buy a new hat to wear in the cold weather since the one I have stretches out and loses it’s shape…saw a fleece one on Amazon for about 8 bucks and with free shipping that’s not a bad deal so I’ll probably order it today….not much to do today…I think I’ll clean some but I did most of that yesterday so maybe I’ll just watch Man U lose this aft….more later…
Good advice…
Well…have been trying to avoid any election coverage today to keep my stress level down and to avoid a repeat of 2016…I read a great piece of advice from one of the writers that I follow today and he passed on this gem: “turn off your tv, pour yourself a drink or five and watch a few shows on Netflix…and whatever you do, don’t tune in any election coverage until at least 10:15 when real vote totals will be available…everything else until then is just crap…” I agree wholeheartedly with that advice…this election is just too important and I need to stay away from any “analysis” while the votes are still being counted….after all, I don’t have colon cancer and I still won’t have it tomorrow…and I still got to go out on the bike in shorts today….
Scott Walker needs to lose today…
Well…just a shorty on a news article that just came across my phone…one of the idiot Scott Walker’s biggest arguments for his re election is that he lured Foxconn (the Chinese electronics manufacturer) to Wisconsin and they were going to create over 15,000 jobs for the 4.1 billion dollars in state subsidies they were given by idiot boy. Almost immediately after Walker made that commitment, as Foxconn always does, the project started to change along with the number of jobs that Foxconn promised…and over the course of the year since Walker signed the check, the jobs projected have continued to shrink…it’s now down to “around” 5,000 jobs and the integrated engineering center that Foxconn promised to build as part of the project has morphed into renting a couple of buildings to house a tiny engineering staff. The kicker in the whole thing? Foxconn has just applied to the feds to be allowed to bring in the entire engineering staff from China since they can’t “find” any qualified engineers in the US…and by “find” that means any engineers that are willing to work for the slave wages that Foxconn is willing to pay. How does that 4.1 billion subsidy look now Wisconsinites? How does that 250,000 dollar subsidy for every job look now? Walker has been able to con everyone in Wisconsin for years that he and his repub cronies are the only ones who can create jobs but, at 250,000 per job, a monkey could create these jobs…and it is not clear if any jobs will ever be created there since Foxconn has a long history of promising the moon and then delivering nothing as they slink away with the subsidy cash. Today, Wisconsin, you have the chance to send Walker packing…don’t screw it up…geez…
Get out and vote…
Well…today’s the day I have been both looking forward to and dreading for months…it’s election day here in the US and it could be the most important election in the history of this country…and that is not hyperbole…if you want to stop the country’s slide into fascism and put and end to the damage the repubs have done over the past two years….get out and vote…if you want to stop the idiot trump’s agenda…that is to say the agenda of the 1%, get out and vote….if you want to start to fix the damage that the repubs have done to Michigan, get out and vote….if you want to hold politicians accountable, get out and vote…oh, did I day get out and vote? Today is the day we can re instate the rule of law in this country but only if you vote…and vote for dems up and down the ticket….so get the hell out and vote…l will be at around 10…and I have cocktails to either celebrate starting the political repair process or to mourn the death of the US….
November 6th
Well…I think I’m running on time today and slept pretty well with trying to catch up on the lack of sleep from Sunday night…and waking up to the knowledge that I am as healthy as an old guy can be is pretty relieving….but, I’m not sure why my BP is still high this morning…I wonder if it’s still a hangover of stress from yesterday or from not eating for two days…whatever it is, I am not going to worry too much until I get a couple of days back into my normal routine….and that means a workout and a bike ride this morning but the rain and wind may have something to say about that…it is blowing at almost 20 with gusts over that so that will make it difficult but after being off for two days, I need to get out…maybe even in shorts for the last time since it is 50 out there….as you could tell….I didn’t get much done yesterday but I am going to try to do something today…not sure what that will be but it will be something…more later…
Health update….
Well…as you know, today was the day for my first colonoscopy under Medicare and I was a little freaked out about the possible outcomes…I have been really lucky with my health with not having health insurance for 16 years and not going to a doctor in that time…but the tests so far for all of the normal health concerns like high cholesterol, high BP, liver function, heart function, and now colon cancer….have been negative….the people who did the procedure were really nice and I was able to watch the entire thing on the computer screen while they did it…they only found a couple of polyps that they removed…and I got to see them do it… and no other pre cancer or any other problems…so, it looks like the combo of taking care of myself, eating right, and getting lots of exercise has done the trick to keep me healthy…and I am so damn relieved…no more doctors for a year and I get to go back to my normal life of worrying about other stuff….