Well…crap…just had a speaker fail in the car on the way out to get the paper and it’s not just a silent failure but a loud, scratchy one…but, I’m not taking the car apart until spring so I guess I’ll just put the earbuds in and get music that way until then…and, we have a huge storm coming where we’ll get 8 inches of snow overnight and that is depressing me…might not even be able to get out for pool tomorrow and that will be 3 weeks in a row…I am getting a little stir crazy with not getting out anywhere but it will keep the salt off the car so that is a good thing…slept okay last night but still feel a little off today and I hope that gets better over the course of the day…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday and it looks like I’ll get out again today but that will be the last time for weeks it appears…once the trail gets covered and the temp stays low, it won’t melt enough to get out…and that is annoying, too…and, all of my sports teams sucked yesterday…so, my mood is a little sour today and I don’t see it getting better…so, I won’t be cleaning or doing anything else today….just the F1 race in a few minutes and then out on the bike…more later….
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November 24th
Well…slept in til 6:24 this morning and that is a little weird…the normal has been around 5 or so and this is a welcome change…slept okay but I still think I have a bug that is slowing me down…just feel off a little and that has been going on for a week or so…I am really sore today but it’s all muscle pain and I know that will pass sooner or later…or I can take something for it and it will be okay…didn’t get much done yesterday and today looks the same with the Premier league starting back up…but, before that there is F1 qualifying, then Man U, then Michigan plays Ohio State and then state plays….so, I’m not sure if there is going to be room for a bike ride today…it’s raining anyway and I don’t want to get wet…and I guess we’re supposed to get 8 inches of snow starting Sunday afternoon and into Monday morning so I may not be on the bike again until Tuesday or so…oh, well…there looks like a warm up is coming the end of next week so the snow should melt and I’ll be back on the bike….more later….
This is weird…
Well…have been having a productive day today with getting a nice bike ride in and getting the last of the possible leaks fixed on the car’s top before we get bombed with snow Sunday…and I noticed something weird…as you read yesterday, I have been having problems with a molar that was causing me loads of pain the past few days…even to the point that I could barely eat yesterday since chewing triggered it…but today, the pain and swelling is gone and were are back to what has been the normal for the past couple of years…annoying, but easy to ignore most of the time…I even chewed on that side when I had lunch with no pain at all…and that is really weird after having to take ibuprofen and use some orajel to make the pain tolerable yesterday…but, I am not going to bitch…
Dumber than a box of rocks…
Well…not sure if you saw the meltdown that idiot boy went through when he was on a phone call to some random military unit…he didn’t visit them because he is too lazy and scared to do that…so he sat his fat ass in Mar a Lago and ranted to the military people he was talking to about the courts, the border, and for some strange reason, the type of catapults used on our aircraft carriers…yeah, it was even worse than that sounded…I mean, Thanksgiving day calls are supposed to be to ask how the troops are doing and if there is anything the president can do for them…but no, this dumber than a box of rocks president started out by saying he was most thankful for himself and then spent the entire call trying to get these military folks to agree with him about his rants…some thing that just isn’t done except by the most insecure person in the country…and the damn catapult thing again…as the Navy modernizes and build new carriers, the use of steam to power the catapults is being phased out in favor of digitally controlled electric catapults…and, as with most new systems, there have been some teething problems that are being worked out…but, sometime in the past, someone mentioned this to idiot boy and he immediately misunderstood that to mean that it would never work and it took an “Einstein” to even try to figure it out…and I’m sure that’s because trump is too damn dumb to understand anything but lunch….if I were the military person trying to explain this to the idiot, I wouldn’t have had the patience or tact that he showed…I would have just hung up on him and gone back to getting something done…what a waste of time and space idiot boy is…impeach…
November 23rd
Well…feel pretty crappy this morning with my damn tooth giving me fits again after almost 2 years with no pain…almost couldn’t eat yesterday but it seems a little better this morning and I hope that continues…I just want to go back to bed but I know that won’t work so I guess I’ll just ease into it and hope the coffee works soon…I did make another great turkey yesterday and it was a good idea to not change the method I’ve refined over the years…came out tender and juicy and I am looking forward to leftovers for the next few days…I sure feel like I’ve got a cold with some coughing and no energy but we’ll see…have felt this way for a week now and I hope it doesn’t get worse…the bike ride was just brutal yesterday and I shouldn’t have gone out in 26 degree weather and 20 mph winds…but, I wanted to have a piece of pie and wouldn’t have been able to without burning off some of dinner…and that was part of the problem with the ride…too soon after eating and I felt uncomfortable the whole time….not much to do today…going to just take it easy until I feel better and that may take the whole day…who knows? More later…
Is this too corny?
Well…while I sit here waiting for the time to come to prep the turkey, I thought I’d do the corny thing and talk a little bit about what I’m thankful for on this holiday…and, even though I’m getting old, when I think about it, there are some things that I am thankful for. First, Social Security…with looking for a job for so many years with no luck and burning through every dime that I had saved just to stay alive, SS has given me the lifeline I needed to be able to live…while not a lavish lifestyle, it pays all the bills and will help buy me a house next year…and the weight it lifted off me by not stressing about a job anymore was the best. Second, Medicare…going without health insurance for 16 years and just hoping that nothing would happen to put me into bankruptcy was another reason that my stress levels were so high all the time…and with the tests and checkups that Medicare provides, I know now that I am pretty darn healthy for someone my age and there are no hidden problems that I have to worry about….and, this is the one place that I am going to get political..hey, politicians…I PAID for this my entire working life…it is not an “entitlement” it is a contract between the people of the country and the government…it is not a bargaining chip, it is not something that can be discarded to pay for tax cuts for the rich…okay, that’s enough of that for now…I may be back for another one later since I do have to talk about friends and my kids and the sky and the stars…and Steely Dan, and Robert Heinlein and computers and life…so, check back later…I do have a couple of hours free while the turkey cooks and before the Lions start….more later…
November 22nd
Well…running about on time today and didn’t get up until almost 6 so I guess that’s a win….but it took a while to get through the paper with all the ads…one thing I don’t understand…and I’m pretty dumb for doing it…is to pay 3 bucks for today’s paper…I mean paying extra for advertising? Especially for ads that I will never use since I would never, ever go out to any store for black Friday…the only holiday that I do anymore is Thanksgiving and the only thing I do for that is cook…after all, how can you pass up all that protein for 37 cents a pound? Oh, well….I am looking for ward to cooking today and having the standard t-day meal…but, I’m not sure when I’ll get out on the bike today….it’s only 21 outside right now and that is too cold for me…I need it to be around 28 if it’s sunny and that won’t come until this aft…so, maybe after I watch the Lions lose? Not going to feel guilty about doing nothing else today…I do need to get the pumpkin pie in the oven right now and then ease into the rest of the cooking…after the news and more coffee that is….more later….
$72 million for 600 feet of barbed wire?
Well…just a shorty before I get to working out and riding the bike…the figures are in and the idiot trump’s political stunt of sending troops to the southern border to intercept a “caravan” of refugees who were heading for the border cost you and me $72 million dollars for them laying 600 feet of barbed wire…yep, you read that right 72 mil for absolutely nothing but a political stunt…to say nothing about the hardship of the soldiers sent there who had to live on MRE’s for weeks and who won’t get home to spend Thanksgiving with their families. How do you tolerate and support this repubs? It just shows that the bleating of support from the repubs in support of the troops has always been a lie…they don’t give a damn about the troops or the costs…imagine what 72 million would do for feeding hungry kids or for college debt relief…or the thousands of other things that money would have been better spent on…I can’t wait for January to get here and for the dems to put an end to trump and his cronies….impeach…
November 21st
Well…running a little late today with moving grocery day to wed this week so I don’t have to be in the store on t-day…didn’t have much to get but still spent 47 bucks and I am shaking my head about that one..I think my intestinal problem is almost gone as is the pain and that is a relief…should be back to normal in a day or so and that’s not a day too soon…have figured out…or remembered that I stay warmer on the bike if I go like crazy but that leads to big soreness that I may have to treat today before I go out…my sides hurt…along with everything else but that’s okay…it’s tolerable and a good indication that I’m doing it right….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and the only thing I have to do today is clean and get the turkey in the brine this morning and then the normal workout stuff….actually feel pretty good today and I hope it lasts for a while at least…more later…
A tradition ends…
Well….as you know, it has been my tradition to wear shorts at least until Thanksgiving every year no matter what the weather…this has been going on for almost 30 years now…of course not while I was working, but the rest of the time…but now that I am old and the reasons for doing it have receded into the fog of memory….I think it is time to end the tradition after tomorrow…so, no more shorts when it is too damn cold to do it….but, I will still wear them if it gets to 60 in January…after all, I do like to wear them…and I’ve still got the legs for it…