Well…this really really sucks…slept with my damn foot curled up under me for a couple of hours last night and now my toe hurts so badly the I can barely walk again….had to take an ibuprofen already just to tolerate it and since it happened early in the night, it kept me up all night trying to find a position that it didn’t scream in pain…as you can tell, I’m getting pretty damn tired of my foot hurting and having to baby it just to hobble around….I finally had enough of the traffic going down the street at 50 to 60 mph in a 25 mph zone so I called the police yesterday to get them looking at what can be done to slow people down to the speed limit…and I would expect that will mean writing some tickets to these cut through assholes that think it’s a big damn joke to go by me 18 inches away at 60+ when I’m on the bike….even the frickin buses that run down the street are going over 50 all day long…and 25 over the limit is going to be a 4 point ticket and at least a couple of hundred dollar fine but I don’t feel bad about that at all….that’s just no damn respect for the people who have to live here with these assholes blasting down the street all day…and we have one moron on a motorcycle that screams down the street at over a hundred every damn evening….yeah, can you tell I’m pretty crabby this morning? I think I just need a day off of everything…but, I am going to get to 3,000 miles today and I think that the second ride is going to be slower than normal just to conserve some energy…damn I’m tired….more later….
The rats are starting to swim…
Well….with it becoming more obvious every day that the polling is not good for the idiot trump and it appears that he is going to lose in November, some of the repub rats are starting to dip their toes in the water to see if they really can swim off trump’s sinking ship. That was driven home by the repub governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, just today when he wrote a scathing op-ed chronicling trump’s failures on the coronavirsus and laying the hundreds of thousands dead at trump’s tiny little feet. I really think all of this is that Hogan knows trump will be gone in a few months but Hogan doesn’t need to run for re-election for a couple of years and he can see that the era of fear of trump’s idiotic tweets is over….I mean, what the hell can trump do to him after he is out of office and his crimes are laid bare? Dr. Fauci basically did the same thing the other day when asked about trump and his minions attacking him and he just dismissed it as bullshit things that trump does and belittled trump’s behavior throughout the pandemic. This is as sign that Fauci has had enough and is really a dare for trump to fire him….and Dr. Fauci can read the polls, too that says trump’s days are numbered. As the pools continue to get worse for idiot boy, it will interesting to watch who the next rat is to jump from the sinking ship…but that is not going to save them…the stench of trump will be with them the rest of their lives…
July 16th
Well…running late this morning with trying and trying to get some sleep all night and finally giving up at 6:30 or so…it was nice to hear the rain all night but that was the problem…I was awake to hear the rain all night….needless to say, I’m pretty worn out today and just can’t get moving yet…just started with coffee so maybe that will help in a while…I am going to try to just take it easy today and get to the rides when I get to them instead of getting antsy since I’m always out for the first ride by now….I am going to continue using the electrolyte powders that my daughter sent me before I go out since they may be helping some…at least my legs didn’t go flat at all yesterday and they should have if they followed the normal pattern…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but work on the downstairs project but that took a couple of hours and hurt my hands even more…it’s a little weird that the part of me that hurts on the bike the most is my hands and I have to keep flexing them through the entire ride to keep them from going numb so I can’t shift….maybe an ibuprofen before I go out today? Not much to do today….I need to clean and cook and I should mow the lawn but that can wait until the grass sucks up some of the rain and grows some…I am a little surprised that the power didn’t go out with the rain last night since it doesn’t take much to have that happen but the coffee maker started on time so it must have been on all night….more later….
Birthdays in pandemics suck…
Well…yeah, it’s my birthday and for the first time in 50 years I can’t go out for drinks with friends…and it’s all the idiot trump’s fault…he took a whole damn year away from me, one that was supposed to have the enjoyment of city living in it…going to Blues on the Mall and other concerts and hitting a few bars to hang out with friends…and riding my bike into town to just take in the energy that was there until trump screwed us all…and no tequila shots with K at the Mex place or sitting with T at the Chance and laughing our butts off…what the hell kind of a birthday is it when you can’t do any birthday stuff on that one day that is yours alone? Okay, so it isn’t mine alone…my oldest brother and I share a birthday 13 years apart…and I talked to him today for a couple of hours and it has been years since I heard from him so that was a cool thing…and he wants to sell me an 800 dollar bike for 50 bucks that he can’t ride any more with his knee problems so I’m going to buy it just to have a spare and a different one to ride sometimes…so that will be 4 bikes that I own and I wonder if it’s turning into a collection? Still haven’t heard from K or C today and I really expected it…or two of my sons but that is pretty normal so no big deal….cripes, I just realized how small my circle has become…I did buy myself a small steak to have for dinner today just for a little treat and I bought some better whiskey for manhattans for tonight…going all the way with BV instead of McMasters but for one day, I think I really can splurge a little….I sure hope the storms that are coming wait until after the races from Bristol tonight since even a light rain seems to put the power out around here and I just don’t need another outage on my damn birthday…after the restrictions are lifted, can I have a do over for my birthday? I think that should be a thing…
July 15th
Well…damn…another night of no sleep but it is a little funny to me that I woke up at 3:40 again…yeah, I’m weird but you have to admit that 3:40 is just a funny time to be waking up every day…I couldn’t believe how much I hurt yesterday with brand new pain in my hands that was stabbing and came out of nowhere…I guess one thing I that came out of the garage debacle was that I don’t like the color that I picked out…way too yellow so I need to try to get the cream color that I want before I go any farther…but that isn’t going to happen this week…have a bunch of other stuff to get done with the downstairs project that I have been neglecting but can’t wait any longer….and I need to do the grocery run this morning after I get the first ride in….and I have a cuke that is ready to be picked that I am going to make pickles with so most of the day is going to be just fooling around with stuff…need to mow the lawn too but that could wait a day…you know, one of the things that sucks about this damn pandemic is that I don’t get to go out and have drinks with friends for my birthday…have done that for almost 50 years and just because of the asshole trump and his monumental incompetence I’m stuck here by myself and I need to get out and laugh some….and that is just depressing….more later…..
“find something new”
Well…ivanka trump’s “let them eat cake” moment happened today when the idiot daughter revealed the trump administration’s only help for people who are unemployed and running out of unemployment benefits by the end of the month…and that is “find something new”…if there are 40 million jobs lost from bungling by your stupid father, “find something new” is just not going to work for the majority of the people out of work…are they supposed to eat something new like nothing? Are they supposed to pay their rent or mortgage with something new but not money they don’t have? This is the delusional rich person bullshit distilled down a slogan…”find something new”…hey ivanka, where? 40 frickin million people are out of work, the virus your father screwed up on is raging through the country…shutdowns are coming back and there could be 20 million homeless after the eviction moratoriums end this month….and you think people just need a stupid slogan from a vacant idiot and it will be all better? Just go back to whatever rock you and your slimy father crawled out from…the last thing this country needs right now is a spoiled little rich girl giving anyone advice on how to deal with the biggest crisis in the history of this country…all caused by you and your father…so just shut the hell up and go away…
July 14th
Well…I’m pretty depressed this morning that the paint sprayer didn’t work to do the garage and I have all that painting to do by hand now….and I hurt like crazy everywhere so that is not going to happen today…and with the rain coming tomorrow, I shouldn’t paint anyway…don’t even feel like getting on the bike this morning but I know I will…maybe I’ll just clean some today since this place needs it and I have been ignoring that lately…after the debacle yesterday, I didn’t get much done other than riding…my gardens are turning into a bust this year and I am thinking about just uprooting everything and giving up…have 2 cukes on 6 plants and they die as soon as they bloom and I wonder if they are not getting pollinated…and the beans are done fruiting with only two meals out of the 6 plants I have in…and it looks like I’m going to get about a dozen tomatoes off a dozen plants so that is depressing too….even my sunflowers are dying and that just adds to my depression….and I need to find a house soon and that appears like it’s not going to happen so I’ll be back in an apartment somewhere before the end of the year…and that is weighing on me every damn day and doesn’t let me enjoy anything…do you think I’m depressed? Yep….but I’ll get through it…maybe I’ll go out and buy a new bath towel today since the one I’m using is 15 years old and falling apart….some act of normalcy would be welcome at this point….more later…
Hey, only .02 percent of the kids will die…
Well…the ghoul betsy devos is at it again…trying to kill our children with her rank stupidity and ignorance. Just the other day in her push to open the schools as soon as possible, she was all over the news shows roboticly puking out talking points that basically said that the schools needed to open and she didn’t need to explain, they just do. She also dismissed the danger that going back to school would have for the children attending by saying that only .02 percent of them would die…making it sound like the risk was too small to measure…but if you do the math (which I’m sure she doesn’t know how to do) .02 times the number of kids going back would be almost 15,000 kids dead…which devos feels is perfectly acceptable if it gets trump re-elected. There’s your death panel for you….no plans to protect the kids, no money to help the schools keep the kids safe but just reopening and death and if little Jimmy dies it was for a good cause…how much more ghoulish can you get? Cripes , probably much much worse with these morons…
well…that sucked…
Well…as you know, I had been prepping the garage for painting today with the new sprayer I bought for the job…all I have to say is that it sucked to say the least…couldn’t get it stable and adjusted correctly at all…when I did, it would work for a minute and then puke an un-atomized stream of paint that would then turn into a run that looked like hell…so, after about half of one side of the garage I said enough and quit…I even took my hose and washed the paint off it looked so crappy….so I wasted a half gallon of paint for nothing and I still have to get out the brushes and roller and spend a few days painting it by hand…but it will surely look better than it did…crap…
July 13th
Well…I wonder how long I can go on with only 3 hours of sleep a night? Last night was three in a row and I have started to feel that familiar low level fatigue where I need to shift into low gear and just ride it out…and that is going to be hard to do with the huge project of painting the garage today…well…I don’t know how huge it’s going to be until I get started with the new spray gun after the first ride of the day…the jar only holds about a half quart so that will need filling lots of times…but, it has been so long since I’ve used an electric sprayer I don’t remember how much paint it takes to cover…I’m guessing it’s going to be a three hour project at least but, even at that, I should have it done by noon or so if the sprayer holds up….took my first allergy meds in almost a month last night since they have gotten pretty bad over the past couple of days but I don’t see that they are helping much and I wonder if they need to build up a bit over time to be effective? My toe still doesn’t hurt…oh, wasn’t going to talk about that any more…my foot is almost back to normal but I’ll be on it all day today so I’m expecting it to swell up a bit but I can elevate it while I watch the Man U match at 3 so that should help…not much to do today…yeah, I laughed at that one, too…painting a garage is much to do and I have laundry to do too…and I used up all the leftovers yesterday so I need to cook for lunch…so, it’s going to be a busy one…more later…oh, I’ll do a project update later today along with a political one on Betsy DeVos trying to murder our children…