Well…only did two rides indoors today and I feel really guilty about that…but I think I made up for it by only having two bowls of soup to eat…oh, and two slices of sourdough bread to go with it…will have to get moving tomorrow…should do two indoor and one outdoor ride since the high is going to be 49 so I can get out for a ride in the afternoon…we got three frickin inches of snow today and my entire yard is covered…ick…but it will all melt tomorrow morning and then it’s going to be 50 for the rest of the week…not warm enough for me but it’s better than snow…still haven’t figured out any other meals so it may be another two bowl of soup day…have already finished two of the books I got Friday and I’m going to start another one right now…so back to reading…
More F-35s cancelled…
Well…another day, another order for F-35s cancelled…the latest is the fallout from the idiot trump’s attacks on Canada and they have now cancelled an order for 88 F-35 and are talking to the EU to buy their comparable fighter jets…so that is now over 300 cancellations and at 100 million dollars per plane or about 30 billion dollars that the idiot trump has cost Lockheed/Martin and it’s going to get worse as he stumbles around destroying our economy…and he is giving up influence that we used to have and is isolating the US on the world stage…our allies can’t depend on us and our enemies are laughing at the self destruction of NATO and all other alliances the stupid trump is taking a sledgehammer to…soon we’ll be a footnote of history as the rest of the world moves on without us…nice job maga assholes…geez..
Rising bread…
Well…just took a look at the bread dough in the silicone bowl in the fridge and I can’t believe how much it’s risen overnight…this is by far the best loaf I’ve made and I wonder if it was from the newly fed starter I used? I’ll bet it’s going to rise even more and push the top off the casserole dish I use to bake it in…I don’t know if I’m going to buy bread anymore or just bake a loaf a week…but bread flour is about 5 bucks for a 5 lb bag so it’s not cheaper than buying whole wheat at aldis…and each loaf takes 350 grams…okay, so that makes it about a buck per loaf so I guess it is cheaper…if you didn’t know, a pound is 454 grams so that gives you 6 loaves out of a 5 pound bag so that is 83 cents a loaf…I wonder if I should factor in the time it takes to make a loaf…no, I was just sitting here reading and the total time of mixing it up and doing the folding and stretching is about 10 minutes over the afternoon so it only appears it’s a lot of work…okay, need to get on the bike right now…more later…
March 16th
Well…it’s damn cold out there with the temp hovering the mid 30′s and that is down 40 degrees from Friday…that is March in Michigan so that will mean the rides will be indoors today…my right eye is pretty weepy this morning but doesn’t hurt so I will need to wash it and put the hot compress on it before I get on the bike here in a few minutes…I hurt my back somehow and it’s probably just from riding outdoors and using outdoor muscles to do it…and my hands hurt all night last night from the same thing since I only have about 200 miles in outdoors and I’m not used to it yet…slept okay last night and I’m not sure why I’ve been feeling so tired lately…yesterday it was a chore just to move at all and I feel the same today…I really should take a day off at some point…man, that would be such a luxury if I could ever do it…I used to be able to and I wonder how the heck I got to this point? I am going to bake some bread this morning to go with the potato/cabbage soup that I am going to have for both lunch and dinner today since I have so much of it in the fridge and don’t want it to spoil….not much to do today…it’s going to be a good day to just hibernate here with the rain/snow and cold that is going on right now…more later…
Pretty easy today…
Well…I did get two outdoor rides in today and the turkey was being exceptionally weird on the road up to the beach…when I got there, Stupid the turkey was chasing cars at full speed down the road gobbling loud enough that I could hear it over my music..so, of course, I gobbled right back at him and he stopped dead, turned around, and started to follow me up the trail…weird as heck…man the wind has been blowing like crazy out here all day today and I’m glad I went out early but it was still blowing almost 20 when I was out there but now it’s blowing 25-30 and gusting to 40…I really shouldn’t be surprised at that after living out here for 4 years…I did get the dough for another loaf of sourdough bread mixed up using the new batch of starter I made yesterday and it is now in the fridge doing it’s cold fermentation so I can bake it tomorrow morning and have some with the soup I’m having for lunch and dinner tomorrow…probably need to do some meal planning tomorrow, too and get some stuff out of the freezer…the temp is going to start crashing here in a couple of hours and tomorrow’s high is only going to be 35 so I’ll be indoors for the rides…but it will be warm enough to outdoors for most of the week but I’ll have to be in part thermasuit…okay, need to do some reading…
Poor lil Marco..
Well…since the G7 summit was being held in Canada, our SoS lil Marco Rubio had to go there and the greeting he got at the airport made me laugh like hell…first, there were only two people to greet him and the red carpet was about the size of a bath mat and dropped into a puddle…and since it was being covered by Canadian media, almost all of the questions were about his idiot boss and his threats to take over Canada…after a while lil marco got a little frustrated and lashed out at the reporters…now I’m not sure if this was planned by the Canadian government but their new PM ripped on idiot boy and in no uncertain terms said his comments on Canada and the stupid trade war he started are his fault…so good, the rest of the world is starting to treat the moron in chief with the contempt he deserves…oh, and Portugal just cancelled an order for a bunch of F-35s they were going to buy…geez…
March 15th
Well…damn, feel like crap this morning and I wonder it I ate enough yesterday with a bowl of soup and one chicken thigh? Sure doesn’t feel like it but we’ll see after I get a cup of coffee down…with the rain and high winds out there, I won’t be outside on the bike today…and I may only do two rides indoors today with the way I feel….don’t even want to do one so I’ll wait a bit to go down…I did get the sourdough starter ready for making a loaf of bread today but that seems like too much work right now…it was nice to get rides in outdoors yesterday but March in Michigan weather is coming in tomorrow with the high only 35 degrees with high winds so I’m not sure when I’ll get back outside…was really hoping to get 2K miles in before the end of March but that looks out of reach…need to stop with the goals this year…they are wearing me out…I may go out at 8am since it’s going to be over 50 and shorts weather and the wind is not going to be howling until a little later…we’ll see…not much to do today…just going to do the rides and get the bread dough ready to bake tomorrow…have already gotten through the last Harlan Coben book I picked up yesterday and that is a little sad…have read everything the library has so I need to find a new author to fill my time…more later…
Now it’s the arms manufacturers…
Well…the hits keep coming across the economy as the idiot trump keeps up his stupid trade war…this time hitting arms manufacturers here…just last week, Germany cancelled an order for 35 F-35 fighter jets and Poland was going to replace the 100 F-16s they gave to Ukraine with F-35 but now is looking at the Eurofighter Typhoon that has almost as good performance as the F-35 and is less than half the cost…and this is not the only damage idiot boy has done…right now Korea and Canada are in talks to see what Korea can supply them as the Canadians stop buying from us after the stupid tariffs…and this includes submarines and other ships that used to come out of US shipyards but won’t anymore…and the EU is in talks to replace all of the American arms they buy since with idiot boy in the WH, the US has become unreliable so they are going to go their own way…can you say loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs? That’s where were heading and once people find other sources for the arms they need, we’ll never get that business back…good job, maga morons…geez..
Hey beef producers…how’s your vote for trump working out?
Well…just a shorty on an article that I just read over on Mastodon…in retaliation for the tariffs that idiot boy put on Chinese goods, China has cancelled all beef purchases from the US stating they will buy from Canada and Brazil instead…I guess the “great businessman” you voted for isn’t so great, huh? The carnage from the imbecile you elected is just getting started and there is a full blown recession ahead…consumer confidence and spending by households is down by almost 30% since idiot boy took office and since our economy is driven by consumer spending…the bloodbath is going to get worse and worse…the FAFO stage is just getting started and I really do hope the pain these morons have foist on this country hits these owners in the ass…geez..
March 14th
Well…slept okay last night and I got through the whole day with no pain in my eyes so I’ll take that…have already washed my eyelids and put the heated compress on them and that really cleared the crap out of them…it’s going to be warm this aft so I’ll wait to do the outdoor rides until then and then I’ll be able to go out in a t-shirt and shorts but that means I’ll have a big hole in my day from 9 after I go to the library so I think I’ll make the potato soup I have planned this morning…so I need to get an indoor ride in at 7, shower, head for the library at 9, make soup, add to the sourdough starter so I can make the dough tomorrow, then lunch and wait for the temp to come up…I seem to always need to plan my days even this long retired but that makes it easier and then I get things done…it is supposed to storm tonight and the we have winds tomorrow with steady 25-35 and gust to 50 so I won’t be outside on the bike…and the high Sunday is only 35 so I’ll be back indoors again for a while…and there is snow in the forecast for next Thursday as the cold settles in til April…ick…not much to do today…just need to get started on the plan here in a half hour or so but want more coffee first…not going to hit the goal of 2K miles before the end of March but that’s okay…the only goal I have left is to ride everyday and keep my string going….more later…