Well….I finally go there this morning…20,000 miles on the bike! I has been a long 6 years but rewarding…maybe not rewarding but it has been fun and I have seen lots of weird stuff….like this morning when I heard on the news that a tornado had come through around a mile from my place last night…and right on my normal path on the bike…it looked like a bomb had gone off there and the was not one undamaged tree left standing…it was kid of strange coming up to the area…it’s look had changed so much with the trees being flattened that I had to look at it for a while to recognize the normal landmarks….a pretty close one….more later….
Monthly Archives: July 2014
July 7th
Well…it was another day yesterday and there were a few interesting things that happened so that was okay…got the chance to get out and have a couple with C in the aft and drive the car a little but the night was interrupted when the power went out in the middle of a show that I was watching…after sitting in the dark for an hour, I gave up and went to bed…the storms were pretty cool though but they think there was a small tornado that went through about 2 miles north of me…I’m going to take the bike out and take a look at the damage later since that area is on my normal route….slept crappy last night and that is leaving me worn out this morning but one more cup of coffee and I’ll get started on the day….not much to do today….going to take it easy since my back has flared up and I’m pretty uncomfortable….more later…
July 6th
Well…F1 is in a red flag for a crash so it looks like the perfect time to get this one done….it was an okay day yesterday and I did get the car cleaned…the glass was so filthy that I just couldn’t stand it anymore…slept crappy again and I’m not sure what to do about it…I did have one good day last week and that makes it even more frustrating…didn’t get much done but I need to do better today…but, there is so much racing on that I may just skip everything and veg…not sure yet…may even skip the bike ride since the next race comes on at 11 and at noon…I am going to try to clean a little since the spiders are taking over the bathroom and I need to get them gone….more later…
I predicted this…
Well…in the wake of the wrong headed HL decision by the supreme court, I predicted that this was not going to be where this blatant attack on women would end…and, I was right…as of yesterday, there have been over 100 companies who have applied to no longer cover birth control due to religious reasons…what I want to know is what are women going to do about it? I think those of us that think that women can make their own decisions about their health need to start making these companies pay for this naked aggression by boycotting anything they make, any service they provide, and being loud about it…starting with Hobby Lobby…the creeps that run that company should be made to pay….religion belongs in church, not in business and any business that starts this crap should be cut out of any government contract that they may apply for….we on the left need to start pushing back…after all, the majority of the country agree with us…geez…
July 5th
Well….as you can see, I didn’t come back for another one but it’s early in the month so I can catch up later….it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool but the fireworks that went on all night were a pain in the butt…so many of them around here that I could smell the sulphur in my place…annoying to say the least….did not sleep well since I forgot to take my allergy medicine and could barely breathe….last night was a bore with a boring race and not much else to see…it looks like tonight is going to be the same with another race but maybe it will be better….not much to do today…I am going to clean some and watch soccer, yep, I’m still doing that, and there are some good matches on today…but that is about it.,..now it’s time to get out on the bike since it looks like a nice morning out there…more later….
July 4th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was good….slept kind of okay, too, so I’m not sure what is going on….didn’t do much yesterday but the grocery run and some cleaning but I don’t feel bad about that…being broke has a way of depressing you so nothing really sounds good…I am getting closer to the 20K mark on the bike…only 60 more miles to go and that will put it next Tuesday that I will get there…might have to celebrate a little….I am a little down remembering what the 4th used to be like with the big parties and raising a little hell and now nothing really…there will be pool today since I made some cash so that will be fun…and making a delivery late last night got me out to watch the fireworks that people are setting off…it smelled like fireworks everywhere with the top down and that was kind of cool…not much to do today…pool, of course, and then back here for races and soccer….yep, still going to watch the rest of the world cup even though we’re out of it….more later…
I can’t believe it…
Well…have been ruminating over the HL decision now for a few days and have seen the true idiocy of the right come out…why do we who have no religion have to follow some ancient superstitions that other people believe in? Where is our freedom and liberty that the right is always screaming about? Oh, I guess it’s THEIR freedom and liberty to force that superstitious nonsense on the rest of the country…and this was really brought home by a tweet by Erick Ericson, on of the supposed great thinkers on the right that said “my religion trumps your right to have recreational sex”…..how sick is that? And, explain to me how that is different from the Taliban or other religious extremists and their edicts that try to control the behavior of the women that live in those countries? One of things I see here is that the religious extremists are trying to carve out their exemptions to law since they are losing the war….the country is leaving these idiots behind and they know that their bigotry and disdain for the rights of women are going to be on the losing side within a few years; we are going to look back and see this as the death throes of the political part of the religious right…all we have to do is vote…if women turn out we win, if minorities turn out, we win….if rational people turn out, we win…so let’s not wait any longer…let’s win this year and start returning this country to facts…not superstitious nonsense…geez
July 3rd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get some stuff done on the car so that was good….still waiting to see if the lube of the front end got rid of the squeak…I do think lubing the throttle cable helped..it has idled fine today so far….slept crappy again last night and I have been up since 5 so I will need to compensate for that today…running a little late today since Brian just stopped to chat for a while but, what the heck do I have to worry about…it looks like the weather has cleared up so that will make for a nice ride today…not much to do today…I am going to make some big ribs today since I am just so darn tired of chicken and I have been under eating almost all this week which left me just so tired all day yesterday….will try to fix that today…and I still haven’t made any money so it looks like I may have to skip pool tomorrow unless a call comes today…..more later…
New speed records….
Well…I know it’s only been a few weeks since I reported that I had a new set of speed records on the bike, but today I broke them again and thought I should report that, too. On the downhill pedaling, the new record is 30.6 mph..helped a lot by a 20 mile an hour tailwind and 3 cups of coffee…and that resulted in a new top speed at the bottom of the hill of 34.5 mph….which is really hauling on a bike…at least it is to me…I wonder if I can get to 40 mph by the end of the summer? Sounds like a goal to me…more later…
July 2nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get a few things done so that was good….no more world cup for the US so that is bad but not unexpected….I did have some problems with the car that I need to work on today…the throttle hung up and gave me an idle around 2K for a while but I think that has to do with the cable needing some lube…and I had a squeak in the front that I think will be from the same thing…going to get under it this morning and hit all of the bushings with lube, too….not much to do today…other than the car that is….I am going to clean the bathroom and start getting rid of the unneeded mail….and then I’m not sure…more later…