Well…as you could see, my site was down yesterday and my son just got it running again right now so I need to get to work and get caught up…so here goes…had an okay day yesterday other than the site problems and got a lot of work done…painted the railing around the flat roof and that was 3 1/2 hours of pain since I had to bend over to do it…my hamstrings and back were screaming at me all day yesterday and they are both stiff today…should be worse tomorrow so I need to to get out in front of the pain…you know, I really miss it when I can’t come here in the morning…it helps me to get my brain started and it leaves a hole in my life that I don’t like…just feel uncomfortable when I can’t do these…slept okay last night and really feel okay today…and the first ride was a good one but I went out too fast and that left my legs pretty flat by the time I got back here…I did get back from Los Angeles a couple of days ago with getting to 4310 miles and only have about 250 miles to get to my record for a year…that should come up next week if the weather cooperates…not much to do today…I do need to mow the lawn and get started on re-seeding the front lawn since it is looking pretty crappy and bare even though I’ve been watering and feeding it….not sure if I’ll do a second ride today but I just may since I have to wait for the lawn to dry out some anyway…but I need to finish my bagel and coffee first…more later….
Monthly Archives: September 2020
The costs of Sturgis…
Well…I wrote a short one a few weeks back on the super spreader Sturgis Bike rally attended by a couple of hundred thousand right wing assholes who did absolutely nothing to keep from spreading the coronavirus…no masks, no social distancing, drinking in crowded bars, going to concerts…you get my drift….and I predicted that there would be an explosion of coronavirus from it that would be spread all over the country…and gee, I was right. A study released in the past few days estimated that this event caused over 250,000 cases of the disease and the costs for treatment of these cases was put at 12.2 billion dollars….yep, 12.2 billion dollars just so these assholes could exercise their “freedumb”…and “own the libs”….one estimate puts the cases tied to this moronic rally as almost 20% of the reported cases in the country and will almost certainly continue to spread the disease across the country. You know, I pretty damn tired of these cretins putting my life in danger every damn day just so they can go to frickin bar and not wear masks…..I know most of us here in Michigan are doing our part to slow the spread of the virus, but all it takes is one moron going to Sturgis to take all of that work and flush it down the drain….just like they should be….geez…
September 9th
Well…it’s raining out there again this morning so it looks like a wait to get on the bike again today…I really did take the day off yesterday from everything and I am still feeling the guilts from it…I guess I did do something…did the grocery run since I wanted to hit Menards to get some lawn food and get it on the front lawn before it rained….slept okay last night but still feel off today and I’m not sure what that is about other than my allergies….they have been bad lately and I have had a sore throat for a few days…that’s pretty annoying but I finally got some more meds yesterday so I can take something for it….it is a little weird walking around this morning with no pain and I hope I don’t get too used to it…after all, I do have 700 more miles to do and I do kind of miss getting on the bike even after only one day off….not much to do today…I am going to clean a little and I have some stuff to do downstairs as I wait for the rain to end…but right now all I want is more coffee and to read some news…might run an errand if the rain keeps up…the radar still has a pretty good size blob of rain but that will only be an hour or so….more later….
Idiot boy’s campaign appears to be broke…
Well….I had a little chuckle yesterday when I read an article that said the idiot trump’s campaign was going broke after having spent 800 million dollars already….on what, I don’t know…I do see a few ads on tv that I always change the channel when they come on but 800 million dollars? I do know that idiot boy has been bleating that he is going to give 100 million dollars to the campaign and why would he do that if they didn’t need it? My next question is where is the cash going to come from? We all know that the moron never puts his own money into anything so I wonder how they are going to funnel the 100 mil from Putin and launder it so it can’t be traced? Can’t use the NRA again since that channel has already been uncovered and his “charities” have been shut down so it will be interesting to see how many other laws he is going to break getting Putin to fund him…again. At the same time, Biden raised 345 million dollars just in August and that puts him up in total money for the campaign but he’s not spending it to buy Ferraris and condos in Florida for his campaign staff like trump did…or maybe it was just the grifters that trump surrounds himself stealing all the cash…just like the inauguration millions that just disappeared…gee, you’d think that the only reason idiot boy is even in this is to grift…I wonder how much of the 800 million ends up in trump’s pockets? A lot, I’ll bet….
September 8th
Well…it finally looks like I’m going to get my day off the bike…it’s raining right now and the radar shows that rain is backed up all the way to Iowa so there won’t be a ride this morning anyway…I did two yesterday and I am pretty sore today….slept okay last night but feel pretty slow this morning so I think I’ll need a bunch of coffee to get me started…it is kind of nice to have no schedule for a change but I think I’m going to do the grocery run today since I can’t do anything else…I did get the railing around the flat roof wire brushed yesterday but still have a little more to do so I can paint it Thursday…supposed to be rain showers tomorrow too, so I’ll need to wait until then…my last big sunflower fell over yesterday but it was from wind and not the trunk breaking so I just stood it back up and used a chain to hold it to the fence…I am really surprised how small the root system for a 12 foot tall plant is….I will be taking them all down as soon as the seeds finish so I can put the stalks out in the trash Friday….not much to do today…I’m just going to wing it and do what I want with no schedule today….that is going to be weird…okay I guess I do have a schedule if I’m planning to do the grocery run…damn…more later…
They are all criminals..
Well….with all of the criminals that the idiot trump surrounds himself with, it really should come as no surprise that the criminal DeJoy, who was brought in to destroy the Postal Service, is now under investigation for multiple felonies for violating campaign finance laws. It appears that DeJoy set up “straw donations” to repub campaigns in North Carolina through executives in the company he used to own…he coerced his execs to make the highest donations allowed and then reimbursed them with “bonuses” so he could get around the dollar limits for individual donations. Each occurrance is a felony and there are witnesses willing to come forward to testify that they made donations for him…and these can be both state and federal charges…while the federal charges can’t be brought because the statute of limitations has run out, North Carolina has no statute of limitations for felonies so charges can still be brought there…and the icing on that cake is that trump can’t pardon him for state charges. I wonder if any of the people in trump’s administration are not crooks? Sure looks like they all are…geez…
September 7th
Well…man, I’m tired this morning….both mentally and physically…not sure how I slept…it seems I was up quite a bit and then up for good at 5:14 so worse than usual….but, I’m less sore than normal with only doing one ride yesterday…but, I’ll be back on the bike for two today since it is supposed to rain tomorrow…it was nice to hear the rain last night and I am curious to see if it helped the lawn any since it was looking pretty patchy and I have been watering it to try to keep it alive…but that gets expensive real quick so I am hoping it will continue to rain some…didn’t get much done yesterday but that was the plan…I need to get to work to figure out how to get the last awning down so I can take it apart and paint it…and the railing out front needs to be done so I think I’ll get started on one of them today…but right now, I’m not motivated to do anything but have more coffee and read some news….more later….
Just couldn’t do it…
Well…yeah, I know…I said I wasn’t going to ride today but damn, it’s really hard for me to just sit here and do nothing and be really, really bored…so, I got on the bike since it didn’t rain and put in a hard 18 miles…and the thing is that I feel so much better after I ride that I’m not sure why I’m taking time off….okay, part of it is that I looked at the weather forecast and saw that it is supposed to rain all day Tuesday and I just couldn’t take Sunday and then Tuesday off….and I do still have 700 miles to get to 5000 for the year….yep, lots of rationalizations in there but they are MY rationalizations and I can use them any way that I want….back to two rides tomorrow…..
September 6th
Well…that was another weird night…slept all night until almost 6:30 so that was the longest sleep I’ve had in almost a year but I still feel pretty worn out today…and my back hurts for some reason that I can’t figure out…haven’t done any heavy lifting the past few days or anything out of the ordinary so I’m a little confused about it…but, I’ll give it a rest today and maybe even take something for it…not going to get on the bike today so maybe that will help? I’m not going to know what to do with myself today with no bike rides but I am really looking forward to having a day off….and I just looked at the radar out of habit and it looks like we have a bunch of rain coming in from the west that will be here in a few hours so I’ll have an excuse for not riding…not that I need one…I am curious how I’m going to feel later today…still pretty sore right now and hope that it will get better as it did the last time I took a Sunday off….didn’t get much done yesterday and I’m not sure about today…there are races and the TDF on today so I may just veg it out and take it easy all day to have a complete day off…that will be hard to do since I have work on the downstairs project to do that shouldn’t wait…we’ll see….more later…
Need a break…
Well…with everything that has been going on in politics and with all of the riding I’ve been doing, I am worn out both mentally and physically and need a break….so, I don’t think I’m going to do a political one today…just too much to think about and I need to let my brain rest for a while…maybe later? Who knows? My body is also throwing out the warning signs that it needs a rest, too…It’s been almost a month since I took a day off and all of the studies I’ve been reading say you should take a rest day at least once a week…that’s never going to happen but it’s supposed to rain tomorrow for part of the day so I think it’s time to give myself a rest…I did do two rides today after thinking I would only do one but I could feel my legs starting to feel the fatigue that usually says stop…and I have pain under both kneecaps and in my achilles which should never happen so I think I’ll listen to my body this time and give it a chance to repair tomorrow….it will be pretty strange to not have to rush out of here in the morning and get a ride in before the F1 race….I did try a new recipe for pickles today…made some dill pickles but put a jalpeno in it to make spicy dill pickles…and I can’t wait to taste them tomorrow…have to let them set to get the flavor to mesh with the peppercorns and garlic that I put in too…so, it looks like I’m taking the rest of the day off…pretty damn tired and just can’t get motivated to do anything….that can wait til tomorrow….