Well…another damn 4:44 morning and I am exhausted…again…I may have to make trying to sleep better a project and try a few new things to make it at least tolerable…I can’t go on with this little sleep and keep up all of the work I’ve had to do on the house…oh, well…I did get two rides in even after going over and painting yesterday and today looks like it will be the same…need to start building the handrail for the attic stairs today and I found almost everything I need in the garage so that is cool…it is a little strange that I went through the whole weekend with no pain or stiffness in my legs but it came back yesterday and continues this morning…at first I thought it may be doing two rides a day but I did that over the weekend, too so that can’t be it…maybe it’s just that I’m getting old and my body is confused….or maybe it’s telling me to stop…a thought popped into my head on the ride yesterday questioning why I’m riding so much and I narrowed it down to two possibilities…that I’m either trying to stay healthy or I’m trying to kill myself…and I’m not really sure which it is…who knows? More later…
Is all of my equipment going to fail?
Well…you know, one of the things that I have been concerned with during the rehab of the house is that my car is going to have a big failure just when I need to be there for the windows or for the fence…or something else is going to fail that is going to cost money that I don’t want to spend right now with all of the cash that is going out for the house…and yesterday it appeared that everything was going to fail. First, the battery on the car died and I had to buy a new one, but during the online purchase, my printer died, and I haven’t been able to get either one of the lawnmowers running and it cost about a hundred bucks to have them fixed so it makes more sense to just buy a new electric for about 90 bucks… oh, and the car started missing like crazy and almost dying when coming to a stop and that normally is not cheap….so, I guessed and put a new set of plugs in the car and it seems to have helped…at least today it hasn’t done that but it could be the cleaner that I put in a few days back, too…who knows? Oh, again…the guy I had put the last muffler on is on vacation so I can’t get that done until a couple of weeks from now so I’ll have to live with the noise until then…I did wash the car for the first time in a month and noticed that more stitching has fallen apart on the top and had to glue that back together this afternoon…and just shows that I’ll need a new top over the winter…so, yes…there have been lots of failures over the past week that have me pretty tired…but, at least the car now starts really easily so I guess that’s worth 104 bucks…
What a clueless idiot…
Well…I have a question for you…do you feel “loaded up” with money? Yeah, I didn’t think so…but, according to the idiot in chief “our consumers are rich” and “I gave a tremendous tax cut and they’re loaded up with money”…so I guess the 40% of you Americans who can’t even come up with 400 bucks in an emergency must be wrong or you’re lying. This is just how clueless the idiot in chief is…he believes the bullshit from fox news that most of the repub tax cuts went to everyday Americans and not to the rich and corporations when only 20% of Americans polled believe it…call it clueless, call it a lack of empathy, or call it what it is, that trump doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself. When the recession hits, and it will, even the kool aid drinkers on the right are going to turn on trump when they start losing their jobs and everything else because they are not “loaded up” with money and trump and his cronies are don’t have the talent to help soften the blow…even now, trump has already started to blame everyone else but his stupid trade war for the coming recession…and if he truly believes that it is the media who are causing the problems with the economy, he won’t do a damn thing about it but attack them and play the victim while the country burns…
August 19th
Well…not feeling all that hot this morning and hurt quite a bit after not taking any ibuprofen as a test last night….wanted to see if I was taking it for a reason or not and I guess I was…didn’t sleep much and was up at 4 so that sets me up for being exhausted again today and I have too much to do to have that…oh, well…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but getting the new battery and a little cleaning but today I do need to get over to the house and start building the handrail to the attic and maybe even some paint in the bathroom…and I do need to put the kitchen door back on but I may have to put a second coat of paint on before that…but I need to get my hair cut first and see if I can get the new exhaust scheduled to be put on…getting tired of it lying here in the living room and I really need the car to be quieter…but, I need more coffee first and to read a little news before I get on the bike…more later…
One down…
Well…it has been a busy morning with getting the bike ride in and then getting a new battery for the car…so that is one down of the stuff I needed to do this week…I had been buying them from Autozone but they raised their price so high, 149 bucks, and had no special deals so I went to Advance since they had an online coupon for 25% off so that got the battery down to 104 bucks…this one is just a little bigger than the last one and I had to massage the hold down to make it fit but it worked out okay and now I don’t have to worry about that for about another 18 months…talked to the guy at Advance and he doesn’t know why they don’t make a better batteries for Miatas…and I don’t either…over the winter I am going to research other batteries that may fit but I didn’t have time to do that now since I have to be at the house so much in the next couple of weeks…I think I’ll buy a new shut off switch, too, just to make sure that everything is working right…after all they are only about 5 bucks and that is cheap to know that it will continue to work…
August 18th
Well…another night of up at 3:14 and I am just damn exhausted…have been saying that a lot lately and I wonder how long this will go on? Probably until I have the house finished so I need to get moving on it..and the car problems are on my mind…need to get the exhaust installed and a new battery this week…just too much to do and not enough time to do it…and they may be putting the windows in this week, too so I just need to hunker down and get things done…I’m already doing my bedding at 5:45 since my pillows had a weird smell to them and needed to be washed…my new washer is big enough to take two of them and that is kind of cool….okay, need to go get coffee…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but clean my stove top and I think I’ll continue to work on the kitchen today since it is supposed to storm this afternoon and that will keep me off the bike after the ride this morning…and my legs feel okay even after doing two yesterday but I don’t want to push it and hobble around here today…more later….
3,000 miles already…
Well…forgot to do this one last week when I hit 3,000 miles…something I’ve never done by August before and it is way more than I did last year…only have about 400 miles to get to that goal but getting to 3K this early has me thinking that I may be able to beat my all time yearly record of 4,237 miles that I did a few years back in the year without winter…that year, I was out on the bike on New Years day in shorts without gloves it was so warm…and now, with the trainer, I can ride right up to December 31st indoors so it looks like the goal is doable…I’ve even put on almost another hundred miles since I hit 3K so it’s only about 1,100 miles to go…and if I can keep doing doubles, that will really help. My legs tolerated a double today with just a little pain so I think I’ll give it a try….
RIP Peter Fonda…
Well…as I get older and time passes, more and more people who have been part of my time on this planet are dying and yesterday we had another one go…Peter Fonda. I still remember the first time I saw Easy Rider and how foreign it seemed to a 16 year old from Ada…but I loved the movie and the idea of freedom that it proposed…and the exposure of the festering hatred of anything “other” that still plagues the south was so clearly rendered in the movie that I began to recognize it in my own little corner of the world. I think I’ve probably seen that film at least 20 times over the years and will still watch it for the music and nostalgia that it brings to me every time now that I am not the 16 year old kid seeing it for the first time. So, RIP Peter…
August 17th
Well…that was a little better…didn’t get up til almost 6 this morning and it would be nice to get to 7 sometime…don’t feel as sore as normal this morning and I can’t figure that out other than I only did one ride yesterday…but I was really sore last night so that’s a little confusing…but, I’ll take it as long as it lasts…and you know I’ll do two today and make everything hurt again…not sure how to react to not hurting…damn, I just noticed that I still have white paint in the cuticles on my hands and I wonder how long it will be before that doesn’t happen anymore? Didn’t get anything done here yesterday but I do need to clean some today and cook some chicken before it goes bad…still have three breasts to cook for sandwiches and I’m not sure how to prepare them…maybe I’ll make a new rub…none of the ones I have been using lately has really grabbed me and I just got some Italian seasoning from aldi’s that I want to try…I think I need a day off so I may just do that today and just watch soccer after the bike ride..I’m already getting tired just sitting here and that is not a good way to start the day…more later…
A damn busy day…
Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for a political one today and part of that is that there is not much going on that interests me, but the big thing is that I had a damn busy day today and I am just beat…after not sleeping well at all, I did get out for a ride early to be out in the fog, then over to the house for 4 hours of prepping and painting and I did get the part of the kitchen that was peeling done but I think I’ll do a second coat on it since the pink is bleeding through some…when I started the car up to go over there, even with having the battery shut off, it started really hard and I think either the switch is failing or the third battery is toast..if that is the case, I’m going to upgrade to the bigger civic battery that will fit and it is a normal battery, not a fiberglass one and I hope that will be better…don’t want to buy a new battery right now, though…and to top that off, when I got home, the car was missing like crazy and I really don’t know what that is about so I went out and got a set of NGK super v copper plugs to replace the Bosch platinums that all of the guys on the Miata sites say never to run…didn’t start the car after I put the new plugs in so we’ll see Sunday when I go out to get the paper…oh, and the flapper valve in my toilet melted away so I had to go over to Depot to get another one and install it so the thing would stop leaking…and no, I wasn’t going to wait for the guys to come and fix it and let the toilet leak until Monday and annoy the hell out of me..the new flapper was only a little over 3 bucks so it was no big deal…so, you can see that it has been a busy day and I am worn out..so, no more later…