Well…should have done this one yesterday since that is when I got to 2900 miles for the year, but today is as good any time, I guess….I did get a good ride in this morning even going out in shorts and that was fun…and I wasn’t even cold…did have cramps in my hands again and that is not fun but they seem to be okay now…it looks like I’ll make 3K for the year and that is always the goal….I am going to start looking for a new bike soon since I think I can afford one after the new year….
Flynn has flipped….
Well…was going to write about his one yesterday when the news came out but I was overdosed on turkey and just didn’t feel like it….as was reported by the NYT yesterday, Mike Flynn’s lawyers have stopped talking to the idiot trump’s lawyers and there is only one reason that that would happen…Flynn is flipping on trump and cutting a deal to keep himself and his son out of prison for the rest of their lives….I am just going to savor that for a while….and revel in the irony that the idiot that led the chants of “lock her up” at the repub convention is probably going to do some jail time and Hillary has been proven to be innocent of all of the right wing smear charges that floated around during the election….Mueller is coming for trump and has him…and there may be bombshells by the end of the year and I can’t wait to see the charges against the idiot….get the popcorn ready….impeach….
November 24th
Well….up early today and trying to get moving but it’s not working too well right now….slept okay last night but still feel a little slow today….need to make coffee with only enough leftover to fill one cup…and that will not be enough for today…but, the coffee maker needs to cool down for a bit before I make more….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but cooking and today will probably follow that pattern….I do need to put the trash out since it stinks but that will probably be the only job I do today…..think I’ll just veg and watch some sports today…after I get out on the bike…and I may wait to go out until it’s warm enough to go out in shorts….have to find my jeans today so I can start wearing them…I did get to t-day in shorts again this year and I may continue that for a while…not sure yet…more later….
T-day update….
Well…just sitting here watching the Lions lose and thought I’d do a little update on the day so far….I think I have turkey figured out…this one came out perfect with the OJ and veggie broth for the brine…the skin crisped up just right and even the white meat was juicy…and I had eaten and cleaned everything up and put it away before 1…but, I ate so much that I am still full 3 hours later…not sure if I’ll need another meal today but I so want a turkey sandwich….maybe later….and I don’t think I’ll be back for another one today…but, you never know…
November 23rd
Well….almost forgot to do this again today and I’m not sure why….I guess my routine is a little off today with starting to cook the t-day dinner…have the pie in now and the turkey will go in when that is done so it will be ready around noon….and I’ll have time to get a bike ride in while the turkey is cooking….slept okay last night but the Wings got their butts kicked and that is a little depressing….but, they should get better as the year goes on…I hope….I did get a few things done yesterday and I now have a clean bathroom…so there isn’t really anything to do today but cook and eat…and watch the Lions lose…..and maybe come back to do another one of these today….not sure about that but I’ll try….more later….
Still searching….
Well….I am still searching for today’s topic but nothing is grabbing me right now…I think I’m having outrage fatigue there are so many bad things going on…think about having your internet go away? Or going to have to pay 3 times more for it? That’s going to happen next week once the idiot trump and his cronies gut net neutrality…you know, the rule in place now that make all ISP’s treat all internet traffic the same…the new rules will allow the ISP’s to do whatever the hell they want…block a competitor’s websites? Yep…block a competitor’s browser from being used on their service? Yep…charge extra for internet traffic that is now all available to everyone? Yep…throttle down sites that they don’t agree with? Yep….kill competitors before they can challenge the big guys like ATT and Verizon? Yep…all of that and even more will happen with the new rules that give the rich companies exactly what they paid for when they bought themselves the repub party…oh, I guess I did have a topic…sometimes they sneak up on me….impeach…
November 22nd
Well…running on time this morning and I shouldn’t be…back to feeling a little crappy with coughing again…oh, well…should feel better in a couple of days….slept okay last night but I need the coffee to work right now since I am a little worn out….riding the bike in 20 mph winds the past couple of days have made my legs burn and they are still hurting this morning…but, just the dull burn that comes with extra work….and I can live with that….might even be able to get out in shorts again on Friday….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but today will have to be different…I need to clean a little around here and run one errand…and get the turkey in the brine for tomorrow….but, that is going to wait until after coffee….more later….
Some thoughts on power…
Well…given the effort from the idiot trump to push more coal power across the US and the world, I thought I’d relate a new study that I just read about the cost of power. Done by a company called Lazard every year and called the levelized cost of energy analysis, this study deals with the relative costs for generating power from the major types; coal, nuclear, wind, solar, and natural gas….and the results this year are stunning….the cost of renewable power build and operation has fallen below the cost to just operate coal and nuclear plants…and that means that the installations are essentially free…all of those wind farms and solar cells that are sprouting across the world are essentially free to build and the electricity they generate are about half the cost of traditional methods….so maybe even the idiot’s interference in the generating market to push coal will be derailed by the simple economics of the power market…after all, who would pay twice the price just to keep a few coal miners working? And, the jobs in solar and wind pay much more and are much less dangerous than mining….just some thoughts….
Finally saw the beavers…
Well…as I’ve mentioned before, I saw the evidence that there were beavers in one of the retention ponds alongside M-6…with trees being cut down with the typical v-shaped cuts that beavers do, but hadn’t seen the animals doing it…that changed this morning when I slowed down to really look and saw two of them…one of them was huge and working on what looks like the lodge while the other was just sitting on a stump…the second one could have been a muskrat since I have seen them in this pond before and it was much smaller than the first beaver. With seeing them today, it dawned on me why the level of the pond has changed so much…at first, I thought it was just the really heavy rains that we had a few weeks back….but the water level was much higher than I could remember and the level has stayed really high since then….it was the beavers damning up the outlet to the lower pond….that made me laugh when the realization hit me….right in front of me for weeks but it took until today to figure it out…maybe I AM getting old….
November 21st
Well…running on time today and I shouldn’t be…back to coughing and feeling a little crappy so today will be a rest day…slept okay last night but no dreams to speak of and that has been a while now…oh, I did win a pool for the first time in a while….didn’t get much done yesterday but I will today…need to clean this place up before Thursday so I can relax the entire day….it looks like an early bike ride today since it’s already over 40 degrees but the wind is blowing almost 20 so that will make for a brutal ride…yesterday was almost as bad and my legs hurt from it today….not much to do today….going to clean some and just hang out to try to get rid of this bug….more later….