Well…I was pleasantly surprised today when I opened my mailbox and found my passport had arrived! It’s the first one I’ve had in my lifetime and the possibilities it opens up are pretty darn cool…whether or not I’ll use it much is not really the point…it was something I’ve wanted for a few years now and if not now, when? It even has a good picture of me in it and, from what I understand, that’s pretty unusual. Now maybe I can take advantage of the 49 dollars to Europe fares that I have been seeing on the internet…probably won’t but it is cool that it is now a possibility….oh, and it only took three weeks to get it…pretty cool…
Over 1200 farms gone…
Well…hey, Wisconsin dairy farmers that voted for the idiot trump…how’s that working out for you? At least 1,200 of you are now without a farm due to the grifter in chief’s stupid tariffs and a couple of thousand more will be lost in the next year if nothing is done to fix the stupidity oozing out of the WH. But, I’m sure you still support the idiot since Hillary has something, something e-mails…right? That’s really sticking it to the libs when you lose your farm, right? Look, I do feel for ignorant people who, through no fault of their own, voted for the idiot and his policies due to trump’s lies…but, to continue to support him after losing family farms that have been in the family for generations is just pure, unadulterated stupidity that can’t be forgiven…after all, these people saddled us with the ignorant, stupid, reality show loser that shows his venality and criminality every day….and these “real Americans” deserve whatever they get…impeach…
May 6th
Well…that was an interesting night…started to sneeze and cough like crazy when I went to bed last night and that kept me up until after midnight and you would think that I would be able to make up for it by sleeping in a little…but no, back up at 5:45 today and I am exhausted…again…but part of that may be doing my second 30 miler in a row…had to take something for the pain last night since my neck and shoulders hurt as much as my legs…I’m now starting to re-think doing 30’s every day…maybe every other day would be a better plan? Still coughing a lot this morning and that is just damn annoying….didn’t get a lot done but the bike ride yesterday and today looks the same with the napcar race being rained out and rescheduled for noon today so I need to get out and get the first ride in this morning before the rain comes so I can nap during it…still no cooking today or tomorrow for that matter since I’m still using up the leftovers from the cooking binge last week…still have a tray of thighs that I got Thursday that will need to be frozen today so that means I won’t have to buy any protein this week…unless daily deals has something cheap…I should clean some today but, how I feel right now, that is not going to happen…more later….
May 5th
Well…it’s another Sunday morning at 7 am and the coffee is starting to work but this still may be a short one…didn’t get up until almost 6 and that was welcome and a long night for me…cripes, I’m sore today from doing 30 miles yesterday and I am thinking about doing it again today if I can get out early enough but Man U is going to dictate that…and the temp…they play at 9 and I think I’ll watch the first half and see how they play…they have been really bad lately and it may be a good thing that the season is ending in the next couple of weeks…had some problems with the bike yesterday and the damn rear shifter is driving me nuts…but I was just thinking if that is the only thing I have to bitch about, things are okay and I’ll figure it out at some point…I do have to get under the car this week and lube up the parking brakes since they are hanging up and not releasing but that is no big deal…just need to do it but can’t get motivated right now…don’t have to cook today with trying to use up all the leftovers and I can’t figure out how I ended up with so many…still have stir fry chicken and a homemade pizza to use up and that will last me the next three days so I may have to freeze the chicken thighs that I bought Thursday…okay, need more coffee and to watch the MotoGP race that is coming on in a minute so I’ll end here….more later…
Tin soldiers and Nixon comin’
Well…just a short one of remembrance for one of the terrible days from my youth…49 years ago today, 4 students were killed by the Ohio National Guard on the campus of Kent State University for doing nothing more than exercising their constitutional rights to protest the Vietnam war….this was a changing moment for me at 17 years old with the spectre of going to Vietnam hanging over my head and the blind allegiance to our country beginning to be questioned every day with the revelations of what was happening in our names. This may seem trite but Neil’s song still distills the event to me…”what if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?” The sad thing is this crap is still going on today in our communities of color….and I still feel the despair of that day…if these 4 students could be gunned down, then no one was safe anymore…
May 4th
Well…damn…I just want one night that I sleep…I know I bitch about that a lot but I remember sleep and it was a good thing…oh, well….almost made it 6 today and I guess that’s better than 5….I am sore this morning with doing a double on the bike yesterday and that is the plan for the day today, too….I am going to take something this morning for the pain since both shoulders now hurt and I think my left one is just the yearly pain that moves around each year to a different body part….at least it’s not my elbows this year…that was bad a couple of years back when I couldn’t pick anything up without screaming pain…okay, that’s enough about that…I did have an okay day yesterday and got a few things done…damn, just checked the Mega site and didn’t win 250 mil…but, I could win 300 mil on Tuesday so there is still hope….I do have to clean today but I’m not sure how much of that I’ll get done…still need to do the kitchen and vacuum and I think I can wedge that in between or after the bike rides today….more later…
Wasn’t going to do politics today…
Well…have had a long day today with getting out twice and doing 30 miles on the bike and I almost gave up on politics for the day…but, a short article I just read made me have to come here to do one…idiot boy is at it again with his “private” talks with Putin…and trump didn’t say one word to put Putin on the spot for his interference in the 2016 election or his continuing efforts to screw with the US in general…nope, idiot boy only wanted to talk about Mueller and his delusional belief that he was “exonerated”…and I bet Putin was just rolling his eyes and laughing internally about how well he did his job as the spy that he is and that trump is such a moron….who the hell talks to our greatest adversary like that? Putin probably patted little donnie on the head and said “good boy” when trump confirmed to him, again, that 2016 was one of Russia’s most successful intelligence coups in it’s history and that he is not going to do anything to stop the ongoing meddling….is this enough to impeach this ass? It sure should be…impeach…
May 3rd
Well…got all the way to 5:53 in bed this morning but tossed and turned all night with losing an ear plug at some point during the night…I am so used to the silence they afford that when I lose one my furnace sounds like a 747 taking off and that wakes me up all night…darn…slept on my right shoulder all night and that spiked the pain in it and I can barely move it right now…this happened even before I crashed on the bike so I’m not sure if it’s normal or not…just getting old I guess….and I feel pretty beat up everywhere, too, so it is going to take a while to get everything working this morning….I do need to take something for the pain before I get on the bike today…have been avoiding it since ibuprofen will kill you if you just look at the bottle according to the latest breathless warnings…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I will clean some today after I make a pizza for lunch…the ingredients are a week old and need to be used so I can get to the stuff I bought yesterday….going to make some instant pot chicken over the weekend and I do need to make some alfredo…have been thinking about that for two weeks and just need to do it….more later….
Of course he’s a criminal…
Well…with William Barr’s testimony to the Senate yesterday that was filled with lies, half truths and obstruction…even the normally circumspect Nancy Pelosi stated that he committed a crime with his lies, as did every dem that had to listen to his bullshit about his behavior with the Mueller report…and there is a chorus in the country calling for this liars resignation. That was before he blew off the House today where he was scheduled to undergo questioning by staff lawyers about the obvious lies he told even before he lied to the Senate yesterday….and that Senate testimony would be a road map for the House to get to the truth…but, Barr is so terrified of being exposed as the perjurer that he is that he is using the excuse that the House doesn’t have the authority to use lawyers to question him, it can only be done by the members themselves…I got news for you Billy, the co-equal legislative branch sets their own rules on testimony, and the executive branch has not one damn thing to say about it…you don’t get to blackmail the House by saying you won’t show up unless they conduct the hearing your way….in fact you will be held in contempt of congress and prosecuted if you don’t show…and that is where we are today…Barr blew off the House and now the vote to hold him in contempt is going to happen this afternoon…and guess what, Billy, you can be arrested if you don’t show up and held in custody until you do testify….is this what you envisioned when you decided to join the trump crime family? Oh, that’s right, you were already one of the slimiest operators in DC even before you begged trump to hire you…now, I just hope that Nadler and Pelosi follow through and restore the rule of law…and make this ass pay for his part is destroying this country…impeach…
May 2nd
Well…I really don’t know how I can be running late with getting up before 5 but I am…oh, well…I wonder if I can say that I slept okay when I got about 4 1/2 hours of sleep last night? That follows two days of 5 hours each and I should be exhausted from it but I don’t feel too bad this morning…and there was not even a nap to compensate yesterday so maybe today…when I was heading out to do the grocery run, I noticed there is nothing leaking under the car and cars are not supposed to fix themselves…so that means it was probably not my car that was leaking, I just parked on someone elses leak….and that is pretty cool since I don’t have to climb under it…other than to lube up the parking brakes that have started to hang up…forgot to do it while I was putting the summer wheels on so that will be a project for next week…I did get a bike ride in yesterday between the rain but a big part of the trail was flooded and I had to ride through foot deep water for a quarter of a mile to get to high ground…my shoes are still soaked from it and that is going to be unpleasant when I go out later….not much to do today…no errands to run but I do have cleaning to do…the kitchen needs work and that will be the focus of my day…if I can focus later…