Well…now that I’ve started to really pay attention to the quantity of salt in food that I buy, that generated a question to me…why so much damn salt? Went out yesterday to my daily deals store to get some turkey breast they had on sale for 77 cents a pound and made the point to look at the label…in every 2 oz serving, it had almost 400 milligrams of salt in it…or 25% of the amount of salt limit you can have every day…and even to make a sandwich, you would probably have 4-5 ozs and that would put you at the limit for the day…I mean almost 2 grams of salt just in one sandwich? Needless to say, I didn’t buy it and instead bought a whole turkey this morning at 49 cents a pound that has no added salt…but the smallest one I could find was 16 pounds and I think it was a deal for under 8 bucks…and it is the biggest turkey I have ever bought…hope it fits in my roaster….
April 10th
Well…hmmm…I wonder if the bug is finally leaving me? Slept okay last night and don’t feel too bad right now…even have some energy and that is not too normal for me…at least for the past couple of weeks…and, there is still progress with my shoulder that I am going to test on the weight machine this morning…had hardly any pain overnight and even slept on it…didn’t even think about it for the first time since I hurt it…so, yay….didn’t get a damn thing done yesterday but run an errand to get some bacon for 2.44 a pound…I know I shouldn’t eat it but that was too cheap to pass up and I am really craving a BLT….the exact same bacon is 5.99 at Meijers so that’s a pretty good deal….I did remember that GOT is starting it’s last season Sunday night so I started catching up on season 7 last night and need to get through it before then….don’t remember much of it so it’s almost like seeing it for the first time…not much to do today…Man U plays Barcelona in the champions league this aft but I don’t have much hope they can beat them…at least I’ll start watching it…and Space X is going to launch the second Falcon Heavy at 6:35 this evening and try to recover all three first stage boosters so that will be cool to watch…shouldn’t be too boring of a day…more later….
Abuse of power?
Well…c’mon folks, does trump really have to shoot someone on 5th avenue to have the congress do anything about him? The latest from the criminal in chief is as clear of an abuse of power as has ever been seen…a couple of days ago, as the idiot boy was touring his fake border wall in the southwest of the country, he told the assembled CBP officers there to ignore the judge’s ruling that said closing the border to asylum seekers was against the law….and to tell them that the “country was full” and could not take any more immigrants. Now, I’m old enough to remember Nixon and Watergate and the fact that one of the articles of impeachment was the abuse of power by Nixon by telling people who worked for him to lie to the FBI and break the law…now, how is what the idiot trump done any different? He has ordered people who work for him to break the law and to ignore a judges order to follow the law…I am getting damn tired of no one doing anything about this criminal *president who is destroying the rule of law in this country…and now, I pointing my fingers at you dems…you have plenty of evidence to impeach this asshole and you should just frickin do it…I don’t think the country will survive until the 2020 election….impeach….
April 9th
Well…I guess I slept as well as I can expect with getting up for the first time at 5:14 but going back to bed until almost 6:30….had some weird dreams about heavy earth moving equipment and the brakes not working on the Miata but there was no real story going on so it was a little less than satisfying…still think I have that damn bug with my lungs involved that I will try to burn out…again…on the bike this morning…I seem to have much less lung capacity right now and it shows by the time I’m out a couple of miles and continues for the entire ride…I do have a day off the bike day in my pocket with not taking Sunday off so I can use that this week if need be but that will trigger the guilts and I don’t want that…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I may clean some around here today…just haven’t felt motivated lately and that continues this morning…still pretty exhausted for some reason and the coffee isn’t working all that well yet…I do need to start planning meals for the rest of the week and getting stuff out of the freezer so I’ll do that this morning….didn’t eat enough yesterday so I’ll have to make up for it today with at least two meals but I don’t feel like eating anything right now….more later….
I guess locking kids in cages wasn’t enough for trump…
Well…I’m kind of happy to see Kirstjen Nielsen get fired from her post as head of DHS but, with trump, you just know that whomever he finds to replace her is going to be much worse. I guess locking kids in cages, lying every damn day about it, and letting over 3,000 Puerto Ricans (Americans) die just for trump’s racist hatred just wasn’t enough to keep her job. The damage that the family separation policy (yeah, she lied to congress about that, too) has done to both parents and children is not something that can ever be fixed and should be hung around Nielsen’s neck every damn day she is out in public, and every damn time she is out on the wingnut welfare circuit cashing in on being the monster she is….to see these children and see the reporting on the damage that ripping them away from their parents does to them is just heartbreaking and every damn American should be incensed that this racist bullshit is being done in our names…or in the name of Stephen Miller, the racist in chief who is the one behind the policies of hatred that has now infested this country. The only hope we have to stop this damage is in the next election since the rest of the repubs are just fine with all this bullshit…and we need to get a pledge from every damn dem running that this crap will be reversed first thing as soon as we take back the WH….impeach this son of a bitch now….
April 8th
Well…at least my pain is symmetrical today…both my shoulders hurt, both my Achilles tendons hurt, and both of my calves have cramps in them…at least I didn’t take anything for them yesterday so I can today…maybe before the bike ride? Slept okay last night and I wonder if it’s the newly bleached sheets with the bed being made before I crashed last night? Who knows? I do know that I’m still tired but not as bad as Saturday so that’s progress I guess…still wondering if it’s a bug or not…and I think it is but don’t want to take it easy and let it win so back on the bike for a long hard one this morning to try to burn it out…I probably should schedule a non sprint day since I was supposed to do that over the weekend to let the legs heal and didn’t…will probably wait until it gets cold again tomorrow for that….didn’t get much done yesterday but laundry and a little cleaning and I am going to try to do more today before soccer is on this aft….it is a little frustrating that my daily deals store has everything I like on sale this week but I can’t eat any of it…bacon, ham, smoked turkey, summer sausage…too much salt and fat in all of it…and my freezer is full anyway so I guess I’ll just save some cash and use what’s in there…more later…
Some musings…
Well…just opened the windows here for the first time this year and it smells good that spring is on the way…for today anyway, cold weather comes back this week with highs in the 40’s and that is depressing…oh, well…not going to do any politics today since I just can’t get motivated to do the research necessary to be cogent and not repeat myself…so, I’m just going to muse a little about a few things and see where it goes…still not feeling 100% but feel better than I did yesterday but that’s not too hard…got a nice long bike ride in this morning and I am thinking about going out again since it is 72 right now and that would be perfect for shorts and a t-shirt…but, right now, I’m watching the Bristol race and I can’t believe how few people there are at the track…20 years ago they had a waiting list for tickets but today the track is half empty and they have closed off entire sections that would hold 50K people…Nascar has to figure that out or there won’t be a Nascar after a few years…I did wash my bike today to get the mud and dirt off it and I hope that cleans the shifter and makes it more normal…it has been all over the place the past few days and I just want the shifts to be consistent so I can adjust if need be….I also got a bleach laundry load done this morning to try to get my white stuff white again and I’m not really sure if it worked…have to check out the dryer to see…okay…that’s enough for now…going to watch the rest of the race and then the Indy car race at 4….and veg out completely….
April 7th
Well…felt like crap most of the day yesterday and really did think that I was coming down with a bug…was exhausted all day and sweating through my clothes just sitting here…and it has started again this morning so I think it must be true…at first, I thought it was from not eating enough since all I had to eat Friday was a sandwich and that left me at about 500 cals for the day so yesterday, I tried to make up for it but eating two meals but it has had little effect other than I’m not as tired today…yet…but I wasn’t until the afternoon yesterday, either, so we’ll see….not going to talk about sleeping today since that is boring me and I’m sure you, too…or about how sore I am this morning…I am…but about the nice bike ride I had yesterday…I did…but didn’t wait until I could get out in a t-shirt since I am used to getting out early and wanted to get on with my day as I will today since it is already 50 degrees outside and that is warm enough to go without gloves…didn’t get anything done but cooking yesterday…made another batch of instant pot refried beans and they came out good again…and without the fat and salt they put in canned ones, they really are quite healthy with lots of fiber….don’t need to cook today with having enough chicken and beans for a chicken burrito again and maybe some pasta later…oh, and I am going to try to clean some…have already done a bleach load of laundry for all of my whites that I pre-treated last night and that looks like all I’m going to do until later….need more coffee tight now….more later…
April 6th
Well…damn, I’m sore this morning almost everywhere and I think I’ll be taking something for it since I’m just so tired of of being in pain….but, I think I’ll try aspirin today since it is not as bad for you as ibuprofen…slept pretty crappy again and I’m waiting for the coffee to get started before I can say how I feel…not good to start, that’s for sure…okay, just got back from running out to get a couple of things I forgot to get Thursday since I want to make refried beans again and didn’t have cheese or salsa to make chicken burritos for lunch…so now that really helped getting me moving and I feel much better getting that done and not having to think about it anymore…and I wanted to drive the car to check it out…when I was taking it to wash yesterday, I put the window down at the light at 60th and got a huge small of gear lube that was quite concerning…and the smell stayed with me all the way to the car wash…thought it might be a transmission seal but, after thinking about it and with the smell lessening, I realized it must have been coming from the beat up old jeep that was behind me at the light…and that gear lube smell stays with you…none this morning so that is a relief…not much to do today…going to cook and clean a little but mostly just take it easy…it’s a pain that I need a day to recover after a busy one yesterday…oh, well….Go State!
A busy day…
Well…as you can see, I am just getting to the second one of these for the day an it’s because this has been a really busy day that I am just finishing up now….have been running since 9 this morning and I am just not used to that…had to make a run to Mt. P to see C and Ren and do a little business…it’s kind of a pain that he lives on a mud road and it covered the car before I even got to his house…and doubled it getting out…so, as soon as I got back here, I had to take the car to the car wash before the mud dried and turned into concrete…ran two washes and still didn’t get all of the mud from under the car…that will probably have to wait until we get some rain and I can drive it around in it…after that, I finally got a bike ride in, too, and I am now done for the day and exhausted…so, no political one for today…haven’t been able to get caught up on what’s happening yet and just want to veg out for a while…