Well…just had to relate something that happened on the trail today that left me a little humbled…as you know, I feel pretty good about the fact that I can still go out and go hard on the bike for 15 miles every day at my advanced age…but today I was a little humbled by a conversation I had with one of the regulars that I wave to every day but had never talked before now. I’ve always thought that this person was maybe 70 or so since he walks with such vigor when I see him…but today I found out he just turned 90 years old when he stopped to talk at a water stop. Now, I have to say that I want to be in that shape at 90…and be able to do what Mike does…pretty cool….
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June 28th
Well…running a little late and shouldn’t be…have been up since 5:30…didn’t sleep much last night and feel it this morning…just have no energy and that’s seems to be a continuation of yesterday…I know I haven’t been eating enough but just have no desire to do it….I was really hoping for storms this morning to give me an excuse to stay off the bike but that didn’t happen…just can’t seem to get warm today and I wonder if it’s a bug…maybe that has something to do with why I’m so fatigued? Didn’t get much done yesterday but I do have some things to do today that really need to be done..so I am going to try to get some motivation going….but, not until after coffee….more later….
The world really, really hates trump….
Well…the rest of the world is discovering what the sane of us have known for years, that the idiot trump is one of the worst people in the world…and yes I stole that from Keith but it fits here. A Pew organization poll that was done recently showed that 74% of of the people in the world think the idiot is unqualified to be “president” and has no confidence in his ability to do the job. And it just gets worse every time anyone meets the idiot in person…labeling him “arrogant, intolerant, and dangerous”. One good thing from the survey is that his terribleness is not rubbing off on how people feel about the residents of the US…giving the rest of us a nearly 60% approval rate. With these kinds of numbers and the outright contempt the rest of the world’s leaders have of this moron, there won’t be any “great deals” that this idiot is going to do…they have his number and will just say no to him…since the rest of the world knows that will just kill him…and they will revel when he explodes into another one of twitter rants….laughing at the man-baby…impeach….
June 27th
Well…running early today and it’s cold in here this morning…didn’t put the heat on last night and it got down to 48…not sure if I want to do that now or if I’ll wait for the coffee to warm me up….don’t feel all that hot today with not sleeping too well last night but I was good so that can’t be it….and I’m back to being sore everywhere and that is disappointing….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but didn’t need to so I guess that worked out….still don’t have to cook today with having leftover chicken but I am getting tired of it….okay….it’s coffee time and I really need some right now…more later….
Repub “patriots”
Well…the supposed party of “patriots” has another new talking point being tried out and it is stunning in it’s cynicism….it goes something like this: even if trump did collude with Russia, it doesn’t matter…after all, collusion is not a crime….this was trotted out on all of the news shows over the weekend by the usual repub suspects and tells us that Mueller must be getting close to being able to prove that trump and his cronies stole the election with the help of the Russians. Now, let’s do a little imagining for a minute…imagine that a dem did or said what these idiots did…can you imagine Trey Gowdy saying it didn’t matter.;..that it wasn’t a crime and they should just “let it go”? Yeah….I don’t think anyone has that good of an imagination….this is a crime..bluntly…colluding with a foreign power to subvert our democracy is treason and it should be tried that way….but the repubs have shown that patriotism to them is just words to be used to keep the rubes voting for them…..impeach….
June 26th
Well…running late today and it’s from going back to bed after I got up…haven’t done that in years and I’m not sure why I did it today….feeling a little depressed for the past week or so and there are good reasons for it that I don’t think I’ll share right now….slept okay last night but I’m just exhausted again and I’m pretty sure it’s from not eating…but, I just don’t care to so I guess that could be a problem….didn’t get anything done yesterday…even skipped the bike ride to try to get the ache out of my legs but that didn’t work….not much to do today…I think I’ll try to get out in the sun a little and clean but no promises…..more later….
These are some sick bastards…
Well…oh, goody…the latest repub talking point just dropped yestereday and it just reveals that they are some sick bastards…Mike Pence was out yesterday trying to defend taking healthcare away from 30 million Americans and making it more expensive for everyone else by saying that if people just took “personal responsibility” for their health, they would not even need health insurance so quit your damn complaining. This is straight from his damn cult of a religion that anything that happens to you is your fault….it’s your fault that you got old and can’t find a job, it’s your fault that you come down with Alzheimer’s, it’s you fault that you get cancer, it’s your fault if some idiot t-bones your car…you get the point….if you took more “personal responsibility” none of these bad things would ever have happened to you…and the same goes for being poor…it must have been something you did or you would be rich like me….I have this to say to you, Pence, you are one of the worst people in the world and I wish you would just shut the hell up as you steal this country for your owners…..impeach….
June 25th
Well….wasted another day yesterday but just couldn’t get going…I did use the slow cooker to make some chicken with smoked sausage and that came out pretty good…but I only ate one meal yesterday since I felt full all day after the chicken….so the legs will be flat on the bike today…won’t be going out until later since the F1 race is on at 9…I really should take a day off to let the legs rest but that pegs the guilt meter and I don’t know if I want that or not….and I should clean today…but I’m not sure if I will or not….I did get 45 miles in yesterday but my back did give me some problems so I think I’ll have to wait a while to do the 100 miles….I do need more coffee so I think I’ll go get some and come back to this later…..more later…
Trump really is winning…
Well… to see the damage that the idiot trump has done to the presidency and the US’s standing in the world, you just have to listen to real world leaders descriptions of the idiot….they find it impossible to hold a coherent conversation with him….let that sink in a bit…the “president” can’t even hold a coherent conversation and after only a few interactions with the idiot, here’s what Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada has decided: that trying to communicate about anything of substance with trump and his cronies is a “lost cause” and their workaround is to basically ignore him and go straight to the states and cities that they want to deal with. Here’s the thing…. after all of the bluster that he would “negotiate the best deals”, trump has no partners left to negotiate with…almost the entire world, other than the dictators the idiot so loves, has sized him up for the moron that he is and have said that they will just ignore the US until he’s gone…wow…this is really making America great again, isn’t it? Impeach….
June 24th
Well….running a little early today since I want to get the bike ride in before F1 qualifying at 9….and I have decided to not do the 100 miles today…my back already hurts today and that means it will be bad when I get on the bike…oh, I did win at pool….slept okay last night but lost one of my ear plugs over night and that really annoys me….I did get the slow cooker loaded already so that should be done by around three or so and I’m looking forward to a good meal later…haven’t been eating enough and that needs to be fixed….not much to do today….I do need to clean some but I am going to try to not feel guilty if I don’t…..more later….