Well…the day that those of us who value good government and truth has arrived with the swearing in of the 119th congress and I can’t be happier…well…if we would have taken the senate, too, I could have been happier but I’ll take this…now, we won’t have any more of Devin Nunes carrying water for the most corrupt president in the country’s history and the cool thing is that this new House looks so much more like the country does…the true melting pot that sees many more women elected and taking their seats today…along with many more people of color and of every religion under the sun….I can’t wait for the right’s heads to explode when one of the new Muslim women elected is sworn in with Thomas Jefferson’s copy of the Koran….wearing the traditional headscarf of her religion. One little noticed detail of the dems taking control is the fact that they will also take control of all of the money that the repubs authorized to investigate Hillary and her e-mails and that 172 million dollars is now in Nancy Pelosi’s hands to do with as she pleases…and she pleases to hire many, many more lawyers and investigators to investigate the corruption that is rampant in idiot boy’s administration….and these are not the dregs of the legal profession that trump has to hire since no one wants to work for him, nope, they are the cream of the profession who want to be part of this historic take down of the cancer that is trump…I’m pretty sure that idiot boy doesn’t understand the world of hurt he is in…and that unhinged tweets won’t protect him…get the popcorn ready…this is going to be a good show…impeach…
January 3rd
Well…woke up this morning to the pleasant surprise of no pain in my shoulder…well, almost…and I just hurt it lugging the groceries in from the car but the improvement is surprising with how it felt like it plateaued yesterday with still having pain…I think today will be the last day of ibuprofen but I wonder if it will stop the improvement if I stop? Hmmm…slept okay last night and don’t feel too bad this morning but my neck is back to hurting but I’m not going to bitch about that after my shoulder pain….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I think I’ll try to clean today since I think I’ll skip the bike ride with the ice that’s out there again…or maybe wait until the afternoon and give it a chance to melt…it looks like I’ll get a few rides in this weekend with the temps in the 40’s and it will be nice to be able to go hard and not worry about crashing again….need to get in all the rides I can with the forecast that cold and snow is coming in a couple of weeks but every day that there are not snow piles out there make it a good winter for me…so far…and only two months to go…more later….
One more day…
Well…with the crazy assed tweets from the idiot in chief yesterday and today, we can see in real time that at least a little of the world of hurt that idiot boy is in is sinking in…in one day, we take over the House and Nancy Pelosi becomes speaker again…and all of trumps repub protection goes away…and I have to admit a little bit of a smirk as I anticipate how the best speaker of the house in the past twenty years regains her gavel…and how she will wield it to make democracy work again. After 8 years of sham votes, fake investigations, and putting the repub party before the country, a new day is going to come and, as always, it is left to us dems to clean up the mess that the repubs have made with their know-nothing voodoo economics that is still beating the dead horse that tax cuts will pay for themselves…something that has never happened and never will. The list of things that need to be fixed after Paul Ryan and his cronies is a long, long one….and the difference between us and them is that we know that done right, government can make the lives of everyone in this country better…not just the 1%…I have a little hope again…but I also know the rest of the repubs will do everything they can to keep stealing for the rich…on to 2020….
January 2nd
Well…about on time this morning and have been up a while….slept okay last night…for me, that is and I would like to sleep like a teenager again….but, that’s not going to happen so I guess I won’t think about it…my shoulder seems to have plateaued with some pain still there and it is not better today like it has been for the past week…might have to rest it more and stay off the bike for a couple of days…but, I don’t want to do that…need to take advantage of the lack of snow while it lasts so I’ll just take some ibuprofen here in a minute and gut it out…it was a pretty mush wasted day yesterday with all of the soccer and bowl games on so I didn’t get anything done but lay around here like a veg…will start to edge into normalcy again today with an errand to start but I still have Man U to watch this afternoon which will be a good reward if I get some things done….but, right now I just want coffee and to get to some news for cobweb removal…my brain needs it…more later…
3,486.8 miles….
Well…after resetting the computer on the bike and getting 12.2 miles in this morning, just wanted to recap the year on the bike…almost got to my 3,500 mile goal for the year and the cool thing was that all of those miles were on the new bike and it has performed almost flawlessly other than the normal Shimano shifter adjustment problems…but, I even have that fixed so the ride today was a good one other than having to be careful with a slight glaze of ice on the trail. 2018 was one of the better years on the bike if I discount the crash and I am healing up from that quite well…still have some shoulder and hip pain but it is down to being annoying now instead of the screaming hot pain that it was….still some swelling in my shoulder but that is gradually going away and I should be back on the weight machine by the end of the week. All in all, a good year on the bike…the miles didn’t quite get me to #3 in for the year but it was #4 so that was cool….I wonder if I can ever get to the 4,314 record? I am going to try….
January 1st
Well…here we go again…another new year starts and I really don’t know what to think about it…it is nice that I have another one to look forward to and that there are still possibilities so I guess I’ll leave it at that…I was really close to declaring my shoulder pain free this morning but it’s not quite there yet…maybe tomorrow or the next day but it didn’t keep my up at all last night and I am looking forward to being able to sleep on my right side again….it was an okay day yesterday and I got a bike ride in before the rain started and it looks like I’ll be able to start the year with another ride today…I do have to reset the computer on the bike and record the mileage for last year before I go out today and that is a little bit of a pain since I need to clear everything to do it and that means entering the wheel size etc…will have to dig through the junk drawer to try to find the instructions….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and I probably won’t today either…soccer starts in about a half hour and there are three games in a row along with bowl games so I’ll be watching sports all day and I am still going to rest the shoulder one more day and not clean….more later….
Last one for the year…
Well…normally, I don’t dwell on the past or do a summary one for the end of the year but I’m bored and thought I’d just talk a little bit and see what happens…it really has been an okay year other than crashing the bike….it was a little disappointing to not be able to find a house but I’ll get that done by summer of next year…am basically ready for that with the down payment in the bank and my credit almost repaired….so that was a little progress…and I did get my health checked out and found that I’m just old and have the normal stuff that happens when you age…but no colon cancer or any problems that need to be treated so, for being an old guy, that is pretty cool. I did get one thing checked off my bucket list with the trip to NYC and I am now thinking about what I want to do for next year…maybe a return to NYC or a new city? I can afford to do one trip next year but I’m not sure if I’ll need to use that money to fix the house when I get it…we’ll see when I finally find one…it has been okay living on SS for the past 18 months and I have been able to pay all of my bills and put some cash in the bank so that is cool…and I’m getting a 60 buck a month bump next month that will pay for the increase in Medicare that I signed up for and still leave 52 a month of it that will buy a week’s groceries…I guess what I’m saying is that life could be much worse and it’s time for football…so I’m going to get a pillow and lounge it out on the couch while I veg away the afternoon…no more later….
December 31st
Well…having a hard time getting going this morning and I think it’s from a lack of motivation more than anything else…my shoulder is hurting again and my plan to stop taking ibuprofen for it is going to have to wait until the swelling goes down more…slept okay and almost had dreams last night…I think…and I figured out how to prop my right arm up to keep the pain from keeping me awake so that helped…I did get out for a bike ride yesterday but it looks like it is going to rain all day today so I will take the day off and leave the mileage under 3,500 for the year… only missed it by about 20 miles so that is okay…might have a more aggressive goal for next year but we’ll see…had another day of not getting anything done yesterday but I may try to clean a little today if my shoulder will take it…but, right now it hurts too much to do much more than this so I’ll think about that later…not much to do today…don’t have any errands to run or anything so it looks like another hunker down day where I’ll just hang out and watch more sports…more later…
Doesn’t anything matter anymore?
Well…do you remember when Obama wore a tan suit and the right and fox news went on and on about how that was degrading the presidency and how maybe he should be impeached for it? That was the worst thing that happened during those years…not conspiring with Russians, no selling the government to the highest bidder, no putting children in cages, no nothing…but with the idiot trump and all his lawbreaking, doesn’t anything matter anymore? The latest felony that is attributed to trump and his businesses is a doozy, especially after they rail and scream about undocumented immigrants…just the other day, it was disclosed that trump’s golf club in New Jersey has been accused of providing fake green cards to undocumented workers that they hire along with fake social security cards to keep their workers from being deported and there is an ongoing investigation that involves the AG of NJ and even Mueller’s office. One thing you have to remember, if you talk to anyone who has worked with or for trump, he is involved in every decision in his businesses, and you can be sure if this is going on in NJ, it is going on in every golf course that the idiot owns…but, do the repubs care? Not one bit, as I’ve always said, the law only applies to people who aren’t repubs and it is perfectly fine for trump to do whatever the hell he wants. But, in 4 days that is going to change…if I was the idiot boy, I sure wouldn’t be worried about any damn wall…I’d be worried about how to stay out of jail…impeach…
December 30th
Well…that was a pretty sucky day in sports for my teams and Michigan was embarrassed again in another bowl game…the same thing happened to ND so now all I have to look forward to is Man U this morning and Michigan State tomorrow…and the Lions need to lose today to get a better draft pick but I still may watch it…slept okay last night and the pain from my shoulder was tolerable but it seems to be worse right now…I may have aggravated it cleaning the snow off the car so I could get the newspaper this morning…and it looks like no bike ride today since the roads around here are a skating rink and there is no way I’m going to chance going down again…I think I may have hurt my hip in the crash, too, since it hurts and is making it a little hard to get into the car but at least I can can put it in reverse without howling in pain so I guess that’s something…didn’t get much done yesterday and I am going to veg it out again today since the tendon in my shoulder will only heal with rest and any sort of cleaning will aggravate it…darn…that’s too bad….more later…