Well…damn, it was nice to be able to close this place up and not sweat through my sheets last night…and that was the first night in over a month that I could do that…it’s 59 degrees here right now so that will mean a light fleece when I get on the bike here in a few minutes….so damn worn out again today and I know it’s from not eating enough…again… so I’ll have to do better today…and I do have to remember to pre treat my right elbow/tricep since they were howling in pain yesterday as soon as I got on the bike…my allergies have hit the August levels of badness already and that is going to make the rest of the summer miserable…I used to only feel it in August but now they are bad year round and that sucks…oh, well…going to be running late all day today since I’m already late for getting on the bike…need more coffee first and then I’ll drag my butt off the couch and get going…it did rain here for a bit yesterday and it was nice to hear that…not sure if it will help my lawn at all but I’ve given up on it for the year…the part for the car is going to be here today and I hope it’s early so I can fix the car today…more later…
Got some things done today…
Well…I finally got a few things done today with an errand I had to run this morning…when I confirmed that the brake caliper is not fixed with soaking it with wd…I can’t see it taking more than a half hour or so to install it and get the brakes bled…just two bolts and the brake line to remove and that should only take about 10 minutes if the brake line bolt comes out easily…not going to change out the bracket that holds the caliper since they don’t wear out and they are a pain to get off…so if I get the parts early enough, I should be able to have it fixed tomorrow…I did get two loads of laundry done today since I needed to do bedding after sweating all night for weeks…running out of leftovers so I took some turkey bacon out of the freezer to use up some lettuce and tomatoes that are getting old…and then nothing but eating out of the freezer for a month or so…it did rain out here for a bit today and it’s still raining and the stupid assholes in the rental are standing out in it…they just have to have their party…creeps…
Explain this to me…
Well…with repubs continuing to lie that the tariffs are not going to effect prices at all, can someone explain to me why they are now touting a “rebate” of up to 600 dollars a person to help people pay the higher costs? With tariffs already estimated to cost a family of 4 over 4,000 dollars a year, it seems to me that this is just a bribe to take people’s minds off tariffs and give the repubs a talking point to be able to say “see, we gave you all that cash” and use it in the 26 election…but that family of 4 is still out almost 2 grand even after the checks…this is the repubs just making things up as they go since they are really willfully ignorant of basic economics…and they are counting on the dems continuing to be lousy in their messaging so the right wing mainstream media can drown out the truth…as always…geez…
July 30th
Well…damn, I really can’t keep up living on under 1,000 calories a day…and I’m on the 4th day in a row so the bike rides are going to be a chore this morning…up at 4:35 today and I’m so damn worn out that I should be able to sleep but no such luck…I did get the parts for the car ordered from amazon yesterday since the caliper was 15 bucks less and that bought me a new brake bleeder almost for free…and the stuff will be here tomorrow so I can do the work Friday and put this crap behind me…and this bleeder will work to bleed the clutch, too so I can do that next week…not sure what I’m going to do today or what the meals are going to be after only having some pasta and potato salad yesterday but I know it needs to be more than that…I do have tortillas to make some bean burritos and have the lettuce and tomatoes to go with it along with breakfast stuff but I really have no desire to eat anything…maybe I’ll go to the beach today…ha,h…the forecast says a steady, heavy rain this morning but it’s said that many times lately and we have had no rain at all…so I’ll plan on the assumption that it is not ever going to rain here again…more later…
Crap, seized a caliper…
Well…I guess this is to be expected from a car that was driven less than 1,000 miles over the past three years…it appears that I seized a front brake caliper this morning…the car wasn’t driving right and when I got home the driver’s side front wheel was too hot to touch and it was vibrating as I drove home…so, I tore it apart to look at it and greased the pins that it slides on…that didn’t work so I just took it apart and hit the piston with wd and I’m going to let it soak over night before I put it back together in the morning…then I’m sure I’ll have to go to zone and order one for 85 bucks…this must have been going on since I got the car since it really never coasted like a stick is supposed to when you push the clutch in…and a lot of rust fell out of the caliper when I took it off so I’m sure the piston won’t retract anymore…oh, well…looks easy to replace and I’ll have to get my one man bleeder working to bleed it…but I’m not going anywhere after doing the grocery run today so I can fix it when the part gets here in a couple of days
More fallout from the EU tariffs…
Well…I talked a bit about the idiotic tariffs that the idiot in chief just put on everything from the EU…and guess what percentage of lifesaving drugs comes from the EU? 60%…yep and as of AUG 1st, they will all be 15% more expensive…do you take Ozempic? 15% more…or how about wegovy, mounjaro, or zepbound…all 15% more…or humira, or stellara…or how about the miracle cancer drug keytruda…15% more…even botox is going up 15%…and it’s not just drugs that will cost more after these moronic tariffs…do you think insurance companies and even Medicare are just going to eat this cost increase? Nope, next year all insurance will go up in double digits just because of these tariffs…and idiot boy is still out there lying that he is going to decrease the cost of drugs by “1,000%”…yeah, he doesn’t even understand simple math…does that thousand mean that drug companies will pay us to take them? That’s how stupid this whole thing is…hey maga voters…did you vote to have the cost of your drugs soar? Stupid, stupid people…geez…
July 29th
Well…damn, another day of 90 degree temps today and it’s wearing me out…but I keep telling myself I love the heat and I really do but after a couple of weeks I could use a little relief…going to do the grocery run today since there are some things I need and who cares what day I do it? I wonder what happened to the pattern where storms come when the weather changes? I mean it’s going to go down into the low 80′s in a couple of days and there is no rain in the forecast…this is the manifestation of climate change that is local and I’m glad we have Lake Michigan to draw our water from or we’d be sitting here with no water to drink…going to do one bike ride before the grocery run so I need to get moving in 15 minutes or so…so, I need to pour more coffee down to jump start this old body….5 minutes before the day starts so I should get moving….more later…
To the beach…
Well…sitting here melting at 87 degrees and a heat index over 100 right now so I have a 2nd fan going to try to exchange some of the air…the humidity was at 96% when I went out for the first ride at 6:30 am…after the rides, I was just exhausted from the heat and humidity so I took a cold shower, got dressed and went to get more books from the library…right after that, I decided to go out to the beach before it got too hot and I got a nice swim in but was back here before noon because I could feel my skin getting tight and didn’t want to have a sunburn that I was going to feel all day…there has been a heat advisory on since noon with the heat index at over 101 degrees…and it looks like this heat keeps up for a few more days and still no rain in the forecast…going to do the grocery run tomorrow since Meijers has pork chops on sale for 1.29 a pound and I haven’t had them in a long time….but I really should eat out of my freezer since it’s full…we’ll see…time for reading a bit..
The “deal” is going to cost you…
Well…god, I hate trump and his constant lies…just yesterday he went on and on about a trade “deal” with the EU that he lied is going to benefit the American people…look, it’s pretty clear if you can do basic arithmetic that it’s no deal…the only thing it does is raise tariffs from 1% to 15% on everything we import from the EU…so tell me again how raising costs by 14% is going to make anything cheaper? This is the kind of bullshit kindergarten economics that this dullard spouts every day and that economists across the world say is just a tax on the American people…and one of the largest tax increases on the people in this country ever…except for the rich who just got tax cuts that are larger than what 50% of the country makes in a year…and yet the morons who are going to starve after the food stamp cuts keep voting for these assholes…I wish they would just die already…geez…
July 28th
Well…I’m getting damn tired of the heat and humidity…have been sweating and sitting in front of the fan for two weeks now and it’s going to be almost 90 for the next few days…and the humidity is at 96% right now and that will make for breathing liquid on the bike in a few minutes…don’t have a lot to do today but the rides, a library trip, and then out to the beach since it’s going to be in the mid 80′s by 10 or so…but I just saw the radar and there may be some rain coming in by around noon or so…up and down all night last night and I am worn out today and I really hope the coffee will fix that…ran out of books yesterday morning and that made the day so damn boring and it gave me a glimpse of what is going to happen after I run out of books…and that is going to happen soon since I’ve exhausted the authors I like…darn…don’t have to cook today after making the Masala yesterday and I still have lots of pasta salad and potato salad left…have three tomatoes to that need to be used so I may do some bean burritos to use them up…just need to get going…ha,ha…and that was a topic for a post over at Mastodon yesterday…more later…