Well…running a little late today with not having the motivation to get going any sooner….just don’t need to rush even with doing the grocery run this morning do I think I’ll just ease into things…haven’t been feeling too hot the past few days and I’m not sure what that is about…I did get out on the bike yesterday and it was much more work than I like with having to be really careful of the ice that was still on the trail…and it was only 33 when I went out and that is at the bottom edge of what is comfortable for me…took most of the afternoon to warm up after getting back here…but, it is already warmer than that right now so I can get out as soon as I get back from errands…slept okay last night but was up at 4:30 again…I was able to get back to sleep for a half hour or so and that helps….but, I’m still pretty worn out and that may be from not eating enough…I am a little happy that I finished the turkey from t-day yesterday and can move on to other food…yeah…the normal stuff…more chicken and tacos…I do like turkey but every day for a week is just a bit much…not much to do today…just the errands and then work around here…and I think there is a SpaceX launch this afternoon that is always cool to watch…more later…
Monthly Archives: December 2019
That Peloton commercial…
Well…you know, people must really have time on their hands when you look at the volume of comments and memes that have followed the airing of the Peloton holiday commercial where a husband gives his wife a Peloton for Christmas. Lots of commenters have gone straight to the “yeah, she spent the entire year to lose 4 pounds” meme and that it is some kind of spousal abuse when a husband gets his fit, 116 pound wife an exercise machine and she appears to be afraid when she starts to use it…and then shows the year’s worth of selfies to her husband to prove that she was really using it? But, I don’t buy into that interpretation at all…no one is going to spend 2500 bucks on any piece of exercise equipment as a present unless the sig other has made it clear that one is wanted…and I’ve lived through the fear of starting to change your life and add exercise when I started my daily rides some 20 years ago….so, a little apprehension is not unusual…especially when your performance is out there on Peloton’s site for all to see. The thing that irks me about all of the Peloton commercials is that every damn person in them lives in at least a million dollar house, apartment, or condo…which makes sense for a 2,500 dollar bike but still irks me. Where are the wood paneled basements where most of these machines end up? And every damn person in these commercials appears to be fit already so what were they doing to be fit before and what makes them want to abandon that for riding indoors and not going anywhere? As I said before, with the volume of comments and bitching about this commercial, lots of people have time on their hands, I know I do or I wouldn’t be writing about this…at least it gave me a topic that is not the idiot trump and that is welcome…
December 3rd
Well…the streak ends at 4 with waking up at 4:34 this morning and not being able to get back to sleep…but, it was a good run to get 4 in a row and maybe a new streak will start tonight….I seem to have slept okay but am having a hard time getting started in the morning lately and I think I know what the reason is but I’m not sure I want to change it…I am getting tired of eating turkey and that will end today with the last two meals so I need to plan something and get it out of the freezer…or just wait til tomorrow and get some fresh chicken from the grocery run…I do have a couple of pork chops in the freezer that I could take out so I’ll think about that later….I did get some prep work done in the kitchen yesterday and will continue to do more in there today…Have been getting some stuff done around here the past 4 days in a row….hmmmm…I wonder it that has something to do with my sleeping? It may but we’ll see…the work I’m doing is just light stuff for now but I did get to straightening up the basement, too and that needs to continue….it is nice to have music to work by again with getting the receiver working again…oh, and in the quiet garage I can hear something start to buzz when I reconnect the battery in the car so I may be able to find the voltage drain by just listening…a project that I will fool with over the next couple of weeks….more later….
Karma bites trump and rudy on the ass….
Well…just a short one on a funny bit of karma doing it’s thing against rudy and the big orange idiot…as you know, or at least I hope you know, that idiot boy trump is being impeached for extorting Ukraine into ginning up some “evidence” of wrongdoing by the Bidens there…and ole rudy has been all over trying to get officials there to help with the conspiracy under the guise of “fighting corruption”…okay, here’s where it gets funny, to me at least, just the past few days every damn one of the people in the government that rudy has been conspiring with have been fired by the new president of the country…and guess what for? Corruption! Now, when they say that Karma is a bitch I guess it’s one bitch that trump can’t move on…okay, that one even made me laugh a little….
Whiny baby says what?
Well….god, I wonder if the idiot trump ever gets tired of being a big, whiny baby? With the impeachment hearings moving over to the Judiciary Committee this week and the perfectly reasonable invitation of chair Jerry Nadler for trump and his lawyers to come and participate to defend trump, all we got from the whiny baby and his lawyers was a letter Sunday saying that they wouldn’t come…I guess they realize that Devin Nunes or Jim Jordan aren’t going to be in charge and trump would really have to answer to the facts that he committed multiple crimes and not just get fluffed by his moronic minions. But, what this invitation does is put to rest the talking point that the “process” is unfair to trump and he doesn’t get to defend himself…hey, idiots…you had your chance to come and refute the evidence and you chose talking points instead…and that just isn’t going to cut it when more and more of the facts come out….and I think it’s funny that not one repub has come out to refute the facts that trump is a criminal committing daily crimes by obstructing the investigation…because they can’t…facts are facts and trump’s cronies can only whine about the fact that they don’t think crimes are crimes, and anyway, a repub president can do whatever he wants and it is just peachy keen with them….so, keep piling up the felonies just as long as the sweet, sweet Russian cash keeps rolling in to their campaigns….they are going to have to pay at some point….
December 2nd
Well….that’s four days in a row of sleeping all night and not getting up til 6…this is just too damn weird….but this morning I don’t feel too hot…just exhausted and am having a hard time getting started….the coffee is not helping yet either…oh, well…just getting old I guess…at least I don’t hurt as badly as I did yesterday but the low level pain is till there everywhere…okay, going to stop bitching about that….the vestibule does look good after finishing it yesterday and that is motivating me some to complete the painting…just have the cabinets in the hallway and the spare bedroom to do and the majority will be done…still have the dining area of the kitchen to do but that is going to take some prep work that I may work on today have some big cracks to be repaired and then some window work….have to strip the paint off the frames and that is slow going…didn’t get a bike ride in yesterday but I may try to get out today to see if they plow the trails…don’t think they do but it would be cool if they did…not much to do today…just going to ease into it right now and let the coffee do it’s work…today would be a good day for the extra caffeine coffee…I may add one scoop of it to the next batch just to try it…more later…
Ow…
Well…with all of the damn snow this morning and how heavy it was, I had a hell of a time just getting out to get the newspaper today…almost got the car stuck on flat ground at the gas station where I buy the paper…but, that’s not what this is about…it is about how much I hurt now from pushing that heavy crap to clear my driveway and sidewalks. My thumb, right hip, and right shoulder are just screaming at me and I even had to take something for it a little while ago to make it tolerable…hmmmm…I guess part of it could be that I put the second coat on the vestibule, too, but most of the pain was already there to the point that I had to use the roller with my left hand….and that was a trip since I never use my left for detail work…or much at all really….and my shoulder is back to the popping and creaking it was doing just after I crashed the bike a year ago…so, yeah, I feel old tonight and may have to take the day off working on the house tomorrow to heal up some…and that adds a pain in the ass to the pain list…oh, well…back to politics tomorrow…
December 1st
Well…this sucks…got up this morning to 6 inches of that wet, heavy snow that kills lots of old guys when they go out to shovel it…and barely made it out to get the paper…almost got stuck at the end of my driveway and on flat ground over at the gas station where I get my Sunday paper…but, I didn’t and not having to clean the car off before going out is still pretty cool…I did sleep through the night for the third day in a row and I am really confused why that would be…I’m not doing anything different than I have for years but I guess I shouldn’t analyze it too much….I did get the vestibule painted yesterday and am hoping I have enough paint left to put the second coat on today but it’s going to be close…and I am not going out to get more paint today so it may end up being a two day job…and that’s okay….it’s such a small space with lots of detail on the door and around the lights that it took quite a bit of time…I did get my last piece of basement equipment yesterday and got it up and running and that is pretty cool….now I’m just waiting for my sound bar to arrive and then no more spending until January…not much to do today…it’s pretty obvious that there will be no bike ride today and I can use the day off…so that leaves sports with the F1 race on at 8 and then Man U plays at 11:30 so that will take care of the morning but it looks like a boring afternoon….more later….