Well…not sure what is going on but I have felt pretty good today…I wonder if it is only doing one ride today or something else going on? All I know is that I got the gardens both weeded today and cleaned up so they look good again…and my toe doesn’t hurt too much so that is cool, too…but, I just remembered something when I was outside working…you know I’ve been concerned about the swelling in my foot and not having any luck getting it back to normal no matter how much water I drink or how much I keep it elevated…then it dawned on me today that it has been in the 90′s or close to it for a couple of weeks now and whenever that happens, my foot swells up some…and that has been happening since I was in my 20′s but that memory was pushed to the back of my mind by the recurrence of the gout and thinking that they were related….but, what if they aren’t? What if they are two overlaying problems that just happen to be occurring at the same time? If I didn’t have the redness an pain from the gout, I probably wouldn’t think much about the swelling or I would have remembered that it happens all the time when it’s hot. so, I’m not sure what to think now…I’m still going to keep drinking every bit of water I can since that will help with the gout but I may just live with the puffiness until we get a break in this weather in a few weeks and see what happens…nothing seems to work anyway and it may take a little stress off my brain….hmmmm…
Monthly Archives: July 2020
July 4th
Well…damn, it’s still hot and I just looked at the weather forecast and it is going to be in the mid 90′s as far out as the forecast goes…that means at least another two weeks of this crap and that is depressing in itself…I didn’t sleep too bad with a fan running all night and now I have two going to try to pump cool air into this place before it gets sweltering again…but it looks like I’m only going to do one ride today with F1 coming back for qualifying at 9 and then Man U plays at 10, Indycar races at noon and then nascar at 2 so there isn’t a window to do two today…and that is not a bad thing…I can use a semi rest day since I am pretty damn stiff this morning….so stiff that I took an ibuprofen already for both my foot and for the stiffness….didn’t get much done in the heat yesterday and today will be the same since we old guys have to be careful when the temp gets to 95 and the humidity goes nuts…I may try to do a short, hard cleanup of the back of the garage and then back into the fans inside…even with a half hour I can make some progress there and I need that to try to stop the depression…just feel so damn useless not being able to work around here as time ticks away and I need to find a house to buy…not much to do today…okay, I’ve already said what I’m going to do so I won’t repeat myself…don’t need to cook but I may pick some jalapenos to pickle them for some burgers…sure hope I can tolerate them but if not, I’ll have some to give away….more later….
Now we know why Barr fired Berman…
Well…I know there has been tons of speculation of why bill Barr chose now to fire the US atty in charge of the SDNY last week and, of course, it’s more obstruction of justice on Barr’s part. Just yesterday, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s conspirators in the procuring of young girls for the rich and powerful in New York, Ghislaine Maxwell, was indicted and arrested by guess who? The SDNY and the new US attorney that Barr did his best to try to sideline with his bullshit firing of Berman…let’s back up a minute…Barr tried to say that Berman “resigned” which would give him the ability to appoint another of his toadies to an essential prosecutor’s office just like he did in DC which made all of the trump investigations go away…but Barr is not too bright and didn’t realize that Berman refusing to resign and Barr getting the idiot trump to fire him triggered another process that put the number two in the SDNY in charge instead of his toady. Without his guy in charge, the investigations of trump and Epstein’s co-conspirators have gone forward, resulting in the indictment and arrest of Maxwell…and guess who she has info on? Yep, trump attended many, many of Epstein’s parties and there have been rumors flying around that he was involved with raping underage girls just like Epstein was convicted of. But, with Epstein dead, the person who knows the most about those parties is Maxwell and do you think she may have some incentive to flip on trump and the rest of those pedophiles to get a lighter sentence? Yep, if the SDNY operates like any other office, they will trade a lighter sentence every day to get at the powerful people who were behind the exploitation of minors. That’s why Barr was so hot to get his guy in charge…to make the investigations of anything trump go away including the rest of the Epstein investigation…now we have the AG of the US trying to protect child rapists…I think this may be a problem for Barr when trump loses…you can bet he will be called to the congress to explain and there could even be criminal charges included…couldn’t happen to a worse person….tick tock Barr….
July 3rd
Well…another crappy night of sleep where I had to have the fan on all night just to make it tolerable and that was annoying…and I was up and down all night so something like 4 hours of sleep just isn’t going to get it…but, the weird thing is I don’t feel too bad right now so I guess I just go with it and see what happens today…didn’t get much done yesterday but I do have to mow the lawn today and I think I’ll do it in between rides…set the mower at the highest setting to keep the grass long in this heat and drought but I still think I’m going to lose it since I won’t spend the cash to water it…my water bill is already insane and I’m not going to add to it…I am going to try to get to washing the siding on the garage this week end so I can paint in the near future but that means a lot of work around the back of it to clear out all of the dirt and blocks, etc that are leaning against the garage….I really like the opening windows here and I wonder how it was even tolerable without them and without air con…it was 84 inside when I got up but that’s down 4 degrees since I put the fans on to pump some of the 66 degree air in….and I think I’ll leave them on when I take the first ride here in a few minutes….I took some ibuprofen already this morning since I woke up with some pain in my foot and thought I’d get ahead of it…it worked yesterday and I was mostly pain free all day on just one 200 mg dose…not much to do today….the rides of course and I need to cook some chicken that is thawing downstairs that will last me a few days and I want to pick some of my jalapenos to pickle them with some red onion and garlic to use on some burgers or tacos….oh, and I think I’ll put some green pepper in, too…not mine since I’m not sure if I’m going to get any off my plants but I have a half one that I can cut up….more later….
Riding the bike used to fix things…
Well…just can’t get motivated to do politics today and politics itself may be a component to why I feel depressed today…I know there is plenty of good news for our side but I still have a sense of foreboding that something is going to happen to install the idiot trump again and the result will be the end of the US…can you see why it is affecting me so much? But that is not what this is about…after thinking a little this morning, the thought dawned on me that another reason for the depression today is the realization that riding the bike used to fix things and it doesn’t anymore….if I felt like crap from a cold, get on the bike and take a hard ride and I’d feel better…if I had a hangover, I’d get on the bike and feel better after going like crazy for 15 miles…if my foot was swollen, get on the bike with my shoe laced up tight and take a hard 15, and it would be better…if my back hurt, get on the bike and lean over the bars and it would crack and the pain would go away…you get the idea…but lately it doesn’t work anymore…haven’t been able to get my back to crack in months and my foot is puffier than ever…and I hurt so much after doing the 36 miles daily that I constantly take ibuprofen for the general pain and my foot…and I very seldom come back feeling better mentally than I did when I started out…the bike used to be my oasis from life and the crap going on but it just doesn’t work anymore and I can’t figure it out….and that is depressing as hell…so what’s the point of the bike riding if it doesn’t help? Yeah, still pretty depressed but I can’t even self medicate with cocktails anymore…crap….and the bars are closed again so no more pool for a few more weeks…ick…
July 2nd
Well…crap….the depression came howling back yesterday and it’s still here this morning…I think it may have something to do with my foot not healing and even getting worse and the realization that I’m going to need treatment of some new kind for it since nothing I’m doing works…and I know they are going to tell me to stay off the bike for weeks and that is something I just can’t do….and the unrelenting heat and humidity is keeping me from getting any work done outside since I know that will make my foot worse and working outside in 95 degrees is just too dangerous for an old guy….or anyone for that matter….hey, and let’s add in not sleeping for crap lately and I think you can see why I’m depressed…oh, well….I did make it to 2,500 miles yesterday and need to keep up the pace of 36 miles a day if I’m going to get to 5,000 miles…but that goal may have to go away if my foot keeps up hurting…it looks like the trees are even starting to wilt from the heat and no rain…there is a maple across the street that is turning yellow and dying and there are leaves falling all along the trail…and it looks like this keeps up for at least the next two weeks and that is depressing, too….not much to do today…going to get on the bike here before 7 and then I need to run out to Meijers to get a bunch of stuff I forgot yesterday but I really don’t care about food right now so maybe I don’t need to go? More later…
Mich, mitch, mitch…
Well…gee, I wonder what happened over the past couple of weeks to get ole Mitch McConnell finally start thinking about the fate of the senate and warning the dems that they shouldn’t get rid of the filibuster to keep the senate in the “middle of the road” and not make it like the house. Yeah, first his “middle of the road” is to appoint unqualified hard right judges and allow the most criminal president in the history of the country go free without an impeachment trial in the senate by blocking any witnesses against trump…by stealing a supreme court seat with tactics that were never seen in the senate before, and supporting all of the right wing wish list that he has jammed through the senate without any input from the dems at all….so no, Mitch, no one should listen to a thing you say about the senate with the damage you have done to it and our country…oh, back to why now? ole Mitch sees the writing on the wall that the senate is going to be in dem hands come 2021 or why would he admonish them about doing something they can only do if they regain control? And by extrapolation that means that he expects trump to lose and lose badly in November and then the dems will control the entire government and if they get rid of the legislative filibuster that means the ole Mitch will have no power to effect anything in the senate anymore and he will be completely sidelined as the dems enact their agenda which includes statehood for DC and two more dem senators to add which would essentially keep the senate out of repub hands for a generation or more. The writing is on the wall and even the myopic mitch can see it…I am going to celebrate on the 4th of November…
July 1st
Well…crap…that was a bad night of sleep and I have been up since 5:24….oh, well…I guess that had to happen sometime….or every time when I think about it…but, I feel okay this morning so maybe 5 hours is enough sleep for me? I really tried to eat more yesterday and we’ll see if that had any effect when I get out on the bike when it gets light…I discovered that I really like vinaigrette dressing so I need to get more today when I do the grocery run and more fixings for salad too…okay, the eating more was just a small salad that only added about 150 calories but it is something to support the almost 40 miles I’m riding every morning….and I will get to halfway in my quest to ride 5,000 miles this morning….I did the math and if I keep up the daily 36-40 miles…it will only take me about 90 days to get to 5,000 and maybe 6K could be attainable? But that means no days off or slacking at all and I’m not sure I want to work that hard….and I’m not sure my old body can take that pace with how it feels every morning….I feel a little better about my garden after taking a look at the better boy plants yesterday…while the celebration tomatoes have had blossom drop to where they have very few on the huge plants, the better boys have twice as many on one plant as on all four of the celebrations…so there will be salsa by the end of the month…and pickled jalapenos that I may just get to this weekend since I have a half dozen peppers almost ready to pick…and a few beans but I’m not sure how many of those I’m going to get….I will have cukes to make pickles since they started to set this week and I have lots of tiny ones on the plants….not much to do today…I’m still being careful about the heat but I think I’ll need to just ignore that if I’m going to get anything done….I do need to weed the gardens today and start cleaning up behind the garage so I can wash the siding back there to paint it….and I have the grocery runs to do around 9 but need to get a ride in first….it’s 6:20 and it appears that it is light enough to get out but I do need one more cup of coffee before I head out….more later….