Well…threatening Ukraine does not seem to be a good thing for starlink, ole elon’s satellite internet service…over the weekend ole elon threatened to shut off the service to Ukraine since he is just a tool of putin…and almost immediately Italy cancelled a 1.2 billion dollar contract to use the service…and just a couple of weeks ago he slandered Carlos Slim, a billionaire from south America and 5 minutes later slim cancelled a 7.2 billion dollar contact with starlink…and now he is putting up 22 billion dollars to start building a rival satellite service as is Europe…and over the past year tesla stock has lost half it’s value because elon is a nazi…oh, and did I mention that tesla sales are down 78% in Germany? Here’s the thing about letting these asshole billionaires hoard so much money…even though elon has lost 150 billion dollars with the drop in tesla stock, he still has enough money to wreak havoc on the world…I wonder why the tesla board lets him keep sabotaging the company? Geez…
March 10th
Well…my eye is better this morning so I don’t think I’ll need to call the doctor today…but we’ll see later…up at 6:17 today but that is actually 5:17 and I do need to stop doing conversions in my head….I did sleep okay last night but feel pretty worn out so I’ll wait a bit to get on the bike…going to do the three ride thing again today but don’t need to start until 7:30 so that gives me some time to sit here and have coffee…I do need to do laundry today but that will wait until after the rides so I can get everything clean…and I need to start planning meals for the week and I have no clue what they are going to be…have too many potatoes so that will be part of it but how I’ll use them is in question…maybe some potato salad? Or mashed? Who knows? I’ll probably get more cabbage this week since Meijers has it on sale for 59 cents a pound but I’ll need to up the seasoning since the last batch was pretty bland…but I still have a 2 quart container that I made last time and that will last most of the week…not much to do today…just going to think about the rides and try to get going in 30 minutes…more later…
33 miles…
Well…I did gt three rides in today for a total of 33 miles for the first time this year and I know I need to eat more than I have been since my legs went flat at the start of the third ride…but it was still nice to be outdoors…a few swans, ducks, and loons are already on Muskegon lake as the creek has started to open up the water and melt the ice…the bike is working great after getting it cleaned up after getting it so muddy last week and I’m going to wear out the driveline completely before I throw new parts at it…my damn eye is still giving me fits so I’ll be on the phone tomorrow morning to see if I can get in to the doctor and figure out what’s wrong…haven’t had problems like this in a long time…going to make some chicken thighs for dinner to go with the tons of cabbage I have leftover from yesterday…okay, time to look for a political one for later…
March 9th
Well…damn, my right eye is still hurting every time I blink so I will have to call my doctor tomorrow and that means another day of pain like I can’t remember…and let’s stack the time change on top of that so this is going to be a miserable day….I did sleep okay so that may help a bit but it’s already 7:28 and I need to get on the bike a half hour ago…oh, well…it’s already warmer than when I went out on the bike yesterday so there will be two outdoor rides today…and that will have to happen before 12:30 when Man U plays so I’ll have to be on the indoor bike for one by 8am and then straight on the outdoor bike for two…and that will give me the first 30+ mile day of the year…I do need to bake some chicken today to go with the leftover cabbage but that will be it since I still have stir fry for the second meal and I really do need to remember that doing 30 miles is enough to pay for two meals and I need to have the fuel to keep it up…I am contemplating doing another 30 day free trial of prime so I can buy some more coffee beans since they are not included in the free shipping at 35 bucks but no Colombian beans are affordable…I wonder if the regular beans are as good…who knows? Don’t have a lot to do today other than the rides and I do need to carve out some time to read later since I didn’t read much with the eye pain yesterday…more coffee and on the bike…more later…
Okay this is funny…
Well…was reading an article today about how the rural part of Alaska went all in for the idiot trump and now are in the find out part of FAFO…they were all for the moron’s tariffs until a surprising thing happened…first you have to remember that over 90% of the goods including food that are sold in Alaska go over Canadian roads…you can see where this is going…the Canadians have proposed taxing any goods crossing it’s territory going to Alaska…making the already high costs for eggs, milk, and any other food probably out of reach for some of these trump voters…and with the looming food stamp and Medicaid cuts (over 50% of Alaskans depend on those programs), it’s going to get even worse for them…so yeah, trump voters that voted for him because he was going to lower prices, what do you think now? Will this shake you out of your stupidity and hate to vote in your own interests? Nope, I can answer that for you…your hate trumps everything and you’ll lie and blame it on the dems…what a stupid bunch…geez…
Damn…
Well…damn, I think I have a sty forming in my right eyelid since it hurts like I have a grain of sand in it…and that has been going on all day and that sucks…if it keeps up tomorrow I think I’ll call my doctor Monday and see if they can get me in…the last one I had left a permanent scar on that same eyelid and I don’t want that to happen again…I did get an outdoor ride in today and the bike shocks felt a little stiff with it being only 31 when I went out but it shifted fine so that was okay…and the trail was clear all the way out to Lake Michigan except for all the sand on it right out at the beach so I only had to walk about 50 yards to get past it…and with the two rides indoors, I got to 29 miles for the day…and tomorrow I’m shooting for one indoors and two outdoors for 33 miles…and I’ll be able to just ride outdoors all week and will be in shorts Wed-Fri when it’s going to be over 60…probably should find and wash my baseball hat that I wear in the summer…the cabbage and steak was really good for lunch but way too many calories in the steak so I’m skipping the second meal again today…although doing 30 miles should be enough to support two….just not hungry I guess…time to read…
The pushbsck is gaining steam..
Well…the pushback against the illegal an unpopular cuts that the idiot trump and his cronies are doing started small but now with the stories I’m seeing, it appears to be gaining steam…and just yesterday the governors of all the blue states sued idiot boy to get the job cuts reversed along with the program cuts to the NIH that has left hundreds of thousands of Americans enrolled in clinical trials to try to save their lives with nowhere to turn…along with the 7,000 job cuts at the SS administration that has left it gutted and has put payments to the 77 million people like me who get SS in jeopardy…and I talked about that last week that it is a huge program that people have to run…not AI as the morons in charge think is the solution to every problem that isn’t a problem…and this national pushback is in addition to the countries of the world basically telling trump that his bullying bullshit isn’t going to work this time as they discover that they can’t trust a damn thing the idiot has to say…great for our standing in the world, huh? No I think we need to take it further like with a national strike against the unpopular policies these idiots are pushing…there is not on thing they are doing that has much support here and we need to remind people at every chance just what this asshole is doing….geez…
March 8th
Well…that was a little better…after not sleeping at all Thursday night, I slept all the way through last night and didn’t get of of bed til 6 this morning but I still feel worn out…it’s still too damn cold for March at 19 degrees and there is a slight warm up coming but then we’re back in the 40′s for highs and I need it to be warmer…it’s nice that when I got up “Top Hat” was on the tv and a dose of Fred and Ginger hit the spot to get me moving…well…not moving yet since I just poured the first cup of coffee and it’s not working yet…I may have to sign up for another 30 day free trial of prime since the shipping cost of a bag of coffee beans is 7 bucks and I won’t pay that…and the normal 35 buck order for free shipping doesn’t apply…I am really looking forward to having a t-bone steak for lunch with cooked cabbage, carrots, and potatoes…so I think that is going to mean only two rides today…having a tooth extracted yesterday didn’t hurt at all and I was able to eat with no pain for both lunch and dinner…so I think I’m going to indulge myself today and have two meals even though lunch is going to be huge…not much to do today…just cooking and the rides and some reading…I think there are races on later but I’m not sure…could look but don’t feel like it right now….more later…
Attacking Canada?
Well…what to you make of of the idiot trump’s attacks on Canada? I think it’s just the moronic bully coming out of him where he thinks just because he and his mob run the US and have the delusional idea that the US is the most important nation on earth and can do whatever they want to any other country…I mean, but c’mon…taking over out nice neighbors to the north? Who are our second largest trading partner? The Canadians are fighting back and I love what Justin Trudea saind the other day “The excuse for these tariffs of fentanyl are completely bogus, completely unjustified, and completely false…what he wants is the complete collapse of the Canadian economy because it will make it easier for him to annex us”…but the question is “what mechanism would allow trump to do any of this?” None…there is no legal way for idiot boy to try to take Canada and I’m sure the Canadian military would have something to say about that…and I’m sure our military would just ignore any such order…but what this is is just bullying…trying to be as outrageous as possible and then settling for some small concession…the only thing Canada should do is tell idiot boy to go pound sand…geez…
Pulled the trigger…
Well…after today’s tooth extraction, I pulled the trigger on getting the rest of the work done on my teeth…so, April 1st we start with a 360 degree x-ray and then three teeth have to come out so they can fit the partial denture so I can chew again…but there has to be about 4 months of recovery between them so I’ll be eating soft foods for that time…all of the work including the making and fitting of the partial denture is covered 50% by the Medicare dental insurance so my end of it is going to be about 850 bucks and I can easily afford that…it will be a pain taking the denture out every night to clean it but I guess that’s part of getting old…so, I’m making a t-bone tomorrow while I can still chew it along with chopped, cooked cabbage with onion, carrots and potatoes with oregano and thyme in the instant pot…and that side should last me 4 or 5 days…and I’ll probably make it again next week since I really do like cooked cabbage…I may leave today as a 2 ride day but I’m not sure yet…still have time for the third ride this morning…we’ll see..