Well…up at the predictably normal time of 6:25 this morning and I’m sitting here trying to get moving at 7…I like this hour between pouring the first cup of coffee and needing to get on the bike…it didn’t snow last night and it looks like all of it stayed to the south of here…I did control my eating yesterday with only having a bowl of soup for the day and that would be about 400 calories….need to lose more weight and get back to about 160…slept okay last night but no dreams and I wonder why I even talk about that anymore since they never happen…didn’t do a lot yesterday and today could be day three of that if I don’t get off my butt and get something done…and that is weird since I was just bitching that I couldn’t take it easy but it looks like I can…but I’m still stressing about it so maybe that’s not taking it easy….it looks like I’m going to be able to get out on the bike for the next few days and I can’t wait to ride outdoors…and I’m getting my new gloves tomorrow and I hope they are warm as they advertise…and that order has the flonase in it that I really need…not much to do today…as always, I just need to get the rides in and then figure out what the meals will be…I have some chicken thawed that will last me a couple of days and I think I’ll buy a ham tomorrow at 99 cents a pound…and I do need to make potato soup again after I use up the turkey soup…more later…
Monthly Archives: December 2023
They are coming for your healthcare…again
Well…don’t the repubs ever learn? No they don’t so here we go again with them starting to spout off about repealing the ACA again…never mind they had years to do it after it was passed and they even had total control of the government for some of those years…and we know what damage the last “plan” would have done if it was passed…32 million people would have lost their insurance and those who didn’t get it through their employer would have seen the cost double immediately…oh, and let’s remember that that plan would have gutted pre-existing conditions protections and it even through in a tax cut for the rich because that is all the repubs do…and one other thing that the ACA has done is lower the uninsured rate from 18% down to a low of 7.2% which is a record low…and all of that is at risk because people on the left are pissed at Biden because he didn’t give them everything on their wish list or that he still supports Israel…and they are willing to throw away this country because Biden is “too old”…and I’m tired of these whiners…look, in politics change is usually incremental when you are working for the good of the people but, like with Roe being struck down, you can lose good things in an instant…and a vote for anyone but Biden is a vote for trump….geez…
December 4th
Well…damn, up at 4:04 this morning and that started the long process of getting out of bed that ended at 6;47…and I am tired today…cripes, I’m tired every day…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I really need to get off my butt and do something or I’m going to fall into a doom loop of inertia and guilt….man, doom loop would be a good name for a band…have been sore the past few days and I have no clue what I did to hurt myself…only have 40 minutes before I have to get on the bike and the coffee is not working at all yet…and I ran out of shows to watch on the bike so that sucks…okay, I need to stop bitching and get doing…still don’t need to cook today with having one more portion of ribs and a full container of soup in the fridge and I am on the fence about buying a ham this week…have 3 ham bones in the freezer to make soup but they are small and I could use a little more…but Meijers doesn’t have Cooks ham anymore and they were much better than the Meijer branded hams….not much to do today…I am still working up to taking a day off and I’m running out of time to do it…I’m getting really old and I don’t know how to shut off my guilt to allow it….more later…
Hit the goal…
Well…was just sitting here doing some math in my head and thinking that I must be getting close to my new 4,500 mile goal on the bike for the year…and I just hit it today…3,032 outdoors, 1,124 inside before the battery on the computer went dead, and another 352 since then for a total of 4,508…and I still have all of December to ride still with the potential of getting another 448 miles in if I keep doing 16 per day…and that’s not too bad with having to take 12 weeks off for health reasons…never thought I’d get near to 5,000 miles this year and that’s only about 1,100 miles less than my all time record…next year the goal is going to be 7,000 miles and I’m not sure if my body will allow me to do it…I guess we’ll see…
Lazy day…
Well…damn, this was as close to a day off as I’ve taken in a long time with only doing the two rides this morning and then taking the rest of the day off to basically do nothing….didn’t have to cook today with having lots of leftovers but I did only eat one meal today of 5 ribs and a handful of crinkle fries…after only having a bowl of soup yesterday, I’m not sure if 5 baby back ribs is enough…but that’s all I’m eating today…and tomorrow will be back to the soup again…need to start planning meals for the rest of the week and I may make potato soup again since I still have celery that is going to spoil if I don’t along with yellow potatoes going bad…so maybe Wed for that…I do have some chicken thighs in the freezer that I can take out, too….still have enough apple brats to use in the soup, too….so I guess I’ll have to take a look…
Russian bots helped kill hundreds of thousands of Americans…
Well…when the covid pandemic just started, there was a blizzard of disinformation to get people to stop masking up and to not get vaccinated…Carnegie Mellon University did a study just recently where they analyzed over 200 million tweets spouting this bullshit and it was found that over 80% of them were from Russia… it was a Russian attack on the US and part of an organized plot designed to make the pandemic worse and kill Americans…and without the attack hundreds of thousands of Americans would still be alive…now, Russia needs to pay for this…and we need ways to keep them from electing the idiot trump again…which again, was another plot to hurt the US and do damage to our society and our standing in the world that Biden is just now repairing…it doesn’t help when one of our political parties is gladly spouting Russian propaganda every day and are getting paid of by the Russians…and they don’t care if they are Russia’s stooges….anything that gets them money and power is more important to them than the US…geez…
December 3rd
Well…up at 5;24 this morning but there was no damn way I was going to get out of bed that early…so I just laid there until almost 7 and the thought hit me that I have been planning every day of my life since I started college in my 20′s….and I’m not sure if I like that anymore….it’s more like work than living and I wonder when I get to just relax and live? Never, probably….I have to control my weight so that means on the bike for two rides here in a minute and then not eating much as I did yesterday when I only had a bowl of soup to eat for the whole day…I wonder how I can reset my brain and allow myself to be less disciplined? Okay, that’s enough of that…didn’t get much done yesterday and today will probably be the same since I don’t have to cook…have leftover ribs and the soup I made yesterday…and that will last me for at least a few days…it’s a mix of rain and snow going on out there right now and it would be perfect to sit here and drink coffee and look out the window but I won’t…and that is just wrong…oh, well…more later…
The stupidity, it burns…
Well…there’s a new meme about solar panels going on over at fox news and all across the right wing media today that has me just shaking my head about the stupidity of the right wingers in this country…you want to know what it is? Reports all across the right wing stupidsphere are breathlessly reporting that solar panels won’t create electricity when it’s cold outside…okay, I wonder if anyone remembers the first place solar cells were used to generate electricity? If you grew up in the 60′s, you know…in space! Do any of the idiots spouting this nonsense know how cold it is in space? It’s -454 degrees…yep MINUS 454 degrees, at least three 4 times colder than it ever gets even in the coldest place on Earth…so I really think they just might be wrong about this one….damn, the stupidity, it burns! Geez…
Soup…
Well…have had a bit of a busy day today that started with two bike rides and as soon as I finished them, I started on the turkey soup around 10 or so and had it done along with the clean up a little after 1…soup came out great and doing it in the instant pot is just so much easier than in a stock pot…made 3, 2 quart containers and put two of them in the freezer in the room that I made taking the carcasses out…so now I have a container of ham soup and two of turkey in there…and I’ll be taking the ham soup out as soon as I finish the soup in the fridge…the soup was so filling that it is going to be the only meal today…still have enough ham bones in there to make a batch of ham soup but I need to get more stuff out of the freezer first…not sure if I’m going to buy a ham for the holidays this year…I didn’t even keep the bone and leftovers from the last ham so I’m not sure if I need it…still looking for a political topic for today…
December 2nd
Well…haven’t looked outside yet but it was supposed to snow all night last night and I wonder if I’ll have to shovel today….looked at the radar and it appears that everything has moved off to the east but it’s still cold out here at 34 degrees…I did get my property tax bill yesterday and it’s almost a thousand dollars that is due in Feb…oh, well…don’t feel like I slept at all last night but I know I did and I need to get moving soon to get the two rides in before I get started making turkey soup today…took the carcasses out of the freezer last night to make it easier to fit them in the instant pot…I was thinking of using the food processor to chop the veggies but I like doing knife work so it will be knife and cutting board…I am going to use a red onion to add a little color to the soup since it’s the oldest onion and it needs to be used….I have only 35 minutes before I need to get on the bike but I am struggling to even think about it right now….not much to do today…just going to make soup and watch some soccer and let the day unfold…I am so tired of my compulsion to do and stay busy all day….I wonder when I get to just live and do nothing? More later…