Well…with getting to 954 miles for the year on the bike this morning, that makes it 30,000 miles on the Motobecane….I think I’ll keep riding it until the rear swingarm falls off…maybe the new goal should be 50K? I did have some parts that wore out over the past 5,000 miles:
1 rear shift cable
2 rear tires
3 rear tubes
1 front tire
and a pair of Asics gel running shoes…
Well…now I’m sore from the good bike ride yesterday and I will have to take ibuprofen this morning….it was kind of a boring day yesterday and I didn’t get anything done…and I don’t feel bad about it…I should, but I don’t….I do think I’ll clean some around here today and then get more resumes out….what a boring day this is shaping up to be….just like yesterday….oh, well….I should work on the car…okay…not feeling this at all right now so I think I’ll stop here and come back later to add to it….more later…
Well….with this being another day of boredom….I just thought I’d noodle here a bit to get me into the night…I may have fixed the handbrake on the car…almost at least…it releases some of the time the first time and if not, I just give it a little tug and it releases fine….I do need to get back into the driver’s side with the penetrating oil but I think I may have to do the bushings again since the car squeaked when I sat in it going to wash it today….had to do that when I first got it with the front so I guess I should do the back bushings now…had a great bike ride today and I’m not really sore…it was so much fun just blasting around with it…made me feel like I did when I was a kid….and lots of people waved at me on the trail today…that always lifts my spirits some….I was going to do some political stuff today but didn’t out of respect for memorial day….but, I will be back tomorrow with all of the crap the freak in the WH did today…..
Well…no rant this time…was on the bike and heard the perfect song for Memorial Day…”Find the Cost of Freedom” done by CSNY on their album “Four Way Street” and written by
Stephen Stills….a very simple, two line song but still very powerful…go out on you tube and take a look…it goes like this:
“Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground…Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down…”
Well….running a little early today since I didn’t sleep much last night…that’s turning into a thing and I know I don’t like it….didn’t do much yesterday but watch races and use the grill for the last time…smoked a bunch of salmon and then re froze it but that will be it…need to give the tank back to Brian this week but that will be in a couple of days…my back was sore again yesterday and it is starting the day with a little twinge that I hope doesn’t get worse…not going to do much today, either, should clean and I may do the bathroom and vacuum…but I need more coffee first and to just ease into the day….more later….
Well….Just wanted to do a short one on something that I read that made me smile today…the idiot Paul Ryan was at a middle school in New Jersey last week where he wanted to use the kids as a prop to push his granny killing agenda…and, guess what happened? More than half of the kids walked out and would not be used to normalize his radical transfer of wealth to the 1%…..so I applaud these kids that know who this fake idiot is and what he is planning on doing to this country…much more aware than I was at that age…..thanks kids…
Well…this one could turn into a rant if I let it…but, I’m not sure if I should…with it being memorial day, I just watched a film about a couple of volunteer nurses that worked with a military doctor in the town of Bastogne during the battle of the bulge and I am just struck by the bravery and sacrifice these two women made…and their dignity doing it…one of them was killed taking care of wounded American soldiers when the Germans bombed the makeshift hospital where she was working and the other was gravely wounded…but she was back on the line the next day, working with the only doctor for the entire division that was defending the town…I see this kind of bravery is still being shown by our military to this day and it makes me howl with anger at the bloated monster who sits in the WH….who thinks he is worthy of being their commander in chief…they deserve better…we deserve better and the world deserves better….impeach….
Well….running a little early today with wanting to get this one done before the F1 race starts….feel okay this morning and not too sore….my back cracked again clearing the dishwasher yesterday and I really do need to figure out what motion it is that does it…that may come in handy….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today will be a complete washout with it being the biggest race day of the year…I do need to wedge a bike ride in after Monaco and before Indy so it will be a short one today…only have about 85 miles left to do to get to 30K….okay….going to get more coffee and watch the race…more later….
Well…another one of these that I hate to do…Gregg Allman died today at the age of 69….He lived a pretty hard life…maybe not hard but the life of a blues man…with all that comes with that….I first came to listen to the Allman brothers on their album “Brothers and Sisters” that I still have a vinyl copy of, but it was the album “Live at the Fillmore East” that showed what they were really about….Gregg on the Hammond B-3 and his brother Duane on guitar along with Dickie Betts and Barry Oakley…..it is still one of my favorite albums and I still listen to songs from it every day on my bike rides….their live version of “Stormy Monday” on that album is still one of the best I’ve ever heard…capturing the new southern blues rock sound that was theirs and others only copied…my favorite from that album, though, is “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” a 12 minute instrumental that went through every genre from rock to blues to jazz, all captured in that one song that showcases the two drummers that the band uses to great effect….I think I’ll have to play that right now…RIP Gregg…..
Well…have been thinking about the changes to the wildlife that I have noticed and that others have commented on…when I was out with K last weekend, she mentioned that she had not seen any chipmunks around her deck and pool this spring and she usually has lots of them…and I mentioned that I had not seen any tiny bunnies this spring either…that changed int he past two days and I have finally seen about a half dozen of them…not the amount I saw last year when there was one day that I saw 54 on one ride…but, at least there are some finally….oh, the other stuff, at my water stop in Kentwood, just west of Kalamazoo near 52nd street, a crow came hauling out of the tree line with a small hawk attacking it from behind….the two of them then landed in a tree about 6 feet from each other with the hawk screeching so loud that I could hear it over the music in my ears…not sure what that was about but it was pretty cool to see…..