Well….running a little early today and it’s because I’ve been up since 5:30…another night of crappy sleep and I am feeling it right now….didn’t get a lot done yesterday since I didn’t feel that great most of the day and I’m not sure why…had no energy and a cough but the cough is gone today…so far…so I’m not sure what the heck is happening….maybe not eating enough again? Just don’t feel like it…but I will try to do better today…I am going to get the motivation to clean some today after the workout and bike….but I need more coffee and to work out the kinks first….it’s a bitch being creaky in the mornings….more later…..
Muskrats pushing rafts….
Well…just can’t get my brain working to do some political stuff right now so I thought I’d just do another one on some weird trail stuff from earlier in the week…a few days back, while I was riding past one of the retention ponds along M-6 I noticed a pair of muskrats pushing rafts of some kind of vegetation across the pond…not sure why they were doing it but it was strange to see…maybe food? Who knows? At least it took my mind off the idiot in the WH for a few minutes….
June 5th
Well….feel pretty crappy this morning and I wonder if it’s a day that I can take off and not work out and ride….slept really crappy last night and was up at 5:30 so I’m hoping there will be a nap involved later this morning….lost my earplugs overnight and I think that is part of it…haven’t been taking anything for the allergies and I think I should be…my head is filled up this morning and the headaches are starting…had one yesterday that felt like a stroke it hurt so much for a couple of minutes….didn’t get anything done yesterday but I am going to try to do the kitchen today…but maybe not…we’ll see….
Some things from the trail…
Well…there were a couple of things that happened on the trail today that I almost forgot about….not sure why that would be but I’m not going to dwell on it….at the top of the first climb that goes to the highest point along M-6…where I make my first water stop…I looked off in the distance and there was a helicopter hovering maybe a couple of thousand feet in the air…I watched it for a few minutes and it just stayed in one place until it moved off….not sure why it would do that since it was not carrying anything that I could see…oh, well…the next thing was that I came on a garter snake that was just warming itself on the pavement…and, of course, I had to pick it up…I just love the way snakes feel..that silky feeling…when I grabbed him, I broke into laughing since he tried to bite me multiple times…I’m not sure if he realized that he has no teeth or fangs or that his head is about the size of my pinkie fingernail but he kept it up until I grabbed him behind his head…then he calmed down and just looked at me while flicking his tongue……a pretty cool encounter…l made sure he was safe in the weeds when I let him go….I’m not sure why I didn’t remember this stuff until right now…..
An interesting team….
Well….I know I’m running late for the second one today but just couldn’t find something that interested me…..but, with reading an article on Mueller’s team that is investigating trump and his cronies, I found it. Just a little thing, really…but one I found quite telling…on the team that Mueller has assembled, you find the requisite amount of lawyers, but one is not a lawyer but is a history professor…whose specialty is…wait for it…impeachment. So, we know where Mueller thinks this is going, or why include an impeachment specialist? I am now allowing myself to have hope for this country and that trump and his cronies are going to end up in jail…where they belong…impeach…
June 4th
Well…running a little late today…just can’t get started but the coffee is helping…a little…slept okay last night but there were no dreams to speak of….I’m still struggling with back pain today but don’t have too much other pain…I did go hard on the bike yesterday and I’m feeling that today….didn’t win the powerball last night but no one else did either…so it will be almost 400 mil for weds…..didn’t clean yesterday but will do that today….the kitchen is littered with dead ants that need to be gone and the surfaces need to be cleaned, too…so that will be the goal for the day…..it’s already over 65 so I can get on the bike as soon as I want…but there needs to be more coffee before that…more later….
America’s Cup…
Well…as you know, I sometimes like kind of weird sports…having a had a big thing for curling a few weeks back and even watching some cricket sometimes…and I just discovered another one…kind of obscure, for me anyway…just the other day I came across sailing for the America’s Cup and, while I have watched it before when they used the big, monohull boats, I have never seen the type of sailboats they are using now. These boats are catamarans but their cool part is they use hydrofoils that lift the boats 4 feet out of the water and make so they can go almost 50 miles an hour. And I am hooked again…watching it again right now for the challenger’s trials and then in two weeks will be the US against the world…should be fun….
June 3rd
Well….running about on time today for this, but I’ve been up since really early and just can’t get started….just poured the first cup of coffee and had the first sip so I guess I’ll have to wait a while….had a nice day yesterday with a top down run out and back for pool…which ended up in a tie for the first time in a while…even got a little color from the drive even with sunscreen on….and that won’t help to even out the bike tan that is looking quite weird…don’t have a lot to do today other than clean and watch the champions league final this aft…but that will be later, now I need to have more coffee and get ready to get on the bike….more later….
Paris climate accords…
Well….as the idiot manchild blunders around the world wreaking havoc everywhere he goes, he has now topped his disastrous European trip with pulling the US out of the Paris climate accords. and the reasons he used to justify it are just laughable…that he wants to negotiate a “better deal” for the US…with that comment you know he knows absolutely nothing about the agreement…I have news for you idiot…you be negotiating with yourself since every country that signed the agreement sets their own goals…it’s not imposed on us by some shadowy UN government as trump seems to think…and withdrawing puts us in the company of Syria and Nicaragua….and Nicaragua didn’t sign because they didn’t think the agreement went far enough. This idiot thinks that by pulling out of the agreement that coal jobs will come back…that’s not going to happen…natural gas, wind and solar are now cheaper than burning coal and no generating business is going to raise their cost just to appease trump. All across the globe, countries are getting out of the coal burning business with China cancelling all new coal plants and taking the lead in solar now that the US has abdicated it leadership of the world…this is making America great again? Impeach this stupid sun of a bitch before it’s too late…..
June 2nd
Well….running a little early today…how the heck can you be bored at 7:25 in the morning? Oh, well….had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done…again….but, I am going to wash the car this morning…that will probably be my accomplishment for the day since I’m hoping we shoot pool today…I think I may have cured my ant problem but I still have a few of them on the kitchen floor…they’re dead but they are still there…I do need to cook today since I don’t have any leftovers and I am going to try the new broiler on some ribs….woke up a little creaky today so I think I’ll take some ibuprofen before I get on the bike…should help with the cramps in my calves, too….not sure why but I had them just lying in bed last night and that is annoying…more later….