Well…you know, the politics on the right have become so absurd that I just can’t bring myself to talk about it right now…but, I do need to do another one today so I think I’ll just wing it again and see what happens…started to feel okay about an hour ago and I think part of it was not eating yesterday since the feeling better coincided with lunch and I have been trying to eat almost continually all day…one huge disheartening thing that happened today was frickin snow…in the middle of May here and I can’t remember it snowing this late in the year in my lifetime and that is a really long time…I think it was a good choice to skip the bike ride today…oh, I think part of my feeling lousy is a cold or something since I have been coughing and feeling warm all day…and no energy so maybe I can convince myself that is the problem and not my being stupid yesterday….but, not eating makes me feel warm, too, so who knows….okay…that’s enough for now…there is a race on and the couch is calling my name….more later….
May 14th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…but, it was just too long of a day and I feel pretty crappy today…and part of that is I only had one meal and have been under on calories all week…have to stop that soon so I think I’ll have some toast with honey for breakfast….slept okay but feel like I need a nap already so I think I’ll give that a try this aft…it was nice to have the top down out and back to pool but I am getting to the point that I need to even out the raccoon eyes that I am getting from both the bike and the car…but that won’t be today since it is only going to be 46 and I may even skip the bike ride to take a maintenance day for my legs…not much to do today…should clean but I think I’ll just recover from yesterday all day….more later….
May 13th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…a little bit around here but that is about it…and today will be much the same…slept okay last night but feel a little slow today with it being a cocktail night….did have a great bike ride where I went full out the whole 15 miles and I’m not as sore as I should be today…it does feel good to have my legs have just that little bit of soreness that tells me I did a good job yesterday….not sure if I ate enough yesterday with only eating venison…tacos for lunch and then a steak for dinner and I know they don’t have a lot of calories so I’ll have to make up for it today….not much to do today…pool, of course, and then maybe out to have a couple with G…but nothing else but the normal stuff today…more later….
Typical repub crap in NC…
Well…with the outcry by business for the repubs in NC to repeal the discriminatory HB2, the response today from the repub legislators there is just so damn typical…they won’t listen to their constituents or to the businesses that want the law gone but they will threaten businesses that are speaking out…who are exercising their first amendment right to speak out against the law with legislation that will retaliate against these business in any way they can…by rescinding tax breaks and any other means that they used to draw these businesses to their state….something that is blatantly illegal under the US constitution…but, as we have know for some time, no constitution means anything to them unless they can use it to hate and punish people they don’t like…if you had any question what the repubs are about, just look at the states they control…they operate like the thugs they are in every one of them…and NC is just the latest example….geez…
May 12th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a bunch of stuff done around here so that was cool…finally getting rid of the clutter and making headway back to the clean, stripped down place that I like…slept okay last night and feel okay with being good for the 4th day in a row so I may take a long bike ride today…but, I have been coughing and sneezing all morning so the allergies are out of control….might have to make it a day of taking medicine for it since it usually doesn’t hit until later in the day….not as sore this morning even with going onto the wind again yesterday…hope today is a little easier…and it may be warm enough to go out in a t-shirt…if it’s not raining…I did do the grocery run this morning and have food for another week…have to make the venison I thawed yesterday and I am looking forward to tacos…not much to do today…going to continue to make progress around here today and then maybe out for a couple with G later….more later….
More Donald….
Well….have been looking for a political topic all day…I am just so tired of writing about the idiot Trump that I couldn’t bring myself to do another one today…okay….maybe just a little….one of the idiot’s comments over the past day or so, pandering to the hard right religious nuts, is that he will appoint at least 5 SC justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade and make abortion illegal here in the US. Now, there are so many ways that this is wrong…first, there is no way that 4 more justices are going to retire or die in the next 4 years…and, to overturn Roe, the court would have to ignore the precedent of Roe…not that that hasn’t happened under Roberts, just look at Citizens United, that overturned hundreds of years of precedent. But the second thing we have to look at is this complete banning of abortion is only supported by about 25% of the US and if ole Donald continues to press that it is what he will do with his SC picks, he is doomed by voters who think that is not the governments business to make health care decisions for women and take away their rights to control their own bodies. Okay…this one was not supposed to be about Donald…just got sucked into it…darn….
May 11th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done…going to continue that today until I get the kitchen done…slept okay last night and had a weird dream that my Miata was just a loaner from a radio station that was going to give it away in a contest…and I found myself without a car again…strange….the bike ride yesterday was just brutal and I am feeling it this morning…going out the first 5 miles into a 20 mph wind took it’s toll on my back and legs and I hurt this morning….going to do it again today, though, since I just need to…I’ve been good for 3 days now and I feel pretty good today other than the pain…the weird thing is the pain that I thought was going to be in my right elbow is in the inside of my right forearm….a new place for pain that I have never had before….not much to do today….going to continue to clean after I do the bike ride and I may run a couple of errands but maybe not….more later….
Holy whiplash, Batman….
Well…if you are going to pay any attention to Trump and this campaign, I think you’d better stock up on neck braces to keep the whiplash from him changing his mind from hurting too much. The latest two just point out that ole Donald is just making crap up as he goes along with not one care about consistency….or as the repubs are so fond of saying “uncertainty” and the Huuuge effect it has on markets and our allies. First, over the weekend, we had the Donald say that he would have to raise taxes on the rich to make his economic “plan” work…and not more than two hours later, on another show, he said the he would never raise taxes on the rich….and just yesterday he said that Ben Carson was going to be the person vetting his VP choices…but today, ole Donald’s campaign manager said that he would be the one vetting the picks….yep…surprise, surprise…the Donald is an inconsistent blow hard who just makes it up and tells people what they want to hear with absolutely no care that, in at least one of the instances, he is lying through his teeth…but, I guess in the modern repub party, that is the game plan…promise people one thing, and then go hard right once you are elected…worked for Snyder here in Michigan and Walker in Wisconsin….but it is supposed to be kept secret until after the election…something that Donald just can’t do…geez…
May 10th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done….slept okay last night and had a dream about keys for some reason and that was a little weird…feel okay this morning with being good last night and that will continue all week…I found that it does help to take ibuprofen before the bike ride but I’m not sure if I’m going out today…it is cold with about a 20 mph wind out of the East and that makes the outward leg just torture….and it is going to rain in a while so I’m not sure if I want to get wet today…a little too cold for that so I may just skip today….not much to do today….the papers need recycling and I do need to clean before Man U comes on this aft…they need to win today and sun to make the champions league next year…but, they have been pretty disappointing this year so who knows? More later…
Strange music…
Well…as you can see, politics haven’t really been too interesting to me lately…after all, how do you comment on the absurdism that is the repub race…so, I think I’ll do one on some music I heard on the bike this morning. On the ride today, “Sunshine of my Love” by Cream came on and, since I was at my last water stop in the park, I could really listen to it without wind noise or any other distractions…well..it is the strangest engineering I have ever heard in a song….whoever did the recording put the drums in the right ear, the guitar in the left, and Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton singing in the middle….really a departure from the normal way that songs sound….I was going to do a similar one on how the drums sound on “Nantucket Sleighride” by Mountain…where they use the entire sonic range from ear to ear for the drums and then lay the rest of the music on top of it so it sounds like you are really at a live concert…and that contrasts to “White Room” by Cream where the drums sound like you are sitting a couple of feet in front of the kit….weird…or not weird but interesting how sound can be changed so your brain interprets it differently…yeah, okay….probably only interesting to me….