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….
May 9th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool….didn’t get to the kitchen but don’t feel bad about it…slept okay last night but feel a little slow this morning…the coffee is just not working so I guess I should get busy having more….was thinking that there hasn’t been any trail weirdness lately or tiny bunnies or anything to report…man, my life is really, really boring right now….not sure why that would be but I feel it….my right elbow is teasing the pain that is to come and it is just annoying…at least it’s not a surprise anymore which joint is going to hurt this summer…I am going to take some ibuprofen before the bike ride today and see if that helps…not much to do today….I should say that I am going to try to get to to the kitchen today but I probably won’t…might just make this a lost day and veg all day….more later…
May 8th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool…slept okay last night, too, but I feel a little slow today since it was a cocktail night….had a nice long bike ride yesterday and may do the same today if it warms up some….but, I am taking it easy right now and trying to work into the day slowly…coffee is helping but the bike ride may have to wait for an hour or so….I am a little confused by the pain that is there but the progression is not the same as before…it is still just a shadow that is reminding me it’s there but has not gotten worse yet…and I stress the yet since I know it’s coming at some point…not much to do today….got the bathroom done yesterday and today should be the kitchen and I am going to try to get to it…but, who knows? More later….
Congratulations Leicester City…
Well…haven’t done much on the premier league this year since Man U has been kind of stinky…but, I had to say a couple of things about Leicester City who won the league this year in what could be called a shock…even the bookies in London thought it would never happen giving odds of 5,000 to 1 that they would go all the way. This time last year, they were bottom of the league having to win 7 of their last 9 games just to stay up in the premier league and this year champions…a feel good story for a small team that has been playing for over a hundred years with success only in the lower tiers. So, congratulations Leicester…good job….
May 7th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…slept okay last night but feel pretty worn out after the long day yesterday…was on the go from 10 until I got back here at 6:30 and I’m not used to that….I did get to see T for a couple of minutes and that was fun….and I had the top down the entire day so I may have gotten a little sunburned even with sunscreen on….didn’t get anything done yesterday so today will have to be better….I do have cleaning that needs to be done and I will get to some of it today…even if that is just the bathroom….not much to do today…it is already almost 60 so I can get out on the bike any time but I’m watching Man U right now and will probably wait until the match is over to go out…and the Kentucky Derby is on today so that will be a given too….more later…
March 6th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I was busy until the afternoon…and that is a good thing…got the car cleaned, finally, and a few things done around here…slept okay last night but woke up again with pain in my neck from sleeping wrong and can’t really move it too well…it’s actually between my shoulder and neck and it’s happened before so I’m not concerned…the shoulder pain is still just an echo so I am going to just treat it like an echo and not worry about it right now….I did take some ibuprofen yesterday and it helped some so I just tried that again and hope it helps….it looks like a nice day today and it is going to be a top down day…going to put the top down when I run errands around 10 and leave it down all day until I get back here tonight…it is so cool that the car is quiet again that I like driving it again….not much to do today…that’s not really true…have an errand to run after the bike ride then out to make some cash…then out for pool and, after that, out to HH with T…going to be a long but fun day…more later…
Trump doesn’t represent the repub party?
Well…now that old Donald has just about locked up the repub nomination…the spooked establishment repubs and many, many of the repubs up for election this fall are running away from him like crazy…even going so far as to not mention his name…just saying ‘the nominee” instead of Trump’s name. The meme of the whole thing is that “Trump and what he said in the primaries doesn’t represent the repub party” and that you should still vote for the rest of the repubs that are running….yeah…doesn’t represent the repub party when he won the nomination? And, the majority of the rank and file repubs voted for him? The repub party is exactly the misogynist, homophobic, “other” hating party that they appear…and they have been using this hate to win elections for the past 40 years…but now that the elites of the party can’t control the hate they have spawned and that’s how they got Trump…who threw away the dog whistles and shouted that hatred from every podium starting with his announcement speech. So now, we have the repub party laid bare to expose what they have been about all along…and the base has been released by Trump to openly spew the hatred that has always been just under the surface…you reap what you sow idiots….geez…