Well…man, it’s been busy today with getting the first ride in indoors, then doing the grocery runs, back on the bike for two outdoor rides, and the yard work that included weedkiller for the lawn and planting a few more veggie plants…and I had to repair a downspout that came loose…and the assholes were out at the rental again today and the last straw was a steady stream of them walking behind the rental to pee when I was working on the garden…so I called the cops and three of them came out to talk to me about it and then they went over to talk to the asshole who rents the house…and I hope they let him know what the heck the law is so I don’t have to keep calling…pissed me right off…and I’m still pissed…grrrrr…oh, I did get some food today from DD…12 oz package of ground chuck for 2 bucks and some roasted turkey for 99 cents a package…and a 3lb bag of yellow potatoes at Meijers for a buck along with a 3 lb bag yellow onions for a buck, too…so I really need to make more potato soup tomorrow…
A crack in the maga wall?
Well… a couple of weeks ago I talked about what was happening in the repub primaries that was a little surprising…that Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the race two months ago, was still getting almost 20% of the vote and I wondered if this was bad news for the idiot? Last night, there was another primary in Indiana and the trend seems to be getting worse for the idiot trump…once the votes were counted, Nikki Haley got 22% of the vote and I wonder if people are just getting tired of idiot boy’s schtick? I mean he’s still indicted with 90 felonies and his behavior in the courtroom where he’s on trial for election fraud is that of a spoiled 7 year old…and he has been fined 10 times for violating the gag order he’s under…and he sure doesn’t look like the superman he projects himself to be sitting there sleeping and farting all day…so maybe there is a crack in the maga wall happening? We can only hope…geez…
May 8th
Well…man, I’m having problems getting the cobwebs out of my brain this morning and that leaves me feeling old…just started the first cup of coffee and it needs to work soon or I won’t be able to get on the bike before 7…going to do an indoor ride this morning before the grocery run and then two outdoors when I get back…slept okay last night but was out of bed at 5:40 and still feel sore from the flat tire riding yesterday…trying to plan meals for the next week or so and I have lots of stuff thawing in the fridge…bacon, fish and pork loin fillets and I’m going to make potato soup today to use up some of the yellow potatoes I got for a buck for three pounds…and I’m getting another bag of those today…think I’m going to hit DD for some burgers this morning, too…and do a little searching there for bargains…might work on the vacant lot across the street again today after the rides and I need to plant the chili pepper seeds that have sprouted in the paper towel…not much to do today…need to get going soon to get the day started…have a huge grocery list for some reason and I don’t know how it got so big…even have coupons to use today that will save me a few bucks….more later…
Bike trouble…
Well…it was a day of racing to get three rides in before the rain came in and I had bike trouble happening that really slowed me down…first, I did get the shifters adjusted well enough to use them…at least better than they were with the broken front cable and the back shifter so out of adjustment that you had to shift it down two gears to get it to go down one…so I ran the stripped adjuster wheel all the way in and did the adjusting with moving the cable manually…still doesn’t upshift right but the cable will stretch and make that better but I may adjust it again…on the second ride today, the bike seemed way too hard to ride into the 15-18 mph wind that I do almost every day so I looked down and saw that my rear tire was losing air and I barely made it back here…so I put my last new tube in and put the bike back together…then on the third ride, the computer started to shut off intermittently and I was pretty sure it was the repair I did in the wire so I got the soldering iron out and re soldered it so it works again and I hope it’s the last time I have to do that…I may have to cut that section out of the wire to get some new stuff to solder…but I hope not…my entire body hurts right now from the rides and I am going to have to take something for it later…I really should repair some tubes but I want to eat something first…I think I have 4 of them downstairs with just small pinhole leaks in them that should repair okay…oh, I did hit 3,000 miles for the year yesterday and that was only 7 days past the goal of May 1st so I feel pretty good about that…and only about 500 miles to halfway when I can start counting down the miles instead of up…
The judge is finally getting trump trained…
Well…I was laughing my butt off as I just read that the idiot trump attacked the judge in the case on his scam social media site but then immediately deleted it so as not to run afoul of his gag order…but, hey donnie…you can delete all you want but it’s still out there that you did it and this one could be jail time…I hope, hope, hope…getting that orange nightmare behind bars would be a dream come true for all of the people that this asshole has damaged…and the relatives of the 800,000 extra people who died of covid because the idiot couldn’t be bothered to do something hard and he felt like it was a “blue state” disease and he wanted all of us dead anyway…what he was too stupid to understand that, because of the resistance to the vaccines, red states had 90% more fatalities than blue states…so red state governors and legislatures actually killed off the people they needed to have vote for them…losing at least 4 house seats from it…okay, so I’ve strayed a bit from the title…sue me…more later…
May 7th
Well…up a little before 6 today and I am looking forward to having an easier day today…yesterday was filled with tasks that kept me busy all day but rain is coming in around noon today so I’ll be taking the afternoon off…it’s already 54 degrees out there so I can get on the bike as soon as I finish these and have my coffee…I am a little curious how the adjustments I made to the bike are going to work but it appeared to work okay with the little test ride I did…I guess we’ll see…going to do more work on the vacant lot across the street since I only did the terrace part of it yesterday…need to pick the trash up from it before I can mow but what I’ve done already looks pretty good…I guess it’s my job now to keep it up and I don’t mind that…maybe it will set an example for the neighborhood and people will take better care of their properties….okay, yeah, that made me laugh, too…I do need to do some meal planning since the chicken masala leftovers will be done today…might take a couple of pork chops out of the freezer and grill them…and I have some brats in there that I can put on the grill, too…need to do the grocery list later…not much to do today…going to get on the bike by around 7 or so and I might be able to get three rides in before the rain…more later…
Next time, jail…
Well…it’s been a damn busy day today but i did want to talk about this for a bit…this morning at the criminal trump’s trial, the judge ruled that idiot boy violated the gag order for the 10th time and fined him another grand…but that’s not all…the judge also said if idiot boy does it again, there will be jail time since just fining him the limit of a grand in NY for every count is not enough to get him to stop…now, I’ll believe that when I see it but it may be fun to see since contempt sentences are entirely up to the judge and he could lock him up every night and just let him out for the trial…oh, and even though it was a bit boring, the money me from the trump organization testified today that the money that idiot boy signed the checks for were highly unusual and had never been done before or since, making the point that the money couldn’t be to pay cohen for work since idiot boy told them it wasn’t when they were cutting the checks…and they were in on cooking the books for the payments…so some fun developments today and the blows weren’t delivered by progressives or Joe Biden as the right wing assholes believe…it was done by people who worked for idiot boy for over 30 years and knew where the bones were buried…tick tock, trump…jail is getting closer…geez…
May 6th
Well…woke up to a pleasant surprise this morning that my left hip is hurting much less than yesterday…have been able to walk almost normally and that is a relief after hobbling around here yesterday…woke up at 5 or so today but laid in bed til a little after 6 and I needed that…haven’t been sleeping all that well and any chance to get some more than normal is welcome…didn’t get much done yesterday but I do need to mow the lawn today and the plan is to get two rides in outdoors first and then mow the lawn…but it’s supposed to be warmer than the 51 it is right now…and then I’ll see if I do a third ride today…going to rain tomorrow so I may put the new shifter on the bike and ride indoors…almost at 3,000 miles for the year so I will get to halfway by the end of the month…it looks like thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon and that will be cool to watch…will wash the bike and take it downstairs after the last ride today and might even start taking it apart…I really should get some cleaning done today but with mowing the lawn, that is enough…I think the broccoli has come up in the garden and I have one chili pepper plant that has come up in the cups out back and I really hope I get more of those since my jalapeno supply in the freezer is dwindling….not much to do today…damn, I really want to figure out how to take it easy and relax at some point…this go, go, go is getting tiring….more later…
Another reason to hate the cops…
Well…with the protests against the genocide in Gaza and the overreaction of the police who are attacking these peaceful protesters who are exercising their constitutional rights…but it gets worse..in LA an officer was photographed handing out pepper spray from the trunk of his cruiser to the right wing thugs who were attacking the students at UCLA…and then they just stood by and let the attacks happen…and guess who got arrested? Yeah, it sure wasn’t the right wing thugs that’s for sure…but the peaceful protesters..and the cops then pushed them around and injured hundreds of them…for a long time now, I’ve been advocating firing all of these thugs and disbanding the police union whose only function is to protect these steroid swilling assholes when they beat and kill people…at this point there is no reform that will work since all of them have been tried numerous times and the results have all been the same…no change or the police get pissed they are being asked to stop beating and killing people so they have an even larger chip on their shoulders and act out from it…fire them all…geez…
May 5th
Well…running a bit late today with not getting out of bed til 6:35 and just pouring the first cup of coffee at 7:10…I wonder if this is kind of a day off? Not really but I will only do two rides outside today since I’m sore from doing three yesterday…my hips have been giving me fits lately and that’s probably just from getting old…it’s only 52 out there right now so I am going to wait a bit before going out…I did get the rest of the garden planted yesterday and put some stakes and twine in for the peas to hang on to…I’ve never grown them before but remembered that they need that…how I don’t know…I will have at least a few tomatoes with the plants I bought the other day but I am going to not stress about it like I did last year…the lettuce has come up along with some carrots and the pack of cherry tomatoes that I planted…and the bean plants are doing well both in the garden and along the back of the house in the overflow…have a couple of cups of tomatoes that have sprouted that will be planted in the overflow, too…and that will be the end of planting…going to make a pork shoulder in the instant pot today but I just took it out of the freezer and I cut more off it for steaks than I remembered so I’m not sure if it’s worth it…looks like only a few meals so I’ll have to think about what else to plan for this week…not much to do today…the temp just dropped to 51 so I’ll be waiting a bit to go out on the bike…and I’m going to allow myself to just sit here and have coffee for a bit…it is going to be work to relax and do that but I’ll give it a try…more later…