Well…got a notification that both the Hills Bros coffee beans and the tires I ordered yesterday are going to be here today…and I am really curious how the beans will taste when I grind some to make tomorrow’s coffee…how bad can it be? 64 ounces of beans for 22 bucks is a screaming deal after the price increases on everything else…but I’ll still use them if they are terrible…what else could I do? I really think that Hills Bros didn’t get to a be a hundred year old company by making crap…maybe making stuff to a budget but again, CDS is all I need since I can’t taste anything…so I’ll have coffee for the rest of the summer easily…and I’ll have new tires to replace the set that is on the bike now when they wear out…need to make lunch with the last of the chicken taco ingredients so I can do a stir fry later today…man it’s been busy today with the rides, paying the water bill, mowing the lawn and making a run for two reasons, I wanted to get two more English cukes to make pickles and a red onion to make more pickled onions…and I love driving my car with the top down and just tearing around in it…every day the shifter gets better and the clutch takeup, too…just fun…
How much weaker can idiot boy get?
Well…I just had to laugh when I read a little blurb about idiot boy and his delusion that he is “in charge” in the middle east…especially since he told netenyahu to not bomb Iran or Lebanon and 20 minutes later Israel bombed everyone…so the useful idiot was just used by netenyahu for cover to start the war against Iran and now that he doesn’t need him anymore, he ignores him and does whatever he wants…this would never have happened with any other “president” and now the question is how much weaker can the idiot trump get? The entire world is now ignoring him (as I proposed they should) and he really thinks he still has power to do anything…but he doesn’t and that is clear…if he can’t get Israel to listen to him, what about China and anyone else in the world? The world now knows that idiot boy is a worthless moron who can’t do crap without whining his ass off…and that is his last tool that doesn’t work anymore…so maybe he should just go back to planning his gold ballroom that the courts have stopped…geez…
The orange idiot screws over NYC..
Well…not sure if you’re a sports fan or not but there is (or was) something cool happening in NYC with the Knicks up 2-0 in the NBA playoffs…and it has been widely reported that this performance has united the city and the whole place is over the moon with it…but no longer…of course the orange idiot had to try to make himself the center of attention by bulling his way into the game tonight where no one wants him…and this has widespread effect on the people of NYC who have been enjoying the watch parties outside MSG since it is sold out and most people can’t afford tickets anyway…but idiot boy can’t have that so he ordered his security detail to shut down any activity by ordinary citizens around the arena, depriving real fans of the chance to be part of the playoff excitement…but does that matter to the selfish prick? Nope, it is quite clear he only cares about himself and doesn’t think the fans he is disrupting are real people anyway…after all they don’t give him money and that’s all he cares about…I’ll bet the idiot can’t even name anyone on the Knicks just like he can’t name one player who will be in the World Cup this week but will do his best to disrupt that tournament, too…with an assist by FIFA who kisses his ass at every opportunity…god, I can’t wait until this orange boil is gone…geez…
June 8th
Well…I don’t know how much worse my seep has to get before I resort to taking something for it…stayed up til 11 last night but out of bed at 4:30 and that gives me a baseline of 5 1/2 hours but with all the tossing and turning and waking up, it was more like 3 hours and I’m not young enough to take that anymore…ick…it’s going to be a busy morning today with getting two rides in, paying the water bill, and then mowing the lawn before the rain comes in later…ha,ha..yeah, every rain forecast makes me laugh since I know it’s not going to rain…after having a tire fail yesterday and seeing that a new one that I use costs at least 26 bucks online, I changed how I’m looking at tires and wanted to get some that had some tread on them and would last the rest of the year…and I found a deal on amazon for 2 tires, 2 tubes, tube protectors and changing tools for 34 bucks…and buying just the tires and tubes locally would cost 70 bucks so I thought I’d give them a try…and I just got a notice that the Hills Bros coffee beans I ordered have shipped so I’ll be able to try those in a few days to see if I need to order more…it’s warm enough to go out in a t-shirt and shorts as soon as the sun come up so I need to get moving…yeah, I know…that sucks at 5:20 in the morning…one of these days I’m not going to “get moving” and just take a day off…yeah, that made me laugh, too…more later…
Interesting 2nd ride…
Well…after giving up on the F1 race from Monaco since it was just another “follow the leader” parade that the announcers tried to turn into a race by showing the 4th and 5th place cars following each other for lap after lap, I got on the bike for the 2nd ride and noticed a huge vibration when I got down he hill to the trail…so I stopped to figure it out and the front tire had failed in two places leaving 2 bulges in the tread…so I turned around and came back here to fix it remembering that I had a used tire with 1/4th tread that I had taken off the rear last year…so with 15 minutes of work, I was back on the bike and got a nice 2nd ride in and I think that one will last until I get a new tire this week…but damn, the prices of the tires I buy have gone from 24 bucks to 35 bucks each thanks to the idiot’s tariffs…I really had to think when I last replaced the front tire and I think this is the only hybrid tire I’ve had on the front since I replaced the knobbies with them…and that would make it at least 7 years old with over 40K miles on it…that seems like a lot of miles since I only get about 8K out of the rears but the inside of the rim looked pristine so maybe that’s true…and the entire tread of the tire was cracked and falling apart so who knows? This is the 3rd day of peace and quiet up here and it is just so damn nice to not hear the assholes in the rental…
Another meltdown from idiot boy..
Well…ha,ha…when idiot boy does interviews with anyone but his kiss asses at fox, inevitably it ends in a meltdown and a walkout just like he did this morning talking to “Meet the Press”…and he made it clear that he is “over” the war he started with Iran not even knowing who is in charge there just like he doesn’t care even though Iran attacked US allies in the region yesterday…and that there are captured American soldiers that Iran is holding and he doesn’t know their names or even care since he made it clear many times that he doesn’t respect anyone who has been captured…and when asked if he will ask for a list of the names of the captured he said “no”…sure seems like he really cares about the military….when asked about the J6 slush fund he lied his ass off that the traitors were being “escorted” into the building by FBI agents so yes they need to be compensated…and when pressed on the fact that he was lying his ass off with no evidence that anything he was saying was the truth, idiot boy stormed out of the interview…very presidential don’t you think? This whole damn thing was just another instance of idiot boy and his minions trying to gaslight the country when there is not one shred of evidence to support anything he said…and this is how to interview a liar…keep throwing it in his face until he turns beet red and just leaves…but a better way is to stop giving this lying asshole a forum to lie in…just ignore him…the rest of the world has found that it is the best way to deal the idiot…just ignore him and hope he goes away…geez…
June 7th
Well…damn, I really wasn’t ready for how much my right forearm would hurt after pulling weeds in the lawn for and hour the other day…have had to treat it with topical painkiller and will have to do that again today before getting on the bike…we’ve got a couple of really hot days coming with the high getting to 90 Monday and then some rain and storms late Monday and I’ll take that…I love the heat and have the big fan out and set up in the living room so I’m ready for it…didn’t get much done yesterday but I really do need to clean today for at least a bit…started a little yesterday but need to get off my butt after the rides…or one ride until later since the F1 race from Monaco is on at 7:55 and there is no way I can get 2 rides in before then..or I could if I went out in the dark right now but without coffee, that is not going to happen…and even with coffee that’s not going to happen…I’m tired of rushing around all the time and just want a day of doing what I want instead of what I’m compelled to do…so I’m going to take time to have coffee and a bagel before I get on the bike…for the first time in months the wind is calm out there and that is going to be weird after going into 20-30mph wind all the time out here…so it’s bagel and 2nd cup of coffee time…more later…
Coffee on the bike for the first time…
Well…with getting out on the bike this morning in the fog, by the time I got the 1st ride in I was getting damp and a little cool so instead of refilling my water bottle like I normally do between rides, today I got out a contego non spill coffee cup that just happens to be the same size as my stainless 1 quart water bottle…so I filled the cup up with hot coffee and headed it out…and it was kind of nice to have coffee on the bike since I only took time to have one cup before I started out at 6:15am and I really needed it…so I think I’ll do the same thing tomorrow but that means I’ll have to set up the coffee maker for extra coffee in a few minutes…and I think I’ll grind some beans for that since I have 4 pounds coming and still have about 4 1/2 pounds here…
We’re not loud assholes…
Well…sitting here watching the truck race and for the 4th time a commercial for ram trucks (that will always be Dodges to me) and the ceo of ram comes on saying that the US is loud and sure of themselves and that everyone should be that way…is this asshole a maga supporter? It sure seems like it when he wants the assholes in this country to be “loud” all the time and I don’t take that as an American value…what the hell happened to the quiet American who did things and then didn’t sit there shouting it from the rooftops? They just went about their business and didn’t have to be “loud” about it…it’s exactly why I hate the maga assholes so much and by association this asshole ceo who thinks being loud is perfectly fine…I, for one, think these loud assholes who do burnouts with their trucks on city streets are surely not people who deserve to be held up as great Americans…or the ones in trucks who tear up sensitive wildlife areas because it just perfectly fine to be “loud” and destroy things like all the magas do…you’ll never see a good American “rolling coal” or bullying others with their stupid trucks…but that is just what this ceo, Tim Kuniskis, thinks makes an American…and that is just sick…geez…
Rolled the dice…
Well…after seeing that the ground coffee I bought a few weeks ago has doubled in price, I took a look at the Hills Brothers beans that I bought a week or so ago for 11 bucks for 32 ozs and it was still priced at that so I ordered another bag of beans this morning to make sure I don’t run out of coffee as the price soars on all of it…I mean the beans I used to buy at 13 bucks are now 37 dollars…who the hell can afford that? So, I rolled the dice even without tasting them but I have the advantage (disadvantage?) of not being able taste much so I don’t think of coffee as anything but a CDS (caffeine delivery system) and any of it should work for that…I also bought some cheap post it notes that I can use to make notes to myself like I used to when I was working…and I bought 8 100w LED light bulbs since I don’t have any spares here and these were cheaper than even at the dollar store where I used to get them for a buck but are now 1.50…that stuff will be here tomorrow but the coffee is going to take a couple of weeks for some reason..who knows?