Well…running late this morning with not getting out of bed til almost 6 and there is a reason for that that I’m not proud of…was feeling so damn worn out yesterday after getting the 26 miles in that all I could do was sit here and read…okay, after I cooked the pork shoulder and did the laundry…so I guess being worn out didn’t stop me much but I felt like crap…and still do today..it’s only 43 here right now so I guess I’ll have to do an indoor ride this morning after I get the weight work in…should be able to get outdoors for a ride before lunch…I do need to eat more today after only having a plate of pork for lunch and then a sandwich for dinner…and that is not enough to support 26 miles on the bike…so I’ll have a bagel here in a minute and get off my butt and get going…really do need to pack the winter clothes away but if I do that it will probably snow…it is going to get down into the 30’s again this week and that is way too cold for May…more later…
165K?
Well…that little house behind me just went up for sale the other day and I got a flyer in the mail today and I am shocked at what they are asking for it…I mean, a one bedroom on a slab with no basement, 900 square feet with no garage on a lot that is 1/3 the size of mine and they are asking 165K for it…so I guess that means my house is worth at least that…after all mine is 1,100 sf up with another 900 in the basement with a garage and a huge lot…if that’s true, I’ve made 75K on this place in 5 years and I can live with that…
A lot of work…
Well…another day, another one with lot of work in it…started before 7:30am with getting on the outdoor bike for the first ride and then back on it before 9 to finish the 26 miles before 10…and then right into cooking the 8 pound pork shoulder that took about 3 hours including clean up that I finished a little after 2pm…I have pork shoulders figured out since this is the 2nd one I’ve done and it came out great…the key is cooking it long enough at an hour and a half and having the meat coated with a dry rub and then sauteing onion, garlic, celery, and carrots to give the meat some good flavor as it cooks…and adding chicken broth for the cooking liquid and that I had left over from the first one…and now I’m going to have a pulled pork sandwich with pickles and Bullseye barbecue sauce for dinner…right now I feel so worn out after doing 26 miles two days in a row that I need a bit of a rest…it was also laundry day and I just got that put away and I think that’s enough for one day…
They thought we’d play by the rules…
Well…it makes me feel good that the dems are finally growing a spine and are playing by the same rules as the repubs…over the years, the dems have made it their mission to make sure that the districts for congressional elections were fair…going as far as to pass laws that would have independent commissions draw the lines to make them as fair as possible…but that was only in blue states since the repubs sure as hell didn’t want fair districts since they would never win if they were fair…and over the past year, repubs across the country have done illegal gerrymandering to try to ensure they would have control of congress without winning it…it started in Texas, of course, when the idiot trump goaded the repubs there to rig the districts to try to keep the slim majority they had in the House…but, in a miracle, the dems said bullshit to that and started fighting fire with fire by doing their own gerrymandering in California that gave the dems 5 more seats, nullifying the shenanigans in red states…and they didn’t stop there, they just passed a law allowing gerrymandering in Virginia that is going to net the dems more seats…and the thing is that as the repubs dilute their voters, the dems even have a better chance to win…resulting in what wags called a “dummymander”…repubs shooting themselves in the foot as they try to cheat…I just hope this flashing of spine continues right up to and after the election…geez…
April 24th
Well…that didn’t work…have been trying to get my sleep patterns back to normal after stopping drinking and even stayed up to my normal 10:30 to 11 last night but was up at 4:30 again this morning…that makes a good 6 hours and that is about what I slept before but there still seems to be something wrong about that…oh, well…I did just have a weird thing happen…dropped one of my BP meds getting it out of the bottle and the thing landed on edge standing up and the chance of that is pretty damn small…it’s already warm enough to get out on the bike as soon as it gets light so I may get two rides in outdoors again today before the rain comes in…my legs are still stiff from yesterday but I think most of that is from mowing the lawn but I may have to take it easier after going wide open on the bike yesterday…I do need to take the day off the weights to give my upper body the chance to recover but that may wait til tomorrow…who knows? Not much to do today…I am going to make the 8 pound pork shoulder in the instant pot today and I am curious to see if I finally have the recipe nailed and can repeat how good the last one turned out…and that will feed me for a full week…I am finally getting some room freed up in the freezer so I can make the ham soup next week and that will free up even more space…but I’m not sure what I’ll fill it with next…nothing is affordable…more later…
Overdid it a little…
Well…once I decided that today was going to be a two ride outdoor day, I knew I was going to overdo it with adding mowing the lawn right after I got off the bike…I mean going like crazy on the bike for 2 1/2 hours and then onto the lawn for an hour and a half of walking behind the new mower has left my thighs burning and my lower back so damn stiff I may have to take something for it…but I had to get the lawn done today sine it was getting long and we have a couple of days of rain coming and it would have been too long to mulch if I waited til Monday…I do like ht new mower and it does a great job of mulching…and it started on the first pull and that is pretty cool…and it has a lot of extra speed in it…I had the drive halfway engaged and it was just the perfect speed, leaving me a hyperspeed if I ever want to run behind it…I am just so damn worn out, though and I wonder if the getting up at 4:30 am is the cause of that…I did get a 15 minute nap this afternoon so I am curious to see if that has any affect…okay, need to make dinner…
The “liquor cabinet”
Well…this made me laugh the other day when some wag called the idiot trump’s cabinet the “liquor cabinet” to describe the well known drinking to excess that two of the cabinet members do every day…both kash patel, head of the FBI, and pete hegseth the secretary of defense are huge drinkers and, to hear from aides, there have been many times that they were passed out and couldn’t be woken up to tend to their duties even in emergencies…and patel tried to explain his drunken locker room excess after the US men’s hockey team won the gold medal at the Olympics saying he was “invited” by the team…not that he bullied his way into the room…I’ll bet that not one of the players even knew who the hell he was…and then we see him standing on a bench screaming at the top of his lungs and swilling champagne…a perfect picture of the decorum that the head of the FBI has shown over the years…yeah, that’s sarcasm…these fools are exactly what the bottom of the barrel looks like and is par for the course for the unqualified morons idiot boy has appointed…geez…
April 23rd
Well…I really tried to stay in bed until at least 5am this morning and I got close but no cigar…I really do need to figure out how to rotate my sleeping so I go to bed later and get up later…I mean getting up before 5am for three weeks now is wearing me out…and yeah, I know why and I am going to continue not drinking even though it has this result…so, it’s 5:15 and I’m pouring down the coffee to get myself jumpstarted and get the day going…just asked my phone how many days in a row I’ve been on the bike at least once and it’s been 917 days so I will get to 1K before the Italy trip and that’s not bad for and old guy…going to finish off the rest of the leftovers today so I can make another pork shoulder tomorrow…still haven’t figured out if pork is bad for me but it probably is…really, everything is bad for me but fruit and veggies I guess but I can’t live on that…although I did buy some apples and 4 pounds of oranges for a buck yesterday and I may even go back to Meijers Monday to get more…one of my Mastodon friends told me that in her area apples are a buck each and 4 pounds of oranges are 6.99 so I feel fortunate that I live in a city with lots of grocery competition…going to wait for the temp to come up and get 2 rides in outdoors today…so that means sitting here til about 9 am for the temp to get up to 53 or so and then I can go out in shorts…not sure if I’ll clean today but my bedroom could use a dusting…more later…
Imagine if they had to do this Obama…
Well…as reporting comes out about the idiot trump’s behavior when the rescue of the downed pilot in Iran was going on…we can really see that he is uhhinged and just frickin nuts and that is just fine with the repubs…itis just stunning that idiot boy was screaming at everyone in the situation room and making no damn sense so they escorted him out so they could try to do their jobs…now, imagine if they ever had to do this to Obama…there would have been an outcry from the repub hypocrites and they could have called for both impeachment and removal under the 25th amendment and they would have been howling to the sky and fox news that Obama was no longer competent to be president…now, what do you hear? Nothing, crickets as the least competent president in history is allowed to bumble his way around the world when the repubs know he is not all there…and I can’t figure why they are still scared of this asshole…he is losing them the house and the jobs of a lot of his protectors in the congress and it seems like he doesn’t care…but the cult can’t leave him even though his brain is a melting pool of goo…geez…
Here’s the makeup…
Well…since it just a little after 5am, I thought I’d do a makeup one for the one I missed yesterday…can you tell I’m already bored? And I may need to make some pour over coffee since I only had 6 cups left in the coffee maker and I’m not sure if that will be enough for the day…it’s grocery run day today and I have a long list for Meijers since they have lots of stuff on sale for a dollar…I mean 5 pounds of potatoes for a buck? Apples and oranges, too so I’ll get my quota of fruit for the first time in a while…and frozen corn and bacon wrapped pork fillets for a buck and that’s a good deal with how high prices are…got a nice outdoor ride in yesterday and Muskegon Lake has filled up to the point that the sandbars are back under water and the shoreline is back to normal and that is good to see…why, I don’t know but it just seems right that the lake looks normal again…I did see 6 deer in the tunnel of trees yesterday and they just stood right next to the edge of the trail as I rode by…not spooked at all and that was fun to see…it’s going to be cold when I take off to do the grocery run but I’m putting the top down anyway…it will be sunny so that will help…I didn’t rotate the tires on the car yesterday since I found a few lugnuts that were not tight and I’m going to see it that was why I had some vibration…Miatas are just so sensitive to anything having to do with the tires…okay…does that make up for missing one yesterday? Seems like it to me…more later…