Well…after two good bike rides on the repaired bike where I saw deer and my flock of female turkeys that I’ve been watching since they were just little featherballs, I really didn’t do much but cook for lunch and read…I did order the new seal material for the doors for 20 bucks and that should fix the problem with the factory crap that they made so cheap that it wouldn’t seal…and that will be here tomorrow with the new bottom bracket for the bike that I may or may not install…we’ll see…my legs don’t seem as sore as they have been pedaling the bike with only one bearing left and I’ve been going harder with how well the bike rides…lots of fun to have that problem fixed…it is nice to be reading my own books for a while where I don’t feel rushed to get them done before the due date…it’s a bit relaxing to just be able to do everything else along with reading but that’s only going to last a few more weeks…oh, well…I need to find something to watch tonight on tv and I would like to see a movie but nothing interesting has come up on any service lately so I guess I’ll go back to tv…still have shows there that I need to catch up on so I guess that will have to do…
Run away, trump…
Well…I am laughing my butt off this morning reading the reports that idiot boy has cancelled his “rallies” in deep red states and lies that doing them online is more effective…what’s really going on is the cult is not showing up anymore…I mean his last one was in a high school gym and it was only half filled and most people left before the end of another one of his boring hate and lie filled screeds…and the new wrinkle in all of this is that he is being heckled at every stop about damn near everything he has don to hurt this country…and, of course, his coverup of the epstein files that by law were supposed to be released a year ago…so little snowflake donnie has retreated to his safe space in the WH where his fawning cronies are telling him lies about how popular he is and creating fake AI videos to massage his ego as his mental capacity continues to decline…I can’t wait til election day when his unpopularity won’t be able to be hidden from him anymore and slaps him across the face…can we hope this one will push him further over the edge? I sure hope so…geez…
October 30th
Well….running late this morning with not getting out of bed til almost 6 but I just ave no motivation to get moving right now…so I won’t be on the bike til almost 7…it’s cold out there at 42 so back to full thermasuit for the rides today…didn’t get much done yesterday and I may get out and do the leaves today after I get back from the rides but it has to dry up first…the leaves don’t shred too well when they’re wet…the seals I bought for the doors are just too small to seal them for the weather so I found some bigger ones that I am going to buy today..cheap at 20 bucks for 40 feet of it and it will only take about 20 minutes to replace them…need to get that done before it gets too cold and it costs me a ton in gas…I do need to cook today and I think I’ll make another batch of chicken/potatoes/carrots and rice…got baby carrots this week for 39 cents a pound but I may use up the whole carrots I have left in the fridge that I got two weeks ago…and I have eggs so an omelet with kielbasa sounds good…not much to do today…just need to get my butt moving and have a bagel and another cup of coffee…going to take coffee on the bike today to wake my sorry body up…more later..
The bike rides great…
Well…after fixing the bike yesterday, I was really excited to get out on it today to see if I really did fix it…and it rides just great and I can’t figure out why I rode it so long broken…I was even able to get out this morning in shorts since it never got under 60 last night…but that ends today with lows in the 40’s starting tonight and continuing for at least 10 days…but that’s pretty normal since we’re going into November Sunday…not sure if fixing the bike helped my legs or not but they don’t hurt as much as they did and maybe they’ll heal up over time…it still feels good that the bottom bracket was the last major part of the bike that I hadn’t worked on and now I know I can replace them when they wear out…but that one lasted over 70,000 miles so I probably will never have to replace another one…it rained while I was riding and I got wet but I had the rain gear on so it was okay with it 60…I do need to clean my riding shoes up with a brush since they got covered in crud from riding and I don’t want to do it in the morning…okay, need to do that and then find something to watch for tonight…
RIP Patrick Stewart
Well…this sucks…just read that Patrick Stewart or “Jean Luc Picard” from Star Trek TNG has died…I just loved that show when it first came out and watched it from “Encounter at Farpoint” through “All Good Things” and I was impressed by the reboot that was really even better than the original…it took a while for me to warm up to an English actor in the captain’s role but he quickly won me over with his class and humanity that was who he was in his personal life, too…damn, as I said before, it seems that more and more of the actors, musicians, and writers that I enjoy are passing as I get older…at least Patrick made it to 86 and left the world a better place…RIP Patrick…
trump and asses…
Well…if you didn’t think that the idiot trump could get any more warped, you just have to read the transcripts of the speeches he’s done in the last week or so…he now has a fascination with men’s asses…yeah, you heard that right…in every speech for the past week he has gone on and on about what men’s asses look like..even going so far as staying on the subject for 4 whole minutes earlier in the week…and this is a common symptom of dementia where a sufferer goes off on some tangent that has nothing to do with what he is supposed to be talking about which was the political candidates he was supposedly campaigning for…what’s next? Showing his ass off for comparison? Every damn repub has the responsibility for this decidedly unwell person still running this country into the ground…they could have invoked the 25th amendment at any point when he started this crap but they just smiled like the ghouls they are and let him start a war that has cost Americans almost 600 billion dollars in higher energy costs and has direct costs of over 100 billion dollars…we can’t afford to give healthcare to the poor but they let this asshole start a war and continue it…god, I hate these people…geez…
October 29th
Well…cripes it’s over 60 degrees out there so I am going out in shorts for the last time this year here in a few minutes…didn’t get up til almost 6am this morning and I think that is because I was up at 4:30 yesterday…so now I have to take a breath and not rush to get out on the bike…it’s supposed to rain but I looked at the radar and there are just a few showers around so that’s not going to stop me…just started on the first cup of coffee and need to have a 2nd one before I head out so I won’t be out til 6:45 or so…I am excited to see how the bike rides with the work I did yesterday and I hope it’s back to normal so I can just relax and not think about it…after that work, I have fixed everything on the bike and I think I’ll just rebuild the grey one when the driveline needs it over the winter…but I still want to get the black one working again and will spend the hundred bucks to get it going…it has been cool to have a parts bike but it’s stripped down to nothing and I need to fix it…going to take an easy day today after the rides but I do need to cook some chicken so I’ll have some for sandwiches and to put in the last batch of pasta…might make another batch of chicken, potatoes, and carrots in the dutch oven since that lasts for days and it’s easy…okay, need to toast a bagel and have the 2nd cup of coffee and get going…more later…
Fixed the bike…
Well…have been having problems with the bottom bracket that pedals and front sprockets rotate on and today it got so bad it was just flopping around as I rode…so I took a look at the black bike, got my removal tool out and my electric impact wrench and the nuts just spun right off so I could remove it…so I carried the grey bike down in the basement to work on it…took the pedals and sprockets off that is really easy…and then did the same with the impact and this one came off easily, too…and the bearing on the right side that has been flopping around for weeks just fell right apart with little ball bearings everywhere and the only thing left on the spindle was the inner bearing race…no wonder it was flopping around…now I’ve been thinking about doing this for a couple of months and if I knew how easy it was to fix, I would have done it sooner…but I’d never done one before and thought it was more complicated than it was…so I ordered a new one to put back in the black bike for 10 bucks…or maybe I’ll put the new one in the grey bike and swap the used one out…not sure yet…now I can read…
Good on ya, Neil…
Well…it appears that the idiot trump is getting a taste of his own medicine with Neil Young suing him for 10 million dollars for stealing his song “Rockin in the Free World” to use at his stupid rallies…and Neil laid into him explaining what the song is about…that it is an “anthem that contrasts the hollow promises of American political rhetoric with the harsh realities faced by the poor, homeless and forgotten”…but that is never going to get through idiot boy’s thick skull and he wouldn’t care if it did…the idiot has been taking a wrecking ball to all programs that don’t benefit the rich leaving more and more Americans homeless and starving…so I say good on ya, Neil…don’t let this asshole continue to take what he wants from all of us…geez…
October 28th
Well…up at 4:25 this morning and it looks like I will be able to get 2 rides in before the dentist appointment if I get out by 5:30…that’s pretty damn early but with the lights, it really doesn’t matter when I go out…and I charged up the lights yesterday so they should last through both rides since it is going to be dark until I’m done with the sun not coming up until after 8am…I did sleep okay so that helps but it’s almost 5 already so I need to get moving…had an okay day yesterday but really didn’t do much and today looks the same…it’s going to rain tonight and tomorrow so it looks like the first pass at the leaves will wait til Friday or Saturday and I’m hoping more of them will be down by then…it stayed over 50 overnight so I can go out this morning in light thermasuit and maybe even just a regular hat…I have new sunglasses for riding but won’t need them today with getting out early…don’t hurt too much so I’m not going to take anything for it…just gut it out when my legs start to hurt again which they will if the current pattern holds…the leg pain is normally only when I’m starting out but I’ve been back from Italy for over 3 weeks now and they should have adjusted to the time off already…oh, well…more later…