Well…today was the first day of the new detour around the road construction and it does add more miles to my daily ride…checked the computer and the new mileage per ride is now 15.2 with finding a shortcut through a rich person’s development that cuts 1/2 mile off each ride…and the development is another one of those “affordable” ones that starts at 850K and goes up to 1.3 million…now sure where they got affordable out of that but I think they need a new dictionary…payments of 4,000 a month is not “affordable” to anyone I know…and the new route has two climbs in it that are brutal…the first one is 100 yards of 23% to get up on the plateau and then there is another long one of a half mile at the same difficulty…needless to say, my legs are pretty sore from the climbs and almost 31 miles today…I’m not really sure if this is going to be the standard ride every day or if I may do 8 miles indoors and then 15 outdoors…I guess we’ll see…didn’t get anything else done today but write checks and read…oh, I did cook too and that means I don’t have to tomorrow…I may push the grocery run back to Thursday since I need to pick up my cholesterol prescription that won’t be ready til after 3 pm Wed…oh, I did service the outdoor bike since the chain needed lube and it needed air in the tires but I need to really clean it up but not until after the rain tomorrow and tomorrow night…it will just get gunked up again so I’ll wait til Thursday when it’s dry…and I don’t want to get my nice clean car dirty in the rain…okay, just finished another book and want to get another one started…
Is there anything more ridiculous?
Well…instead of doing any part of a normal president’s job, the idiot trump is now trying to change the name of New Mexico to “New America” by using his most awesome tool, the sharpie marker that he uses whenever he wants to visually lie to go with all of the other lies he spews every day…is there anything more ridiculous than this orange asshole? Has he done anything to make anyone’s life better other than his own and the billionaire oligarchs who bought the last election for him? The question that has been asked multiple times in many campaigns is “are you better off?”…are you better off than when Joe Biden was running the show…if you think it’s a right to vote, you aren’t….if you are trying to buy a house you aren’t…I mean 6.75% interest on a home loan has priced most people out of the market and yet the idiot does nothing about that…and let’s talk about the cost of living and the thing that’s on everyone’s mind, the stupid trump war with Iran that has sent diesel fuel to it’s highest price ever and that cost is being paid by you and me, let alone gas prices that have gone from 2.60 a gallon to 4.58 because trump is so stupid…so no, idiot boy is not doing anything for anyone but himself and his cronies…and yet people keep voting for this asshole…and that makes me question the intelligence of the people who did…of course they’re stupid, and racist, and hateful…but why should we have to pay for that? Geez…
September 8th
Well…damn, what a crappy night of sleep…up and down all night and finally woke up for good at 4:25…laid in bed for almost another hour, though, and none of it was sleeping…ick…had a skin tag that I removed with clippers and it bled for over 3 hours but that is normal since it does that every time I clip the damn thing off…might have to get something to remove it permanently…this old body is getting weirder by the day…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I need to get cleaning and packing today and that will continue until I leave…don’t think I ate enough again yesterday with just a bagel, bowl of soup, and a chicken wrap for the day and I really don’t know how I can do better than that….so I will start today with a bagel again just to keep my legs from going flat but they don’t hurt so no ibuprofen…but I may have some more electrolytes at the ride break when I get my coffee for the 2nd ride…need to get going on drinking coffee since I’m still only on my first cup and I do need the jolt from the caffeine…it’s still in the 50’s right now and I hope the humidity is still down like yesterday…that makes it much more comfortable…so, coffee, coffee, coffee and a bagel before I get on the weight work…more later…
A better day…
Well….after the dead legs and huge amounts of pain I had in them yesterday, I was expecting that to continue today so I took an ibuprofen before I got on the bike this morning and the rides weren’t bad…I also made up a quart of electrolyte water to drink after the first ride and I think that may have helped since I had energy through the 2nd ride and could still go pretty hard right to the end….and my legs weren’t stiff or puffy so I think I may be past that…I did get a little work done today with sweeping out the garage and vacuuming, washing and waxing the car…and I even read half a book as I was watching the drag races that were on all day…so while I didn’t get a lot done, I did get more done than yesterday and that’s not bad…I have been reading a lot about the new trend where people are getting tired of always having to accomplish something more that just living and I laughed that it describes me perfectly…I do not ever remember allowing myself to just live and do what I want with no guilt for it…that’s going to take a lot of work on my part and I’m not sure I’ll ever get there…I did see a couple of huge puffballs along the trail this morning and they were almost 18 inches across…the biggest ones I have ever seen…pretty cool…okay, back to reading…
The SC is going to interfere in the election…
Well…if they haven’t already done enough to allow the idiot trump to rig this fall’s elections just on partisan political bullshit, they now have a new reason to do all they can to help the repubs win…with the now mainstream dem vow that they are going to reform the SC if they take control of the house and senate, John Roberts has already sat down to start scheming how to prevent that from happening…and that just shows to me how much reform is needed…roberts has done more to damage the court with his bullshit ignoring of settled law and precedent and allowing the use of the “shadow docket” that allows them to destroy the constitution without explaining how and why they did it…and the ethical issues that he allows to fester, like thomas getting to be a multimillionaire on his 200K a year salary and kavanaugh getting a 250K debt disappeared while he was being vetted for the court are just two examples of how he has created the most corrupt court in the history of the country…so watch for roberts to continue to destroy the court to protect the grift that all of the conservatives on the court are knee deep in…geez…
September 7th
Well…damn, running really late this morning with not getting out of bed til 5:45 but it wasn’t from good sleep but from being in pain and just trying to find a way to get comfortable all night…now my frickin ribs hurt and I have no clue what the hell is going on…so I took an ibuprofen a few minutes ago to see if that helps…don’t feel bad about that since I haven’t taken one in over a month and sometimes you just need it…it’s only 57 here right now and that’s okay after the low being around 70 for the past week…the humidity went away yesterday and it was so clear here I could easily see all the day down to GH 12 miles away…things just looked sharp and after all the humidity haze, it just didn’t look real…didn’t get anything done yesterday but today I’ll start cleaning this place up and start getting ready for Italy…have to make a list of everything I need to take and start getting it packed…it is kind of cool that I have a roller suitcase that can fit two weeks of clothes but I hope my daughter has found a hotel with a laundry like the UK trip…so today is going to be winging it a bit and watching the US Nationals drag racing that is on all day starting at noon…good background noise for reading….more later…
Owww
Well…damn, I can’t figure out what the heck it was with my legs this morning but they were completely dead on the bike and have since hurt all day…and they just didn’t feel right…like they were really stiff and looked like I just sprinted 20 miles with how pumped they looked…just the weirdest damn thing…so, of course I didn’t get much done today but make guac and read a lot…all of the races today were boring and the one that’s on right now is boring, too…maybe I’m just bored with life right now…that could be it…so I’ll keep this one short since nothing happened today so I really don’t have anything to say…
Bye, bye gold….
Well…the response to the orange idiot’s lawlessness has entered another phase and I have to applaud countries in the EU that are leading the way…not sure if you know this fact or not but many EU countries have their gold reserves stored in banks in the US since they used to be the safest repository in the world…but no longer…some countries have heard the ravings of the lunatic “president” we are saddled with and idiot boy has hinted that he may confiscate these gold reserves and steal them for himself…so the EU countries have done exactly what I would do faced with an unstable moron running this country…they have started to move those reserves out of the US to the tune of over 30 billion dollars so far and the movement is gaining speed to get ahead of the idiot trump making up some reason to confiscate this gold…I wonder what the banks think of this? They supported idiot boy and gave him millions to elect him and now this essentially free money they have been using to make profit is gone…and it’s never coming back as long as idiot boy is infesting this country…hey, maga assholes…what do you think of your god king now? He has single handedly made the US into a third world country that no one can trust….but you got your racism out of the deal so you’re okay with it I’ll bet…geez
September 6th
Well…running a bit late this morning with not getting up til 5:25 but I can’t get out on the bike til 6:30 or so and that gives me 45 minutes to do this and anything else I need to…no bagel this morning with making a batch of popcorn last night and I still feel full from it…much cooler this morning at 58 when it was over 70 yesterday and that’s okay with me…I’m ready for fall to come and go out for some color touring with the top down on the car…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today looks the same but I do need to make some guac with the avocados I got Wed finally ripening enough…haven’t made that in a long tome and I may replace a meal with it later today but we’ll see…don’t really have to cook today with leftover soup and chicken I made yesterday and the breasts were so big I can make meals for 4 days from them…and I have 2 more in the fridge to be cooked…I’m glad I got the lawn mowed yesterday so today will be nothing but races and soccer and reading and that’s what Sundays should be…but I need to get moving soon…need to get the weight work done before I get out on the bike so I don’t have to think about it later….more later…
Got him…
Well…for the past week or so I’ve been fighting a frickin mouse who had found his way into my house…and overnight he got on my last nerve by getting into the moldy bread I put out for the squirrels…so, this morning, I started to think and came up with a trap I thought would work and it did…a slice of bread wadded up and placed in the center of 4 sticky traps…and a few hours later he came out and tried to get to the bread…not successfully and was stuck fast to the sticky traps…so I mercifully put him out of his misery with my billy club and now his corpse resides in the outdoor trash bin…then I turned the bread trap into a 3 sided one and put it back into place just in case there is another one in here…what a pain in the butt to have to think about this crap…but I think it’s over now so I don’t have to think about that before I go to Italy…still going to make sure that all of the food is in plastic totes that mice can’t get into and I’ll leave the traps in place when I go…one mouse doesn’t smell when it’s dead so I can get away with catching a few more while I’m gone…if there are any…okay, back to reading…