Well…going off on a lighter note this morning to talk about the meteor that came in over the northeast yesterday…a double bioom was reported and I just watched a 15 second video that had the sound on it and it was pretty loud…NASA says that the meteor was about 3 feet across and hit the atmosphere at 75,000 mph…the explosion was the equivalent of 300 tons of TNT…and my only question is: “why doesn’t that happen here?” It would be so cool to see/hear something like this as long as it doesn’t hit anyone or cause damage like the Russian meteor did 15 years or so ago…I just love natural phenomena and I still remember the earthquake I felt when I was having lunch with T at the Cantina in GR…shook like a huge truck was driving by and we bounced up and down for a few seconds…and that is really unusual for Michigan with no fault lines anywhere in the state…I wonder if I should hold up a target with the caption “hit here?” I would if it would work…
May 31st
Well…at this rate, I’m not going to be able to go swimming until August this year if at all…it’s only 47 degrees right now and I can’t believe it’s this cold and tomorrow it’s June…and this sucks since I love the water…oh, well…up at 5am again today but it’s too damn cold to go out on the bike til about 9am and I’ll still have to have long pants and some layers on top…I really do think this is a record for these things for a month and I’m not sure why I did so many…hmmm…going to have to cook something today and I’m leaning toward making one of the 4 cheese pizzas I got for 1.29 since I didn’t thaw anything else and don’t feel like pasta…had a new loaf of bread go moldy on me yesterday so the squirrels are going to have a lot of treats out there for a few days…with all the power outages and the trip coming up, I bought a new power bank that will charge everything I have a few times over before it needs to be recharged itself…can’t have too much power…and I bought batteries for my watch for 3.99 for 10 of them and that is just strange when locally they are 4.99 each…and now I have a 40 year old cheap watch running again and I’m not sure when I’ll use it…getting the time from my phone has become such a habit that I’m not sure if I’ll break that…and I got this watch from my father in law 40 or 45 years ago so it does have a little sentimental value…not much to do today…got the door mats cleaned yesterday so I really don’t have a lot to do today but let the temp come up and get the rides in and cook…more later…
Another power outage…
Well…right after I took off for the first bike ride this morning, the power went out again and lasted until about 5 minutes after I got back from the 2nd ride…and it was caused by another squirrel discovering electricity and I wonder how many more will do that? Sure hope it stops or they figure out why they’re doing it…the rides were brutal today with winds out of the east at almost 30 which made the way back pretty hard on each ride and I am going to feel it tomorrow…when I got back from the first ride, I saw a scraggly fox running through the neighbor’s yard next door and that made me wonder if it was skunks or the fox that tipped my animal water container over the other night…didn’t do much so far today other than the rides and scrubbing the front and back door mats that really needed it…still waiting for my new power unit to come and it will come in handy if these power outages continue…I can charge three things at once with it and multiple times so that’s cool…and it only cost 10 bucks so it’s worth it…and I bought batteries for my only watch just to see if it still works…haven’t worn a watch in 20 years so that will be weird to do…okay, back to reading…
Ha, ha…the loser keeps losing…
Well…you would think that the idiot trump would be a little self aware after getting slapped down by courts across the country that he can’t just do whatever he wants even with the corrupt justice department in his pocket…just this week the loser lost twice again when a judge shut down his scheme to reward the traitors of January 6th with 1.8 billion dollars in “reparations, ordering the justice department and trump to explain how suing himself to steal money is even legal…that should be an interesting read…and just yesterday a judge ruled that his defacing the Kennedy center by adding his name to it is illegal since the center and name were created by law and he can’t change a law just because he says so…and the judge shut down the destruction of the center that idiot boy touted as “improvements” just like the east wing of the WH was torn down for “improvements”…now, any self aware person would step back and think after losing so may lawsuits but not idiot boy…he still thinks he’s king of the US and laws don’t apply to him so the courts will continue to slap down his bullshit until he’s gone…geez…
May 30th
Well…tossed and turned all night and was up twice but I feel okay so I guess I can live with it…my back has started to heal and at least I can move around without it hitching on me and causing spikes of pain…it was sure odd with the power outage yesterday and the sound when it went out was like an M-80 going off in my side yard…must have surprised the hell out of the squirrel that did it…it’s 57 out there right now so I’ll be out on the bike at sunrise and that is in about 20 minutes so I have to haul butt to be ready…yeah, old bodies to take a lot of prep work to get started in the morning and I miss the days when I just got up and got going…oh, well…as you can see, I did get over 100 of these for the month and I think I may be heading for a record if I do three more today and tomorrow…can’t remember having a 6 post day before yesterday but don’t expect that out of me more often…damn, my allergies are bad, bad, bad this morning and will probably get worse as the day goes on so I need to remember to use the spray before I get on the bike…not much to to do today…just the normal stuff and cleaning the front door mat to have the porch done…and I do need to figure out what to cook since all of the leftovers are gone…more later…
Power went out…
Well…sitting here reading around 5 and there was a huge bang and the power went out…I had settled in on the porch couch to read in the light for a while when I heard a chime from the living room and had to see what it was and the power was back on and the fire stick had chimed at me…so, of course, everything is back on the chargers and I even went out and bought a new power bank that will charge three things at once and it has usb and lightning plugs on it so everything I own can be charged from it…and it will give me a new aux battery to use with the mp3 player on the bike…it’s about the size of a phone and has a power indicator to tell you have much charge it has…oh, just got a text from Consumers with the one word cause of the outage…”animal” so it looks like we have one less squirrel out here…
The owners of turtlebox should be shot..
Well…when I watched sports over the past few weeks, I’ve seen advertisements for a stupid portable speaker from a company called turtlebox who inserts these noisemakers into traditionally quiet environments like golf courses, parks, and beaches…and I for one don’t want to hear this bullshit when I’m at the beach…I want to hear the waves and gulls and kids playing, not some asshole thumping these pristine places that are supposed to be quiet…the last thing the world needs is more noise…and the selfish pricks who would impose their music/noise on the rest of the world are not the cool, sophisticated people they are made out to be in the ads…they are just selfish assholes that this company caters to for nothing more than profit…not even thinking that the rest of the world hates their product and the assholes that buy them…I’ll be the first person who reports them to the cops if any of them show up with this bullshit at my beach…anyone who makes a product like this should be shot…and that goes for all of the owners of this annoyance manufacturer…geez…
A little confrontation…
Well…When I got out on the bike around 8 this morning, a couple of guys were already sitting on the wall in the vacant lot across the street and the only thought that hit me was that it was just another group starting that I was going to have to deal with…so an hour later when I got back here I’d had enough so I stopped to confront them and that turned into a screaming argument that lasted a few minutes but then a cool thing happened, after I explained why I was so pissed off, they agreed with me and said they hated the youngsters who have no respect for the rest of the people who live here…after that, we traded names and talked for a while and I apologized for going off on them but they understood why I did it after I explained…and now I have two new acquaintances named Ed and Terry who are really from this neighborhood and seem like pretty nice guys and I hope to see them again at some point…life is pretty strange…oh, and this is the 101’st post this month…not a record but close and I still have two more days to write…
Even 2nd tier acts aren’t having it…
Well…after the act list for the idiot trump’s birthday celebration was announced Wed, almost every damn act has said if they knew it was for idiot boy they never would have agreed to it…so that leaves the toxic one with no one to perform…and this was supposed to be a celebration of 250 years of the country but you know idiot boy has turned it into just another trump rally full of grifters and maga…cripes he couldn’t even get ted nugent to appear so I wonder if it will now be scott baio reciting scripts from charles in charge? This drives home the fact that the only people who can stand this asshole are the maga faithful and they are the only ones who are going to show up for this disaster…ha,ha…geez…
27 billion just to talk?
Well…as always, the idiot trump lied his ass off yesterday when he said there was “almost” an agreement with Iran to end the war and then Iran said “not so fast” there is no agreement on anything and and no more talks until the idiot gives them 27 billion dollars in frozen assets….the proverbial “pallets of cash” that he was against when Obama worked out a deal for with Iran and that was a condition to the agreement…but idiot boy is so hyped to get any “deal” with Iran that he is willing to bribe them just to come back to the table with no guarantees that they will agree to anything…this is the “great negotiator” that idiot boy constantly crows he is? Let’s put it bluntly…the idiot trump has lost this war and has been in over his head his entire life…I mean who the hell bankrupts 3 casinos and has been a loser in business his whole life and still has people telling him he is the “only one” who can fix anything…and this is direct result of gutting the state department and filling it with his unqualified cronies who have no clue about diplomacy…and the world knows that and are laughing at him and the US as they take him and us to the cleaners…impeach this asshole now…geez…