Well…as I sat here late this morning running out of coffee, I couldn’t help my self and got out the Lavazza beans and made some pour over coffee with it…it’s pretty good and has more than just coffee flavor in it…I can’t taste much but I could tell it has a nuanced flavor with hints of citrus in it that I like a lot…and for 21 bucks for 35 ounces it’s not a bad deal…will I buy more of it? Not sure yet with all of the coffee I have here but it’s nice to know I have coffee for the next couple of months…I did get 26 miles in on the bike but didn’t get anything else done but make pasta salad that I had a big plate of with chicken for dinner…it looks like DD has some deals so I’m going to stop there tomorrow as part of the grocery run…I mean, 4 cheese self rising pizzas for 1.29 each…and I get three meals out of them so that’s about 43 cents a meal and that’s a bargain…and they have smoked ham and roasted chicken for a 1.29, too so I’ll stock up and fill the freezer again…just finished a book and that leaves me 3 more to do this week and I’ll need to hit the library before the weekend to get more before it’s closed for the holiday…okay, time to pick another book and get started…
So now you get paid to be a criminal?
Well…how much more corrupt can the idiot trump and his minions be? No, that’s not a challenge but it seems like it is with the latest corruption of the justice department that is going to set up a taxpayer sourced fund of 1.7 billion dollars to reward the criminals who attacked the capital on January 6th since idiot boy thinks they deserve “reparations” since they got caught and convicted…so what’s next? Bank robbers who are caught getting the amount that they stole as “reparation” for getting caught…how frickin sick is this? Look what the dems need to do right now is get out there in the media and saying that any money given to these criminals will be clawed back after we take over this fall…don’t reward trump and his asshole followers with thinking they will ever get to keep a penny…what this really is is just another grift and I’m sure all of this money will end up in idiot boy’s pocket…shame on the repubs for going along with this corruption of the legal system…they need to pay in the fall…geez…
May 19th
Well…I wonder if I should just move the clocks to make it look like I’m getting up at a reasonable time instead of the 4:45 I climbed out of bed this morning? That would probably be easier than figuring out how to sleep longer…but I feel okay so maybe I don’t have to do anything…if the pain I’m feeling is just the start of what I’ll feel tomorrow with the 2 day rule, it’s going to be ugly tomorrow…but I’ll try to get ahead of it with some topicals before I get on the bike this morning…I should be able to get two rides in before 9 if I get out at sunup…it may even rain today…ha,ha…no, that’s not going to happen…I do need to cook today and I’m going to make the pasta salad I’ve been thinking about for weeks to go with the chicken I’m going to bake for lunch…still have pasta for dinner and I need to think if I need to buy more chicken tomorrow at 2.19 a pound…there is room in the freezer for it as I gradually draw down what’s in there…and the last pizza will be used thurs so I do have food to eat for the rest of the week…I really can’t taste the dark roast coffee I bought so I guess it will still work as a CDS…I did talk to my daughter yesterday and she seems excited by the Italy trip…she even talked about upgrading out seating on the flight over and back to 1st class for 4 grand but I told her I’m good just being on the plane…but she is changing our seats so we are in a two person row on the outside of the plane so we can see out the window and that’s pretty cool…not much to do today…just want to get the rides in and then have an easy day…I do need to do some cleaning but I’m not sure what that will be yet…more later…
I’m beat…again…
Well…the rain really sucked as the storms missed to the south and all we got was a little shower…but why am I surprised? It never rains hard here…at least in the 5 years I’ve lived here it’s maybe happened 5 times and that’s why I have no lawn…oh, well…I am so beat right now and sore from the transition from indoor rides to hard outdoor rides…but I’m not sure that’s why I’m so worn out…geez…I sure hope it’s not from just getting old because there’s nothing I can do about that…like I said before, I feel like I’ve been on a three day bender and barely have the energy to just sit here…okay, I’ll stop complaining now..it’s pretty darn humid out here after the rain and the sky is clear so the sun is boiling the rain up into the sky and that’s okay after I bitched so much about the cold that is coming back Wed when it will be in the 50’s but just for one day so I think I an deal with that…okay, time to find something to watch tonight…
Looks like rain…
Well…it finally looks like rain here after weeks of drought and it’s not too soon to keep my yard alive…but there is no way we are going to get the 5 inches to quench our deficit and that sucks…I did get the lawn mowed in between outdoor rides this morning so I guess that’s something…the rides were fun with the bike working like new but damn, it was windy and coming around the condo building and heading south stopped me in my tracks…almost…was down to 3rd gear on the back sprockets when I normally go through there in 7th but I made it with some work and I am stiff and sore from it..I did get to 2,000 miles for the year this morning and that’s cool but it’s almost 1,000 miles under where I was at this time last year so it looks like I won’t be getting to 8K miles this year…and I blame the damn cold weather that kept me inside almost to May this year…so I’m trying to make up for it by doing 26 miles a day and have a full week in of that but I’ll have to do that every day to get even close…didn’t get anything else done today and I am going to read this afternoon before I have to figure out what’s for dinner…I do have chicken in the freezer and aldis has it on sale for 2.19 a pound and I may buy another tray and then figure out how to cook it…don’t want masala so maybe just bake some to make sandwiches? Don’t need to figure that out right now…back to reading a I wait for the storms…yeah, right…that’s a laugh…
There are no phones…
Well…not sure if you read about this one yet but with all of the idiot trump’s grifts, it’s hard to keep track of them…this one attacked his maga followers and should have turned them away from him but when you’re in a cult, any kind of abuse from dear leader is taken as great and then they ask for more…so, this is a good one…a couple of years ago, idiot boy and his family came up with the idea to sell a “freedom phone” that was something something patriotic and asked for a 100 dollar deposit to “keep your place in line” for the phones and over half a million of the rubes did just that…gifting idiot boy with over 50 million dollars…and now years later, there is no phone and no inkling of when it would be shipped to the stupid…now, this would be funny…no it is funny since there is plenty of evidence out there that this is just another scam like everything else the idiot has done but that didn’t matter to these morons…they are all in to the cult and if it costs them 100 bucks gone poof into the air there must be a great reason that their god just isn’t revealing to them yet…you would think that one of the maga lawyers that got screwed in this scam would sue and it would be easy to get it to class action state since it is clear that idiot boy and his family lied their asses off to separate the gullible from their cash and had no intention of producing or selling a phone at all…but this is how strong this cult is…when some of these morons were asked if they were concerned that the phone is two years overdue they just said “there must be a reason for it” and let it go at that…what a bunch of idiots…geez..
May 18th
Well…this is weird…it’s over 70 here right now at 5:40 am and maybe spring is here? But it’s only going to be 59 for a high Wed with a low of 41 Tues night so nature is still screwing with us…trying the new dark roast coffee and I really can’t taste it so I guess it will be a good CDS anyway…it was cheap at 11 bucks for 35 ozs so I can live with it…I am going to get out on the bike as soon as it’s light so that give me about 45 minutes to get the weight work done and figure out if I’m going to mow today…it’s been 2 weeks since I did it last and I think it may need it since we’re supposed to get rain this aft and off and on for a few days…it still looks like it’s dying but it has spots that are still growing so I guess I can even it out…the wind is blowing over 15 right now so the rides are going to be a little work but I should have 26 miles in by 9 or or so and that would get me done for the day by around 10 if I get off my butt and get moving…I do have to figure out meals for the rest of the week but I do have the last frozen pizza to use with the mushrooms and green pepper in the fridge so that will probably be tomorrow…not much else to do today but aren’t the rides and mowing enough? More later…
Got the coffee…
Well…just got the coffee and earplugs I ordered yesterday and the can of dark roast Chock full o’nuts is huge…so I opened it to set up tomorrow’s coffee just to see what it’s like and if I like it, I’ll probably order another can to put in storage for later…not going to open the Lavazza beans since I still have a bag and a half of the 8 O’clock beans that I’ve had for a while…and I won’t buy that again since it went from 13 bucks for 38 ounces to 38 bucks for 40 ozs…the Chock is all Arabica beans which is supposed to be pretty good as is the Lavazza so I have a lot of stuff to try over the next few weeks…and the ear plugs are supposed to lower the noise by 37db which will be cool…and for 7 bucks for 60 pair that is a pretty good deal..okay, sitting here in the living room and I can smell the new ground coffee…yay!
China beat him like a rented mule..
Well…look, we all that the idiot trump is one of the dumbest people on the planet and guess who else knows that? China, of course and his trip there this past week was a debacle of epic proportions…he got nothing concrete from China other than vague pronouncements that flattered the moron since they know a little flattery will get them whatever they want…and the big deal was that China was focused on Taiwan while idiot boy can’t focus on anything other than trying to fill his own pockets every chance he gets…and his breathtaking abandonment of Taiwan when asked about the 12 billion dollars in arms sales saying the sale was “up to China” giving them veto power that no “president” in would ever cede for any reason…so now we sell out another ally just because trump is so stupid and no one in his administration has the knowledge or intelligence to know what China is doing…and this is just another repair job the next dem president is going to have to fix…geez…
It worked…
Well…I worked on the new/old wheel this morning and got it on the bike after changing out the cassette, putting the tube protector in, and putting a new tire on and I can’t believe how well it works…dead straight and the ratchet works like new…it’s step up from the wheels that came on the gray bike…a Weinmann and they make good wheels…glad I saved them from my first mountain bike, a Motobecane 400DS and was able to use them after having them laying around for more than 10 years…I greased the bearings with some moly wheel bearing grease that I don’t use anymore since the wheel bearings on the Miata are all sealed and it is so smooth and quiet that it made me grin…now if it just lasts until winter and then I’ll buy a new bike…yay!