Well…have been putting off cleaning the kitchen for a couple of days and I’m not sure why…but I did get the kitchen sinks scrubbed today and will do the rest of it tomorrow…along with doing the floor in there, I’ll mop the bathroom floor, too to get it cleaner than doing it by hand…so I have plans for cleaning that I just might ignore again…who knows? I did get good rides in this morning but didn’t get started til late so the 2nd ride was completely in the light…I’ve decided to charge the bike lights ever day since the cold really takes the battery capacity down…and I really don’t want them to go dark when I’m in the dark…I was sitting out at the beach looking at Orion and saw Betelgeuse up there and that drove my mind to think about never seeing a nova or supernova in my long life and that is just wrong…I know there was one in visible in the southern hemisphere in the 80’s but I’m not sure if it was naked eye visible or not…some of them have been as bright as the full moon and that would be cool to see…oh, well…time for more reading…
They don’t care….
Well…we all know that the repubs don’t give a damn about anyone but their rich donors and that was shown in a NYT article where the idiot trump gave the biggest polluters in the country waivers of environmental laws that were written to try to stop them killing people with their emissions…and you know that every damn one of these polluters gave “contributions” (bribes) to idiot boy and his cronies to buy themselves the exemptions…and there are almost 4 million Americans that live near these polluters that will suffer the health consequences for the heavy metal and benzene and other pollutants they are now allowed to spew…4 million Americans…but the repubs don’t care anything about the increased incidence of asthma and other respiratory diseases that will be caused by this additional pollution…and you know that it is low income people who live near these polluters which is a bonus to these ghouls since they live for making life harder for anyone who isn’t rich enough to bribe them…the indifference of these assholes is just too much for me…it’s just like having the repubs walk into these homes and shooting the people who live there…it’s the same effect…geez…
October 24th
Well…damn, not out of bed til 6;02 this morning and that is going to make me late for the whole day…should be on the bike right now and I still don’t understand why I can’t just live with it and get on with the day…ick…it’s going to be cold every morning from now on and it’s only 45 right now so I’ll be dressing for that…going to even skip the bagel this morning just to save that 5 minutes…going to put coffee in the cup for the first and 2nd ride today since I don’t have time to sit here and drink some and I really need it…I do need to clean the kitchen today and I think I will…need to slow down on reading or all the books will be done before the end of the month and I really like having them here to choose from…okay, this one is going to be short…it’s already 6:30 and I need to get on the bike….more later…
No work today…
Well…I know I was supposed to work on cleaning the kitchen today but got caught up in a Michael Connelley book and said the hell with it and just read all afternoon…and I’m going to start Jonathan Kellerman’s only 3rd book from 1988 and I am curious to see the evolution of his writing style…I am so happy that I bought some books I haven’t read that should keep me busy til Thanksgiving…so maybe I’ll work on the kitchen tomorrow…don’t have to cook til Sunday and that will be a couple of the chicken breasts I got from aldis while I freeze two of them…I do want to try the new Prego pasta sauce with ricotta cheese in it and I hope to do that while they’re still on sale…1.39 is a pretty good deal for 4 meals…my legs were better today with making popcorn for additional calories last night but they still are a little flat…went out in the heavy fog today and I was glad I put my rain gear on or I would have been soaked…okay, races start right now from Talladega and the trucks should be cool…
Kushner’s next…
Well…we already knew that jared kushner was a corrupt idiot when the saudis gave him 2 billion dollars for absolutely no reason a few years back…kushner lied and said it was because of his “financial acumen” and that he would invest the money for the saudis…yeah, that never happened and now there is a report out yesterday that the GRU (Russia’s spy agency) hacked his phone and found a lot of interesting things going on like secret bank accounts that were never revealed anywhere in banks that are hotbeds of money laundering…and this guy is in charge of middle east peace? Negotiating with countries that have given him billions of dollars? At the very least this is a terrible conflict on interest where kushner is not the impartial negotiator with US interests at the top of his agenda but filling his own pockets at the expense of the US…this idiot needs to be brought into the House to answer for this fraud on the name of the US…leveraging his corrupt daddy in law to profit on his bias…this crap has to end…geez…
October 23rd
Well….damn, I’m getting tired of running all the time to get on the bike and get the rides in…one of these days I’m just going to sit here and watch tv and drink coffee…but not today…going to have to put on my rain gear this morning since there is fog/mist out there and it’s 42 and that will be warmer, too…it felt good to get some cleaning done here yesterday and I’m going to continue that with cleaning the kitchen today…I know I said that yesterday but just wanted to read in the afternoon so I did…the cold is affecting the battery life in my bike lights and I’m now only getting 2 days out of a charge but that’s still not bad at 3 hours of run time…the leaves are still not falling fast enough but that means I don’t have to pick them up til next week…once they start to come down heavy, I’ll have at least 15 bags of them to put out and hours of time with the mower to pick them up…at least the mower shreds them so more of them fit in the bags…damn, still need to toast a bagel so I can have fuel on the bike this morning so I need to get moving…more later…
I have a clean living room…
Well…I really did plan to clean the living room and kitchen today but only got to the living room…but that is completely cleaned and I even rotated the cushions on the couch and washed the cover…and I thought that was enough for one day and I’ll do the kitchen tomorrow…the rides this morning were a little rough and my legs were flat so I decided to eat more today since that is normally the cause of the problem…but I have been really sore and stiff, too and that is not caused by under eating…so I’m a little confused…but I’ll live through it…I did start a Michael Connelly book this aft and I’m going to read more here in a few minutes…it is really unusual to find one I haven’t read…it is nice to have a cushion to sit on that doesn’t have an indentation from sitting on it and I think I’ll have to rotate them more often…oh, I did give myself a haircut today since I was getting a little shaggy and I don’t like that…I did buy some new dry skin lotion that is supposed to last 72 hours and I’m up to 24 and I can still feel it so that’s cool and will save me a lot of cash trying to keep my skin from cracking and bleeding…okay, need to do the weight work and clean my teeth and make ice so I’ll end here…
So now ole elon is threatening members of congress…
Well..evidence has been piling up that billionaires need to be ended and another piece of it showed up in the news this morning when members of congress said that when they win in 2 weeks, they are going to have elon come in and explain who it was behind the starlink slowdown that cost Ukrainian lives…and stated that national security shouldn’t be based on the personal whims of an unstable executive…and his response was “live by the sword, die by the sword” and went on to threaten the congessmen by saying “those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets” so he’s delusional to start…but to threaten a member of congress that he is going to “come for them” is illegal and I really hope the House will hold him in criminal contempt and arrest his ass after January 3rd…we know the the corrupt justice department that idiot boy has ruined won’t do it so we need to be ready to use all the tools like nationalizing starlink and spacex to take his toys away from him since he has shown he really is an “unstable executive” and even if it takes til 2028 when we win back the presidency, elon needs to slapped an hard by the non-corrupt dem party that will follow the rule of law…have you heard a peep from the repubs about this threat? Of course not…geez…
October 22nd
Well…I know I wasn’t going to talk about wake up time but damn, it’s become consistent at 4:53 and I don’t like it one bit…oh, well…have been having a problem with seeing in the dark…okay, I’ve never seen well in the dark and yesterday trying to get my key in the lock to the back door going out for the first ride, I remembered I have a damn light at the back door that I never use so I turned it on and just about slapped myself for not doing it sooner as getting the key in the lock was easy…little things still make me happy…so it’s 43 out there and it’s still going to be full thermasuit again today and I have to get used to the fact that I’ll be in it for the rest of the year if I want to go out early…so I have lots to do today with needing to clean the living room and kitchen and I’ll be working on that until noon or so but then I’ll take the afternoon off to read a bit…have been losing the deer I have been watching all year to cars the past week or so with 3 of them gone and that hurts a bit…I know that happens but it still isn’t easy to ride by one along the road when they were running days ago…on that downer note, I’m going to toast a bagel and get on the bike by 6am….more later…
Didn’t do a darn thing…
Well…this was one of those days that I need sometimes where I didn’t do a darn thing but ride the bike..okay, I did go out and put a 2nd coat of the protectant on the car top which, with the cleaning, has made it look almost new and very black…pretty cool…I did read the new “Reacher” book I got at the sale but didn’t finish that so I’ll have more to read tomorrow…and I’ve pushed the kitchen cleaning back to tomorrow and I’ll do the living room at he same time…still no need to cook with 3 more days of leftovers to go but I will be cooking some of the chicken from aldis this weekend and really want to make the creamy garlic chicken with fettucini and I have all of the ingredients for it so I just might…need to find a place to stack the rest of my haul of books so I can vacuum tomorrow but I’m not sure where that will be…I need to keep them segregated until I try each one to sort out the ones I’ve already read…so tomorrow won’t be a lazy day like today and I’ll be able to report getting something done…I hope…oh, here’s a weird thing…checked on the bank balance this morning since today is deposit day for SS for me and I have the same amount as before I left for Italy and that surprised the heck out of me after spending a bunch of cash on the trip…I think I still have credit card debt that needs to be paid but I expected my balance to be down by 2 grand at least…but I’ll take being even…