Well…I guess sucking up to the idiot trump and giving him a “peace prize” is not working out for them…especially with the news that idiot boy is sending ICE goons to all of the American venues that are hosting the World Cup starting next month…at least a dozen organizations like Amnesty International have issued travel warnings to the US due to “deteriorating human rights” caused by idiot boy and his thugs and anyone with a brown skin who comes for the tournament is under threat of being arrested and held without cause…and these threats are showing up in the depressed bookings for flights and hotels at the venues holding the matches…with a majority of them saying that bookings are down even from the normal summer tourism and the boom that people were planning for is not happening…so we’re going to see half empty stadiums as smart people stay away as they already have since idiot boy launched his thuggish campaign against people of color…I really hope that FIFA loses it’s shirt since they knew that everything the idiot touches turns to shit and they sucked up to him anyway…geez…
May 15th
Well…still in the pattern of getting up at 5am but last night was the worst sleep I’ve had in a while and I even tried to go back to bed after I got up and that didn’t work…oh, well…I am really sore after the first 34 mile day yesterday and I’m not doing that again today…maybe…but you know that I’m almost compelled to do it and I need to get going right now to get the indoor stuff done before it warms up enough to go outside…I do have lots of coffee for this morning after making extra yesterday and drinking it all day…and it appears that helped keep me not lose as much energy and crash around noon…but I’m not sure if it’s the coffee or eating more and I really should have only changed one variable so I could tell what works…going to clean the living room and rotate the couch cushions today since the dust is getting pretty bad…my eyes are still pretty good and I was able to watch tv all day yesterday without glasses on and that is a major reason why I’m staying off cocktails for the foreseeable future…and I do feel better so that’s a bonus…I did make a pork chop for dinner yesterday but could barely taste it so the rest of them will probably end up in the freezer…not much to do today…just cleaning and the normal stuff…it may be warm enough to open this place up but that will mean my allergies are going to go nuts just like they did on the outdoor rides yesterday from the mowing along the trail…more later…
Coffee worked for a while…
Well…as I talked about this morning, I was trying out something new today with making extra coffee to see if I could avoid the noon slump that has been happening for a while now…and it did work until now…about 2:30 in the afternoon but I can feel the deflation of the coffee buzz happening and it’s not going to be pretty…oh, well…going to try that again tomorrow with having 9 cups for tomorrow left over….I did get a lot done today with the normal stuff…mowing the front lawn, and doing 34 miles for the day…and I had all that stuff done before noon since I got an early start at 5:15 or so…and I was able to get out in shorts for the 2nd ride and I look forward to doing that again tomorrow…and I may be able to get two rides in outdoors starting early and not doing an indoor ride…so, I’ll be back to 26 miles tomorrow probably…I do have some pork chops marinating for dinner and I’m not sure how my body is going to react to that…and I need to change up my eating since I got a dozen eggs at aldis for 1.46 yesterday and I couldn’t pass that up and I need to make the last pizza in the freezer to use up the green pepper and mushrooms that I guess I can use for an omelet, too…okay, need to get back to reading…
Here it comes..
Well…I know some of the idiots on the right are ignoring the trump inflation saying it’s “not so bad” even though gas prices are up 50% the past 2 months and hit 5 bucks a gallon here in Michigan…but the ominous little report that came out yesterday said that producer prices, those seen by wholesalers soared by 6% in the past month…and you know every penny is going to be passed on to you and me soon…and this includes basically everything that we buy…and as I’ve said before, this is just the start of the trump inflation that comes from the war and tariffs…can you say 12% inflation over the next year…and that means that most Americans are going to have to make the hard decisions of what to buy…and since 60% of the country doesn’t have any wiggle room in their budgets, my prediction that people are going to go hungry is going to come true…and with the repub cuts to food stamps that they gleefully passed last year, there is no safety net left and people are going to starve…and as I said in my last post, 38% of the people are going to blame Biden since fox news will tell them to as their kids go hungry…and that is just wrong…nothing will shatter the fox cocoon they have been in for years and their kids shouldn’t have to pay for it…geez…
Why 38%?
Well…as all of us do in the reality based world, every day we wonder how 38% of the people can still support the worst person in the world even as they look at the walmart tags in their hands and the price at the pump and everywhere else that shows that all of the inflation we’re seeing is a direct result of the idiot trump and his ignorance of economics…but they don’t seem to care and now we know why…this same 38% only watches the propaganda on fox news and get their news from no other source…even after a million people died from covid as idiot boy did nothing to stop it, 63% of fox news viewers gave idiot boy an excellent rating of how he handled the pandemic…and the whole “feud” with the pope was largely manufactured buy fox by lying about what the comments he made about warmongers meant and that they are not following jesus…but fox turned that into a direct attack on idiot boy when it wasn’t…and the attempt to send lil marco to the Vatican to patch things up was widely reported as a failure in every other news outlet but fox as they crowed that the trip was a “huge success” and they pushed the idiot as a “great negotiator” when it was just another failure to pile on the mountain of them…so this is really why 38% of this country still thinks the idiot trump is the “savior” that the US needs…it’s all fox propaganda and an organized fraud to hoodwink people that don’t know any better…stop watching fox news is what I always say…and it’s still right…geez…
May 14th
Well…up and moving at 5:15 this morning but feel okay so I guess I can live with it…trying to dose myself with more coffee this morning so I saved the leftovers from the new pot I made yesterday and then set up a new pot that I’m brewing now…have to do something so I don’t crash at noon again…I guess we’ll see…it’s only 42 out there right now so there will be an indoor ride to start the day but I may be able to get out in shorts today if I wait til noon or so…I wonder if it’s worth it to wait? I do need to cook today and, for the first time in months, I’m going to make a pork chop and some roasted potatoes and I wonder how my system is going to fare with that? Now I’m just weighing if I should marinate it or just have it with just salt and pepper…who knows? I think I’m going to mow just the front today sine the rest of the yard is looking pretty bad with not getting any rain out here for weeks so it looks like I lose the lawn for another year…crap…I did get some work done around here yesterday with cleaning the kitchen and washing my bedding…didn’t get outdoors for a ride with the high only getting to 46 here and that sucks for the 13th of May…we do have a little warm up coming and may see temps almost normal for this time of the year this weekend…I’d like to get the windows open for a bit to air this place out…and then have my allergies flare and be miserable…yay…more later….
Still worn out…
Well…another day of feeling just damn worn out and I am getting a little concerned about it…I mean I had more energy when I was hungover and drinking and that just sucks since I started this out feeling great…and I felt great to start the day but then around noon the bottom fell out again and I felt exhausted all afternoon…I know I did do the weight work and an indoor ride and then stripped the bed and did laundry, cleaned the microwave and the stove but that’s not enough to use all my energy…oh, and the grocery run…maybe it had something to do with getting out of bed at 5am…or the old thing I always blame of not eating enough but today what I had was an orange for breakfast, then a bowl of soup for lunch, and then some rice stir fry for dinner…and that is close to 1K calories and I’ve been surviving on that for years now…and I didn’t even do an outdoor ride today since it never got to 50 out here…so, I’m going to stop bitching about the lack of energy and just shift into survival mode and try to figure out what is going on…reading time…
Going backwards…
Well…for all of you workers out there, there really is a reason why you feel like the economy the idiot trump has created is leaving you behind…over the past year, wage gains were 3.6% which would be pretty good in any normal economy…but in the trump rigged, Iran war economy, inflation has been 3.8% meaning you really have gone backwards…and the real inflation from idiot boy’s war and tariffs haven’t even hit yet…do you drink coffee? Well that sucks for you with prices up almost 50% and analysts saying that you can expect another 20% increase on top of that this year…do you drive a car? Well that sucks for you, too with gas prices up over 50% since the moron in chief started his stupid war in Iran…do you like to eat food? Get ready for shortages as farm bankruptcies surge 58% over the past year and costs of fertilizer see a 100% increase…and no food gets grown without it so you can see what’s coming…I really do hope some of the maga folks that saddled this country with this asshole starve to death…nothing else will get them to abandon the repubs even though idiot boy just said that he “doesn’t care” about American’s financial difficulties…after all, most of you are not billionaires and that is all he cares about…geez…
May 13th
Well…back to getting up early after not taking anything to sleep last night but I sure like how I feel better than yesterday or the day before…so I can live with it…it’s grocery run day today and I can test out the old school tire balancing I had done last Friday that has to be better than the no weights on two tires…I can live with a little vibration but not with the car shaking so bad I couldn’t see out of the mirrors…it’s 45 here so I won’t have to warm the car up this morning before I head out…I still may have the trans and diff oil changed out to synthetic this summer to help the shifting when cold…don’t think we got enough rain for my lawn to survive since it’s turning yellow already after the drought we’ve had here and that sucks…oh, well…I do need to clean the kitchen today and have to start thinking about doing the windows for spring…the weather is going to break a bit over the weekend and we may see 70’s for only the 2nd time this year…is spring here? Ha, ha…yeah, that made me laugh…how can it be spring when it was 33 degrees yesterday morning? Not much to do today…just the normal stuff that I need to start here in a minute and then I’ll just let the day flow…more later…
This kinda sucks…
Well…still feeling pretty darn worn out today but better than yesterday and I still don’t know what the heck is going on…have been trying to eat more but there is just so much I can stand…went to the library today and it kinda sucks that two of the Lee Child Reacher novels were the source for two of the seasons of “Reacher” that I watched on the indoor bike the past couple of weeks…so I may go back to the library tomorrow to replace them with ones I haven’t seen because that only leaves me with 5 books to get me through the week and that is not enough…I did get an outdoor ride in today even though it was pretty cold and I had to laugh at the stupid turkeys I saw…one of them was on the curved bridge over Ruddiman creek trying to get through the mesh on the railings that keep people from falling in and a pair of them trying to figure out the fence around the old paper plant…just running back and forth 6 feet and banging their heads into the fence…then I saw one walking on the beach that then took off running across the beach road and took off and flew over the boardwalk to the dunes behind my water stop bench…never saw one on the beach before…weird, weird birds…time for reading…