Well…crap…the ratchet on the used wheel from the black bike failed at the bottom of the hill on the way back this morning so I’m down to my last wheel and I sure hope this one works…just painted it and now I need to let the paint dry before I mount the tire and transfer the cassette and axle…I do need to tape off the ends of the spokes on the inside of the wheel to make sure I don’t get a flat…I think I’ll head out to the last bike shop here in Muskegon just to see if I can order a wheel that will work but that is going to be a ridiculous amount of money and I wonder if I’d be better off getting a new bike and the parts to convert the gearing to road bike that will cost me another 70 bucks on top of the 450 for a new bike…oh, well…at least I was able to take the brake pads from the black bike and replace the worn out ones with them…there wasn’t much pad material left on them…I did try to work on the wheel but it’s not dry yet so that will wait a while…
May 17th
Well…damn, I’m running late today with not getting out of bed til almost 6 and needing to get out on the bike by 6:30 to get the first ride in before Man U plays at 7:30…so no time to do the weight work…again…but I’ll do that during the match…not sure when I’ll get the 2nd ride in with Indy qualifying rescheduled to 9:30 this morning and running all day…I hurt so much after the 26 miles in yesterday that I had to take an ibuprofen and I hope that works on my hands and elbows since that is where the worst pain is…I did make extra coffee this morning since I’m going to want more than the three mugs that I could have without it…as I said in the last post yesterday, I did lay in a bunch of coffee before the price explodes worse than it has…and I really did want to try the Lavazza beans that I’ve heard a lot about…and I paid a premium over what I used to pay for the 5 o’clock but now it’s almost 50% more than it was…so I’ll have coffee for the whole summer or close to it…not sure what else I’ll get done today but I have no plans to clean other than the kitchen floor and I may not get to that…going to be able to see the pink sunrise this morning and it looks pretty cool from here…I did have to make a call on the rental sine they were out there blasting their music all damn day and I’m not going to take it this year…more later…
26 miles before 9am…
Well…was out on the bike before 7am this morning and that meant I was done with two rides before 9am and got 26 miles in today…and the rides were fun even though at 56 degrees my right ring finger had turned white from the Raynaud’s that just sucks…the trail is open up the hill to the beach after they finished the rebuild of both the road and the trail…it was so cool to be back to the old routine of dropping into the tunnel of trees from the right direction…and they even had the trail by the beach completely clear of sand…I know they did it for the obstacle course run but it was still nice to go clockwise again and get back to the old routine…with the huge increase in coffee prices that is coming, I bought myself some ground and beans today…Chock full o’nuts ground at 11 bucks for a 35 oz can and Lavazza whole beans for 21 bucks for 2 1/2 pounds…and that was 15% off on sale on amazon…and I bought a bucket of 60 pairs of foam earplugs for 7 bucks since I’m out of the ones I was using…the silicone ones I use for the lawnmower are no good for sleeping in that they hurt my ear canals before the night is over…so I spent some money today but I saved that in one week of not drinking so I don’t feel bad about it…back to reading…
This is too funny…
Well…this little tidbit from Australia made me laugh and I hope it does for you, too…a 91 story, billion dollar project that idiot boy was pushing was just cancelled with the developer saying “the trump brand is just too toxic for the project to continue” okay, tell me that didn’t make you happy like it did me…as his job approval crashes on every measure, the rest of the people in the world are no longer afraid of the orange idiot and are willing to distance themselves from his bullshit…and it’s just going to get worse as new ways to avoid the idiot are found every day…and the rest of the morons who have tied themselves to the worst person in the world are going to pay after we win in the fall…geez..
I know you’re feeling it…
Well…along with the soaring gas prices which topped 5 bucks a gallon this week, I predicted that grocery prices were going to jump after the idiot’s stupid war with Iran…and just yesterday, it was reported that grocery prices jumped more in April than they have in any month for the past 5 years…and as I also said, you ain’t seen nothing yet…like a hurricane, these prices are just the outer edges of the storm that is coming that really is going to starve people to death but these assholes just don’t care…look at they did when ole elon killed USAID, the program that gave help to starving people around the world…it is estimated that over a million people have died after they gutted the program…but do psychopaths care about that? Nope, they don’t even think about it since they don’t even think about poor people as being people at all…they see them as a burden to be purged so rich white people don’t have to be bothered…and that is coming to the US as they gut programs like SNAP or put work rules in place that most of the people getting the help can’t meet…but they just don’t care…so get out and vote these assholes out so we can hold them accountable…geez…
May 16th
Well…damn, it’s 6am and I feel like this day is already getting away from me and I need to get off my butt and get going or the day will be a total loss…have decisions to make right now about what rides I’m going to do…looking at the radar, it looks like I have a window to get an outdoor ride in as soon as it gets light but then another batch of rain is coming in that will push me back downstairs unless I want to miss some of qualifying day at Indy…it is warm enough to go out in shorts if I go this morning but I really don’t like having my day disrupted like this…or am I moving on into spring/summer mode on the bike? Whatever it is, I need to have everything done before 11 am when qualifying starts…I wonder why I feel like such a slug with only getting 21 miles on the bike yesterday…that should be enough to feel good about it but my brain won’t let me do that when there was a possibility of 34 miles…yeah, I know, that’s sick but that’s me, too…so today looks like Indy qualifying and reading for the day after getting cleaning done yesterday…really need to do the kitchen floor and do the baseboards but I’m not sure if I’ll do that or not…I am going to treat my left elbow and right thumb with lidocaine since they hurt like crazy this morning and I need my thumb to shift….more later….
Got some work done…
Well…I cut the riding back to only 21 miles today so I could get some work done around here…and I did get the living room cleaned from top to bottom including getting the couch cleaned and the cushions rotated along with getting the cover washed…it is nice to have a little firmness back into the cushions so I’m not sinking into them…I even dusted the tv and stand along with my stereo…and the rug really needed a vacuum so that’s done, too…didn’t get out on the bike in shorts today since it was only 49 when I went out and that is just too darn cold…but it was still a good ride…still pretty sore from yesterday’s ride and it’s weird that nothing hurt on the bike but my thumb and that always hurts so no big deal…made an omelet for dinner today to use up some of the mushrooms and green pepper that I bought to go on the last pizza in the freezer so that will have to be used in a few days…okay, the truck race is starting and I have reading to do…
FIFA is getting what they deserve…
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…