Well…if you’ve been here before, you have seen me warn that inflation was going to kick into high gear after the idiot started his stupid war with Iran…and not to toot my own horn, inflation for last month was the highest in 3 years and get this shock…and prices rose .7% in May alone…and let’s do the math…that calculates to an 8.4% yearly rate and I know we’re all feeling it right now…grocery prices in my area are up close to 10% in the past month alone and I do feel for people who are now going to have to choose to pay their other bills or eat…and what does the idiot trump say? Affordability is a made up thing that doesn’t exist…just fake news pushed by communist dems who are just trying to hurt him…yeah, you see, every damn thing is about him and not about the American people and he showed that this week by screaming at repub senators for passing a housing affordability bill and ignoring his voter suppression bill that he has lied and said is necessary to “save the country”…yeah, save the country for him…inflation is real folks and I think I won’t be able to afford protein if aldis stops having chicken breasts for 2.19 a pound…geez…
June 25th
Well…just took a look at the weather and it looks like it’s going to be beach weather next week with highs in the upper 80’s and it’s about damn time…still won’t be able to swim with water temps in the 50’s but I can go out there and have coffee and read so I guess that’s something…still not sure how I can be running late at 5:50 am but I am and that kinda sucks…I did make some Lavazza pour over coffee this morning so I’m going to be vibrating before I get on the bike at 6:30 and that’s okay…have 2 more bags coming and that will rid me of my coffee anxiety of running out…slept okay last night and I may have turned the corner with not getting up til 5:30 and I am inching toward the golden goal of staying in bed til 6am…still pretty darn sore from everything I guess and that is getting annoying..may take an ibuprofen before the bike this morning and that will be the first one this week and I think my liver will survive it…today really is going to be an easy one with just windows/blinds to do later after the rides..and I’ll probably just do two of them every day…have plenty of ammonia after getting two half gallons yesterday and that should last me the rest of the year…not much to do today…just need to get off my butt and get started with the rides and I wonder if I should have a bagel for fuel before I go out…maybe…more later…
The last one was wrong…
Well…okay, I went on in the last one that I really took it easy but things change I guess…after I read for a bit this afternoon, the Canada game came on and I really have a hard time just watching tv anymore so I decided to get the weight work done while the game was on…and after that, I took a look at the radar and the rain was over for the afternoon at around 4pm so I suited up and got the 2nd ride of the day in…and that made it a busy day with cooking and the grocery run thrown in along with the 1st ride…so now I don’t feel guilty…I did just go out to amazon to look for amazon day deals and found a few…how about dark roast Lavazza coffee beans for 14 bucks for 35 ozs? With where coffee prices are, that is a screaming deal…and they describe them as “expresso” beans but there is no difference to dark roast beans like I got before and I like the taste of them…so now I’ll have 4 full bags and 3 partials and that should get me through the summer easily…might even make some pour over coffee tomorrow to celebrate…and I got a new tire puncture kit for the car for 7 bucks and sunscreen for 40% off so I got more of that, too…so I spent some money today…oh, well…time for soccer…
An even easier day…
Well…okay, today wasn’t easier than yesterday since I did get a ride in before the grocery run and then made a pork shoulder for lunch…and I may even try to go out for a 2nd ride if it stops raining soon…but Canada plays this aft and I’d like to see that…we did get a good bit of rain today but not enough to get the lawn through for the next week without rain…oh, well…the pork shoulder didn’t come out as good as the last one even though I cooked it the same amount of time…not anywhere as tender as the last one but it tasted good so I am looking forward to pulled pork sandwiches for dinner with the new batch of pickles I made yesterday…and aldis had the English cukes that I like for the pickles for only 95 cents each when they are 1.65 at Meijers…it’s getting brighter here so I may be able to get out for another ride…they will run the Canada match tomorrow morning so I guess I can see it then….time to read…
The idiot trump did it…
Well…as the idiot trump blames “hordes” of vandals for the problems in the reflecting pool in DC…it has recently come to light (with photos, too) that the idiot ordered a huge motorcade including the presidential limo and at least a half dozen SS vehicles to drive down the pool when it was dry and repairs were being done…they even drove on the coating they were using for the bottom of the pool which clearly says it shouldn’t be driven on…and the concrete on the bottom of the pool is not thick enough to support heavy vehicles like he ordered there…but the ignorant asshole didn’t care and wasn’t going to let anything get in the way of what he thought was a cool photo op…so now idiot boy is deflecting away from all of his blunders by blaming tourists walking by the pool for the coating coming off in huge flakes and has even ordered a chain link fence put up around it to stop the “vandalism” he is lying about… and let’s be clear, if there were “vandals” any one of the numerous cameras that point at the pool would have picked it up but idiot boy says there are no cameras and has started to arrest tourists for dipping their hands in the water..can we get rid of this asshole soon? He is just a waste of space…geez…
Conservatives are doing it to themselves…
Well…there have been some interesting studies that have come out recently about the health disparities between conservatives and liberals and I find it pretty easy to understand…conservatives are dying earlier and are sicker than the rest of the population and they are doing it to themselves…listening to the right’s assholes go on and on about not trusting anyone and that uneducated people are just as smart as their doctor has guaranteed that conservatives are going to die at a higher rate since they ignore treatable illnesses because of that lack of trust in institutions and expertise…in fact, the demonization of expertise has been the hallmark of the repubs for decades now led by the idiot trump who thinks he knows more than anyone including doctors, economists, and scientists…and this lie has filtered down to his entire set of followers who think all they have to do is eat horse paste and everything will be okay…now, I’m a little conflicted by this state of affairs since I think the quicker these ignorant, racist assholes die out the better the country will be…but while they die, they raise costs for everyone and the blue states will have to bail them out just like blue states do for rural red states…without blue states, red states would be a wasteland of no hospitals or healthcare…or schools or anything else…I for one am tired of being demonized as we prop the red parts of this country up…where is their self sufficiency that the harp about all the time…I’m glad they’re dying…they’ve ruined this country…geez…
Ha, blanche is going to be disbarred…
Well…as I always keep saying, everything the idiot trump touches dies…and there are so many lawyers who have been disbarred for supporting his illegal schemes, I wonder why anyone would be anywhere around him…but, they still keep coming and the latest who is going to be disbarred is acting AG todd blanche who, just yesterday had an ethics complaint lodged with the NY bar that details the illegal crap he has been doing as AG to support idiot boy’s revenge tour…like the last one that was thrown out Monday by the courts that his subpoenas against Tim Walz for defying his orders to cooperate with his murdering thugs of ICE in Minnesota are just a retaliation for Walz’s principled stand to protect the people of Minnesota…now, if I was a lawyer and had a 74 page complaint against me signed by over 100 off my peers, that would make me think that maybe doing trump’s illegal bidding is not such a good idea…but blanche is too damn dumb to understand that the immunity that the SC gave idiot boy doesn’t apply to him…and that investigations are coming after this fall’s election that are going to expose every corrupt action he has taken…tick tock, todd, your days are numbered…geez…
June 24th
Well…it looks like I’m going to be riding indoors today for the first time in months with the rain that is starting before sunrise and supposed to continue all day…I may be able to wedge an outdoor ride later in the lulls in the rain but I need to keep my 950 day plus of riding every day intact so I’ll have a cup of coffee and go down and get started…it’s only 52 out there so no top down run for the grocery run today…we’re forecast to get and inch of rain today and that will make it a nice day to make the pork shoulder I have planned…the widget says the rain is coming in 1.5 hours but the radar says the rain is almost here and I’m not going to get wet in the dark…will need to get on the bike by 6:30am and that will be easy…I forgot to take my partials out last night and I didn’t choke to death on them but had to clean them this morning to make sure I don’t get an infection…will be able to catch up on the 3rd season of “Reacher” on the bike and I hope they do make a 4th…there are plenty of books to use and I’ve read most of them…I did see the Tom Cruise version of “Reacher” the other day and there is no way that Reacher is a 5 foot 8 inch person like Cruise…the Mandolorian and Grogu movie showed up the other day along with the latest season of “House of the Dragon” so I’ll have new stuff to watch this week…not much to do today…just the grocery run and cooking…have a new bag of books so I won’t be bored…need to do windows today and will clean at least 2…more later…
Took it too easy today…
Well…okay, I knew I was going to take it easy today after all the work on the yard yesterday as I always do…but, I think I went too far after just the rides, weight work, and the errand…after I got back here around 9:30am, I did absolutely nothing all day but read and watch soccer…but the world cup is only on every 4 years so I have an excuse…talked to my daughter today and she said there are some things we need to do in some parts of Italy where there are lots of criminals and pickpockets…she found a security bag for me that fits across my chest and is big enough to hold all my valuables like wallet, phone, money and passport…after I talked to her I ordered tsa approved locks for my suitcases and she ordered some security cables to secure our luggage when we are on the trains moving around the country.. I laughed at all that but better safe than sorry…finished up all the leftovers today so I will be making the pork shoulder with gravy, mashed potatoes, and steamed carrots tomorrow…and that will give me pulled pork sandwiches for the second meal of the day…I do need to make another batch of pickles and probably should do that right now…soccer time…
Something a little different…
Well…talking about the corruption/incompetence of the idiot trump and his cronies is pretty easy but it gets frickin boring after doing it for another year so I think I’ll try something a little different…not sure what that is yet but I’ll try to noodle through and see what happens…just read an article that said that the UN investigation has found strong evidence that the idiot netenyahu deliberately ordered attacks on children in both gaza and Lebanon and that is a war crime in anyone’s book…and look, who the hell does that…oh, yeah the idiot trump does that, too…let’s not let Minab slip into the ether and be buried in the chaos of war excuse…I wonder how we try to get consequences for these war crimes started? I mean it would just be delicious of idiot boy couldn’t travel to his Scotland golf courses without being arrested and sent to the Hague…and that goes for bibi, too…and he even has going to prison for the rest of his life in his future the next time he loses an election…I think that should be the theme of the ’28 election…holding criminals accountable…and that goes for hegseth, too for killing people with no justification other than he says they are bad people…okay, that’s it for now…back later…