Well…I’m really not proud of the fact that I had to take something to sleep last night to try to relieve the exhaustion I’ve been feeling lately…not sure if the trade off of feeling like crap is worth it, though, but I guess I’ll see as the day wears on…it’s damn cold here at 36 and the high is not getting over 50 so I won’t get an outdoor ride in today or tomorrow…but I am going to mow the lawn after the grocery run so at least I won’t feel guilty about not doing enough…need to get some weed killer at menards today since I’m out and there are still damn weeds all though the lawn…will probably treat it tomorrow…I did get a few things done yesterday and will again today but I’m not sure what that would be after doing the lawn…don’t have much to get for groceries today with no protein on sale but I may buy some boneless/skinless chicken to use in recipes that I’m not sure about yet…the ham bones in the freezer are calling out to me to make another batch of ham soup while I still have celery to use and I may do that over the weekend…and I have 4 pounds of pasta to use and I am going to make some pasta salad this weekend, too…not much to do today…just the grocery run and the lawn and I’ll use up the leftovers so I don’t have to cook…but I am going to have a bagel to get some fuel in me before I start the weight work…more later…
10 am and everything is done…
Well…getting up so early really does help get my day done early…got the normal stuff in and was done with that by 7:03am and then read the news and put the laundry in…then I suited up and went out to run the string trimmer all over the fencelines and the front of the yard…it’s not easy getting a 2 stroke running when it’s 45 degrees but after what seemed like a hundred pulls, it fired up and I got the work done…the I used the grass killer to do the sidewalks and the growth in the back corner of the yard and then put poison on the ant nests in the sidewalks…then I put the laundry away and now I’m going to read a bit before lunch…I did get the wheel balancing scheduled for Friday morning…on two of the wheels the adhesive for the stick on weights is all that is left so it has to get better after I have it done…and I think they have special weights for cast aluminum wheels like are on my car and I hope I don’t have to ever have that done again….
Bragging about cognitive tests…
Well…the idiot trump keeps bragging about “acing” the cognitive tests that his doctors are giving him saying he’s taken three of them and no other president has done even one…now, I really don’t think he’s bright enough to understands what the means…it means his doctors have seen a decline in his grasp of reality and are trying to figure out how bad it is…and no other president has taken one because they never showed the mental decline that is on display with idiot boy every day…hundreds of doctors have looked at his behavior and have said it all fits with early stage dementia and let’s remember that dementia runs through his family and it is hereditary…look, at my advance age, I have had one cognitive test for a baseline to see if there are symptoms of decline…but that was 5 years ago and my doctors take a look at me at my checkup and they don’t think I need another one…so remember, the only reason idiot boy has had three is that there are clear signs of mental decline that his doctors are concerned about…I mean bragging that he can recognize an alligator or a squirrel? That’s nothing to brag about but he’s just too stupid to understand that…geez…
May 5th
Well…at least I got out of bed after 5am this morning and that is a lot better than the 4:30 from yesterday…I did get a 21 mile ride in yesterday with getting outdoors for the first time in over a week with how damn cold it’s been here…and we return to the cold today with highs just barely getting to 50 so I have a decision to make…do I drag out the winter clothes again and ride outdoors with full thermasuit or do I just give up and accept that I’ll never get out again? That’s what it feels like anyway and there is no damn way 50 in May is any kind of normal…I did get out to run an errand yesterday after I pulled the rattling heat shield off the cat and it is so nice that at least that is fixed…I did notice that two tires on the car have thrown their weights leaving only the tape behind so I need to get at least those two balanced this week and I’m going to take it back to discount to get that done…need to get on their website to schedule it after I’m done with this…didn’t get much done yesterday and today will be the same after I get the normal morning stuff done…need to do some meal planning and will be eating out of the freezer with nothing on sale this week and I guess I’ll have to get used to not being able to afford protein…and that sucks…more later…
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming…
Well…as I always do, I mark the day of the Kent State massacre every May 4th and today makes 56 years since it happened…and nothing has changed…Americans are still being killed by their government for still exercising their constitutional rights under the first amendment…I was a 16 year old kid trying to figure out how I fit in the world and these murders ripped the cloth off my eyes and I saw our government not as the benign entity for good but as a terrible one run by people who didn’t have any idea what the constitution meant and didn’t care…they thought in terms of “law and order” and anyone not toeing the line they wanted was fair game to be murdered in the streets…that started me on t he path I still follow today of a deep and abiding cynicism after seeing ordinary people murder their fellow citizens and, with what is still going on today, nothing changes…geez…
Figured it out…
Well…I think I’ve figured out the vibration with the car…two wheels don’t have any balancing weights on them…there is the remains of the adhesive from the stick on weights but no weights…and I’ve never seen a tire that didn’t needs weights to balance it… so, I’ll make an appointment some time to have them done…another hundred bucks going out but if it will stop the vibration, it will be worth it…and there is still more than half tread on these tires so I’ll be using them for a while…and I found the rattling from under the car and it was the cat heat shield that had corroded…so I tore it off just like I did with the 94 and there will be no problem with that…after all it’s just the one that protects grass from starting on fire if I park on it and I can’t think of any time I’d be doing that…so, so far, a productive day and I’m going to get out on the outdoor bike before the wind comes up at 11am…more later…
May 4th
Well…happy Star Wars day to those who celebrate…up and out of bed before 4:30am today and that is just way too damn early…and I’m going to continue to bitch about that as long as it continues…I mean, give me a frickin break…I knew it was going to be ugly when I went to bed at 10 and tossed and turned as soon as I hit the pillow and don’t think I fell asleep until 11:30 or so…ick…so now I’m going to depend on the coffee to make me human and get the day started…I do have stuff to do today and may even get an outdoor ride in today…but that will be after I do the weight work and get the indoor ride in…then I need to rotate the tires on the car to see if I can get rid of the vibration at 80 or so…I only have to go front to back as the tread is directional and only goes one side of the car…and I think I’ve got a heat shield rattling so I need to look for that, too…I think working on the car and getting an outdoor ride in will be enough for the day…I still have 6 books to read by the end of the week but I don’t think I’ll get there with other stuff to do around here…going to have to argue with menards since the expensive grass seed I bought did not come up…not one blade after putting pounds of it in…so I’m expecting a fight there…oh, well…think I need to eat more since the lounge pants I have been wearing are falling off me and I may have to tie them for the first time…a good problem to have…I think…more later…
Nothing done at all…
Well…today was an easy day with not doing anything but the weight work and the indoor ride…not sure if I needed it but just wasn’t feeling it today so I did what retired people do and took the day off to watch races and read…I finally have emby kinda fixed so I could watch the races…my eyes have been better today and I could see the tv clearly all day and read the data panels during the races and it’s been months since I’ve been able to do that…I wonder if it’s the ointment I’ve had to put on to relieve the itchyness in them? Whatever it is, it’s welcome and I’ll take it…didn’t have to cook today and won’t have to for 3-4 more days but I do need to figure out what to take out of the freezer…or just make pasta and pasta salad but that is more like a side dish than a meal…I still have a lot of the breaded chicken patties in there along with 4 burgers or so and that is enough for me to get by for a couple of weeks…and that might get me down enough to clean out the freezer…I guess I’ll have to check…back to reading…
The dems are getting ready…
Well…with so many crimes and so much corruption to choose from, house dems have started to get ready for the investigations that are to come, telegraphing what it’s going to look like after the election this fall…and it’s started with the corrupt deal that the idiot trump made with Totalenergies to give them a billion dollars after idiot boy cancelled two offshore wind projects…and the money was to build pipelines and other facilities for oil and gas projects that the US does not need…and that money was stolen from a fund used to defend the US from lawsuits which Totalenergies had none..so this was a clearly a bribe to Total to get them to go along with idiot boy’s pet project to destroy renewable projects and build more dirty energy to pay back the oil companies that have bribed him for years…so all I have to say is good on them for no longer waiting and using what power they have to put the corrupt companies like Fidelity Investments, who just folded to trump and stopped taking donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center due to a trumped up indictment of misuse of funds that will get thrown out of court…maybe this will stop some of these stupid ceo’s from folding to the idiot trump…geez…
Affordability is bullshit?
Well…the senile old asshole in the WH gave up the game yesterday in a speech to his right wing enclave of the villages in Florida when he called the affordability crisis “bullshit” and said that it was just a dem scam…man, I can see the ads being written with this clip right now and if every dem running for anything doesn’t use it, it will be political malpractice…I mean 4.50 gas is bullshit? Not being able to afford beef is bullshit? And skyrocketing costs of everything is bullshit? This out of touch asshole has caused all of it with his stupid war and tariffs and the hits will keep on coming as the price of fertilizer soars by 50% since it is made from oil…and that is going to mean that all food prices are going to soar soon and there is going to be widespread choices to be made…do we eat or do we pay our other bills? That is going to hit more than 50% of America since that many people here are living paycheck to paycheck and have less than 400 dollars in the bank…so yeah, for the rich it may be bullshit but for the rest of us is certainly isn’t…and we’re going to pay for this asshole’s stupidity…geez…