Well…this is what happens when you tie yourself to the orange idiot in the WH…with the world Cup starting on June 11th here, FIFA is scrambling to sell tickets with people seeing that there is a real danger coming to the US to watch the matches as ICE will be prowling the venues and I’m sure will be arresting tourists for no reason…I can’t imagine why anyone would come here when this crap is happening…and that goes along with the thousand dollar bond that tourists have to post to be able to come here…and this doesn’t even address the 1,000 dollar tickets that FIFA is trying to extort from soccer fans…so, as much as I’d like people to enjoy the WC here, I really think that everyone should stay home…there is no event that is worth the possibility of ending up in one of trump’s gulags…and this is just another thing that the idiot has touched that has turned to shit…geez…
Degrading everything…
Well…as we all know, everything the idiot trump touches turns to shit and that is filtering down to our military…in his stupid Iran war that he is surrendering, all of our bases in the middle east are so degraded by the attacks by Iran that they are uninhabitable and now we’re putting up our military in hotels which in itself is a war crime by putting civilians in harm’s way…and the idiot and his minions are hiding the 30+ aircraft we’ve lost that is purely a result of poor planning and incompetence by the drunk who is the sec of defense (not war)…and now reports are saying that it will be decades before the damage is repaired by the next dems that are in control since we know that the repubs don’t give a damn about the military other than a means to make themselves look tough…just like the justice department that he has turned into a clown show, he has done the same to everything else to the point that the world is laughing at us as Xi in China manipulates the moron by flattery and replaces us on the world stage…this is what you’ve done maga…proud of yourselves yet? Geez…
May 23rd
Well…up early this morning to the beautiful sound of rain hitting my siding after not getting any rain here for 16 days…not sure if it will save my lawn but it looks like it’s going to continue for a few hours so the first ride may end up being indoors for the first time in quite a while…and that will be okay after coming back into a 25 mph wind…twice…yesterday and that has left me sore everywhere…so sore that I’m going to take an ibuprofen here in a minute…my hands even hurt from pulling so hard into the wind…it still feels good that I can still do it so I’ll stop bitching now…I did sleep okay and even had a few dreams that I can’t remember and feel pretty good as the coffee goes down pretty easily…the truck race was rained out and was rescheduled for this morning at 8am so I really need to do an indoor ride to keep the string alive until I go to Italy in September…so that means I need to get off my butt and get on the bike by 7am but the weight work needs to be done before that so I’ll have one more cup of coffee before I get started…I do need to cook today and I think I’ll make my chicken, potato, and carrot concoction I make in my big frying pan with pasta sauce and water…haven’t made that in a while and it’s an easy one that I just need to load up and simmer for a couple of hours…need to remember the garlic and bay leaves…and I do need to brown the chicken in olive oil before the veggies and sauce goes in…may even add some rice at the end with some added water to make it even tastier…more later…
RIP Kyle Busch
Well…as I was watching Indy practice this afternoon, I heard that Kyle Busch has died at the young age of 41…and it wasn’t from a crash during a race but from some sort of an infection that he had been suffering from for a couple of weeks..since I’m so old, I’ve seen Kyle’s career from it’s start in NASCAR and while he wasn’t a favorite at the start of his career, in the past couple of years he had grown into a good man who loved his family and was making the effort to rebuild the bridges he had burned earlier…and anyone who recognizes the need for change and then does it is good human being in my book…RIP Kyle..
More fallout…
Well…as the idiot trump gloats that he “defeated” some lawmakers in their primaries, I don’t think he really thought that through…yeah, that made me laugh, too…hell, he never thinks anything through because he doesn’t have the m ental capacity to do it…the guys he defeated, Massie in the house and Coryn in the senate are now getting their payback by blocking everything that idiot boy i trying to steal…the slush fund to pay off the Jan 6 attackers? Blocked…funding for his stupid ballroom? Blocked…and there are enough senators who are breaking from the idiot that they may just get a war powers act passed stopping his ridiculous war with Iran…and this is just in the few days since the primaries on this past Tuesday…and that gives them 7 months to screw with idiot boy before the elections in November…my only question was if this corruption that the idiot is pushing is wrong now, why wasn’t it wrong before they lost their primaries? Wrong is wrong and these guys were all too happy to go along before they lost…this does not show anything good on them but it does show the craven caving to trump was just to keep their jobs…geez…
May 22nd
Well…up and running at a little after 5:30 this morning and I don’t think of that as a win because I tossed and turned all night..and I just can’t get started but I guess I don’t need to with how cold it is out there and needing to wait until the temp comes up so I can get the rides in…only 46 here right now and the heat is on…again…but maybe that ends today? so, it looks like another morning of just easing into it but I do need to do the weight work since I skipped yesterday to try to get my arms to heal up without a lot of luck…I did order some wiper blades for the car yesterday since I could get a pair of silicone edge ones for 10 bucks which is even cheaper than Ollies…and for 10 bucks I really don’t care how long they last…will probably do the same meals as yesterday and add a bagel this morning to try to keep my body from flaming out on the bike again…I do have chicken in the fridge that needs to be used or frozen and will probably cook a couple of breasts tomorrow…got a letter yesterday saying that my dentist has sold his practice but everything will go on like nothing happened and I’m not sure I believe it…have been with them since I moved out here and I really don’t want to search around for a new one…I guess I’ll give them a chance…not much to do today…just the rides, I guess…I did put the brush killer on the trash trees that are ruining my fence and now I hope it rains to get it started…more later…
Dead on the bike…
Well…I did get the laundry done today but not much else…coming back from the 2nd ride I was just dead on the bike…and I know I whine about this a lot but I don’t think half a chicken breast and two spoonfuls of pasta salad was enough to support riding 26 miles a day for the past week…so today I had a chicken sandwich with some pasta salad for lunch and then 2 pieces of pizza for dinner and that should be enough to get started on tomorrow..it’s been a while since I felt so lousy on the bike but that’s what happens when you balance calorie intake on a fine edge…I did see a tiny, tiny snapping turtle hatchling on the trail today and had to stop to pick it up and move into the grass at Heritage Landing where I think he was heading toward water…have seen quite a few snappers out here and I hope this one survives…the trip to Ollie’s was a bust since they didn’t have anything I wanted but that’s pretty normal…I did put the top down for the errands today and even at 48 degrees it was fun…and I got more books so I’ll have them for the weekend…okay, back to reading…
Stop the hand wringing…
Well…after candidates that idiot boy supported won their primaries Tuesday, the pundits and even some dems started the hand wringing that the idiot still had the power to effect elections and that spelled doom for the dems in the fall…yeah, not sure how many people could be so wrong about an election but they are…look, idiot boy may be able to motivate his cult to vote for clones of him in a repub primary, but in the general election the dems can tie these losers tightly to idiot boy who is the most unpopular president in history and whose policies are despised by over 70% of the country…so yeah, let’s get more of these trump clones to be the repub nominee, that makes them the weakest candidate in the general election and the blue wave can become a tsunami…so if I were a damn right now I would be cheering the idiot on to campaign more with these other losers…it’s the best way to ensure we win in the fall…geez…
May 21st
Well…it’s May 21st and the heat is still coming on here and it’s just wrong for it to be so cold this near to June…41 frickin degrees…so I won’t be getting out to ride until after I run an errand at 9…Ollies has guildan t-shirts for 1.99 and that is a pretty good deal for 100% cotton irregulars…and they have Michelin wiper blades for 4.99 and I can use a pair since I haven’t replaced them since I bought the car…and I need to hit the library since they are closed tomorrow through Monday for the holiday and I don’t have enough books to keep me reading til then…I just discovered that they are not running the Monaco GP this weekend and that screws up my best race day of the year…since I was a kid the race was on Memorial day weekend and I wonder what genius decided to throw that away…stupid, stupid people…so, I have an easy morning with just having the weight work to do before 9am and that means I can sit here and have coffee until then since I’m not doing the rides til later…not sure exactly what I’m going to do for all that time but I may toss some reading in there…the c,b, and v are wearing off the laptop keyboard so I’m going to have to put stick on letters on it so I can see what key is what…how much do you have to use a keyboard to wear the letters off? I guess as much as I do…more later…
Another busy day…
Well…have had another busy day today with getting the first ride in when it was still almost dark, then doing the grocery run and stopping at 4 stores, putting gas in the car…yikes! and then getting the second ride in after I got home…it was still pretty chilly when I did the run but I put the top down anyway and my car is starting to be so much fun having such a nice car to fool around in now that I have the clutch sorted…and I almost have the tires balanced but I’ll have to go back to Chuck and get the other two balanced to get it completely fixed…have felt just worn out again today and I think it’s from getting up at 4:31 this morning…my last remaining brother gets up at that time every day but damn, I don’t know he deals with running out of steam later in the day…I do have Tom to thank for clueing me in on how to trim my ratchet belt so it’s not 6 inches too long…took about a minute and I took off 3 1/2 inches and it fits much better now…I even used my kitchen scissors to cut it like he did and they cut through the leather like nothing…so now I don’t have to thread the extra 6 inches through the belt loops…I did get some brush killer at menards this morning and I’m going to dose the trash trees in my fence to get rid of them…not cheap at 17 bucks but getting ride of that trash is worth the money…I did get deals at DD today and may have gone a little overboard with buying 4, 4 cheese self rising pizzas when I still have one in the freezer…but for 1.29 each? I’m making that one tomorrow and then I’ll have to find room to fit the other 4 that are now sitting on top of my ice cube trays…okay time to read a bit…