Well…that didn’t work…have been trying to get my sleep patterns back to normal after stopping drinking and even stayed up to my normal 10:30 to 11 last night but was up at 4:30 again this morning…that makes a good 6 hours and that is about what I slept before but there still seems to be something wrong about that…oh, well…I did just have a weird thing happen…dropped one of my BP meds getting it out of the bottle and the thing landed on edge standing up and the chance of that is pretty damn small…it’s already warm enough to get out on the bike as soon as it gets light so I may get two rides in outdoors again today before the rain comes in…my legs are still stiff from yesterday but I think most of that is from mowing the lawn but I may have to take it easier after going wide open on the bike yesterday…I do need to take the day off the weights to give my upper body the chance to recover but that may wait til tomorrow…who knows? Not much to do today…I am going to make the 8 pound pork shoulder in the instant pot today and I am curious to see if I finally have the recipe nailed and can repeat how good the last one turned out…and that will feed me for a full week…I am finally getting some room freed up in the freezer so I can make the ham soup next week and that will free up even more space…but I’m not sure what I’ll fill it with next…nothing is affordable…more later…
Overdid it a little…
Well…once I decided that today was going to be a two ride outdoor day, I knew I was going to overdo it with adding mowing the lawn right after I got off the bike…I mean going like crazy on the bike for 2 1/2 hours and then onto the lawn for an hour and a half of walking behind the new mower has left my thighs burning and my lower back so damn stiff I may have to take something for it…but I had to get the lawn done today sine it was getting long and we have a couple of days of rain coming and it would have been too long to mulch if I waited til Monday…I do like ht new mower and it does a great job of mulching…and it started on the first pull and that is pretty cool…and it has a lot of extra speed in it…I had the drive halfway engaged and it was just the perfect speed, leaving me a hyperspeed if I ever want to run behind it…I am just so damn worn out, though and I wonder if the getting up at 4:30 am is the cause of that…I did get a 15 minute nap this afternoon so I am curious to see if that has any affect…okay, need to make dinner…
The “liquor cabinet”
Well…this made me laugh the other day when some wag called the idiot trump’s cabinet the “liquor cabinet” to describe the well known drinking to excess that two of the cabinet members do every day…both kash patel, head of the FBI, and pete hegseth the secretary of defense are huge drinkers and, to hear from aides, there have been many times that they were passed out and couldn’t be woken up to tend to their duties even in emergencies…and patel tried to explain his drunken locker room excess after the US men’s hockey team won the gold medal at the Olympics saying he was “invited” by the team…not that he bullied his way into the room…I’ll bet that not one of the players even knew who the hell he was…and then we see him standing on a bench screaming at the top of his lungs and swilling champagne…a perfect picture of the decorum that the head of the FBI has shown over the years…yeah, that’s sarcasm…these fools are exactly what the bottom of the barrel looks like and is par for the course for the unqualified morons idiot boy has appointed…geez…
April 23rd
Well…I really tried to stay in bed until at least 5am this morning and I got close but no cigar…I really do need to figure out how to rotate my sleeping so I go to bed later and get up later…I mean getting up before 5am for three weeks now is wearing me out…and yeah, I know why and I am going to continue not drinking even though it has this result…so, it’s 5:15 and I’m pouring down the coffee to get myself jumpstarted and get the day going…just asked my phone how many days in a row I’ve been on the bike at least once and it’s been 917 days so I will get to 1K before the Italy trip and that’s not bad for and old guy…going to finish off the rest of the leftovers today so I can make another pork shoulder tomorrow…still haven’t figured out if pork is bad for me but it probably is…really, everything is bad for me but fruit and veggies I guess but I can’t live on that…although I did buy some apples and 4 pounds of oranges for a buck yesterday and I may even go back to Meijers Monday to get more…one of my Mastodon friends told me that in her area apples are a buck each and 4 pounds of oranges are 6.99 so I feel fortunate that I live in a city with lots of grocery competition…going to wait for the temp to come up and get 2 rides in outdoors today…so that means sitting here til about 9 am for the temp to get up to 53 or so and then I can go out in shorts…not sure if I’ll clean today but my bedroom could use a dusting…more later…
Imagine if they had to do this Obama…
Well…as reporting comes out about the idiot trump’s behavior when the rescue of the downed pilot in Iran was going on…we can really see that he is uhhinged and just frickin nuts and that is just fine with the repubs…itis just stunning that idiot boy was screaming at everyone in the situation room and making no damn sense so they escorted him out so they could try to do their jobs…now, imagine if they ever had to do this to Obama…there would have been an outcry from the repub hypocrites and they could have called for both impeachment and removal under the 25th amendment and they would have been howling to the sky and fox news that Obama was no longer competent to be president…now, what do you hear? Nothing, crickets as the least competent president in history is allowed to bumble his way around the world when the repubs know he is not all there…and I can’t figure why they are still scared of this asshole…he is losing them the house and the jobs of a lot of his protectors in the congress and it seems like he doesn’t care…but the cult can’t leave him even though his brain is a melting pool of goo…geez…
Here’s the makeup…
Well…since it just a little after 5am, I thought I’d do a makeup one for the one I missed yesterday…can you tell I’m already bored? And I may need to make some pour over coffee since I only had 6 cups left in the coffee maker and I’m not sure if that will be enough for the day…it’s grocery run day today and I have a long list for Meijers since they have lots of stuff on sale for a dollar…I mean 5 pounds of potatoes for a buck? Apples and oranges, too so I’ll get my quota of fruit for the first time in a while…and frozen corn and bacon wrapped pork fillets for a buck and that’s a good deal with how high prices are…got a nice outdoor ride in yesterday and Muskegon Lake has filled up to the point that the sandbars are back under water and the shoreline is back to normal and that is good to see…why, I don’t know but it just seems right that the lake looks normal again…I did see 6 deer in the tunnel of trees yesterday and they just stood right next to the edge of the trail as I rode by…not spooked at all and that was fun to see…it’s going to be cold when I take off to do the grocery run but I’m putting the top down anyway…it will be sunny so that will help…I didn’t rotate the tires on the car yesterday since I found a few lugnuts that were not tight and I’m going to see it that was why I had some vibration…Miatas are just so sensitive to anything having to do with the tires…okay…does that make up for missing one yesterday? Seems like it to me…more later…
April 22nd
Well…damn, I just noticed that I forgot to come here for a 3rd one yesterday and I’m not sure how that happened…I mean I’ve got all the time in the world so I must have been distracted by reading…oh, well…up at the ridiculous time of 4:30 this morning and I heed to figure out how to put a stop to that…I did go to bed a little early so maybe that had something to do with it…I did check my BP for the first time in a week this morning and not drinking has had an effect…118/68 with a 58 HR is just where it needs to be and that’s before any BP meds…this has been the coldest spring on record here in Muskegon and the highs are going to be in the low 50’s next week with lows in the 40’s and that is just wrong for the end of April…the little house behind me is up for sale again and I know part it is from the idiots in the rental being out there partying all the time…and they’ll probably turn it into another rental that will attract more lowlifes and I’ll be calling the cops all summer…again…I did go out and get another pork shoulder yesterday and I’ll be cooking that in the instant pot Friday…and it will be a perfect day for that with rain forecast for the entire day…and that will be feeding me for a week or so before I have to think about meals again…more later…
A handout to business…
Well…as the supreme court ruled that the idiot trump’s tariffs are illegal, a mechanism had to be found to rebate those tariffs…and, of course, only businesses are eligible to even apply for the refunds…so business gets to keep all of the higher prices they’ve been charging with no thought or requirement that business refund the money to us who actually paid for the tariffs through higher prices…so now business gets a 168 billion dollar windfall that came out of our pockets…and I think that’s a reward for them not bitching too much about the tariffs…I think they knew that tariff refunds were coming since they knew that idiot boy and his cronies were telegraphing that from the start so all they had to do was wait it out and get rewarded as they picked our pockets…this is always the same kind of bullshit you get with the repubs…to hell with the consumers but let’s reward business for keeping quite and filling the idiot’s coffers with grift money…and this is bullshit…geez…
April 21st
Well…this is a new normal that I really don’t like very much…getting out of bed before 5am has happened every day since I stopped drinking and it’s pretty frustrating to think you’re sleeping okay and the clock says otherwise…going to be a busy one today with the normal stuff, running out to Meijers to see if I can get another pork shoulder, and the rotating the tires on the car to see if I can get rid of the vibration from the tires…and I am going to get an outdoor ride in this afternoon so reading is going to have to wait til this afternoon…it sucks that the heat has been on all day every day since last Friday and it’s the end of April…this really is the coldest spring we’ve had since I moved out here and I am really ready for it to break…even had the heating pad on me last night since I couldn’t get warm and I sure hope it isn’t from getting old…the grocery run tomorrow will be late since I need to pick up a prescription and the pharmacy doesn’t open til 9am…oh, well…okay, I have a lot to do today so I won’t say I don’t…more later…
Thomas should be impeached…
Well…let’s put it bluntly…clarence thomas should be impeached right now…just last week, he gave a speech at a Texas university where he called progressives every name in the book and said that they are the cause of all evil in the world…going back to Woodrow Wilson’s 1887 praise of the German bureaucratic state and it’s efficient delivery of help for the people…but thomas turned that into a screed saying that all progressive ideas are directly against the declaration of independence and are designed to destroy America…yeah, ideas like the social safety net, the 40 hour work week, protection against false arrest and trying to make the country more fair and equal for the workers…he was having none of that and continued his lie filled bullshit, showing how un American the hard right is in this country…and this speech and his ides of hatred against more than half or the country should disqualify him from ever ruling on anything…after all, he gave us Citizens United that brought billionaire money into elections and they have bee buying them ever since…impeach this prick right now…geez…