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…
May 3rd
Well…you know how I love my routines and how they feel so comfortable when I know what’s going to happen in my day…that went out the window this morning when emby did a reset and none of my channels were there anymore…and that means hours and hours of resetting them to get back to the channels I watch…ick…slept okay last night but I still feel exhausted and I hope that goes away at some point…all of this channel resetting has made me late for getting my day started as you can see…cripes, it’s 7:23 and I haven’t gotten anything done…still have the weight work and bike ride to do and won’t be done with that til almost 9am and that sucks…oh, well…I did get the bathroom cleaned yesterday and should work on the kitchen today but I may not with being so late getting started…it’s going to be too cold to get outdoors on the bike today and I am trying to not be depressed that we’re not going to see 60’s at all this month…have never seen a May so cold in my lifetime and I’m not sure how to deal with it…don’t have to cook today and I really need to use the potato soup so I may just do two bowls of that today and let the chicken go a day…so, I need to get moving or the guilts are going to overwhelm me…more later…
Man, I’m exhausted…
Well…not sure what the heck is going on but I have been exhausted all afternoon…it can’t be that I made chicken stir fry and cleaned the bathroom…if I’m at the point that those small exertions take everything out of me, then just kill me and get it over with…there is no way that I can live with not being able to do anything without feeling like this…okay, on to something else…I do love my new pan…not having to pick the shedded black coating out of my food is a good thing…and the teriyaki stir fry sauce is really good…what I could taste of it anyway…and it’s so easy to just pour it out of the bottle into the pan…and it thickened up nicely as it heated… so I’ll use that again since I have another half bottle to use…but no more chicken so I’ll have to get some of that this week along with another bag of stir fry veggies…will have to look to see if I have veggies in the back of the freezer…but I won’t need to cook anything for 4-5 days so I don’t have to think of that now…I did buy 4 boxes of pasta for a buck each last week so I can do that with sauce and garlic bread…and I can do a pasta salad that I have been thinking about for a while…okay, back to reading…
This is what they’re running on now…
Well…if you didn’t know that the repubs are just awful, all you have to do is listen to their latest talking point that extends on forcing people on Medicaid to work to get their benefits…the only thing that you have to remember is that most of the people getting Medicaid are either disabled or already working…and now, some asshole repub has said that all people getting Medicare should have to work to get the benefits that we have paid for our entire lives…don’t they understand what the word retired means? How many times do we have to listen to this crap before we never vote for another repub? I paid for my Medicare benefits and to have some entitled rich asshole repub say that now we have another hoop to jump through to get our earned Medicare just pisses me off and should do the same for anyone who is 65 and has worked their whole lives…this is what SS and Medicare are for…so that seniors do have the chance to relax and enjoy what they’ve earned after paying in hundreds of thousands of dollars to the SS/Medicare pool…if anyone votes for this bullshit, they should be made to pay by never sitting on their fat asses sucking up money that belongs to us…geez…