Well…after suiting up ad heading out in the cold this morning, I remembered that the bike has been acting screwy when I was shifting both the front and back shifters…the back one wouldn’t shift down and I had run out of adjustment for it and it reminded me of a cable starting to fail like has happened before…so, after crippling though the two rides, I carried the bike downstairs to let it warm up enough so I could work on it…didn’t want to do it outdoors since it was cold and raining…so, after I had my coffee, I went down to get started with first taking out the old rear cable and yep, it had started to fray inside the sheaths that it runs in and I could barely get it out and that’s probably why it was hard to downshift…so I put a new cable in and flipped it over to attach the cable to the shifter and adjust it…then I worked on adjusting the front shifter since it was not working right either…so now I think I have them right but couldn’t go out to test it with the rain off ad on all day…and I just didn’t want to get cold again…while I had the bike upside down, I adjusted both the front and back wheel bearings and put the new tire on the back so now they match again…and then lubed everything with light oil to keep it from rusting and sticking..and all of that took about an hour and a half and I noticed that the the whole driveline is about worn out and I hope it lasts until I put the bike downstairs for the winter…I’ll have to order the parts soon so I can replace the front crankset, the rear cassette, the rear shifter, and the chain and that will be almost 100 bucks but it needs to be done…and I probably should do that to the black bike, too but maybe not…it’s nice to have a parts bike…time to read…
The diesel never got here…
Well…this is so typical of the idiot trump where he touts a “biggest deal” and when the media stops following it, the deal falls apart and idiot boy then just ignores questions about it…do you remember the “deal” to import Russian diesel fuel to lower prices here in the US before the election? Probably not but I’ll fill you in…oh, the bottom line is not one drop of that crappy diesel fuel ever made it to the US since no one here was stupid enough to break the law to get it…and really, less than one day’s worth of this crap wasn’t going to make one bit of difference in prices here since diesel prices are global…and let’s remember that the US is an exporter of diesel so we already have enough here…so what was this deal about? The election, of course, but more than that it was an excuse for the idiot to remove some sanctions on Russia that I’m sure it was “suggested” he do that by putin so now ole pootie has more money to kill Ukrainians and idiot boy doesn’t care…the only thing he cares about is his stupid ballroom and arch that the dems have promised will be torn down to erase any mention of the idiot after we win the WH in 2028…oh, and the last tanker turned around and headed back to Europe yesterday where no one wants the fuel, either…great deal, donnie…geez…
November 12th
Well…damn, I’m exhausted this morning and it even entered my head to not ride at all today but I know that’s not going to happen…and this is an extension of how I felt yesterday…no energy at all but I just poured the first cup of coffee so we’ll see how that works in a few minutes…didn’t get up til 5:25 today but was up and down all night…man, I hope I can take a nap later…tomorrow may be the first time in a while that I’ll be on the indoor bike since it’s supposed to only be 30 with snow showers…and that cold is going to last for a few days…oh, well…it is November in Michigan….I do like the new power bank I bought and it looks like it will last for about a month before I need to charge it again…I think I’ll pick the leaves up this weekend and whatever is left over I’ll just leave on the lawn…might go out to depot this morning t look for a new snow shovel but that is going to depend on if I can muster any energy after the rides…and yeah, I’m going out in a few minutes in the cold and dark…not much to do today but a little cleaning after the rides…got so cold yesterday that I was under the heating pad all day and I think that will be needed again….more later…
Way too darn early…
Well…it has been a good day so far but it started way too early…out of bed at 4:30 and on the bike about 5:30 to get both rides done before the grocery run…and I did that but I think I have a rear shift cable fraying inside the shifter since the downshifts have become very hard and erratic…so when we have the cold weather later this week, I may take the bike downstairs to tear it apart just to see what’s happening…I have a bunch of extra cables so no big deal…adjusting it is always a pain but I’ve done it enough so I know how to do it…the new power bank ran the mp-3 player for 2 1/2 hours today and hasn’t moved off the 99% it started with so that’s cool…after the rides, I started off on the grocery run and I hadn’t driven the car in a week so the tires took a bit to become round again just like when I got back from Italy but in about 4 miles they were okay again…got two more furnace filters from menards so I’m set for the winter with the new one I put in yesterday…nice to have spares since this house is so dusty…then over to aldis where I started to get the stuff I need for t-day and discovered another new mustard…this one is a honey/dijon and I can’t wait to try it…then to Meijers to continue to build the t-day dinner and use up some coupons…and then over to DD to get some buffalo turkey slices and ham for 99cents for a half pound…so now I’m set til I get the turkey in a week or so…took a container of ham soup out and still have two left before I’ll make some turkey with the carcass after t-day and put that in the freezer…the car was just so much fun to tear around in today…and I even put the top down for the run to DD and home…it was only 37 when I went out on the bike but I dressed for it so I was comfortable…and the heater in the car is more than capable of keeping me warm with the top down in the cold…got gas at Meijers for 3.77 today so I filled the car up and won’t need gas again for a month…okay, time to read…
11 dems don’t show up…
Well…they held a vote on impeachment of the drunk hegseth and 11 dems didn’t even show up…so this is how Jeffries handles his caucus? He can’t even get his members to show up for an important vote like this? And massie teed this up for us to make a bipartisan vote and still Jeffries couldn’t do it…I know that once our new caucus is seated in January it would be easy to get a majority vote with 260 dems but then the repubs will be screaming that the impeachment is a “partisan witch hunt” and it’s all Jeffries fault…this is not the way to start for an incoming speaker…it just shows he doesn’t really have the pulse of the caucus or the respect of members that would get them to show up to vote…of course one of the no shows was haley stevens who hid in the repub cloakroom instead of doing her job…and I guess she will be the star of the 2028 repub convention just as the rest of the losers are…not a good way to start…geez…
November 11th
Well…I really don’t know why I do this to myself but I was out of bed at 4:45 this morning to get 2 rides in before I head out for the grocery run…and it’s only 37 out there but I am going to see if I really do have the thermasuit figured out…okay…the weather widget disagrees with my phone and says it’s 42 so that’s a little better but I’m still going full thermasuit just to get ready for the 31 degree low tomorrow morning…slept okay last night and feel okay this morning but I could have slept in if I didn’t have the run to do…oh, well…I put the last new furnace filter in yesterday so I need to stop at menards on the run to get a couple more so I can change it out in Feb…I did get my new power bank yesterday and I’ll try that out this morning after charging it up to 99%…sure hope it lasts like the first one so I can get a week or so out of it…it appears to work just like the first one, too so I don’t have to learn anything new…have the lights charged, too so I can see out there…it doesn’t appear that the wind is blowing too hard so that will make for okay rides…going to pick up the leaves Sat and call it good for the year so I can put them out Tues…going to start getting the t-day meal bought today so I’ll have everything ready for smoking the turkey….more later…
An easier day…
Well…today was an easier day after all the work yesterday and all I did was continue to clean off the dining room table and got food out of the freezer to use later in the week…the rides were really cool this morning with getting out for the first one before 6am…it was dark and clear and the stars made the sky look huge and when I got to the beach, Orion was right in front of me over the lake and that was really cool, too…on the way back on the 2nd ride, the sky had started to lighten up with just a few wisps of clouds on the horizon that lent some pink color to the sunrise…very nice rides today but it gets progressively colder overnight until the lows are near freezing and even a little below…but I know the thermasuit to use for those temps and I can take the cold…don’t know how but I am getting used to it…still not going as hard as I can and that is still working to keep the pain from my legs so I’ll keep that up for a few days to let the healing continue…I did get my new power bank today and it is exactly the same size and weight as the earlier one and I figured out what I’ll do with the old one…I’ll charge it as high as it will go and then stash it and a cable in the bike bag to charge the front light if it goes dead while I’m riding…need to still use it since it does still work…okay, just started a new book and want to read a bit…
Hegseth is too stupid to understand the trouble he’s in….
Well…there have been articles of impeach filed against this moron an I think he’s too stupid to understand how much trouble he’s in…not just from his illegal war but from his continued murder of people the he says are drug runners when he has never presented any evidence that they are…and impeachment is going to be the least of his troubles once he tries to travel anywhere that is a signee to the International Court of Justice agreements that state that any member country can arrest and send the perpetrator to the Hague for trial…and there are people out there who are building the case against him and even here in the US, with the dem takeover of congress, members are now talking about filing murder charges against him when we take the presidency back in 2028…and yet this moron sits there expecting him to be immune from any consequences since there haven’t been any…yet…but it’s coming and he needs to “lawyer up” as one of the incoming committee chairs has said to all the crooks infesting the idiot trump’s administration….geez…
November 10th
Well…up early today at 5am and that means I’ll be out on the bike in the dark by 6am…slept pretty crappy but that’s normal so that’s all I’ll say about it…it does feel good to see my super clean fridge and floors but I’ll still need to get the stuff off the dining table but that should only take a little time later…pretty warm out there at 50 but that is the last day of 50’s for lows…by Thursday night it’s going to be 31 for a low and that is going to test my thermasuits…might have to start doing some indoor rides when it’s that cold…but I’ll probably go out in it just to see how low I can comfortably ride…when it’s that cold the bike gets really stiff and rides like it’s got cement in the suspension…there were some snow flurries the other morning in the dark and I know it’s coming but I don’t have to like it…31 degrees should get the last of the leaves down and then I can pick them up over the weekend…after all the work I did yesterday today should be an easy one but I do need to cook since all the leftovers are gone…going to try to eat out of the freezer this week to make room for the turkey carcass…so that means I have to thaw some soup…still have 3 containers of ham in there and that will make for an easy meal for a few days…more later…
Got some work done today…
Well…after getting the bike rides in but starting late, I got right on working on the dining room…didn’t finish it since I still have the table to do but I got the fridge moved out and discover it’s on wheels so it just rolled right out…took all the boxes and other stuff that were on top of it for the past few years and then vacuumed the top and the back to get the huge dust bunnies off and then washed the whole thing from top to bottom…then I did the side table I keep next to it…cleaned it and then took some wood oil to it to shine up what’s left of the finish…and then vacuumed the floor under and behind them, mopped it, and then waxed it…after putting the fridge and table back, I vacuumed all of the wood floors, mopped them, and then waxed all of them, too…so now I have an almost clean dining room and shiny floors again…I didn’t do the leaves since I’m going to let them wait until more are down and put them out next Tuesday…haven’t even had time to read today other than about 15 minutes…I ordered another power bank today since the one I’ve been using for a couple of years has stopped charging but that’s been coming for a couple of months when it stopped charging all the way…the most I could get it to was 75% but today it stopped at 50 so I’m sure it’s going to fail…and I really do need one to plug the mp-3 player into for the rides…and a new one was only 12 bucks so no big deal…okay, I need to make some dinner and I think I’ll make an omelet with some kielbasa in it along with green pepper, onions, and cheese…took it easy again on the bike today an I think that’s doing the trick since I’ve bee up and down on the stool all day and they don’t hurt…yay!