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!
It was more than just the war…
Well…as the repubs stumble around not knowing what to do after getting their butts handed to them last week, it appears that they are trying to spin the loss as being only because of the Iran war…but the after election canvassing tells a different story…yes, it was the war, but it was also the economy, the incompetence of everyone working for idiot boy, ICE’s continued cruelty and it’s moves to buy as many gulags as they can before we take over, but the one thing that stands out is that over 80% of those polled said corruption in government was the worst problem…and for an administration that runs on corruption, how do you fix that if you’re idiot boy’s goons? The easy answer is they’re not…the only reason that anyone is part of this most corrupt administration in history is the grift and stealing as much money and power as they can…and if the corruption stops, the administration will die as the rats desert the sinking ship…that’s the only reason any of them are there…do you think they do it because they want good government? Hell, no…they want to use government to hurt people they hate and they think they can get away with the grift…that’s it…geez…
November 9th
Well…darn, it’s only 38 out there so today will be the first day of full thermasuit since back in March…I guess that’s just Michigan being Michigan in November…I did remember to bring the bike lights in and charge them overnight but I think I may have had enough charge in them to do one more day for three…didn’t get anything done yesterday but today is going to be cleaning the dining room completely after I get the rides in…haven’t done that in a while and it does need it…going to do a complete clean on the outside of the fridge and behind it so I’m going to have to drag it out from the wall…but I’ve got the whole day for that…think I’ll wait for another week to do the leaves and let the rest of them come down…I do want to wash the car one more time before I put the hose away and get it cleaned for winter…there is still sand in it from the beach and I want to do the window glass and rain x it so ice won’t stick to it this winter….and I’ll get that done this week, too…need to get hauling butt right now to get out of here in 10 minutes…more later…
Last day off…
Well…man, I have been a slug the past few days and that ends today…there are plenty of things I could be doing that I’m just ignoring so tomorrow I’ll get started on all that stuff…starting with the dining room where I need to clean the table up, wash and wax the floor, and pull the fridge out and vacuum everything…I think I can get one more mopping out of the beat up mop I have and then I’ll look for a new head or a better mop…and I need to get rid of the boxes I’ve been storing on top of the fridge that will go in the extra closet for storage…I did take it easier on my legs today, going only about 75% with no sprints and I think that helped since they had energy right out to the end of the 2nd ride and only hurt a little right now…I did get two days and about 4 hours out of the lights but need to charge them for tomorrow morning…going to try to get the leaves picked up tomorrow but I can take another week before they don’t pick up anymore…they are still not all down but I guess I can leave some on the lawn…and my big tree is still green so they won’t be down until after it snows..will pick those up in the spring…okay, want to read a bit and do some meal planning…
The new senate is hiring…
Well…I had to laugh this morning when I read a bunch of articles about the dems getting to work with their new senate majority and advertising for jobs for lawyers and investigators who have experience in government corruption and ethics and that is a big yow to me…and with one of the reps that is going to chair a committee telling trump and his cronies to “lawyer up”, it appears that the dems are going to get right after the corruption…another story dealt with promises from almost every committee to get to the bottom of the rampant corruption, especially from the DHS and ICE…and, predictably, the idiot trump is going on and on about the dems “threatening” people in his administration with investigations…and that made me laugh even louder…hey, stupid, it’s only a threat if they did something wrong…and you can bet that everyone in this swamp of his has done something wrong…and look, just because the idiot and his minions spend all their time faking wrong doing by everyone they hate, they think that everyone is just as corrupt as they are when it’s just not true…Obama never stole billions of dollars or ran a pay for play administration or sold pardons for 50 million dollars each…one of the funniest things that came out of this is that some of the idiots that trump had working for him are bailing out thinking that will protect them from the investigations…it won’t…and the dems are making it very clear that there is no statute of limitations that is going to protect any of them…man, this is going to be fun…geez…
November 8th
Well…up and moving at 5:30 today and need to start pouring the coffee down to get moving…one of these days I’m not going to get moving but I think I’ll save that for snow days that are coming…crap, we are in one of those temps that are in between and I’m not sure how much of thermasuit to put on…overdressing would be a good idea for the first ride since I really do hate being cold and it’s only 51 out there…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today is going to be the same since I did laundry yesterday and really don’t have much to do today…but I do need to get on the bike by 6:30 so I need to haul some butt to get going…still feeling sore as heck today so I think I’ll throttle back to about 75% on the rides…forgot to charge the lights for the bike overnight so I hope they have enough charge to get through a ride…and I think they should have enough…got three days out of them when I first got them but they have less time to run in the cold…okay, need to toast a bagel and get my butt out the door…more later…
Another easy day…
Well…it is another easy day today and all I did after the rides was laundry and reading…still have flat legs and lots of pain in them and that sucks…have no clue why that would be but today I had the lactic acid burn that I never get on the bike…so I still need to think about that but also remember that I’m old and still doing 30 miles every day…but why the pain and flatness should raise it’s ugly head now is still something I need to figure out…it was only 40 when I went out this morning but it was okay since it wasn’t raining for the first time in days…but we never got the soaking rain that would have helped my lawn…more leaves are down so I may be able to pick them up Monday…we’ll see…so, I’m just sitting here reading this afternoon after I put the laundry away and it feels good to have everything working so I don’t have to think about fixing anything…have to figure out when to put the winter tires on the car but that probably won’t be til December if it doesn’t snow before then…not sure what I’m going to watch tonight but there is a race on in a bit that will last til 8pm so I’ll only need one show before I hit the sack…