Well…after I got up this morning and got two rides in, I went over to the library at 10am to take a look at the used book sale…I got 15 books for this batch and a lot of them I haven’t read so I’ll have reading material for quite a while after I finish the ones I checked out this week…and I’m going back tomorrow for 5 buck bag day that you get everything you can fit in one of their paper bags for 5 bucks…will head over there at noon and hope to get 15 more books for a nice round 30 of them for this year…I’m going to drop a twenty on them tomorrow as a donation to help fund the library, too…took a look at the wheels I worked on yesterday and they came out looking pretty good…a lot better than when they were new even so I’m happy with that and hope I don’t have to paint them again next year…with the cloth top on the car, I think it needs deep cleaning and to be waterproofed so I ordered a kit to do that and it will be here next week…and then I’ll figure out how to use it…from the photos I’ve seen, after treating the water beads up instead of soaking in as it does now…but I guess we’ll see…okay time to read a bit…
“I’m tuning out”
Well…another reason to just frickin hate trump voters that has been revealed in interviews this week…when asked if they are voting as if the idiot trump is on the ballot, most of them say they are “tuning out” of this election and probably won’t vote…so, they vote for an idiot who is destroying the world and this country…three times…and all they can say is they won’t vote this time…and this is the typical repub bullshit that they don’t care about anything the idiot is doing until it hurts them personally like they never thought it would…so now with diesel over 7 bucks a gallon and gas almost 5, trump’s stupidity is finally affecting them personally…not when ICE thugs murder people every day, or when idiot boy spends every day stealing from his idiot followers…or when the idiot runs the most corrupt government in history…nope, it’s just that they can no longer afford to eat or drive so maybe they made a mistake voting the asshole in for a 2nd time…I have had enough of these morons who vote their hate and just loved them some trump until he started to cost them money….and now they would never vote for a dem who will come in and clean up idiot boy’s mess just like last time…nope, just not vote…I sure hope they keep that up…geez…
October 10th
Well…forced myself to stay in bed after waking up at 4:10 and I wonder if that’s the key since I didn’t get out of bed til 5:47 and I feel okay…need to get on the bike in 20 minutes but I haven’t had any coffee yet so I guess I better get going and drink some…it stayed warm overnight at 57 so I’ll be out in shorts when I go and that is pretty cool for the 10th of October…the used book sale is today so I’m going to go over and see if there is anything I want…I need some science fiction and everything else…would love to get some books I haven read so I can read my own books for a while…just checked and the sale starts today at 10am so I need to get the rides in early so I can get there when it opens…need to have a bagel and more coffee first so I need to get going for that, too…it’s going to be a sports day today with Man U playing along with college football and a race but the race is going to be rained out by the hurricane that just hit the gulf coast…so that will make it a two race day tomorrow…going to have to cook today and more pork chops are on the menu…more later…
Still exhausted…
Well…I don’t know what it’s going to take but getting out of bed at 6:05 this morning didn’t help the exhaustion I’ve been feeling lately…damn, I sure hope it’s not how I’m going to feel from now on…oh, well…I did get two rides in this morning and then right into working on the winter wheels to get rid of the rust on them…finally finished that around 1:30pm and by that time I was sore from lifting the damn things…but I did get all the rust coated with rust preventer and then painted over that…they do look a lot better…it was a pain to mask the tires off so I could paint the edges of the wheels that were the most rusted part of them…just couldn’t let them get as bad as the ones I had on the old Miata…but they were rusted when I got them and nothing I did helped that…so they are now standing in the garage to dry completely before I stack them in the corner again….after that, I really didn’t do anything else today…the 2 rides are still taking a lot out of me and will until my body gets back to fitness again…when that will be I don’t know…soon I hope…
Executions are not entertainment..
Well…if you had any question that the idiot trump and his thugs aren’t fascists…that has been put to bed with the announcement that the person that attacked a military base and killed a bunch of people will be put to death in a live streamed firing squad…yeah, you heard that right, these fascist assholes are taking a page from every other fascist dictator by publicly executing someone to “deter” other people from doing the same thing…look, it has been proven that executions do not deter murder but these bloodthirsty assholes don’t care…idiot boy and hegseth just love to kill people and will take any excuse to do so…look at all of the people hegseth has murdered in the Caribbean saying they are drug runners when there is no evidence at all that they are…where the hell are the repubs in response to this? Nowhere is where…not a damn peep from any of them as their god king murders more and more people every day…but consequences are coming if we get off our asses and vote in 3 weeks…hegseth already has impeachment articles waiting for him when the chickenshit speaker of the house allows it to re convene…and this should include prosecution for murder…geez…
October 9th
Well…damn, that was odd…didn’t get out of bed til 6:05 this morning and that never happens…and I even had weird dreams to go with it so that’s not bad…but that puts me behind for my day that should have started with a bike ride 25 minutes ago…oh, well…have been trying to break from my schedule and routine for quite a while now since I really don’t have to have one anymore…and it’s damn cold out there again at 47 degrees so it will be long pants on the first ride…and lights…charged up the bike lights after yesterday and I got 4 rides out of that one so that means about 5 hours on a charge and that’s not bad…the pain from the shots want away after one day and that is better than any time before and I’ll take it…another 30 mile day today if I’m feeling it and I need to do that since I can feel that I’ve gained weight and I have a doctor appointment coming up that they’ll weigh me so starvation is on the menu…not much to do today…going to get started on the winter wheels since they should be dry after washing them a couple of days ago but it has to be over 50 before I can paint them…more later…
An okay day…
Well…had an okay day today but didn’t get a lot done other than go over to the city offices to pay the water bill and then to the library to get more books…felt a lot better today even with only getting about 45 minutes more sleep and I even had enough energy to get back to doing two rides, one completely in the dark and cold of 46 degrees but then I came back here and changed to shorts and a lighter fleece as it warmed up…I could tell after only about 3 miles that my legs had the energy to do both rides and that made me smile a bit…saw my first group of turkeys that I have been seeing since they were little featherballs in pickleball park and that made me happy that most of them lived to almost adult size…I did get some cleaning done today in the kitchen since the stove was getting pretty ugly from cooking and now it’s clean and ready for me to get it dirty again…made bean coffee again today since I still have about 12 pounds in storage and it should be used so I’m doing bean coffee every day…and that gives me enough to take on the bike for the 2nd ride…and from what I’ve read, you can have as much coffee as you want with no bad effects…and I stop drinking it before noon so it won’t affect my sleep…so the plan for tomorrow is to start on the winter wheels with paint and rust preventer I have on hand since I can’t get to Menards with the road all torn up there…I know I have enough for 2 wheels at least so that will keep me busy for tomorrow…okay, done for the day…
What I see…
Well…one of the things that give me hope heading into the election in less than 30 days is what I see every day riding the bike through neighborhoods here in Muskegon…lots of Abdul signs in yards and not one mike rogers sign…yeah, I know that doesn’t mean much since our side is much more enthusiastic about the election and the prospect of change and protection of our democracy…but I hope it also shows that people who used to be for the repubs are now rethinking that support with all of the damage the idiot trump and his cronies have done and all of the money it has cost everyone just because of trump’s stupidity…I have my fingers crossed that I’m right and we can vote our way out of this nightmare…geez…
Don’t believe Mike Rogers…
Well…in typical repub fashion, the carpetbagger rogers will do and say anything to lie to people to make them believe he has broken with the idiot trump on tariffs and the Iran war when just months ago he was one of idiot boy’s biggest cheerleaders for attacks on Iran…and now, since people are sick and tired of paying higher prices for everything caused by the idiot’s tariffs, rogers is now against tariffs when he was wholeheartedly for them when he appeared with idiot boy at rallies before he realized that trump is toxic and 70% of the country hates him…and let’s remember the big lie that he is a Michigan resident…he only parachutes in here when there is an election, just like he did the last time he ran for office here 4 years ago…he lives in Florida and has his primary residence there and has no thought of the people of Michigan until he tries to lie his ass off that he cares about Michigan…he cares about mike rogers and the money that will come from the grift if he is elected…do you really think he has broken with idiot boy? Not in a million years…it’s all just a lie to get elected and he will go right back to kissing trump’s ass if he’s elected…that’s not what Michigan needs…go back to Florida, mike…geez…
October 8th
Well…that was a little better…didn’t get out of bed til 5:17 this morning and that is so much better that waking up at 3am…and I slept better, too with just a little tossing and turning and I’ll take that, too…I am pretty sore from the vaccinations yesterday but an ibuprofen will take care of that…not nearly as much pain in my shoulder as last year and it didn’t spread down into my elbow so that’s a good thing…it’s in the 40’s again today so I’ll have to dress for that on the bike…still contemplating doing 2 rides this morning since all I have to do is pay the water bill and go to the library to return some books that are due and get a couple more…the book sale is this weekend and I plan on spending 50 bucks or so on another bunch of them to continue to expand my library…not sure why but I like having books around here…I may start working on the winter wheels this morning if they are dry but I probably will have to wait another day or so for that…one of the best things about being home is that I can have as much coffee as I want and I made another pot just for that reason today…need to be able to take some on the bike for the 2nd ride…the first one is going to be in the dark and cold but I really do like riding in the dark with the lights on…think I’ll wait to drop my ballot off until next week since I have some research to do on the proposals…one of them is to chip away at citizens united by prohibiting our gas and electrical suppliers from making political donations and I am on board for that….time to get moving…more later…