Well…after I get the rides in tomorrow morning my streak of riding every day ends at 1,065 days in a row…every day since I got back from the UK trip…and I don’t think I’ll ever hit that many again but who knows? I know I’ll start the new one on October 4th or 5th when I get back…and I’m back early enough to at least get one ride in on the 4th so I think that will be the plan…I did get to the library and now have 2 big books to take with me for the 20 hours I’m going to be on planes over the next 16 days…I also got the lawn mowed but only one ride since it was spitting and cold and after getting the shivers and having to wear winter clothes to fix that I sure didn’t want to get wet…have finished packing and just checked in for my flight tomorrow so all I have to do is get my suitcase tagged and I’m good to go…have a window seat for the long part of the flight but a middle one for the last hour so that’s not bad…and I have to change planes at BWI but I already have the gate info on the Southwest app so all I have to do now is get there and sit and wait…and that was the most stressful part of the whole thing…so I’m going to relax tonight and maybe have a cocktail with the Lions and truck race on tonight…time to read a bit…
So Ted is now campaigning for us?
Well…the repubs are getting more and more desperate with the shellacking that is coming in less than 2 months and Ted Cruz appears to be campaigning for us with his new talking point that “if the dems are elected, they will stop trump’s agenda”…gee, ted…that is exactly what the country wants…to stop his stupid war, to get rid of his stupid tariffs, to investigate the graft and thievery that is the worst it’s ever been, to lower gas prices that here in Muskegon are fast heading to 5 bucks a gallon, and to attack inflation that idiot boy is ignoring…and let’s add help farmers survive the stupid tariffs that have resulted in the most farm bankruptcies since the dust bowl…so yeah, ted…we want to stop trumps agenda and restore sanity to our foreign policy and start rebuilding our relationships that the idiot has trashed…so keep it up, ted…we can use all the help we can get…geez…
Tearing down the Kennedy center…
Well…I’m getting tired of the asshole trump getting to do whatever he wants even when the courts have told him no…and the latest is the ruling that said he could in no way put his name on the Kennedy center and idiot boy’s response? To fence off the entire building and send thugs driving hilos to slam into the columns holding the roof up to support his lies that the center is falling down and needs to be rebuilt…have you ever heard of a more tiny little petty asshole than this one? Yeah, I didn’t think so and I think this crap should be met with a criminal response say destruction of government property? This idiot has no right to just bulldoze anything he wants and he has had his pet justice department charge many protesters with this same felony for the fake destruction of the reflecting pool and others so now it’s time to charge this asshole with the same felony….the judge in this case has already said he is breaking the law with any movement on the Kennedy Center and he has given him til 10 this morning to explain why he is ignoring the court…this asshole needs to be arrested and now…geez…
September 17th
Well…damn, that was a weird night’s sleep with waking up halfway through the night and shivering like it was 20 degrees in here…and that triggered the Reynaud’s in my hands and they turned white…so I had to dress like the middle of winter and then sweated through the rest of the night…crap…and now it’s going to rain as I need to get the rides in and mow the lawn today but I guess I can wait to do that until tomorrow morning…so this one is going to be short since it’s supposed to start raining in an hour or so and I do want to get one outdoor ride in before that…still have a few things to do to get ready for the trip but that should only take an hour or so and I have all day so easy…I do need to go to the library to replace the books I’ve already read but that should only take a few minutes and I have time…trying to not leave any food in the fridge that will spoil but I’ve been working on that all week eating out of the freezer…okay, need to get off my butt and get moving…more later…
Run, run away…
Well…the repubs are really just a bunch of chickens who don’t want to be held responsible for anything they do…and just today the house speaker, jesus johnson, adjourned the house until after the election using some bullshit excuse that the repubs needed to go back to their districts to campaign…and that was a lie…he did it to avoid a vote on the articles of impeachment filed by repub rep massie against the drunk sec of def hegseth that would have had to be voted on by the end of Thursday’s session and he didn’t want to have repubs vote against it so it could be used in political ads…there is another reason and that is that he thinks that enough repubs would vote for it that there would be an impeachment investigation in the house that the idiot trump has told him can’t happen…how’s that for a co-equal branch of government eh, johnson? He always folds like a house of cards any time idiot boy pushes on him and he is the worst speaker in the history of the house…not a damn thing done to help the people of this country in 2 years but he jammed through tax cuts for the rich just fine…what a piece of crap..
Have to go back to the library…
Well…darn…went to the library this morning and it sucks that 2 out of the 3 books I checked out I’ve read already and that’s the problem with reading so much…I’m running out of new books to read and I’ll have to back tomorrow to get more…going to be on planes for almost 20 hours in the next 2 weeks so I need at least 2 books to keep me busy…I know I can sleep on the way over to Italy and back but I don’t sleep so I can’t count on that…oh, well…I did take the car out to the library and DD today and I can’t believe how much better the transmission is starting to get…even from cold it works better now than it did before I changed the oil…and it is supposed to get better as time goes on..can’t wait til it gets cold to see how it works…it has to be better than it was with barely being able to get it into 1st and having to warm the car up before I could drive it…worth the 65 bucks I paid for the oil…I did try to get everything into the suitcase and it all fits with just a little squishing so I’m good to go Friday…I did finally hit the balance goal in my checking account today so I can afford to pay for my trip and I’ll still be in good shape financially…I told the librarian that I was going to Italy this week and he said not to worry about when the books are due…to just bring them back when I have time after I get back…that’s some small town stuff there and it made me feel good…I do like living here…most of the time…oh, I did try the cascade effect on my rear bike light today and it’s pretty cool…nothing like just flashing and I just sat there watching it at the beach water stop…okay, time to read a bit before tv…
Is kash patel always drunk?
Well…not sure if you caught it or not, but the FBI director was at the senate yesterday after many senators were curious to why he has been lowering the standards for FBI agents to be hired…with the latest being that if you stole from your employer…perfectly fine…but the one that was the center of the hearing was that now ole kash has removed beastiality as a disqualifying factor for potential agents…and his logic was so stupid that one of the senators asked if he was drunk..this moron said that he was removing beastiality “from either side” so he could be fair to applicants…so now goat fuckers are just okay but what about the other side he spoke about…does that mean that getting screwed by a human won’t disqualify a goat from being hired? With that even the repubs were trying to figure out what the hell he was talking about…and it showed even more that this idiot is in way over his head and has no clue what he’s doing…oh, and they also asked why his girlfriend was getting escorted by 9 agent everywhere she goes…and he went on and on about danger or some such nonsense…so 9 agents at at least 300 dollars a day each…no it’s more than that since agents make 130 K a year so lets bump that to 750 dollars a day each so that is almost 7K a day and that doesn’t include the three vehicles at least that they would need…so let’s round that to 10K a day…each and every day…how does that make you feel, maga…you can’t afford to put food on your table and this asshole is burning 10K a day just so his girlfriend isn’t scared….geez…
All graft, all the time…
Well…isn’t a little suspicious that one of the idiot trump’s “closest advisors” got his wedding paid for by a criminal Russian oligarch? Yeah, I’m talking about don jr. and his wedding last week…where this Russian rented an entire island for the 50 people who were to attend the wedding…and to go to this travesty, every guest had to sign an NDA to not reveal anything that went on…and as little donnie tried to spin this huge piece of influence peddling graft, he let it slip that this criminal oligarch is one of his “best friends”…now who’s “pallin around with terrorists”? This guy is part of putin’s inner circle and is part of the influence operation that putin has been running on the US for decades as revealed in David Corn’s new book that shows that the idiot trump and repubs have been “useful idiots” that putin has used to damage the US and destroy our influence in the world…and putin could not have found a more useful idiot in trump…he is the dumbest damn person in this country that putin manipulates on a daily basis to get what he wants…thanks maga…geez…
September 16th
Well…running about on time again today with getting up at around 5am and it’s nothing worth noting…still having a hard time getting started and it will be a struggle to get on the bike by 6am along with doing the weight work…I did figure out the timer for the lamp yesterday so it will appear like someone is here…and that is a little iffy since they won’t see me here at all and I’m always moving around…get to use the light on the bike today and I am a little geeked about that…I did have the chain jam on the front sprocket a couple of days ago and I’m not sure how that happened…overshifting that pushed the chain over the big sprocket and between the sprocket and the guard…but it rode okay yesterday so I think it’s fixed with no damage…I do have everything ready to be packed and I am going to try to put everything in the suitcase today to see if I have to make decisions on what to leave out…taking a light fleece and a jacket since it’s supposed to be cool in Venice which is the first place we’re going…can’t wait to see it and be a tourist…have to charge up the battery box to put in the trunk along with the tire patching kit I bought just in case…it is a little strange to be able to sit the car for weeks and have it start but I’m not taking any chances…so, I need to get my butt moving to get the rides in before I go to the library for trip books…more later…
Done packing…
Well…damn, didn’t think I’d be done with packing three days early but there it is…I still have to put all the bags in the suitcase and lock it up and charge a few things but I’m basically done…just did the last load of laundry to get my light fleece and a jacket clean to pack…I am going to do a trial pack tomorrow to make sure I can get everything in the suitcase and I think it will be tight but doable…packing for 16 days in one suitcase is not easy and I may have overpacked a bit but if I have room, I always feel better to have everything I need…I did get out to do an outside ride after riding one indoors and I sprinted the whole 15 miles to make up for only doing 23 miles today…will be out in the dark again tomorrow so I can use my light and I think it’s cool that I can go anytime I want now without waiting for it to get light…with the rain we had and what’s coming, I went out and planted some grass seed to see if I can grow some in the bare spots in the lawn…I will be curious to see that when I get back…sure hope my ballot comes while I’m gone so I don’t have to screw with that…I may even have a cocktail tonight as I relax but I’m not sure of that yet…time to read a bit…