Well…finally, I got two rides in outdoors today for the first 25 mile day…I think I’ll be paying for it tomorrow but that’s okay…and it was the first day this year I didn’t ride the indoor bike and I was done with them before 10am…not too cold out there but it was still in the 40’s and I know how to dress for that…I measured the new detour route and with riding the tunnel of trees both ways, the new route is the same 12.5 miles as the old one so that is cool…I did see a duck perching on the railing of the boardwalk and I’ve never seen that before…usually the ducks stay on the other side of the dunes in Muskegon Lake where their food supply is…weird…okay, back to reading..
How cruel and stupid are these people?
Well…with congress balking at funding the idiot’s stupid war with 200 billion dollars, the repubs have started to float other ways to pay for it starting with cutting all ACA subsidies that would throw at least 300,000 people off their healthcare and make the affordibility crisis even worse…and who is so stupid and cruel to try to pass something like this for an extremely unpopular war started by the least popular “president” in history? I appears like the repubs are trying to lose even bigger in the mid terms than they already are and the callousness of this idea just exposes who they really are…they don’t give a damn about what Americans are going through with gas prices costing consumers 8-10 billion dollars a day and with a looming recession across the world caused by one person…let that soak in a bit…this war doesn’t have the approval of congress so it is all the idiot trump’s fault…is that not fan impeachable offense? Sure looks like it to me…geez…
March 30th
Well…another day of out of bed before 6 and I feel pretty worn out from it…just poured the first cup of coffee and I sure hope it gets me started soon…I think today is going to be the first day of 2 outdoor rides since it’s 50 already and that means I can get out as soon as it gets light…I did look for a new bike yesterday but one drawback is that I re-geared the ones I have to a road bike gearing to get more speed out of 24th and it will take a couple of years to wear out the gearing on any new bike…not going to replace a new crankset or cassette so I’ll have to live with the slower speed for a while…and that means I’ll be 75 before I get the gearing back to what I like…but I can at least get a new bike for 449.00 that is just like two of them I have…I guess I’ll have to think about that…okay, it’s not 50 but 42 and that is still warm enough to go out at first light…I do need to eat more than I have been with only one meal a day for a week now and I’m not sure if I’m going to buy another ham or a pork shoulder this week…Meijers has pork shoulder on sale for 1.49 a pound and that may be a good change if I can get a small one…more later…
A lazy Sunday…
Well..even though I did get an outdoor ride in, it has felt like a lazy Sunday today since I haven’t done anything else but read…I guess I’ll have to just accept that there will be days like this as I get older…just not a lot of motivation right now…there are too many sports on today with Michigan playing, Indycar and Nascar races, and MotoGP…hard to decide what to watch but right now it’s Michigan…going to rain Tuesday and then back to snow and rain for Thursday…still going to be cold until mid April and that sucks…I am thinking of buying a new bike since I’ve run out of parts to steal from the black bike…probably only going to have one meal today even with getting 21 miles in…today was the last day of going through the tunnel of trees until July or so with them rebuilding the road and trail on the uphill to the beach so I’ll be taking the back way starting tomorrow…okay time for Michigan…
No Kings…
Well…the no kings rallies were yesterday and they were the biggest protests here in the US for 50 years…the protests spread to the UK and Europe with 200K people showing up in London…I didn’t go to this one just because it was only 33 degrees and my feet and legs are just healing from overuse…and I didn’t want to walk the half mile to the park…8 million people showed up to protest the moron warmonger in chief but now we need to turn that into votes in the fall election and throw out all repubs…and we need to remember that it’s not just the idiot trump doing the damage…without the entire repub party behind him, none of this crap would be happening so we need to stress that point every damn day until November…geez…
March 29th
Well…up at 5am and out of bed by 5:30 so I guess the string holds for another day…need to get off my butt and get moving after the coffee works a bit but I just poured the first sip down so it won’t be for a while…I did get some work done yesterday but I’m not sure if I’ll continue that today…the little weather widget just said we are getting 6 inches of snow Thursday and I just can’t take it anymore…so I’ll do the grocery run before that and then just go into hibernation mode for the weekend…and that just sucks…I am so tired of cold shitty weather and it never frickin ends out here…so I guess I’ll try to clean in here today and watch races…F1, Indycar, and Nascar…and that starts right now so I’ll pour another coffee and watch a bit before I get on the bike for the indoor ride…might be able to ride outdoors today for another 21 mile day but I guess we’ll see….more later…
No one wants to come here…
Well…with the idiot’s ICE out of control and locking up tourists for weeks, the rest of the world has figured out that there much better and safer places to go to spend your time and money…and even the MotoGP commentators are noticing and commenting that people are scared to come here…so the race in Texas tomorrow will have about 40% less spectators than they had before trump’s thugs started terrorizing the country…and that does not bode well for the World Cup being held in the US later in the year…they have started to give away tickets for that since no one from outside want to risk being kidnapped by ICE…and it’s all trump’s fault…and that goes with effects on almost every business sector that depends on immigrant labor…hotels, restaurants, and construction companies are failing all across the country with the fear their workers have…and no, Americans are not going to do those jobs…the idiot trump and his policies are hollowing out this country that will take at least two dem presidents to fix…geez…
Bike room is clean…
Well…after the filter bag fell off inside the shop vac, it spewed dust all over the bike room yesterday that I had to clean up this morning after I got a ride…so I decided to clean the entire room and figured out how to keep the bag on the motor so that won’t happen again…the cement is drying but it’s probably going to be a week until it will be ready for paint…so I’ll do the cobweb patrol until it’s ready…still have some stuff to throw away, too to get the basement where I want it…so, it’s before noon and I have everything done for the day including lunch so there will be races and reading for the rest of the day…MotoGP on right now and Indycar qualifying along with the sportsman race from Martinsville so I’ll have noise for the background all day…and I’m going out to see if I can find a political topic…back later…
March 28th
Well…up a little after 5 this morning…that’s getting to be a little boring, isn’t it? Slept okay, I guess…and I feel okay this morning and I still feel good that I can walk again without a lot of pain…but I’ll have to keep up the water treatment to keep the gout away…I did get some work done yesterday and I really should continue that today but I’m not sure what that would be yet…still working on the kitchen so I should do the floors and the counters in there…it’s only 28 degrees out there heading for another high in the 30’s and that sucks for being almost April…so, of course I won’t be on the outdoor bike today…just started pouring the coffee down and I’d really like it to start working soon so I can get moving…going to be an easy day if I do it right…more later…
I can walk again…
Well…after drinking 13 quarts of water yesterday and another 6 so far today, my right big toe has stopped hurting and I am able to walk again…I am going to have to be more careful with dehydration in the future since this time it hurt to the point that my entire foot hurt from walking to favor the toe…and my hamstrings are getting much better to the point that I wonder if that had to do with dehydration, too…they are just a little stiff but very little pain…so I’ll take that…no outdoor ride today since it’s only 34 degrees out there and I’m not going to be that cold anymore…I did get some work done with mixing up some cement to fill the spalling blocks and floor in the corner of the bike room and I’ll paint it in a couple of days after letting the cement cure…also cleaned the kitchen stove and even took the burner knobs off and soaked them and then scrubbed them so the stove looks clean again…had a huge ham lunch today so no dinner but I am going to make hot ham and cheese crackers for later…okay, back to reading…