Well…it’s still raining here and it looks like it will be for a while…so it looks like I won’t get out on the bike until 10 or so…check that, the storm has lined up so it will be hitting here for a few hours yet and it is really weird to still be sitting here at 8am doing this….I just had to put letter stickers on the laptop keyboard since I had a bunch of letters that had worn off and, even though I type every day, not having letters on the keys was getting pretty frickin annoying…so now I have 9 stickers there and it looks like I’m good for a while…I was going to go in and get my flu and covid vaccines before Italy but they didn’t have the updated covid one yet so I guess I’ll wait til I get back…sure hope I don’t get sick on the trip…this has been a nice storm and it is forcing me to relax a bit this morning and I really don’t know how to act without having the bike rides to burn the caffeine off…and I really want another cup of coffee so I think I will and that will set me vibrating…it is 2 of my sons birthdays today and I’m going to text them here in a minute to say happy birthday…still want to go to the library and I may go right at 9am if it’s still raining…then I’ll get to try out the new wipers I put on the car a while back…more later…
Get ready for everything to cost more…
Well…due tot he ignorant moron squatting in the WH, diesel fuel hit an all time record of 5.85 a gallon today…and I hope you remember that everything that is delivered here in the US goes by trucks fueled with diesel…so here goes another “trump tax” on you and me and everyone else…and idiot boy still has no idea how to end his stupid war with Iran that he started with no thought whatsoever of the effects to everyday life of Americans it would have…but that is par for the course with this asshole…he doesn’t care about anyone but himself so people having to choose to fill their car to get to work or to eat is nothing to him…it doesn’t even exist in his bubble he lives in where the “best economy in history” and “Iran defeated” are what he is spoon fed every day and the hollowing out of our military is just a “liberal” talking point…so now we are all going to continue to pay for the maga assholes electing this moron and I really do hope they go broke and starve…it’s what they deserve…geez…
September 4th
Well…man, it’s raining here with a little thunderstorm so that is going to make me late for the whole day….but the main body of the storm is going to the north…again…so it’s not going to be long before I can get out on the bike…didn’t sleep much last night and I am easing into the day with coffee. coffee, coffee and I may even have to make more even though I just made 12 cups…I guess we’ll see…didn’t get much done yesterday but I may have to go out to the library this morning since I’m down to the last book and there is a holiday Monday…and I do need to cook some chicken but I’m making a normal recipe since I really don’t feel like cooking much…maybe some mashed potatoes and corn to go with it…and cooking two breasts will give me sandwich material for later in the weekend…damn, I get tired of planning meals all the time…it would be nice to just wing it for a change but that would mean fast food and I don’t even know where any of the fast food places are…I think I’ve only had it once since I moved out here but I don’t remember what or when that was…so I guess the plan for the day is to just wait out the storms and get the weight work in as I wait…buy that’s a lot of waiting…more later…
I made soup…
Well…not sure if it’s an accomplishment or not but I made potato soup this afternoon and had a bowl for dinner…but that’s all I did after the bike rides…oh, I did finish up the Orson Scott Card sci fi novel that I started yesterday and it was pretty good…I haven’t read any science fiction since I got into the thrillers I have been reading but I’m glad I chose the book…and the one I read has a cliffhanger that I think sets it up for a sequel that I will look for next week..still have a couple of books that will get me through the weekend and both are authors I haven’t read before…still trying to expand past the ones I’m running out of…I used the 2% milk to thicken to make the soup creamy and it worked much better than skim…I guess I’m a convert to milk with fat in it…oh, I just remembered that I did do something today… a load of laundry…not much work but work anyway…I did get a bit wet on the bike today but the big rain that was coming hit the Muskegon force field…again…an just dissipated without a drop falling and that sucks…so now no more rain…okay, nope, they are calling for storms overnight but I won’t believe it until it makes me wet…okay, need to look for something to watch tonight…
Stealing Venezuela’s oil
Well…we already know that the idiot trump is a thief but he has moved up to a whole other scale with stealing oil from Venezuela, selling it, and then running the transaction through a bank account he controls and having the 13 billion dollars that was supposed to go back to the people of Venezuela promptly disappear into his own accounts…now come on repubs…isn’t this enough for you assholes to get off your butts and make idiot boy pay for the theft? and idiot boy is lying his ass off saying that he will refill the strategic oil reserve he emptied to try to keep gas prices low so his cronies would be elected this fall…but there is a problem with that…the heavy, sour crude from Venezuela can’t be handled by the reserves that need light, sweet crude for the equipment to work…and if they try to fill it with Venezuelan sludge, the reserve caverns can no long be used since the crap he wants to put in them will ruin them forever…but this moron is so stupid that he can’t grasp any of that…to him oil is oil and the only thing he cares about is how much money he can skim off for himself…and all of this is illegal according to international law that should end with idiot boy in jail…so people, get your butts out to vote our side in so we can start holding the thief in chief accountable…geez…
September 3rd
Well…damn, it’s really humid here again at 96% and it never got under 71 degrees overnight so that is going to make for soaking rides again since I’m already sweating just sitting here doing this…oh, well…up at a little after 5 again today and I would say I’m running late but I don’t plan on getting on the bike til almost 7am today since it’s the only thing I have to do other than cook…do I make potato soup today to use up the celery I have in the fridge? Maybe…it would be nice to have one meal of the day just heat and eat but this is definitely not soup weather so I guess we’ll see…I did get the weed walk in yesterday and, with the rain we’ve had my lawn looks half green and I should plan on feeding it with winter feed when I get back from Italy…and I need to schedule my flu and covid shots and I may even do that before I go…will get online this morning to see if I can get it done tomorrow…covid is on the rise again heading toward a fall peak before the winter one…going to do the weight work here in a minute so I don’t have to do it later but I want another cup of coffee and a bagel first…didn’t eat much yesterday and I don’t want my legs to go flat today…more later….
Damn humidity…
Well…when I got up this morning and got ready to get out on the bike…early…6am, I noticed that it never got under 77 degrees last night and the humidity was at 100%…so when I got on the bike, I was soaked through before I got out 2 miles and by the time I was done with both rides, I had even sweated through my shoes and that hasn’t happened this year…it’s still over 80 with 70% humidity so I’m still sitting with the fan on trying to beat the heat…but really, it’s okay…I’m used to it and have always loved the heat…I did get the grocery run done today and bought some chicken from aldis and the breasts are just huge…I mean 11 bucks for 4 of them at 2.19 a pound…they look like turkey breasts they are so big…going to try a new recipe tomorrow with them…a creamy garlic sauce skillet recipe that doesn’t look too hard but it has half and half and butter in it along with a whole head of garlic…that’s a hell of a lot of garlic so I think I change that…going to make some mashed potatoes to go with it and spoon some of the sauce over them…it was pretty cool on the way back on the 2nd ride that the big blue cruise ship was coming into the dock for the first time this year…that thing is twice the size of the regular ones this summer…pretty cool to see…okay, I need to put more letters on my keyboard since I can no longer see the c,s,l, or b…will do that tomorrow but I need to clean them with alcohol first…time for tv…
Naming things is his only job…
Well…in my long lifetime there has never been a do nothing “president” like the idiot trump and it appears that the only thing he is still doing is playing golf and naming things…after the Lake Ontario debacle, idiot boy is back at it trying to rename the Straits of Hormuz the “straits of trump” saying the the US now controls it so he can name it whatever he wants…what a delusional asshole…no matter what he names and how the suck ups at google go along with it, when he’s gone all the names will be changed back…and the dems have started to follow my advice, with one of them being to the tell the idiot that when he’s gone, his idiotic ballroom will be torn down and the WH restored to it’s traditional footprint including rebuilding the demolished east wing…and a few of them have made the point that anything idiot boy has done will be erased just like it was in Germany when hitler was gone…there will be no straits, no Kennedy Center, no airports, no nothing remaining with his name on it and that can’t come to soon for me…geez…
September 2nd
Well…damn, it didn’t get under 75 last night and it’s supposed to stay warm for a few days yet…I guess it’s the last gasp of summer and I should enjoy it…need to get on the bike in the dark to get 2 rides in before the grocery run…getting a little tired of racing around in the morning to get things done and I may just do one ride before I go and that would mean I don’t have to get on the bike before 6:30 or 7…going out in the dark is starting to lose it’s allure after not being able to see at all in the tunnel of trees yesterday…but we’ll see…didn’t get anything done yesterday but go to the beach but I am going to need to cook today…thinking of making a creamy garlic chicken recipe I’ve never made before and I need to remember to get bread crumbs this morning or that won’t work…or maybe I’ll just cook some chicken to make sandwiches…have lot of potatoes to use up so I may make some mashed potatoes with the chicken…I did take some bacon out of the freezer so I’ll use up the eggs to go with it…not much to do today…just need to get moving but I just don’t feel like it right now…I think the heat is wearing me out and not sleeping is not helping…more later…
Transmission is better…
Well…okay, it was warm enough and humid enough that I made today the last beach day of the summer…and to get there, I had to drive the car with the new transmission oil in it and it feels better…easier to get in all gears even cold which is a big improvement…and from the comments on amazon, it takes about 500 miles for the full amount of difference to show up…but I can live with it the way it is so it was worth the 65 bucks the oil cost…but the biggest thing I noticed was that the slight whine that I could hear in 5th gear is now gone and that matches what a few people commented…so far, so good…the water was a little chilly but warm enough for me to spend a half hour swimming…and I went out without sunscreen to get a little more color one last time…not burned at all but just a little pink since I went out at 10am and was back here before noon…it is a little bittersweet that another summer is gone but I know that I’ll have the rest of my life to enjoy the beach and water…hope it’s not only a year..but we’ll see…