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…
The baby is crying today…
Well…just a short one on the instant whining from idiot boy when the SC took away his toy of using the USPS to ruin this fall’s election…and the crybaby went on and on with his failing stupid social media calling the justices “pressured by radical dems” to make the ruling…ha,ha…
Another case of making up new laws…
Well…I know a lot of pundits are saying that the SC ruling that the USPS can’t implement it voter suppression scheme led by the idiot trump is a good thing but they need to look at the reasons they ruled that way…not that the constitution expressly sets that the states control elections and that there is no role at all for the federal government…no, their whole ruling hangs on the fact that it is too close to the election to make changes now but Alito and Thomas really want the feds to get involved in elections and even Kavanaugh and Roberts, who voted with the liberal justices to stop it didn’t make the clear ruling that the constitution forbids the feds getting involved but weasled out and left the door open for idiot boy to interfere in the next election by writing a new constitutional role for the federal government that is not in the constitution at all…just like they have made up free speech for corporations in Citizens United and again made up immunity for the idiot trump that again is not in the constitution…and we know why alito and thomas want the dems to lose this fall…they are the most corrupt justices in the history of the court…and let’s add roberts to that, too…I mean how do you get to afford to buy a private island on a 200K salary a year? Or have a 500K debt magically disappear like Kavanaugh’s did after he was confirmed? I know the conservatives on the court are scared of the dems winning this fall since SC “reform” is at the top of our agenda and they know the gravy train is going to end if we win…but, I guess I’ll take this CYA ruling for now but when we win, this bullshit has to stop…geez…
September 15th
Well…it’s raining out there so I need to decide if I’m going to do a ride indoors or try to wait the rain out and go outside later…probably do an indoor ride to keep my streak going for these last 4 days before I fly out…so that gives me time to sit here and do this and have lots of coffee…out of bed at 5:10 again today but I feel okay so I can live with that…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get anything done but try to clear out the food so I don’t have anything to spoil when I’m gone…and I’m having problems with the timer for the living room light…it shut off fine but isn’t turning on…so I may have to use one of the other timer days to see if it works…it has 20 different ones so I can keep trying…still need to continue to pack today and should finish that up tomorrow…have one more load of laundry to de before that and I need to wash the fleeces since Venice is supposed to be cool when we’re there so I’ll need layers to be comfortable…and we are taking a boat ride to one of the islands there so that should be cool too…going to mow the lawn Thursday to make sure it won’t overgrow while I’m gone and I think I’ll still get the last ride in Friday morning since I don’t fly out til 3:20 in the afternoon…going to pour another cup of coffee and have a bagel before I do the weight work and then get on the indoor bike…looks like the rain is backed up through Illinois so it will be raining a bit….more later…
He does stink in more ways than one…
Well…just a shorty on a humorous article I saw this morning about the idiot trump and the Irish PM…after they met yesterday she admitted to an aide that she kept her distance from idiot boy because he “smelled like feces” and she couldn’t get away from it…and you could see it on her face in the photos of she and the idiot as she tried to get as far away on the couch they were sitting on…this just made me laugh out loud…I hope Natalie had an extra load of diapers in her purse for that one…and the press made fun of Biden because he misspoke at times? How do you feel about that maga? Your god king shitting his pants in front of a real world leader…and it’s not the first time…geez…
The light is cool…
Well…after I got the lights for the bike yesterday, I installed the clip for the front light on the handlebar so I could use it today…and all I have to say is it’s pretty darn cool…even at my advanced age, little things like that still make me smile especially with how it works…I set it on the next to highest light output and the thing lit up the trails 50-60 feet out and I could see reflective signs over 150 feet away… the light itself is tiny only 4 inches long and about an inch and a half wide…and it has a rubber cover for the charging port that makes it waterproof along with a display on the top that tells you what intensity or flashing the light is on along with a battery meter that shows you how much charge it has left…and if today was any indication, I should only have to charge it once a week…the rear light is just as cool with 2 intensities, blinking, and a cascade effect that starts with the top LED and moves down to the bottom which I think is pretty neat looking…all for 15 bucks and I wonder why I’ve never bought one before…going through the pitch black tunnel of trees this morning I could see the trail out far enough that I could go as fast as I wanted and couldn’t outrun the lights…I do feel a lot more comfortable in the dark with the lights on since I do have to ride in a road bike lane a couple of miles and now the drivers can see me…might blink the rear light tomorrow just to see if it’s annoying or not…the front clip was thin enough and has a clever way of tightening it on the handlebars that I could fit it right next to the stem and point it straight up the road and it doesn’t shake at all…pretty damn cool for 15 bucks and I can just leave both lights mounted until they need charging…okay, back to reading…
Nobody wanted this…
Well…with all of the world being polluted by AI and it forced on us every damn day, I have to say that no one wanted this…no one wanted these huge data centers to support it that pollute our lives and make everything worse…I never agreed to this did you? No one asked me if I wanted electricity rates to double or for all of our water to be used to cool these damn things…and now we have AI turning into Skynet where it attacks other programs and people and the owners of this bullshit just sit there and smirk when they are criticized for wasting trillions of dollars in resources on their vanity projects…I really hate that you can’t do searches on the internet anymore without getting AI slop instead of information that you used to be able to rely on was true…no longer…who gave these assholes the right to screw everything up? I can’t think of one person who did and I really do hope the backlash is going to end this nonsense…and I hope the trillions these morons have spent will send billionaires to financial ruin…when we take the house back this fall, the giveaways to these idiots will end and I hope that kills this whole bullshit industry…geez…
September 14th
Well…damn, it’s only 48 degrees here and I’m going to have to wear long pants to get on the bike this morning…and I’m going out in the dark to try out my cool new bike light and I’m pretty excited about that…geez…I’m old and I still get excited about little things like a bike light…have been meaning to buy one for years but just kept putting it off…this one is pretty cool…it has a tail light that has 4 modes to it including a waterfall like effect and the light itself has 4 levels of brightness and it also flashes so people will see it…pretty cool…didn’t sleep for crap, though, and was up at 5:10 and that’s too damn early but pretty normal at this point…it’s still 70 in here so the heat won’t be coming on and I wonder if I should shut it off before the trip? Didn’t last time and it was okay so maybe I’ll just leave it…was so damn sore on the bike yesterday that I’m going to treat with lidocaine before I go out…my right arm and left knee were howling before I got back here and that was damn annoying…can’t figure out the reason but it’s probably that I’m just getting old…and that sucks…ha, that made me laugh…not “getting old” but I am old and not matter what I think I’m never going to get better…I did see a Swedish study the other day that said riding a bike every day lowers your risk of chronic disease by 27% so I guess I’m doing something right…maybe…more later…
Didn’t do a damn thing…
Well…after working my butt off yesterday getting my clothes washed and packing started, today I didn’t do a damn thing but the two bike rides this morning…I’m already close to having everything ready to put in the suitcase and I still have 4 days to do that and get the house ready for me to be gone 16 days…and that means mowing the lawn Wed and going to the library to get books for the 7 hour plane ride to Italy…I did buy a bunch of stuff yesterday that was supposed to be here today but it almost 6pm and nothing yet…and I really wanted to get the bike lights so I could charge them and install them so I could use them in the dark tomorrow…oh, well…have heard a little glitch in one of the pedals on the bike so I bought a new set on sale…and new riding gloves to replace the old holey ones I’ve been using all summer after I discovered the length of the newer ones was crimping the nerves in my wrists and causing a lot of pain…so tomorrow I get back to getting ready to go with putting the garbage out and cleaning the fridge of things that will spoil in 16 days…so I’ll be eating out of the freezer with lots of potatoes to use up the bag in the kitchen…and I have two pork chops to use so that will get me to Wed…but I won’t resort to fast food since I haven’t eaten any since I moved out here 5 years ago…so this will be interesting…okay…time to read until tv…
Lawless bastards…
Well…even though the constitution says that the executive branch (the idiot trump) has no role in elections and the courts have said that his plot to use the USPS to screw with mail in voting can’t go forward, I don’t understand how these lawless bastards are ignoring the courts and are still rejecting mail in ballots across the country…and one egregious example is in Florida where the USPS wouldn’t deliver any ballots since some of them had a barcode that was .2 of an inch different than what the postal service said they had to be…who the hell gave the USPS that power? They are supposed to deliver the mail…period…there is nothing in the constitution that gives them any power to screw with mail especially if it conforms to the size requirements they are allowed to set…and now all they rulings by lower court are going to the SC who view the constitution as whatever they say it is and will allow idiot boy and his cronies to take over the elections to cheat their way to a win…this is the reason this SC needs “reform” all of the conservatives that ignore the constitution in this case need to be impeached and remover if we actually climb over glass and win this fall…bastards all…geez…