Well…slept a little better last might and didn’t get out of bed til 5:30 or so but that is going to go backwards tonight and that sucks…didn’t get much done yesterday and today will be the same with it only 43 degrees out there and that means I won’t get on the outdoor bike until at least 11am…still wearing long pants on the bike and it’s almost May…and still riding the indoor bike and that is just wrong…we have had no spring here and I wonder if it will be one of those years where we go straight into summer? I know I’m damn tired of the cold…and now the heat just came on…cripes…have been feeling really worn out lately and I’m not sure why the heck that would be…have been eating more…three meals yesterday and yet I feel like crap this morning so maybe that’s not it…I do have to find where the tube protectors went from the black bike since I’ll need one for the replacement wheel so I’ll take that front tire apart today and see if there is one in it…not much to do today…I should clean but I think I’ll just read instead…but I need to get off my butt and get the weight work started…more later…
Have the parts…
Well…I was a little curious if I had a tire and tube on hand in the cupboard downstairs and I do! So I can set that wheel up as soon as I clean it up…and I even have the Rust Oleum satin black paint to paint it with so all I have to do is get off my butt and get it done…sounds like a project for this week and I’ll probably put it on the bike when I get it done since the one on the bike is a little warped with the 2 broken spokes I’ve had to replace the past few weeks…so, yay! What a pleasant surprise…
No new bike this year…
Well…after having to spend 400 bucks on a new lawnmower the past couple of weeks, I’m going to put off buying a new bike til next year…and the reason for that has something to do with me discovering that I didn’t toss the wheels from my first mountain bike, a Motobecane, and I looked at them this morning and the rear wheel I need is perfectly straight and the ratchet works perfectly so that will give me one to use if the one I have on the bike fails…but it will have to be painted since it is a shiny aluminum with shiny spokes that won’t match the front wheel…and I’m going to buy a new tube and tire to fit that up since I’ll need it by the end of summer and it will be nice to have it ready to go…I do need to find an axle and grease the bearings since the wheel has almost 34K miles on it and has been sitting for 10 years…so that’s one less thing to worry about…
How can this be?
Well…after poll after poll shows that people hate repubs but hate the dems, too, and I wonder how this can be…I mean look at the parties and tell me that there is no difference between them…the repubs murder American citizens and steal everything that not nailed down while they start wars and cause huge inflation that is killing people while they try to take away your rights and healthcare…can you ever say that you’ve seen the dems do that? The national debt under the repubs has exploded to the tune of a trillion dollars a month from giving tax cuts to the rich while the average cut for the middle class is under 400 bucks a year. All of which has been eaten up by tariffs and higher gas prices…have you ever seen the dems do that? The dems protect people and try to make their lives better and move the country forward…every damn piece of legislation that has made the everyday American’s life better came from the dems…and yet people hate the dems…people in this country are either really stupid or have been taken in by repub propaganda since they own all of the media…I’ve had enough of this bullshit…geez…
April 25th
Well…running late this morning with not getting out of bed til almost 6 and there is a reason for that that I’m not proud of…was feeling so damn worn out yesterday after getting the 26 miles in that all I could do was sit here and read…okay, after I cooked the pork shoulder and did the laundry…so I guess being worn out didn’t stop me much but I felt like crap…and still do today..it’s only 43 here right now so I guess I’ll have to do an indoor ride this morning after I get the weight work in…should be able to get outdoors for a ride before lunch…I do need to eat more today after only having a plate of pork for lunch and then a sandwich for dinner…and that is not enough to support 26 miles on the bike…so I’ll have a bagel here in a minute and get off my butt and get going…really do need to pack the winter clothes away but if I do that it will probably snow…it is going to get down into the 30’s again this week and that is way too cold for May…more later…
165K?
Well…that little house behind me just went up for sale the other day and I got a flyer in the mail today and I am shocked at what they are asking for it…I mean, a one bedroom on a slab with no basement, 900 square feet with no garage on a lot that is 1/3 the size of mine and they are asking 165K for it…so I guess that means my house is worth at least that…after all mine is 1,100 sf up with another 900 in the basement with a garage and a huge lot…if that’s true, I’ve made 75K on this place in 5 years and I can live with that…
A lot of work…
Well…another day, another one with lot of work in it…started before 7:30am with getting on the outdoor bike for the first ride and then back on it before 9 to finish the 26 miles before 10…and then right into cooking the 8 pound pork shoulder that took about 3 hours including clean up that I finished a little after 2pm…I have pork shoulders figured out since this is the 2nd one I’ve done and it came out great…the key is cooking it long enough at an hour and a half and having the meat coated with a dry rub and then sauteing onion, garlic, celery, and carrots to give the meat some good flavor as it cooks…and adding chicken broth for the cooking liquid and that I had left over from the first one…and now I’m going to have a pulled pork sandwich with pickles and Bullseye barbecue sauce for dinner…right now I feel so worn out after doing 26 miles two days in a row that I need a bit of a rest…it was also laundry day and I just got that put away and I think that’s enough for one day…
They thought we’d play by the rules…
Well…it makes me feel good that the dems are finally growing a spine and are playing by the same rules as the repubs…over the years, the dems have made it their mission to make sure that the districts for congressional elections were fair…going as far as to pass laws that would have independent commissions draw the lines to make them as fair as possible…but that was only in blue states since the repubs sure as hell didn’t want fair districts since they would never win if they were fair…and over the past year, repubs across the country have done illegal gerrymandering to try to ensure they would have control of congress without winning it…it started in Texas, of course, when the idiot trump goaded the repubs there to rig the districts to try to keep the slim majority they had in the House…but, in a miracle, the dems said bullshit to that and started fighting fire with fire by doing their own gerrymandering in California that gave the dems 5 more seats, nullifying the shenanigans in red states…and they didn’t stop there, they just passed a law allowing gerrymandering in Virginia that is going to net the dems more seats…and the thing is that as the repubs dilute their voters, the dems even have a better chance to win…resulting in what wags called a “dummymander”…repubs shooting themselves in the foot as they try to cheat…I just hope this flashing of spine continues right up to and after the election…geez…
April 24th
Well…that didn’t work…have been trying to get my sleep patterns back to normal after stopping drinking and even stayed up to my normal 10:30 to 11 last night but was up at 4:30 again this morning…that makes a good 6 hours and that is about what I slept before but there still seems to be something wrong about that…oh, well…I did just have a weird thing happen…dropped one of my BP meds getting it out of the bottle and the thing landed on edge standing up and the chance of that is pretty damn small…it’s already warm enough to get out on the bike as soon as it gets light so I may get two rides in outdoors again today before the rain comes in…my legs are still stiff from yesterday but I think most of that is from mowing the lawn but I may have to take it easier after going wide open on the bike yesterday…I do need to take the day off the weights to give my upper body the chance to recover but that may wait til tomorrow…who knows? Not much to do today…I am going to make the 8 pound pork shoulder in the instant pot today and I am curious to see if I finally have the recipe nailed and can repeat how good the last one turned out…and that will feed me for a full week…I am finally getting some room freed up in the freezer so I can make the ham soup next week and that will free up even more space…but I’m not sure what I’ll fill it with next…nothing is affordable…more later…
Overdid it a little…
Well…once I decided that today was going to be a two ride outdoor day, I knew I was going to overdo it with adding mowing the lawn right after I got off the bike…I mean going like crazy on the bike for 2 1/2 hours and then onto the lawn for an hour and a half of walking behind the new mower has left my thighs burning and my lower back so damn stiff I may have to take something for it…but I had to get the lawn done today sine it was getting long and we have a couple of days of rain coming and it would have been too long to mulch if I waited til Monday…I do like ht new mower and it does a great job of mulching…and it started on the first pull and that is pretty cool…and it has a lot of extra speed in it…I had the drive halfway engaged and it was just the perfect speed, leaving me a hyperspeed if I ever want to run behind it…I am just so damn worn out, though and I wonder if the getting up at 4:30 am is the cause of that…I did get a 15 minute nap this afternoon so I am curious to see if that has any affect…okay, need to make dinner…