Well…just sitting down to do this at 11:20 and that is really late for me…the plane travel was plane travel with late planes and gate changes and we didn’t get here to my daughter’s house until 9:30 when we should have gotten here at 7…and I am just worn out after getting out of bed at 4:30 after waking up at 4am….but I’m still wired as heck so sleeping is going to be some effort…it was nice to hang out with my daughter and SIL after we got here…and she has taken a new job making twice what I ever made so good for her…so maybe I won’t write the check for the trip…who knows? We are going to Monticello tomorrow for the tour of Jefferson’s estate and I am looking forward to that…and the trip sounds even cooler than I knew…we are going to have huge amounts of fun and see lots of stuff that I never thought I would and she is already talking about another trip in 3 years…ha,ha…that seems to be the pattern and I’m not sure how I’ll be doing in 3 years but I guess I’ll keep my fingers crossed…I did get two rides in before I left this morning but that will be the last ones for a while…I did find an economy lot at the airport that only costs 14 bucks a day and I can live with that…so that will be only a couple hundred bucks to park for the 16 days…it’s not raining here but the weather widget says heavy rain there so that’s good for the lawn but it will make it grow too much to where it will take 3 cuts to get it back to normal…oh, well…okay time to read some news before I crash…
It’s all trump’s fault and he needs to pay…
Well…with the idiot trump’s illegal and stupid war against Iran still going on no matter how much he lies that he has “won” the fallout is starting to build…I mean 10 bucks a gallon for diesel in California? Cripes, we are seeing 5 buck a gallon gas here in Muskegon and a new article I just read said that the costs for idiot boy’s stupidity is going to be close to 4,000 dollars for a family since heating oil, natural gas, and electricity have all seen double digit jumps since the start of his stupid war…and it’s going to get worse as shortages of everything are in the pipeline since many farmers have just given up and not planted this year…and thousands of truck drivers have already declared bankruptcy since they can’t afford fuel for their trucks and that is how 90% of gods are delivered in this country…and this is all trump’s and the repubs fault for letting this economic moron destroy the world economy because he believed, in that small diseased brain of his, that he was going to be able to steal Iran’s oil with just a few bombs…and this is just another ‘trump tax” to go along with his stupid tariffs…I’m glad my trip is happening now and I paid for my flights back in March…the same flight costs twice as much now and I hate this asshole for damaging everything in the world including the good name of the US…I just wish the world wouldn’t blame us for idiot boy as they are doing now…50% of us didn’t vote for this asshole…and I really hope the dems do what they can to fix this crap…but I have no hope that it will happen in my lifetime…geez…
September 18th
Well…that sucked….tried to get some sleep with all the traveling today but was up at 4am and couldn’t get back to sleep so I’m going to be hurting later…and I still needs to get on the bike for two rides in a few minutes to get the day started…think I have everything packed and just need to close the suitcase and dry off my toothbrush to pack it and I’ll be in the car by 12:30…then to the pain in the butt that is air travel…maybe I can sleep on the plane…still need to finish getting the house ready by putting out the trash and I think I’m going to do a load of laundry to make sure I have clean sheets when I get home…but I need to do the weight work first to try to make this a normal day..at least it’s not raining like yesterday but it is cold at 57…cold to me anyway…need to remember to run off the router and modem before I go…no sense in leaving them running for 16 days when I’m not using them…okay, not much else to say this morning but I will be posting every day when I’m in Italy…more later….
1,065 days…
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…