Well…another day with not much work done and I’m okay with that…my not work days are usually busier than most and I did get some small things done…started out today with the 1st ride in the rain…had my rain gear on and it was soaked by the time I got back here…but the 2nd ride was dry but I really kind of hoped it wouldn’t be since we need the rain…oh, well…then I hauled butt out to do the grocery run that I really need to stop…I mean I don’t have anything else to do and yet I blast through it as fast as I can…and it’s not that I don’t like grocery shopping…it’s a chance to get out of here and see people and drive the car…that I hooned around a bit running it up to the 7K redline a couple of times…sounds pretty cool with a 4cylinder with dual exhausts…and I had 3 stores to go to today with DD having a 1.00 sale on…I mean I got Italian salami for a buck for 12 ozs and some cracker sized ham for the same price…stuff that is bad for me but I’m on statins now so maybe I’m immune to high cholesterol? Ha, ha…that’s not how it works, I know…just made another jar of pickles and I have the recipe for that down now…can replicate the taste every time and I may try to make some whole pickles once just to see if it works…and I ground beans for tomorrow’s coffee but now I’m done other than reading…so that’s what I’ll do…oh,I do have to write a check for the water bill I’m paying tomorrow…watering the lawn for two days cost me 10 bucks so you can see what it would be if I watered every day…
They don’t understand…
Well…with Abdul El-Sayed winning the dem primary for senate yesterday, it again looks like the dem “leadership” in this country doesn’t understand the political atmosphere at all…his opponent, Stevens was just a corporate dem that leaned to repub lite which shows by her praising ICE for doing a “good job” and taking 40 million dollars in AIPAC money to try to buy the seat for her while El-Sayed’s campaign was supported by the people…the super pacs that Stevens relied on are just another form of the cancer that is eating at this country…she really didn’t seem to have any long held beliefs but the terrible one of “bipartisanship” that will get us nowhere in this political environment…now the task will be to defeat the trump clone that is running on the repub side and who has appeared side by side with the idiot promising to enact more of his criminal agenda that Michigan and this country just don’t need…geez…
August 5th
Well…up early again today since I want to get the rides in before the grocery run…but that could be a problem since it’s raining right now but not hard so I may just put the rain gear on and go out anyway in the dark…it’s over 70 so I don’t mind riding in the rain…and I really don’t want to wait til after the run to get the rides in…I guess we’ll see…slept okay last night but it gets harder to wake up and get moving as I get older and I wonder if I should move the coffee timer up to 5am since I usually up by then anyway…or I could just wait til I get up to start it since it’s not something I’ll ever forget to do…had a lazy day yesterday and today will be the same other than cleaning…I really do wish we’d have a day where it rains all day so I could just clean and listen to the rain all day…and that would keep the idiots from burning their campfires…there was a house that someone had started to rehab down the hill on 7th but it appears that it was hopeless and they tore it down yesterday…now come and do the rental…please…it’s in worse shape than the one they tore down and it really should be next…not much to do today…need to make a bagel to get the day started and pour down another cup of coffee and get on the bike by 6am….more later…
An unsuccessful beach day…
Well…after getting the rides in this morning, I decided to head out to the beach since it was in the mid 70’s here with rising humidity…but it wasn’t like that out at the beach…out there it was in the mid 60’s with a cold wind blowing and when I took off my shirt and hat, it was just too damn cold since there was a high cloud layer that was blocking out a lot of the sun…so after about a half hour, I packed up and came back here to read and relax for the afternoon…and that was a good idea since I had time to finish up the book I had going…just finished that and needed to come here for this one and I still have the weight work to do that I’ll get on as soon as I’m done here…I did order the ventilated laptop stand that I think will do two things…it will raise the keyboard to take some of the strain off my wrists and give me the option of raising it since it has 5 different levels to do that…and the fans run off one of the USB ports on the laptop so it doesn’t need to be plugged in to the wall…when the computer got really hot the other day before I realized I had a problem, it started to freak out and blink off and on and I thought I had to buy a new one…and the stand has cool blue led lights in it, too with 4 speeds for the fans…pretty cool…for 14 bucks it looked like a good deal and it got great reviews so I’m looking forward to getting it tomorrow…I had hundreds or starlings using the water bucket in the yard yesterday so I cleaned it and refilled it this morning an not one bird today…weird…
More of this…
Well…after AIPAC spent 40 million dollars trying to push stevens to the senate from Michigan and ole elon saying he’ll spend 100 million dollars to try to keep collins in the senate from Maine, their opponents have started to attack this outside money by saying that these outside groups are trying to buy the senate seats…and you know if they are spending that kind of cash electing these folks, they are not doing it out of the kindness of their hearts…it’s a quid pro quo where they want the money to buy them legislation that will benefit them…like elon did to get tax cuts so he doesn’t pay a penny in taxes…how do you feel about that maga? You’re still paying taxes on wages but the guys and corps you worship don’t pay one thin dime to support this country…oh, this doesn’t have anything to do with buying elections but shows you how deep the cult of trump is…there has been a guy living in his rusted out blazer at the boat launch for weeks now and the back of it is plastered with trump stickers, one saying that he voted for the idiot 3 times…how’s that working out for you moron? Geez…
August 4th
Well…damn, I’m going to have to hustle to get moving this morning with not dragging my butt out of bed til 5:30 and that leaves me about 15 minutes to do this and drink coffee before I need to get on the bike…probably not before 6:30 but that will still have me done with the rides before 9am and that’s early enough…slept okay last night with a little help and I feel bad about that…really need to go commando about that stuff and just not sleep unless I can do it on my own…tonight…one of the traps I have when I make soup is overestimating the calorie content in it…I assume that it’s like a normal meal but a bowl doesn’t have more than 400 calories and paired up with a pork loin fillet and fries for dinner, that’s just not enough…and I’m skipping the bagel today since it’s already after 6 and I need to get moving…oh, well…I’ll be curious to see if my legs go flat on the 2nd ride from the restricted calories…not much to do today…might just clean or I may go out to the beach with the storms coming in tonight and making the water cold again…more later….
Got something done today…
Well…finally…got some of the cleaning that needed to be done done today after the bike rides…started out with getting the laundry going and then tore into the couch and vacuumed it and rotated the cushions then cleaned the rest of the living room…right after that, I took the fridge apart and cleaned it since it really needed a scrub job that I had been putting off for too long…so now all I have to do is my room, the bathroom, and the kitchen but that will wait til tomorrow…or later in the week…still want to get out to the beach a couple of times before summer is over…didn’t have to cook much today with lots of soup left but I did bake a couple of chicken breasts to make sandwiches tomorrow…or wraps I think…made a new batch of pickles yesterday and need to make one more before the cuke spoils…I do need to look at getting more lids and rings since I have some that are rusted and tossed them…I did look at getting a laptop stand that has twin 4 inch fans in it that are run from a usb port and is adjustable so I can keep the thing from overheating…and it’s only 14 bucks so that’s pretty good…will probably order it tomorrow….okay, reading time…
Water shortages are coming…
Well…let’s talk about something a little different today…I’m tired of the idiot trump and his bullshit so the topic of the day is the looming water shortages, not only in the drought stricken west but all across this country…you’ve heard me go on about what water hogs data centers are…using more water than many cities and driving water rates to levels that not many can afford anymore…but the real eye opener is the results from the sustained drought across the west and southwest where the Colorado river used to flow to make gardens out of the desert…and no, I never thought that was a good idea where cities like Phoenix have used up the local aquifers to water lawns and golf courses and have resulted in subsidence that has seen land drop by 30-50 feet as the water is pumped out…so now, with the extended drought and the heat from climate change, major dams on the Colorado are mere feet from not having enough water to generate electricity anymore and there are going to be shortages that effect over 25 million people when the river runs dry as it’s expected to in the next 10 years…here in Muskegon, we are lucky to have our water supply coming from Lake Michigan so there should be enough water to last until I’m gone unless the billionaires are given free reign to suck up all the resources that people need and use it to make themselves even richer…right now, these billionaires are eying the great lakes as are the states in the southwest who have proposed pipelines to steal our water until there is nothing left…I’m really not sure what to do about any of it but just let people know what the hell is going on as the idiot trump and his cronies pump more co2 into the air every day…geez…
August 3rd
Well…not going to talk about sleeping this morning since it was okay for me but I was still out of bed by 5am…a night with no sleep aids at all and that’s okay…feel good today…again, for me and I’ll get ready for the bike rides here in about a half hour…sunrise doesn’t come until after 6:30 now and it sucks that it will get later and later and push my schedule back…but that’s life….didn’t get much done yesterday but I will have to do laundry today and clean a bit and cook some chicken breasts for sandwiches so I will have a little to do today… and I’ll dig through the freezer to plan some meals for later in the week…thinking about buying a new pair of shoes for the Italy trip but I’ll have to do that soon to break them in before the trip…and I still need clothes so that is on the to do list, too and I need to get off my butt and order some stuff…the wind has been pretty calm lately with just about a 15mph one out of the east yesterday and I hope it is easy again today…makes the rides much more enjoyable when I don’t have to work so hard…so I need to get going and do the weight work before I head out…should eat a bagel but not sure if I’ll have time…yeah, I know, I don’t really have a schedule anymore but it sure feels like it….more later…
Okay, I’m boring…
Well…okay, I came to the realization today that I’m boring most days and I’m not going to apologize for it…look, if you’ve lived as many years as I have you just run out of novel things to do or have happen…like today, yes I got the 2 bike rides in but after that I just screwed around and read…and what’s interesting about that? Not much to be honest…I did see two herds of deer on the rides this morning…one with 8 deer in it and one with 7…do those numbers make a herd? Who knows and who decides? If I call it a herd does that make it a herd? To me it does so herd it is….I had a flock of starlings hit my yard this afternoon to use the water container I put out for the animals and it was funny to watch them take turns splashing in it…I’ll have to remember to fill it tomorrow…you know how boring my day was? I think trimming my beard was an accomplishment…what did I have to eat today? Hmmm…it wasn’t memorable but I do remember a bowl of potato soup and two eggs and two slices of toast for dinner…okay, that doesn’t sound like much but I forgot the bagel with cream cheese I had before I got on the bike…so that makes it a little over 1K calories for the day…and yes, I know that’s not enough but I really can’t eat more than that…no popcorn tonight since last night’s didn’t taste as good as earlier in the weekend…okay, need to figure out what the heck to watch tonight…no more reading…crap, I still need to do the weight work…