Well…okay, it was another easy day today and all I did was get the rides in late and went out to get fuel for the equipment and fill up the car…40 frickin dollars and it’s not going to get better anytime soon…but I have enough gas to get me to next year and that’s the first time I got gas for the equipment this year…it does help that I have a 5 gallon gas can for the mower and a 2 gallon for the string trimmer…the hornets really are gone since I didn’t see any today and it’s about time…never had such a pain getting rid of them before…persistent little suckers…I have been making a list of the travel stuff I need and I’ll order that tomorrow…I still can’t believe that I can’t have a normal sized sunscreen in my checked bag…or the generic voltaren that I need for my thumb pain…going to empty out my bathroom and take everything I may need for 12 days in Italy…it made me laugh today when a bunch of my Mastodon friends asked me if I’m going to post photos of my trip and keep a running commentary and of course I said yes…they said it was like being there for the UK trip and that made me smile and I’m so lucky to be able to take the trip…most people can’t afford to burn 5 grand just to travel and I realize that…I did talk to my daughter today to iron out some details and make sure we’re on the same page…I do need to study the itinerary to make sure I know what’s going on…okay…time to get ready for some tv time tonight…
What the hell, Hakeem Jeffries?
Well…I really thought that Hakeem Jeffries was one of us who would do everything they could to stop the idiot trump from doing more damage to this country…but no, this centrist moron had a meeting with the criminal kushner for some reason and I think it’s just to appease them for some reason…there is no excuse for this crap and it’s clear that Jeffries doesn’t have the awareness to know that any contact with this criminal enterprise will do nothing but allow people to sit on their hands when it is all hands on deck for this crisis…we need dem leaders like Ossoff who know the seriousness of the situation and attacks at every juncture…and that means no meetings that will normalize these criminals. giving them permission to continue to ruin this country…the only response to kushner or any other criminal from the idiot trump’s circle is to isolate them and tell them bluntly that we will resist any and all tries to normalize their criminal behavior and they will be prosecuted…we don’t need the “leader” of the house caucus meeting with them like Chamberlain did with hitler…there is no reason to think they won’t lie cheat and steal no matter how the “talks” go…geez…
August 24th
Well…damn, it’s only 52 degrees out here and I’m already running late with not getting out of bed til almost 6…and I wonder why I’m not crowing about the good sleep but it wasn’t good with tossing and turning all night…geez…I may have to dig my long riding pants out for the first ride today along with a fleece…but this is the transition weather that is hard to dress for…I mean freezing in shorts or boiling in partial thermasuit…it was really dark on the trail for the first ride yesterday and I almost bought myself a rechargeable bike light but I’m trying to not spend money until the trip…I do need to buy some travel size stuff to take with me but I need to make a list first…I do know I’ll need some sunscreen both for here and travel but I do think I have two small sample tubes of toothpaste that I got from the dentist…will figure that out today…need to go out and get gas for the equipment this morning so I’ll have it here when I need it next…will have to mow before I go and I don’t have enough gas in the can to do that…I really need to change the oil in the car and will do that this week…still have two oil changes that came with the car that I need to use…so, I won’t be out til almost 7am today but that’s early enough and gives me enough time to have another cup of coffee and a bagel before I go…more later….
A really easy day…
Well…it ended up being a really easy day today after I decided to take a day off other than riding the bike…I just needed to rest from all the work yesterday and it hit me that I’m not young anymore…so to manage my energy is going to be the new normal for me and I’m okay with that…I mean what 73 year old does 26 miles on his bike and that’s not enough for the day? Me, I guess…I did check for hornets a couple of times today and didn’t see one so maybe I have that problem solved…and I hit the trash shrub that used to be a trash tree with brush killer yesterday and it appears that it is already working and maybe I won’t have to prune the damn thing to keep the branches out of my fence…and the ones I cut off yesterday filled half a bag that I need to put out Tuesday…have been trying to kill that damn thing for 5 years and maybe I finally have done it…hope so…but that brush killer cost me 17 bucks and that’s not cheap…after all the work yesterday, my yard looks pretty good and the neighbors commented on how good my house looks after I washed it a couple of weeks ago so that was worth it…okay, need to read some and figure out what to watch on tv tonight…
I’ve lost respect for Roger Penske…
Well…before the debacle of the trump indycar race today, I had a lot of respect for the owner of indycar, Roger Penske, and what he has done through his life…but, for the life of me I can’t understand why he would spend 30 million dollars of indycar’s money just to fluff the asshole in chief by putting on a race in DC…now I know that the apologists will say that it was part of the USA 250 celebration, but it wasn’t…it was a pure kiss trump’s ass event which everyone on air was instructed that they had to praise the idiot trump through the whole thing…and I’ve lost all respect for the announcers of the race, too…to allow themselves to be used to praise someone who is objectively the worst person in the world shows that they have no sense of duty to this country…and the one other little thing is that the federal government paid 60 million dollars to put this travesty on…how many people could have stayed on Medicaid for 60 million dollars? And it’s the same old bullshit…we can’t afford to help anyone who needs it but we can afford to build emperor trump his glass house where he squatted to pretend to watch the race…since Roger Penske owns and calls the shots for indycar, it’s on him for kissing trump’s ugly fat ass…geez…
Destroying the post office…
Well…is there nothing that the orange idiot will do to try to cheat in this fall’s election? It doesn’t appear there is as he has ordered the post office to ignore the courts and put together a plan to not deliver mail in ballots in states who won’t compromise their elections by giving in to the extortion by idiot boy and giving him their voter information…now, jesus, there is no role for the executive branch in elections at all in the constitution but that doesn’t stop the idiot from trying to use every part of his corrupt government to cheat his ass off this fall…what I can’t understand is how many people that will corrupt themselves to do idiot boy’s bidding…do they have no honor or sense if right and wrong? What all of this shows is the US is infested with people who have chosen to break every law and the constitution just for a little transitory power…and every damn one of these assholes should be prosecuted when we take the government this fall…and right now the dems should be shouting to the rooftops that whoever is doing all of these crimes are going to pay…this is how the law is supposed to work but all of these toadies know that they can break as many laws that they want and idiot boy will pardon them…and this is the most egregious corruption of this country that there is…and the idiot needs to pay for that, too…geez…
August 23rd
Well…up early again today at 5:03 and today there is a reason for it…want to get 2 rides in before the F1 race starts at 8am but I’ll still miss the start of it since it takes 2 1/2 hours for 2 rides and I’m not getting out til 6am…too damn dark to go out earlier…had a tiny little storm that came through last evening with just a little rain but a cool rainbow that lasted a half hour…it was a double with the inner bright one and then a faint one on the outside of it…pretty cool…I did get the yard work done yesterday and put the brush killer on the trash tree so that should be starting to die as soon as it rains and washes the killer into the ground…I did see a few aircraft from the air show yesterday….and a c-130 kept going around and around here before the storm…no rain in the forecast until I get back from Italy so I’m not going to have to worry about mowing it since I’ll do that just before I go…already pretty sore from weeding yesterday and all of the bending down it took and my right thumb is howling in pain from gripping the weeds…got 2 bags of perennials off just the east side of the house and the back…I left the milkweed plants I have been trying to get to grow and well see if they ever bloom to draw in some Monarchs…not much to do today…need to get on the bike in 20 minutes but need to pour down another cup of coffee before then…but then I’m taking the day off other than cleaning some in the kitchen…more later…
Well…did work again today…
Well…hey, got work done again today after the bike rides…when I was working on cutting down the perennials that were done blooming for the year, there were hornets out there again and I found that I missed one little crack that they were still trying to get into…so I sprayed and then mixed up some cement to cement every damn crack and anything that looked like one and they are still trying to get in…but they should give up in a day or so but I’ll keep an eye on it…it does look nice that I got the weeds out with the perennials and it looks nice and clean again…but that’s all I got done today but at least it’s something…I think I like the shorts I bought and may even buy another pair so I’ll have 4 pair to take to Italy…and I have to get my travel sizes of mouthwash, toothpaste and everything else I need to maintain this old body…have been eating a lot and haven’t had another episode of exhaustion in a while so I guess I’m just going to have to live at the weight I am now or even a little heavier and I don’t like that one bit…oh, well…so now I need to get ready to watch a little tv and relax a bit…
Not going to watch the trump indy car race…
Well…there is no damn way on this earth that I would watch anything that the idiot trump is involved in and this weekend’s indy car race is essentially a trump grand prix where he would be on the screen way to many times, even taking his limo for a ride around the course and then they have built a private viewing area for him that dominates the site so they will be showing his ugly ass all day…we all know this race is just to kiss trump’s ass and I fault the owner of indycar, Roger Penske, for getting in line to fluff trump’s ego by giving him the attention he can’t live without…just ask Natalie Harp how needy this asshole is…after all she is his “binkie” who is there to make sure he gets enough praise to keep him from melting down…have you ever needed someone like that whose only job was to make sure you never had to see or interact with the real world? No, I didn’t think so…and the stink of trump is now all over indycar so I may not watch another race this year…and this just shows you how out of touch the owners of the te3ams are as they fawn all over the asshole in chief…I guess they like those millionaire tax cuts he gave them…goodbye indycar…geez…
Canada won’t be bullied…
Well…in a great example of the idiot trump’s power going away, Canada walked away from trade talks with the US as idiot boy tried to bully them into taking a bad deal…so the idiot then put 50% tariffs on Canadian goods and Canada did exactly the same thing on all American goods and have announced that they will not buy anything from the US and will support workers who are affected by this trump tantrum…and idiot boy has just re ignited the buy Canadian fervor that has caused huge drops in sales of anything American there…and what the hell is idiot boy thinking he was going to get from Canada by bullying them? It’s clear that all of our trading partners are tired of trump’s bullshit and are moving on without us as long as the asshole in chief is in charge…and I think they should and have been saying that for a while now…the only way to deal with an ignorant bully is to ignore him and make deals with rational, reasonable countries…and that is what the world is doing…how is he going to explain the coming recession caused by his stupidity? Can’t wait to hear that…geez…