Well…I wonder if I can hold my breath for the next 17 days? I feel like that waiting for the election to come but there is some good news to share and enjoy…pollsters have continued to move the forecast for the election our way and that is even in some really red parts of the country…gee, I wonder if that’s due to the fact that the idiot trump’s approval has fallen to around 30% and he continue to kiss putin’s ass…ignoring the law and removing some sanctions from Russia…but this time, people are paying attention and the dems have begun to hammer on idiot boy’s corruption since it is the thing that most people in this country rate as the most important to deal with…so, keep it up dems…I’ve voted already with my PAB (permanent absentee ballot) but didn’t trust the corrupt postal service to deliver it on time so I just dropped it at the drop box at the cop shop and I’m sure no one is going to screw with it there…one other good thing happening is the early voting turnout is the highest it has ever been and it is leaning heavily toward dems…and even young people are getting engaged with acts like a group of college students protesting the repubs eliminating voting stations at colleges around the country by walking 100 miles to vote…but the bought and paid for media is not even covering that when it should be the lead story on every news show and newspaper how blatant repub vote suppression is but we won’t see that until the news media is wrenched away from the billionaires who just love them some trump…geez…
October 17th
Well…darn, it’s only 35 degrees out there and that blows a hole in any schedule I might have had….oh, well…so it won’t be warm enough to go out on the bike til 10 or so when it will be 44 but that still means I’ll be in full thermasuit for the first time since March…so, I’ll be sitting here with nothing to do but drink coffee and watch soccer unless I decide to do one ride indoors but I may just wait and try to get away from having to go, go, go and get things done…who knows? I did just check on the two lug nuts I painted with the chrome paint and they really do look like chrome…much better than I expected so they will look cool on the car…going to put one of them on the right front wheel where I’ve been using it in place of the real chrome one that is missing just to see how it holds up in the weather….I sure hope I have the bike fixed so I can get some good rides in today but I do need to start thinking about getting the black bike up and running again or figuring out how to replace the worn out bottom bracket on the grey one…have the tool for it but just couldn’t figure out how to remove it…not much to do today…just going to sit here drinking coffee and doing a couple of these as I wait for the temp to come up…more later…
Got the paint…
Well…just had the chrome paint delivered and then, of course, I went down and painted a couple of lug nuts and it really does look like chrome…and that is pretty cool…and the can is big enough that I can repaint the nuts for years or probably til I die…the day didn’t start out so well with the weather being really crappy…52 degrees, raining, and wind of 25+mph from the north…after I got the first ride in, I started out on the 2nd one and got about halfway when the front shifter stopped working and I was stuck on the center sprocket and nothing I did would get the chain back on the big one…so I came back here and put on some warm clothes and flipped the bike over to see what was going on…after screwing with it for a half hour, I noticed that the clamp that holds the shifter to the downtube had come loose and the shifter rotated out of alignment…so I fixed that and it now works again…and the rear shifter was skipping to go with it and I found a length of cable wrapped around one of the idlers that was keeping the chain from seating on the idler right…so I pulled that out and took the bike for a short ride and it appears fixed…I’ll find out tomorrow morning but not til late…the low is supposed to be 37 tonight and there is a frost warning out so I’ll wait for it to warm up a bit..I did find my winter gloves and hat if I do want to go out in the cold but right now being cold is the last thing I want…time to read a bit before tv…
160 million bucks down the drain…
Well…if anyone needed a better reason to tax billionaires out of existence, just take a look at the Texas senate race where ole elon is trying to buy the seat for the corrupt criminal paxton…musk has dropped 160 million dollars into this race and it made me smile this morning when I read that Tallarico has gained voters in the last poll since elon started to try to buy the seat…so, keep it up elon…why not spend the rest of your fortune on this race? You’re going to lose most of it anyway since you helped Russia murder Ukrainians this week…and that little fascist bit of treachery has not gone unnoticed in capitals around the world to the point that many countries are looking to end their reliance on you completely…do you think a dem run house is going to let you continue to pollute space with your starlink bullshit? I sure wouldn’t count on it if I were you…the world is already starting to say “enough” to your support of fascist movements across the world and there is even talk of rescinding your US citizenship since it was gotten fraudulently…so gloat while you can, asshole…the world is coming for you and not even a flying car can save your ass…geez..
October 16th
Well…damn, didn’t get out of bed until after 6am today and I’m not sure why…I mean I was pretty exhausted yesterday but not more than normal so that couldn’t be it…I wonder if it’s all the crappy sleep catching up with me? Whatever it is, it made me late for getting the day started and the weather widget says it’s raining but I’ll have to look to see if that’s true….just need to pour coffee down and maybe start another pot since it’s a leftover coffee day and I may not have enough for a jump start this morning…it looks like an easy day today with nothing to do but the rides and I am looking forward to that…the chrome paint for the lug nuts is getting here today and I’ll have them painted this afternoon…I am curious to see how much it looks like real chrome…I may have to use the rain gear this morning if it’s still spitting rain but it’s warm enough to go out in shorts here in a minute…man, I am having a hard time getting moving today so I need to grit my teeth and get off my butt and get started…more later
It finally rained…
Well…it rained her finally and I’m glad I got the lawn mowed this morning before it started…I’ll be picking up the leaves at least once a week now that they are falling steadily…oh, well…that comes with owning a house…I did take the one winter wheel nut I had on the car off today and cleaned it and painted it with 2 coats of the silver so I can paint them all when I get the chrome tomorrow…I did get the top cleaner and dressing today and I’ll have to read the instructions on how to use it before I get started…it’s supposed to make it completely waterproof and I hope it lasts until I die so I don’t have to replace the top…a thought came to me when I was on the run to DD today and enjoying the car…it has no cowl shake at all…compared to every other convertible I’ve owned, it is solid and I can hit a big bump and nothing…my first convert, a 71 Fiat 124 spyder, would shake like a dog when you hit a bump and you could see it in the windshield moving…just like my old Miata…it took me while to figure it out…I did finish the 2nd book out of the haul today and I may have overestimated how much time it will take to read them all…okay, I need to pick another book to read…
It couldn’t happen to a bigger asshole…
Well…I really hope this is the beginning of the end for ole elon…after shutting down his stupid starlink service causing multiple deaths in Ukraine, people across the world are waking up to the fact that having one person owning a vital resource that people’s lives depend on is not a good idea…especially when it is a fascist asshole like musk…after he stabbed Ukraine in the back with approval by the idiot trump, the premier of Poland basically said that musk needs to be really careful with his next move since there are alternatives to his crap and more countries than Poland are now thinking of abandoning it…but these are just words and I won’t applaud until one of them actually does either end starlink or actually charge musk with the war crimes he is committing every day…that would put a little crimp in his meddling in world affairs like him spending over 500 million dollars to try to protect the repubs in the US…now, does anyone else see why taxing these billionaires out of existence needs to happen? I would like to know what states his businesses are chartered in and see if the states can revoke them..or outlaw corporate money in politics like Hawaii has done…he doesn’t know the shitstorm that is coming for him after this betrayal of Ukraine…and it can’t happen to a bigger asshole…geez…
October 15th
Well…the computer did a hard reboot overnight and what a pain…and it looks like there is a new version of firefox running…I just wish they’d leave me alone and just let the computer be…didn’t get out of be til 5:46 this morning and that makes me late for the whole day…so I need to run my ass off to get on the bike by 6:30…okay…need to stop thinking like that…I have nothing to do but mow the lawn today and maybe make a run to DD after that’s done so who cares if it’s done by 10 or 11am? I still need to toast a bagel after I got done here so I’ll have some fuel to get me moving…I did get a few things done yesterday and even after I mow the lawn I have shrub trimming to do along with some tree branches to take down…but that won’t be today since it’s supposed to rain this afternoon…ha,ha…it never rains here…not as sore this morning but I still may take an ibuprofen before I get on the bike since I’m mowing when I’m done…not sure why I’ve hurt so much on the bike but I think it’s just getting used to it again after 16 days off…but it’s been over a week and that should be enough…I do feel the pain from running the string trimmer and doing the weed walk yesterday so I think an ibuprofen will help with that….more later….
Busy but not bad…
Well…it was kind of a busy day today but not too bad…after getting the rides in, I cleaned up and did the grocery run and dropped my ballot off downtown along with hitting the library to take back 4 books…after that I decided to work on the yard some with running the string trimmer and then doing the weed walk since I had lots of little weeds in it…going to mow the lawn without the bag tomorrow morning for the last time and then I’ll be picking up the leaves with the mower from now on until they’re all down…so more work tomorrow morning since it’s supposed to rain in the aft and rain off and on for a couple of days…I did find some chrome paint on amazon and bought a can today so I can paint all the lug nuts in chrome instead of the silver I bought…will leave the 2 coats of silver on them as a primer and just paint over it…I also bought some coconut oil to use in masala since I’m out of it and want to make some next week…okay, want to read some before tv time…
So now elon is attacking Ukraine…
Well…we all know that ole elon is a fascist asshole, and he proved that yesterday by throttling his starlink satellite internet that Ukraine uses to protect itself from putin and his Russian thugs…so now elon is responsible for the 25 Ukrainians killed last night since he took away Ukraine’s ability to intercept Russian drones and missiles….so now I think he is a “enemy combatant” and Ukraine should go after all of his infrastructure for starlink in the world and even ole elon himself…he thinks this is a frickin game so let’s play it with him…he deserves to be attacked for this betrayal and interference with this war and just shows you that billionaires need to be taxed out of existence…no person should have the power to kill an entire country by using his money to do it…I really don’t think he understands what this is going to mean when we win in 3 weeks…his ass is going to be sitting in front of congress for ever and his money isn’t going to help him…take this son of a bitch down…he is a war criminal after all…