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…
August 22nd
Well…up and going by 5:10 this morning and that was just to get to see the F1 sprint race but I need to get on the bike by 6 so I’ll miss it and try to pick it up when Man U starts at 7:30…so that puts the 2nd ride in limbo until about 10 when the Match will be over…so the schedule is blown up this morning and that’s okay…I really need to stop feeling bad when I don’t have everything go the way I want…the rain that was supposed to come yesterday fell to the Muskegon force field and there is none in the forecast until I get back from Italy so I won’t have to worry about the lawn getting away while I’m away…I did get a little work done yesterday and I’d like to continue that today by cutting the perennials back for the fall since I did get rid of the hornets…finally…and I need to get the brush killer applied so I don’t have to keep trimming the trash brush in the fenceline…I think I need to have a bagel before I go out to keep the energy level up through the morning…weights will wait, though, until during the Man U match…so, I need to get more coffee to pour down and toast the bagel so I can be on the bike in the dark…more later…
Got the last of the hornets cleaned up…
Well…after getting the holes plugged that the hornets were using to nest, I still had a bunch of dead ones on the floor downstairs so I cleaned that all up today along with cleaning the glass block windows that were full of dirt just from how dry it’s been here and the blowing dust that comes from it…so I vacuumed them and took cleaner to them and they look a lot better…but that’s all I did today after the rides and that made for a lazy day for me…I did get up at 5:10 this morning to get an early start on the day but I didn’t really…I did get the weight work done before I got on the bike but didn’t get out til it was light again today…but tomorrow I’ll need to get out by 6 to be back here by 7:30 when Man U plays their first match of the new season that started today…and the F1 sprint race is on at 5:15 so I may be able to see that before I get on the bike…I think I do like the 2% milk I tried this week but the extra calories are something I don’t need…oh, I did do laundry, too but that’s it…I do like the new shorts I bought and may buy another pair for the Italy trip since they are lightweight and only 14.70 a pair…so I can order them and all the travel soaps, shampoo, and toothpaste I need to take with me…I am glad I bought more espresso beans, too and that will be the last bag I need to buy this year…have 8.8 pounds unopened with another 3 pounds opened so I can grind beans every day if I want…I was reminded that there is an air show at the airport here this weekend by a pair of WWII trainers that flew in formation over my house today…I just love the sound of big radial engines on aircraft…can’t wait to see what else flies over…
Data centers need to be stopped…
Well…finally…the public has come around to my stand on the stupid data centers that have sprouted like poison mushrooms all over the world…and now 75% of Americans have come around to that idea that they are basically useless and use so many resources that there is not going to be any leftover for you and me to live with…even in Texas the rural areas are starting to revolt against the plague that their governor is foisting on them and it could cost him the election in November…look, even with the limited reporting so far it is clear that these centers do all kind of damage to the communities they are forced on with reports of noise and heat pollution and aquifers dropping dangerously as they tap the groundwater to cool the thousands of servers each one of these have…and now the repubs want them to be able to use unregulated power plants to provide power to them…how would you like a pollution spewing coal fired power plant in your neighborhood? That’s the next thing that is coming as the repubs give the assholes that own these centers a return on their investment in getting them elected…so now is the time to fight against the billionaires who have already laid waste to this country by buying tax cuts so they don’t pay a dime in supporting the country…it’s time to say enough and try to keep some of this country and world for us…geez…