Well…I have been able to get caught up all day and I didn’t even get any time to read…but a lot of that is my fault so I guess I shouldn’t bitch too much…the day started with the first ride3 where I got almost to the beach and the front tire started to fail with a huge bulge in it thumping away through the handlebars…so turned around and rode back and that took me out of being able to get two rides in before the grocery run…got back here and luckily I bought a couple of tires months back to change onto the front…then I did the grocery run and forgot my 12 bucks in coupons so I had to come home to get them and go back to Meijers…after that I did the run to aldis where I didn’t get any cream cheese because I don’t like the plain stuff…so it looks like just toasted bagels with butter until the trip…after DD I wended my way through town and all of the construction to go to the city offices to pay the water bill and taxes…and the check for the taxes fell out of the bill so I had to come back here to get it and then back to the offices to pay it…then I got on the bike for the 2nd ride a little after 11 and didn’t get back here til almost 12:15 and then I had maintenance to do on the bike that took about a half hour and discovered a crack in the seat tube in the frame so it looks like I’ll have to get the black bike working and that means a complete rebuild since I’ve been stealing parts off it for years to keep the grey one going…after that, I did more packing and didn’t get that done til almost 4pm…oh, Meijers sent me a coupon for 7 bucks for bounty paper towel so I had to use that along with ones for free stuff…so yeah, it’s been a damn busy day and I am just worn out…I do like the new tire and will put the 2nd one on the rear so they match…probably not until I get back from Italy, though…yay…I get a half hour to read….
It’s still a cult…
Well…as the orange idiot puts on his midterm “convention”, from what I’ve read about so far the repub party is still a cult with their god king trump at the center of it…I mean having every available wall space plastered with idiot boy’s ugly mug is not how a normal political party acts…and all of the speeches were about how “great” idiot boy is…nothing about diesel prices over 6 bucks a gallon, or how the repubs are going to tackle the affordability crisis or inflation…nope just sickening trump praise as the rest of the world calls the idiot what he is…detached from reality…and that is evidenced by the 37 AI generated memes he posted over the weekend that had him beating up people and dropping bombs on all of his enemies…just today I read an article where many psychiatrists have diagnosed this behavior as being a response to the idiot screwing up everything he touches and see him rapidly approaching delusions that would put anyone else in a mental institution….but the repubs just keep on supporting him and covering up for his mental illness and his continuing war crimes…and the dems are finally promising to hold these assholes accountable when we take back congress this fall and every dem running should shout that from the rooftops…that this is criminal, mentally ill behavior and not just “trump being trump”…geez…
September 10th
Well…damn, I knew that sleeping was not going to get easy even with not getting out of bed til 6:25 yesterday…so, I’m back to waking up at 4:30 and that sucks…and I have a lot of stuff to do this morning so I need to get at it…and I need to eat something before I get on the bike since I know I was under with calories yesterday…going to hit DD this morning to buy freezer food for when I get back from Italy so I can ease back into normal life….need to do the weight work before I get on the bike so I don’t skip it like yesterday…only going to do one ride before I get going unless I get the first one done before 7:30 since I can’t hit Meijers until 9am with having a prescription to pick up…going to have to keep packing today so I’ll be ready to fly in a week and that means laundry today but I still need clothes to wear so I’ll have to do another load next week…at least it’s not raining so I’ll be able to keep the car cleaned and put the top down for the runs today…need to go to the city offices to pay my taxes and water bill after the groceries so I am going to get going right now…more later…
30+ miles two days in a row..
Well…I really wasn’t planning on doing another 30+ miles today with the rain that was forecast but it didn’t rain here so I kept going to get two rides in…I noticed a funny thing on the ride, that the road through the rich people’s development is a “private” road and I really do like pissing off rich people so that is a bonus for the detour…I’m expecting them to come running out of their houses and yell ‘get off my lawn” or some other bullshit as I ride through…and I will laugh my butt off when they do…I did see some of my deer from the dunes in that development today eating the newly planted shrubs that the owners had put in…and that made me laugh out loud…then just down the street my big flock of turkeys were in a yard that had a hand painted sign that said “turkey crossing” and had a cartoon turkey on it…pretty funny…so it looks like the detour is going to be okay and I realized that doing a half mile hard climb results in a cool thing…what goes up, must come down and I got to coast back down the hill at almost 30 mph…and I did see more than houses and cars and I just had to open my eyes and look up to see it…I did start packing for the Italy trip today and got some stuff done and I’ll keep that up over the weekend so I’ll be ready to go on the 18th….okay, time to watch a little tv…
Lying about 9/11…again…
Well…we all know that the idiot trump is the biggest liar in the history of this country, and he is at it again as we run up to the 25th anniversary of that shitty day…first an aside…my MIL who I loved like a mother died that day and it still hurts all of these years later…now, back to the idiot…his latest lie is that some “huge firefighters” pulled him from the rubble that day when, in fact, he was miles away when the buildings came down…and that is easily proven…but, as always, he makes even even tragedies all about him…I mean, how frickin delusional do you have to be to lie about that…and how far in the tank is all of the media in this country when they don’t call him out in huge headlines about the lies…and his followers are still eating this crap up and praising him for his actions on 9/11…let’s remember one of his other 9/11 lies that Muslim people in New Jersey were “dancing in the streets” when the attack happened…that one was clearly debunked when no one could produce photos or videos of any of it…and yet he was allowed by the media to get away with it and he still uses that lie to attack Muslims in this country even 25 years later…how many more tragedies will it take trump crapping on before people get tired of it? Get out and vote…geez…
September 9th
Well…this is too weird…didn’t get out of bed til almost 6:30 this morning and that is going to make me late for getting on the bike…and rain is coming in so it looks like only one ride outdoors today and one ride indoors and that gives me no time to eat anything before I go out…will pour down at least one cup of coffee that I’m working on right now but I really need 2 but there is no time for that…I really am not sure what the hell happened to keep me in bed 8 hours but I’ll take it…have some energy this morning but I don’t like that I’m expending it racing around here to get on the bike…will probably still get wet but it’s 70 here so that will be okay…maybe I’ll take coffee with me on the bike for the first ride and then think about making more after I get back…but I do need water so probably not…going to keep the car clean by not driving it in the rain today but I think I need to get over it…but isn’t that what being retired is all about? Doing things when I want to without a schedule? Think so but I do need to get off my butt and get going….more later…
More miles…
Well…today was the first day of the new detour around the road construction and it does add more miles to my daily ride…checked the computer and the new mileage per ride is now 15.2 with finding a shortcut through a rich person’s development that cuts 1/2 mile off each ride…and the development is another one of those “affordable” ones that starts at 850K and goes up to 1.3 million…now sure where they got affordable out of that but I think they need a new dictionary…payments of 4,000 a month is not “affordable” to anyone I know…and the new route has two climbs in it that are brutal…the first one is 100 yards of 23% to get up on the plateau and then there is another long one of a half mile at the same difficulty…needless to say, my legs are pretty sore from the climbs and almost 31 miles today…I’m not really sure if this is going to be the standard ride every day or if I may do 8 miles indoors and then 15 outdoors…I guess we’ll see…didn’t get anything else done today but write checks and read…oh, I did cook too and that means I don’t have to tomorrow…I may push the grocery run back to Thursday since I need to pick up my cholesterol prescription that won’t be ready til after 3 pm Wed…oh, I did service the outdoor bike since the chain needed lube and it needed air in the tires but I need to really clean it up but not until after the rain tomorrow and tomorrow night…it will just get gunked up again so I’ll wait til Thursday when it’s dry…and I don’t want to get my nice clean car dirty in the rain…okay, just finished another book and want to get another one started…
Is there anything more ridiculous?
Well…instead of doing any part of a normal president’s job, the idiot trump is now trying to change the name of New Mexico to “New America” by using his most awesome tool, the sharpie marker that he uses whenever he wants to visually lie to go with all of the other lies he spews every day…is there anything more ridiculous than this orange asshole? Has he done anything to make anyone’s life better other than his own and the billionaire oligarchs who bought the last election for him? The question that has been asked multiple times in many campaigns is “are you better off?”…are you better off than when Joe Biden was running the show…if you think it’s a right to vote, you aren’t….if you are trying to buy a house you aren’t…I mean 6.75% interest on a home loan has priced most people out of the market and yet the idiot does nothing about that…and let’s talk about the cost of living and the thing that’s on everyone’s mind, the stupid trump war with Iran that has sent diesel fuel to it’s highest price ever and that cost is being paid by you and me, let alone gas prices that have gone from 2.60 a gallon to 4.58 because trump is so stupid…so no, idiot boy is not doing anything for anyone but himself and his cronies…and yet people keep voting for this asshole…and that makes me question the intelligence of the people who did…of course they’re stupid, and racist, and hateful…but why should we have to pay for that? Geez…
September 8th
Well…damn, what a crappy night of sleep…up and down all night and finally woke up for good at 4:25…laid in bed for almost another hour, though, and none of it was sleeping…ick…had a skin tag that I removed with clippers and it bled for over 3 hours but that is normal since it does that every time I clip the damn thing off…might have to get something to remove it permanently…this old body is getting weirder by the day…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I need to get cleaning and packing today and that will continue until I leave…don’t think I ate enough again yesterday with just a bagel, bowl of soup, and a chicken wrap for the day and I really don’t know how I can do better than that….so I will start today with a bagel again just to keep my legs from going flat but they don’t hurt so no ibuprofen…but I may have some more electrolytes at the ride break when I get my coffee for the 2nd ride…need to get going on drinking coffee since I’m still only on my first cup and I do need the jolt from the caffeine…it’s still in the 50’s right now and I hope the humidity is still down like yesterday…that makes it much more comfortable…so, coffee, coffee, coffee and a bagel before I get on the weight work…more later…
A better day…
Well….after the dead legs and huge amounts of pain I had in them yesterday, I was expecting that to continue today so I took an ibuprofen before I got on the bike this morning and the rides weren’t bad…I also made up a quart of electrolyte water to drink after the first ride and I think that may have helped since I had energy through the 2nd ride and could still go pretty hard right to the end….and my legs weren’t stiff or puffy so I think I may be past that…I did get a little work done today with sweeping out the garage and vacuuming, washing and waxing the car…and I even read half a book as I was watching the drag races that were on all day…so while I didn’t get a lot done, I did get more done than yesterday and that’s not bad…I have been reading a lot about the new trend where people are getting tired of always having to accomplish something more that just living and I laughed that it describes me perfectly…I do not ever remember allowing myself to just live and do what I want with no guilt for it…that’s going to take a lot of work on my part and I’m not sure I’ll ever get there…I did see a couple of huge puffballs along the trail this morning and they were almost 18 inches across…the biggest ones I have ever seen…pretty cool…okay, back to reading…