Well…the no kings rallies were yesterday and they were the biggest protests here in the US for 50 years…the protests spread to the UK and Europe with 200K people showing up in London…I didn’t go to this one just because it was only 33 degrees and my feet and legs are just healing from overuse…and I didn’t want to walk the half mile to the park…8 million people showed up to protest the moron warmonger in chief but now we need to turn that into votes in the fall election and throw out all repubs…and we need to remember that it’s not just the idiot trump doing the damage…without the entire repub party behind him, none of this crap would be happening so we need to stress that point every damn day until November…geez…
March 29th
Well…up at 5am and out of bed by 5:30 so I guess the string holds for another day…need to get off my butt and get moving after the coffee works a bit but I just poured the first sip down so it won’t be for a while…I did get some work done yesterday but I’m not sure if I’ll continue that today…the little weather widget just said we are getting 6 inches of snow Thursday and I just can’t take it anymore…so I’ll do the grocery run before that and then just go into hibernation mode for the weekend…and that just sucks…I am so tired of cold shitty weather and it never frickin ends out here…so I guess I’ll try to clean in here today and watch races…F1, Indycar, and Nascar…and that starts right now so I’ll pour another coffee and watch a bit before I get on the bike for the indoor ride…might be able to ride outdoors today for another 21 mile day but I guess we’ll see….more later…
No one wants to come here…
Well…with the idiot’s ICE out of control and locking up tourists for weeks, the rest of the world has figured out that there much better and safer places to go to spend your time and money…and even the MotoGP commentators are noticing and commenting that people are scared to come here…so the race in Texas tomorrow will have about 40% less spectators than they had before trump’s thugs started terrorizing the country…and that does not bode well for the World Cup being held in the US later in the year…they have started to give away tickets for that since no one from outside want to risk being kidnapped by ICE…and it’s all trump’s fault…and that goes with effects on almost every business sector that depends on immigrant labor…hotels, restaurants, and construction companies are failing all across the country with the fear their workers have…and no, Americans are not going to do those jobs…the idiot trump and his policies are hollowing out this country that will take at least two dem presidents to fix…geez…
Bike room is clean…
Well…after the filter bag fell off inside the shop vac, it spewed dust all over the bike room yesterday that I had to clean up this morning after I got a ride…so I decided to clean the entire room and figured out how to keep the bag on the motor so that won’t happen again…the cement is drying but it’s probably going to be a week until it will be ready for paint…so I’ll do the cobweb patrol until it’s ready…still have some stuff to throw away, too to get the basement where I want it…so, it’s before noon and I have everything done for the day including lunch so there will be races and reading for the rest of the day…MotoGP on right now and Indycar qualifying along with the sportsman race from Martinsville so I’ll have noise for the background all day…and I’m going out to see if I can find a political topic…back later…
March 28th
Well…up a little after 5 this morning…that’s getting to be a little boring, isn’t it? Slept okay, I guess…and I feel okay this morning and I still feel good that I can walk again without a lot of pain…but I’ll have to keep up the water treatment to keep the gout away…I did get some work done yesterday and I really should continue that today but I’m not sure what that would be yet…still working on the kitchen so I should do the floors and the counters in there…it’s only 28 degrees out there heading for another high in the 30’s and that sucks for being almost April…so, of course I won’t be on the outdoor bike today…just started pouring the coffee down and I’d really like it to start working soon so I can get moving…going to be an easy day if I do it right…more later…
I can walk again…
Well…after drinking 13 quarts of water yesterday and another 6 so far today, my right big toe has stopped hurting and I am able to walk again…I am going to have to be more careful with dehydration in the future since this time it hurt to the point that my entire foot hurt from walking to favor the toe…and my hamstrings are getting much better to the point that I wonder if that had to do with dehydration, too…they are just a little stiff but very little pain…so I’ll take that…no outdoor ride today since it’s only 34 degrees out there and I’m not going to be that cold anymore…I did get some work done with mixing up some cement to fill the spalling blocks and floor in the corner of the bike room and I’ll paint it in a couple of days after letting the cement cure…also cleaned the kitchen stove and even took the burner knobs off and soaked them and then scrubbed them so the stove looks clean again…had a huge ham lunch today so no dinner but I am going to make hot ham and cheese crackers for later…okay, back to reading…
What a miscalculation…
Well…after the capture of Maduro in Venezuela, the idiot trump and his minions thought that attacking Iran would be just as easy…and that was probably the biggest miscalculation in history…and what’s not being reported in the mainstream media is how much damage has been done to US bases in the middle east…of the 13 bases the US uses, more than half of them are now uninhabitable due to attacks by Iran and this damage hasn’t entered into the calculation of the cost of this stupid war and the damage runs into the hundreds of billions of dollars…and Iran still has thousands of the drones that are being used in the attacks and has the ability to build thousands more…it appears that no one in the WH even studied how Ukraine is using cheap drones to pummel Russia and that is the model that Iran is using…and guess what? The oil money that came from the idiot trump loosening sanctions on Russia is being used to supply Iran with drones and drone parts so essentially idiot boy is funding the war against us…how the hell does that make sense? This is just another example how stupid it was to go to war with no pre-planning at all…and now all of us are paying the price for his stupidity…geez…
March 27th
Well…that was a little better…up at 5am for the first time but was able to stay in bed til almost 6 and I feel okay…the gout is abating after pouring so much water down me the past few days and I need to keep that up…drank about 13 quarts of water yesterday and have the first one in this morning…but I still need the coffee to work soon so I can get the day started…no outdoor ride today since it’s only 28 and it’s going to barely make 30 today and I’m not going out in the cold…we did get some rain yesterday and I hope it will green up my lawn with the food I put on it Wed…looks pretty crappy right now and it looks like I’ll need to spend a lot of money on seed this year…since I got everything done yesterday including the laundry, today is going to be and easy one and I should be done with everything by 8:30am…I am going to get started on the spalling blocks in the basement today and get the first coat of the special paint on….started to think of buying one last bike yesterday since I’ve used up all of the ones I have…the grey bike that I’m riding now has over 60,000 miles on it and it’s just wearing out…so 7-800 dollars to keep me riding til I’m 80 seems like a pretty good deal…more later….
Still hurt…
Well…going to have to take an ibuprofen again today since my legs still hurt like crazy and they are stiff and not much better then when I first hurt them…and I didn’t help that at all with doing an extra long outdoor ride today looking for a new way to ride out to the beach since they are closing lakeshore drive and the trail up to the beach for repaving that is going to last a few months…but I did find a way through that I can drive and ride and I’ll be getting to the beach from the south instead of the north but that’s okay…I’ve lived here for 5 years and didn’t know you could get through this way…I did have errands to run today to drop off my ballot and pay the water bill…and I hit aldis to get a bunch of asparagus that the other store didn’t have…so it will be ham, mashed potatoes, and roasted asparagus with olive oil and dried onions for the big meal today…probably should skip dinner after having two pieces of pizza for lunch and that is about 700 calories…have been pouring water down the past two days with my damn gout hurting when I walk or even put my shoes on…back to reading…
Poor Zuck…
Well…it hasn’t been a good week for mark zuckerberg since he lost two lawsuits totaling almost 400 million dollars…and both suits brought up the fact that zuck and his creeps at Meta have been targeting children to get them hooked on their platforms so they’ll have their eyes for life…geez…that sounds just like what the tobacco companies did in the 50’s and 60’s and what drug dealers still do…hook them before they have the tools necessary to defend themselves…and internal communication shows that this really was how they saw their future and they didn’t give a damn about the damage they have done and are still doing…and now Europe and the UK are getting into the act since they have stronger laws that protect children and it could even turn into a criminal case and some of these assholes could end up in jail…and none too soon…geez