Well… after all the work yesterday, it was nice to take it easier today and just kind of wing it…will be back at it tomorrow with the grocery runs to do but I’m not going out til later since they have the road torn up over on Sternberg and it’s a pain getting through…so I’ll go to the local Meijers and Aldis to avoid the traffic…I did work on the lug nuts for the winter wheels today…hitting them with a wire brush on my drill/driver and then painting them 2 coats with the silver I bought yesterday…they aren’t chrome but they look pretty good since they are not oxidized like they were and look finished so I can live with them…I may look at depot to see if I can get a small can of chrome for the overcoat but it’s not necessary…I wonder how they will fare in the snow over the winter? Can’t be worse than they were…I think I’ll get the string trimmer out for the last time tomorrow and do the fencelines and around the house…might even mow the lawn to keep the grass short so the wind can blow the leaves away…that does work and saves me a lot of work but we haven’t had much wind here lately but I’m sure we’ll get some as the weather changes…was able to go out in a t-shirt and shorts in the dark this morning since it never got under 70 here but that was the last day this year…50’s and 40’s overnight from here on out…I did get my ballot completed today and will drop it off with the library books I’m done with after the grocery run tomorrow…okay, time to start a new book…
Can he be any more of a traitor?
Well…what the hell do you say about a so called president of this country who puts Russia’s needs ahead of the US? To start with, traitor…when idiot boy tries to do a deal with Russia that will mean billions of dollars to putin and will help Russia continue to attack US service people through the missiles and other weapons they are giving Iran, the only thing to call it is treason…and, have you heard anything from the repubs in charge of the congress whose job it is to limit the damage idiot boy can do to this country? Of course not…they are too busy kissing trump’s ass to do their jobs…and what about the amount of diesel the idiot contracted for? Yeah, even if it all showed up here, which it won’t, it would supply the US needs for days only…so this is just another piece of lying bullshit from the idiot and it’s only goal is to help repubs who are trouble in the election in 3 weeks…after all, if idiot boy wanted to do something to lower prices, he wouldn’t go to Russia and pay 50% more than he would have to pay if he just removed the tariffs on Canadian diesel and allowed import of Canada’s supplies…but no, the asshole in chief would rather stab Ukraine in the back to get a pat on the head by his buddy putin no matter how many school children putin murders…everything this asshole does is an impeachable offense and I sure hope the dems will do what they should…geez…
October 13th
Well…I can tell this is going to be a day where I’ll need extra coffee made with how I feel right now…didn’t get up til 5:23 and I am late to get the day started…again…but I do have to remind myself I can’t be late for anything anymore…what does it matter if I get the bike rides done by 8:30 or 9? But I do want to get out in the dark with it almost 70 right now to have the last day in the year of going out in a t-shirt at 6:30 am…have been pretty sore lately but feel a little better this morning so I’ll skip the ibuprofen…my legs are having a hard time adjusting to being back on the bike after 16 days off and I sure hate getting old since I know that’s why I lost my bike fitness so easily…oh, well…I do have to get my ballot filled out so I can drop it off tomorrow and I have to do a grocery list but that is the only work I have to do today after getting a lot done yesterday….it was supposed to rain last night but nothing except about a 5 minute shower late yesterday afternoon so that’s not enough to get the food washed into the ground…but there are more showers for later in the week and I will need to figure out when to mow…okay, need to get the 2nd cup of coffee and a bagel then on the bike…more later…
A busy day til noon…
Well…the day started out as every other day does with two rides…oh, and I went over 6,000 miles for the year today…a little less than I wanted and I’m not really sure how I’ve done so few miles this year…but I did get over my minimum of 6K so anything more is just a bonus…okay, back to the day…after the rides I cleaned the chain and the idlers on the shifter since they were really gunked up…I really don’t think I’ve cleaned the chain this year…at least not with the stainless steel brush I have for it…then I re lubed the chain before I headed out to Menards to get the winter lawn food, leaf bags, and chrome paint for the winter lug nuts…I tried one and it came out really cool and it was a big can for 6 bucks so I’ll be able to repaint them when they flake…then I put the food on the lawn and after that I did a load of laundry…and I was finally done by noon…I’m almost through with the first book from my library haul and it’s pretty cool that I don’t have to rush to get it done before the due date…okay, I’m done for the day…
A funny thing happened…
Well…a funny thing happened the other day when Ukraine hit Russian data centers as part of their defense against the thug putin…the traffic on right wing sites across the world dropped by 50%…posts that are claimed to be from local people everywhere were exposed to just be part of the Russian bot attacks that started back in 2016 when they helped elect idiot boy to his first failed “presidency”…and people are starting to believe what some of us have been saying since the smell of interference started to come out of Russia…and now even the UK is saying that the brexit lies were all driven by a Russian op that was meant to weaken the UK by cutting them off from the EU…and this crap continues all over Europe as the Russians are fighting a secret war against the west…and the easily manipulated trump is right in the middle of it…being convinced by putin to lift sanctions on their oil sales and even trying to buy diesel from putin, putting billions of dollars into his pocket to use to attack Ukraine and the US as the idiot trump ignores the fact that putin is giving missiles to Iran and now can build more with the US money…what a stupid person idiot boy is…geez…
October 12th
Well…that was better…didn’t get out of bed til 5:35 and the last hour or so I had dreams so I mush have been sleeping okay…just poured the first cup of coffee and I need to pour it down so I can get to a 2nd one before I get on the bike in a few minutes…have some things to do today starting with cleaning the chain on the bike and re lubing it since I haven’t done that this summer and it is pretty gunked up…then I need to find a new way to Menards to get the fall lawn food that is cheaper than depot with the road work going on…guess I’ll put the top down and go for a drive…and then I need to put the food on with it going to rain tonight and get it washed in to the ground…feel okay today with eating enough lately..and I tried the gelato I bought Wed and had no pain at all…could get used to that but at 4 bucks per pint, that is a bit expensive….need to use up all the food I still have in the fridge and that means making the last pizza to use up the green pepper, mushrooms, and pepperoni I have in there…and that will last me for 3 days along with the chicken I cooked for wraps…more later….
Lots more books…
Well…it was a pretty good day today that started out with seeing a freighter unloading in the dark on the first ride and lit up so brightly I didn’t need the lights on my bike for that part of the trail…got a photo of it and it really came out looking cool…even with a 12 year old phone…after the rides, I went over to the library for bag day where you could fill a paper grocery bag to the top+ for 5 bucks…but I gave them a 20 since it was going to the library and they can use the cash…so I added 20 more books to my haul for 35 books this year and a lot of them I haven’t read so I’ll be working on them til after Thanksgiving…have 4 books to go back and then no more for a while…not bad for 35 bucks…a buck a book? That’s a screaming deal to me and I am going to have to buy another bookcase soon…so I’ll start looking for one soon…my legs have been sore for the past few days and I really don’t know why…haven’t been stressing them much on the bike so maybe an ibuprofen tomorrow would be a good idea…we’ll see…
Walmart is still evil…
Well…you know I’ve ranted how the walton family of walmart infamy steals over 7 billion dollars a year from you and me by paying their employees so little that everyone other than managers qualify for food stamps and Medicaid…and that 7 billion dollars goes straight into the walton’s pockets every year….just today, I read an article about how walmart is tracking their customers all day and selling all that data to make even more money and that is just evil…but the 2nd part of that is they now have electronic price tags in all their stores that use customer data to manipulate prices up to 6 times a second…and if you’ve ever paid full price for any item at walmart, they jack up the prices they are charging you since the data shows them that you can afford to pay more and will…so now the person in front of you could pay 50% less than you’ll be charged at the checkout…and a lot of times you won’t know the real price until you’re paying it since they can change it between the shelves and checkout…no, in my book that is just evil and supports my complete boycott of walmart…I’ve set foot in one once in my life and will never again…please don’t support such an evil company…geez…
Just another way to bribe trump…
Well…you know idiot boy was lying when he said that private donations were going to pay for his lame freedom 250 events and his stupid ballroom…but that didn’t mean that he wasn’t taking a lot of money for those events that he then spent public money on instead…so where the hell did those “donations” go? No one has an accounting of it or can find the hundreds of millions of dollars that were given to idiot boy but I know where they went…straight into trump’s pockets and they were just another way to bribe the idiot…he has taken over a billion dollars in bribes from his billionaire donors and they knew he was just going to keep the cash and they didn’t care…I can’t wait for the dems to take the house in 3 weeks and then investigate and get to the bottom of the most corrupt administration in history including the “deal” for diesel from Russia that can’t even supply it’s own people and that stabbed Ukraine in the back…geez…
October 11th
Well…I guess my string of getting up at a reasonable hour ends at 2 days with getting up at 4:55 today…ick…and now I have to start pouring the coffee down just to get moving before 6am and get out on the bike…slept pretty crappy so I’ll be feeling it later and maybe get a little nap later? Ha,ha…that’s still funny to me…the only thing I have to do is go back to the library at noon to get a few more books and then watch some races and football this afternoon…it’s 56 out there right now so I can go out in shorts again today but that will be coming to an end soon and I’ll start having to start using the various thermasuits I have to cope with the cold…oh, well…I d need to get the fall lawn food on as soon as the road is open to Manards again…too damn much road work going on…I did ride up to the road construction a few days back and it looks like it is going to take a while yet…they still have the new sewer and water lines to put in and there is no pavement for a half mile so I may not be back on that til next year…not much to do today….just some cleaning and the library but I will need to cook and get food in the freezer since some of it will spoil if I don’t…bought way too much food this week compensating for the bare cupboards after the trip…oh, well…more later…