Well…up early today but this is the plan for the day…want to get the rides in before the grocery run so I need to get on the bike at 6am and that give me a half hour until then…it’s going to be a busy morning with hitting 4 stores…or maybe 3 not sure yet since DD hasn’t updated it’s ad yet and I’m not going there until I know what’s on sale…going to wear the new shoes out for the run to start breaking them in before Italy….and I confirmed that my Capital One card can be used in Italy with no fees or any of that bullshit just like the UK trip…lucky I chose that card that gives me cash back, too…worked on getting the damn hornets taken care of and will keep working on that today to get to the point that I can cement up the holes they’re using….I must have killed a couple of hundred of them yesterday….not sure what I’m going to do after the grocery run and hitting the library today but I should clean the kitchen…and I need to heat up the little ham I got last week along with making some mashed potatoes to go with it and that will be enough food to last through the weekend with the leftover chicken in the fridge…and I’m going to get more so I’ll have protein to eat…it did rain pretty hard here last night and it lasted for at least three hours which we really needed..puddles on the trail this morning…okay, need to pour more coffee and start prepping to get on the bike….more later…
A strange day…
Well…damn, I started the day out late with not getting out of bed til 6:04 and that really stressed me out even though I still got everything I wanted to do done…so how strange is that? I mean cripes, I have no damn schedule anymore and yet there I am struggling to “catch up” as the day started…shaking my head about that one…but I did get the rides in and saw the turkey family again…twice…and the little ones are getting pretty big…and fast…but they have to stop trying to cross the busy street up to the beach…they almost got whacked by some idiot in a Lincoln going 50 in a 25 zone…I did get the trim on the garage door painted so I don’t have to look at the peeling but next summer I’m going to do it all again with better paint so it will last a couple of years…had the hornets back again today but I think I killed most of them..going to keep up spraying until they are gone and then cement up the holes they are using so they won’t come back…still not exhausted again today so that’s a good thing…and it may rain tonight…ha,ha…I don’t know why I keep saying that with the last 5 times it was forecast we got nothing so I think I’m on solid ground to laugh…no book to read but I think I’ll go out and read some news…
Triple diapers?
Well…I had to laugh at the photos of the idiot trump at a rally the other day when he looked like he had triple diapers on that gave him a rear end that looked just like the bustles that were worn by women in the 1800s…and the maga folks were just fine with that…and these are the same idiots who went on an on and on about Obama’s tan suit but when their god-king does anything that is just so much worse…like withholding his medical records that no “president” has ever done, they are just fine with it…like the idiot falling asleep every damn day in meetings or giving and interview that is so much worse than anything Joe Biden ever did…I mean did Joe ever shit his pants in the Oval Office? Nope, but idiot boy has and it is so bad at times it clears the room until his diaper woman cleans him up and puts a new one on him…this is the person you revere, maga? What is the new maga thing going to be? Wearing diapers so you can crap anywhere just like the idiot? People like this used to be shunned in our society as the worthless pieces of shit they are…yeah, pun intended…but now they are running the place and it’s going to shit…geez…
August 18th
Well….damn, that was weird…didn’t get out of bed til 6:04 this morning and it has to be all the work I did yesterday and running all morning…but I’ll take it other than I should be out on the bike getting the rides in but that won’t happen until 7am or so now but that will still give me time to work on the garage door and get it painted in time for it to dry before the rain comes in later today…still don’t have my regular energy but it’s better so I’ll take it…but that means I’ll have to eat a lot again today and that is going to be harder since I’m not eating before I get on the bike…it is nice to have the whole yard done but I should start taking the perennials down so I can put them out with the trash next week but I’ve got a week so it doesn’t have to happen today…it’s going to be strange getting out when it’s light out there after going out in the dark for more than a week but that’s okay…need to stop being so rigid about my daily schedule…need some time to relax and just wing it but that’s harder than it looks…so today is going to be a little easier than yesterday but I still want to get some stuff done…need to get the grocery list put together and figure out what can go in the freezer after getting it half empty…have thawed a lot of food that will keep me going for the rest of the week…more later…
More energy today…
Well…not sure if I had more energy today or it came from working my butt off this morning…got the rides in and then right into all the yard work of edging my sidewalks, running the string trimmer on the fencelines, and then mowing the lawn…but, after I was done with that, it was still only 10:18 so I loaded up the car and went to the beach to get a swim in…and I was still back here by 12:15 for lunch…and I’m not exhausted like I was yesterday…but I still do need to do the weight work but I’m thinking this should be an off day after wrestling the equipment around for an hour and a half…so, I guess we’ll see…it was probably the nicest day at the beach with temps in the high 70’s, low humidity, and a nice breeze blowing to keep me cool…and the water was the best it’s been this year…just cool enough to be refreshing but warm enough so I could stay in for a half hour…so, a pretty good day today and I still have a little bit of a book to read….time to go back to it…
Trump throws South Korea under the bus…
Well…has there ever been a dumber human on the planet than the idiot trump? I’ll answer that…NO…he shows every day he has no clue about anything and his latest attack on a 70 year ally, South Korea, shows that he only has one thing that he cares about and that is getting praise from dictators like the murderer in North Korea….just yesterday he cut military exercises between the US and Korea to the bone…and that was done just to keep his pen pal Kim Jong Un happy…and to punish SK for not going along with his stupid war in Iran…ad idiot boy did not even acknowledge the damage his stupid war has done to the SK since they are reliant on trade through the straits of Hormuz…so now the asshole in chief blusters away…again…as he did with the UK, Canada, and damn near every other country in the world, driving them to cut the US out of trade and any type of cooperation with the US…gee…it kinda looks like idiot boy is really trying to hurt the US by cozying up to dictators and denigrating our military…and every other damn thing this fool has done since white evangelicals put him back in the WH….there is no question this diaper wearing moron is the worst “president” in history and it appears he’s trying to be so bad that no one ever will get near how bad he is…geez…
August 17th
Well…up at 5:00 am again today and the exhaustion I was feeling yesterday is still here and the only way I know how to help that is to pour a lot of coffee down me…so that’s what I’m doing…I guess we’ll see how it works…I did make another pot this morning to go with the leftovers from yesterday that I’m starting out with…and that will leave me with enough to fill the contego for the 2nd ride…slept the same crappy sleep I have been for years so I’m not going to talk about that…have a lot of work to do today after the rides but that seems like too much with how I’m feeling…I think I may have to lighten the riding up to see if that helps…after all, I’ve been doing 26 miles a day since April and my body could use a light day…but then I’ll feel guilty and it will ruin the rest of the day…still no rain here for weeks so I’ll only have to mow the front today…but the rest of the lawn is looking shaggy in spots so I guess we’ll see…I do need to cement over the hornet holes today, too but that will only take about 5 minutes to add to the painting…still should be done by 11 or so but resting doesn’t help so I’m not sure what I’ll do…I do know that I used up all the leftovers yesterday and need to cook some chicken so I’ll have sandwich material to have with the pasta salad…I’ll need to thaw some pork loin fillets to have later so I need to get those out of the freezer before I head out on the bike….more later…
Is exhaustion normal?
Well…spent another day exhausted and I am starting to wonder is exhaustion normal for someone as old as me? Have had no energy all day and even lying on the couch reading seemed to be a lot of work…took a short nap this afternoon of about 15 minutes and that didn’t help at all…I ate a ton of food today starting with a toasted bagel with cream cheese for breakfast…2 dogs and a good sized helping of the pasta salad I made this morning, and then a pork chop with mashed potatoes and corn for dinner…that has to be 1,500 calories or so and that should be more than enough to not feel so damn tired…and I’m even going to have a snack later of ham, swiss and triscuits so that should put me well over what I need…oh, well…didn’t do any work today but I’ll get back to it tomorrow with edging the front lawn and mowing it but won’t do the rest of it since it doesn’t need it…so that will give me time to prep and paint the garage door trim and finish up the outdoor work for the summer….I was out on the bike before 6am this morning and it was really, really dark…I may have to buy a light for the bike if I keep that up…and I really need to to have the rides done before 8:30 so I can get on with the rest of the work…okay, done for the day and need to find something to watch….
Why?
Well…this is not a normal political one but it’s Sunday so I’m allowed…the thought hit me today that asked the question why…why are some people so burdened with carrying others when assholes get to go about their lives tra la la without having to do a damn thing to help anyone…like my friend T who just spent 5 years caring for her mom who had Alzheimers and now a year after her mom died, it appears that she has early onset of the same disease…and I mean 63 years old is early…and no, I won’t use any of the religious cliches that lots of people use for this kind of chance happening…it still sucks…after all the work she did for her mom she deserved the rest of her life to enjoy and she’s not going to get it…then you have assholes like the idiot trump who have sown destruction their entire lives and don’t care about anyone else who get to hurt and pillage with no consequences at all…just look at the abused sailors on the Abraham Lincoln who have had scorn heaped on them by idiot boy and who are just trying to do a tough job for this country…and this is what they get? I’m tired of the universe treating good people like crap and letting the bad ones off easy…or is it just other humans doing that? I think that’s probably it…like the epstein class abusers like trump getting away with rape and human trafficking while the people trying to hold them responsible are vilified and attacked at every turn…okay, you get the gist…life is unfair enough without have assholes putting their thumbs on the scale and making it worse…they need to be held accountable…geez…
August 16th
Well…up at about the normal time of 5:15 today and I didn’t really sleep too well but that’s pretty normal, too…ned to get on the bike in a half hour or so and need to make sure I eat something before I go…legs have been going flat about halfway through the 2nd ride and I’m pretty sure it’s from not eating before I go out..but who knows? It could just be from getting old and that will suck it it’s true…stayed above 70 overnight but there doesn’t look like any beach weather this week with highs in the 70’s and cloudy for most of the week…but I’m going to try to get out there a few times to end my summer…didn’t get anything done yesterday and I’m not holding out hope that I’ll do better today…need to prep to garage door trim so I can paint it this week and then the outdoor painting will be done for the year…have some black mold on the west side windows on the house and I just need to spray them with some bleach solution to fix that and I’ll do that today…but I really don’t have any motivation to do more…going to make some pasta salad this afternoon so I’ll have a side to go with whatever else I’ll be cooking starting tomorrow after I use up the leftovers today…I salvaged the celery I need for the pasta by cutting off the bottom of the stalk and putting it in water which firmed it up to usable…time to get moving…more later…