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…
A bit of a strange day…
Well…after getting woken up last night by a phone call from T, I am worried about her and her mental state…won’t go into that because it’s personal and I won’t betray her confidence…so let’s get onto something else…yeah, it was a wasted day today and all I did after the rides was read and watch some races and there is another one on at 7 that will last all night but I’m not sure if I’ll watch the whole thing or not…have a back up of new shows on plex that I’d like to see but noting is grabbing me right now so maybe I won’t…who knows? So, tomorrow is going to have to be better than today and I will need to accomplish something…what that is, I don’t know right now…still have one leftover pork chop to have but I do need to plan for early week meals…maybe some pasta for a change? Have 3 pounds of that I need to use…maybe some pasta salad? But what would go with that? Could thaw the last of the chicken and have sandwiches or maybe even some chicken salad…okay, need to start the last book and read for a half hour before the race at 7…
You know he doesn’t care about anyone but himself…
Well…I was going to put up a shorter, more succinct title for this one but I’m trying to make these readable for everyone…I wonder if I should do that or just cut loose? You know about the saga of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln that has been at sea for 250 days supporting the idiot’s stupid war on Iran and you also know that the sailors and their families have been sounding the alarm that this is grinding people and machines down to the point that they are barely functional anymore…but when asked about it yesterday, idiot boy responded that the ship and it’s sailors should be deployed “longer” and said he didn’t believe the families of the sailors about the conditions on the ship…this is what you get when you have an ignorant narcissist in charge of the military and shows that he doesn’t care about anyone but himself…these sailors are not people to him but just abstract “things” to be used for his purposes…and now the moron is trying to get the US to build more battleships…named after him of course even though there is no navy in the world that see a use for them anymore in modern warfare but he wants it because he is obsessed with a tv show from the 50’s called “Victory at Sea” where they had big battleships going boom all the time…god I hope this asshole dies soon so the world can be rid of his stupidity…geez…
August 15th
Well…that was a weird night and let’s leave it at my friend T is still alive but not doing well and I know that from an hour phone call after I went to bed last night…so, I’m running late today and I just poured the first cup of coffee at a little after 6 and need to pour it down fast to get on the bike by 6:30…no bagel or weight work today but I’ll force that later in the day…we didn’t get the rain we were supposed to so I’ll be out here in a minute but it might rain this morning so I need to get going…as expected, I didn’t sleep well last night but didn’t drag my butt out of bed to 5:44 and that is not an accomplishment so I’m not going to count it…still pretty damn sore from the house washing and my right thumb is feeling the abuse so I’ll have to treat it before I head out in a minute…I should still be able to get two rides in before 9 and it’s forecast to rain around 10 so that works for me…not going to do much today but cook and plan meals for the weekend but that will be it….more later…
Got a swim in finally…
Well…after the rides this morning and having more coffee, I decided to try to get one more swim in this summer and the beach and water were really nice so I got a swim in for the first time in weeks…going to try to go out there every day next week after I paint the trim on the garage door…got a call from my bank that the euros were in that I ordered Wed so I drove over there in my beach clothes that were still wet and I hope my seat will dry by the next time I drive the car…talked to my daughter and she is not getting any euros since she told me she already paid for everything we’re going to do so we’re not going to need much…I got 350 euros so I can cover the tips and taxi rides and then take the leftovers back to the bank..and found I had 30 euros left in the drawer so we’ll have plenty….I did see an eagle sitting in a tree along Muskegon Lake today and that was pretty cool along with 22 deer and that included the ones that stand on the trail and just watch me as I ride by and still think that’s pretty cool…I really had hoped that it was going to rain tonight and tomorrow but that has come out of the forecast so we’re going to stay really dry for the next week to go with the one rain in the last three weeks…ick…back to reading…
It’s even worse…
Well…I’ve talked about the debacle of the idiot trump hiding in a food container and sending AF1 filled with aides and reporters out of Turkey as a decoy based on some “strong intelligence” that relayed a threat towards the idiot boy…ha, we now know that the “intelligence” came from Israel and it wasn’t strong at all…in fact the speculation is that Israel did it to embarrass idiot boy since he has been telling everyone that netenyahu is his “poodle” and does whatever he says…and the Iranians are laughing at idiot boy as he cowers in fear when any other “president” would have laughed at it…what a chickenshit…and he spends millions to play “3 plane monte” trying to protect his skin at all costs…has there ever been a more worthless person in the world? I don’t think so…geez…
August 14th
Well…damn, running late this morning with not getting out of bed til 5:31 and now it’s almost 6 and I’ve just poured the first cup of coffee…so I need to get hauling butt and have a bagel before I ride today to keep the legs from going flat…it feels good that I accomplished something yesterday but that means I can take the day off today…might even go out to the beach if it’s sunny this morning…think I’m going to have to make more coffee today before I get on the bike…just another task that I need to do to get my butt moving and ensure that I have enough to fill the contego cup for the 2nd ride…pretty darn sore today and my back and neck are howling at me from reaching over my head with the scrub brush for 2 hours… but I’ll get through it…finally got the hornets taken care of yesterday and I think I used enough bug spray to kill everything downstairs and won’t have to spray again this year…the house looks really white after cleaning it and I still marvel at how dirty it got after just 2 years…so, I think that will be moved up to a yearly thing…makes it much easier to stay on top of it than to let it get ugly…not much to do today…just need to get the rides in and then I can just wing it for the day….more later….
The house is done…finally…
Well…after getting the rides in this morning, I decided to clean the remaining half house of siding and that only took about 2 hours even though I wasn’t working that hard at it since I’m getting old…it does look pretty good so maybe I’ll do that every year…the first time I did it it seemed like a lot more work than this time…and it’s been warm enough that it didn’t matter that I got soaked while I was doing it…I did get the laundry done today since I ran out of clothes to wear and I washed the new t-shirts for the first time and they look like they came through the laundry okay…I did find and buy a new pair of shoes for the Italy trip and only spent 29 bucks on them…very lightweight and they have memory foam insoles that felt pretty good when I put them on and walked around the house…and they are pretty stylish…black with brown accents and white soles that they call casual dress shoes…why, I don’t know but for the price they can call them whatever they want…and they have actual laces that you can tighten or loosen…not like a lot of the shoes I looked at where they are slip ins and the laces are just for show…that doesn’t work when you have two different size feet…I did kill off the hornet nest but had about 50 of them in the basement that were all dying with the poison I hit the nest with…going to fill the holes they were using with cement in a couple of days to make sure they don’t come back…okay…going to read a bit before I make a pork chop for dinner…
They don’t give a crap about the military…
Well…I’ve said this many times before that the repubs don’t give a crap about the military unless it’s for photo ops or sending them to war…and that is just what’s happening on the USS Abraham Lincoln as reports come out about the appalling conditions on that ship that the repubs don’t care about…how about the lack of food or water and the endless deployment? This ship has been part of the idiot trump’s war in the middle east starting with just sending them to be on station as a “show of force” and then into combat operations that has keep them at sea for 250 days when the normal deployment is 45-50 days and then the sailors are normally given some time in port to decompress since working 12-14 hours a day in a combat environment for so long has trashed morale on the ship to the point that two of the sailors have tried to jump overboard…and where the hell is the defense secretary? Still crowing and drinking as the drunk he is…he doesn’t give a damn about these sailors other than as tools for him to use to bluster and brag…none of the repubs care that these are people in one of the most high stress environments there is and to allow the ship to deteriorate to the point that it can’t support the needs of the sailors is a dereliction of duty by hegseth and trump to the point that hegseth should be fired and then brought up on military charges and put in jail…being a sailor is hard enough without the chain of command not giving a damn…geez…