Well…running a bit late this morning with not getting up til 5:25 but I can’t get out on the bike til 6:30 or so and that gives me 45 minutes to do this and anything else I need to…no bagel this morning with making a batch of popcorn last night and I still feel full from it…much cooler this morning at 58 when it was over 70 yesterday and that’s okay with me…I’m ready for fall to come and go out for some color touring with the top down on the car…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today looks the same but I do need to make some guac with the avocados I got Wed finally ripening enough…haven’t made that in a long tome and I may replace a meal with it later today but we’ll see…don’t really have to cook today with leftover soup and chicken I made yesterday and the breasts were so big I can make meals for 4 days from them…and I have 2 more in the fridge to be cooked…I’m glad I got the lawn mowed yesterday so today will be nothing but races and soccer and reading and that’s what Sundays should be…but I need to get moving soon…need to get the weight work done before I get out on the bike so I don’t have to think about it later….more later…
Got him…
Well…for the past week or so I’ve been fighting a frickin mouse who had found his way into my house…and overnight he got on my last nerve by getting into the moldy bread I put out for the squirrels…so, this morning, I started to think and came up with a trap I thought would work and it did…a slice of bread wadded up and placed in the center of 4 sticky traps…and a few hours later he came out and tried to get to the bread…not successfully and was stuck fast to the sticky traps…so I mercifully put him out of his misery with my billy club and now his corpse resides in the outdoor trash bin…then I turned the bread trap into a 3 sided one and put it back into place just in case there is another one in here…what a pain in the butt to have to think about this crap…but I think it’s over now so I don’t have to think about that before I go to Italy…still going to make sure that all of the food is in plastic totes that mice can’t get into and I’ll leave the traps in place when I go…one mouse doesn’t smell when it’s dead so I can get away with catching a few more while I’m gone…if there are any…okay, back to reading…
89% think this is the most corrupt government in history…
Well…ran across this little tidbit this morning when I was reading the news…a new poll on corruption in government is out and it shows that an astounding 89% of Americans think the idiot trump’s government is the most corrupt in history…but we all knew that didn’t we? This is the reason why the dems have begun to hammer on going after corruption if they take control of the government this fall…and it is something I have been screaming about since the orange idiot settled his fat ass in the WH this time…going back through history, scandals like Teapot Dome that used to be the worst, most corrupt in history are being replaced every day by trump and his cronies…I mean stealing 65 billion dollars in Venezuelan oil and murdering people like the 176 schoolchildren they massacred in Iran really are worse than a little bribery…but the idiot trump is bribed every day…what about selling pardons for 1.7 billion dollars and then pocketing the cash? Recent investigations have found this is true and with a functioning repub party idiot boy would be long gone and sitting in jail…and it appears that the idiots who continue to support this corruption are going to pay in the fall…and it can’t happen too soon…geez…
September 5th
Well…that was sure a weird as hell day with getting almost 5 hours of steady rain in the morning…I even had to clean and service the indoor bike so I could get a ride in somewhere and did one on it…as soon as I finished that one, the rain stopped so I jumped on the outdoor bike to get the miles in…and I found the detour that I’ll be riding or the next couple of months…not too hard but it adds about 4 miles to the distance since I have to ride all the way around the country club to get to the beach…and it has this huge half mile uphill climb in it that is going to be a chore…and all the extra is road riding but they do have bike lanes painted on the road I need to use but it is the roughest new pavement I’ve ever felt…way too big of stones in the asphalt…and this bike lane looks like it has never been used with all of the branches and leaves on it…oh, well…slept okay last night and I hope that will help with the exhaustion I felt yesterday afternoon…again, from not eating enough…I need to remember when I have soup for a meal that I’ll be under on calories for the day and have something to compensate for that…so that means I can’t skip the bagel this morning since I need that fuel before I get on the bike…weight work first…more later…
Still raining…
Well…it’s still raining here and it looks like it will be for a while…so it looks like I won’t get out on the bike until 10 or so…check that, the storm has lined up so it will be hitting here for a few hours yet and it is really weird to still be sitting here at 8am doing this….I just had to put letter stickers on the laptop keyboard since I had a bunch of letters that had worn off and, even though I type every day, not having letters on the keys was getting pretty frickin annoying…so now I have 9 stickers there and it looks like I’m good for a while…I was going to go in and get my flu and covid vaccines before Italy but they didn’t have the updated covid one yet so I guess I’ll wait til I get back…sure hope I don’t get sick on the trip…this has been a nice storm and it is forcing me to relax a bit this morning and I really don’t know how to act without having the bike rides to burn the caffeine off…and I really want another cup of coffee so I think I will and that will set me vibrating…it is 2 of my sons birthdays today and I’m going to text them here in a minute to say happy birthday…still want to go to the library and I may go right at 9am if it’s still raining…then I’ll get to try out the new wipers I put on the car a while back…more later…
Get ready for everything to cost more…
Well…due tot he ignorant moron squatting in the WH, diesel fuel hit an all time record of 5.85 a gallon today…and I hope you remember that everything that is delivered here in the US goes by trucks fueled with diesel…so here goes another “trump tax” on you and me and everyone else…and idiot boy still has no idea how to end his stupid war with Iran that he started with no thought whatsoever of the effects to everyday life of Americans it would have…but that is par for the course with this asshole…he doesn’t care about anyone but himself so people having to choose to fill their car to get to work or to eat is nothing to him…it doesn’t even exist in his bubble he lives in where the “best economy in history” and “Iran defeated” are what he is spoon fed every day and the hollowing out of our military is just a “liberal” talking point…so now we are all going to continue to pay for the maga assholes electing this moron and I really do hope they go broke and starve…it’s what they deserve…geez…
September 4th
Well…man, it’s raining here with a little thunderstorm so that is going to make me late for the whole day….but the main body of the storm is going to the north…again…so it’s not going to be long before I can get out on the bike…didn’t sleep much last night and I am easing into the day with coffee. coffee, coffee and I may even have to make more even though I just made 12 cups…I guess we’ll see…didn’t get much done yesterday but I may have to go out to the library this morning since I’m down to the last book and there is a holiday Monday…and I do need to cook some chicken but I’m making a normal recipe since I really don’t feel like cooking much…maybe some mashed potatoes and corn to go with it…and cooking two breasts will give me sandwich material for later in the weekend…damn, I get tired of planning meals all the time…it would be nice to just wing it for a change but that would mean fast food and I don’t even know where any of the fast food places are…I think I’ve only had it once since I moved out here but I don’t remember what or when that was…so I guess the plan for the day is to just wait out the storms and get the weight work in as I wait…buy that’s a lot of waiting…more later…
I made soup…
Well…not sure if it’s an accomplishment or not but I made potato soup this afternoon and had a bowl for dinner…but that’s all I did after the bike rides…oh, I did finish up the Orson Scott Card sci fi novel that I started yesterday and it was pretty good…I haven’t read any science fiction since I got into the thrillers I have been reading but I’m glad I chose the book…and the one I read has a cliffhanger that I think sets it up for a sequel that I will look for next week..still have a couple of books that will get me through the weekend and both are authors I haven’t read before…still trying to expand past the ones I’m running out of…I used the 2% milk to thicken to make the soup creamy and it worked much better than skim…I guess I’m a convert to milk with fat in it…oh, I just remembered that I did do something today… a load of laundry…not much work but work anyway…I did get a bit wet on the bike today but the big rain that was coming hit the Muskegon force field…again…an just dissipated without a drop falling and that sucks…so now no more rain…okay, nope, they are calling for storms overnight but I won’t believe it until it makes me wet…okay, need to look for something to watch tonight…
Stealing Venezuela’s oil
Well…we already know that the idiot trump is a thief but he has moved up to a whole other scale with stealing oil from Venezuela, selling it, and then running the transaction through a bank account he controls and having the 13 billion dollars that was supposed to go back to the people of Venezuela promptly disappear into his own accounts…now come on repubs…isn’t this enough for you assholes to get off your butts and make idiot boy pay for the theft? and idiot boy is lying his ass off saying that he will refill the strategic oil reserve he emptied to try to keep gas prices low so his cronies would be elected this fall…but there is a problem with that…the heavy, sour crude from Venezuela can’t be handled by the reserves that need light, sweet crude for the equipment to work…and if they try to fill it with Venezuelan sludge, the reserve caverns can no long be used since the crap he wants to put in them will ruin them forever…but this moron is so stupid that he can’t grasp any of that…to him oil is oil and the only thing he cares about is how much money he can skim off for himself…and all of this is illegal according to international law that should end with idiot boy in jail…so people, get your butts out to vote our side in so we can start holding the thief in chief accountable…geez…
September 3rd
Well…damn, it’s really humid here again at 96% and it never got under 71 degrees overnight so that is going to make for soaking rides again since I’m already sweating just sitting here doing this…oh, well…up at a little after 5 again today and I would say I’m running late but I don’t plan on getting on the bike til almost 7am today since it’s the only thing I have to do other than cook…do I make potato soup today to use up the celery I have in the fridge? Maybe…it would be nice to have one meal of the day just heat and eat but this is definitely not soup weather so I guess we’ll see…I did get the weed walk in yesterday and, with the rain we’ve had my lawn looks half green and I should plan on feeding it with winter feed when I get back from Italy…and I need to schedule my flu and covid shots and I may even do that before I go…will get online this morning to see if I can get it done tomorrow…covid is on the rise again heading toward a fall peak before the winter one…going to do the weight work here in a minute so I don’t have to do it later but I want another cup of coffee and a bagel first…didn’t eat much yesterday and I don’t want my legs to go flat today…more later….