Well…thought I had the rear wheel fixed but it wasn’t so I had to rebuild the wheel from the black bike that I have been stealing parts from for the past few years…and that meant swapping a spoke out that took when one broke on the grey bike so that meant swapping out the sprocket cassette and the bearing carrier and putting the tire on the other wheel…then putting the bike back together…going to look to see what a new rear wheel will cost so I’ll be able to ride when this one breaks…worked on that for two hours and I still need to get an outdoor ride in after the Michigan game is over…okay, back tot he game…
It’s going to get worse…
Well…with the economy teetering on the brink of recession, the numbers are telling us it’s going to get worse…after idiot boy’s stupid war, inflation is roaring with gas prices up over a dollar a gallon and now we are seeing food inflation that is going nuts…I mean the prices for fresh vegetables are up almost 50% and general food prices are up 2.5%…in just one month which makes the yearly rate 25%…and the job market is so soft that the Fed chair said that there is zero growth in the job market that has never happened before…and it’s all from the idiot trump and his ignorance in how the economy works…have you heard any plans from idiot boy about how he’s going to fix this? Nope, but you did hear about his ugly ballroom and the new gold coin with his ugly face on it that he is going to have minted…and that should show the maga folks what he cares about and it’s not them or anyone else…it’s going to get much, much worse…geez…
March 21st
Well…up at a little after 4 again but didn’t get out of bed til after 5:30 and I’m not sure if that’s a win or not…still don’t feel like I slept at all but I’m not going to whine about that…going to try to get an outdoor ride in today but I’m not sure when that will be…Michigan plays at noon and that’s when it will be warm enough to go out…oh, well…I’ll get an indoor ride in and the weight work done and then I can build on that later….still don’t have to cook today and it looks like tomorrow but then I need to get some meal planning done…probably a pizza since I have green pepper that needs to be used and I do need to clear the freezer out…down to the last two books and I am pondering stopping reading for a while so I can get other things done…need to clean the basement and get rid of the cobwebs and start working on getting rid of everything…not much to do today…just the normal stuff and basketball along with a race later…the 12 hours of Sebring is on starting at 10am so I’ll run that in the background…more later…
Got an outdoor ride in…
Well…after I got the weight work and indoor ride in today, it was raining so I didn’t think I was going to be able to get out for a ride but it cleared off about 10 or so and I jumped on the bike to get a ride in…it was a pain in the butt with the little ratchet mechanism in the rear wheel that allows you to free wheel not engaging so every time I stopped pedaling, the pedals just went around with no movement of the rear wheel…so I crippled it back here and then took some WD and soaked the sprocket carrier and it appears to be fixed…I’ll give it a try when I go out tomorrow…the trails were almost clear but cluttered with leaves, branches and other crud from the heavy rains we had last week…and part of the trail was still flooded but it was easy to ride through it…but it was so dirty on the trail that I had to wash the bike when I got back here…okay…time to read…
Stupid, stupid war…
Well…the fallout form the idiot trump’s stupid war is hitting American pocketbooks hard and, in gas prices alone, we are paying out an extra 575 million dollars a DAY since the idiot attacked…and now the average price of gas is up over 4 bucks a gallon and heading higher since the idiot has no idea what the hell he’s doing…and now he wants to invade an Iranian island where the oil depot is and these lunatics are shooting their mouths off that they are going to “grab Iran by the balls” and that kind of crap is just going to stiffen Iran’s back…and idiot boys 3 week war has been changed to indefinite since idiot boy thought Iran would fold after a few missile strikes…what a stupid war from a bunch of stupid, stupid people…geez…
March 20th
Well…up way too early today at 4:55 and I really hate getting up this early…I may try to do two outdoor rides today since it’s already over 40 gut that will need a change in my schedule that I’m not sure I’m ready for…but I’ll do anything to stay off the indoor bike…just getting damn tired of riding indoors…and if I do that, I can sit here and have coffee until it gets light and that has some attraction…didn’t get anything done yesterday and I can live with just two outdoor rides and then some basketball and reading…I do have to plan some meals in a couple of days but still have leftovers that will last the weekend and I’ll be eating out of the freezer for the next week…need to clean the fridge at some point since it’s getting a little grungy and piling up some old food that needs to go…not much to do today…just going to ease into it with getting up so damn early and the coffee not working yet….more later…
Melting finally…
Well…the sun came out today! It hasn’t for a least the past week so it’s pretty darned welcome…and with it over 40, the snow has finally started to melt with the walks and the street clear for the first time in almost two weeks…so tomorrow I’ll suit up in the afternoon to take a look at the trails and see if I can get through…still only going to be in the upper 40’s but I’ve been out in that a lot this year so far…after all of the activity yesterday, I’m taking it easy today with just the normal stuff and now March Madness and reading…still pretty sore for some reason and my left thigh has joined in with my left elbow to give me more pain…damn, this getting old is tough…and it’s nice I don’t have to cook today…okay, back to reading…
The stupidity, it burns…
Well…you know I highlight the idiot trump’s stupidity here ever day and it is such an easy target because he truly is one of the dumbest people on the planet…and one thing I want to talk about is related to the oil shocks that are happening from his stupid war with Iran…as soon as he walked his fat ass into the WH a year ago, he started cancelling funding for renewable energy that would have insulated us from his stupidity by providing energy that didn’t come from oil or gas…so in that year, most of the renewable projects that were in the pipeline were cancelled, slaving us to oil again and taking away our ability to respond to his man made catastrophe…and just today he launched attacks on three more country that will guarantee the “trump war tax” is going to cost everyone in this country thousands of dollars for higher prices on everything…and this was trump’s decision alone…it certainly wasn’t the American people’s when over 70% of those polled didn’t want this war to happen…so now repubs…what the hell are you going to do about it? Let the country be completely destroyed by this asshole or remove him using the 25 amendment? 10 dollar a gallon gas is coming and you are responsible….geez…
March 19th
Well…up and running at a little before 6 today but I sure don’t feel like I slept much…it’s probably from not eating enough even though I made popcorn with real butter last night…but that went with only a bowl of masala and a bowl of soup during the day…going to have a bagel this morning to try to fix that…but I need to get this done and the weight work first…it was still cold enough that no snow melted yesterday but I hope that changes today…it’s supposed to be 46 for a high but I think we’re still weeks away from the trails being open again and that sucks…I did get some cleaning done yesterday and should clean the kitchen or bathroom today but all I want to do is lie on the couch and read…I’ve been so damn sore lately and I have been trying to figure out why…my legs and hips have been so stiff that I may have to take something for it today…okay, going to stop whining now…don’t have any plans for today so I think I’ll just slip into my normal routine here in a minute and get the day’s tasks done…more later…
Got some work done…
Well…finally I got some work done today and that feels good…started with the weight work and ride and then cleaned the living room, took the couch apart, rotated the cushions, and washed the cover in the load of laundry I did…then I reassembled everything and got to work making masala…finished everything just before noon…it never got above freezing today so none of the snow has melted but one of my Mastodon friends that live in Iowa said they are getting to 75 Friday so maybe some of that warmth will be coming this way…not much but it will get to 53 Saturday and then back down to the 30’s and 40’s…ick…so damn tired of the cold…don’t really have to go anywhere until Monday so I’m not going to…time to read…