Well…I really did plan to clean the living room and kitchen today but only got to the living room…but that is completely cleaned and I even rotated the cushions on the couch and washed the cover…and I thought that was enough for one day and I’ll do the kitchen tomorrow…the rides this morning were a little rough and my legs were flat so I decided to eat more today since that is normally the cause of the problem…but I have been really sore and stiff, too and that is not caused by under eating…so I’m a little confused…but I’ll live through it…I did start a Michael Connelly book this aft and I’m going to read more here in a few minutes…it is really unusual to find one I haven’t read…it is nice to have a cushion to sit on that doesn’t have an indentation from sitting on it and I think I’ll have to rotate them more often…oh, I did give myself a haircut today since I was getting a little shaggy and I don’t like that…I did buy some new dry skin lotion that is supposed to last 72 hours and I’m up to 24 and I can still feel it so that’s cool and will save me a lot of cash trying to keep my skin from cracking and bleeding…okay, need to do the weight work and clean my teeth and make ice so I’ll end here…
So now ole elon is threatening members of congress…
Well..evidence has been piling up that billionaires need to be ended and another piece of it showed up in the news this morning when members of congress said that when they win in 2 weeks, they are going to have elon come in and explain who it was behind the starlink slowdown that cost Ukrainian lives…and stated that national security shouldn’t be based on the personal whims of an unstable executive…and his response was “live by the sword, die by the sword” and went on to threaten the congessmen by saying “those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets” so he’s delusional to start…but to threaten a member of congress that he is going to “come for them” is illegal and I really hope the House will hold him in criminal contempt and arrest his ass after January 3rd…we know the the corrupt justice department that idiot boy has ruined won’t do it so we need to be ready to use all the tools like nationalizing starlink and spacex to take his toys away from him since he has shown he really is an “unstable executive” and even if it takes til 2028 when we win back the presidency, elon needs to slapped an hard by the non-corrupt dem party that will follow the rule of law…have you heard a peep from the repubs about this threat? Of course not…geez…
October 22nd
Well…I know I wasn’t going to talk about wake up time but damn, it’s become consistent at 4:53 and I don’t like it one bit…oh, well…have been having a problem with seeing in the dark…okay, I’ve never seen well in the dark and yesterday trying to get my key in the lock to the back door going out for the first ride, I remembered I have a damn light at the back door that I never use so I turned it on and just about slapped myself for not doing it sooner as getting the key in the lock was easy…little things still make me happy…so it’s 43 out there and it’s still going to be full thermasuit again today and I have to get used to the fact that I’ll be in it for the rest of the year if I want to go out early…so I have lots to do today with needing to clean the living room and kitchen and I’ll be working on that until noon or so but then I’ll take the afternoon off to read a bit…have been losing the deer I have been watching all year to cars the past week or so with 3 of them gone and that hurts a bit…I know that happens but it still isn’t easy to ride by one along the road when they were running days ago…on that downer note, I’m going to toast a bagel and get on the bike by 6am….more later…
Didn’t do a darn thing…
Well…this was one of those days that I need sometimes where I didn’t do a darn thing but ride the bike..okay, I did go out and put a 2nd coat of the protectant on the car top which, with the cleaning, has made it look almost new and very black…pretty cool…I did read the new “Reacher” book I got at the sale but didn’t finish that so I’ll have more to read tomorrow…and I’ve pushed the kitchen cleaning back to tomorrow and I’ll do the living room at he same time…still no need to cook with 3 more days of leftovers to go but I will be cooking some of the chicken from aldis this weekend and really want to make the creamy garlic chicken with fettucini and I have all of the ingredients for it so I just might…need to find a place to stack the rest of my haul of books so I can vacuum tomorrow but I’m not sure where that will be…I need to keep them segregated until I try each one to sort out the ones I’ve already read…so tomorrow won’t be a lazy day like today and I’ll be able to report getting something done…I hope…oh, here’s a weird thing…checked on the bank balance this morning since today is deposit day for SS for me and I have the same amount as before I left for Italy and that surprised the heck out of me after spending a bunch of cash on the trip…I think I still have credit card debt that needs to be paid but I expected my balance to be down by 2 grand at least…but I’ll take being even…
Home sales collapsing…
Well…as the moron in chief keeps saying that his economy “is the bestest ever” it’s unfortunate when reality slams him in the side of the head…no it isn’t…he’s too stupid to feel it anyway…so the latest economic reports on housing sales were released yesterday and boy, they are bad…housing sales have collapsed to the lowest point since they started reporting it in 2001…and it is worse than the housing crash of 2008-9…worse than any time in history…and do you remember what idiot boy promised? Gas at 2 bucks a gallon and mortgages at 2%? Take a look at where they are…gas at 4.54 and mortgage rates at 7.4%…and along with the higher costs for everything due to idiot boy’s stupid war and tariffs, that means that most people don’t make enough to qualify for a mortgage since their expenses are too high…and that is all on the idiot and his minions…I know that I couldn’t afford a 7.4% mortgage right now but under Biden in 2001, I got my mortgage for 2.25% so I could afford my house just living on SS…something that is never going to happen under the idiot…so maga idiots, where are you living? How does the rent for the double wide that has exploded under your god king let you save for a house? It doesn’t and yet you’ll still vote for the repubs who took your future away…geez…
October 21st
Well…as I said, I’m not going to talk much about how I sleep anymore since it’s not giving me any insights on how to sleep better…it’s going to be another cold start on the bike with it only 41 right now but I’m used to that already…I think…my toes were white and cold when I finished yesterday but not as bad as they have been…I have the day off after the bike rides today since I did the grocery run yesterday so that means some reading time and maybe some cleaning…the kitchen could use a once over so maybe I’ll do that…still no cooking with leftovers in the fridge that appear will last longer than I thought but I will need to plan something for later in the week…I did buy some Prego pasta sauce that is a creamy tomato/ricotta and I thought I’d give it a try…only 1.39 so no big deal if it sucks…but if it doesn’t, it’s still on sale this week and I can get more…so that means I need to make pasta later to try it…the bike has been working well since I did the work to it last week and I need to figure out how to replace the bottom bracket since the bearings are worn out…probably find a youtube video of someone doing it…the leaves are still waiting to fall but that should start to happen next week and then I can start picking then up…it’s nice to be caught up and have a day where I can do what I want…I am retired, after all…more later…
Kind of busy…and cold…
Well…it was only 37 degrees when I went out for the rides this morning and even though I dressed for it, I was still cold and my toes were white after the 2nd ride…I survived it but with pain from the cold that lasted all day and kept me hobbling around…after the rides I jumped right into the grocery run since I needed to pick up 2 prescriptions and I had 7 bucks in coupons to use…I even went back to DD after aldis…I did get some massive chicken breasts at aldis that were at least 1.25 pounds each and I’ll be making some creamy garlic chicken with them…after that I went out and treated the top on the car with protectant…the cleaner worked really well and the top is now a deep black color that didn’t change after I treated it…I did do laundry today, too and I think that was enough for the day…got some reading in and didn’t have to cook with the chicken leftovers from yesterday…I did buy some ice cream for the first time in 15 years and I know it’s not good for me but I got some cherry fudge chunk in amoretto flavored ice cream and I am having that tonight…don’t need the calories but damn I like the taste…okay, time to check the news and then tv time…
Get out and vote…
Well…I know I’ve said this a hundred times but damn, get out and vote! We need to bury the idiot trump and his asshole followers to make the nightmare we live in go away…but you know they will be trying everything to convince you to stay home or that you vote won’t count…and on top of that you have trump’s minions like this asshole, Aaron Reitz a US attorney from the southern Texas district, screaming at people that he will “hunt them down” if they violate federal election law…and he has been threatening election officials, too, still screaming that they have a duty to prevent illegal voting…yeah, hey Aaron you asshole, if there is so much illegal voting, how come you haven’t prosecuted one person in Texas for it? You know it doesn’t exist and yet you scream it at the top of your lungs…getting a little frustrated that control of the congress is going to be in dem hands on January 3rd? Two can play the scare game moron…what’s in your background and can you stand up to the investigation of your ass that’s going to happen after January 3rd? Intimidating voters is against the law and you blared it all over the place…and guess what, stupid…it’s all in your frickin e-mails that I’m sure have already been screenshotted and saved for use when we win…man, are you trumpsters stupid…geez…
October 20th
Well…up at 5am again today but that now feels pretty normal so I guess I’ll live with it…feel a little worn out this morning but that won’t keep me from the routine of getting out on the bike as soon as the 2nd cup of coffee is in me…it was nice to get some things done yesterday and I’m going to do the grocery run today since I have 2 prescriptions that I need to pick up..and I have some food coupons to use that will save me 5 bucks that I need to use…my damn neck has been hurting every morning for a week now and I need to figure out why…the stretches aren’t working like they used to so I think I’ll hit it with some topical before I go out…it’s only 42 degrees here so I’ll be out in full thermasuit today and I hope the stars are visible again so I can just stop and look…have to do the top treatment on the car after I get back from the grocery run but that’s all I have to do today so there will be reading later…on the 3rd book of the haul that I’ll finish today and I’m not sure who the next author will be…doesn’t matter I guess…the first 3 have been good and I hope I have a few more I haven’t read…okay, need to get off my butt and get moving…it’s almost 6am and I need to have a bagel before I head out..more later…
Got some yard work done…
Well…the rides this morning were really nice with getting out in the dark and having Orion hanging over me the entire way along with lots of other stars and planets…I had to remember that I was riding in the dark when all I wanted to do was look up…and today I dressed for the cold and the rides were good…I did ride out to the road construction site this morning and it looks like it won’t be finished before the end of the year…and that sucks since the damn oak trees on the detour are dropping so many acorns that I have to ride in the road with the bike lane covered in inches of them that throw the bike around…no fun…after I got back here I read some news and then right out to work on the yard…started with trimming my one shrub next to the house and then taking a bunch of branches down that needed to be removed…then I bundled those and put them out for pick up and after that I cleaned the top on the car with the new cleaner to get it ready to treat tomorrow…got done around 1pm, had lunch, and read for a while until I started the dinner of chicken, carrots, potatoes, and rice…a one pan meal that I’ll be eating from for the rest of the week…have to pick up 2 prescriptions and do the grocery run tomorrow and may even run back over to DD for some more honey ham and salami…we’ll see….