Well…I’m really not sure if and endorsement has any effect in elections but it is nice to see one of the good guys weigh in on an essential race…and Bruce Springsteen just did that over the weekend when he wholeheartedly endorsed Abdul El-Sayed to be the next senator from Michigan…now let’s compare that to the traitor stevens who endorsed rogers for the same seat…and really, who cares about stevens and her sour grapes bullshit? I think Bruce has seen what I’ve seen from Abdul, a smart, accomplished doctor who is really a Michigan born and bred candidate, not like the carpetbagger rogers who parachuted in to try to steal that seat for the idiot trump…and from listening to Abdul he is the kind of person that Michigan needs to send to the senate…to protect Medicaid and people who depend on it to stay alive…Medicare for all to get the US to where the rest of the world is and has been for 50+ years…and to block any more trump judges including the supreme court…now that’s something I can get behind and I think we need more progressive ideas and to leave the centrists behind…their go along to get along bullshit has gotten us to where we are now and we need the big ideas the the dems used to support…they need to do that again…geez…
November 3rd
Well…I think it’s going to be a full pot of coffee day today so I just ground some beans to make another one…don’t want to run short…it’s still 60 out there so the rides will be in shorts again this morning and that’s pretty cool in the dark…need to pick the right music but I’m not sure what that would be yet…maybe The Who’s greatest hits…going to do the grocery run this morning since I don’t have to wait for the ads to come out tomorrow since there is nothing in them I really need…I am running out of rice and Meijers sent me a coupon for 2.25 off but I’m not sure what strain I’ll get…have been buying Jasmine but maybe some Bismatti? Going to try to toast my bagel in the toaster oven since the toaster is dying and I’m not sure what to buy next…got the leaves done yesterday so I just to clean a bit and do some meal planning…making Masala Thursday but I’ll need 2nd meals and have lots of pasta and sauce that I got last week so that may be it…oh, and some omelets since I have green pepper to use up along with the dozen eggs in the fridge…I did get the back door working right so I have nothing else to do before winter but put the hose in the garage when it gets close to freezing…but I want to wash the car one more time before that…not mush to do today…just need to get moving so I can be on the bike before 6am…more later…
A bit of a day…
Well…you know it may not be an optimal day when you break a pedal on the bike 7 miles away from home…and that happened to me on the 2nd ride when the right pedal failed on the boardwalk and just fell off the shaft that it rotates on…so I had to ride back here pushing the pedal back on the shaft all the way…what a pain but I got pretty good at keeping it on and still made good time coming back…and I always have spare pedals in the cabinet just for this kind of thing and I didn’t need to dip into the new pair but used a new one that was in another box in the cabinet on my bike shelf…so, I changed that out pretty easily and will be back out there in shorts again tomorrow with the low only getting down to 56…and I have one more day of that before it gets cold again…after I got back here, I jumped right into picking up the first batch of leaves that took longer than I expected with filling 8 bags and I wasn’t done til almost 11am making it 6 hours of busy, busy…but then all I did was read off and on this afternoon…I did get my new medicare card today so I’m all set with that for another year and that takes a load off…tomorrow looks pretty easy since I’m doing the grocery run on it’s normal day this week and that leaves me free to work on the back door if the part gets here…okay…time to look for something on tv for tonight…
What a delusional ass…
Well…with his debacle of a war with Iran still going after 8 months…the delusional asshole trump went on and on in a speech yesterday that he would have won the Vietnam war in a week…yeah, do you see the irony in that? I sure do since he fraudulently got 5 deferments that kept him out of the draft for that war…and people a hell of a lot smarter than him had a hard time figuring it out…so this moron is going to lose the elections for the repubs, lose a war with Iran, and lose his mind and the repubs are still following him and what that means to me is that most repubs are not too bright, either….like the turncoat Stevens here in Michigan…did she even think past being pissed that the senate seat she felt entitled to went to El-Sayed? No one in the world is going to trust a thing she says ever again unless they are maga asshole…oh, wait…the idiot trump did invite here to become a repub but she was one all along with how she took 30 million from AIPAC in the primary…she just had a thin veneer that helped her pass as a dem…no longer…geez…
November 2nd
Well…I’m not adjusting to the time change very well and didn’t sleep much so I’m pretty worn out today…and it’s going to be a long day of work as I’m going to pick up the leaves for the first time and then have to repair the back door when the part gets here…and I just hate working on locksets since they never go back together as they are supposed to…it’s 53 or 56 right now so I’m going out in the dark in shorts this morning and it will be a little cold but my phone says 56 so it shouldn’t be too bad…and that means I can do the leaves in shorts, too…then it’s going to rain off and on for a couple of days so I really do need to get the leaves up…and will have to do it again later in the week if the rest of them finally come down…still in leftover mode so no cooking today but I will need to make a batch of Masala later in the week…want to get out on the bike before 6am and that should be easy since it’s only 5:20 right now but I still need to have a bagel…I think my toaster is dying after only 2 years and I may have to buy a better one next time…oh, well…so I have a day of work today so I probably should get going and get started…more later…
Haley Stevens immolates her career…
Well…this is why I’m so happy that Abdul El-Sayed beat Haley Stevens in the dem primary for senator from Michigan…just yesterday, this traitor endorsed Mike Rogers against Abdul and the whole thing stinks of sour grapes on her part…and to top that off, after this supposed dem endorsed Rogers, she cut off the press conference she held to announce her treachery when someone asked her tough questions of her taking millions of dollars from AIPAC to try to buy the election for her…and to even top that, most of her staff has quit after this betrayal and will leave her with no one to do her work for her…does she really think that maga is going to give her wingnut welfare? Or is she planning on a sweet lobbying job to make her millions…whatever, she has burned every bridge to the dem party and it just shows that we really do need to purge these DINOs and reclaim the party for real dems…go Abdul…geez…
Some good news…
Well…I forgot about this good news I got in an e-mail Friday…my Medicare insurer, Priority Health sent me an e-mail saying I don’t need to do anything to continue my coverage…no changes for this year so that takes a little bit of stress off my back…I am really loving the repairs I did on the bike and it hit me this morning it hasn’t ridden the well in years…just so smooth and I can just pedal and not think about it…so the rides this morning were great but I haven’t done anything since other than finish a book and read the news…I did look at the broken door latch on the back door and it’s made by some random company I’ve never heard of, Atlas Security so I hope I can find a replacement that will work…I think they are pretty much all the same and getting the old part out will be easy with just 4 screws…2 to take the knobs off and 2 to take the latch out that should take less than a few minutes and I’ll run to depot tomorrow to see if I can match up a generic one…after I get the leaves done and the rides in…then the doors will be ready for winter as the car is and everything else is…should look for a new snow shovel tomorrow, too since the one I have is 5 years old and I’ve worn through the aluminum strip on the back of the scoop…going to look for one just like I have that has a fiberglass handle and plastic scoop…okay, races have started and I am going to watch some of it and pick out a new book…
Ha,ha…vance for president…
Well…sitting here and enjoying my last cup of coffee after the rides and thought I’d talk about something that made me laugh the other day…and that is that people actually believe that the idiot vance is going to have an easy time getting the repub nomination for president in 2028…let’s first remember why he is is vp at all…it was all Peter Theil’s doing as was all of his political career…and it was the billionaire Theil that went to idiot boy and told him to take vance…but geez, vance has no political skills that I’ve ever seen and he can’t even do simple human interaction very well…and his sneer toward anyone who he doesn’t like makes him just another asshole trying to be trump with the same lying and disdain for anyone who asks him a question…and his hold on the maga folks is not assured as the entire maga movement is finally dying and is going to disappear after they are crushed on Tuesday…so no, jd vance is never going to be president and we’ll all be better off when he disappears from public life…geez…
November 1st
Well…I really don’t understand people who think setting the clocks back an hour gives you another hour of sleep…I just laid there after my internal clock said it was time to get up and I was out of bed by 4:30…which would be 5:30 and that would be okay but 4:30? Not so much…oh, well…when putting in the new door gaskets, I noticed that the latch on the back door is broken so I’ll need to go to depot to see if I can just get the part I need and not replace the entire lockset since that would mean re-keying it…but I’m not working on that today…the deadbolt keeps it closed for now so no rush…the temp outside is in that grey area where I’m not really sure how to dress at 49 degrees…will probably overdress and then adjust it for the 2nd ride…the bike has been working great since I worked on it but I need to start thinking about replacing the driveline again with 16,000 miles on the parts on it now and I normally only get 12-13K…it has started to skip sometimes and I need it not to when I’m doing the long uphills that I have to really push on…so I think I’ll put the new parts on the grey bike instead of the black one and then think about a complete rebuild of the black one…really hope the parts hold out until I put the bike downstairs for the winter and I can take my time rebuilding it….okay, I need to toast a bagel and get another cup of coffee and then get on the bike…more later…
Got the new seals installed
Well…just got the new seals for the exterior doors and installed them…now you need to push the door to get the deadbolts to engage and that is just how it’s supposed to be…no light comes in around them like they did with the factory ones so I’m happy for 20 bucks and there’s enough for one more side in case I tear one of them moving stuff…and these are white and blend right into the doors and trim not like the beige of the factory ones…so I’m pretty happy so far but we’ll see how they last exposed to the sun all the time on the back door…and I got the new bottom bracket that I’ll keep as a spare for now…just want to ride the bike now that it’s working right and not fool around with it…so, other than the seals, I haven’t done anything today and I don’t think there is anything I want to get done…have tomorrow’s coffee already set up and have leftovers for dinner so I can sit here and read for a bit as I watch races/football….