Well…as Iran rejects the idiot trump’s bullying to end the war, he has now upped the ante and has said he will blockade the strait of hormuz so no one can get through…and if you think gas prices and inflation are bad now, you ain’t seen nothing yet…and this really is an act of war and Iran has shown they are not going to just fold up to idiot boy’s threats…this really kills any thought that vance had to be the next president since he is just a failure in everything he tries to do…I mean cripes, going to Hungary to try to save Orban when the people there want him gone…oh, and after jd went there, Orban’s chances of surviving today’s election took a nosedive as the people of Hungary see that vance and trump are just putin’s stooges and they have rejected the crap they are selling…so idiot boy just keep floundering as 5 dollar a gallon gas will be here Monday and inflation on everything else explodes…this is what you did to the world maga assholes…do you feel good about yourselves? You shouldn’t…geez…
April 12th
Well…yesterday was the 7th day of no drinking and I think I’m still feeling it since I feel pretty sluggish today…slept okay and didn’t get out of bed until 5:30 or so and I should feel better but I think it’s going to be a process to get my body back to normal but I’m sticking with it…today could be the first day of the year with two outdoor rides since it’s already 48 and that’s warm enough to get out…it’s going to be in the 60’s for a high today so I’m going to get outdoors as soon as it gets light…but I need the coffee to work…it’s going to be a relaxing morning until it gets light and I can head out…I’m looking forward to the first 25 mile day of the year…the rain has gone to the north and it looks like just showers here for the rest of the day…we are entering a stretch of 60;s for highs this week so I’ll have to get off my butt and get yard work done…I think I may climb into the crawlspace today and turn the outdoor tap so I can wash the car tomorrow even though it’s going to rain…and I can finally wash the bike, too, and it’s really needed it…not much to do today…it’s going to be centered on getting the rides in first and then the race from Bristol later…still have leftover pork shoulder for both meals today but I will need to start planning for later in the week…more later…
I Almost forgot again…
Well…darn, as you can see it’s 7:22 and I almost forgot to come here and do the third one for the day…I did get out to do an outdoor ride today but it was only 43 when I went out and that is just wrong for April 11th…it was a good ride and day and I’m getting through the 7th day of no more drinking and I’m starting to get used to it…there is a race on from Bristol tonight so I’ll be watching that instead of burning shows from my queue on plex…but the new “Hail Mary” movie is out there and I really want to see that…maybe tomorrow night…it’s going to rain tomorrow so I’ll have an easy day with just one ride…I skipped the weight work today since I’ve done it every day for three weeks and I really needed to have a rest day to let my muscles recover…I sure hope that not drinking will help me lose 10 more pounds…my vision was quite clear on the bike today and that’s enough to keep me going with it…time for the race…
Chickenshit repubs…
Well…as the idiot trump stumbles around crashing everything that the US means, the people who could stop it sit on their hands and do nothing…impeach the sonafabitch and remove him…they have the votes right now to do it but there is not one once of moral fiber to any of them…they sit there while he hollows out the justice department and turns it into his personal vendetta department, they sit there while he sends his thugs to deport American citizens, they sit there as he destroys the government that made the US, and they sit there while he destroys our standing in the world with his crazy assed illegal war in Iran and his threats to our allies…the repub party is going to go down in history as the enablers of this orange asshole and the blame sits clearly on their shoulders…what a feckless group of spineless assholes…geez…
April 11th
Well…that was a little better…didn’t get out of bed til 5:33 this morning but there was a lot of tossing and turning…as always, but I feel okay after day 6 of no cocktails…and I can taste the coffee this morning and that is a good sign…I wonder when this damn cold is going to break? I mean cripes…32 degrees on the 11th of April? Sure hope it warms up enough to get outdoors on the bike today but the high is only supposed to get to 52 and that won’t happen til late afternoon…I really want to get the outdoor faucet turned on so I can do the spring cleaning on the car and the bike…I’m still thinking of buying one more bike since I used up all the spare parts from the black bike to keep the grey one running…and it’s got over 65,000 miles on it so I guess I got my money’s worth…if I do that, I’ll have to buy a new handlebar bag and a new computer for it to keep track of the miles I ride…and it will take a couple of years to get it set up the way I like…I did make a pulled pork sandwich for dinner yesterday but that made three meals for the day and I can’t do that every day…not much to do today…just need to get off my butt and get going so I can get the indoor ride in before 8am…more later…
Finally, a great pork shoulder…
Well…today was pork shoulder day in the instant pot and finally, it turned out great…tender and falling apart…so I guess I hit the amount of cook time at an hour and a half that I was always under before…and I just winged it on a rub with garlic powder, onion powder, smoked paprika, chili powder, and cayenne pepper with salt and pepper…I cooked with chicken broth as the cooking liquid and threw some bay leaves and garlic cloves in…to flavor the gravy, I put onions, celery, and carrots in the instant pot as it cooked…by far the best one I’ve ever cooked and now I’ve got it down so I can repeat it…the smoked paprika made the gravy come out with an orange tint that was a little strange but it tasted good…so, I’m going to have a third meal today with a pulled pork sandwich with barbecue sauce and dill pickles…yummy…I did hit the library today and just wandered a bit there to look for more authors and ran across the guy who does the “Reacher” series named Lee Child and I like the Reacher tv shows and like the first book I’ve started…so that gives me another dozen books to read…Yay! Okay, back to reading…
Giving national security to the Chinese…
Well…selling out this country seems to be one of the hallmarks of the idiot trump and his cronies, starting with letting netanyahu call the shots on the Iran war and now letting don jr. and trump’s cronies coszy up to China by letting a company run by one of jr’s hunting buddies make the case for letting a Chinese company have access to national security data…is this frickin treason? It’s al grift all the time for these assholes who don’t care a bit about the US of the damage this will do to us…they only care about monetizing any and all relationships no matter the cost…they don’t give a damn about anything but themselves…and what the hell is don jr. doing talking to anyone about nation security? He didn’t pass the vetting to get a security clearance but I guess that doesn’t matter to these assholes…it sure didn’t matter to idiot boy when he stole thousands of classified documents and tried to use them to make money for himself…I sure hope all of this crap is investigated when we take back the house in the fall…geez…
April 10th
Well…up and moving at 4:30 today and there was no point to try to get back to sleep…and I even stayed up til 10:30 so there may be a nap in my future if I can even do naps anymore…it’s raining again this morning but it will end before noon so I may be going out for a ride after I make the pork shoulder in the instant pot…I do need to hit the library after it opens at 9 and I have one more book to finish before that…or not, I guess we’ll see…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and cooking will be the only chore for today…going to make a rub to apply before I brown the meat and then it ‘s under pressure for 90 minutes and that will give me time to steam the carrots and make mashed potatoes and gravy…feel okay this morning after the 5th day of no cocktails and I think I’ve gotten over the hump so I’ll be able to make that the new normal and it feels okay…still feel a bit worn out but that could be from not eating enough with only a bagel early and a couple of slices of ham for lunch…but I’ll fix that today…need to remember that I have calories to play with with not drinking…I did get a nice outdoor ride in yesterday and I plan on that for today, too…but first I want to have coffee and read a bit…more later…
TPS on the car…
Well…after putting the summer tires back on the car yesterday, the weather got nice and I decided to put the top down and run over to DD for some bargains…when I took off, I had a new light and beeping coming from the dash…looked down and it was one of the tire pressure sensors telling me a tire was low…the car drove like it, too with how sensitive Miatas are to tire pressure…so when I got back here, I got my little portable compressor out and yep, the right front tire was down to 14.5 pounds so I went around to do all of them…the rest of them were close so I filled all of them on one charge of the compressor…a pretty nice little unit that you can set it and when it gets to where you want it, it shuts off…not bad for 19 bucks…and I took the floor mat out of the driver’s foot well and vacuumed it and scrubbed the salt out of from winter…so now back to reading…
So now they are threatening the Pope…
Well…can these assholes sink any lower? The answer to that is yes they can..in January the pentagon summoned the then Vatican’s ambassador to the US after the Pope laid into the idiot trump and his cronies for everything they were doing like starving US citizens with the huge medicaid and SNAP cuts and basically said that is not christian…and the response was to tell the ambassador that the US “has the power to do what it wants in the world” and then threatened the ambassador that they “better take our side” and even brought up the “Avignon Papacy” where the French used military force to bend the Pope to it’s will…this is such bullshit and shows how depraved this administration is…any criticism of trump and his cronies is to be smashed by any means necessary, even though the Pope was just quoting the teachings of Jesus to these fake chistians…so what do you say repub Catholics? Is it okay to threaten the Pope for pointing out how depraved trump and his cronies are? He did nothing but tell the truth…these assholes are not christians…they are thugs…geez…