Well…if you listened to the thunder, you would think we had a real gully washer out here…but it rained a little but we needed 20 times that much to get even close to breaking the drought…and today was the last day with a chance of rain for the next two weeks so the lawn is as good as dead…oh, well…am still worn out even with not getting up til after 6am this morning and I really don’t know what the hell is going on…I did cut back on the caffeine today with only doing half of what was in the coffee maker instead of making more like I’ve been doing for a couple of weeks now…so maybe this is just a rebound from that? I did read and article yesterday that said drinking 5cups of coffee a day lowers you risk of liver problems by almost 50% including cancer…so I guess now I have an excuse to pour it down…I did go out in the rain this morning but the raingear was way to hot to keep riding in so I took it off after half of the first ride…would rather get wet than sweat to death…way too humid to have that stuff on…okay, need to make some chicken tacos in a minute but I want to read more first….
How many times has he defeated Iran?
Well…as the middle east burns with everyone attacking everyone and all cause by the idiot trump, my question is how many times has idiot boy defeated Iran…I know his bragging about it has been going on for over a year now since the first time he said that Iran’s nuclear program was obliterated (but it wasn’t)….he hasn’t declared victory this week…yet… but if he does, it will be at least 12 times he has lied his ass of and said he won the war…isn’t anyone else getting tired of his ass lying all the time about this serious subject? I mean, what if Eisenhower didn’t do shit and then lied that the war was won before D-day? That is exactly what idiot boy is doing now…he is so far out of his depth with anything military that can’t be solved with getting 5 deferments for fake bone spurs that he should just be removed but repubs keep kissing his ass as gas prices are over 4 bucks a gallon here and we have the highest inflation of any G-7 country…and it’s all from one person…the ignorant asshole trump who just taxed everyone in the country another 1,100 bucks a year with more stupid tariffs…this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of….geez…
July 27th
Well…finally, I broke the 6am barrier this morning with not getting up til 6:07 and that is the first time I can remember that happening this year…not sure if that is going to mean anything about how I feel since I still feel tired but I haven’t had any coffee yet so that might mean something…still damn humid here and there is a line of rain coming in from the NW so it’s either wait til it ends or put the rain gear on and I’m leaning toward going out in the rain…but I need some coffee first and it’s going to be hard to just sit here for a bit…I’m normally already out on the bike but today looks like it won’t be til 7:30 or so…one of the small deer I’ve been watching since spring was hit by a car and killed yesterday and that sucks…I mean how the hell can you not see something that big? I hope there was lots of damage to the moron’s car…didn’t get anything done yesterday and with the rain, it looks like I’ll push painting the back door trim to tomorrow…it’s not going to rain again for the next 10 days so I’ll have time…I do need to cook some chicken thighs today for lunch to have with the leftover mashed potatoes and cut the chicken up for tacos but then I’ll be set for 4 days or so…need to vary my diet a bit and that might mean some pasta later in the week or maybe a pizza…not much to do today…just going to sit here and drink coffee for a while and then decide whether I want to get wet this morning….more later…
Waking up at 4am is killing me…
Well…was up at 4am this morning and it is just killing me since I’ve lost the ability to take naps in the afternoon…so now I’m sitting here just frickin worn out even though I didn’t do anything but ride the bike today…but tomorrow I’ll need to drag my but out to paint the back door trim since it’s peeling in the sun and needs paint badly…and I will need to cook tomorrow or put the thighs in the freezer…not sure what yet but I still have 3 meals of mashed potatoes to use to go with them…and I just need to cut up the chicken for chicken tacos that I cooked yesterday so that will be the 2nd meals for a few days…still damn humid here and I have the fan on to make it tolerable in here…yeah, I’m just grumpy from not sleeping and I sure have no idea how to fix that…so it will probably be another night of no sleep when I really should sleep for a whole day how tired I am…oh, well…
Destroying the post office…
Well…with the idiot in chief doing everything he can to steal the election this fall, one has just been taken away from him by the courts again…with one of his corrupt assholes in charge of the postal service, idiot boy has been using him and it to try to get his greasy hands on voter data from every state, getting his toady to refuse to deliver mail in ballots unless the states turn that data over to the idiot…but the courts just said bullshit about that and ruled that the executive order he used to try it was illegal and put a stop to it…and this goes along with cutting off money to states that didn’t vote for him even though it was appropriated by congress…not once in the history of this country has an opposing political party tried to use the federal government to skew an election and, as we all know, this is illegal but the repubs don’t care…I think what the blue states should do is cut off the flow of cash to the federal government s long as idiot boy is trying this crap…since we basically carry every damn red state with tax revenue from our states…if the repubs go along with this, and they have, we need to make the red states pay for what their reps are doing…California pays for 15% of all federal spending so if they just stopped, the government would fold…and we need to use this admission by trump and his minions that they have done this…they have refused to approve one disaster appropriation for a blue state as they lavish red states with piles of money they didn’t pay in…this is wrong on so many levels and we need to start fighting this asshole with everything we have…geez…
July 26th
Well…damn, no sleep again last night and I am going to have to take a nap later today if I can…that is getting really old and I think the one cocktail I had last night did it so I won’t be doing that again…it stayed over 70 last night and it’s so damn humid that I’m sweating just sitting here but it’s not going to get much warmer today and that is not normal for this time of the year…don’t really think I ate enough yesterday so I really do need to have a bagel before I get on the bike here in a few minutes…need to get the rides in before the F1 race at 9am but I am getting tired of going so hard all the time…not going to take a day off but I may cut back to one ride some day just to give my legs a rest that they haven’t had in months…I am going to hit 4,000 miles for the year tomorrow and it looks like I’ll get to about 6K for the year and that will be the least miles I’ve ridden in year since I moved out here but maybe that’s enough…not many people my age can do that and I’m wondering if this is the start of my decline..sure hope not…more later…
Took it too easy…
Well…yeah, took it way too easy today…after doing the rides, all I did was watch races and read…didn’t even have to cook but I made a couple of chicken breasts to use for chicken tacos Monday…so, do I feel guilty? Yeah, a little since I know the trim on the back door needs to be painted…again…but I just didn’t feel like working on it today…maybe tomorrow…I do have to replace the seals in that door since the sun has dried them out and cracked them and they’ll need to be done before winter…the rides were really good this morning and it was fun to be out there…lots of people on the trails and I think people are figuring out my secret that I have been enjoying for 5 years now…the nicest trail I’ve ever ridden and the wildlife makes me laugh every day…even saw 14 turkey babies the other day on the road up to the beach being tended to by 3 females…pretty cool…going to try to go to the beach Monday but I just saw that the weather widget just said we are supposed to get an inch of rain Monday…ha,ha,ha…yeah, that’s never going to happen…it hasn’t rained out here in more than a month and it’s not going to start now…okay, want to go back to reading…
This is sick…
Well…if you want to know how terrible the idiot an his minions are, you just have to looks at what they have done to hide the deaths of 4 American servicemen just so they don’t have to go to congress to answer for continuing the Iran war for more than 60 days saying the deaths “don’t count”….hey repubs, do American’s deaths count or don’t they? Hiding them just so the idiot can continue to lose the war is all on you assholes…and now idiot boy has promised to attack civilian infrastructure such as water plants and bridges which is clearly a war crime…and when asked about the fact they are war crimes all the idiot had to say was he wasn’t going to answer the question…but that’s not how this works…it’s still a war crime even if you don’t want to talk about it…and trump and hegseth can still be dragged to the Hague to answer for their crimes after their terms are up….and we just need to do what Mamdani did in NY when he called netenyahu a war criminal and said he would be arrested if he came to NYC…now, he doesn’t have the power to make that arrest but he does have the power to remind people that idiot boy is welcoming his fellow war criminal to meet in the US and the people need to protest this normalization of murder…more dems need to speak out and then follow through when we retake power in the fall…geez…
July 25th
Well…you know, have I said I’m really tired of not sleeping…yeah, I think that’s funny, too…but I need to pour the coffee down and get my butt moving since it’s already 5:35 and I just heated my first cup of coffee…yeah, leftover coffee that I poured out of the carafe into my pourover to store it so I could set up a new pot since I know I’ll want some for the 2nd ride and there just wasn’t enough left over from trying to open my eyes yesterday…diddn’t get anything done yesterday and today will probably be the same…I do need to scrape the flaking paint off the back door trim again and I hope I have enough paint to paint it again for the 3rd time since I’ve lived here…don’t think I’ll water the lawn today since there is rain in the forecast for tonight and into Sunday but I’ll believe it when I see it…I did pull weeds in the lawn as I was moving the sprinkler around yesterday and I feel fortunate that I can still bend over to reach them…haven’t had to mow the lawn in three weeks since it stopped growing with the month long drought we are in…at least it’s 60 out here right now so I won’t need a fleece to ride this morning…as time goes on, sunrise gets later and later…duh…and it’s darker and darker when I go out a little after 6am every day…had a weird dream about broken sunglasses last night and gluing them back together which I do all the time with the cheapies I buy to ride…the ones in the dream were broken in 5 places and I didn’t have enough glue to fix them…and I was on vacation on a beach somewhere and that was weird…okay, time to get on the weight work to get it done before the rides….more later…
A severely boring day…
Well…it was a severely boring day today with no beach run or anything else but the bike rides and errands this morning…dropped my primary ballot off at the cop shop and hit the library then over to Meijers to pick up a prescription and then all I did the rest of the day was move the sprinklers and read…not sure if that accomplished enough but it’s all I did…didn’t even have to cook with leftovers for the next couple of days…I will have to put lots of chicken in the freezer tomorrow since I bought thighs and breasts this week and really don’t know what I want to cook…made 4 thighs yesterday and those ill last me through Sunday with the mashed potatoes I made so maybe I’ll make some potato soup Monday…or maybe some chicken tacos again…we’ll see…or maybe I’ll take a couple of days off eating just for the hell of it…who knows? I did figure out why the fan on my laptop wasn’t working and reset it to “cool” and it started to run for the first time in weeks and the computer is not overheating anymore…so that was cool…ha,ha…cool…need to heat up some food and read…