Well…man, I feel worn out this morning and getting out of bed at 4:44 didn’t help…and the 2 day rule is still working so I hurt like crazy everywhere and will take an ibuprofen before I get on the bike early…need to get a ride in before the grocery run and at least it’s warm enough to go out in shorts…and put the top down on the car for the run…need to get the stuff to take care of the front porch and get it waterproofed and I may even work on that today since there is no rain in the forecast until next Tuesday so that will give me time to spend a few hours to clean it and let it dry before I treat it…got the lawn mowed yesterday and noticed that the brush killer has started to work on the trash bushes in my fence and I hope it kills them all…the damn things have been wrecking my fence since I bought this place and it’s time to get rid of them…at least it will be warm enough to wash the porch and not freeze my butt off and that has been a long time coming…I mean it’s almost June and we are still in the 50’s right now…need to get the weight work in and eat something before I get on the bike in 50 minutes…more later…
One of those days…
Well…it’s been one of those days today where everything that could go wrong did…stupid yahoo tried to extort me into paying them 100 bucks a year to “upgrade” to yahoo mail plus by making my e-mail fail this morning…and they have stopped giving tech support to people unless they give them the hundred bucks…not going to do that and I think I may have figured out a work around…we’ll see…I did get out on the bike in shorts and a t-shirt today but the rides were fueled by only one cup of coffee and that is not anywhere near enough…so I was still drinking coffee at 2pm to use up the old stuff so I can make new tomorrow…not as sore as I expected on the bike today but I think the 2 day rule will come into effect tomorrow and I’ll be feeling it…I did get the lawn mowed in between the rides but that took everything out of me and the 2nd ride was a lot of work…but, I survived it again today and even had the chance to read a bit…still haven’t dealt with the noise ordinance out here but there is only so much I want to deal with in one day…maybe tomorrow…need to get the deck wash at menards tomorrow along with some thompson’s since I couldn’t find a more affordable sealant…oh, well…
The idiot trump is healthy?
Well…after the last trip the idiot in chief took to Walter Reed Hospital, his stupid doctor basically said he’s the most fit president in history…if that’s true why has the idiot gone to the hospital 3 times this year including today where his schedule says he will be there “all day”…now, when I go to my doctor for the yearly checkup, it takes me like a half hour since I really am healthy and they don’t have to run hours of tests to see that…and don’t feed me the bullshit that this stuff is “precautionary”…anyone can see that idiot boy is not healthy…from his swollen ankles to his bruises everywhere cover up with makeup, to his falling asleep in almost every meeting is not normal and if I reported this to my doctor, I would end up in the hospital for test just like idiot boy…and let’s remember the idiot bragging about “acing” his cognitive tests that they have given him 3 times already this year and that wouldn’t happen unless it was noticed he was declining…my doctors take one look at me and listen to me and then skip the cognitive tests since they could see no decline…and yet, the media that harped constantly on Biden’s slow decline say nothing about trump’s clear inability to do his job…geez…
May 26th
Well…what a shitty morning…have been trying to fix my e-mail all morning and yahoo is no damn help…all of my e-mails are going to the trash folder and they haven’t done a damn thing…crap…so I’ve wasted hours trying to fix it and it’s put me in a damn crappy mood…and I’m late for getting on the bike and that doesn’t help…the city has changed the noise ordinance here to allow people to do whatever they want until 11 pm so I’ll be putting my house up for sale soon…but first I’m going to go to the city council meeting and ream them a new asshole for doing this to this city…do they think that noise is no longer an issue? I’ll be burning up the e-mail today blasting every one of these morons for doing this…why the hell can’t I just live life without all this damn work? I need to stop here and just stew a bit…more later…
39 miles today…
Well…when I got up this morning I thought I’d have a short wait to get the temps high enough to get out on the bike and it was…55 by 8:10 and I was even able to go out in shorts…with the wind tolerable and the temp coming up to almost “springlike” temps, I decided to test my fitness level and do 3 rides for 39 miles this morning…so, I survived it and just feel a little stiff from it…energy held out and I still felt good at the end of the 3rd ride so that means I can train up and get ready for doing the “ride my age” day in June…now, it may hit me badly tomorrow or Wed but I guess I’ll just have to wait it out and see…a little stiff and sore right now but I’m only going to read this aft so it will give my body a chance to recover…I hope…reading time…
I think there’s a recession on it’s way…
Well…you know I’m always predicting things and sometimes I’m right…okay, more than sometimes it appears…and now, from observations of the past couple of weeks, I think there is a recession coming for the US…and there are a few things that make me think that way…first, houses out here are no longer selling in one day like mine did…there are some out here that have been for sale for months and there is even a purpose built VRBO vacation rental duplex that went up for sale a couple of weeks ago…and even in my neighborhood, there are about a dozen houses for sale and the only reason I see is they are distressed properties that the owners can’t afford when they bought at the top of the market…second…the city owned marina is only half filled and there are only 3 boats on the 50 buoys that were almost filled last year…and I take that to mean that people are tightening their belts with the soaring inflation we are seeing in everything…and boats are the first luxuries to go…third…they held a boat sale at the condo development last weekend and no one showed up…salespeople outnumbered customers 10-1 and I saw that as I rode right through it over the three days of the sale…and all of this goes with the surveys that say almost 60% of people have cut back going to restaurants and are seriously watching what they spend…not good omens since the economy is driven by consumer spending…here it comes…geez…
Ha, ha…I was right..
Well…as I wrote before a few days ago, the new Iran “deal” was just so much vaporware that the idiot trump was lying about and this morning, news reports are saying I was right…there is no “deal” and the sides are as far apart as ever…hey, idiot…diplomacy is harder than it looks, isn’t it? As every day passes, Iran grows stronger and idiot boy flounders even more that his stupid normal…and even his own party thinks he is giving Iran everything they want to just get a “win” and say he is a master negotiator…and with a few repubs peeling off his support, he won’t get the giveaway through congress…the House maybe with Johnson coming out yesterday lying his ass off that only idiot boy could have gotten Iran to negotiate…conveniently forgetting that it was Obama and his team that led a coalition of our allies in getting the last agreement with Iran signed in 2015 that worked but that idiot boy tore up because Obama did it…so now we have the idiot out there blustering that he will attack Iran again for some reason that no one can fathom…a failure to go with all of his others…geez…
May 25th
Well…that was better…didn’t get out of bed til almost 6am this morning and that makes it a huge success in my book…and I slept okay and feel okay right now and that’s without any coffee…but I just poured a cup and I’m going to chug that one to get me started…it looks like I have an easy morning ahead of me since it’s only 50 out there and I am going to wait for the temp to come up before I get on the bike and that won’t happen til 9am so I have some time to ease into the day…and it is foggy out there so I have to put the rain gear on when I go…still have three books to read so it looks like I won’t be hitting the library til Friday for more books…the highs are going to be in the 70’s this week so maybe spring is here? Ha, ha…no, the lows are still going to be in the 40’s some days and that is not spring to me..don’t have to cook today with all of the leftover chicken and potatoes I made the other day but I will need to do some meal planning later in the week…have lots of chicken in the freezer so I think I’ll start by thawing some today…not sure what I’m going to make with it but I may just bake it for sandwiches…thought about some chicken fettucinni alfredo and I may do that in a couple of days…we did get rain yesterday and I hope it salvages my lawn but with no rain in the forecast all week, I don’t have much hope….more later…
Too many races..
Well…not sure if there were too many races today or if they just aren’t as much fun without having cocktails, but I’m a little bored with the Coke 600 so here I am…I did read an article this afternoon about the backlash about huge AI data centers that are sprouting like poison ivy across the country, the resources they suck up, and the costs increases for people who live near them…so is this one a political one? Hmmm…in the article they talk about a town in Arizona that has seen their electrical rates go up by 278% after a data center was built there and now the electric company has warned residents that they may lose electric service altogether since they have limited capacity and they’d rather sell it to the data center since they make much more money doing that…and even the tech companies are warning that building all these centers is a bubble that is soon going to burst leaving hundreds of huge empty buildings that will have no use…and all the tax breaks these towns gave them are going to be worthless as they declare bankruptcy and walk away from these white elephants…and don’t get me started on the worthlessness of AI…it’s a nothing technology that adds nothing to online productivity…it’s only purpose is to make money for the tech companies..for now…
The idiot trump’s new “deal” with Iran…
Well…as the repubs fall all over themselves touting the new “deal” that idiot boy is cobbling together with Iran, I sure hope the media does a little comparing with the previous one that idiot boy walked away from…from what I can see, it is not anywhere near as comprehensive as the JCPOA was that Obama negotiated…and let’s remember…Obama didn’t need to spend 100 billion dollars attacking Iran to get them to negotiate…or cost the American people 60 billion dollars in higher gas prices…so far…he and his diplomatic experts just sat down and talked to Iran for a couple of years and got the job done…and let’s also remember that Iran came away from this war in a stronger position than they had before the moron attacked them and are left with more than 80% of their military capacity that the liar in chief said was “obliterated”…so, as they try to spin this, remember that gas was 2.85 a gallon before the moron attacked and here in Michigan is is 4.99 now…and it’s not going down anytime soon…geez…