Well…damn, I really wasn’t ready for how much my right forearm would hurt after pulling weeds in the lawn for and hour the other day…have had to treat it with topical painkiller and will have to do that again today before getting on the bike…we’ve got a couple of really hot days coming with the high getting to 90 Monday and then some rain and storms late Monday and I’ll take that…I love the heat and have the big fan out and set up in the living room so I’m ready for it…didn’t get much done yesterday but I really do need to clean today for at least a bit…started a little yesterday but need to get off my butt after the rides…or one ride until later since the F1 race from Monaco is on at 7:55 and there is no way I can get 2 rides in before then..or I could if I went out in the dark right now but without coffee, that is not going to happen…and even with coffee that’s not going to happen…I’m tired of rushing around all the time and just want a day of doing what I want instead of what I’m compelled to do…so I’m going to take time to have coffee and a bagel before I get on the bike…for the first time in months the wind is calm out there and that is going to be weird after going into 20-30mph wind all the time out here…so it’s bagel and 2nd cup of coffee time…more later…
Coffee on the bike for the first time…
Well…with getting out on the bike this morning in the fog, by the time I got the 1st ride in I was getting damp and a little cool so instead of refilling my water bottle like I normally do between rides, today I got out a contego non spill coffee cup that just happens to be the same size as my stainless 1 quart water bottle…so I filled the cup up with hot coffee and headed it out…and it was kind of nice to have coffee on the bike since I only took time to have one cup before I started out at 6:15am and I really needed it…so I think I’ll do the same thing tomorrow but that means I’ll have to set up the coffee maker for extra coffee in a few minutes…and I think I’ll grind some beans for that since I have 4 pounds coming and still have about 4 1/2 pounds here…
We’re not loud assholes…
Well…sitting here watching the truck race and for the 4th time a commercial for ram trucks (that will always be Dodges to me) and the ceo of ram comes on saying that the US is loud and sure of themselves and that everyone should be that way…is this asshole a maga supporter? It sure seems like it when he wants the assholes in this country to be “loud” all the time and I don’t take that as an American value…what the hell happened to the quiet American who did things and then didn’t sit there shouting it from the rooftops? They just went about their business and didn’t have to be “loud” about it…it’s exactly why I hate the maga assholes so much and by association this asshole ceo who thinks being loud is perfectly fine…I, for one, think these loud assholes who do burnouts with their trucks on city streets are surely not people who deserve to be held up as great Americans…or the ones in trucks who tear up sensitive wildlife areas because it just perfectly fine to be “loud” and destroy things like all the magas do…you’ll never see a good American “rolling coal” or bullying others with their stupid trucks…but that is just what this ceo, Tim Kuniskis, thinks makes an American…and that is just sick…geez…
Rolled the dice…
Well…after seeing that the ground coffee I bought a few weeks ago has doubled in price, I took a look at the Hills Brothers beans that I bought a week or so ago for 11 bucks for 32 ozs and it was still priced at that so I ordered another bag of beans this morning to make sure I don’t run out of coffee as the price soars on all of it…I mean the beans I used to buy at 13 bucks are now 37 dollars…who the hell can afford that? So, I rolled the dice even without tasting them but I have the advantage (disadvantage?) of not being able taste much so I don’t think of coffee as anything but a CDS (caffeine delivery system) and any of it should work for that…I also bought some cheap post it notes that I can use to make notes to myself like I used to when I was working…and I bought 8 100w LED light bulbs since I don’t have any spares here and these were cheaper than even at the dollar store where I used to get them for a buck but are now 1.50…that stuff will be here tomorrow but the coffee is going to take a couple of weeks for some reason..who knows?
Protesting Kushner…
Well…as jared kushner and ivanka travel the world grifting their little hearts out…the people of Albania are having none of it…after kushner got the corrupt government to seize billions of dollars of land and give it to him for another trashy trump resort, the people of Albania have hit the street by the millions to try to put an end to this theft…and it appears they are going to keep it up until this corrupt deal is ended…I wonder who would even go to this stupid resort if it does get built and they have to pass through crowds of Albanians to get to this piece of crap? but this is this idiot’s pattern…he is still trying to steal oceanfront land in Gaza that netenyahu has flattened for another resort…I can see that one now…the only way that it would stay usable would be to have the Israeli army have a permanent base right next door…and that wouldn’t even deal with the new era of drone warfare which would mean that the US would have to finance this crap…and that is just another corrupt part of the giveaway to the idiot trump’s family…no more of my tax dollars going to this criminal family…geez…
June 6th
Well…slept all the way til 5:30 this morning and that is such a win that I don’t know what to say…I mean with ups and downs that is a solid 6 1/2 hours and I’m feeling the energy this morning…even with just pouring the first cup of coffee…it’s 60 out there right now and we have a heavy fog warning on right now and I haven’t been out in fog in quite a while and it should be fun…don’t have to cook today with chicken tacos to have for the next 4 or 5 days and still have 3 days of turkey dogs and I am loving the homemade pickles and red onions but damn, cukes are over a buck each and I’ve never seen that before…and the cheap ground coffee I bought for 11 bucks three weeks ago is now over 22 bucks so I think I’ll see if the Hills Bros beans I bought are still 11 bucks and I’ll buy another bag of them even without tasting…how bad can they be? We did get some good rain yesterday and even even overnight when the rain woke me up even wearing earplugs so it will be interesting to see how flooded the trail is this morning…need to get off my butt and get moving so I can get both rides in before the MotoGP sprint race at 9am…I really do need to clean at some point and do the windows that I started with the kitchen ones yesterday…more later…
Took it a little easy today…
Well…after the rides and all the yard work yesterday, i took it easy today with just the rides and making some chicken soft tacos for lunch…which came out great and the avocado was a nice touch…but I forgot to put cheese in them that I’ll remember tomorrow…I did get two nice rides in this morning and my legs were not as flat as they were yesterday…it has been raining a while here but not enough to help my yard…that would take days of rain every week and that is just not going to happen…the female swan I’ve been watching on the nest for a month now finally had 4 cygnets hatch and took them from the nest into the water for a swim today…pretty cool since I thought she was out of luck…and on the way back from the 2nd ride, I saw a female turkey with 10 chicks out by the country club…they were so tiny I could have held 6 of them in one hand…I sure hope she avoids the busy road she was standing next to…okay, back to reading..
The idiot trump has made the US unnecessary…
Well…just as I talked about when the idiot trump started to tear up international agreements and tried to cut Ukraine off at the knees, the world has found that the “necessary ally” US is not really necessary after all…the world has found ways to get around idiot boy’s tariffs and every day there are more and more economic, military, and political agreements that we are not even invited to talk about anymore…and Ukraine has used real diplomacy (something that idiot boy has no idea what it even is) to strengthen it’s position as the idiot boy’s buddy putin looks weaker and weaker every day…and it’s all trump’s stupidity and bluster that has led us to where we are…where our standing in the world is more and more tied to the idiot and will take decades to repair if it even can be…this is what you’ve done repubs…what our enemies have been trying to do since the end of WWII and couldn’t, you have thrown it all away because you’re scared of the dementia riddled orange idiot…and we dems are going to have to come in again and clean up your mess…geez…
June 5th
Well…damn, stayed up til almost 11 last night but that didn’t help…up at 5am again and I’m quickly getting to the point that I need to try something else to sleep more…it looks like rain today but I’ve got til almost 10 to get the rides in…going to be lots of wind but it’s already warm enough to get out in shorts and a t-shirt…and we’ve got some almost 90 degree weather coming for the later in the weekend…about time…not as sore as I should be after all of the work yesterday and I won’t need an ibuprofen…yet…but I’ll wait for that until later…it’s going to be nice to be done for the day and then read while it’s raining this morning…need to figure out food for today…the avocados are not ready yet but I think I’ll make the chicken soft tacos anyway…still have the pickled red onions to have with it so that will be enough…I actually tasted the turkey dogs with homemade pickles yesterday and I think these are the best batch I’ve made in years…a cross between dill and sweet with lots of heat and I’ll have to make another batch next week…not much to do today…I do need to clean the kitchen and dining room and should tear the fridge apart and clean that, too but that will probably wait til Sunday…need to get the day started with more coffee and the weight work before I get on the bike in a half hour…more later…
Lots of stuff done…
Well…it was a pretty busy morning today that I kind of planned but not all of it…I started out with getting two rides in beginning at about 6:20am and by the time I was done with the 2nd, my legs were completely flat and I was struggling a bit…and when I got back here, I discovered that I had used up all the weed killer from the last application from a month ago and I really did want to feed the lawn with the rain that is coming tomorrow…so darn, I had to put the top down and make a run to menards to get what I needed…when I got back here, I pulled weeds in the lawn for an hour or so to get rid of the tree of heaven sprouts that we all through the lawn…and the bending over gave a good stretch to my hamstrings and even made my back feel better for a bit…after that I fed the lawn and hit it with weedkiller since the weeds were trying to take over even with the grass really stressed from no rain…then I treated the ant nests that were big enough to swallow my lawnmower and I was done…oh, after the rides, I cleaned up the trash that the idiots in the rental left on the street and in the vacant lot and poured it all on the front steps of that run down piece of crap so they would have to deal with it…I was done by 11:45 but that’s enough after getting started a little after 6am…so now it’s pushing 2pm and I’ve barley gotten any reading in but that is going to be the rest of my afternoon…