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…
Now we know why…
Well…if you were surprised about the Saudi nuclear deal that the idiot announced the other day, the whole world was, too…but now we know why the deal even happened…money, as always…never mind that the congress has to approve any deal like this…you can be assured that the repubs in the house and senate will lose their spines and approve this “deal” that only happened because idiot boy was bribed with hotels and resorts that he will have 80% ownership in without putting in a penny of his own money…so now bribing trump out in the open is the new normal because we have a congress that won’t hold him accountable…but, when we win this November you can bet that this fraud will be rescinded and the Saudis won’t get their nuclear program that idiot boy has agreed to give them with no inspections to ensure they are following the deal…so that means the leader of the Saudis, who ordered a journalist murdered can do whatever the hell he wants with the nuclear fuel idiot boy is giving him…so the idiot in chief is obsessed with Iran getting nukes and continues to bomb them to “prevent” them from getting a weapon but will give the Saudis everything they need to make a bomb just because they bribed him to do it…I’m sure this is against the law but the repubs don’t care…they just love themselves some open graft…geez…
July 24th
Well…that was a little weird….had some dreams last night that I ran over something with my car and tore the exhaust off it…and I can do without any ones like that…watered the lawn for the 2nd day in a row and will probably do it again today as I see money running out of the sprinklers and onto the ground…it’s another cold one out there with it only 54 this morning and I don’t think I’ll attempt going to the beach today because it won’t be above 70 this morning and it was pretty cold out there yesterday…I do need to drop my absentee ballot off and hit the library to get more books this morning then over to Meijers to pick up a prescription for one of my BP meds that I hope they called in after I called my doctor the other day…then the rest of the morning is just reading and cleaning a bit…have to freeze the chicken I bought Wed since there is no way I can get to it this week…need to stop buying food or eat more and I’m not sure which…have leftovers for the weekend so I don’t need to cook again til next week and I’m not sure what that would be yet…something with potatoes since I got 10 pounds for 2 bucks Wed and I may try my hand at scalloped potatoes for the first time….more later….
The hats are pretty nice…
Well…just got the new hats from amazon and I do have to say they are pretty nice…they fit well and the little slider clasp to adjust the size is made out of brass so it won’t rust when I get it soaked from sweat…I still don’t know how the heck they can sell a 100% cotton, washable hat for 3 bucks each but I’m glad I found them…how durable are they going to be? Who knows? But at 3 bucks, I can afford to use them a while and toss them when they fall apart…the riding hat I’m replacing has been in use for close to 20 years and it just gave up to age and my acid based sweat and has been repaired multiple times so it will be nice to have a new hat to go out on the bike so I don’t look like a homeless guy…and the last time I washed it by hand, it started to just fall apart and the iron on patching for it would have cost more than 3 bucks so it’s time to retire it…I did go out to the beach today but the water and air were pretty cold so I didn’t stay long…it was 50 degrees when I went out for the 1st ride…almost put long pants on but I just couldn’t do it…after I got back here from the 2nd ride, I watered the lawn again and now I’m cooking for dinner…some chicken thighs and mashed potatoes to use up the old potatoes that had gotten a little soft and sprouted…so now it reading time for the next half hour as the chicken cooks…
This is not going to go well…
Well…with the idiot in chief freaking the hell out with Iran even having a nuclear program, this moron then goes ahead and gives reactors and US nuclear knowledge to Saudi Arabia…and American companies are going to build the reactors for them…and you can bet the Saudis are going to use these reactors to make bomb grade material since that will make them the kings of the middle east as their influence in oil goes away with the explosion of renewables around the world…is this the dumbest decision in the history of the US? It has to be damn close…what happens when a revolution takes place there and the ruling family is replaced by radicals (or more radicals)? Are we then going to bomb these facilities that we are building? This is what happens when our country’s foreign policy is run by cronyism and stupidity…the idiot trump and his cadre of stupid, stupid people are going to guarantee that we will be involved in endless wars in the middle east forever…geez…