Well…what if someone did a speech and no one carried it on any news channels, does it exist? That’s exactly what the idiot trump is facing in his “big, important” speech about voter fraud tonight when not one of the major news networks including fox news is going to cover…why would anyone cover the lies and bullshit this moron is going to spew tonight? This is just like a frickin broken record that his dementia sends him back to all the time…look, there is no voter fraud in the US…doesn’t exist at all and it’s about time the media just reports that…there is no voter fraud in the US…Pennsylvania just did an audit where they looked at 19 million ballots from the past 5 years and found 5 people who voted who weren’t eligible…yep, only 5 and yet the delusional dementia sufferer in the WH wants to do a two hour speech on it tonight…and his contention that fraud has to be taking place because no one can find it is just his normal pretzel logic that only exists in his addled brain…so, let’s hope he does one of his meltdowns tonight and gets the response he deserves…ridicule…it’s the only thing he deserves…geez…
Wildfire smoke is here…
Well…when I went out this morning to get the first ride in, it smelled like every house around me had a campfire last night and it appeared foggy…but, it was not fog but wildfire smoke from Canada that has blanketed Muskegon in a pall that looks like a heavy fog…the AQI (or air quality index) is at 277 which means to stay inside and outside activity is discouraged since it is dangerous to health…so, of course, I went out for a ride but didn’t know how bad the air was until I got out to the beach and was coughing like crazy…then looked at the phone and saw the AQI score that is “extremely unhealthy” and figured they might be right…by the time I got back here I was short of breath and the last climb damn near killed me…so, I closed this place up and put the hepa filters on and will hunker down inside for the rest of the day…no more rides since my lungs are still full of crap and I’m still coughing…
July 16th
Well…this heat is wearing me out and we still have a few more days to get through…I think having fans blowing on me all day and night is tiring so I didn’t turn the tower on yet today…it did get down below 70 for the first time in a few days but it is still humid as heck but this is summer in Michigan so that’s to be expected…I did get my new coffee table yesterday and I’ll skip the beach today to put it together after the rides…and I need to make masala for lunch so that will fill my morning and I’ll have a new table to use with reading this afternoon…my skin can use a rest til tomorrow but I’ll get out for a swim for sure…the motorcycle rally here was not so bad last night for the first night…I may even get on the bike and go down the hill to take a look this afternoon in the heat…didn’t get anything done yesterday and the table will be enough to do today in the heat…have the table pieces spread out across the rug so I’ll have to wait til this aft to do the weight work…it’s nice to have a plan for the day….more later…
Had a steak…
Well…got through the dentist appointment with no problems and now all I have to do is the gas company next week and I can have some time to relax…my new coffee table is supposed to be here today but it’s coming on UPS that I don’t understand after buying it from amazon…I did fire up the grill right after I got back and grilled the 11 dollar steak I bought and it came out good for what I could taste of it…will I buy another one? Nope, not worth it when I can get 5 pounds of chicken for the same price at aldis…still damn hot here but I’m surviving with the fan all the way up to 3 of 5 and I still have the box fan in reserve…I wonder if I should have a cocktail to celebrate you know what tonight? Probably but it’s just not as much fun as it used to be…I did start a book by Jeffrey Deaver who invented the Colton Shaw character for the tv show “Tracker” and it’s not bad…I even have another one that actually has Colter Shaw as the main character and I am curious how close he will be to the tv show…only ate the one meal today of the steak and 3 spoonfuls of potato salad and I still feel full 3 hours later so I think I’ll have some artichoke/jalapeno dip with crackers later for dinner…didn’t even have a bagel this morning so I guess I have calories to give…
Why they hate the ICC…
Well…pundits have been having a problem figuring out why lil marco has been attacking the ICC (international criminal court) so much lately but I’ll make it simple for you…it’s because they are war criminals and the ICC is where war criminals are held responsible…and it’s nice to hear that the UN and countries who are signatories to the treaty say they will protect it from any interference by the US since we are not even part of it since the repubs wouldn’t allow the treaty to pass…but, this doesn’t matter…any country who is part of the ICC can start an investigation and then prosecute those found to be a war criminal…and I sure hope that happens and the idiot trump and his cronies have to stay out of Europe since all of those countries are part of the ICC…and this doesn’t end when they are no longer in office and there is no statute of limitation on war crimes…and that means idiot boy can be arrested when he visits his golf club in Scotland…go get him Scots…geez..
July 15th
Well…that kinda sucked…it didn’t get below 84 in here overnight and that is going to continue for 4 more days…have 2 fans on today with the box fan trying to suck in the 77 degree air from outside to try to cool this place a bit before the heat starts again…of course I didn’t sleep for crap last night but that’s not from the heat…I just don’t sleep anymore and that gets pretty frustrating…I will reach my final goal I have when I get on the bike here in 30 minutes…I’ve ridden either the indoor or outdoor bike for 1000 straight days starting when I got back from the UK trip in October of 2023…and the funny thing will be that the string will break when I head out for the Italy trip…not sure if it’s much of an accomplishment but I guess it shows that I can still beat the hell out of myself for no reason…the new coffee table is supposed to be delivered today and it will take a couple of hours to put it together but it will be nice to actually have furniture instead of plastic containers in here…not much to do today….have the dentist appointment at noon and the bike rides but that is pretty much it…going to cook the t-bone I got yesterday with potato salad and that will be the only meal for the day…more later…
An ugly 4 days…
Well…my most hated days of the year start tomorrow with Michigan’s largest motorcycle event going on for the next 4 days…lots of racing motorcycles through my neighborhood at 70 mph in a 25 zone and burnouts and lots of bad country music that is so loud it sounds like the band is set up on my front yard…4 frickin days of this crap and the cops just let these assholes do whatever they like through the neighborhoods…yeah, I know that sounds like sour grapes but who the hell is this for…less than 10% of the participants are from Muskegon so those who come here don’t really care about trashing this place that then takes a week to clean up…but I guess they do spend a little money here and last year they had a car show over at the Harley dealer that was cool…damn, when did I get to be such a pessimist? I guess hundreds of bikes revving their engines all day will do that…
Trumparrhea..
Well…with the cuts the moron in chief has done to state health departments that have prevented them from getting ahead of infectious diseases like the diarrhea causing parasite that is now ravaging Michigan with over 3,000 cases reported so far…and this parasite causes severe distress in people than has led to many hospitalizations and severe illness…so, of course some wag (or funny person) has renamed the disease “trumparrhea” which has sent the thin skinned asshole in chief into one of his stupid rants to his staff that has been described as “apoplectic” with lots of screaming and ranting that went on for hours…hey maga, this is what you foisted on this country and I really do hope that some of you get this parasite that would have been prevented without idiot boy gutting public health in this country…geez…
July 14th
Well…going to try something a little different this morning and do both rides before I head out for the grocery run so I can go to the beach after I get back here…there has just been a heat advisory issued for us here and old people will be dying from it…I’m glad that I tolerate the heat so well and even revel in it being hot that the next couple of days may be a pain with it being in the mid 90’s but I’ll live through it…but getting out on the bike before it gets really hot is a smart thing to do since it never got under 75 overnight and it is humid as heck…I would expect some fog out there, too…slept okay last night but was up at 4:22 that turned into 5:22 as I fought to get a little more sleep…feel okay today but pretty sore with the same neck problems I’ve been fighting for years now but I know how to stretch that out…so I need to get out as soon as it gets light here in 15 minutes or so…I think I have time to toast a bagel to get some fuel in me for the rides and I do need to pour more coffee down to go with it….more later…
Got a chance to read…
Well…after a late start to the day and having to run an errand to pay the water bill and pick up more books, the day got away from me and I didn’t get back from the beach til almost noon and didn’t get the 2 loads of laundry done until after 2pm…in between that I did cook the ingredients for the potato salad I’m making tomorrow…might even go to DD to get a strip steak for my b-day since they have them on sale for 6.99 a pound until tomorrow and I need to do the grocery run tomorrow since I have a dentist appointment Wed…so that means I won’t have a day off until Thurs and this being retired is still too damn busy…my allergies are off the scale today and I am miserable and this is just the start of the bad allergy season…okay, I want to start a new book right now so I’m going to end here…