Well…had an okay day today but didn’t get a lot done other than go over to the city offices to pay the water bill and then to the library to get more books…felt a lot better today even with only getting about 45 minutes more sleep and I even had enough energy to get back to doing two rides, one completely in the dark and cold of 46 degrees but then I came back here and changed to shorts and a lighter fleece as it warmed up…I could tell after only about 3 miles that my legs had the energy to do both rides and that made me smile a bit…saw my first group of turkeys that I have been seeing since they were little featherballs in pickleball park and that made me happy that most of them lived to almost adult size…I did get some cleaning done today in the kitchen since the stove was getting pretty ugly from cooking and now it’s clean and ready for me to get it dirty again…made bean coffee again today since I still have about 12 pounds in storage and it should be used so I’m doing bean coffee every day…and that gives me enough to take on the bike for the 2nd ride…and from what I’ve read, you can have as much coffee as you want with no bad effects…and I stop drinking it before noon so it won’t affect my sleep…so the plan for tomorrow is to start on the winter wheels with paint and rust preventer I have on hand since I can’t get to Menards with the road all torn up there…I know I have enough for 2 wheels at least so that will keep me busy for tomorrow…okay, done for the day…
What I see…
Well…one of the things that give me hope heading into the election in less than 30 days is what I see every day riding the bike through neighborhoods here in Muskegon…lots of Abdul signs in yards and not one mike rogers sign…yeah, I know that doesn’t mean much since our side is much more enthusiastic about the election and the prospect of change and protection of our democracy…but I hope it also shows that people who used to be for the repubs are now rethinking that support with all of the damage the idiot trump and his cronies have done and all of the money it has cost everyone just because of trump’s stupidity…I have my fingers crossed that I’m right and we can vote our way out of this nightmare…geez…
Don’t believe Mike Rogers…
Well…in typical repub fashion, the carpetbagger rogers will do and say anything to lie to people to make them believe he has broken with the idiot trump on tariffs and the Iran war when just months ago he was one of idiot boy’s biggest cheerleaders for attacks on Iran…and now, since people are sick and tired of paying higher prices for everything caused by the idiot’s tariffs, rogers is now against tariffs when he was wholeheartedly for them when he appeared with idiot boy at rallies before he realized that trump is toxic and 70% of the country hates him…and let’s remember the big lie that he is a Michigan resident…he only parachutes in here when there is an election, just like he did the last time he ran for office here 4 years ago…he lives in Florida and has his primary residence there and has no thought of the people of Michigan until he tries to lie his ass off that he cares about Michigan…he cares about mike rogers and the money that will come from the grift if he is elected…do you really think he has broken with idiot boy? Not in a million years…it’s all just a lie to get elected and he will go right back to kissing trump’s ass if he’s elected…that’s not what Michigan needs…go back to Florida, mike…geez…
October 8th
Well…that was a little better…didn’t get out of bed til 5:17 this morning and that is so much better that waking up at 3am…and I slept better, too with just a little tossing and turning and I’ll take that, too…I am pretty sore from the vaccinations yesterday but an ibuprofen will take care of that…not nearly as much pain in my shoulder as last year and it didn’t spread down into my elbow so that’s a good thing…it’s in the 40’s again today so I’ll have to dress for that on the bike…still contemplating doing 2 rides this morning since all I have to do is pay the water bill and go to the library to return some books that are due and get a couple more…the book sale is this weekend and I plan on spending 50 bucks or so on another bunch of them to continue to expand my library…not sure why but I like having books around here…I may start working on the winter wheels this morning if they are dry but I probably will have to wait another day or so for that…one of the best things about being home is that I can have as much coffee as I want and I made another pot just for that reason today…need to be able to take some on the bike for the 2nd ride…the first one is going to be in the dark and cold but I really do like riding in the dark with the lights on…think I’ll wait to drop my ballot off until next week since I have some research to do on the proposals…one of them is to chip away at citizens united by prohibiting our gas and electrical suppliers from making political donations and I am on board for that….time to get moving…more later…
Another busy day…
Well…damn, getting out of bed at 4:30am I guess is no excuse when there are things to be done…got a bike ride completely in the dark this morning and then did the grocery run, filled the car up, then back in to Meijers to get my covid and flu vaccinations, then home to drag the winter tires out of the garage and clean the wheels, then washed the car…and that got me to about noon when I started to feel pretty exhausted but no damn nap…and I sure can’t figure that out…one of my Mastodon friends suggested it might be a delayed reaction to jet lag and the 6 hour time change and I guess that’s as good a reason as any…and then I got a nice surprise when my ballot for the election came in the mail today so I can drop that off after I fill it out…was a little worried that it wasn’t going to come but it is the normal time so I didn’t have to worry about that…right now I have to figure out what to make for dinner that doesn’t take a lot of work…maybe a sandwich with some cool hot and sweet mustard I found at aldis today…going to be an early night but I still need to finish the book I’m working on before I can melt into the couch…
Don’t fall for the bribery…
Well…as the flailing idiot trump faces a repub wipeout (I hope) in the fall election in 30 days, he is trying to bribe the American public into voting for repubs by sending checks to some retirees of 99 dollars or 500 dollars of both…but just don’t fall for that nonsense…take the money but then vote for the dems who will put an end to this trump nonsense…let me ask you a question…how much of the affordability crisis would these bribes pay for? I don’t drive much and it would not cover what idiot boy has cost in gas prices alone…I mean 4.48 a gallon when gas was 2.74 before the idiot slouched into the WH…and with the repubs taking away subsidies that made healthcare affordable, some people are paying 600 dollars a MONTH more than before the repubs screwed everyone over…so how far does 500 bucks go to help with that…not too far and that is before we add in higher prices from his stupid tariffs that have cost the average family almost 4,000 dollars in increased costs…and then let’s add in all of the businesses that have gone broke from his latest round of pissing on Canada…I’m sure 500 bucks will make a half of a house payment…maybe…look, this transparent attempt to bribe the American people will only work if you let it…take the money and then vote dem for your self interest…we’ll do what it takes to turn this country around…geez…
October 7th
Well…I wonder if my sleep can get worse than last night? Up at 3am and then not much more sleep until I just gave up and got out of bed at 4:30…I have too much stuff to get done today to walk around in a daze all day…pouring coffee down at 5am to help me get started and it looks like this might be a 2 pot day but we’ll see…need to get on the bike by 7am to get a ride in before I head out to the grocery run that will include getting my covid and flu shot at Meijers after I get the groceries done…then when I get back here, I am going to drag the winter wheels and tire out to wash them and get them ready for painting after they dry for a week or so…then I think I’ll wash the car since it’s really dusty after sitting outside for more than two weeks…going to look for some cloth top protectant to make sure the winter won’t get to it…it needs to last until I die and that may not be for a few years yet…getting back into riding shape is going to take some time and I am going to try 2 rides tomorrow but damn, my butt hurts like I’m just starting out when I’m coming up on 6,000 miles for the year…decided to not renew my service contact with Dell for my laptop since they raised the price to almost a hundred bucks and that is for a 279 dollar computer…I’ll just buy another one when this one dies…more later…
A little car stuff…
Well…I know I’ve talked about this before but I am so happy about how the car has turned out with the clutch and transmission work I did that I’m going to talk about it again…you remember how I bitched that the car was almost impossible to shift when the trans was cold? So today I wanted to run an errand to DD just because I could being home…so I put the top down on the car even though it was only 42 degrees when I left here and when I backed the car out, it went from reverse to 1st with no effort at all…and when I shifted to 2nd and 3rd that used to need lots of muscle to do, this morning it was just as easy as when it was 80 degrees…and it’s all from changing the trans oil to a full synthetic and making sure it was full…and the shifting is getting better the longer it’s in there just as the commenters said it would…but the kicker to that is getting the air out of the clutch completely so it is easy and silky smooth to take off…so I was tearing around in the car just enjoying it this morning and feeling like it is finally how it’s supposed to be…slick shifts and no effort at all…and that is so cool after the first year when I had to warm the car up on the cold mornings to get it to shift at all…and to realize I can still work on cars and make them better even at my advanced age makes me smile…didn’t have to pay anyone to do this for me that would have cost close to a grand…now I don’t cringe when I get in the car…and that is cool…
“Take out Los Angeles or San Diego”
Well…the treasonous asshole went even farther yesterday when he told Iran it was okay for them to attack and destroy two cities in California if they have a nuclear weapon in his speech to his troglodyte followers…how is this not treason? Never in the history of this country did a sitting “president” even say it was okay to destroy a city or two just because he doesn’t like them…okay, another little thought experiment…imagine if any dem president had said this…fox news and every other right wing rag would be howling for his head…but what do you hear from these traitors? Nothing…and this is just another incidence where they prop up this psychopath just to protect the grift that the repubs have been running since the asshole in chief was elected…and now kushner and lutnick are negotiating with Russia to get a huge oil deal in return for stabbing Ukraine in the back…look, people…we need to get out and vote to start to hold these criminals accountable for destroying this country in plain sight…and I don’t wnat to hear that “both parties are the same”…did you ever hear a dem president who thought of nothing but personal enrichment when in office? Of course you haven’t…it never happened in the history of this country and these thugs and their enablers need to go…geez…
October 6th
Well…back to the same damn sleep pattern I had before the trip and I was really hoping that I could break that and sleep just a little later…I did fall asleep on the couch twice yesterday and that is all from feeling so exhausted from traveling…that should go away after a few days of taking it easy that I’m going to continue today…and that’s partly because it’s only 42 degrees out there and I am not ready to be that cold on the bike…so I’ll wait til it gets over 50 around 10am and that gives me 4 hours to settle in and get some things done around here and read some since I have books that have to go back thurs…I really do hope my ballot comes this week so I don’t have to go over and figure out why it didn’t get here…and I’ll have to vote in person that I don’t want to do…oh, well…I do have to maintain the bike this morning with putting air in the tires and lubing the moving parts…and I do need to start thinking about whether to buy a new bike or rebuild this one one more time…probably one more rebuild and then I may just try to get the black bike back on the road over the winter but that would mean trying to find a new rear wheel or getting one repaired…might stop at the bike shop to see if it can be done…but damn, a new wheel is almost 100 bucks if I can find one that will work with the Shimano rear cassette…sitting here with my new coffee mug from Venice and it feels good to have a remembrance of the trip that I can see every day…more later…