Well…we’re coming into the 2nd week of May and it’s 36 degrees out there and that sucks…up just a bit before 5am this morning so it appears it’s the new normal rearing it’s ugly head again but I feel okay so I can live with it…for some reason, I am sore everywhere today and I think I’ll take something for it…haven’t taken an ibuprofen in a few weeks so I guess my liver can take it especially with 5 weeks of no cocktails…it’s going to be a busy one today with all of the normal stuff and making ham soup this morning…watching the moto3 race from LeMans and they are riding in the wet with bikes flying off the track everywhere…fun to watch…it looks like I’ll get an outdoor ride in this afternoon and that will continue my streak of 21 mile days but I’m still over 1K miles behind where I was last year at the same time with all of this cold weather…and it’s only going to be in the 40’s for a high Wed so I won’t be outdoors…oh, well…we may get a warm up later in the week after the 1 inch of rain for Tues and we really need it…has been dry almost to a drought here and I’m going to lose the lawn again if this keeps up..more later…
Another easy day…
Well…yeah, I know you’ve read me saying this before but it really was an easy day today…I had kind of resigned myself to not getting an outdoor ride in with how the wind was howling this morning…so I started the day with an indoor ride and then reading until I made the chicken stir fry around 11am…but after I had lunch and cleaned up, the wind just stopped around 1pm so I suited up and got a nice outdoor ride in..it was a little cold and I had to wear gloves but it was fun and the sun even came out on the way back that made me a little overdressed…much rather that than be cold…and the adjustments I made to the spokes have started to work and the rear wheel is getting straighter and that is cool, too…so then, the day turned into an easy one after I got back from the outdoor ride and all I did was read and watch races lying on the couch…a nice afternoon when I think about it…and I’m feeling better after starting the day out a little worn out…so I’ll take it…
Gutting the VRA was based on lies..
Well…I still can’t believe the arrogance of the asshole repubs on the SC when they voted to gut the VRA…and it was revealed to day that the justice department in their amicus brief lied their asses off as they put fake statistics aimed right at the most arrogant asshole, alito since they knew he makes things up to justify his rulings and they wanted to give him an easy layup to get what the idiot trump and his minions wanted…and that was to be able to discriminate against anyone who is not a white repub when drawing legislative districts…but I wonder why they even did that since alito has proven over and over again that he makes a decision and then tries to gather unrelated facts to make it appear that the ruling is justified…just like when he went back to the middle ages to get a reason to overturn Roe…so we really don’t have a court based on the law anymore…we have a SC whose only purpose is to further the right wing wish lists at any cost…and we need to win in the fall to put an end to it…geez…
May 9th
Well…damn, it’s warm enough to get out on the bike when it gets light but the wind is shaking the house so it looks like an indoor ride to start the day…feel pretty crappy this morning and I know it’s from not eating enough after all of the turmoil from yesterday…and I need to cook today with doing a chicken stir fry and then ham soup tomorrow so I I’ll have food for a few days…and I’m going to eat out of the freezer until it’s clear enough to clean it since it’s been months since I’ve done that…I need to get everything done before 10am when Man U plays so that means I need to get off my butt and get going soon…but I need coffee first…had way too much of that yesterday with still drinking it at 2pm and that might be part of why I feel like crap…didn’t get much done yesterday and the coffee is going to have to carry me if I’m going to get much done today…going to toast a bagel before I get on the weight work and I do need to have an orange at some point since I still have 4 pounds of them and I don’t want to waste food…not much to do today…just need to get started and that looks like a hard task right now…more later…
Discount tire sucks but Chuck is okay..
Well…today started out really sucky when discount Tire refused to balance my tires since they were 10 years old and they have a rule that they don’t touch tires that are that old…it doesn’t matter that there is no weather cracking or any other problem with the tires…I mean they still have 2/3rds of the tread left and there is no way I’m throwing away tires that are still fine…so I found an independent tire shop a couple of miles from me owned by a guy named Chuck who looked at the tires and laughed since they are in such good shape…his shop is old school with no lift but just floor jacks on the apron in front of the place…and that took me back to hanging out in those kinds of places when I was a kid…an old converted gas station that the smell took me back to when I was a teenager…and he did only the two that didn’t have weights on them but said they were pretty bad and took a lot of weight…and two tires only cost me 30 bucks when discount wanted 30 bucks each…and the car was smooth on the way home…so if I need to have the other two balanced Check said to just give him a call and he’ll get it done…that is how business should be run…no overhead or scheduling, just good value for service…thanks, Chuck…
A placeholder to remind me…
Well…going to do one later about ole elon not showing up for questioning in France…okay, this is pretty funny when you think about it…ole elon thinks the law doesn’t apply to him and in the US, I guess that’s true…but, in the rest of the world they really don’t care about his bullshit…in France, he ignored a summons to appear for questioning but it’s different there…failure to appear results in the same as an indictment and the investigation of his companies supporting nazis and not complying with the law that says children need to be protected when using his websites…so now I guess when he shows up in France at any point, he is going to be arrested along with at least a dozen of his top executives…and I think he’s heading to a billion dollar fine since he can be convicted even if he never shows up…and I think this extends to the entire EU so I guess all of Europe is now off limits to this asshole…and his world is shrinking as more and more countries are trying to hold him accountable…I wonder where he will go for asylum? Even south Africa doesn’t want him back…geez…
Unintended consequences…
Well…with the idiot trump causing the biggest energy crisis in history, one of the unintended consequences is that the rest of the world is now racing to build out the renewables that he hates to get out from under the oil blackmail…and this is just another incidence that proves the rule that everything the idiot trump touches turns to shit…he has tried and tried to reward his buddies in the oil business for giving him billions of dollars to get him elected but he really has just accelerated the move to clean energy after his debacle in Iran…and the smart move is to build out as much renewables as you can…after all, the price of battery storage has dropped 93% since 2010 as has solar cells at a 90% decrease along with wind power dropping 70% in the same time, making these sources the cheapest energy in the history of the world…along with the benefit of putting no carbon in the air and wrenching control of energy back from OPEC and the rest of the middle east…and we know that one of the idiot’s reasons for this stupid war is to take Iran’s oil when oil is quickly heading to the trash heap of energy history…just like what has happened to coal…so the guy who hates renewable energy is going to be the biggest factor in it’s adoption…pretty cool irony, huh? Geez…
May 8th
Well…that kind of sucked…woke up at 4:03 this morning but was able to get a little more sleep and out of bed a little before 5am…so, I’m going to be dragging later but still want to get out for and outdoor ride since it’s going to be in the 50’s and I may even be able to wear shorts…it’s only 35 here right now and that is just frickin wrong for May…I may have to make some extra coffee this morning to have some to take with me to get the tires balanced on the car…haven’t made any pour over coffee in a while and I think that’s going to happen today…need to hit the grocery store after the car work since I forgot carrots and want to make ham soup this weekend…so I need to take the bones out of the freezer this morning…have chicken in the fridge to do another stir fry and that may be today…but I have 4 lbs of pasta that I got last week for a buck a box and that would make an easy meal today…and I still have lots of breaded chicken patties to make sandwiches and I need to use up the free head of lettuce I got last week before it spoils…don’t have anything do to on the yard after getting the weed killer down yesterday but we do need some rain that is not going to happen til Tuesday…oh, well….more later…
Out in the cold today…
Well…after skipping the weight work today, my well developed sense of guilt wouldn’t let me skip two parts of my workout so I dragged the long johns out, suited up, and got 13 miles in…it was cold but I had my insulated work gloves on instead of the riding ones so my hands were okay…I’m hoping that this was the last ride in the 40’s until next fall but with how cold it’s been this spring, I’m not holding my breath…I did see some turkeys and deer today and that was fun…I did get some yard work done and got the weed killer on to keep them at bay for at least a couple of weeks…it’s supposed to rain a bit over the next couple of days and it’s even getting to almost 60 tomorrow so I can get a ride in wearing shorts…I do have to be at discount at 9:15 tomorrow morning to get the tired balance and I hope that the last time until I wear these out…just want some time to enjoy the car…time to read…
The idiot trump is helping criminals..
Well…as you all know, everything the idiot trump touches turns to shit and that is especially true of his stupid immigration crackdowns…to support his hatred of immigrants, he has focused over 90% of the budgets of the FBI and other law enforcement agencies on rounding up and deporting immigrant who are here just to try to make a better life for themselves and their families…and guess who has benefited from this stupidity? Yep, all of the homegrown criminals who are now free to traffic drugs and murder are saying “thanks trump” since prosecution of these crimes are no longer a priority…now, the people of America beg to differ with this distortion of our law enforcement resources but this is what you get when you have a repub party that just goes along with anything this psychopath wants…so, the next time you see a murder reported in the news, you know that the idiot trump and his minions don’t care one bit about that just as long as they can keep deporting hard working immigrants…geez…