Well…man, after how stiff and painful my legs were yesterday, any improvement is welcome and I got a little of that today…still taking ibuprofen but I was able to go out and clean the yard up a bit and cut up the big branch that fell and put it out for pick up tomorrow…I sure love my recip saw I got from my brother…only took about 5 minutes to cut up a 12 foot long branch into pieces small enough to fit in the trash bin…then I put the rest of the trash out in the bin and will put that to the curb later…so the rest of the day will be finishing up the last book and maybe even starting on the cobwebs downstairs if I get done early enough…still darn cold here at 34 for a high but it starts to warm up a bit tomorrow…back to reading…
I don’t feel bad for them…
Well…another day, another story of stupid trump voters who “didn’t think he would come for my workers”…this time from the south Texas construction industry that has been decimated by ICE raids that has scooped up everyone who is not white and even those who are here legally…with one Hispanic company owner lamenting “they’ve raided my job sites 15 times in the last year”…and then he goes on to realize that the idiot trump lied to them when he said the only people who were targeted were going to be “criminals” but idiot boys definition of “criminal” is anyone who is not white…I really don’t feel bad for these people as bankruptcies spread and projects that took a year to complete under Biden now take 3 years…they made lots of money from undocumented labor and were not smart enough to know that idiot boy lies all the time…and that includes making things “more affordable” on day one…how’s that working out for you magas? Geez…
March 23rd
Well…up at 2:33 this morning but I was able to get back to sleep until 5:30 or so and it sucks that it looks like a win…my legs are a little better today and I still can’t figure out how I hurt them so badly just riding the bike…it’s going to be in the 30’s for a high today so I won’t even be attempting and outdoor ride today…not going to be cold anymore…I completely missed the first day of spring last Friday so I’ll say it now…happy spring! Sure doesn’t feel like spring or smell like it…I do need to get on cleaning up the yard soon but I think that will wait til Wed when it will be in the 50’s…but I should start cutting the branches up and pt them in the bin so I can put them out to the trash…have to figure out meals for the day today and it will probably be a burger or a chicken sandwich since I need to get stuff out of the freezer so I can put the ham bones in that I’m getting this week…not much to do today…need to finish up the last book so I can hit the library tomorrow after the grocery run but I know I need to stop reading so much and get on with other things around here…more later…
The coverup started way earlier…
Well…the way the news is reporting it, the trump coverup of the epstein files started when the law was passed that requires that the DOJ release all of the files…or I should say all of the remaining files since it was revealed today that the coverup started the day epstein died when agents for the trump DOJ started shredding files and there were bags and bags of giant sized garbage bags that were then just thrown in dumpsters…now the agents who did this should be charged with obstruction of justice but I guess we’ll have to wait for that until 2028 and we have a real president…I really can’t wait for the investigations to start in January of 2027 after we take the House and Senate back…geez…
Owww….
Well…I didn’t realize how hard I went on the outdoor bike yesterday until I got out of bed this morning and my legs hurt so much I could barely move…my hamstrings are so tight today that I can’t bend over at all…just tried to put something in my trash can and I was just howling in pain…so, for two days in a row, I’ve taken an ibuprofen to deal with it and I hope that fixes the pain in my left elbow and right thumb too…so today I’m taking it easy with just the weights and an indoor ride…I could have gone out for a ride but I don’t want to be cold and I know that wouldn’t help my legs any…I did start to plan meals after I use up the leftovers today but Meijers has spiral sliced hams on sale for 89 cents a pound so I’ll go out Tuesday to pick one up and then do the library trip…and I’ll be eating from that ham for 10 days or so and will probably pick up another one next week…can’t beat that price for protein…
March 22nd
Well…damn, I feel like crap this morning and my allergies have flared up and my head feels like it’s filled with concrete…the temp falls all day today so I’m not sure if I’ll get an outdoor ride in today…might just do the indoor ride and call it good…didn’t sleep at all last night with getting up at three and then out of bed at 5:07…just would love to sleep in til 6 or so but that is never going to happen again…the bike worked well after all of the work on it yesterday and I hope it stays that way…won’t be back on it til tomorrow and that may be a good thing…I hurt so much last night that I had to take an ibuprofen and that never happens…still sore and stiff this morning and I could use a rest day and I may take it easy and just read but I need to figure out how much of a help the coffee will be when it works…not much to do today…need to figure out meals after today when the leftovers run out…and I need to clean but I don’t want to think about that right now…more later…
What a pain in the butt…
Well…thought I had the rear wheel fixed but it wasn’t so I had to rebuild the wheel from the black bike that I have been stealing parts from for the past few years…and that meant swapping a spoke out that took when one broke on the grey bike so that meant swapping out the sprocket cassette and the bearing carrier and putting the tire on the other wheel…then putting the bike back together…going to look to see what a new rear wheel will cost so I’ll be able to ride when this one breaks…worked on that for two hours and I still need to get an outdoor ride in after the Michigan game is over…okay, back tot he game…
It’s going to get worse…
Well…with the economy teetering on the brink of recession, the numbers are telling us it’s going to get worse…after idiot boy’s stupid war, inflation is roaring with gas prices up over a dollar a gallon and now we are seeing food inflation that is going nuts…I mean the prices for fresh vegetables are up almost 50% and general food prices are up 2.5%…in just one month which makes the yearly rate 25%…and the job market is so soft that the Fed chair said that there is zero growth in the job market that has never happened before…and it’s all from the idiot trump and his ignorance in how the economy works…have you heard any plans from idiot boy about how he’s going to fix this? Nope, but you did hear about his ugly ballroom and the new gold coin with his ugly face on it that he is going to have minted…and that should show the maga folks what he cares about and it’s not them or anyone else…it’s going to get much, much worse…geez…
March 21st
Well…up at a little after 4 again but didn’t get out of bed til after 5:30 and I’m not sure if that’s a win or not…still don’t feel like I slept at all but I’m not going to whine about that…going to try to get an outdoor ride in today but I’m not sure when that will be…Michigan plays at noon and that’s when it will be warm enough to go out…oh, well…I’ll get an indoor ride in and the weight work done and then I can build on that later….still don’t have to cook today and it looks like tomorrow but then I need to get some meal planning done…probably a pizza since I have green pepper that needs to be used and I do need to clear the freezer out…down to the last two books and I am pondering stopping reading for a while so I can get other things done…need to clean the basement and get rid of the cobwebs and start working on getting rid of everything…not much to do today…just the normal stuff and basketball along with a race later…the 12 hours of Sebring is on starting at 10am so I’ll run that in the background…more later…
Got an outdoor ride in…
Well…after I got the weight work and indoor ride in today, it was raining so I didn’t think I was going to be able to get out for a ride but it cleared off about 10 or so and I jumped on the bike to get a ride in…it was a pain in the butt with the little ratchet mechanism in the rear wheel that allows you to free wheel not engaging so every time I stopped pedaling, the pedals just went around with no movement of the rear wheel…so I crippled it back here and then took some WD and soaked the sprocket carrier and it appears to be fixed…I’ll give it a try when I go out tomorrow…the trails were almost clear but cluttered with leaves, branches and other crud from the heavy rains we had last week…and part of the trail was still flooded but it was easy to ride through it…but it was so dirty on the trail that I had to wash the bike when I got back here…okay…time to read…