Well…one of the wags on Mastodon commented “it looks like god took the wrong 80 year old” and I have to agree…Dolly has been part of life since she started on the Porter Waggoner show and it was clear that she was a once in a lifetime talent…but over the years she became even more than that…standing up for people who couldn’t stand up for themselves and giving millions of dollars away to help the less advantaged in the world…and her defense of and funding of libraries across the country…quietly…made me know that this was an exceptional human being who did what was right even when attacked by the right wing assholes across this country…and she never wavered, she never compromised what was right…treating everyone who came into contact with her like long lost family…Dolly was an great example of a person to look up to and emulate…and the world is a poorer place with her gone…RIP Dolly….
Trump looks like a failed bully…
Well…good on ya, Canada for pushing back on the bully trump and walking away from any trade deal…and the comments that politicians there have made is exactly what I’ve been saying is the way to handle any bully…push back against his bullshit…and it was bullshit the idiot trump was proposing…Canada had to give up their sovereignty to get the deal and Carney called bullshit and walked away…and they aren’t pulling any punches in describing the utter nonsense that idiot boy was proposing…I mean giving the US veto power over any trade deal that Canada wanted to make? trump is so stupid and full of himself that he thought that Canada would roll over and give up being a country as the delusional asshole has been pushing for but the Canadians said “no way, hoser” and are rallying around Carney and his imposing tariffs to mirror what the idiot did…and you know who is going to pay for this? Yep, American consumers and in some border states that Canada supplies with electricity, Canada has floated the idea of just cutting them off and letting idiot boy try to fix that…politicians across the spectrum in Canada are making fun of the idiot and saying they will wait idiot boy out until his term is over and “sane people” will be in charge…that’s gotta hurt idiot boy…geez…
August 25th
Well…it’s another damn cold one out there this morning at 52 degrees and I’ll be layering on the clothes to get out before 7am…another late start with not getting out of bed til 5:30 but I don’t have anything to do today but the rides and going to the library so it will be another easy one…I found out yesterday that I don’t need to buy travel sizes of anything if I pack everything onto my checked bag so that is cool and makes it easier…I do have some hotel size shampoo that I can take to get started so I’ll have to dig those up…I realized yesterday that I went over 5,000 miles on the bike about 200 miles ago and just didn’t recognize it with all of the dead batteries and replacing the computer…so it does look like I’ll get to at least 6,000 miles this year and that’s not the least miles I’ve done since I moved out here…I was going to wash the car today but it’s going to rain tomorrow and I’ll just get it dirty again doing the grocery run so I’ll wait til Thurs…have to start drawing down the food supply so there won’t be anything sitting in the fridge when I’m gone so I’ll have to think about that and figure out meals today…and I need to call my doctor to have one of my bp meds called in so I can pick it up later in the week…and that is a pain…oh, well…need to get going so I can have a bagel before I go out and get another cup of coffee in me….more later….
Didn’t get much work done…
Well…okay, it was another easy day today and all I did was get the rides in late and went out to get fuel for the equipment and fill up the car…40 frickin dollars and it’s not going to get better anytime soon…but I have enough gas to get me to next year and that’s the first time I got gas for the equipment this year…it does help that I have a 5 gallon gas can for the mower and a 2 gallon for the string trimmer…the hornets really are gone since I didn’t see any today and it’s about time…never had such a pain getting rid of them before…persistent little suckers…I have been making a list of the travel stuff I need and I’ll order that tomorrow…I still can’t believe that I can’t have a normal sized sunscreen in my checked bag…or the generic voltaren that I need for my thumb pain…going to empty out my bathroom and take everything I may need for 12 days in Italy…it made me laugh today when a bunch of my Mastodon friends asked me if I’m going to post photos of my trip and keep a running commentary and of course I said yes…they said it was like being there for the UK trip and that made me smile and I’m so lucky to be able to take the trip…most people can’t afford to burn 5 grand just to travel and I realize that…I did talk to my daughter today to iron out some details and make sure we’re on the same page…I do need to study the itinerary to make sure I know what’s going on…okay…time to get ready for some tv time tonight…
What the hell, Hakeem Jeffries?
Well…I really thought that Hakeem Jeffries was one of us who would do everything they could to stop the idiot trump from doing more damage to this country…but no, this centrist moron had a meeting with the criminal kushner for some reason and I think it’s just to appease them for some reason…there is no excuse for this crap and it’s clear that Jeffries doesn’t have the awareness to know that any contact with this criminal enterprise will do nothing but allow people to sit on their hands when it is all hands on deck for this crisis…we need dem leaders like Ossoff who know the seriousness of the situation and attacks at every juncture…and that means no meetings that will normalize these criminals. giving them permission to continue to ruin this country…the only response to kushner or any other criminal from the idiot trump’s circle is to isolate them and tell them bluntly that we will resist any and all tries to normalize their criminal behavior and they will be prosecuted…we don’t need the “leader” of the house caucus meeting with them like Chamberlain did with hitler…there is no reason to think they won’t lie cheat and steal no matter how the “talks” go…geez…
August 24th
Well…damn, it’s only 52 degrees out here and I’m already running late with not getting out of bed til almost 6…and I wonder why I’m not crowing about the good sleep but it wasn’t good with tossing and turning all night…geez…I may have to dig my long riding pants out for the first ride today along with a fleece…but this is the transition weather that is hard to dress for…I mean freezing in shorts or boiling in partial thermasuit…it was really dark on the trail for the first ride yesterday and I almost bought myself a rechargeable bike light but I’m trying to not spend money until the trip…I do need to buy some travel size stuff to take with me but I need to make a list first…I do know I’ll need some sunscreen both for here and travel but I do think I have two small sample tubes of toothpaste that I got from the dentist…will figure that out today…need to go out and get gas for the equipment this morning so I’ll have it here when I need it next…will have to mow before I go and I don’t have enough gas in the can to do that…I really need to change the oil in the car and will do that this week…still have two oil changes that came with the car that I need to use…so, I won’t be out til almost 7am today but that’s early enough and gives me enough time to have another cup of coffee and a bagel before I go…more later….
A really easy day…
Well…it ended up being a really easy day today after I decided to take a day off other than riding the bike…I just needed to rest from all the work yesterday and it hit me that I’m not young anymore…so to manage my energy is going to be the new normal for me and I’m okay with that…I mean what 73 year old does 26 miles on his bike and that’s not enough for the day? Me, I guess…I did check for hornets a couple of times today and didn’t see one so maybe I have that problem solved…and I hit the trash shrub that used to be a trash tree with brush killer yesterday and it appears that it is already working and maybe I won’t have to prune the damn thing to keep the branches out of my fence…and the ones I cut off yesterday filled half a bag that I need to put out Tuesday…have been trying to kill that damn thing for 5 years and maybe I finally have done it…hope so…but that brush killer cost me 17 bucks and that’s not cheap…after all the work yesterday, my yard looks pretty good and the neighbors commented on how good my house looks after I washed it a couple of weeks ago so that was worth it…okay, need to read some and figure out what to watch on tv tonight…
I’ve lost respect for Roger Penske…
Well…before the debacle of the trump indycar race today, I had a lot of respect for the owner of indycar, Roger Penske, and what he has done through his life…but, for the life of me I can’t understand why he would spend 30 million dollars of indycar’s money just to fluff the asshole in chief by putting on a race in DC…now I know that the apologists will say that it was part of the USA 250 celebration, but it wasn’t…it was a pure kiss trump’s ass event which everyone on air was instructed that they had to praise the idiot trump through the whole thing…and I’ve lost all respect for the announcers of the race, too…to allow themselves to be used to praise someone who is objectively the worst person in the world shows that they have no sense of duty to this country…and the one other little thing is that the federal government paid 60 million dollars to put this travesty on…how many people could have stayed on Medicaid for 60 million dollars? And it’s the same old bullshit…we can’t afford to help anyone who needs it but we can afford to build emperor trump his glass house where he squatted to pretend to watch the race…since Roger Penske owns and calls the shots for indycar, it’s on him for kissing trump’s ugly fat ass…geez…
Destroying the post office…
Well…is there nothing that the orange idiot will do to try to cheat in this fall’s election? It doesn’t appear there is as he has ordered the post office to ignore the courts and put together a plan to not deliver mail in ballots in states who won’t compromise their elections by giving in to the extortion by idiot boy and giving him their voter information…now, jesus, there is no role for the executive branch in elections at all in the constitution but that doesn’t stop the idiot from trying to use every part of his corrupt government to cheat his ass off this fall…what I can’t understand is how many people that will corrupt themselves to do idiot boy’s bidding…do they have no honor or sense if right and wrong? What all of this shows is the US is infested with people who have chosen to break every law and the constitution just for a little transitory power…and every damn one of these assholes should be prosecuted when we take the government this fall…and right now the dems should be shouting to the rooftops that whoever is doing all of these crimes are going to pay…this is how the law is supposed to work but all of these toadies know that they can break as many laws that they want and idiot boy will pardon them…and this is the most egregious corruption of this country that there is…and the idiot needs to pay for that, too…geez…
August 23rd
Well…up early again today at 5:03 and today there is a reason for it…want to get 2 rides in before the F1 race starts at 8am but I’ll still miss the start of it since it takes 2 1/2 hours for 2 rides and I’m not getting out til 6am…too damn dark to go out earlier…had a tiny little storm that came through last evening with just a little rain but a cool rainbow that lasted a half hour…it was a double with the inner bright one and then a faint one on the outside of it…pretty cool…I did get the yard work done yesterday and put the brush killer on the trash tree so that should be starting to die as soon as it rains and washes the killer into the ground…I did see a few aircraft from the air show yesterday….and a c-130 kept going around and around here before the storm…no rain in the forecast until I get back from Italy so I’m not going to have to worry about mowing it since I’ll do that just before I go…already pretty sore from weeding yesterday and all of the bending down it took and my right thumb is howling in pain from gripping the weeds…got 2 bags of perennials off just the east side of the house and the back…I left the milkweed plants I have been trying to get to grow and well see if they ever bloom to draw in some Monarchs…not much to do today…need to get on the bike in 20 minutes but need to pour down another cup of coffee before then…but then I’m taking the day off other than cleaning some in the kitchen…more later…