Well…I know I’ve said this a hundred times but damn, get out and vote! We need to bury the idiot trump and his asshole followers to make the nightmare we live in go away…but you know they will be trying everything to convince you to stay home or that you vote won’t count…and on top of that you have trump’s minions like this asshole, Aaron Reitz a US attorney from the southern Texas district, screaming at people that he will “hunt them down” if they violate federal election law…and he has been threatening election officials, too, still screaming that they have a duty to prevent illegal voting…yeah, hey Aaron you asshole, if there is so much illegal voting, how come you haven’t prosecuted one person in Texas for it? You know it doesn’t exist and yet you scream it at the top of your lungs…getting a little frustrated that control of the congress is going to be in dem hands on January 3rd? Two can play the scare game moron…what’s in your background and can you stand up to the investigation of your ass that’s going to happen after January 3rd? Intimidating voters is against the law and you blared it all over the place…and guess what, stupid…it’s all in your frickin e-mails that I’m sure have already been screenshotted and saved for use when we win…man, are you trumpsters stupid…geez…
October 20th
Well…up at 5am again today but that now feels pretty normal so I guess I’ll live with it…feel a little worn out this morning but that won’t keep me from the routine of getting out on the bike as soon as the 2nd cup of coffee is in me…it was nice to get some things done yesterday and I’m going to do the grocery run today since I have 2 prescriptions that I need to pick up..and I have some food coupons to use that will save me 5 bucks that I need to use…my damn neck has been hurting every morning for a week now and I need to figure out why…the stretches aren’t working like they used to so I think I’ll hit it with some topical before I go out…it’s only 42 degrees here so I’ll be out in full thermasuit today and I hope the stars are visible again so I can just stop and look…have to do the top treatment on the car after I get back from the grocery run but that’s all I have to do today so there will be reading later…on the 3rd book of the haul that I’ll finish today and I’m not sure who the next author will be…doesn’t matter I guess…the first 3 have been good and I hope I have a few more I haven’t read…okay, need to get off my butt and get moving…it’s almost 6am and I need to have a bagel before I head out..more later…
Got some yard work done…
Well…the rides this morning were really nice with getting out in the dark and having Orion hanging over me the entire way along with lots of other stars and planets…I had to remember that I was riding in the dark when all I wanted to do was look up…and today I dressed for the cold and the rides were good…I did ride out to the road construction site this morning and it looks like it won’t be finished before the end of the year…and that sucks since the damn oak trees on the detour are dropping so many acorns that I have to ride in the road with the bike lane covered in inches of them that throw the bike around…no fun…after I got back here I read some news and then right out to work on the yard…started with trimming my one shrub next to the house and then taking a bunch of branches down that needed to be removed…then I bundled those and put them out for pick up and after that I cleaned the top on the car with the new cleaner to get it ready to treat tomorrow…got done around 1pm, had lunch, and read for a while until I started the dinner of chicken, carrots, potatoes, and rice…a one pan meal that I’ll be eating from for the rest of the week…have to pick up 2 prescriptions and do the grocery run tomorrow and may even run back over to DD for some more honey ham and salami…we’ll see….
They’re afraid of Abdul El-Sayed
Well…man, it sure looks like the repubs are scared of our senate candidate and are throwing every dirty trick in the book at him including lying their asses off about his disavowal of the muslim brotherhood, saying they never heard it when it is clear in a press conference he held here in Michigan over the weekend that he said it…twice…and the racist asshole that posed the question was a plant who has worked for repubs all over the country and is the son of a repub operative….but El-Sayed destroyed this moron and he turned his back and ran away when asked a question about disavowing his christian nationalist beliefs and he said he wouldn’t…so you know where this is coming from…they are so scared of the carpetbagger rogers losing to a Muslim they have rolled out every smear they can…but it’s not working this time when we have a candidate who was born here in Michigan…in Rochester Hills where my son lives and grew up, works, and lives here and will represent all Michiganders, not like rogers who is trying to run away from his support of the idiot trump and hates all dems…it’s an easy choice, Michigan…let’s make the right one…the only one…geez…
October 19th
Well…up and moving at 5:38 this morning and that is better…thought I was back to getting up at 4-5 am permanently and this is a relief even though I’m still tired and my neck hurts like crazy from sleeping wrong…it’s only 50 here right now so it’s into partial thermasuit for the rides this morning…not going to freeze my butt off like yesterday and be cold all day…and I even think it’s time to put the comforter on the bed to replace the thin wool blanket I’ve been using…the heat is on after all and that feels like winter in here…need to get some stuff done on the yard today and figure out how to use the top cleaner and dressing and get that done this week…going to take before and after photos of it just to see if there is a big difference…the trash needs to go out tomorrow for the first time in a month and I’m going to struggle to fill a yard bag to put that out, too but I guess that can wait til next week…so I need to ease into today but get going, too…need to toast a bagel right now and cook chicken, potatoes, carrots, and rice in pasta sauce this afternoon for meals that will last 5 days or so and that means I’ll have to buy more chicken at aldis this week…more later….
Cold, cold, cold…
Well…you know, I really have to stop going out in shorts when it’s 53 degrees out there…that’s just what I did this morning and it took me 3 hours with the heating pad on before I could start to feel warm again…it’s damn hard to warm up when you’re old…but, the adjustments I made to the bike worked perfectly and the rides were good even if they were too darn cold…tomorrow morning I’m going out in long pants and regular gloves along with my stocking hat…not going to be cold anymore…but I will probably go out in the dark since I have the lights charged and ready to go…other than the rides, all I did was watch sports on tv and took it easy…I do have yard work to do tomorrow with trimming the flowering bush next to the back door and branches off the trees so I’ll have a full bag to go out Tuesday…not enough leaves down to pick them up so that will wait a week…they should be falling soon with the freeze we had the other night…tonight is going to be just catching up on some tv I have waiting in plex…and that starts right now…
Get their fingers off the buttons…
Well…even though the billionaire owners of the major media platforms suspiciously say that “glitches” were to blame for the Meta outages that crippled the no kings organizing yesterday and that no one did anything to make it happen, just remember the huge lie that ole elon told when he ordered starlink to restrict Ukraine’s access resulting in many deaths because they couldn’t protect themselves and said that he didn’t know why their connections slowed down…yeah, but insiders have already said that the idiot trump and elon conspired to make it happen…making an even greater case for taking their fingers off the buttons…and that would mean nationalizing meta and starlink just like was done during a railroad strike in the 1950’s…there is no way we can allow these avowed fascists to control media and platforms that people rely on in life and death situations…and if you think the voluntary restrictions of AI that these liars have agreed to is going to do anything to protect the public, I’ve got a nice bridge in Brooklyn to sell you…take the toys away from these assholes and taxing them out of existence is the only solution to this much concentrated power…geez…
October 18th
Well…the string breaks this morning with getting up a little before 5am and that is almost an hour earlier than it has been…ick…so I’m pouring down coffee to get ready to be out on the bike by 6 and get both rides in before Man U plays at 9…not sure why I’m even watching them anymore since they are playing like crap and are in 13th place…I’ll be out in shorts for the last time today since it’s 54 right now but the lows are going to get more normal starting tomorrow and be down in the 40’s…going to make my chicken, potatoes, carrots and rice today with pasta sauce that will last 5 days or so…haven’t made that in a while and need to get my big cast iron half dutch oven out to use…might even throw some pork medallions in, too since I don’t have a lot of chicken…but that won’t be til later today since the chicken needs to thaw…I did put the lug nut I painted with chrome back on the car and it looks good…and I put one coat on the rest of them and I think I’ll leave it at that since I put 2 coats of the silver on before and don’t want the paint to be too thick…they do look so much better than the corroded coating that was on them…and I still have most of the can of paint left…so now I’m ready whenever I need to put the winter tires on…but that won’t be til after Thanksgiving….more later…
A little busy today…
Well…up at what is becoming the normal time for me and I’m okay with 5:30am…but it was damn cold at 34 when I got up and that meant I had to fill some time from 5:30 to 10am to let the temp come up some but it really didn’t…I did fill the time with doing the weight work and cleaning the bathroom and even had some time to read the Baldacci book I’ve got going…but I had to get out and it was only 36 going out for the first ride so I was in almost full thermasuit other than no long johns under my long riding pants…so it was darn cold but I got a nice ride in and the adjustments I made to the front shifter worked and I was able to do a normal ride…and the second ride was warmer at around 50 so I could remove some layers and got back to my riding gloves and baseball hat that I normally wear…and that was a better ride sine I need the bill to shade my eyes from the sun…I took the afternoon off after not getting the bike rides done til almost 1 and I really wanted to read some…so I watched some football and then read all afternoon…but now it’s time for some tv before the race starts at 7:30…
Moving our way…
Well…I wonder if I can hold my breath for the next 17 days? I feel like that waiting for the election to come but there is some good news to share and enjoy…pollsters have continued to move the forecast for the election our way and that is even in some really red parts of the country…gee, I wonder if that’s due to the fact that the idiot trump’s approval has fallen to around 30% and he continue to kiss putin’s ass…ignoring the law and removing some sanctions from Russia…but this time, people are paying attention and the dems have begun to hammer on idiot boy’s corruption since it is the thing that most people in this country rate as the most important to deal with…so, keep it up dems…I’ve voted already with my PAB (permanent absentee ballot) but didn’t trust the corrupt postal service to deliver it on time so I just dropped it at the drop box at the cop shop and I’m sure no one is going to screw with it there…one other good thing happening is the early voting turnout is the highest it has ever been and it is leaning heavily toward dems…and even young people are getting engaged with acts like a group of college students protesting the repubs eliminating voting stations at colleges around the country by walking 100 miles to vote…but the bought and paid for media is not even covering that when it should be the lead story on every news show and newspaper how blatant repub vote suppression is but we won’t see that until the news media is wrenched away from the billionaires who just love them some trump…geez…