Well…after getting woken up last night by a phone call from T, I am worried about her and her mental state…won’t go into that because it’s personal and I won’t betray her confidence…so let’s get onto something else…yeah, it was a wasted day today and all I did after the rides was read and watch some races and there is another one on at 7 that will last all night but I’m not sure if I’ll watch the whole thing or not…have a back up of new shows on plex that I’d like to see but noting is grabbing me right now so maybe I won’t…who knows? So, tomorrow is going to have to be better than today and I will need to accomplish something…what that is, I don’t know right now…still have one leftover pork chop to have but I do need to plan for early week meals…maybe some pasta for a change? Have 3 pounds of that I need to use…maybe some pasta salad? But what would go with that? Could thaw the last of the chicken and have sandwiches or maybe even some chicken salad…okay, need to start the last book and read for a half hour before the race at 7…
You know he doesn’t care about anyone but himself…
Well…I was going to put up a shorter, more succinct title for this one but I’m trying to make these readable for everyone…I wonder if I should do that or just cut loose? You know about the saga of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln that has been at sea for 250 days supporting the idiot’s stupid war on Iran and you also know that the sailors and their families have been sounding the alarm that this is grinding people and machines down to the point that they are barely functional anymore…but when asked about it yesterday, idiot boy responded that the ship and it’s sailors should be deployed “longer” and said he didn’t believe the families of the sailors about the conditions on the ship…this is what you get when you have an ignorant narcissist in charge of the military and shows that he doesn’t care about anyone but himself…these sailors are not people to him but just abstract “things” to be used for his purposes…and now the moron is trying to get the US to build more battleships…named after him of course even though there is no navy in the world that see a use for them anymore in modern warfare but he wants it because he is obsessed with a tv show from the 50’s called “Victory at Sea” where they had big battleships going boom all the time…god I hope this asshole dies soon so the world can be rid of his stupidity…geez…
August 15th
Well…that was a weird night and let’s leave it at my friend T is still alive but not doing well and I know that from an hour phone call after I went to bed last night…so, I’m running late today and I just poured the first cup of coffee at a little after 6 and need to pour it down fast to get on the bike by 6:30…no bagel or weight work today but I’ll force that later in the day…we didn’t get the rain we were supposed to so I’ll be out here in a minute but it might rain this morning so I need to get going…as expected, I didn’t sleep well last night but didn’t drag my butt out of bed to 5:44 and that is not an accomplishment so I’m not going to count it…still pretty damn sore from the house washing and my right thumb is feeling the abuse so I’ll have to treat it before I head out in a minute…I should still be able to get two rides in before 9 and it’s forecast to rain around 10 so that works for me…not going to do much today but cook and plan meals for the weekend but that will be it….more later…
Got a swim in finally…
Well…after the rides this morning and having more coffee, I decided to try to get one more swim in this summer and the beach and water were really nice so I got a swim in for the first time in weeks…going to try to go out there every day next week after I paint the trim on the garage door…got a call from my bank that the euros were in that I ordered Wed so I drove over there in my beach clothes that were still wet and I hope my seat will dry by the next time I drive the car…talked to my daughter and she is not getting any euros since she told me she already paid for everything we’re going to do so we’re not going to need much…I got 350 euros so I can cover the tips and taxi rides and then take the leftovers back to the bank..and found I had 30 euros left in the drawer so we’ll have plenty….I did see an eagle sitting in a tree along Muskegon Lake today and that was pretty cool along with 22 deer and that included the ones that stand on the trail and just watch me as I ride by and still think that’s pretty cool…I really had hoped that it was going to rain tonight and tomorrow but that has come out of the forecast so we’re going to stay really dry for the next week to go with the one rain in the last three weeks…ick…back to reading…
It’s even worse…
Well…I’ve talked about the debacle of the idiot trump hiding in a food container and sending AF1 filled with aides and reporters out of Turkey as a decoy based on some “strong intelligence” that relayed a threat towards the idiot boy…ha, we now know that the “intelligence” came from Israel and it wasn’t strong at all…in fact the speculation is that Israel did it to embarrass idiot boy since he has been telling everyone that netenyahu is his “poodle” and does whatever he says…and the Iranians are laughing at idiot boy as he cowers in fear when any other “president” would have laughed at it…what a chickenshit…and he spends millions to play “3 plane monte” trying to protect his skin at all costs…has there ever been a more worthless person in the world? I don’t think so…geez…
August 14th
Well…damn, running late this morning with not getting out of bed til 5:31 and now it’s almost 6 and I’ve just poured the first cup of coffee…so I need to get hauling butt and have a bagel before I ride today to keep the legs from going flat…it feels good that I accomplished something yesterday but that means I can take the day off today…might even go out to the beach if it’s sunny this morning…think I’m going to have to make more coffee today before I get on the bike…just another task that I need to do to get my butt moving and ensure that I have enough to fill the contego cup for the 2nd ride…pretty darn sore today and my back and neck are howling at me from reaching over my head with the scrub brush for 2 hours… but I’ll get through it…finally got the hornets taken care of yesterday and I think I used enough bug spray to kill everything downstairs and won’t have to spray again this year…the house looks really white after cleaning it and I still marvel at how dirty it got after just 2 years…so, I think that will be moved up to a yearly thing…makes it much easier to stay on top of it than to let it get ugly…not much to do today…just need to get the rides in and then I can just wing it for the day….more later….
The house is done…finally…
Well…after getting the rides in this morning, I decided to clean the remaining half house of siding and that only took about 2 hours even though I wasn’t working that hard at it since I’m getting old…it does look pretty good so maybe I’ll do that every year…the first time I did it it seemed like a lot more work than this time…and it’s been warm enough that it didn’t matter that I got soaked while I was doing it…I did get the laundry done today since I ran out of clothes to wear and I washed the new t-shirts for the first time and they look like they came through the laundry okay…I did find and buy a new pair of shoes for the Italy trip and only spent 29 bucks on them…very lightweight and they have memory foam insoles that felt pretty good when I put them on and walked around the house…and they are pretty stylish…black with brown accents and white soles that they call casual dress shoes…why, I don’t know but for the price they can call them whatever they want…and they have actual laces that you can tighten or loosen…not like a lot of the shoes I looked at where they are slip ins and the laces are just for show…that doesn’t work when you have two different size feet…I did kill off the hornet nest but had about 50 of them in the basement that were all dying with the poison I hit the nest with…going to fill the holes they were using with cement in a couple of days to make sure they don’t come back…okay…going to read a bit before I make a pork chop for dinner…
They don’t give a crap about the military…
Well…I’ve said this many times before that the repubs don’t give a crap about the military unless it’s for photo ops or sending them to war…and that is just what’s happening on the USS Abraham Lincoln as reports come out about the appalling conditions on that ship that the repubs don’t care about…how about the lack of food or water and the endless deployment? This ship has been part of the idiot trump’s war in the middle east starting with just sending them to be on station as a “show of force” and then into combat operations that has keep them at sea for 250 days when the normal deployment is 45-50 days and then the sailors are normally given some time in port to decompress since working 12-14 hours a day in a combat environment for so long has trashed morale on the ship to the point that two of the sailors have tried to jump overboard…and where the hell is the defense secretary? Still crowing and drinking as the drunk he is…he doesn’t give a damn about these sailors other than as tools for him to use to bluster and brag…none of the repubs care that these are people in one of the most high stress environments there is and to allow the ship to deteriorate to the point that it can’t support the needs of the sailors is a dereliction of duty by hegseth and trump to the point that hegseth should be fired and then brought up on military charges and put in jail…being a sailor is hard enough without the chain of command not giving a damn…geez…
August 13th
Well…running late this morning for some reason so this one is going to be short…didn’t sleep much again and I’m having a hell of a time getting moving…should be on the bike right now but I just poured the first cup of coffee and I need to have at least one in me before I head out…going to work on the siding again today since it’s going to be cloudy out there so the beach is out…I did get the new shoes I ordered for the Italy trip and I like them…very light and with memory foam insoles so I guess we’ll see how they are as I use them to break them in before we go…and they are a little stylish…black with brown leather trim…just couldn’t see spending 60-70 bucks for skechers…pretty damn stiff and sore after the third day in a row of working on the siding and I may just as well keep the pain going today…okay, it’s 6 am and I need to get on the bike right now…more later…
Another day, more work…
Well…another day and more work done..got the east side of the house cleaned and found some hornets trying to make a nest in my siding…filled it with bug spray and plugged the hole and it looks like that was taken care of…there were lots of the hornets around while I was cleaning the siding but none of them got near me so no stings which I’m happy about…it was a really busy morning with the rides, grocery run, and hitting the bank to order some checks and put the order in for the euros I need for the Italy trip…told my daughter I’d supply the cash for the things we need cash for and I’m still going to offer her a check for my end of the trip but we’ll see what she says…so now I only have the back and west side of the house to wash and I’m thinking I could do all that in one day but I really don’t need to push myself…the east side really does look pretty good washed as the front did the other day…I’m glad I decided to do it instead of waiting another year and letting the crud build up…so now it’s 6pm and I am done for the day…even finished the book I started yesterday and made a pork chop, mashed potatoes, and corn for dinner since I know I haven’t been eating enough with my legs going flat on the bike this morning…was out before 6am and man, was it dark…had to ride through town to the post office which was okay with the street lights but once on the trail I couldn’t see anything until the sun started to come up about 45 minutes later…I’m done…