Well…after seeing that the ground coffee I bought a few weeks ago has doubled in price, I took a look at the Hills Brothers beans that I bought a week or so ago for 11 bucks for 32 ozs and it was still priced at that so I ordered another bag of beans this morning to make sure I don’t run out of coffee as the price soars on all of it…I mean the beans I used to buy at 13 bucks are now 37 dollars…who the hell can afford that? So, I rolled the dice even without tasting them but I have the advantage (disadvantage?) of not being able taste much so I don’t think of coffee as anything but a CDS (caffeine delivery system) and any of it should work for that…I also bought some cheap post it notes that I can use to make notes to myself like I used to when I was working…and I bought 8 100w LED light bulbs since I don’t have any spares here and these were cheaper than even at the dollar store where I used to get them for a buck but are now 1.50…that stuff will be here tomorrow but the coffee is going to take a couple of weeks for some reason..who knows?
Protesting Kushner…
Well…as jared kushner and ivanka travel the world grifting their little hearts out…the people of Albania are having none of it…after kushner got the corrupt government to seize billions of dollars of land and give it to him for another trashy trump resort, the people of Albania have hit the street by the millions to try to put an end to this theft…and it appears they are going to keep it up until this corrupt deal is ended…I wonder who would even go to this stupid resort if it does get built and they have to pass through crowds of Albanians to get to this piece of crap? but this is this idiot’s pattern…he is still trying to steal oceanfront land in Gaza that netenyahu has flattened for another resort…I can see that one now…the only way that it would stay usable would be to have the Israeli army have a permanent base right next door…and that wouldn’t even deal with the new era of drone warfare which would mean that the US would have to finance this crap…and that is just another corrupt part of the giveaway to the idiot trump’s family…no more of my tax dollars going to this criminal family…geez…
June 6th
Well…slept all the way til 5:30 this morning and that is such a win that I don’t know what to say…I mean with ups and downs that is a solid 6 1/2 hours and I’m feeling the energy this morning…even with just pouring the first cup of coffee…it’s 60 out there right now and we have a heavy fog warning on right now and I haven’t been out in fog in quite a while and it should be fun…don’t have to cook today with chicken tacos to have for the next 4 or 5 days and still have 3 days of turkey dogs and I am loving the homemade pickles and red onions but damn, cukes are over a buck each and I’ve never seen that before…and the cheap ground coffee I bought for 11 bucks three weeks ago is now over 22 bucks so I think I’ll see if the Hills Bros beans I bought are still 11 bucks and I’ll buy another bag of them even without tasting…how bad can they be? We did get some good rain yesterday and even even overnight when the rain woke me up even wearing earplugs so it will be interesting to see how flooded the trail is this morning…need to get off my butt and get moving so I can get both rides in before the MotoGP sprint race at 9am…I really do need to clean at some point and do the windows that I started with the kitchen ones yesterday…more later…
Took it a little easy today…
Well…after the rides and all the yard work yesterday, i took it easy today with just the rides and making some chicken soft tacos for lunch…which came out great and the avocado was a nice touch…but I forgot to put cheese in them that I’ll remember tomorrow…I did get two nice rides in this morning and my legs were not as flat as they were yesterday…it has been raining a while here but not enough to help my yard…that would take days of rain every week and that is just not going to happen…the female swan I’ve been watching on the nest for a month now finally had 4 cygnets hatch and took them from the nest into the water for a swim today…pretty cool since I thought she was out of luck…and on the way back from the 2nd ride, I saw a female turkey with 10 chicks out by the country club…they were so tiny I could have held 6 of them in one hand…I sure hope she avoids the busy road she was standing next to…okay, back to reading..
The idiot trump has made the US unnecessary…
Well…just as I talked about when the idiot trump started to tear up international agreements and tried to cut Ukraine off at the knees, the world has found that the “necessary ally” US is not really necessary after all…the world has found ways to get around idiot boy’s tariffs and every day there are more and more economic, military, and political agreements that we are not even invited to talk about anymore…and Ukraine has used real diplomacy (something that idiot boy has no idea what it even is) to strengthen it’s position as the idiot boy’s buddy putin looks weaker and weaker every day…and it’s all trump’s stupidity and bluster that has led us to where we are…where our standing in the world is more and more tied to the idiot and will take decades to repair if it even can be…this is what you’ve done repubs…what our enemies have been trying to do since the end of WWII and couldn’t, you have thrown it all away because you’re scared of the dementia riddled orange idiot…and we dems are going to have to come in again and clean up your mess…geez…
June 5th
Well…damn, stayed up til almost 11 last night but that didn’t help…up at 5am again and I’m quickly getting to the point that I need to try something else to sleep more…it looks like rain today but I’ve got til almost 10 to get the rides in…going to be lots of wind but it’s already warm enough to get out in shorts and a t-shirt…and we’ve got some almost 90 degree weather coming for the later in the weekend…about time…not as sore as I should be after all of the work yesterday and I won’t need an ibuprofen…yet…but I’ll wait for that until later…it’s going to be nice to be done for the day and then read while it’s raining this morning…need to figure out food for today…the avocados are not ready yet but I think I’ll make the chicken soft tacos anyway…still have the pickled red onions to have with it so that will be enough…I actually tasted the turkey dogs with homemade pickles yesterday and I think these are the best batch I’ve made in years…a cross between dill and sweet with lots of heat and I’ll have to make another batch next week…not much to do today…I do need to clean the kitchen and dining room and should tear the fridge apart and clean that, too but that will probably wait til Sunday…need to get the day started with more coffee and the weight work before I get on the bike in a half hour…more later…
Lots of stuff done…
Well…it was a pretty busy morning today that I kind of planned but not all of it…I started out with getting two rides in beginning at about 6:20am and by the time I was done with the 2nd, my legs were completely flat and I was struggling a bit…and when I got back here, I discovered that I had used up all the weed killer from the last application from a month ago and I really did want to feed the lawn with the rain that is coming tomorrow…so darn, I had to put the top down and make a run to menards to get what I needed…when I got back here, I pulled weeds in the lawn for an hour or so to get rid of the tree of heaven sprouts that we all through the lawn…and the bending over gave a good stretch to my hamstrings and even made my back feel better for a bit…after that I fed the lawn and hit it with weedkiller since the weeds were trying to take over even with the grass really stressed from no rain…then I treated the ant nests that were big enough to swallow my lawnmower and I was done…oh, after the rides, I cleaned up the trash that the idiots in the rental left on the street and in the vacant lot and poured it all on the front steps of that run down piece of crap so they would have to deal with it…I was done by 11:45 but that’s enough after getting started a little after 6am…so now it’s pushing 2pm and I’ve barley gotten any reading in but that is going to be the rest of my afternoon…
Nothing on paper…
Well…this is where we are now…the head of the justice department todd blanche has just said that he is not going to “put anything down on paper” about the fraudulent “pay the thugs” fund that he was instrumental with ramming through…and over 30 past judges have signed their names “on paper” saying that his actions are a “fraud on the court” and are grounds for disbarment…and he has to June 12th to explain how he set everything up where idiot boy was the defendant and plaintiff in a suit trying to keep it from having a court scrutinize the fraud…and that doesn’t even get to the “agreement” where blanche has tried to set it up so the IRS can never investigate idiot boy or his family ever…something that is so damn corrupt that it’s never been attempted by anyone before…so it looks like another trump lawyer is going down for being around the idiot…these people are so dumb they can’t understand that…bye, bye, todd….geez…
June 4th
Well…another day of getting up before 5am and I said I wasn’t going to talk about that anymore..so that’s it…but that else do I have to talk about? My life is pretty boring, after all…I do feel pretty good even after no sleeping last night so I’ll just go with that…and it’s 57 degrees out there right now so I can go out in shorts as soon as the sun comes up…but I need to get the weight work in before that happens in an hour…and I do need to have lots of coffee before that…today looks like yard work after the rides are done and I need to do the weed walk with the pump sprayer since I don’t have enough weed killer to use the hose…not sure if I’m going to mow the front today but I know I’m not mowing anything else since my lawn is dying and not growing much…I’ll be out on that by 9am and should be able to carve out some time to read today…I did make the homemade pickles late last evening so I’d have some to put on the turkey dogs I’m having today…going to have to wait to make the chicken tacos since the avocados are in a paper bag ripening and won’t be ready for a couple of days…so, I don’t know what the 2nd meal is going to be…maybe some quickie stir fry? It looks like we have rain in the forecast for a couple of days starting tonight and through Sat but I’ll believe it when I see it…the weather widget is saying an inch of rain Fri but that just makes me laugh…need to air up the tires on the bike before I ride since it’s been since I put the old wheel on on the rear of the bike and the tires do lose air over time….more later…
Great bike rides…
Well…to celebrate this International bike day, I got two great rides in today and really enjoyed them…I did get the grocery run in and have the ingredients for all kinds of dishes…chicken breast with asparagus that I already made for dinner today, and chicken soft tacos with pickled red onions and avocado, along with omelets and chicken stir fry…oh, and I have some uncured turkey dogs that will go well with the pickles I’m making tomorrow and the pickled onions…so I’ll be cooking a lot and I don’t know why since I still can’t taste anything…maybe it’s just habit? The new power pack I bought has tons of capacity and I’ve used it for a week to power the mp-3 player and the charge indicator still reads 100% so that’s cool…and when the charge starts to fall in the player, it automatically starts charging it so I don’t have to hit a button like I did on the old one…and only 10 bucks so that’s a deal…I did run across some people helping out a hatchling turtle today just like I do and I laughed and said to them: “so you do that, too?” They smiled and showed me a tiny green back they were moving…and I’m still getting all the smiles, waves, and good mornings I’ve been getting on the trail and it feels like the trail is our little community and that makes me smile,too…okay, need to find something to watch tonight…